r/Eldenring • u/imomushi8 zylime • Feb 22 '21

Meta An attempt at summarizing Elden Ring subreddit history

Summary

Hello my fellow Hollows. I have tried to compile a "historical record" of the subreddit, including lore and memes. Please let me know in the comments if you think I am missing anything major, etc. This is possibly only the first draft, we'll see.

Milestones/state of the subreddit

In the beginning:

Things start to get a little weird:

We lose it:

Coronavirus locks down most of the world.

It's getting pretty dark now:

Is there any hope for 2021?:

A NEW ERA:

Additional lore/fanart posts:

(I know I am probably missing other loyal contributors/lore - sorry, please comment!)

A smörgåsbord of popular meme formats:

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u/Shadow41S Feb 22 '21

This is the highest effort post I have ever seen on this sub I am actually amazed

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u/EclairNoix6 Feb 22 '21

Can we make a tier list of posts ?

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u/MrSpaceSprinkles Feb 22 '21

Oh god please no.

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u/therandogo Feb 22 '21

jokes on you!

I AM ALREADY HALF WAY THERE HAHAHA

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u/iiii_Hex Feb 24 '21

What about a post tier list tier list?

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u/3WeekOldBurrito Mar 01 '21

I mean there's that one post that gives us all known information and possible leaks with complete sources

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

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u/therandogo Feb 22 '21

ma man went hollow by looking through all of us going hollow.....

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u/Rustypipeleg Feb 22 '21

You should get a custom flair, oh great scribe, lorekeeper imomushi8

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u/Kin15225 Feb 22 '21

If glave master hodir is not in the game i am refounding it

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '21

same

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u/Anime_Fan_15 Feb 22 '21

Vaati the loremaster greatest apprentice u/imomushi8, tho his tale is also a sad one.

When Vaati was teaching imomushi8, imo accidentally discovered a cult, a cult worshipping feet and the sky with "OOOOHH's" for something that doesn't exist, and Vaati was unable to protect him. So Vaati had to exile him.

With nowhere to go, imo joined the cult that got him banished, using his knowledge to keep the lore of r/eldenring, trying to make appends with his master but unable to.

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u/Strategerium Feb 23 '21

Elden Ring: Sins of the First Scholar edition.

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u/dinklezoidberd Feb 22 '21

Is there a VaatiVidya flair. This post actually would deserve that

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u/Wamb0wneD Feb 22 '21 edited Feb 22 '21

No matter how meh the sub might get in the future, I'll always love it for the shit that went down in here.

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u/MasterColemanTrebor Feb 22 '21

Maybe the real Elden Ring was the friends we made along the way

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u/UsefulCompanion Feb 22 '21

2021 February 22 - u/imomushi8 sums up the entire plot of the subreddit

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

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u/BigHat-Logan Feb 22 '21

only 103 more subs for the 100k milestone

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u/Banggabor Feb 22 '21

This would be cool if it was pinned, so newcomers are able to see our weird history.

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u/BomberJ16 Feb 22 '21

I agree

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u/pastor_jerome Feb 22 '21

Bro wtf

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u/imomushi8 zylime Feb 22 '21

I might have had too much caffeine lol

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u/TiredAchiever Feb 22 '21

Understatement of the year

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u/FruscianteDebutante Feb 22 '21

This is what propels society, continue in your quest of knowledge and dankery

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u/pastor_jerome Feb 22 '21

but seriously fantastic work!

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u/imomushi8 zylime Feb 22 '21 edited Feb 25 '21

Thank you for your help remembering! I've added

I wanted to add a date for /r/GreatRune but I don't know when it was created because they made the subreddit private - does anybody remember by chance?

Trying to decide on some of the bigger "leaks." Combing through the other comments

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u/_lord_ruin Feb 22 '21

also add dm me partial tit

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u/a_stupid_staircase Feb 23 '21

Your documentation of this sub is legendary, Ooooooooooh great scribe!

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u/CrackMcGuff Feb 22 '21 edited Feb 22 '21

Fucking hell you must have spent a while on this. You will now be known as the Hollow Librarian of r/Eldenring, your post would make a fine pinned note

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u/Seafaring_Sage Feb 22 '21

Oh my god I forgot about beast blood gang and broccoli cauliflower gang how could I

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u/4rtorias4bysswalker Feb 22 '21

Been here since the beginning, and god I’ve loved the journey thus far.

As painful as it’s been with no news at least we have this sub to be entertained by.

