Here's an imgur link to the Iceberg in case anyone would like to share it: imgur.com/zlxbVkL Also, fun little side note. The video's been translated and uploaded to Bilbili, with my permission. I gave the translator the script for the entire video. Here's the link to it, it's only the first 5 layers as of now: www.bilibili.com/video/BV1cK421t7cA/?vd_source=82e89ecf542a6b218c20be79d008df52 And the second half has been uploaded: www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Bm411Z7Rz/?vd_source=82e89ecf542a6b218c20be79d008df52 From what I've heard the people who've watched it really liked it. I'm glad the translator was willing to undertake the task of translating a 30k word script to give people in the cn community the ability to watch it and understand what I'm saying if they don't know English. I wanted this video to be my magnum opus and be something many people loved. And I believe I achieved that.
Honestly,if they had kept "Anihilatio",that would've added that Iberian Spanish spin to it,since that is literally Anihilation in Spanish. 1-7 was never the best stage for rocks,and after the update,it's even less viable.
Considering Hoederer is the 'editor' and not just a regular super chatter, the idea that in his down time he is editing videos for Eurika during the whole Victoria war taking place is even more hilarious. This would somehow imply he had the internet to do it, but not to help Rhodes Island against the Sarkaz, get enough breaks to actively participate in another job religiously, and somehow keep all this a secret from the Sarkaz higher ups.
Before I was like "aintnoway I watch 2 hours of Arknights video", now here I am shedding tears because goddamn the ending really got me emotional. It's been an amazing 4 years of my life with Arknights, and hopefully for the many years to come.
Arknights and hypergryph as a company are only game / company i support till the end of times. just need to wait a bit for endfield and im dropping every gacha game for arknights and endfield
I saw a translation of your video on bilibili, and just want to say thank you for making this video! I'm an oversea player of the CN server, but I didn't really engaged into the global community of Arknights. Your video let me know that there are many people in the global server that love this game as well. Thank you again!
Ok just done watching the video. And the last two nodes are probably one of the most amazing and wholesome stories ive ever seen in a video game. Holy that hit hard. Literally.Its like reading lonetrail all over again. This video really is a means for celebration. God that was one hell of a video, and a perfect one for that. Thank you for this man. This truly shows that hypergryph and the players themselves really love and care for the well being of this game.
Hi, I'm just want to letting u know that I'm the one who wrote SilverAsh' thesis as my bachelor paper. It's been a honor to be mentioned here 🥲 It was actually submitted as a joke, as a desperate attempt to graduate yet somehow passed by my professors 🥲 The paper was about visual semiotic design on SilverAsh's character design. The published ones was actually the shortened version due to few changes on my campus' policies bcs of covid(I wrote it way before and during Breaking The Ice event held in CN server)
Just finished this masterpiece, it really made me realize just how big this community is for a mobile only game. This video was really well made and really made me take a road trip on the things I experienced on my time in the community as well as learned more things. Even though the video was 2 hours long, It felt worth my time. This video gives the same vibe as both the game and its community, and I love both. I hope we all have more memorable moments in the future with the fans of this game. And also I hope lowlight will bless my account with a W tho.
Hello, I'd like to give a more in-depth explaination about "Thornification", since this is something started relatively early into the game's cycle (after 1st anniversary) and the explaination was... not up to what I recalled. To understand "Thornification", we have to go back to his artist, Huanxiang Heitu (幻像黒兎). Heitu has drawn a lot of characters for Arknights at the time (Sora, Lappland, Texas, Exusiai, Mostima, to name a few). Some people have noted, however, that they always draw the same angle/same facial expression, which has became some sort of meme in the CN community at the time. If there is a similar comparsion to this syndrome, I'd say it's "Saberface", which is a coined term for Takeuchi, TYPE-MOON's Saber illustrator and he had leaned onto the joke quite a lot. Anyway, back to the main story. After Heart of Surging Flame rerun was announced with its banner, Thorns was revealed and things were fine for the most part until NGA forum users noticed that he a, was drawn by Heitu and b, he also had somewhat similar facial angle like those characters Heitu had drawn in the past. So they started photoshop him onto other Heitu's other operators and soon after, everything just snowballed from there on out.
I'll use reply function to explain other infos that I found missing/lacking: Instant Noodles: One of the thing you missed out is the origin of the meme. The "Instant Noodles" scene that Kal'tsit described is actually referencing to a Japanese instant noodles CM, where the actor did everything similar to Doctor (putting noodles/spice packages/... in the mouth, before pouring boiling water into their mouth)
Rich Cat: The lore talk is correct, but you're missing the origin/the meme started all the "Rich cat" meme. It's actually in the early chapters of the game, during the tutorial where Dobermann asked how could Jessica bought so much ammunition to begin with, which she replied that she used her snack money. The thing is, like you said it, Terra is constantly in war/conflict, and for someone to use their "snack money" and buy all those ammunition... hmm, sounds like someone filthy rich alright. This has been a joke since then and after the latest Global event, they've confirmed the joke. There is also something noteworthy about the skin as back when she received the 3rd skin, it was when the first CNY event happen in CN server, which was like... 9 months into the game; most operators at the time were barely/starting to get their 1st skin ever and this was around the time Arknights Global/JP/KR started to launch.
As a Chinese player, the accuracy of your information is just blowing me away, this is 2-hour of pure fun, I am just a rugular player not a developer or anything but I kind of feeling proud of all these content made by community, and thank you for making this such amazing video，this video really made me feeling all the time I spent on this game is so worthy.
