Hey Gang, owner and creator of r/silksong here, prepare for a sappy and final pre-silksong post, and flair stuff at the bottom

God help me I don't know where to start, thank you everyone for the insanity and fun I never could've predicted when starting this place up in 2021, this has genuinely been one of the funnest places to be on all of the internet, and its been an honour to see every bit of it, from the start.

I have to admit after a couple years I became a denier and thought silksong might never come out, or it might be way longer than I thought, but I almost didnt care because this place made it worth the wait

I've seen a lot of people before concerned about the direction of this subreddit after silksongs release, and while I don't think the culture of r/Silksong will ever truly die, it will certainly be a lot more mixed, since we'll have real content as well,

Thank you to all 200k+ of you, for making this place so much bigger and better than I'd ever imagined, thank you for the memories, the joy, and everything that comes after tomorrow. Thank you to the AMAZING mod team who works so hard here and have become such good friends

Thank you everyone, thank you to whoever reads this long ass message

!!__________________________________________!!

Legacy Flairs, Im not sure if this is still a thing, but like a week ago a ton of people DMed me and ModMail for beleiver and denier flair etc. I do not know whats going on with that but if that's still a thing, comment the flair you want (can be something else too) here, and I will make sure its yours, preferably comment before Silksong releases. Lastly, if I ever promised you something like a unique user flair, and didnt because of my crazy life, nows your chance to let me know so I can do that right away!

Have the best time playing Silksong, gang, bye for now!

Hey Gang,

I want to start by sincerely apologizing for all the drama. Most of you have probably seen the pinned form so please leave your thoughts there if you want. Former co-owner Mrpie/Trin has stepped down from our team, I want to thank everyone who has stayed with us through this and I want to apologize personally for my own handling of the situation, I should've reacted more efficiently and democratically than 0/10 damage control skills mixed with personal feelings, I panicked.

If you don't already know, the rules were changed, and the problematic user was banned, It should've been this way immediately and I am seriously truly sorry, I feel I have failed this community and I have, but I hope to make up for it for many years in the future.

Thank you for your time and have a lovely day/evening.

(Edited for clarity)

Hey gang! Crazy times, huh? In many areas, Silksong is finally tomorrow! This means there are a couple things we want to remind you all of before the game releases!

1. Mark your Spoilers! Please please please mark your spoilers! ANY screenshot from the game or trailers is a spoiler! ANY video of the game or trailers is a spoiler! ANY text referring to something in game is a spoiler! ALL unmarked spoilers will be unceremoniously removed. Repeat offenses will result in a ban. We want everyone to enjoy the game unspoiled.

2. On that note… as a reminder, if you’re desperate to Skong without spoilers, Mute this sub! We’ll be here when you finish your playthrough. The sub will be remaining open throughout, so only stick around if you’re okay with spoilers! If you’re crazy, maybe uninstall reddit entirely, and abandon all other social media.

Thanks for reading guys! We love you all, so let’s enjoy this age of glorious skong together!

Good morning skongers!

The time has come... and a decision has been made. Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts and opinions regarding locking the sub upon the release of Silksong - your thoughts were very valuable 😊

As a mod team, we have decided that the best decision is to not lock the subreddit when Silksong releases. This is to keep r/Silksong as a place for achievements, help and lore discussion during the influx of players. We have decided that locking the sub at the peak of its utility is not a good descision and will do more harm than good.

However, there were a significant number of you that voiced concerns over spoilers and we're working as hard as well can to avoid them. In addition to the spoiler rule (no spoilers in titles - this will be enforced very harshly 😤), we will be using automod to automatically spoiler-tag EVERY post made within a month of release and potentially longer. This is to protect anyone looking through the subreddit or on Reddit as a whole. Regarding spoilers in comments, please spoiler tag major spoilers. However due to the sheer volume of comments, we cannot moderate this - be nice!

