And after that, a hero emerged: legend_arts,RS gold a gifted and well-known Runescape fan artist. Driven from the memes and inspired by elements of West's designs and other players' suggestions, legend_arts created a hybrid armor design so good it not merely silenced the memes, it captured the attention of West himself.

"When I pitched it to the community over Twitch, I had been anticipating a bit of a response," West says. "Because when you're revealing best-in-slot items, you've either got no answer --which is what you are planning for really because so they're happy--or else you get a very loud response which, as we've all seen on Reddit, is what happened.

Obviously, what I did not anticipate was for another buy Runescape gold artist to pop up in. But when Legend_Arts published his concept where he made it bright and shiny, it made like 10,000 upvotes on Reddit, which is why I subsequently went onto the livestream to let them watch me build it."

"it is a much more positive place to be in than everyone just complaining and crying. We had been lucky. But what the memes attracted, which was so great about this example, was genuine people that really wanted to put together good designs. And as far as there were memes, the good ideas that people liked weren't overshadowed."