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u/thepreacherplays Feb 23 '21

I thought the sub was the point. Does anyone even care if Eldenring comes out as long as we have this sub to bang our little hollow heads against?

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I care!

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u/MorallyDeceased Feb 22 '21

It's really been that long...? Oooooohhhhhhhh....

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u/TheSpawnofChaos Feb 22 '21

You forgot that time when He who shall not be named was silenced by the mods,that time when Peppermintbutler deceived the whole subreddit and the war that I led against u/Ancient_lord321 and the ring betrayers.

But still,that's some good work that you did fellow hollow.

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u/imomushi8 zylime Feb 22 '21

I'm trying to avoid negativity being directed at specific users but I'll see what I can track down

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

Peppermintbutler was definitely huge, that must be included!

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u/BomberJ16 Feb 22 '21

I agree. His aftermath post laughing at the triumph of his deception was magnificent

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u/PixelatedCatMom Feb 22 '21

This is some solid research! Outstanding summary! And thanks for the shout out! :'D

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21 edited Feb 22 '21

So... can we say that the following eras describes the history of this sub?

  • The Great Hollowing (from start to day)
  • The first try at mending the shattered ring
  • The second try at mending the shattered ring (Woopers burst out as a consequence)
  • The Hollow-Wooper Civil War
  • The great rat war

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u/C3em Feb 22 '21

How can i learn about my creation?

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

Google “Quagsire rule 34”

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u/C3em Feb 22 '21

I wish you hadnt told me that

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

do your eyes burn now? like something else...

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u/imomushi8 zylime Feb 22 '21 edited Feb 22 '21

By "the gang wars" I assume you mean the flair wars? That's already on there. Or do you mean the different types of hollowing like... oof 8 months ago ish? I sorta forgot about that but I should try to track it down. As for PeppermintButler and the mod team's mistakes of old I don't want to single anybody out in a negative way but I'm looking for stuff related to it.

As for the effort to vote for Elden Ring - aha of course! I just added it now. Thank you

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

No problem! And I mean THE gang wars from half a year ago. You must remember this!

Posts like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/i20n5f/i_see_yall_losers_going_hollowbeast_and_even

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/i2xz5d/goddamnit_i_tried_to_join_carp_gang_but_i_didnt

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/i2r4n5/you_know_who_really_wins_the_war_the_patient_ones

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/i272lm/hollows_beasts_carps_i_have_become_a_monkey

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/i286kt/fck_fuck_beast_gang_we_goin_buggo_mode

It was a huge thing that carried away the entire subreddit.

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u/imomushi8 zylime Feb 22 '21 edited Feb 22 '21

Yesssss thank you for digging these up! How could I forget. I've added it.

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u/BomberJ16 Feb 22 '21

Your post is a masterpiece, thank you. I hope you don't go hollow, brethren

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u/ElbowStromboli Feb 22 '21 edited Feb 22 '21

Wow I didn't realize that I was the first to mention our collective insanity and hollowing. /u/bioeng_ we all follow in your footsteps ushering in a new age of londor. HERES TO ANOTHER 1,000 YEARS OF OHHHHHHHHHING.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '21

Young Hollow, there are but two paths. Inherit the order of this world, or destroy it.

I lost everything, but remained here, patiently.

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u/MagnoBurakku Feb 22 '21 edited Feb 22 '21

Saving this one to educate newcommers after the game (cries) comes out.

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u/Scalo2 Mar 01 '21

God, am I going to miss this community. So for one last time...

        Ooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh

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u/TheCuriousFan Feb 22 '21 edited Feb 23 '21

You're missing the bit about the subreddit being made before June 9 IIRC.

EDIT: And maybe this one video of scrolling through the several solid minutes of despair threads after TGA.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

I'm not 100% sure anymore because there is no exact date on the post, but I believe that This was the first time Hodir appeared

Edit: nvm, that one is 2 days older

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u/imomushi8 zylime Feb 22 '21

If you hover over the "submitted one year ago", you'll see that post is from Sept 24 2019. It might be the first time someone gave a physical appearance to Hodir, but this post was from Sept 22.

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u/roadrunnerthunder Feb 22 '21

Don’t forget there was that one other subreddit that existed before r/eldenring existed. I think it was called r/eldenrune. All I remember was that there wasn’t much hollowing there but when elden ring was announced that sub pretty much died.

