[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @hereisthetank Smokey Smokey posts on X about indie, devs, art, game awards the most. They currently have XX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXX [#](/creator/twitter::1820627649670021120/interactions)  - X Week XXXXX +7,918% - X Month XXXXX +4,797% - X Months XXXXX +828% - X Year XXXXX +252% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1820627649670021120/posts_active)  - X Week XX +1,167% - X Month XX +1,433% - X Months XX +511% - X Year XX +261% ### Followers: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1820627649670021120/followers)  - X Week XX +100% - X Month XX +233% - X Months XX +400% - X Year XX +900% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1820627649670021120/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) XXXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [countries](/list/countries) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [indie](/topic/indie) #911, [devs](/topic/devs) #509, [art](/topic/art) 7.89%, [game awards](/topic/game-awards) 7.89%, [geoff](/topic/geoff) 7.89%, [silksong](/topic/silksong) #1337, [microsoft](/topic/microsoft) #1293, [money](/topic/money) 5.26%, [just a](/topic/just-a) 5.26%, [$10mil](/topic/$10mil) #4 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@goose0777](/creator/undefined) [@veteranjoystick](/creator/undefined) [@jeremiahkirkpa2](/creator/undefined) [@jiggleman1776](/creator/undefined) [@bruhnutsbruh](/creator/undefined) [@criscoelysium](/creator/undefined) [@yakkocmn](/creator/undefined) [@direravennn](/creator/undefined) [@stormfall33](/creator/undefined) [@lottieyurivamp](/creator/undefined) [@nightvissiion](/creator/undefined) [@hollowtired](/creator/undefined) [@themiffster](/creator/undefined) [@upisdownifisay](/creator/undefined) [@variable_gear](/creator/undefined) [@toxiesinclaire](/creator/undefined) [@variablegear](/creator/undefined) [@killuaisthebest](/creator/undefined) [@generalperiwin1](/creator/undefined) [@thefirefridge](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "@SquintoBe4n @DRKtoss @Ocean_ddz Now we have to remember theyre part owner of the publisher so that somehow still makes them indie. Kinda like if Bill Gates hired a team and made his own game with billions of dollars and used Microsoft to publish it. It would still be indie according to E33 fans" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999576483874971934) 2025-12-12T20:25Z XX followers, XXX engagements "@KeepinitTwisted @ToxieSinclaire Partner only drops do nothing but help the biggest streamers in the category get more money and actively takes viewers and donos away from smaller non partnered streamers. It also makes it harder for non partners to ever reach partner status" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1998472405770186951) 2025-12-09T19:18Z X followers, XX engagements "Zion National Park" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1998481112696553721) 2025-12-09T19:53Z X followers, XX engagements "@AUT0M4T1C_JACK TGA is just a circlejerk for critics and multimillionaire developers. Indie games almost always get disrespected there" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999388689185865887) 2025-12-12T07:59Z X followers, XX engagements "@Goose0777 @CriscoElysium @JeremiahKirkpa2 @yakkocmn Oh yeah definitely. If anything I made was nominated Id snub the award too just because I dont think a game with a $20mil budget should be in the indie category" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999390639759253520) 2025-12-12T08:07Z X followers, XX engagements "@Goose0777 @CriscoElysium @JeremiahKirkpa2 @yakkocmn As far as we know. My main point is the indie game award was absolutely robbed from every other game in the category" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999396815276245345) 2025-12-12T08:32Z X followers, XX engagements "@Khal_Yolo @ShadowMosesFox @blkdimitri @twstedkrma As a small indie developer it fills me with hope that I could win that award and all it would take is a $10mil budget grants from the French government a multimillionaire parent supporting me and outsourcing some of the development overseas" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999398884162900270) 2025-12-12T08:40Z X followers, XXX engagements "@Variable_Gear @NightVissiion @HollowTired As someone looking into indie development myself Im glad that this is all it would take for me to win the indie award in the future" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999400270963573039) 2025-12-12T08:45Z X followers, XXX engagements "@Variable_Gear @NightVissiion @HollowTired