Loved the video! Arknights is the game of my life and this video made me appreciate it even more. It also made me realize how deep in the hole I am, I think there were about 4 or 5 things listed that I didn't know, but also it brought back memories of when all of these happened back in the day! Though I will say I kinda missed how you didn't mention things like the time they announced Bagpipe with the wrong, dorky face art or the whole situation with a certain twitter user confronting Alchemaniac (Skadi's artist) after they made AI art of her without the artist's consent, crazy stuff. But anyways, thank you for the video, I trully enjoyed it.
I was debating on adding it but decided against it as I didn't wanna add stuff that was bitter and lead nowhere except feeling like "damn, that sucks".
About Layer 3 with the Shipping. Most often in Gacha game, YOU the player avatar usually tend to be a "Harem King" where all the Gacha characters in the game basically simp over you as if you are Don Juan. However in Arknights, one thing I notice with "Doktah" as a Gacha MC compared to other Gacha MC is that "Doktah" never ever was portrayed as a "Harem King" where He/She will make all the Ops fall in love with the Player. Instead as a "Doctor", we are viewed as a Parental Figure and the Ops, Male and Female look up to the player as a Parent, Senpai or Friend. Never mentioned that we are "lovers". Although there are few Ops that genuinely love us the player though, like Muelseye, Blue Poison, Angelica and Gravel. I think there are a few Male Ops that hinted to be attracted to Doktah more than just a friend though. Otherwise most of the girls act like a "Daughter". Maybe this is why Arknights never feel "creepy", especially since the game have Male Ops that tend to be more fan servicey than the female Ops.
Omfg I feel like I've watched a whole documentary. The amount of info in this video is enough to get you a doctorate. Like wow even only watching this has made me exhausted. I don't know what you went through to make this masterpiece but your dedication to it is enough to be put on the arknights iceberg.
I heard of pretty much everything that was mentioned in the video except that the puzzle in the final layer was solved. Last I heard from it was when they were stuck on the minesweeper puzzle. Man that was nostalgic. Edit: One extra information that I would like to mention that in the limited headhunting tickets had braille on the top that translates to "ITSF*CKINGLIMITED"
I still miss "ANNIHILATIO" to this day. It was so funny, and we had that typo for A LOOONG time. I reached Gunplaguy's section and HOLY SHIT, that LUCK. What a story. You are a legend. Now I have reached GORIE and WOW that was an adventure. I didn't expect there would be an ARG. It wasn't on my bingo card. As someone who has played this game for 4 years, I knew and had seen most of the stuff in the iceberg but not all. And hearing the story of the things I have never heard before like the two above were a treat. It was a well spent 2 hours.
Glad you put in the effort to make a Arknights iceberg video cause there is no way in hell I can even be bothered to read the story in the game in the first place💀 (Seriously it's super long sometimes, don't blame me.)
Don't worry, I took more time to finish Lone trail than some actual novels that I have read. (The word count of Lone Trail alone is the equivalent of 300 pages)
I've been trying to read 1 hour of arknights story content every day, and it's really tough, but really rewarding. The first 6 chapters of the story are painfully mid but everything aside from that and Ancient Forge has been great so far However I'm not even like 1/8 of the way through all the game's story and they keep adding new stuff constantly so I'll probably never catch up :(
@@thuropendragon7498 I've just been reading it through RUclips uploads. The channel "Shou" has Story Collections of most of the game, including side stories, the main theme, and vignette events. I also compiled a list for myself of the release order of all that content so I can read it in the order it all came out and keep track of how far I've gotten
Okaeri Dokutah.... 16:36 yeah those were a fun time moment...got to see the whole community trolling that whimp😂 31:05 that sh!t really got me hook, tea apple sauce under table really make me think twice everytime I use her (and Im using her for almost every stages...god Im stray so far fr) 52:38 ah these...the MEMEE!!👌 1:44:56 God i miss Laurent hahaha🥲 1:59:43 yeah, most insane yet beautiful ending... That what Arknights is, never give up for brighter future... Wonderful video man👍🏻
1:21:38 So Long Adele also referenced actual songs in the story dialog with the lyrics that wandering bard lady would sing (I can't remember her name). I only recognized one of them as Bon Jovi's "it's my life" but I assume the other two were also real songs.
That part with Hoederer…..genuinely made me laugh the hardest I’ve ever laughed, props to you good sir and to HG for coming up with that. Jokes aside, this video was wonderful.
I have been playing this game for nearly two years. At the beginning, I wasn’t into the community as much due to bad experiences from being past game communities, and more centered in Destiny 2 at the time. Then when CC#8 came out, I noticed this little Twitter thread of comments with people saying the lyrics from Operation Blade/CC#2. I joined in as well as it was funny. Then out of nowhere, some chad made a clip of it with Operation Blade’s song where each comment matched the chorus. It was a little thing but it made me realize this community is not bad. A good gem. Everything changed when I got invested into the story post-Chapter 6. To this second I am tempted to be teary-eyed when thinking of FrostNova’s final words. Then came Patriot’s “Rhodes Island. I advance.” If he was truly real, I would be by his side in a heartbeat. That character is one filled with tragedy yet he still pushed on until death itself stopped him, leaving him as a statue in a ruined city. Chapter 8 though…Chapter 8. To me, that was peak. Hearing the music from Go Shiina, seeing Amiya going Emiya Shirou (all the while being hyped af from Cerulean Flame via “AND WE’LL BURN THE CLOUDS AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAY” trust me that was Super Saiyan as hell) Kaschey’s schemes; pleading Talulah to take control with Ch’en now trusting Amiya at that moment. The culmination of Chapter 8’s finale was peak af. Plus the fact that Black Snake boss stage took me over a dozen tries to beat. After the dust settled and the mission was a success, I was officially a fan of Arknights. To me, one of the greatest games I still have the pleasure of playing, with one of the most wholesome, engaging communities I have come to love.
