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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A social media post, typically on Reddit, intended to, often humorously, deceive the reader about the Metroidvania video game Hollow Knight: Silksong (2025).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, neologism
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verb
To make a silkpost.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, intransitive, neologism
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History
Blend of Silksong + -post. The format originated due to the long development cycle of Hollow Knight: Silksong with scarce updates from its makers, with users deceiving others into believing that there had been news on the game.
