After 1,693 Days of Videos, the Superfan Behind YouTube Channel Daily Silksong News Can Finally Rest

Hollow Knight: Silksong is retired today, implicit six years aft its archetypal announcement. Fans who person been waiting that full clip for the crippled yet person their hands connected it successful what is definite to people an breathtaking caller epoch for a assemblage that’s driven itself to often-surprising lengths of hype and anticipation.

But for 1 instrumentality successful particular, contiguous is not conscionable a beginning, it’s an ending, an ending of a astir five-year task that’s go a staple portion of the Silksong assemblage during the agelong hold for Team Cherry’s game. Today, September 4, 2025, marks the last video for the YouTube transmission Daily Silksong News.

Daily Silksong News is precisely what it sounds like. It’s a YouTube transmission tally by Silksong assemblage subordinate Araraura, wherever helium publishes a regular video covering what, if any, quality astir Hollow Knight: Silksong has surfaced connected that day. But elemental arsenic the premise is, Daily Silksong News is awesome owed to Araraura’s sheer dedication. Since the commencement of the channel, Araraura has made 1,693 videos. He tells maine helium hasn’t missed a azygous day.

Daily Silksong News tin yet rest.

Araraura doesn’t self-describe arsenic a contented creator oregon streamer oregon thing similar that. He’s simply a fan. He was inspired by a transmission tackling a akin Herculean task Elden Ring News, which was conducted by a instrumentality going by Mordecai and which likewise provided regular updates connected the crippled successful question. Araraura saw this transmission and wondered if determination was a akin regular update for Silksong. When helium saw determination was not, helium decided, connected the spot, to marque it.

But arsenic anyone with an involvement successful Silksong volition know, astir days implicit the past 4 years, determination simply has been nary Silksong news. Thus, the immense bulk of the videos connected Daily Silksong News are little than a infinitesimal long. These elemental videos dwell of a basal thumbnail showing the main character, Hornet, and the substance “Daily News Day 1577 [or immoderate number] News?: No”. The videos themselves are mostly conscionable Araraura narrating the following:

“Today is December 2023, 2023. This is Araraura, your big for today, bringing you your regular Silksong news. There has been nary quality to study for Silksong today. This has been your regular quality for Silksong for today, December 23, 2023.”

As you mightiness imagine, days with quality are a spot much interesting. News days diagnostic Araraura providing a little mentation of what the quality really is, typically lone a fewer minutes long, arsenic good arsenic a “Yes” successful the thumbnail declaring that determination was, successful fact, quality connected that date. Some days are “Maybe” oregon “No, but…” quality days, wherever there’s nary existent quality but thing applicable and Silksong-adjacent happened that Araraura recovered worthy reporting.

Those days, however, are fewer and acold between. Mostly, it’s conscionable Araraura reciting the aforesaid no-news script. He tells maine that arsenic clip went on, helium looked for ways to spice up the videos. He began inviting guests connected to work the news, mostly focusing connected bringing successful members of the Hollow Knight community, specified arsenic noted Hollow Knight lore adept Mossbag. He erstwhile did a crossover with Mordecai, wherever Mordecai work the Silksong quality and Araraura work Elden Ring news. Araraura besides sometimes has incorporated different amusive and comic elements into his videos, specified arsenic abbreviated video clips, images, oregon gags. These further bits person go much prevalent successful the aboriginal videos, Araraura tells me, arsenic immoderate friends successful his Discord radical got much progressive and helped marque assorted projects and video elements for the channel, including a recurring puppet cutaway gag.

But mostly, for four-and-a-half years, it’s been the aforesaid update, time aft day. And that’s suited Araraura conscionable fine. The simplicity of the videos is what allowed him to support going for truthful long. He tells maine astir of the videos instrumentality astir 5-10 minutes to make. “Obviously, immoderate of them instrumentality a precise agelong clip and a batch of effort from myself and from aggregate different radical who enactment connected the videos, but the regular ones are just, grounds for 20 seconds, enactment it connected Premier, and conscionable alteration the numbers. That's however it works for the astir part.”

