Ash!!1
[genshin] me listening to a youtube vid: "to celebrate its 4th anniversary--" IS GENSHIN ONLY FOUR YEARS OLD??
Ash!!1
googles trying to verify
Ash!!1
it has SUCH a massive fandom presence and has become such a staple mentally i feel like its been around since 2016 at least
Ash!!1
gosh
Ash!!1
whispers what the fuck
whispers what the fuck
Ash!!1
quarantine has fucked up my sense of time so bad alkdfjsdkfa
Ash!!1
gawd. and it has like two spin offs now. good for them.
Ash!!1
'the fandom hates a lot about it tho--' GOOD FOR THEM
Ash!!1
i don't genshin or hoyoverse at all but i can't not respect that hustle
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wait genshin impact is THAT much of a baby?
Ash!!1
right!!
Ash!!1
baby canon
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i literally witnessed it be like. ridiculously popular amongst middle school students for an entire YEAR and then the next entire year it being collectively disowned
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like it went through an entire rise and fall and you're telling me that happeend in like. less than a year
multiverse🌱dad
meanwhile im like "is it that old already"
Ash!!1
its not even five years old!!
Ash!!1
ｓｔａｒ✯ｂｒｅａｋ！
: WHY DID THEY DISOWN IT...
Kyo
because they're middle school kids
Ash!!1
jkhjkh
Ash!!1
fair
Kyo
the most fickle creatures on the planet
Kyo
don't worry they probably all still play it but will never admit it. like Pokemon was in our middle school days
Ash!!1
that is VERY true
Gayple
what's crazy is that I think Hoyo has only been making games since like 2016? and they have four live service games running at the same time. (I know about gun girls too but I'm not sure if that's live service or not)
Kyo
officially they've been in business since 2011!
Kyo
but 2016 is when they, like, took off
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yeah its middle school. trends go in and out like crazy
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it's just like. no more genshin impact
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now hello kitty is my best friend
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...time is extremely fake
nihaowdy
i do wanna clarify hsr and zzz are not spinoffs but
nihaowdy
yeah time is a fuck
Ash!!1
nihaowdy
: i meant spinoff in the sense that they are hoyoverse
Ash!!1
not necessarily canon related
Ash!!1
it just seems like genshin is what gave the company the monetary boost to do more stuff
Ash!!1
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: the fact that hello kitty seems to come and go with all generations is so wholesome
Ash!!1
peak mascot
nihaowdy
YEAH LEGIT
nihaowdy
i had to um actually i have the disease I'm sorry
Ash!!1
its all good tbf if you put the characters in front of me i wouldnt know which was which,
Ash!!1
but i am happy for their existence none the less
nihaowdy
i would have been less Like This if hsr were not in fact a spinoff of the other honkai game on some canonical level and that predates genshin by years and [stuffs my hands in my mouth and keeps making muffled noises]
nihaowdy
hyv getting sony to pay for a lot of genshin's development was a stroke of genius tho. now they just print money
nihaowdy
it's def The Genshin Company in even my heart.
proxy ⚡
genshin DOES feel like it's been around for a lot longer
nihaowdy
pandemic time broke the concept of time
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