Rumor has it, it all began when Reddit user sanseri shared a mod they found to the Stardew Valley subreddit. The mod itself was pretty much harmless, replacing the bed of your grandpa, who kicks off your journey into the game with a few parting words and a letter. What followed, however, was something really special. Users began sharing memes and mods that changed your dying grandpa’s bed in Stardew Valley. The pendulum swung from good-natured hilarity, all the way to something rather, well, awful. But also hilarious.
It all seems to have started last week when sanseri brought the community’s attention to a “slightly worse grandpa bed” mod. It replaced dear, old grandpa’s comfy-looking bed to what appeared to be a far less-comfy cot. From there, things spiraled out of control. For the last week, some members of the Stardew Valley community engaged in something akin to a ‘dying grandpa’ meme war.
Grandpa and his bed have went through the …