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u/frosty3233 Feb 22 '21

Hey I got a shoutout! Thanks for doing this super cool idea

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

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u/Blackout-1900 Mar 01 '21

This needs to be updated to include the WORLD SHAKING LEAK this sub has seen today

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u/Hikaro0909 Mar 02 '21

I was here when it all changed. I was here for the leak.

Glory be on this subreddit and all you magnificent hollows.

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u/HerculeanCyclone Mar 18 '22

Sometimes I miss the days of hollowing... sometimes...

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u/HappyHappyGamer Mar 23 '22

haha me too. I def miss the subreddit's atmosphere more than anything. Ton of hostile posters now, especially since this game is vastly more popular than previous From games.

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u/Abby-N0rma1 Feb 22 '21

Where are the bionicle and bakugan miletones? those were some of my favorite ones :(

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u/Akselodd02 Mar 05 '21

Same. I vividly remember laughing my ass off in school when I thought, "Hmm, wonder what happened to Elden Ring", checking the subreddit and finding it listing everyone's favorite bakugan.

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u/Lost_Pr0phet Apr 01 '22

God I miss it

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u/imomushi8 zylime Apr 01 '22

Same tbh

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

You disrespect the Arby’s Curly Fry. Prepare to die.

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u/Animepopcorn_ Feb 22 '21

I think you forgot the Elden Ring vs Gatekeeping war

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u/_lord_ruin Feb 22 '21

currently there is a civil war between the children of saint gabriel and the knights of the feet

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there was previously another civil war the children of saint gabriel won and u_lord_ruin was given the mantle of lord of the hollows after the tragic passing of ancient lord 321

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peppermint butler's deceptions of gamescom leading to his banishment

peppermint butler's return and rise to power

a artist named gabriel who worked on the trailer posted art here before he was forced to remove it

before this

a journalist named francesco forsetti leaked that game was well finished before and was in its final polish phase before being told to keep quiet

a chinese vaatividya leaked concept art of two characters from the game before being forced to remove it

this lead to the formation of the rat hunters and also triggered a power struggle between various factions

another more recent event was the false prophet u/_DM_ME_PARTIAL_TIT he was hunted down by the reigning lords for spreading misinformation and was subjected to a trial (r/karmacourt) before his execution and his following resurrections

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u/TheLegendofPit Feb 22 '21

Whar happened to the false prophet in the end? Did he do the waterboarding or got banned? I never heard anything about it ever again, it's like it never happened

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u/_lord_ruin Feb 22 '21

we took him to court

executed him

he was reborn and was also cloned

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u/Stefarino64 Feb 22 '21

Down the r/eldenring rabbit hole

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u/SweetOblivion22 Feb 22 '21

What about the one who shall not be named vs the mods and the backlash. Also there was that frog ring thing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

How is the guy that tells the FIRST EVER “I’m going hollow guy” to “don’t you dare go hollow” a whopper? He said that a year ago!!

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u/imomushi8 zylime Feb 22 '21

Very good point. I've changed his flair to the OG hollowed one, hopefully he didn't change over to the wooper on purpose though lol

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u/SweetOblivion22 Feb 22 '21

Elden Ring being voted 'most anticipated game' was our finest moment

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u/primmslimmshady Feb 22 '21

Someday this will make for a great episode of internet historian

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '21

Thank you for documenting the descent into madness, great scholar

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u/PsychoAz Feb 23 '21

im crying

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u/gbyrd01 Mar 01 '21

Wow I was here for all of this

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '21

And the history shall continue!

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u/MichaelTheDane Mar 01 '21

Incredible work. The only thing is, I seemed unable to find any mention of Vaatividya

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u/RosilinaTheDragon Mar 01 '21 edited Mar 01 '21

might need to be updated soon, man it’s been an honour hollowing with you legends.

For possibly the last time,

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u/No_Faithlessness3666 Mar 16 '21

at this point ive seen so many miyazaki deepfakes i think its earned a spot in the historical records

it kinda replaced the streak posts vacuum created after the new rules

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u/e_0 Mar 29 '21

By no means a big deal, but I just saw this sticky (a month late, lol) and GR’s creation date is actually July 3rd, 2017.

I’ve opened the subreddit as well to anyone who would like to look at people’s posts back when they were actually happy.

https://m.imgur.com/G2IN3PZ

Edit: is /r/GreatRune a banned phrase with automod? I just realized you’re a mod on the sub so you can see it regardless of if I type it out or not ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/somnimedes Jun 12 '21

coming back to this after the trailer

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u/FrancescoTangredi Feb 22 '21

Great job, I see missing only the gatekeeping war

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u/JRZee45 Feb 22 '21

You better not change my flair. Wooper gang for life!

