I guess it's simply a turn of the tides. Rando is just an easier pipeline for the things that people want to see. But that doesn't fully explain the other Zelda games still falling off in similar ways. Idk, maybe there will be a resurgence of interest in the future. Covid definitely made a boom. - ThreadSky

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koroks.bsky.social • 39 days ago

I guess it's simply a turn of the tides. Rando is just an easier pipeline for the things that people want to see. But that doesn't fully explain the other Zelda games still falling off in similar ways. Idk, maybe there will be a resurgence of interest in the future. Covid definitely made a boom.

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swiftike.bsky.social•39 days ago

im sure bird flu will be huge for the zelda speedrunning community /j ffs I really hope this is a /j

koroks.bsky.social•39 days ago

LOL yeah no I definitely don't want something like that happening again. Just bringing it up because it did create a huge uptick in interest, but now that things are leveling out and the world is pretty much back to normal, the drop off to pre covid levels is probably exasperated to a higher degree

koroks.bsky.social•39 days ago

exacerbated* though I am exasperated at the interest in zelda speedruns 😜

swiftike.bsky.social•38 days ago

I wanted to touch on this more *I actually love the topic of why arent more people speedrunning and think about it alot.... i may or may not make a youtube vid on it at some point*

i dont think theres inherently a "problem" that needs to be fixed with speedrunning/zsr

swiftike.bsky.social•38 days ago

I think the biggest thing coming into play is there is simply a lack of motivation to ever pick up zelda speedrunning. ZFG has always answered the question "how do you get into speedrunning" with "just start doing tricks you think are cool" and now days that just leads you down the rando path.

swiftike.bsky.social•38 days ago

IF you wanted to have a "solution" of sorts, it would need to come in the form of an incentive. Either there's an event, seasonal leaderboards, some 3rd thing that just makes it more inherently fun *idk what this would be fun is very subjective*

koroks.bsky.social•39 days ago

It's just an observation I've had. An unfortunate one, but idk what the fix would be.

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