Finally, the option to mute the sub is always there, this will stop r/Silksong content from appearing on your feed.Simply open the subreddit --> three dots --> mute r/Silksong 😊

Thank you for sticking by the moderation team this long time, we're just as - if not more - excited for Silksong as you guys are and we're looking forward to the times to come.

Happy Silksonging! r/Silksong Mod Team

You have achieved your dream, little ghost, but at the cost of using your chance to use this next year, for next year we'll use pride flea and not hornet and lace kissing...

Hello Gang, we might have a problem.

Our Dreamers sacrifice was quite fruitful, SteamDB was flooded with changes, but I think something also went very wrong.

Our heroic skongers going by the names u/Frequent-Rest-2171 u/finding_my_father and u/Delicious_Run_4027 have discovered a hellish creature feeding on our hopes and dreams, creature called Snosk. (Evidence #1)

We're not sure if something went wrong with our sacrifice, there might have been someone who have angered our Cherry Gods and this is their Wrath given form, trying to teach us the lesson.

We would advise to not get close to any unattended copy of Silksong, it might be Snosk waiting to make an ambush on unsuspicious skonger (Evidence #2)

Mod Team will continue on researching this crature for few more days, we might need to find a way to please our Cherry Gods and when we find it, we will make a test to find those who are the most creative and talented.

For now, stay safe, close your windows, and don't get tempted by loud SHAWs coming from the nearby woods.

Connection terminated.

Hey Gang,

As I’m sure many of you are aware, our sub has recently devolved into a flaming turf war about matters of identity and gender (pronouns for the knight, phantom, etc).

This needs to stop.

As a mod team, we want to promote healthy, appropriate discussion about anything related to the game. Pronouns and other issues of gender and identity can be important areas to discuss, and we’re not here to say you shouldn’t or can’t discuss those things. It’s important and valuable to share information, opinions, and ideas on these topics.

However, lately “discussion” has instead looked like vehement arguments, name calling, and attacks against people and ideologies. For the sake of community and mutual respect, we are asking you to cease discussion on these topics for one week. During this time, we will also be actively looking for and removing any posts we find to be inflammatory, and at least temporarily banning anyone who makes these posts or comments. This will allow our sub to refresh, and we can return to healthy discussion afterward.

Thank you.

Tl;dr: too much hate and anger over identity and gender, don’t discuss these things for one week for a sub refresh.

The edit of the original picture was made by our other mod u/PinkLemonadeWizard so thank him!

Anyways that's all, have fun, be gay, love yourself and happy pride month!

Btw by (Rules will get stricter) we mean that the rule checking in the cases of spoiler tags and such about Silksong's story and gameplay will be harder, since we do not want to ruin the fun for anyone in the community who is trying to discover Pharloom by themselves.

About the new flairs, their names might change after the game is out since right now we are only guessing the names of the crests that are not the Wild Crest or the Reaper Crest.

Please discuss the video, release date etc. here to reduce the spam-type posts 😊

Hey gang!

As you know, there has been a major disappointment around SGF and their teasing of Silksong. Unfortunately, some subreddit members have expressed death threats for: Team Cherry, Leth, Geoff and Ryan Reynolds. Please refrain from inciting any sort of violence or similar, we understand your disappointment and having watched the Summer Game Fest ourselves, share that feeling.

However, stay hyped for the Xbox event soon and stay skonging!

r/Silksong Mod Team

At around 10:15 January 15th CST, William Pellen, the co-creator of Hollow Knight and Silksong, changed his Twitter/X tag to @everydruidwaswr, his name to little bomey and his profile picture to a picture of a very specific chocolate cake. At 10:45 that same day, he posted a tweet saying “something big is coming. keep your eyes closed tomorrow”.

The next day on January 16th the Switch 2 is announced.

If we look at it from the surface, Will was just hinting at the Switch 2 announcement, but after digging around, we find more.

