[STEAM] World of Warcraft and RuneScape Fans Want Official Jimothy Support After Game Devs Show Love for Viral Raccoon

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The internet has fallen in love with a viral raccoon named Jimothy, and so has the gaming industry.

In case you've somehow dodged this adorable little friend on social media, Jimothy is a small raccoon in Seattle who has scurried his way through X/

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, and just about every other online platform you can think of. His unique size, seemingly caused by what many believe is a rare condition called Short Spine Syndrome, has made him hard to miss, and almost impossible to forget.

Locals seem to have taken notice of this specific masked critter before, but it wasn't until

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user Kiana Hall captured a video that he became the latest internet-famous animal. She told

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that she came up with his name because he simply "looked like a Jimothy." The millions of social media impressions, hundreds of fan edits, and countless stories he's racked up since came naturally.

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Jimothy with his family as a baby

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— sitka ($jimothy maxxing) (@sitkapetrodolla)

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Forget spices, I'd go to war for Jimothy

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— BossLogic (@Bosslogic)

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The internet embraced Jimothy the raccoon so quickly that he's become inescapable in less than a week since Hall's original post. Most recently, some game developers have started to show the love with more than just a simple post or two.

For example, you probably shouldn't be surprised to hear Dee Dee Creations, the studio behind 2024's

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, put together a Jimothy skin tribute for their game. This is a miraculous 43-second video that arms the viral raccoon, making him more powerful than ever before.

Perhaps the most popular take on Jimothy in the gaming world comes from Blizzard Entertainment, which created a render for what the stout creature would look like in

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then followed suit with a rough (but still very cute) upload.

Jimothy tribute

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— Squirrel with a GunSwitch2/PC/PS5/XBX! (@QuiteDan)

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Jimothy

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— World of Warcraft (@Warcraft)

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Jimothy

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— Old School RuneScape (@OldSchoolRS)

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Despite being relatively high-effort posts, it doesn't look like Jimothy is actually available to download in any of the aforementioned games. Dee Dee, for example, admitted in a follow-up post that this was a quick mod for a pre-existing raccoon skin and not actually something available to all players.

Do players still want Jimothy in their games? Of course.

"Make him a battle ****, and a big Jim for a mount," one World of Warcraft player

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"The people want a Jimothy Rocky transmog," a RuneScape player

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"If they add him I hope they make him unattackable," another

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with a sad face.

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— Squirrel with a GunSwitch2/PC/PS5/XBX! (@QuiteDan)

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For now, Jimothy will just have to live on as another addition in the history book of viral memes. For more, you can read about how Tekken 8 tapped into a viral video of a man punching a kangaroo with

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Michael Cripe is a freelance writer with IGN. He's best known for his work at sites like The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be sure to give him a follow on Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and

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