Silksong Horror Meme Takes Over Fan Subreddit

Still no release date. Still no trailer. Still no word from Team Cherry. That’s where we’re at with Hollow Knight: Silksong, the long-awaited follow-up to one of indie gaming’s biggest hits. And while the SteamDB page keeps shifting with minor updates, the subreddit isn’t waiting around quietly. Instead, they’ve decided to invent their own monster, sacrifice their moderators, and roleplay the downfall of civilization in the form of a meme called “Snosk.”

This is where things are.

Silksong’s place in gaming is already solid, even without a release. It’s one of the most wishlisted games on Steam. Its predecessor, Hollow Knight, became a modern classic with deep exploration, challenging combat, and cryptic lore. Silksong was first revealed in 2019, meant to be a small expansion. It has since grown into a full game with its own protagonist, its own regions, and now, its own cult—at least if you hang out on Reddit.

We previously covered how Silksong’s subreddit holds an absurd “Dreamer” contest, but that’s now turned into something more strange. Snosk is a portmanteau of Silksong and Nosk, a shapeshifting boss from the first game. Nosk lured its prey with false promises, using a puppet of the Knight to draw victims in. Snosk takes that formula and swaps in Silksong—a cruel lure in the form of a nonexistent game. It’s pure irony-fueled analog horror. A fake entity invented by a fanbase trying to fill a void that Team Cherry hasn’t yet returned to.

But it doesn’t stop with spooky memes. The subreddit began a kind of mock ritual involving community figures. Three users were “skongrificed”—banned or removed from the subreddit in what was framed as a kind of sacrifice to Snosk. This evolved into full posts written in ceremonial tones, praising the void and declaring the awakening of Silksong through fictional rites. In a more elaborate move, a moderator named sand-sky-stars was “chosen” to be the community’s Hollow Knight. The result?

“LEAVE TRACKS ON SAND AS WE VENTURE INTO THIS NEW CHAPTER, OUR CRIES WILL REACH THE SKIES AS WE SING FOR SILKSONG, OUR POTENTIAL WILL GO EVEN HIGHER THAN THE STARS.”

That was the post announcing the mod’s departure. It was equal parts performance art and in-joke, a tone the subreddit has leaned into as the wait stretches on. The user now represents the community’s own mythological hero—a parody of the real Hollow Knight, who was raised to contain darkness. The joke is that this one is doing the opposite: inviting chaos, and in theory, bringing Snosk fully to life.

It’s also worth noting that, within the game’s actual story, that strategy didn’t work. The Hollow Knight failed. The Radiance escaped. So the subreddit is building its fantasy on the foundation of a broken plan. That irony seems intentional.

Art contests were launched to “contain” Snosk. One entry used a mason jar as the vessel. This caused enough side-eyes that it briefly became its own joke within the wider community, then faded into meme history. If the subreddit’s descent sounds like performance art, that’s because it mostly is—users posting fanfics, cursed artwork, and fake warnings about Snosk sightings. But it also reflects just how much this game matters to its players.

Silksong isn’t just another sequel. For fans of Hollow Knight, it’s the culmination of years of discovery, lore analysis, and difficult fights. The wait has made it mythic, which is part of why the fanbase has turned myth-making into content. It’s a coping mechanism as much as it is comedy.

The subreddit’s logic now runs on parody and lore-mashing. Some posts reference Evangelion. Others lift phrases from Dune. There are nods to real cult behavior, post-apocalyptic storytelling, and yes, fake petitions to sacrifice “5% of the subreddit” for release progress. It's like watching the fandom become the very thing it joked about fearing.

Outside of the community spectacle, SteamDB still shows backend changes for Silksong. The tweaks are minor—build updates, backend configs—but fans are holding onto them as signs of life. It’s not much, but it’s something. In the absence of a developer update, every movement on the page becomes fuel for speculation. Is it a playtest? A certification step? Nobody knows.

What we do know is that Silksong is still coming. Team Cherry hasn’t gone dark permanently. They’re just working at their own pace. And given the scope of the original game, nobody wants the sequel rushed. But when the community turns quiet waiting into something this surreal, it’s clear the silence has gone on too long.

Until something real drops—a trailer, a blog post, even a title screen—the Silksong subreddit will keep spiraling. Snosk will keep lurking. And users will keep roleplaying their way through the most creative form of burnout gaming has seen in a while.