Sorry it took so long for me to watch this but this was amazing. Teared up at the end cause just the part of us getting this far and after 4 years+ we are still growing strong. Spinoff game, own devs, a premium game, an anime, mini animations, Many vas of all sorts and many new people reacting and getting into the game even now. I love this game and this community and will continue sticking with it till the end of time.
I have been playing Arknight for almost 4 years now. I just want to say. Thank You! Thank you for making such amazing video about our beloved game and it's community. You did such amazing job. Thank You!
i am a day one player. i play on off and just started playing seriously for this 6 months. never thought of interacting with the community. but this video make me want to. good video man.
Turns out, there's still many things I don't know/missed out from AK. I was originally going to watch this video partially, didn't expect this video be far better and more entertaining than I expected, and made me watch the full length of it (Sacrificing my office work, lucky my boss is not here)
Never have I been so attached to something like a game before and me almost knowing almost all of the iceberg shows how arknights been part of me in the past 4 years and that makes me so happy! Tectone pulls on chen got me into arknights and ever since then I played it every day. Consumed contents regarding it -- lores/memes/dramas and got part of cool ass community. But lately I don't have much time to play it cuz of work but am still updated of the latest news and events. Videos like these makes me want to play again! Bro I just watched a freaking 2 hour video but the quality is 🔥 P.S. that final part was icing on the cake made me tear a little ngl damn good job
man, just finished the video on bilibili and came here to leave a like with sub. As a 5-year player from CN, I appreciate that this amazing video led me to revisit the events I had witnessed or experienced from global players’ perspectives. It’s not an easy thing to find a video explains all that memes and facts only several people know even on CN communities. Over the past 5 years, what only I can say is that my passion and love for Arknights has never fade away. Salute u once again for your contribution to Arknights and community. (Also Exu is the best waifu:)
The GORIE story reminds me of how FNAF and Don't Starve also had at some point these convoluted puzzles outside the game that gave us lore bits. But in the case of Arknights, we actually have a in-game story so these secret texts are even more impactful.
Amazing video. Sure I only started playing this game not even 200 days ago, but I have been reading up on the story and lore and damn, I have never been more dedicated to a game and it's story.
I honestly saw this video when it first released. But have never had time to watch it. So a month later (today) I watched it and have not regretted a single second.
Him talking about the third tier and getting into a comic that he was traumatized.. I did not knew about it.. should I say thank you that I did not knew about it before hand?
Holy shit the last two layer is something actually so surprise for me. Laurent one kinda get me off guard because i kinda remembering her but dont know that she start to like the game. Thanks for putting everything in the video.
i can't put into words just how incredible this whole video was, at every new thing i am once again reminded just how much we all love this game, and then the ending to this masterpiece arrived and the tears just started streaming you say you have not done much in the community but yet here you are making an insanely condensed love letter to the game we all adore
Thank you for all the efforts to put these all together. Amazing little history of the game & community. Excited to see what we can accomplish in the future
To me this video felt more like a love letter for arknights and the community this game built throughout the years than a iceberg. Really great video i love this game a lot, i play the game for over 3 and half years and i will play it until the servers shut down.
I never thought I needed a well-made ultimate Arknights iceberg in my life, and yet here we are now. Great video, I like listening to this while I get destroyed in IS4.
This is perhaps one of the greatest videos on youtube that i have ever watched, a lot of interesting, funny and wholesome stories. Even though i myself only got into Arknights very recently so i didn't even know some of the entries on the very first layer, i just couldn't stop watching. It is incredible to see what kinds of things have happened and how people got together to accomplish some really impressive feats. Here is for the next 4 years to be just as great if not even greater! P.S. Free my boy Laurent!!
At first I just click to this video because I have nothing to waste my time on, instead, I just invested into one of the best video in my life. I stayed in this game for 4 years now and half of the stuffs you mention in this video is totally new to me, especially about the code one. Like, I still heard some rumors about others, but the code one is totally a new thing to me. I feel like I back at those days just discovered this game. Man…this is so impressive Ps. Those codes at the end actually blow my mind and made me, who studying medical field, feel like I’m so stupid lol
Still makes me cry to know about the Children of Ursus crisis. That sht sounds like something that you bring up in history class and everybody just goes quiet.
Having been in Arknights for like two years now, I thought I was already quite deep in but dang this video showed that I can still go lower down the iceberg XD I really love long-form nerdy videos like these, they're a nice way to fill in the silence while doing some monotonous task And capping it off with that outro montage playing Ray's Winged Step was just a cherry on top, perfection
god damn the whole arg bit nearing the end gave me chills phenomenal video as always, did not think i would spend 2 hours of my weekend watching an iceberg video lmao
i was initially worried you didn't include Laurent in the video, but you prove me wrong lmao really love all the explanation, especially the whole ass team dedicated to arknights ARG, i didn't even know arknights had ARG before
Well-structured and (mostly) accurate video encompassing most of the casual global iceberg, but you could always go deeper 😉 Good starting points: YT AK music mashups, global nicheknights community, AK Twitch, Integrated Strategies difficulty 15, Zafang
This is the most fun and most detailed video i have seen in year. Love your video man hope another few year when the game still up you make a part 2 :)
Have to say this vedio can easily become one of the masterpiece I've seen about Arknights. Especially the two thesis statements and the Egyptian Language Researches, thanks a lot for showing these to us.
did i just watched a 2 hours long video about things i already know? yes of course also it helped in refreshing some memories, thanks tsun this is a nice iceberg for those who want to dive deep into this game
Holy shit, this is amazing video! Playing in arknights from global launch and not really dig deep in community live, thx for coming with this man, bless your pulls
man. I can only wish that you have split this video in more than one part since I genuinely think one like and a comment do not justify your efforts to make this video. also the puzzle part blown away my mind. thank you for your efforts and contributions to the Arknights community
As someone who comes back to arknights occasionally cuz I like some of the characters but never could get into it, this was such a fun way to relive some nostalgia and embrace the history of the community for parts I was missing for
Wow, this really is a celebration of the game and the community as a whole. Such a great retrospective, i spent my whole evening getting through this, and I'm so happy I did. Arknights has progressed from not just my favorite phone game, but honestly, it's probably in my top 5 games ever, I'm so happy I started it Four years in, here's to four more! 🎉
Can't believe I finished this video in one go. I've been a player since CN Beta but your video mentioned many things I haven't even heard of. Kudos, mate!
just finished watching. i got back into arknights a few months ago after being a pretty dedicated day 1 player. this was genuinely a great way for me to get caught up on some of the things that have happened in the years i was gone (i left before mansfield break). thanks for this! i appreciate all the effort that was put into this video. i love this game too.
