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Catherine Lewis

This is getting out of hand: Helldivers 2 players role-played the bugs so hard that people are making impressive animations of Terminids posting on Reddit

A line of enemy Terminids in Helldivers 2.

The Helldivers 2 community is a fun place, especially when players remain as enthusiastic about the prosperity of Super Earth on social media as a real Helldiver would out on Erata Prime. There's no doubt the developers encourage this, with game director Johan Pilestedt recently branding the footage of flying Terminids as "propaganda from bug sympathizers" and refusing to acknowledge their existence.

Well, if he thought that was bug sympathizer propaganda, you can't help but wonder what he makes of the latest Reddit trend – users role-playing as Terminids 'secretly' taking to the subreddit in hopes of getting buffed, or, at the very least, not killed. The meme has steadily been growing in popularity, with fans producing edits of the bugs behind laptops to accompany their posts. Now, it's evolved to the next level with the power of animation, with one popular (and seriously impressive) GIF showing a small Terminid steadily typing away on a keyboard. 

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