If you visit Reddit or some similar site, you could probably see posts/messages/whatever you call them like "༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE" or "volvo plx fiks ded gaem" . If you know and understand what those mean, good for you; go laugh more! If you dont know what's all about, let me explain you:

Last year Dota 2 had a halloween event called "Diretide". Since TF2 halloween event happens every year, and the flavor text of Diretide said it was a annual event (like WoW Winter Veil), people started getting hyped.

There was no Diretide, and the shit hit the fan.

Disgruntled players starded spamming twitch chat with emotes, which eventually changed to people losing on purpose in-game to "call Valve's attention" and defacing Wikipedia articles and raiding the game Metascore.

They also spammed Volvo's (Volvo is a pun of Valve) reddit and facebook pages. One guy even called Volvo to ask them about Diretide.
The most interesting/funniest part is that Volvo actually responded to all the spam.

I can only think people at Valve can't stop laughing.

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B-B-B-BOMBO CREAKER!

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This is why we can't have nice things!

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give DIRETIDE

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༼ つ▔ ш▔ ༽つ可怕TIDE“

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༼ つ O_o ༽つ Give HERPES

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give Dope to all our Brothers and Sisters

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ give me kawaii eyes

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༼ つ O_o ༽つ Give God Gaben's bless

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..༼ ◕ n ◕༽
༼ つ=ε/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿ ༽つ=ε/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿

GIVE DIRETIDE OR I SHOOT!

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give me five

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凸(ಠ_ಠ )凸 DIRETIDE!!!

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+1

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ <Kirby's Illegitimate Cousin Bosco

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༼͖͎̌̔̓ ̻̗̮̟ͮ̂つ̺̞̭̟̅͜ ͈̪̣̟͓ͩͦ̉ͅͅ◕̸͎̭̯̣̭ͩ̂͒͋̈́̐ͪ_͈͔͐͟◕̵̰̞̱͖̰̄͊ͬ̌̈́̂ ̱̱̺̙̺̹̂̍͆̈́̆̀༽̷͓̯̫̳̟̗̄ͣ̎ͩ̏̈つ̸̞̜͎̮̩ ͙͉͑̇̅ͨ̑͢G̀̋̑i̸̜͍͙͕͎͔v̥̳̝͙e̋͂ͩ҉̜̙̗̙̗̮̯ ̞̩D̟̲̞̖̱̊̅̇̀̋̂ͅÏ̱͛̅͡ͅR̼̰͖͖ͭ̎ͭE̷̼̪͑̓̔ͫ̂ͬ͒T̯̜̼̝͆̽́͆ͩ̔̀Iͧ̿̓͑D̞̗͎͍͈̄̾̾̐̆̈́̚ͅE͋ͩ̓ͮ̈́̆ͧ

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Call of Duty Ghosts is better than Nvidia

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volvo plx fiks ded gaem

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Arrogant asswipes are the scum of the earth :)

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improper grammar users are the scum of the Earth.

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scum of the earth is scum of the earth

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*+ 1, especially since it's, y'know, DillonMabry.

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almost as bad as.. insert inner thoughts here..

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Awwww. that makes me sad. Oh well, back to Pokemon

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.༼ ◕ n ◕༽
༼ つ=ε/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿ ༽つ=ε/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿

While I don't play MOBAs because I don't find them any fun, I do think that you're being a bit of a douche. Therefore.. GIVE DIRETIDE!

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kinda funny

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That response by Volvo is brilliant. Kinda silly by Valve to suggest it would be yearly and then not do anything, especially considering they want DotA to be huge.

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"Hey, this is an annual event!"

NEXT YEAR

"What? You guys didn't seem to like it."

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Yup. Volvo's SM department gets it. Very smart move.

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Uhm you can keep your diretides

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Oh god, poor Volvo!

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Lol at this. Volvo's facebook page.

Volvo:"Valve, hats are great, but the people want Diretide!"

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I'm just still trying to figure out why Vladimir Putin's Facebook page got Diretide spammed. Or was that a case of "Why? Why not?"

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Obama's page is also spammed.

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WOW Why would Obama even care. He's busy fighting his little wars.

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IDK if this whole thing is funny or sad.. @spamming random pages which have nothing to do with this "diretide" thingy

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Don't care about Dota or Dota players. Most people don't either. Including Valve. In other words, nobody cares about diretide.

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1/10 Nice try, come again.

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By "most people" He is right. Out of all the gamers, only a certain number play Dota, and out of these, a certain number demand diretide.
"Nobody cares about diretide" That's not true, because there are Dota plays who care, and some, a lot.

About Valve, that depends. They already make enough money from Hat Fortress 2 and the other games anyway.

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10/10, he is right!

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ONE time where DotA2 players can feel what TF2 ones did after focus shift -.-"

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Butthurt people

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give more TF2 hats

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i cant believe this exploded this much lol

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Damn.

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user score

From 9 to 4.0 lulz

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༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ GIVE Fortix 3

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༼ つ ಥ_ಥ ༽つ DIRETIDE

/╲/\╭(◕◕◡◕◕)╮/\╱\ BROODMOTHER WANTS DIRETIDE

༼ ᕤ◕◡◕ ༽ᕤ Punch Volvo for the diretide

༼ つ ◡_◡༽つ DIRE TIDE

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ah gamers and their unlimited entitlement.it would be funny if it weren't so sad.

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If I were the head of Volvo marketing department I would call Gabe ASAP and suggest to collaborate on the next Dota 2 Halloween event. "Diretide 2. Brought to you by Valve and Volvo. Fuck yeah."

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Yeah, I would like to see them involvod in Dota 2.

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