I have no idea how you get all of those picture / art for this video. but, props to you. i tried to make a smiliar to this and i died trying to get a clip together. since there is so little clip / art i can use
I remember seeing one of those saving for Kal'tsit posts years ago, but never heard of that again. That first pull luck is amazing. As someone who saved 300 pulls for Rosmontis then 320 for Muelseye as soon as she was announced in CN, respect
I didn't just watch a 2 hour video about Arknights, I loved it! I have been playing this game straight for years and it brought back tons of memories when playing this game and also things that I actually didn't know about so thank you for your dedication on this video!
Damn, I'm almost exactly 3 months late to the party but I had originally avoided this video because I thought it was going to be about the community (and it is), and I don't really like interacting with communities that much, but it wasn't until I got my dear friend to play Arknights, (they fell in love with it) that she had watched this video after extensively researching Arknights, that she suggested me to watch it and to say I'm impressed is an understatement, thank you so much for making this video, Arknights is quite literally my will to live, it has gotten me through tough times such as my mom's 2nd breast cancer treatment and whatnot, but it has also made me do bad impulsive decisions that I regret but don't as the same time, which is why I will always glaze this game, and Haimao to death, thank you so much Tsunul for making this amazing video and reminding me how great this game is, and Arknights for being such an amazing game.
Amazing video, it's very long but also very hooking so I lost the track of time when watching lol. You have a very enjoyable way of explaining things and spicing it up with comedy. It was nice either getting to know more details about some things or learning stuff I haven't heard of before at all (that GORIE part was crazy and I've never heard of it, wow). Also crazy respect for doing the research, writing the script and then also editing so well a video of such a scale!
![[Arknights If] You raise me up](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zMPSQu8FSpQ/mqdefault.jpg)
![The FULL STORY of ARKNIGHTS [PART 1]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/XrcybHtOD68/mqdefault.jpg)
Here's an imgur link to the Iceberg in case anyone would like to share it:
imgur.com/zlxbVkL
Also, fun little side note. The video's been translated and uploaded to Bilbili, with my permission. I gave the translator the script for the entire video. Here's the link to it, it's only the first 5 layers as of now:
www.bilibili.com/video/BV1cK421t7cA/?vd_source=82e89ecf542a6b218c20be79d008df52
And the second half has been uploaded:
www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Bm411Z7Rz/?vd_source=82e89ecf542a6b218c20be79d008df52
From what I've heard the people who've watched it really liked it. I'm glad the translator was willing to undertake the task of translating a 30k word script to give people in the cn community the ability to watch it and understand what I'm saying if they don't know English. I wanted this video to be my magnum opus and be something many people loved. And I believe I achieved that.
Honestly,if they had kept "Anihilatio",that would've added that Iberian Spanish spin to it,since that is literally Anihilation in Spanish.
1-7 was never the best stage for rocks,and after the update,it's even less viable.
I AM THE 70TH LIKE, MWAHAHAHAHAHA
@@NareshSinghOctagon Wait, 'Anihilatio' is not 'aniquilación'?????? What do you mean?
@@georgelongcoal1117 .damnit.
I keep mixing up Latin and Spanish.
@@NareshSinghOctagon OH, THAT EXPLAINS A LOT🤣 No worries, have a nice day👍
He cooked
He served
He ate
He came back for seconds
He cleaned up
Just you wait until you see some non E2 in-game art of Mostima with her mouth open. It's gonna blow your mind.
@MostimaHusbandwild
@MostimaHusband name checks out
It seems I've met my people
@@aperson336😊😊😊😊
@MostimaHusband
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Considering Hoederer is the 'editor' and not just a regular super chatter, the idea that in his down time he is editing videos for Eurika during the whole Victoria war taking place is even more hilarious. This would somehow imply he had the internet to do it, but not to help Rhodes Island against the Sarkaz, get enough breaks to actively participate in another job religiously, and somehow keep all this a secret from the Sarkaz higher ups.
Turns out he actually became an otaku after the Victoria war. Mans had enough and just wanted to edit for a V Tuber lmao.
I still dont know how hes gonna explain to rosmontis oh sorry i also killed scout pls forgive me little kitten
@@jdeverest7600 Don't worry she already forgot who that was lmao
@@Thalasseven bro droppin the harshest fact while lmao-ing at the same time
@@Thalasseven so cruel, yet so true 😭
Before I was like "aintnoway I watch 2 hours of Arknights video", now here I am shedding tears because goddamn the ending really got me emotional. It's been an amazing 4 years of my life with Arknights, and hopefully for the many years to come.
so true dud, i cant imagine a life without arknights now😢
Arknights and hypergryph as a company are only game / company i support till the end of times.
just need to wait a bit for endfield and im dropping every gacha game for arknights and endfield
I saw a translation of your video on bilibili, and just want to say thank you for making this video! I'm an oversea player of the CN server, but I didn't really engaged into the global community of Arknights. Your video let me know that there are many people in the global server that love this game as well. Thank you again!
