About

Evade is a Roblox Experience by Hexagon Development Community based on Garry's Mod's Nextbot Chase game type. Evade tasks players with evading loud, free-roaming PNGs, often depicting famous memes, for as long as possible, with the last surviving player declared the winner. The game is played in teams and players have the ability to revive their teammates. It was first made playable in June 2022 and became notably popular in August of that year on YouTube and TikTok, sparking the "I Can Save Us, My Atlantic" trend on the latter where users upload clips of players reviving others set to "My Atlantis" by Seafret.

History

On June 10th, 2022, Roblox^[1] game development group Hexagon Development Community, owned by player OsterDog created the experience "Evade," a game where players try and escape from "NextBots," which are non-player NPCs that free roam around a given map and chase the player, emitting louder and louder noise as they near the player. The game is played in teams and team members are able to revive each other if taken out by a NextBot. The last surviving team or player wins. On August 19th, YouTuber^[2] Sketch published a video where he plays the game and discusses it, garnering over 500,000 views in two weeks (shown below). By August 30th, the experience had been viewed over 115.3 million times and favorites over 700,000 times.

Online Presence

"I Can Save Us, My Atlantic" TikTok Trend

On August 21st, 2022, TikToker^[3] @_.miro..kocho. posted a video set to a sped-up version of "Atlantis" by Seafret where they rescue someone in Evade followed by the lyrics to the song appearing on screen, garnering over 8 million views in a week (shown below).

Over the following days, TikToker uploaded similar videos where they save other players or are saved by other players, usually set to the same song. On August 23rd, TikToker^[4] @lqvinaa posted a video like this, garnering over 3 million views in a week (shown below, left). On August 24th, TikToker^[5] @lennyblox posted a similar video, garnering over 3.3 million views in six days (shown below, right).

Let's Plays

In August 2022 Let's Play videos of Evade became increasingly popular on YouTube. For example, on August 25th, YouTubers^[6][7] Denis and Flamingo posted videos playing the game, garnering over 200,000 and 1.7 million views respectively in five days (shown below, left and right).

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