What’s astir awesome astir Araraura’s effort, though, is his dedication. Easy arsenic helium makes it sound, Araraura says he’s ne'er missed a regular update. He says erstwhile helium wasn’t disposable connected a fixed day, he’d grounds a “no news” video successful advance, and “just hoped that determination wouldn’t beryllium Silksong quality erstwhile I did.”

“Usually, erstwhile we get Silksong quality aft a monolithic drought, the archetypal happening I bash is I conscionable rapidly effort to grounds and edit video, and conscionable upload arsenic accelerated arsenic I can, due to the fact that it feels similar it's my job, and it's thing truly important that I request to get done,” helium tells me, remembering 1 peculiarly memorable quality day. “The astir viewed video connected my transmission is erstwhile we got the merchandise twelvemonth backmost successful April, and that was close erstwhile I was successful the mediate of work. And erstwhile I saw this, I had to effort to get backmost location arsenic accelerated arsenic I could to record. And by the clip I got there, I was already benignant of successful a frenzy, and you tin adjacent conscionable perceive it successful the video. I was conscionable screaming.”

That video successful question has 1.5 cardinal views and is, successful fact, entertainingly frantic. But astir of the videos connected Araraura’s transmission aren’t rather that big. Most of the “no news” videos person a fewer 1000 views, unless there’s a peculiarly fashionable guest, which mightiness bring them up into the tens of thousands. News days, of course, are acold much popular, reaching into the hundreds of thousands of views. It’s not capable to marque Araraura immoderate benignant of prima YouTuber oregon anything, but helium was capable to marque immoderate wealth disconnected the transmission eventually.

Big Silksong quality day.

“At the commencement it took maine fractional a twelvemonth to get a transmission monetized, due to the fact that YouTube's request is to person 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 ticker hours successful your videos, and it's truly hard erstwhile your videos are similar 20 seconds,” helium says. “But yeah, yet I made it, and it helped maine physique a bully broadside income. Not similar thing to unrecorded disconnected of, but it was truly bully fiscal support.”

Through it all, Araraura says helium ne'er adjacent considered quitting, and was adjacent prepared to support connected going adjacent if Silksong didn’t merchandise successful 2025. Sure, helium didn’t recognize erstwhile helium started that helium was signing up for four-and-a-half years of this video series. He thought it would beryllium a twelvemonth oregon two, max. But it was truthful casual to support going erstwhile helium started, helium conscionable charged onward. “It didn't consciousness similar daunting oregon exhausting, oregon thing similar that. It was conscionable 5 minutes. It's similar brushing your teeth. You don't adjacent truly deliberation astir it.”

But today, that’s coming to an end. Araraura has published his last Silksong update to Daily Silksong News. In it, helium does a look reveal, and shares immoderate of his feelings astir the transmission and his enactment connected it implicit the past fewer years. Turns out, arsenic elemental and goofy arsenic his channel’s premise mightiness be, it’s meant thing to people.

“Lately I've had a batch of radical travel up to maine and archer me, ‘Thank you for going with the transmission for this agelong and for giving america the news,’ each this stuff,” helium says. “And it felt truly surreal to spot each of this. I knew I had a pursuing and the radical knew astir my channel, but I don't know, seeing radical being so, truthful grateful, it truly deed successful a antithetic way.”

But adjacent so, Araraura doesn’t program to proceed the updates, adjacent if Silksong gets DLC, though helium points retired that 1 of the mods from his Discord server has conscionable made a caller transmission specifically for that. Instead, Araraura is going to manus retired immoderate giveaway keys for Silksong arsenic helium promised his following, and past he’s going to log off. No streaming, nary videos, “full blackout mode, nary internet, each Silksong,” helium says. “I conscionable privation to afloat beryllium immersed successful Silksong and conscionable bask it successful peace.”

Still, Araraura says determination mightiness beryllium 1 happening that could get him to people 1 past Daily Silksong Update. “Team Cherry, if you're speechmaking this, deed maine up connected Discord. We volition effort to marque an other time for you connected the transmission oregon something.”

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