My favorite story to come out of the internet lately: For those of you who don’t know, for April Fool’s Day, Reddit launched this massive collaborative art project where you can place one pixel every five minutes on this massive canvas, so in order to do anything meaningful you have to work together collectively to make pixel art.
/r/YumeNikki decided to put the sprite of Madotsuki onto the canvas. Because of a lack of space, they decided to put it on the yellow stripe of the Swedish flag.
/r/Sweden, despite having no idea who Madotsuki is, absolutely fell in love with her, and have taken it upon themselves to fiercely defend her from any vandals. They even drew Pippi Longstocking next to her holding her hand. They’ve also made several visits to Yume Nikki’s sub and left friendly posts.
So that’s how a small community for a relatively unknown Japanese video game became best friends with the entire country of Sweden.
[ID: A Yume Nikki fancomic. Madotsuki is shown walking down the checkered tile path. She looks up and is startled to see a Toriningen coming to chase her. She looks determined, then has a magical-girl-esque transformation sequence into her Traffic Light effect. She turns on her red light and shines it onto the Toriningen, freezing it in place. Madotsuki sighs with relief, and there is an awkward pause. Then she has an idea! Madotsuki starts tapping her feet to the beat of “Cha Cha Slide” by DJ Casper. She then follows the instructions of the song, making her light green or red to match, causing the Toriningen to follow suit. “To the left, take it back now y'all, one hop this time, one hop this time.” He says “Freeze!” and the view changes to focus on their faces. Then he says “Everybody clap your hands!” Madotsuki is nervous and sweaty, realizing that as a traffic light she does not have hands. Finally, she is shown floating in a black void, her disappointment and embarrassment clear. End ID.]
