It was something else. When installed on a jailbroken PS4 or PC, it booted not into the familiar Pod, but into a black void with a single, floating toggle: IMPORT SACKBIRD.
No announcement. No trailer. Just a single, cryptic post on an old forum: "LBP REPACK. INFECTED. RUNNING ON 72 HOURS. FIND THE STITCH." little big planet repack
Players reported that their created levels would "wander off" at night—disappearing from their moon and reappearing on others, subtly altered. A peaceful forest level now had a locked door at the end, behind which a low-res photo of the player's house blinked. A platformer about a lost kitten now ended with a gravestone bearing the player's full name. It was something else
Then, a user named appeared.
Because the next morning, a seven-year-old girl opened Minecraft on her tablet and found a single, lonely, smiling Sackthing standing in her world. Holding a popit. Ready to teach her how to stitch. No trailer
Theories erupted: a sentient AI trained on a decade of LBP levels? A digital haunting? A prank by a rogue dev with root access to half the world's consoles?