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Sea of Thieves Unpeeled Banana refers to a gameplay clip for the upcoming action-adventure video game Sea of Thieves in which a player eats an entire unpeeled banana in order to regain health after a battle.

Origin

On June 11th, 2017, the gameplay trailer for Sea of Thieves was unveiled at the 2017 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). In the trailer, the player can be seen taking out a banana and eating it unpeeled (shown below).

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That day, Polygon video producer Griffin McElroy tweeted about the video clip, noting that the banana was eating both unpeeled and stem first (shown below).

Later that evening, Polygon tweeted a clip from Sea of Thieves followed by footage of McElroy eating an unpeeled banana (shown below). Within 48 hours, the tweet gained over 10,000 likes and 5,700 retweets. Meanwhile, the video was reuploaded to Facebook,^[3] where it gathered upwards of 206,000 views, 2,500 reactions and 870 shares within two days.

Also on June 11th, Twitter user @fazor3d posted a series of tweets explaining that pirates ate banana peels because most of the vitamins were contained within the peel itself, before revealing the tweets were a joke (shown below). The following day, the gaming news site The Gamer published an article about the game reveal, noting the banana-eating pirate scene. Meanwhile, the gaming site Gamerant^[1] published an article titled "E3 2017 Sea of Thieves Banana Becomes the Latest Gaming Meme."

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