The Helldivers 2 neighborhood has been by way of loads currently, with every part from failed Main Orders to Sony’s aborted try to power PC gamers to hyperlink their accounts to PSN to deal with. Now, the neighborhood’s consideration has shifted onto a participant who has unwittingly turn into the focus of an altogether extra healthful story.
The story begins with a seemingly innocuous participant interplay that went viral. A Helldiver referred to as Dremskiy joined a gaggle solely to face being kicked from it.
“Sorry… I’ve to kick you,” Dremskiy was informed by one other Helldiver who stated they had been taking part in with pals solely.
“im frend,” was Dremskiy’s heartbreaking reply.
“Don’t make this tougher…” the participant stated.
The interraction that may make a grown man cry pic.twitter.com/lGhvCzoPgy
— Helldivers 2 Media (@Helldiversmedia) May 13, 2024
Like a Helldiver ragdoll butting heads with a Charger, that interplay flew off, having fun with hundreds of thousands of views throughout social media, Discord, and boards earlier than inevitably changing into a meme. “im frend”, full with misspelling, is now half of Helldivers lore.
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead and Sony then had their say, reinforcing and selling the meme. “For prosperity. For liberty. For democracy. For frend,” Arrowhead tweeted. “im frend 😢” the PlayStation UK X/Twitter account replied, whereas nonetheless failing to handle the truth Helldivers 2 stays delisted in over 100 international locations as a result of of its PSN account coverage.
im frend 😢
— PlayStation UK (@PlayStationUK) May 15, 2024
Now, Helldivers gamers are reporting transient interactions with Dremskiy, who appears bemused by all the consideration. Apparently they’re simply blissful everybody’s blissful, which is beautiful.
The legend.. the delusion.. our frend
🔗ReasonableBarbe #Helldivers2 pic.twitter.com/1RB7AGRuzi
— Helldivers 2 Media (@Helldiversmedia) May 15, 2024
And Dremskiy ought to now have loads of frends to play Helldivers 2 with — the neighborhood studies their pals listing is now full following all the consideration. Dremskiy is now streaming Helldivers 2 on Twitch. “Whats up frend,” folks in chat are saying as they log in to look at. Whereas streaming, Dremskiy referred to as the tweets from the official Helldivers account “loopy.” “I did not even discover out till yesterday I used to be a meme,” Dremskiy went on to say. “I do not know the way I really feel about it. I respect it. It made me genuinely blissful.”
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Dremskiy has Frends https://t.co/lLBZ4i79Pv pic.twitter.com/taeqcHGS4W
— Helldivers 2 Media (@Helldiversmedia) May 15, 2024
Helldivers 2 is PlayStation’s fastest-selling online game of all time, with 12 million copies bought in simply 12 weeks. It’s an astonishing consequence for Sony and Arrowhead, however Helldivers 2 has actually had its ups and downs since the explosive launch throughout PC and PlayStation 5 in February. Maybe Dremskiy’s story marks a turning level.
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