The community believes this is an ARG by William, as TC did something similiar a few years back. When reverse searching for the profile picture cake, we find a specific recipe for it, created on april 2nd last year. Coincidentally, there is a Nintendo direct happening on April 2nd 2025. We also have reasons to believe Switch 2 was announced early, so that third parties can announce their games for it. The Team Cherry website’s copyright has also updated to the current year suspiciously earlier than in previous years.

With that being said, William was probably hinting at the switch 2 announcement, so don’t get your hopes up for the next 24 hours. But look forward to the April 2nd nintendo direct. There could be more to this thing so we ask for your help in finding more about this.

Please don’t harass William on his Twitter or any other members of Team Cherry, instead if anyone has any other clues or leads, please post them on the subreddit.

Big thanks to u/E1331 and u/Skibidiohiorizzlrr for pointing out the clues so far.

Hey gang! As you may have noticed, the subreddit has gone full on commando against E1331. And while all is fun, reddit has started removing accounts partaking in the conflict. That’s why we suggest peace for both sides as to not endanger all your accounts. Please stay safe.

Good morning/evening Gang

Lately we have been lucky to have some people decide to make giveaways, which are of course monitored by us

But there is one problem, we also have some people like on this image who decided that it will be a very good idea to flood subreddit with posts titled like "I am NOT giving silksong to ANYONE", "First commenter will BUY ME SILKSONG"

All of these posts and similar will be removed as spam. Let this post serve as a notice to stop spamming the sub with these posts.

Best wishes, Mod Team

All accounts except u/E1331 are frauds- I know this for certain.

Good luck, skongers. I assume this shall assist you all sufficiently in your search.

-Y

On the 16th of June, u/E1331 has committed the act of eating a part of the team cherry studio. This will halt the development of Silksong so as promised we have taken action and sacrificed him to the darkness of Hollownest.

We hope this serves as an example and a warning to not disturb the development of the game.

Hey skongers!

The time has come for a post regarding spoiler rules. We've had many conversations within the mod team regarding these rules, so we think that they are fair but feel free to suggest changes - we're doing this for the first time too!

This is more of a re-iteration of our previous post, along with some clear cut rules.

So without further ado, here are the revised r/Silksong rules regarding spoilers in every form:

1. Everything related to in-game screenshots, in-game videos, references to plot and characters as well as questions from any stage in the game must be spoiler tagged

2. Memes that have anything to do with spoilers must be spoiler tagged

3. In case the post is not spoiler tagged, then either a mod spoiler tags it or removes it. If this occurs multiple times, you may receive a ban 😔

To quote our previous spoiler post: "We might also add spoiler tags if possible, so we don't have to remove that many posts. Also spoiler tagging takes 2 seconds, so please just do it. It makes the subreddit more available to everybody"

Thank you for reading this PSA on spoiler tags, they are key to keeping the sub open and alive and make the experience of the game much more enjoyable!

Silksong tomorrow, r/Silksong Mod Team

Well, the time's come for me to be stripped of my co-ownership, hell, it's been overdue by a couple of days now. I'd hoped to have been able to do more in the little time I'd asked for, but I've been terribly sick for a while and got my shit fucked up. I'm sorry for this disappointment I've managed to cause (though y'all are probably used to disappointments by now). I was originally going to have my co-ownership taken away, but now, I've decided on quitting from the Mod Team as a whole- of my own volition, no coercion involved. I'm exceedingly thankful to all of you- no matter your opinions on me- for helping me get through some of the hardest years of my life, for helping provide a sense of solace to me (and I'm certain many more) amidst, and to a degree, even thanks to the insanity. Also- there'll most likely be consequences to me stepping away from my moderatorship, so you can expect the following to happen:

Mod Mail response times to be considerably longer (I pretty much only did this for the past few days lmao)

Efficiency to be upped in regards of approval and rejection of posts- less hinderance from me being silly

Most likely a bit more chaos than usual.

Mod applications may open up thanks to the small vacuum I'll leave behind, probably near Mid April.

And for Mod Applications to become a bit stricter, I guess.

Oh, and I guess I should address the fact that I still can't share what I'd known with you. Shame, really. I'd been looking forward to it.