That's so amazing to see! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Thornification is like carcinization. You may not like it, but that's what peak performance looks like.
Ok just done watching the video. And the last two nodes are probably one of the most amazing and wholesome stories ive ever seen in a video game.
Holy that hit hard. Literally.Its like reading lonetrail all over again. This video really is a means for celebration. God that was one hell of a video, and a perfect one for that. Thank you for this man. This truly shows that hypergryph and the players themselves really love and care for the well being of this game.
Hi, I'm just want to letting u know that I'm the one who wrote SilverAsh' thesis as my bachelor paper. It's been a honor to be mentioned here 🥲
It was actually submitted as a joke, as a desperate attempt to graduate yet somehow passed by my professors 🥲
The paper was about visual semiotic design on SilverAsh's character design. The published ones was actually the shortened version due to few changes on my campus' policies bcs of covid(I wrote it way before and during Breaking The Ice event held in CN server)
Nice to see ya here, your thesis cooked!
@@Tsunulthankyou sm!!!!! Also, I even have a dedicated altar for SilverAsh as well
Semangat kakak!
Da goat
I'm kinda interested and would be down to skim over it if you are ok w/ sharing it lol
1:55:36 "...151 orundums worth of pulls..." so...1/4 of a pull?
Amazing vid, btw. Loved every second of it.
Bro thinks we didn't see the second tab 15:53 💀
Edit: Oh god there's more 😭
0:27 Look Mum, I made it into a Tsunul video. Let's Fucking Gooooooo
Me personally i would get smited by him (actually happened lol)
MA, I'M ON TEEVEE, MAAAAA
Just finished this masterpiece, it really made me realize just how big this community is for a mobile only game. This video was really well made and really made me take a road trip on the things I experienced on my time in the community as well as learned more things. Even though the video was 2 hours long, It felt worth my time. This video gives the same vibe as both the game and its community, and I love both. I hope we all have more memorable moments in the future with the fans of this game.
And also I hope lowlight will bless my account with a W tho.
Hello, I'd like to give a more in-depth explaination about "Thornification", since this is something started relatively early into the game's cycle (after 1st anniversary) and the explaination was... not up to what I recalled.
To understand "Thornification", we have to go back to his artist, Huanxiang Heitu (幻像黒兎). Heitu has drawn a lot of characters for Arknights at the time (Sora, Lappland, Texas, Exusiai, Mostima, to name a few). Some people have noted, however, that they always draw the same angle/same facial expression, which has became some sort of meme in the CN community at the time. If there is a similar comparsion to this syndrome, I'd say it's "Saberface", which is a coined term for Takeuchi, TYPE-MOON's Saber illustrator and he had leaned onto the joke quite a lot.
Anyway, back to the main story. After Heart of Surging Flame rerun was announced with its banner, Thorns was revealed and things were fine for the most part until NGA forum users noticed that he a, was drawn by Heitu and b, he also had somewhat similar facial angle like those characters Heitu had drawn in the past. So they started photoshop him onto other Heitu's other operators and soon after, everything just snowballed from there on out.
I'll use reply function to explain other infos that I found missing/lacking:
Instant Noodles: One of the thing you missed out is the origin of the meme. The "Instant Noodles" scene that Kal'tsit described is actually referencing to a Japanese instant noodles CM, where the actor did everything similar to Doctor (putting noodles/spice packages/... in the mouth, before pouring boiling water into their mouth)
Rich Cat: The lore talk is correct, but you're missing the origin/the meme started all the "Rich cat" meme. It's actually in the early chapters of the game, during the tutorial where Dobermann asked how could Jessica bought so much ammunition to begin with, which she replied that she used her snack money. The thing is, like you said it, Terra is constantly in war/conflict, and for someone to use their "snack money" and buy all those ammunition... hmm, sounds like someone filthy rich alright. This has been a joke since then and after the latest Global event, they've confirmed the joke. There is also something noteworthy about the skin as back when she received the 3rd skin, it was when the first CNY event happen in CN server, which was like... 9 months into the game; most operators at the time were barely/starting to get their 1st skin ever and this was around the time Arknights Global/JP/KR started to launch.
As a Chinese player, the accuracy of your information is just blowing me away, this is 2-hour of pure fun, I am just a rugular player not a developer or anything but I kind of feeling proud of all these content made by community, and thank you for making this such amazing video，this video really made me feeling all the time I spent on this game is so worthy.
Loved the video! Arknights is the game of my life and this video made me appreciate it even more. It also made me realize how deep in the hole I am, I think there were about 4 or 5 things listed that I didn't know, but also it brought back memories of when all of these happened back in the day! Though I will say I kinda missed how you didn't mention things like the time they announced Bagpipe with the wrong, dorky face art or the whole situation with a certain twitter user confronting Alchemaniac (Skadi's artist) after they made AI art of her without the artist's consent, crazy stuff. But anyways, thank you for the video, I trully enjoyed it.
I was debating on adding it but decided against it as I didn't wanna add stuff that was bitter and lead nowhere except feeling like "damn, that sucks".
@@Tsunul Ah, I totally get it. Thanks for the reply!
About Layer 3 with the Shipping. Most often in Gacha game, YOU the player avatar usually tend to be a "Harem King" where all the Gacha characters in the game basically simp over you as if you are Don Juan.
However in Arknights, one thing I notice with "Doktah" as a Gacha MC compared to other Gacha MC is that "Doktah" never ever was portrayed as a "Harem King" where He/She will make all the Ops fall in love with the Player. Instead as a "Doctor", we are viewed as a Parental Figure and the Ops, Male and Female look up to the player as a Parent, Senpai or Friend. Never mentioned that we are "lovers". Although there are few Ops that genuinely love us the player though, like Muelseye, Blue Poison, Angelica and Gravel. I think there are a few Male Ops that hinted to be attracted to Doktah more than just a friend though. Otherwise most of the girls act like a "Daughter".
