Hollow Knight: Silksong fans are convinced Sea of Sorrow DLC is launching soon as a single emoji from Team Cherry's marketing lead spurs a Silkposting renaissance

Here we go again – Hollow Knight: Silksong fans are of the belief that the Sea of Sorrow DLC is just around the corner. The evidence? An emoji from the marketing lead for Team Cherry, posted in response to a fan seemingly willing its impending release to be true.

I'm being slightly flippant, but that's the gist. "Reliable sources tell me Sea of Sorrow this month," Hollow Shads, a Hollow Knight and Sonic-centric Twitter account (likely jokingly) posted on May 2. The next day, Matthew Griffin, the marketing and publishing director at Team Cherry, acknowledged the tweet, responding simply with the emoji of a face with a monocle.

And the crowd goes wild. Someone from Team Cherry responding to a rumor like this is more than enough to get people excited, but the fact it's now become a vague tease from the man in charge of the studio's publicity has truly set the community off.

To be fair to diehard fans of Hollow Knight and its bug-filled Metroidvania sequel, they've learned their lesson from six years of anticipation based on crumbs for Silksong. "I doubt it," writes one player on a Reddit thread dedicated to this potential revelation.

"I believe," says another, demonstrating a duality you can find spread through the whole fandom at the moment, with believers and doubters seemingly flooding the game's subreddit in equal numbers. "It feels wrong to have it this soon after the six year wait we endured. I call for a petition to delay it to 2028," another Redditor wryly comments.

Others are, uh, a tad more enthusiastic. "SEA OF SORROW TOMORROW WOOHOOOO," one declared... two days ago. That aged poorly. As another puts it, "We're here again huh?"

The only real chunk of information we've gotten is that there won't be any more updates until Sea of Sorrow comes out. At risk of feeding the fire here, the expansion coming out sometime this month – May 2026 – would line up with the DLC timeline for Hollow Knight. Hidden Dreams came five months after first release, The Grimm Troupe arriving a further three months after.

Presuming Sea of Sorrow is around the same size, it could very well be any day now. Or it could be months away, we really don't know, and false hope born from rampant speculation is the enemy here. Keep all expectations in check until further information arrives.

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