The Spider-Man Marriage Easter Egg is so Tragic That It May Be Patched Out [UPDATE]
It really does suck when your plans just don’t go as well as you wanted them to. That’s what Tyler Schultz, the man behind the Spider-Man marriage easter egg, was no doubt thinking when his plan to propose to his girlfriend of 5 years ended up going horribly wrong. While some may not think proposing to your girlfriend through the newest Spider-Man game is romantic at all, more than a few folks have taken to social media to try to figure out what happened to Schultz and whether his girlfriend accepted the proposal.
If you were hoping for a happy ending, then click away now. While Schultz’s confidence that the marriage proposal easter egg from Insomniac Games‘ would no doubt win his lady’s heart, it turned out that nothing could be further from the truth. When the game finally debuted worldwide and the story of Schultz and his proposal started to make rounds around social media, the man himself finally opened up about what had actually happened.
It isn’t a pretty tale, but Schultz posted his story onto his Twitter account, which you can see for yourselves below.
^^ The video explaining everything is right there. Wanna make it the best saddest easter egg ever light that like and sub up lol.
— Tyler (@topnotch1210) September 9, 2018
“The thing that sucks about this Easter egg is the date that I’m making this video now, three, four weeks ago, my girlfriend dumped me to go with my brother,” Schultz explains in the YouTube video. “Basically throwing away the five years that we had together and spitting in my face basically, saying this isn’t even the way she wanted to be proposed to, and left me. This might go down in history as the saddest Easter egg. Maybe, I don’t know.”
Reactions to the tragic story have been mixed, with some feeling angry on Schultz behalf whilst others feel that the proposal only added pressure onto the girlfriend to accept without thinking much of her feelings.
Either way, Schultz situation has caught the attention of Insomniac Games’ art director, Jacinda Chew who reached out to ask for a suggestion on what they could change the sign to in a future patch.
UPDATE: It has been revealed by the Houston Press that Schultz girlfriend didn’t dump him for his brother at all, and was in fact because he was a man-child who didn’t much care for their relationship.