I guess I just have a very different view on what indie means. Hollow Knights devs were XXX% indie before their success. Chillas art are a X person team Fears to Fathom is a X person team. TGA is a sham. They should have a AA category so actual indie devs get recognition" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999402672886284519) 2025-12-12T08:55Z X followers, XXX engagements "@JeremiahKirkpa2 @Goose0777 @CriscoElysium @yakkocmn Its not self published the game had a $10mil budget and also had grants from the French government and loans from the CEOs multimillionaire father. They outsourced a lot of their development to Korea too meaning that their XX dev team was more like a XXX dev team" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999410724754661654) 2025-12-12T09:27Z X followers, XX engagements "@Killuaisthebest @Nlelithium @DireRavennn Because it has a budget 100x most of the other nominees and the French president himself was hyping the game up before launch" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999414459597492540) 2025-12-12T09:42Z X followers, XX engagements "@jiggleman1776 @DireRavennn This is why I prefer the horror game awards. Less chance of a sweep because the categories are more well defined" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999415128098226447) 2025-12-12T09:44Z X followers, XX engagements "@jiggleman1776 @DireRavennn I dont even know why I tune into TGA because I like weird indie stuff from itch and none of the stuff on TGA is actually indie. I think the thing Im most annoyed at is that the least indie game won the indie game award" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999416984996577476) 2025-12-12T09:52Z X followers, XX engagements "@Goose0777 @JeremiahKirkpa2 @CriscoElysium @yakkocmn I know. Itd be such a shame if a game developed by X people won the indie category while E33 sweeps the rest of the show. I mean what will the E33 devs do without that indie award" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999417553517531585) 2025-12-12T09:54Z X followers, XX engagements "@jpofferz_ttv @Bizkit047 @MetalFreezer300 I think being funded by a publisher getting grants from the government and a loan from your millionaire father and outsourcing some of the development to Korea should probably disqualify you from indie categories. TGA should have a AA award to prevent studios trampling indies" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999418867362168863) 2025-12-12T09:59Z X followers, XX engagements "@jiggleman1776 @DireRavennn People get annoyed because Geoff keeps saying its a celebration of gaming and it tricks people into thinking the show isnt just a circlejerk with a load of ads in it" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999420617406505143) 2025-12-12T10:06Z X followers, XX engagements "@generalperiwin1 @thefirefridge @VautismSpeaks Indie btw" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999421450156130782) 2025-12-12T10:09Z X followers, XX engagements "@CamoKai_86 @bubblymarmar Geoff gave one award to Silksong and said see you guys did win an award in a really snarky tone too. I wish I could have put hands on him" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999425719013642549) 2025-12-12T10:26Z X followers, XX engagements "@Bruhnutsbruh @TheMiffster_ Geoff knows all the winners beforehand. Its his show. He just wanted to be bitchy because the devs didnt get on a XX hour flight just to sit in a room and not win" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999428406333542829) 2025-12-12T10:37Z X followers, XXX engagements "@RealSonarS @kishswim The game awards is decided by game journalists. I doubt any of them even got to the end of silk song" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999431345907609790) 2025-12-12T10:49Z X followers, XX engagements "@thecoldsoup @KatsuDan87 @renee If I wanted to see hyper realistic Fr*nch people Id get on a plane. Hades X or SilkSong had more care put into their art direction" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999432222647169050) 2025-12-12T10:52Z X followers, XXX engagements "@Bruhnutsbruh @TheMiffster_ So much more to care about Bro what does he even do other than this The Game Awards are the only thing in his calendar besides hanging around with kojima" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999435951274418559) 2025-12-12T11:07Z X followers, XXX engagements "@Bruhnutsbruh @TheMiffster_ Yes and he knows all the winners beforehand like I said. He puts on an award show gets pissy when people dont show up when its obviously gonna be a blowout and then snarks them on the one award