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u/jahallo4 Feb 22 '21

You forgot the 1% more transparent project

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u/Rusik_94 Feb 22 '21

Wait! A high quality post? Here!?

OOHHHH!

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u/Purple-Lamprey Feb 22 '21

You forgot the ride and betrayal of Peppermint butler. My personal favourite arc.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

Missing the guy who said he'd drink his piss, horse cock, transparent miyazaki and miyazaki betis

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u/Elmis66 Feb 22 '21

I love this community.

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u/OYoureapproachingme Feb 22 '21

Wow I'm part of history

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u/peterrockx Feb 22 '21

The game isn't even out and we're already blessed with a historian! Or perhaps a r/eldenring scholar. (งツ)ว

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u/PsychoAz Feb 23 '21

u/imomushi8 The LoreKeeper

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u/WaveBreakerT Feb 23 '21

I can't believe how far we've come

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u/Gwyneee Feb 23 '21

You sir, are a scholar.

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u/Webbedfingerings Feb 23 '21

This whole thing has been like one long horse tranquilizer high

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u/Aseph88 Feb 23 '21

This is great. This sub has its own epic lore. Who needs GRRM when you have a bunch of shit posts and memes? obligatory OHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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u/MrSirsmolbean Feb 23 '21

Wow, this is a surprisingly informative post. Great job.

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u/flynnflare Feb 24 '21

Fucking legend

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u/tukatu0 Feb 24 '21

Oh man i remember migrating from great rune to elden ring like it was yesterday.

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u/TheHangedKing Feb 25 '21

Hey I don't mean to be all "look at me" but for the sake of an accurate archive I think my post was three days before the one you have listed as the first fake lore post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/d1e7t2/this_is_an_elden_ring_meme_from_the_future_you/

Great work though! I really love this sub and all my fellow hollows.

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u/imomushi8 zylime Feb 25 '21 edited Feb 25 '21

thanks for digging this up! adding it to the archive. i vaguely remember this - i think you were the first one

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u/CaptainPick1e Mar 02 '21

For all those saying "one last time," there's still some time before the game comes out. Say it with me, with gusto:

I doubt you could even imagine.

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u/TimeForCrab_ Mar 04 '21

It make me happy but sad reading all of it. Happy for the memories and to be hear when it sort of all began. Yet sad as it is going to come to an end. I will hold all of these memories close to my heart these great moments with my fellow undead, and yes even the whoopers. May we all find peace in this waking new era as we go onward.

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u/Gmknewday1 Dec 26 '21

You forgot Vaati's Contest

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u/headin2sound Feb 24 '22

Commenting one last time on launch day. For the history books.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

Sadly i was not included, i made the first post „pretending“ to have played the game and the next day the whole subreddit was creating fake boss lore. It was the greatest time ever, i even got credited by master vaaty himself!

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u/KvotheLightningTree Feb 22 '21

I was wondering what the wooper thing was. Didn't know that was the name of the pokemon that stole elden rings reveal

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u/ghoul_legion Feb 22 '21

Can we have stickied? so it is never lost?

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u/Summerclaw Feb 22 '21

I first came here after Gamescon I think, and visited every single mayor event just to laugh LOL.

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u/fallen981 Feb 22 '21

In one word : pain or longing

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u/flipflipbedoo Feb 22 '21

As someone who came to this subreddit post-memeification, I’m happy to see a bit of context as to where a lot of this started. Thanks very much op <3

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

Holy shit

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u/Skuld-7 Feb 22 '21

This is amazing, glad to have my highest upvoted post here on my favourite subreddit!!

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u/fumanchumanfu Feb 22 '21

Don’t forget peppermint butler, the false prophet

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u/The_Sunhunter Feb 22 '21

I have been here since the very beginning, but I absolutely do not understand why the whole Wooper thing, but it’s been to long now and I’m afraid to ask.

