# Silksong Releases Despite The Numerous Banana Listings "Silksong Releases Despite the Numerous Banana Listings" is a meme born from a dream tweet about *Hollow Knight: Silksong* that went viral in late August 2025. X user @redunderscore_ posted about dreaming of a nonsensical news headline about the long-awaited game, and days later, gaming outlet Dexerto made the dream a reality by posting the exact tweet on Silksong's actual release day. ## Origin On August 31st, 2025, X 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'"[1]. The tweet picked up over 1,000 likes in its first four days. Later that same day, @redunderscore_ followed up by quoting their own post with a convincing mockup showing what the headline would look like if Dexerto had actually tweeted it. This visual mockup blew up far beyond the original text post, pulling in over 38,000 likes in four days. - **Platform:** X / Twitter (dream post), r/thomastheplankengine (Reddit spread) - **Creator:** @redunderscore_ (original poster / dreamer), @Dexerto (recreation) - **Date:** 2025 ## Overview The meme centers on the absurd phrase "Silksong releases despite the numerous banana listings," a sentence that means absolutely nothing but sounds like a real gaming news headline. It originated when an X user described a dream in which they saw this exact phrase posted by a major gaming outlet. The humor comes from the surreal, AI-fever-dream quality of the sentence, the years-long anticipation around *Hollow Knight: Silksong*, and the fact that a real outlet eventually posted it verbatim. The meme sits at the intersection of dream posting (sharing surreal dream content online) and the *Silksong* waiting community, a fanbase that spent years grasping at any hint of the game's release. ## How It Spread The meme moved fast through the *Silksong* fan community. On September 1st, 2025, it was reposted to the r/thomastheplankengine subreddit, a community dedicated to sharing memes from dreams, where it picked up around 165 upvotes in three days. That same day, X user @gaming_leaker played along by quoting the post and writing: "I can confirm that 'Hollow Knight: Silksong' will release despite any 'Banana Listings' that may appear," earning over 2,000 likes in three days. The climax came on September 4th, 2025, when *Hollow Knight: Silksong* actually released. The official @Dexerto X account recreated the tweet from the dream using the exact images and caption: "Silksong releases despite the numerous Banana Listings". The post exploded, racking up over 27,000 likes and 3,900 reposts in under five hours. Instagram page pastor.flacc screenshotted the Dexerto tweet shortly after, picking up over 200 likes within the hour. @redunderscore_ saw Dexerto's post and quote-tweeted it with disbelief: "dextero actually made my dream real?" That reaction pulled in over 2,500 likes within hours. ## How to Use The phrase "despite the numerous banana listings" typically gets appended to real or fake announcements about highly anticipated events. Common approaches include: - Creating fake news outlet screenshots announcing something "despite the numerous banana listings" - Quoting real announcements and adding the phrase as absurdist commentary - Applying the format to other long-awaited games, movies, or products (e.g., "GTA 6 releases despite the numerous banana listings") The humor works best when the announcement itself is real or plausible, and the "banana listings" clause is treated as completely normal context that needs no explanation. ## Cultural Impact The meme's biggest moment was Dexerto's official account posting the dream tweet word-for-word on Silksong's release day. A major gaming outlet voluntarily becoming the punchline of a dream post was unusual and showed how deeply internet humor had bled into gaming journalism's social media strategy. The speed at which the community loop closed (dream → mockup → real tweet in five days) made it a notable example of internet dreams becoming self-fulfilling prophecies. ## Fun Facts - The meme is a classic example of "Thomas the Plank Engine" content, where people share memes they literally dreamed up, and the r/thomastheplankengine community helped amplify it early. - @redunderscore_ originally named two possible outlets in their dream (DiscussingFilms and Dexerto), but only Dexerto took the bait[1]. - The original mockup tweet was roughly 38x more popular than the text post describing the dream, showing that visual presentation mattered more than the concept itself. - Silksong's release date (September 4th, 2025) coinciding just four days after the dream post gave the meme a perfect narrative arc from joke to reality. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is "Silksong Releases Despite the Numerous Banana Listings"? It's a meme based on a dream tweet by X user @redunderscore_, who dreamed of seeing a gaming news outlet post the nonsensical headline "Silksong releases despite the numerous banana listings"[1]. ### Where did the meme come from? X user @redunderscore_ posted about the dream on August 31st, 2025, then followed up with a visual mockup of what the Dexerto tweet would look like. ### What does "despite the numerous banana listings" mean? Nothing. That's the joke. The phrase sounds like it should mean something newsworthy but is complete nonsense dreamed up while sleeping[1]. ### How do you use the meme? Attach "despite the numerous banana listings" to any real or fake announcement, treating the meaningless clause as normal journalistic context. ### Is "Silksong Releases Despite the Numerous Banana Listings" still popular? The meme peaked during Silksong's release week in early September 2025 and was tied closely to that specific event. It burned bright and fast. ### Did Dexerto actually post the tweet? Yes. On September 4th, 2025, the official @Dexerto account recreated the exact dream tweet, complete with matching images and caption, pulling in over 27,000 likes. ### What is r/thomastheplankengine? A subreddit where people share memes and images they saw in their dreams. The Silksong banana listings post was shared there on September 1st, 2025. ### Who is @redunderscore_? The X user who had the original dream and posted about it on August 31st, 2025. They also created the Dexerto mockup that went viral[1]. ## References 1. [Silksong Releases Despite the Numerous Banana Listings - Know Your Meme]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/silksong-releases-despite-the-numerous-banana-listings Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library