they win" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999441093080076349) 2025-12-12T11:27Z X followers, XX engagements "@VeteranJoystick @Literally_me2 @stormfall33 So if Microsoft gave an indie team a blank check and full creative control then that would still be indie to you I think theres a large difference between what indie devs believe is indie and what the general public think is indie because thats insane" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999568888611189009) 2025-12-12T19:55Z X followers, XXX engagements "@hyxkkimxru @Yorishiriamori It looks like Warframe. Maybe the new Warframe update should have been nominated for art direction" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999558100601192554) 2025-12-12T19:12Z X followers, XX engagements "@VeteranJoystick @stormfall33 Yeah we know but it does leave a sour taste in other indie devs mouths when we see E33 win because XX% of us cant get close to a 10mil budget. Most of us are making games in our free time and funding ourselves with a job" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999561599825154309) 2025-12-12T19:26Z X followers, XXX engagements "@VeteranJoystick @stormfall33 Its because Hollow Knight is a tiny team that did deal with the common indie struggles for their first game. The indie community is a place where everyone takes their licks and some people make it big" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999566478878654970) 2025-12-12T19:46Z X followers, XX engagements "@VeteranJoystick @stormfall33 Theres a large sense in the indie community that E33 hasnt taken their licks they secured funding easily and will likely make it harder for indie devs to succeed because now most studios will just expect indie teams to make games of E33s level regardless of circumstances" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999567160453029955) 2025-12-12T19:48Z XX followers, XX engagements "@NightVissiion @HollowTired A game with a XX person team and a 20mil budget + grants from the French government isnt indie and shouldnt even be nominated for the indie award. Award show is a joke" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999394588675772626) 2025-12-12T08:23Z XX followers, 1077 engagements "@Sn0wmon @barofsoap418 @TheNCSmaster Expedition XX has a XX dev team and outsources labour too. Of course they launched an update same day" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999553848461922623) 2025-12-12T18:56Z XX followers, XXX engagements "@titanictitan26 @DullardKing @hyxkkimxru If Elon Musk gave a billion dollars to a dev team to make a game these guys wills still call it indie just because activision didnt have a hand in it" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999564129342718400) 2025-12-12T19:36Z XX followers, XXX engagements "@upisdownifisay @generalperiwin1 @thefirefridge @VautismSpeaks The PRESIDENT OF FRANCE is talking about the game and the French Government funded it" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999819869819183229) 2025-12-13T12:33Z XX followers, XXX engagements "@aFreeze24 @LottieYuriVamp Netease invested in the game. Its hardly self funded" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999958943318364581) 2025-12-13T21:45Z XX followers, XX engagements "@CreepyReading @LottieYuriVamp All E33 is gonna do is make it harder for smaller indie devs to compete. In a few years indie is gonna be the new AAA" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999958294501470470) 2025-12-13T21:43Z XX followers, XX engagements "@ivan_bruva @LottieYuriVamp Silksong and Hades at least made their money from their first games. E33 was funded by Kepler who is funded by Netease" [X Link](https://x.com/hereisthetank/status/1999959372404002834) 2025-12-13T21:47Z XX followers, XX engagements
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@hereisthetank Smokey
Smokey posts on X about indie, devs, art, game awards the most. They currently have XX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXX #
- X Week XXXXX +7,918%
- X Month XXXXX +4,797%
- X Months XXXXX +828%
- X Year XXXXX +252%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week XX +1,167%
- X Month XX +1,433%
- X Months XX +511%
- X Year XX +261%
Followers: XX #
- X Week XX +100%
- X Month XX +233%
- X Months XX +400%
- X Year XX +900%
CreatorRank: XXXXXXXXX #
Social Influence
Social category influence finance XXXXX% celebrities XXXX% stocks XXXX% technology brands XXXX% travel destinations XXXX% countries XXXX%
Social topic influence indie #911, devs #509, art 7.89%, game awards 7.89%, geoff 7.89%, silksong #1337, microsoft #1293, money 5.26%, just a 5.26%, $10mil #4