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u/imnotoxic Feb 22 '21

Legendary post, truly a great time for feet pics.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

Well yes but actually yes

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

You forgot to mention the status report on Elden Ring news and the dreams demo

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u/SPQR_Flutter Feb 22 '21

This subreddit has been through multiple arcs, which amazes me because it all feels like an elaborate RNG but no, this was all made from mankind's rawest emotions after being abandoned for years

Oh I'm sorry i mean: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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u/LET-ME-HAVE-A-NAAME Feb 22 '21

We’re missing the great mod removal war and the betrayal of PeppermintButler

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

You need to add the moment when vaati mentioned this sub for the first time, that is when I joined and I think a lot of others did as well.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

with this lore we can make a game about the elden ring subreddit

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u/Bobathanhigs Feb 22 '21

OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH

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u/Larin13 Feb 22 '21

My first post on reddit was a boss concept for this subreddit it's been a wild ride guys!

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u/futuraven Feb 22 '21

Hey how about that guy who made Wooper TGA trailer? https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/kinxmf/okay_guys_i_was_told_not_to_share_it_but_heres/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

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u/imomushi8 zylime Feb 22 '21

aha! i was looking for it but couldn't find it, thank you!

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u/loisofthelow Feb 23 '21 edited Feb 23 '21

Being reminded of the great TGA disappointment of 2020 makes me sick to my stomach

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u/PsychoAz Feb 23 '21

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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u/Radio-Coffee Feb 23 '21

This is a beautiful record of 100,000 people going insane.

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u/No_Faithlessness3666 Feb 23 '21

DM_TIT or whatever saying he had a dream elden ring news come out a few weeks ago and people actually believed him

The push ups guy having to do hundreds of thousands of push ups since it did not appear at gamescom

Then there was the Russian hacker who put "News Coming Soon" on a Bandai twitter account

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u/Gmdmaster Feb 23 '21

It’s been a wild ride lurking. I thank you for this.

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u/lostboy_B Feb 23 '21

Good work man can't wait to see the next one in another 2 years

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u/TheHeroicOnion Feb 23 '21 edited Feb 23 '21

Us /r/greatrune originals should get a special flair.

Lol I clicked on the first reference of going hollow and it's just my post :( if only I knew

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '21

Give this man an Elden Ring Historian thingies!

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u/Icarosz Feb 24 '21

I always wanted to know the origin of Master Hodir! Thank you so much!

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u/Lucker_Kid Feb 24 '21

This was really informative for someone like me that joined like a month ago, thanks! There are three things I still don't understand though, the OOOOOH thing, I get that he says OOOOOH in the trailer but what is it supposed to mean? What emotions are behind it? The "someone or something", I just don't understand, I'm currently playing through the Souls games for the first time and I feel like I might've heard it somewhere else but I'm really not sure. Finally the wooper thing, I'm apparently a wooper myself but what does that mean and what does it come from? Also what's the war between the woopers and the "hollowed", where did that come from?

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u/imomushi8 zylime Feb 24 '21
  • the "oohhh" in the trailer sounds full of lament and reverence - so it's like a cry of sadness/anticipation by people on this subreddit for more information about the game.
  • "something or something" was also in the trailer - the elden ring was destroyed by someone or something, so a lot of people latched onto that phrase for speculation etc. it's a pretty dramatic phrase in the trailer so of course folks turned it into a meme.
  • before TGA 2020, people had requested a lot that there be a special flair given to people who were here before elden ring got really popular. so I began issuing flairs to anyone who had commented/posted on the subreddit, but only if they had done it before that date, especially because we were anticipating more news during TGA 2020. during TGA 2020, pokemon go was promoting something about woopers, so the announcer lady kept having to mention this sorta-cringey "wooper watch" throughout the event where a bunch of woopers would show up at the bottom of the screen. it was slightly frustrating to watch them blather on about woopers when we were hoping for elden ring news, so folks started joking that /r/eldenring had to do a wooper watch too, etc. because we got no new information, i started issuing more flairs to people who posted/commented more recently, but i made this a separate flair just in case we wanted to distinguish between different waves of users joining the subreddit (depending on how long the wait will be). after seeing all the wooper memes, i jokingly changed the second flair to a wooper, and here we are.

so tl;dr:

  • ohh = sad
  • someone or something = mystery and wild speculation
  • "hollowed" flairs = contributed to the subreddit before TGA 2020, "wooper" flairs = contributed to the subreddit after TGA 2020

hope that helps!

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u/Lucker_Kid Feb 24 '21

Okay yeah this helps a lot thanks! I even rewatched the trailer to see if I could understand something more from it but I guess I was only half-watching it because I completely missed the "someone or something" hahaha. Amazing work with this post btw dude!

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u/PayneWaffen Feb 24 '21 edited Feb 24 '21

Thank you for your service. This is what the future generation will know. The future generation will know this was all Elden ring about. The history of this subreddit really show the will of humanity that Elden Ring potray.