Maybe this is why Arknights never feel "creepy", especially since the game have Male Ops that tend to be more fan servicey than the female Ops.
Omfg I feel like I've watched a whole documentary.
The amount of info in this video is enough to get you a doctorate.
Like wow even only watching this has made me exhausted. I don't know what you went through to make this masterpiece but your dedication to it is enough to be put on the arknights iceberg.
I went through... many many different cups of coffee and lack of sleep. But seeing people love the video easily makes it worth the effort.
4 years worth of memories (read as torture) were truly worth the path we walked. Truly the ark of our knights.
I heard of pretty much everything that was mentioned in the video except that the puzzle in the final layer was solved. Last I heard from it was when they were stuck on the minesweeper puzzle.
Man that was nostalgic.
Edit: One extra information that I would like to mention that in the limited headhunting tickets had braille on the top that translates to "ITSF*CKINGLIMITED"
There's no way that's real, that's funny af.
I'm unfortunately unable to share links here, but if you were to search for "braille" under the Arknights subreddit, it is one of the top searches.
@@Tsunullook up braille on the AK subreddit
@@randomuser8144 Jesus christ its real, thats amazing.
@MostimaHusband Cicada 3301 shi huh? agreed...
One of the best pieces of recent AK EN content and a reminder of what makes it so special apart from others in the mobile gaming space, kudos.
I still miss "ANNIHILATIO" to this day. It was so funny, and we had that typo for A LOOONG time.
I reached Gunplaguy's section and HOLY SHIT, that LUCK. What a story. You are a legend.
Now I have reached GORIE and WOW that was an adventure. I didn't expect there would be an ARG. It wasn't on my bingo card.
As someone who has played this game for 4 years, I knew and had seen most of the stuff in the iceberg but not all. And hearing the story of the things I have never heard before like the two above were a treat. It was a well spent 2 hours.
Thanks for this amazing video !
I joined AK in 2022, and it was so cool to discover all those cool things that happened with the game :D
Glad you put in the effort to make a Arknights iceberg video cause there is no way in hell I can even be bothered to read the story in the game in the first place💀
(Seriously it's super long sometimes, don't blame me.)
Don't worry, I took more time to finish Lone trail than some actual novels that I have read. (The word count of Lone Trail alone is the equivalent of 300 pages)
I've been trying to read 1 hour of arknights story content every day, and it's really tough, but really rewarding. The first 6 chapters of the story are painfully mid but everything aside from that and Ancient Forge has been great so far
However I'm not even like 1/8 of the way through all the game's story and they keep adding new stuff constantly so I'll probably never catch up :(
@@juicyjuustar121What site are you reading this from? I've thought about doing the same
@@thuropendragon7498 I've just been reading it through RUclips uploads. The channel "Shou" has Story Collections of most of the game, including side stories, the main theme, and vignette events. I also compiled a list for myself of the release order of all that content so I can read it in the order it all came out and keep track of how far I've gotten
Okaeri Dokutah....
16:36 yeah those were a fun time moment...got to see the whole community trolling that whimp😂
31:05 that sh!t really got me hook, tea apple sauce under table really make me think twice everytime I use her (and Im using her for almost every stages...god Im stray so far fr)
52:38 ah these...the MEMEE!!👌
1:44:56 God i miss Laurent hahaha🥲
1:59:43 yeah, most insane yet beautiful ending...
That what Arknights is, never give up for brighter future...
Wonderful video man👍🏻
1:21:38 So Long Adele also referenced actual songs in the story dialog with the lyrics that wandering bard lady would sing (I can't remember her name). I only recognized one of them as Bon Jovi's "it's my life" but I assume the other two were also real songs.
i will now live with the fact i have decided 2 hour 17 minutes and 11 seconds of my life watching an iceberg video on arknights
im living the life
That part with Hoederer…..genuinely made me laugh the hardest I’ve ever laughed, props to you good sir and to HG for coming up with that. Jokes aside, this video was wonderful.
Tower defense game by the way
I have been playing this game for nearly two years. At the beginning, I wasn’t into the community as much due to bad experiences from being past game communities, and more centered in Destiny 2 at the time. Then when CC#8 came out, I noticed this little Twitter thread of comments with people saying the lyrics from Operation Blade/CC#2. I joined in as well as it was funny. Then out of nowhere, some chad made a clip of it with Operation Blade’s song where each comment matched the chorus. It was a little thing but it made me realize this community is not bad. A good gem. Everything changed when I got invested into the story post-Chapter 6. To this second I am tempted to be teary-eyed when thinking of FrostNova’s final words. Then came Patriot’s “Rhodes Island. I advance.” If he was truly real, I would be by his side in a heartbeat. That character is one filled with tragedy yet he still pushed on until death itself stopped him, leaving him as a statue in a ruined city. Chapter 8 though…Chapter 8. To me, that was peak. Hearing the music from Go Shiina, seeing Amiya going Emiya Shirou (all the while being hyped af from Cerulean Flame via “AND WE’LL BURN THE CLOUDS AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAY” trust me that was Super Saiyan as hell) Kaschey’s schemes; pleading Talulah to take control with Ch’en now trusting Amiya at that moment. The culmination of Chapter 8’s finale was peak af. Plus the fact that Black Snake boss stage took me over a dozen tries to beat. After the dust settled and the mission was a success, I was officially a fan of Arknights. To me, one of the greatest games I still have the pleasure of playing, with one of the most wholesome, engaging communities I have come to love.
Sorry it took so long for me to watch this but this was amazing. Teared up at the end cause just the part of us getting this far and after 4 years+ we are still growing strong.
