![]() On occasion, the witch may flee after being startled, or re-target another survivor (if she has been set on fire or having been splattered with boomer bile after being startled by someone else).Īfter killing a victim, The Witch will run away in terror from the person she just killed, suggesting she is remorseful for her actions but unable to stop the instinctual need to attack those who provoke her.Īn effective way to defeat The Witch is to "crown" her. If she manages to slash a survivor, it will either incapacitate them (Easy, Normal or Hard) and attempt to finish them, or kill them outright (Expert or Realism mode, any difficulty except Easy). She runs faster then the survivors, unless she has been set on fire, or the survivor in question takes an Adrenaline Shot. The Witch will only target the one responsible for "startling" her. It is believed that the sunlight effects the Witch's sight and behavior, causing her to try to escape the light. During the night, she is seen sitting in a single spot, hunched over and sobbing. Shining a flashlight, standing too close, touching, or hurting the witch will cause her to become "startled" where she will target the offender.ĭuring the day, she is seen wandering around aimlessly, crying and covering her face. That's the main goal of Purple Francis, be funny and be believable.The Witch is passive towards non-infected humans, however she is easily startled. "The best way you can do it is make it as believable as possible, like you’re gaslighting an entire payer base. "When you have a place with no security or little involvement with admins, it's gonna get Purple Francis’d," Evan said. ![]() "You can go crazy on them without people noticing for a while." I just hopped around on noteable pages and slapped him on there," Lucy said. "Wikias are super easy to edit, for better or for worse. For now, Purple Francis lives on in our hearts-and also an archived version of the page. The idea that Wax House was ever called "Wax House, Baby" is apparently still a persistent hoax according to the discussion page for the article.Īt this point, Lucy said people shouldn't take Purple Francis as a signal to start vandalizing wikis, and she has asked other people to leave the Left 4 Dead fan wiki alone. This smaller, subtler change lasted longer than the more overt ones my friends did as teenagers. Other kinds of jokes spread more widely, like when a Wikipedia vandal added the alternate title "Wax House, Baby" to the page for the 2005 Paris Hilton film Wax House, complete with a fake citation for the claim. A few of my dirtbag friends in high school vandalized the Wikipedia page for " invisible hand" to say "magical unicorn" in each instance of the phrase, though it was quickly reverted. Purple Francis isn't all that different from what happened there, although the editors of the Left 4 Dead wiki were able to identify and remove the references to our purple friend after a few days, after a tweet about Purple Francis went viral.īecause wikis can be edited by anyone, it makes them rife for internet jokes and pranks. In 2015, an editor for the Silent Hill fan wiki began inserting references to circumcision onto various pages. While that obsessiveness can help you out a lot when, say, you need to know the type weaknesses for the monsters that can kill you in one hit in the Persona series, they also can attract some strange personalities. They even changed the character pages for each of the main characters to say that they were one of five, not four, playable main characters.įan wikis, any of which are hosted on the site Fandom, are repositories of information about video games compiled by the obsessive fans of those games. The character page for Francis was changed to say that he was " notable for his similarities to Purple Francis." A small reference to Purple Francis was added to the page about the tie in comic book The Sacrifice. Although all the changes to the Left 4 Dead wiki have now been reverted, Lucy and Evan inserted Purple Francis across multiple pages of the wiki. Lucy said that Evan knows Left 4 Dead inside and out, so integrating Purple Francis into the existing mythos wasn't hard for them. I thought it was pretty funny at the time, so she just kinda logged in and I told her what to write." "She said to me that she was gonna make a wiki page. "It was Lucy’s idea," Evan told Motherboard. Lucy told Motherboard over Twitter direct messages that Purple Francis was at first a running joke between the two of them, and while bored during a virtual class one day they decided to unleash him on the world. Like most great internet pranks and viral content, it comes from the brains of two bored and hilarious teenagers, Lucy and Evan. Of course, Purple Francis, who is depicted as a purple tinted version of the real Left 4 Dead character Francis, does not exist.
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