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Quest Sprout: 'The Most Wholesome Thing on the Internet'

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday October 29 2020, @09:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the Quest? dept.
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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:

Quest Sprout: 'The most wholesome thing on the internet':

Among the horror and the misery of this year, one tiny round hero has emerged to give thousands of people brief moments of joy. That hero is Quest Sprout.

All Quest Sprout wants to do is go on a quest. All Quest Sprout ever says is "Quest".

He's the creation of New Zealand video games tester and comic artist Matthew Wills, who's been making fantasy/comedy webcomics since March 2018.

Matthew's had some success with his Swords series, but the response to Quest Sprout, when the character appeared in May this year, was unlike anything he'd seen before.

The most recent episode got around 80,000 upvotes (Reddit's version of 'likes'), when it was posted in the Wholesome Memes subreddit, where some users were calling it "the most wholesome thing on the internet".

Quest Sprout is part of a world Matthew created to parody things like Lord of The Rings, anime and the "fantasy tropes" he saw in them.

Matthew says the response has been on "another level" to anything he's seen from his other work, and feels that world events such as the coronavirus pandemic have made people want to find things online that make them feel good.

"I think the fact everyone's having a hard time definitely helped with people attaching themselves to this character," he tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.

"It's definitely a case that it's helping people, I think, if that doesn't sound too vain."

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Thursday October 29 2020, @09:26PM (2 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday October 29 2020, @09:26PM (#1070529)

    I am Groot.

    quest.

    I Am Groot.

    Quest.

    I am GROOT.

    QUEST!

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 29 2020, @09:35PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 29 2020, @09:35PM (#1070533)

      QWEST! ftfy :)

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday October 29 2020, @10:00PM

      by Gaaark (41) on Thursday October 29 2020, @10:00PM (#1070544) Journal

      Schtarker! This is CHAOS: we do not QUEST here!

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday October 29 2020, @10:50PM (2 children)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday October 29 2020, @10:50PM (#1070550)

    There is nothing wrong with a little niceness every once in a while.

    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Magic Oddball on Friday October 30 2020, @12:46AM (1 child)

      by Magic Oddball (3847) on Friday October 30 2020, @12:46AM (#1070615) Journal

      A little niceness once in a while is fine, but based on the BBC article, that webcomic is so mindlessly "cute-widdle-anime-creature" style sugary that it makes Barney The Dinosaur look like a cranky German intellectual and Hello Kitty like Rambo in comparison.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Zinnia Zirconium on Thursday October 29 2020, @11:11PM (1 child)

    by Zinnia Zirconium (11163) on Thursday October 29 2020, @11:11PM (#1070557) Homepage Journal

    The Demon Of Eternal Slumber is a giant vagina.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 30 2020, @12:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 30 2020, @12:15AM (#1070594)

    Japan did it first per usual.

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday October 30 2020, @12:57AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Friday October 30 2020, @12:57AM (#1070623) Homepage
    A - quite brilliantly done, I should note - nerd-themed idleRPG is just as wholesome!

    How about an interesting NerdRPG submission once in a while?
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 30 2020, @01:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 30 2020, @01:42AM (#1070652)

    The more the merrier. Anything to escape from the ball-n-chain.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 30 2020, @04:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 30 2020, @04:57AM (#1070734)

    Looked it over, and I don't get the hype.

    Are the Indie Game Dev Overlords astroturfing the next product they've invested in? Seen this all before for Fez.

  • (Score: 2) by Megahard on Friday October 30 2020, @02:52PM (1 child)

    by Megahard (4782) on Friday October 30 2020, @02:52PM (#1070857)

    is Progress Quest [progressquest.com].

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 30 2020, @08:39PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 30 2020, @08:39PM (#1071019)

      i've been hooked ever since they released "2.5d mode".

      Anyway uh the fact the summary from the article... has to explain that "upvotes" are "likes"... why not tell us that forum posts are like the facebook wall, too?

      either I feel old, insulted, or that this article was aimed at an audience that doesn't include me.

  • (Score: 2) by toddestan on Friday October 30 2020, @10:49PM

    by toddestan (4982) on Friday October 30 2020, @10:49PM (#1071086)

    I guess no one told the Quest Sprout that Qwest got out by CenturyLink.

  • (Score: 1) by AlwaysNever on Saturday October 31 2020, @05:37AM

    by AlwaysNever (5817) on Saturday October 31 2020, @05:37AM (#1071186)

    I don't understand how is this inane thing a thing. It escapes me.

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