Spinoff game, own devs, a premium game, an anime, mini animations, Many vas of all sorts and many new people reacting and getting into the game even now.
I love this game and this community and will continue sticking with it till the end of time.
Now that outro is just BEAUTIFUL. Especially the Reunion leaders' death. Hits right in the heart.
Whats the title?
@@jayveeakia3404 Winged Step
This is probably the most insane arknights iceberg video I've ever seen!
I enjoyed every second of it and even discovered a lot of new things lmao
I have been playing Arknight for almost 4 years now. I just want to say.
Thank You! Thank you for making such amazing video about our beloved game and it's community.
You did such amazing job.
Thank You!
i am a day one player. i play on off and just started playing seriously for this 6 months. never thought of interacting with the community. but this video make me want to. good video man.
Neat video, haven’t seen someone go this in depth into arknights before
the puzzle section made me tired and confused enough, amazing job for being able to put together all of this
Oh most of it was put together by the creator of the google doc in the description, I was just lucky they were fine with me covering it.
He actually did it....
Turns out, there's still many things I don't know/missed out from AK.
I was originally going to watch this video partially, didn't expect this video be far better and more entertaining than I expected, and made me watch the full length of it (Sacrificing my office work, lucky my boss is not here)
Never have I been so attached to something like a game before and me almost knowing almost all of the iceberg shows how arknights been part of me in the past 4 years and that makes me so happy!
Tectone pulls on chen got me into arknights and ever since then I played it every day. Consumed contents regarding it -- lores/memes/dramas and got part of cool ass community. But lately I don't have much time to play it cuz of work but am still updated of the latest news and events. Videos like these makes me want to play again! Bro I just watched a freaking 2 hour video but the quality is 🔥
P.S. that final part was icing on the cake made me tear a little ngl damn good job
now this, this is a masterpiece, the memories are flooding in. thank you for making this video
man, just finished the video on bilibili and came here to leave a like with sub. As a 5-year player from CN, I appreciate that this amazing video led me to revisit the events I had witnessed or experienced from global players’ perspectives. It’s not an easy thing to find a video explains all that memes and facts only several people know even on CN communities. Over the past 5 years, what only I can say is that my passion and love for Arknights has never fade away. Salute u once again for your contribution to Arknights and community.
(Also Exu is the best waifu:)
This is an incredible video. It must have been so much work doing all this research, and the iceberg truly digs into the deepest lore. Amazing work!
Thank you so much, glad you appreciated it!
So much effort and research put into this video.
It deserves way more attention!
The GORIE story reminds me of how FNAF and Don't Starve also had at some point these convoluted puzzles outside the game that gave us lore bits. But in the case of Arknights, we actually have a in-game story so these secret texts are even more impactful.
Amazing video.
Sure I only started playing this game not even 200 days ago, but I have been reading up on the story and lore and damn, I have never been more dedicated to a game and it's story.
I honestly saw this video when it first released. But have never had time to watch it. So a month later (today) I watched it and have not regretted a single second.
Him talking about the third tier and getting into a comic that he was traumatized.. I did not knew about it.. should I say thank you that I did not knew about it before hand?
Holy shit the last two layer is something actually so surprise for me. Laurent one kinda get me off guard because i kinda remembering her but dont know that she start to like the game. Thanks for putting everything in the video.
i can't put into words just how incredible this whole video was, at every new thing i am once again reminded just how much we all love this game, and then the ending to this masterpiece arrived and the tears just started streaming
you say you have not done much in the community but yet here you are making an insanely condensed love letter to the game we all adore
Thank you for all the efforts to put these all together. Amazing little history of the game & community. Excited to see what we can accomplish in the future
I love watching icebergs for games I don't even play. This was very entertaining and super well made. Thank you for your effort.
thank you for making this video!!!! i remember weeks ago looking for an arknights iceberg on youtube and now there's finally one!!
To me this video felt more like a love letter for arknights and the community this game built throughout the years than a iceberg. Really great video i love this game a lot, i play the game for over 3 and half years and i will play it until the servers shut down.
I never thought I needed a well-made ultimate Arknights iceberg in my life, and yet here we are now. Great video, I like listening to this while I get destroyed in IS4.
Arknights players are really one of the most big brain people to solve the bunch of codes hypergryph gave them
This is perhaps one of the greatest videos on youtube that i have ever watched, a lot of interesting, funny and wholesome stories.
Even though i myself only got into Arknights very recently so i didn't even know some of the entries on the very first layer, i just couldn't stop watching. It is incredible to see what kinds of things have happened and how people got together to accomplish some really impressive feats.
Here is for the next 4 years to be just as great if not even greater!
P.S. Free my boy Laurent!!
Holy smokes and I thought other iceberg theorys were massive.
Amazing, great iceberg and explanation!
We totally need a separate amv of that last mashup please! That hit way harder than expected
this video took so much work and its so good my god
At first I just click to this video because I have nothing to waste my time on, instead, I just invested into one of the best video in my life.
I stayed in this game for 4 years now and half of the stuffs you mention in this video is totally new to me, especially about the code one. Like, I still heard some rumors about others, but the code one is totally a new thing to me. I feel like I back at those days just discovered this game.
Man…this is so impressive
Ps. Those codes at the end actually blow my mind and made me, who studying medical field, feel like I’m so stupid lol
Still makes me cry to know about the Children of Ursus crisis.
That sht sounds like something that you bring up in history class and everybody just goes quiet.