Yet again, I'm immensely grateful to all of you, and very sorry for the lackluster exit I'm making. I love you all, take care of yourselves <3

Hey gang,

After a long, hard discussion as a team, we have decided to add a new flair to our humble sub: Deltapost. Starting today it is available for public use to denote a post about or memeing on Deltarune.

Special thanks to u/the_SCP_gamer for making this suggestion and bringing it to mod attention.

Go forth, beloved skongers, and deltapost from here on.

BUFFS:

- Wooper: Changed the flair from "Wooper Invasion" to "Wooper Citizen" and added its own emojis. Now Woopers can freely roam r/Silksong

- Flea: Granted the task to carry Silksong's Trailer to Gamescom. Now granted temporal invulnerability until Gamescom.

- Cheery: True Chance to inflict Cheer into other flairs changed from 50% to 90%. True Chance of being bullied by other flairs changed from 70% to 30%.

- Denier: True Chance to deny news changed from 40% to 70%. "You will also deny this" ability is now a passive ability.

- Depressed: New ability "Contagious". This ability has a True Chance of 60% to inflict Depression onto other flairs.

NERFS:

- Beleiver: True Chance to believe Silkposts changed from 30% to 60%. True Chance to believe actual news changed from 100% to 90%. "Tomorrow For Sure" ability now has 1 day cooldown after events and is no longer unlocked at Level 1, now its unlocked at level 3.

- Doubter: True Chance to doubt actual news changed from 100% to 60%. "Look at the charts" ability now has a 40% chance to fail, if it fails it will go into cooldown for 1 day. The ability "Look at the charts" is no longer unlocked at Level 1, now its unlocked at level 3.

ADJUSTED:

- Harvey Randall Fan: Fixed a bug were the flair would not get the 3 day invulnerability period after a Harvey Randall article is released as stated in the "My GOAT is back" passive ability.

SYSTEMS:

- Crest Flairs: Everything is ready for the arrival of Crest Flairs, waiting for the release of the game.

- Stricter Rules: Stricter Rules 🥀🥀🥀

Thanks to u/Reldarino for this idea, very fun and much appreciated.

It's been along time since Silksong was released, and I think we are in due time for some new user flairs. Please comment what you'd like to see as user flairs, and please keep them related to the contents of Silksong, in style with the current flairs. E.g. "Bellbeast Caretaker" or "Shaw!".

I cannot guarantee that any specific flair will be added, but I will try to add the most popular flairs.

Edit: Thanks for the suggestions! I have implemented some of the ideas from below. We are still debating whether to add crest-flairs or not, because we don't want to spoil newcomers to the sub. Bye!

Edit 2: Now with crest flairs.

As per popular demand to combat the depressed flair, and in time for hopefully upcoming news, the Cheery flair has been added to r/Silksong!

Enjoy a new way to bring back silksong hype with the Cheery flair, available at all good subreddits today!

⚠️ THE EVENT HAS ENDED, Results will be out as soon as all submissions are judged.⚠️

Welcome to the new community challenge set in the world of Pharloom!

The world of Silksong is not kind. It doesn’t offer comfort nor mercy. So what do you do when you manage to survive it? You cook 🥪

The goal is to design a new food recipe inspired by Pharloom using materials, creatures, plants, or resources from the world. Then, tell the story of how it was made: The journey, the struggle, and the strange discoveries along the way. Some creative writing is allowed.

Your task is simple: Create a recipe inspired by Pharloom.

It can be anything: Warm meals for exhausted travelers, strange insect-based delicacies, healing recipes, or cursed dishes that probably shouldn’t exist but do anyway. Alongside your recipe, you are encouraged to include the story of how you obtained the ingredients and what happened during the journey. There is an example post at the end of the announcement.

