
What if Serverblight were a real thing and existed in the real world?
One of the biggest questions I've had since I started watching Serverblight was "hey... what if it were real?"
If something like Serverblight actually existed, would it be seemingly unknown like in the series, or would its existence be discovered in just a few days? We don't know for sure how much time passed between "empty server" and "manipulation" maybe it was a few weeks, maybe a month. We also don't know how many people Serverblight captured, but in my opinion, it was a good few hundred.
People caught by Server Blight fall into a coma in the real world and spit blood while the assimilation happens; we can see this in "proxy."
At first, one might think that hundreds of young people around the world falling into a coma in front of their computers for no reason could cause a stir, but... I don't know, many people around the world play TF2, and a lot of strange things happen every day that aren't documented.
Oh, and maybe, if Blight catches a famous YouTuber or several, that might generate something. Three or four TF2 YouTubers falling into a coma for no reason in front of their computers with weeks between occurrences certainly draws attention.
So, what do you think?
Edit: The infected appear to be online. We can see this in "Conviction" at minute 3:06. This would be extremely helpful in showing that something is wrong with TF2; people hospitalized for a strange and unexplained reason, all somehow online playing TF2, would be conclusive proof that something is wrong. Who knows, maybe they'll address this later in the series...