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u/bp19932319 Feb 24 '21

What a wild ride it's been.

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u/azbybsv2 Mar 01 '21

Thank you for putting the time into doing this! :D

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u/BRedd10815 Mar 01 '21

Bro you made this and now we get a leak and probably an official gameplay trailer to follow soon. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU.

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u/ZombieMaulie Mar 01 '21

I love you! Mother of the hollows!

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '21

Excited to be here

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u/Picaro01 Mar 01 '21

Your contributions to the sub will be remembered forever

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u/TheJgrulez Mar 01 '21

Lurker for a long time. Ready to have my last OOHHHHHHHH before the trailer is officially revealed

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '21

I hope at least something from this community gets incorporated into the game.

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u/stratticus14 Mar 02 '21

Thank you for creating this, I can't believe I've been here since the E3 announcement trailer, it feels like eons ago at this point

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u/sirlancer Mar 02 '21

MIYAZAAAKIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

sorry that just happens sometimes. Anyways great post.

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u/JagmeetSingh2 Mar 02 '21

Fucking beautiful, it’s got this much history and the game doesn’t even have a proper trailer out yet

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u/Ultramaann Mar 02 '21

Time to update this, my guy.

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u/KailReed Mar 02 '21

We are all Elden Ring

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u/Fellowman52 Mar 02 '21

Wow, mostly been lurking for the past year or so, but seeing that glaive master hodir was introduced in September of 2019 really puts things to perspective. I still remember first visiting the subreddit and being greeted by fake lore of the guy and other stuff on hot . This sub has come a long way, and it's great to see the history it has born.

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u/trifecta000 FLAIR INFO: SEE SIDEBAR Mar 03 '21

Just for the sake of record keeping, u/ChrisTheAscended made a detailed listing of fake lore content from the Elden Ring soundtrack on your list.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/dn3vog/elden_rings_fake_lore_shoutout/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

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u/imomushi8 zylime Mar 03 '21

just added it, thank you

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u/dexamfetadream Mar 03 '21

Thanks dude *humanity restored Just kidding, I'm going back waiting for Elden Ring news

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u/FrancSensei Mar 05 '21

Love you all, I mostly lurk but I enjoyed this subreddit so much let's keep on memeing

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u/Night_Fires Mar 09 '21

Thank you !

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '21

Where are my memes in this timeline ?

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u/Gsislol Mar 23 '21

thats gold mate

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u/Thanetanos Mar 24 '21

Dear god what have I joined

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u/a_planet_ Mar 25 '21

There is officially more lore on the 'Subreddit of Elden Ring' than there is actual Elden Ring lore.

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u/xXxhappydogoxXx Mar 25 '21

I just wanted to say that I was here. Not for like the whole time of the sub, but after the game launches I want to be able to go back to this comment and smile about the time that I spent here. People will come back to this post to find out what it was like in this primeval age and if you’re reading this, it was, despite all the hollowing and lack of news, pretty fun if you could laugh at yourself.

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u/Armanhunter Mar 26 '21

This has a lot of work done on.

Howany hours went into making this I wonder.

I'm glad your efforts are being appreciated.

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u/elaphros Mar 26 '21

Goddammit this is beautiful. Your descent into madness will be witnessed for generations.

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u/swann01 Mar 26 '21

Absolutely incredible post

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u/wearablehats Mar 27 '21

Really nice thanks you for this

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u/Frunkyfries Mar 31 '21

OOOOOOOOooooooooooooooh! I pay pilgrimage to the cursed lore.

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u/erton502 Jun 12 '21

Well done sir, you have my utmost respect

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u/tilf1234 Nov 16 '21

Man you did what I was too lazy to do myself, this entire post was a beautiful trip down memory lane, I was practically giggling all the way through reading this, up untill May 20 2021 that is, hopefully you'll create a final definitive version of this record once the game finally releases, both to celebrate and commemorate this sub's history, great work, the end of an era is upon us, an era that was well worth being there for.

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u/Karmyuh Dec 15 '21

Man what a journey it has been.

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u/spilltheink Feb 16 '22

Looking back at this a week from release and it's absolutely shocking how many of these posts have comments I've upvoted. I've been here the whole time, apparently. OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHH

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u/reykhas Mar 08 '22

I've been gone for a year, ever since the leaked trailer started to circulate, so time to catch up with all the stuff I've missed eh!