This image up here is the original edit made by @/rayactive factory on Twitter 2 years ago. Not a screenshot of a mod or a glitch but an edit.
And this is a cropped image of their edit, reposted by someone else without context less than 2 weeks ago, making people assume this image is really from the game:
The original creator even tried to explain here, and confirmed once again it's an edit:
Unfortunately, the misinformation has spread too far, and I see it being called "a glitch" almost daily on my dash. On the one hand, it is fantastic that this gave rise to such a wave of awesome arts, but on the other hand, the misinfo is pretty unfair to the game (and imho dismissing ray's work as well but that's my personal pet peeve). Like, you don't even have to credit the creator but at least don't mislabel their edit =<
Please share this post so it reaches everyone who has seen this edit and was curious to know where it's from, confused about it or even believed it to be a simple glitch 🙏
Sources: 1, 2, 3
(they are attached to the screenshots but as I've just found out unviewable on mobile)
will be reposting some of my old edits here from twitter, starting with this one lol.
just to clarify: this is an edited screenshot, not a mod or a glitch. mentioning this because i've seen people assume this handholing arrangement can somehow be replicated in the game itself — and i can't say that's 100% impossible because who the hell knows, but that's definitely not where this picture is from. i just flipped Shadow and put him on the other side, this also isn't how the characters sit on the bench when there's two of them (though i think not being centered fits these two better so that's on purpose).
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