Having been in Arknights for like two years now, I thought I was already quite deep in but dang this video showed that I can still go lower down the iceberg XD
I really love long-form nerdy videos like these, they're a nice way to fill in the silence while doing some monotonous task
And capping it off with that outro montage playing Ray's Winged Step was just a cherry on top, perfection
god damn the whole arg bit nearing the end gave me chills
phenomenal video as always, did not think i would spend 2 hours of my weekend watching an iceberg video lmao
The Exusai Doujins with Futa Texas are my favorite.
i was initially worried you didn't include Laurent in the video, but you prove me wrong lmao
really love all the explanation, especially the whole ass team dedicated to arknights ARG, i didn't even know arknights had ARG before
1:57:45 Dude, that is so beautiful. Respect. Deserved.
5:30 Eyyy I made the Endfield Thornification, glad to see the fruits of my labor be born xD
Well-structured and (mostly) accurate video encompassing most of the casual global iceberg, but you could always go deeper 😉
Good starting points: YT AK music mashups, global nicheknights community, AK Twitch, Integrated Strategies difficulty 15, Zafang
Amazingly well-made iceberg. It felt like the last part of the last layer loops back to the first layer. It all goes full circle.
This is the most fun and most detailed video i have seen in year.
Love your video man hope another few year when the game still up you make a part 2 :)
im so glad I finally got around to watch this vid
bunch of stuff I didnt know somehow
great vid, thank you so much for making it
Have to say this vedio can easily become one of the masterpiece I've seen about Arknights. Especially the two thesis statements and the Egyptian Language Researches, thanks a lot for showing these to us.
did i just watched a 2 hours long video about things i already know? yes of course also it helped in refreshing some memories, thanks tsun this is a nice iceberg for those who want to dive deep into this game
Holy shit, this is amazing video! Playing in arknights from global launch and not really dig deep in community live, thx for coming with this man, bless your pulls
man. I can only wish that you have split this video in more than one part since I genuinely think one like and a comment do not justify your efforts to make this video. also the puzzle part blown away my mind. thank you for your efforts and contributions to the Arknights community
As someone who comes back to arknights occasionally cuz I like some of the characters but never could get into it, this was such a fun way to relive some nostalgia and embrace the history of the community for parts I was missing for
I'm so happy one of my memes was shown in the scrolling through 0sanity, that made my day
As a (not-so active) moderator for 0sanitymemes, I have no idea what is Kataokasan Posting
"Petelgeuse, cat edition" was not on my bingo card...
8:45 ahhh yes the obscure real mans train I almost had the pleasure of forgetting
Wow, this really is a celebration of the game and the community as a whole. Such a great retrospective, i spent my whole evening getting through this, and I'm so happy I did. Arknights has progressed from not just my favorite phone game, but honestly, it's probably in my top 5 games ever, I'm so happy I started it
Four years in, here's to four more! 🎉
Can't believe I finished this video in one go.
I've been a player since CN Beta but your video mentioned many things I haven't even heard of.
Kudos, mate!
just finished watching. i got back into arknights a few months ago after being a pretty dedicated day 1 player. this was genuinely a great way for me to get caught up on some of the things that have happened in the years i was gone (i left before mansfield break). thanks for this! i appreciate all the effort that was put into this video. i love this game too.
Funny how as of today of the npc operators that should be pullable we’ve gotten 2 annouced to be coming as playable soon with Ascalon and Logos
2 of the ones that were mentioned at 46:03. they really heard you out lol
I have no idea how you get all of those picture / art for this video. but, props to you. i tried to make a smiliar to this and i died trying to get a clip together. since there is so little clip / art i can use
the fact that guy saved for over a year and a half and got her on the first pull is actually amazing. something like that is too great to make up.
I'm surprised at myself as to how much of this I knew already before going in. As a Siege fan, I'm happy to she her make it somewhere in the iceberg😊.
“Future wife is still on the table”
Yeah about that….
2:11:41 some fun fact, Yostar CEO YaoMeng, lowlights, Girlsfrontline producter YuZhong were roommate and the original sunborn were composed of them
I remember seeing one of those saving for Kal'tsit posts years ago, but never heard of that again. That first pull luck is amazing. As someone who saved 300 pulls for Rosmontis then 320 for Muelseye as soon as she was announced in CN, respect
I didn't just watch a 2 hour video about Arknights, I loved it!
I have been playing this game straight for years and it brought back tons of memories when playing this game and also things that I actually didn't know about so thank you for your dedication on this video!
This video was such a fun watch, the little outro movie after covering the final piece of the iceberg was really cool!
What a video. Never say you haven't done a lot for the community, my guy. Here's to the future of the game!
Damn, I'm almost exactly 3 months late to the party but I had originally avoided this video because I thought it was going to be about the community (and it is), and I don't really like interacting with communities that much, but it wasn't until I got my dear friend to play Arknights, (they fell in love with it) that she had watched this video after extensively researching Arknights, that she suggested me to watch it and to say I'm impressed is an understatement, thank you so much for making this video, Arknights is quite literally my will to live, it has gotten me through tough times such as my mom's 2nd breast cancer treatment and whatnot, but it has also made me do bad impulsive decisions that I regret but don't as the same time, which is why I will always glaze this game, and Haimao to death, thank you so much Tsunul for making this amazing video and reminding me how great this game is, and Arknights for being such an amazing game.
That was a thing of beauty, man. Thank you so much. I've been around for less than a year but I'm already 200% invested so, yeah. Highly enjoyed!
Amazing video, it's very long but also very hooking so I lost the track of time when watching lol. You have a very enjoyable way of explaining things and spicing it up with comedy. It was nice either getting to know more details about some things or learning stuff I haven't heard of before at all (that GORIE part was crazy and I've never heard of it, wow). Also crazy respect for doing the research, writing the script and then also editing so well a video of such a scale!
Holy hell, I heard you put Zato 1's theme in the Elysium is blind theory! Especially they are both blind.
I never knew you liked Guilty Gear!
Gorie story so amazing
The amount of effort to solve the puzzle and hypergryph making the puzzle