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @goose0777 @veteranjoystick @jeremiahkirkpa2 @jiggleman1776 @bruhnutsbruh @criscoelysium @yakkocmn @direravennn @stormfall33 @lottieyurivamp @nightvissiion @hollowtired @themiffster @upisdownifisay @variable_gear @toxiesinclaire @variablegear @killuaisthebest @generalperiwin1 @thefirefridge
Top assets mentioned Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"@SquintoBe4n @DRKtoss @Ocean_ddz Now we have to remember theyre part owner of the publisher so that somehow still makes them indie. Kinda like if Bill Gates hired a team and made his own game with billions of dollars and used Microsoft to publish it. It would still be indie according to E33 fans"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:25Z XX followers, XXX engagements
"@KeepinitTwisted @ToxieSinclaire Partner only drops do nothing but help the biggest streamers in the category get more money and actively takes viewers and donos away from smaller non partnered streamers. It also makes it harder for non partners to ever reach partner status"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:18Z X followers, XX engagements
"Zion National Park"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:53Z X followers, XX engagements
"@AUT0M4T1C_JACK TGA is just a circlejerk for critics and multimillionaire developers. Indie games almost always get disrespected there"
X Link 2025-12-12T07:59Z X followers, XX engagements
"@Goose0777 @CriscoElysium @JeremiahKirkpa2 @yakkocmn Oh yeah definitely. If anything I made was nominated Id snub the award too just because I dont think a game with a $20mil budget should be in the indie category"
X Link 2025-12-12T08:07Z X followers, XX engagements
"@Goose0777 @CriscoElysium @JeremiahKirkpa2 @yakkocmn As far as we know. My main point is the indie game award was absolutely robbed from every other game in the category"
X Link 2025-12-12T08:32Z X followers, XX engagements
"@Khal_Yolo @ShadowMosesFox @blkdimitri @twstedkrma As a small indie developer it fills me with hope that I could win that award and all it would take is a $10mil budget grants from the French government a multimillionaire parent supporting me and outsourcing some of the development overseas"
X Link 2025-12-12T08:40Z X followers, XXX engagements
"@Variable_Gear @NightVissiion @HollowTired As someone looking into indie development myself Im glad that this is all it would take for me to win the indie award in the future"
X Link 2025-12-12T08:45Z X followers, XXX engagements
"@Variable_Gear @NightVissiion @HollowTired I guess I just have a very different view on what indie means. Hollow Knights devs were XXX% indie before their success. Chillas art are a X person team Fears to Fathom is a X person team. TGA is a sham. They should have a AA category so actual indie devs get recognition"
X Link 2025-12-12T08:55Z X followers, XXX engagements
"@JeremiahKirkpa2 @Goose0777 @CriscoElysium @yakkocmn Its not self published the game had a $10mil budget and also had grants from the French government and loans from the CEOs multimillionaire father. They outsourced a lot of their development to Korea too meaning that their XX dev team was more like a XXX dev team"
X Link 2025-12-12T09:27Z X followers, XX engagements
"@Killuaisthebest @Nlelithium @DireRavennn Because it has a budget 100x most of the other nominees and the French president himself was hyping the game up before launch"
X Link 2025-12-12T09:42Z X followers, XX engagements
"@jiggleman1776 @DireRavennn This is why I prefer the horror game awards. Less chance of a sweep because the categories are more well defined"
X Link 2025-12-12T09:44Z X followers, XX engagements
"@jiggleman1776 @DireRavennn I dont even know why I tune into TGA because I like weird indie stuff from itch and none of the stuff on TGA is actually indie. I think the thing Im most annoyed at is that the least indie game won the indie game award"
X Link 2025-12-12T09:52Z X followers, XX engagements
"@Goose0777 @JeremiahKirkpa2 @CriscoElysium @yakkocmn I know. Itd be such a shame if a game developed by X people won the indie category while E33 sweeps the rest of the show. I mean what will the E33 devs do without that indie award"
X Link 2025-12-12T09:54Z X followers, XX engagements
"@jpofferz_ttv @Bizkit047 @MetalFreezer300 I think being funded by a publisher getting grants from the government and a loan from your millionaire father and outsourcing some of the development to Korea should probably disqualify you from indie categories. TGA should have a AA award to prevent studios trampling indies"
X Link 2025-12-12T09:59Z X followers, XX engagements
