The video game community is arguably a strong force to be reckoned with, especially when large player bases consolidate their efforts online. Recently, the fans ofPersonahave gone on Twitter to post aboutAtlus’s iconic role-playing game seriesusing the specific #personaisoverparty hashtag. This has caused the topic to trend on the online platform, but seems to have no official game updates behind the news at all.
With several titles under thePersonaseries that have been released over some decades, the franchise has amassed a large amount of fans and followers around the world. The series always has interesting storylines that oftenintegrate romance or life simulationswith turn-based battle gameplay, and fans have come to enjoy the complicated yet fruitful Arcana system of the game. So it is no wonder that when the masses ofPersonafans see a trending topic about their beloved series, they seemingly have no hesitation in participating alongside the online community.
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On Twitter, the #personaisoverparty hashtag has already reached over 10,800 tweets from all over the United States. The original post where the trend seemed to have originated from is by the Twitter account “images with persona music” (@persona_images). In their post, they encouraged fans to post anything related to thePersonaseries, simply to get the topic to trend on the platform. As post numbers grew, the hashtag was featured on Twitter’s “What’s happening” column, stating that the topic is trending due to the series’ fans joking about how they are done with thewhole series ofPersonavideo games.
Some of the Twitter users who posted using the hashtag talked about “cancelling” thePersonaseries, but in a seemingly sarcastic manner, while many shared their fondest moments and memories from the series. Other fans posted meme-worthy content that say specific characters such asGoro Akechi fromPersona 5and Junpei Iori fromPersona 3are the main reasons why thePersonaseries should be over. There were also some fans who posted their own creative content such asPersona 5fan art and video clips that fit into the theme of cancelling the game.
Nevertheless, this goes to show that thePersonafanbase is seemingly active and healthy. The community was able to produce such a large turnout of fan interactions, even though the trending topic was not even related to official game news. Hopefully the Atlus development team behind thePersonaseries will take notice, and that official announcements about what is next for the video game franchise will be made sooner rather than later.
