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→How Subway Surfers Became Popular
== How Subway Surfers Became Popular ==
== History ==
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. There are only very few images of
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. 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.
== Notable Runners ==
=== Blindado ===
1st Place - No Coins, No Hoverboard/No Keys on Emulator with a time of 23m 37s 767ms.
2nd Place - No Coins, No Hoverboard/No Keys on Web with a time of 1h 13m 44s 367ms.
3rd Place - 500 Coins on Mobile with a time of 47s 283ms
=== qianxun ===
1st Place - Obtain Item, Pogo Stick, with a time of 2s 767ms
1st Place - Obtain Item, Key, with a time of 3s 500ms
1st Place - Obtain Item, Magnet, with a time of 3s 500ms
1st Place - Obtain Item, Jetpack, with a time of 3s 500ms
1st Place - Coins, 100 Coins, on Mobile with a time of 13s 600ms
1st Place - Obtain Item, Super Sneakers, with a time of 3s 533ms
1st Place - Obtain Item, 2X Multiplier, with a time of 3s 533ms
3rd Place - No Coins, No Keys, on Mobile with a time of 40m 55s 367ms
3rd Place - Mystery Box, 1, with a time of 1s 567ms
=== silliewhimsical ===
1st Place - Coins, 1000 Coins, on Web with a time of 1m 27s 867ms
1st Place - Score (x38-), 100k, Boosts, on Web with a time of 13s 367ms
1st Place - Coins, 500 Coins, on Web with a time of 50s 333ms
1st Place - Obtain Item, Pogo Stick, with a time of 2s 767ms
1st Place - Score (x38-), 100k, No Boosts, on Web with a time of 1m 27s 650ms
2nd Place - Coins, 100 Coins, on Web with a time of 14s 333ms
== Stats ==
== Stats ==
Total Players - 48,027
Total Players - 28,597
Total Runs - 87,406
Total Runs - 44,617
Total Run Time - 1155h 09m 23s
Total Run Time - 2M 16D 14h 56m 21s
[[File:Subway Surfers Leaderboard Enlarged?.png|(big)px|thumb|right|A category from the subway surfers leaderboard.]]
[[File:Subway Surfers Leaderboard Enlarged?.png|(big)px|thumb|right|A category from the subway surfers leaderboard.]]