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Silksong Releases Despite the Numerous Banana Listings refers to a series of Hollow Knight: Silksong memes based on a viral tweet describing a meme from a dream reading, "I had a dream about Silksong but it wasn't about the game but it was just a tweet from DiscussingFilms or Dexerto just saying 'Silksong releases despite the numerous banana listings.'" The post was made by X / Twitter user @redunderscore_ on August 31st, 2025, and became the subject of memes over the following days, with the Dexerto X account making the tweet a reality on September 4th, the day of the game's release.

Origin

On August 31st, 2025, X^[1] user @redunderscore_ posted, "I had a dream about silksong but it wasn't about the game but it was just a tweet from discussingfilms or dexerto just saying “silksong releases despite the numerous banana listings," garnering over 1,000 likes in four days.

Later that day, they quoted the X^[2] post with a mockup of what the post would look like if Dexerto posted it, garnering over 38,000 likes in four days.

Spread

The meme garnered viral spread in the Silksong community through reposts. On September 1st, 2025, it was reposted to the /r/thomastheplankengine^[3] subreddit, garnering around 165 upvotes in three days.

That same day, X^[4] user @gaming_leaker quoted the post, writing, "I can confirm that 'Hollow Knight: Silksong' will release despite any 'Banana Listings' that may appear," gaining over 2,000 likes in three days.

On September 4th, 2025, the official @Dexerto X^[5] page recreated the tweet from the dream using the exact images and caption, "Silksong releases despite the numerous Banana Listings," garnering over 27,000 likes and 3,900 reposts in under five hours.

Shortly after, Instagram^[6] page pastor.flacc posted a screenshot of the tweet, garnering over 200 likes in under an hour.

Also on September 4th, X^[7] user @redunderscore_, who had the dream, quoted the Dexerto post, writing, "dextero actually made my dream real?" garnering over 2,500 likes in a few hours.

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