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→How Subway Surfers Became Popular
In late 2021 and early 2022, a TikTok account by the name of [https://www.tiktok.com/@lexakt_ lexakt_] was posting short videos about Subway Surfers and the placement of Brazilian speedrunners. Her videos got popular in a short amount of time, helping not only her channel grow, but also the Subway Surfers game leaderboard on speedrun.com. In August of 2020, a total of 86 players submitted times to the Subway Surfers leaderboard.
In late 2021 and early 2022, a TikTok account by the name of [https://www.tiktok.com/@lexakt_ lexakt_] was posting short videos about Subway Surfers and the placement of Brazilian speedrunners. Her videos got popular in a short amount of time, helping not only her channel grow, but also the Subway Surfers game leaderboard on speedrun.com. In August of 2020, a total of 86 players submitted times to the Subway Surfers leaderboard.
Most runners in 2022 were Brazilian, wich influenced the community at the time causing the games rules to be translated into Portugeese. Because of the language barriers from the runners and mostly english speaking moderators, channels in the official Subway Surfers Speedrunning Discord Server were also newley created and translated to Portugeese for Brazilian runners. Because of the mostly english speaking mod team, new moderators fluent in Portugueese were recruited to not only help verify runs, but help Brazilian runners with problems they had.
Most runners in 2022 were Brazilian, wich influenced the community at the time causing the games rules to be translated into Portugeese. Because of the language barriers from the runners and mostly english speaking moderators, channels in the official Subway Surfers Speedrunning Discord Server were also newley created and translated to Portugeese for Brazilian runners. Because of the mostly english speaking mod team, new moderators fluent in Portugueese were recruited to not only help verify runs, but help Brazilian runners with problems they had. Brazilian runners in Subay Surfers died down slowly in late 2022 and early 2023.
Because of Brazilian runners giving Subway Surfers more popularity on speedrun.com, people from other countries started to run Subway Surfers. People from surrounding countries like Argentina and Chile started running Subway Surfers for a short time. Runners from english speaking countries like the United States and the United Kingdom also started running Subway Surfers at the same time as Brazilian runners.
In later 2023, Chinese runners started to run Subway Surfers. This was a problem for moderators for a while because of YouTube restrictions for Chinese citizens. Instead of uploading their runs to YouTube or TikTok, chinese runners primarily uploaded their runs to BiliBili. Moderators had to uplaod their BiliBili runs to YouTube manually to be able to reitme them. This lead to a build up in the que even after barely any Brazilians were submitting runs. At times, this caused the que to go over 100 runs waiting. Moderators soon found websites to help retime BiliBili runs to help verify runs faster. jensj56 and jackzfiml primarily verified BiliBili runs. They have verified the most amount of Chinese runners runs since.
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