Race With Ryan is a your basic racing game released on November 1, 2019, based on the child toy reviewer Ryan’s World on youtube, and was met with average reviews, probably because kids would rather play Mario Kart with characters they know like Mario or Donkey Kong. Advertising and merchandising off one specific youtuber is pretty niche and could only draw in a very particular audience, being what amount of kids are big enough fans of Ryan’s World. There isn’t much else to say about it, except for the discovery of a hidden texture in the files.
On the same day of release, twitter user TiniestTurtles discovered a pretty creepy texture, the showed Ryan with his eyes as X’s, blood dripping from his eyes, and a wide smile with stitches.
TiniestTurtles did also end up figuring out how to put said texture on a model of Ryan.
It definitely begs the question of “Why would they put this in a kid’s game?” Supposedly the developers refuse to answer. Obvious conclusions are that it was either a weird joke between the developers, or a way to blow off steam and vent out the frustrations of making a video game, especially a shovelware game based on a child’s youtube channel. Another theory is that it was added on purpose so that someone would inevitably find it, have it blow up, and thus be free advertising with it drawing attention to the game.
Whatever theory, it is thankfully unused, with the only way to see it is by viewing the files, but it shouldn’t be in the files at all. It’s even more disturbing considering Ryan is a real child, and this is a game based on him. Even if it wasn’t meant as an attack on Ryan personally, it’s still insensitive.