"@jiggleman1776 @DireRavennn People get annoyed because Geoff keeps saying its a celebration of gaming and it tricks people into thinking the show isnt just a circlejerk with a load of ads in it"
X Link 2025-12-12T10:06Z X followers, XX engagements
"@generalperiwin1 @thefirefridge @VautismSpeaks Indie btw"
X Link 2025-12-12T10:09Z X followers, XX engagements
"@CamoKai_86 @bubblymarmar Geoff gave one award to Silksong and said see you guys did win an award in a really snarky tone too. I wish I could have put hands on him"
X Link 2025-12-12T10:26Z X followers, XX engagements
"@Bruhnutsbruh @TheMiffster_ Geoff knows all the winners beforehand. Its his show. He just wanted to be bitchy because the devs didnt get on a XX hour flight just to sit in a room and not win"
X Link 2025-12-12T10:37Z X followers, XXX engagements
"@RealSonarS @kishswim The game awards is decided by game journalists. I doubt any of them even got to the end of silk song"
X Link 2025-12-12T10:49Z X followers, XX engagements
"@thecoldsoup @KatsuDan87 @renee If I wanted to see hyper realistic Fr*nch people Id get on a plane. Hades X or SilkSong had more care put into their art direction"
X Link 2025-12-12T10:52Z X followers, XXX engagements
"@Bruhnutsbruh @TheMiffster_ So much more to care about Bro what does he even do other than this The Game Awards are the only thing in his calendar besides hanging around with kojima"
X Link 2025-12-12T11:07Z X followers, XXX engagements
"@Bruhnutsbruh @TheMiffster_ Yes and he knows all the winners beforehand like I said. He puts on an award show gets pissy when people dont show up when its obviously gonna be a blowout and then snarks them on the one award they win"
X Link 2025-12-12T11:27Z X followers, XX engagements
"@VeteranJoystick @Literally_me2 @stormfall33 So if Microsoft gave an indie team a blank check and full creative control then that would still be indie to you I think theres a large difference between what indie devs believe is indie and what the general public think is indie because thats insane"
X Link 2025-12-12T19:55Z X followers, XXX engagements
"@hyxkkimxru @Yorishiriamori It looks like Warframe. Maybe the new Warframe update should have been nominated for art direction"
X Link 2025-12-12T19:12Z X followers, XX engagements
"@VeteranJoystick @stormfall33 Yeah we know but it does leave a sour taste in other indie devs mouths when we see E33 win because XX% of us cant get close to a 10mil budget. Most of us are making games in our free time and funding ourselves with a job"
X Link 2025-12-12T19:26Z X followers, XXX engagements
"@VeteranJoystick @stormfall33 Its because Hollow Knight is a tiny team that did deal with the common indie struggles for their first game. The indie community is a place where everyone takes their licks and some people make it big"
X Link 2025-12-12T19:46Z X followers, XX engagements
"@VeteranJoystick @stormfall33 Theres a large sense in the indie community that E33 hasnt taken their licks they secured funding easily and will likely make it harder for indie devs to succeed because now most studios will just expect indie teams to make games of E33s level regardless of circumstances"
X Link 2025-12-12T19:48Z XX followers, XX engagements
"@NightVissiion @HollowTired A game with a XX person team and a 20mil budget + grants from the French government isnt indie and shouldnt even be nominated for the indie award. Award show is a joke"
X Link 2025-12-12T08:23Z XX followers, 1077 engagements
"@Sn0wmon @barofsoap418 @TheNCSmaster Expedition XX has a XX dev team and outsources labour too. Of course they launched an update same day"
X Link 2025-12-12T18:56Z XX followers, XXX engagements
"@titanictitan26 @DullardKing @hyxkkimxru If Elon Musk gave a billion dollars to a dev team to make a game these guys wills still call it indie just because activision didnt have a hand in it"
X Link 2025-12-12T19:36Z XX followers, XXX engagements
"@upisdownifisay @generalperiwin1 @thefirefridge @VautismSpeaks The PRESIDENT OF FRANCE is talking about the game and the French Government funded it"
X Link 2025-12-13T12:33Z XX followers, XXX engagements
"@aFreeze24 @LottieYuriVamp Netease invested in the game. Its hardly self funded"
X Link 2025-12-13T21:45Z XX followers, XX engagements
"@CreepyReading @LottieYuriVamp All E33 is gonna do is make it harder for smaller indie devs to compete. In a few years indie is gonna be the new AAA"
X Link 2025-12-13T21:43Z XX followers, XX engagements
"@ivan_bruva @LottieYuriVamp Silksong and Hades at least made their money from their first games. E33 was funded by Kepler who is funded by Netease"
X Link 2025-12-13T21:47Z XX followers, XX engagements