A fact from Half-Life: Full Life Consequences appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 December 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the original author of Half-Life: Full Life Consequences wanted it to be so bad that "it stands the test of time as one of the worst things ever written"?
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... that the web series Half-Life: Full Life Consequences was written by a hoax author with the goal to make something so bad "that it stands the test of time as one of the worst things ever written"? Source: "Squirrelking stepped forward not much later: he was a member of Something Awful who had set out to prove he could make something "so mind-numbingly bad that it stands the test of time as one of the worst things ever written." https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/10/5166462/the-worst-thing-ever-written-a-history-of-trollfic
Reviewed: fewer than 5 credits, exempt from QPQ
Created by Blacklemon67 (talk). Self-nominated at 10:51, 10 December 2021 (UTC).Reply
Overall: without wikitext and ... , the hook is 199 characters long so shortening appreciated. Leomk0403 (Don't shout here, Shout here!) 08:58, 11 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
ALT0a : ... That the creator of Half-Life: Full Life Consequences wanted it to be so bad "that it stands the test of time as one of the worst things ever written"? ( Note: Info are [almost] the same as ALT0)
This sounds better, though I think we should use "original author" instead of "creator" to clarify we mean the original fan fiction author and not the video adaptation. What do you think? Blacklemon67 (talk) 16:12, 11 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
ALT0b : ... that the original author of Half-Life: Full Life Consequences wanted it to be so bad "that it stands the test of time as one of the worst things ever written"? ( Note: like ALT0a but slightly more accurate)
without wikitext and ... , the hook is 199 characters long so shortening appreciated. Leomk0403 (Don't shout here, Shout here!) 08:58, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
Okay then, 1b passed the length test. Leomk0403 (Don't shout here, Shout here!) 02:16, 12 December 2021 (UTC)