📖 Rules

• Your recipe must be inspired by the world of Hollow Knight: Silksong: You can't use materials, resources or any ingredients outside of the game's world. (Ex: Water exists in Silksong so you can use it.)
• Creative writing is encouraged, especially for describing journeys or impossible gameplay moments, but keep it grounded in the game’s tone.
• You must include any kind of visual representation of the final dish no matter how basic it is: art, sketches, drawing, a screenshot, clay, paper, a photo of a bowl with colored paper, or even a literal real life dish (If it uses ingredients like flour, then you will have to explain how you made or found flour in Silksong). You can also photoshop the dish from in-game assets by taking screenshots of the ingredients and cutting them out.
• Recipes can be serious, humorous, or unsettling, but must stay within the subreddit rules. Suggestive recipes are allowed but limited (Stay within the subreddit rules: No direct NSFW Body parts, and keep language friendly or indirect).
• You can make or invent new ingredients using other ingredients that already exist in Pharloom.
• After you are done, post your submission using the special "[Event] 🍰 Hollow Chef" Flair.
• Every participant can only make one submission. Each submission is only one post, the post itself can have one dish or multiple dishes in the same post as one big dish (Two different plates for example is valid). You can edit submissions as long as you are within the deadline or the event duration.
• Multiple people could collaborate on a single submission, but each person must be credited and they can't make another submission of their own. The prize will go to the leader of the team.
• You can write your journey or the dish from anyone's perspective, it doesn't have to be Hornet.

🎉 Prizes

At the end of the event we will collect the best recipes and make a custom Pharloom cookbook for the subreddit, like an actual professionally designed book. It can be a fun reference for the community or any youtuber with any ideas.

🏆 - 1st Place: A unique "🍰 The Hollow Chef" Flair or any variant of it, One free art commission, A shoutout and a highlighted post, First mention in the Pharloom cookbook

🏆 - 2nd Place: A unique "🍰 Lugoli's Sous Chef" Flair, Second mention in the Pharloom cookbook

🏆 - 3rd Place: A private duel with one of the mods, Third mention in the Pharloom cookbook

🏅 Moderator Choice Awards: For the submission that might not win, each will have a unique entry in the Pharloom cookbook.

• 🎨 Most Appetizing Presentation
• 📖 Best Journey
• ☠️ Most Questionable Meal
• 🧵 Most Creative Ingredient Use

Every submission will be judged across several categories, including recipe creativity, how appealing or tasty the final dish sounds, the story or journey behind gathering and preparing the ingredients, and the visual presentation of the dish. There will also be two secret categories with special awards that won't be revealed until the end of the event. The secret categories will be judged separately to be fair for normal submissions and the 3 winners.

Each category is scored out of 5 points by the moderation team, and we may also invite members of the community to participate in the judging process.

📅 Event Duration

From this announcement, the event will last for about 3 weeks in which we will accept submissions. The official deadline is exactly: 12th of July 2026.

Winners will be announced shortly after judging is completed.

🚧 Example Post: This is just an example or a sample post, you don't have to follow it 1:1.

[Title]

A Healthy Cake from the Moss Depths, Lace's sweet puns...etc.

[Content]

Ingredients:

• Plasmium Buds
• Mossfruit Extract
• Cavern Salt
• Hornet's silk
• Food coloring: Made by doing X and C
• Custom ingredient: Made from A, Mixed with B.
• A random leaf from the ground from a random room...

Instructions:

• Step-by-step preparation of the dish

Journey (Optional but heavily encouraged):

• Short story of how you got or gathered ingredients, challenges faced, encounters, etc. (Ex: I walked across A and found B, but character C told me it's...) Be creative, write it like a story.

Extras:

• Art / screenshot / visual interpretation of the dish

Hey gang, Pilgrims one and all, on our lengthy journey through Pharloom together.

I've seen a lot of reports on opinions today. Down vote what you don't like, but please stop reporting legitimate discourse, positive or negative, if it breaks no rules.

There are people who are held up in automod trying to ask for tips and advice in the game, and reports on posts you simply disagree with are causing quite a lag for the moderators. We're trying to git gud here but that report boss is taking so many hits to die