Thanks to u/SilverFoxeOnReddit who submitted this as an idea for the next enemy in the game!

In this episode, I’m showing off a brand-new enemy: the Brainrot. We explore a strange post-apocalyptic daycare filled with unsettling details, creepy surprises, and one very odd babysitter.

App: click-bait-game (Devvit Web, custom post)

Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Click_Bait/comments/1vatmf0/

Device: Google Pixel 9 Pro (Mali-G715 GPU)

Reddit app: 2026.35.0 for Android (installed 2026-09-01). The previous app version was fine.

What happens

Since the app update, our game's expanded webview shows a black screen. The game is running: buttons can be tapped blind, music plays, scene changes happen. Only the picture is missing.

Nothing on our side changed. To prove it we re-uploaded the exact build that was working in the app on 2026-08-28 (version 0.0.149 of our app). It is black in 2026.35.0 too. Phone Chrome on the same phone, same build, same post URL, displays it and runs at 58fps.

What we measured inside the app webview

We ship a diagnostic panel that draws test surfaces and reads pixels back from WebGL.

- WebGL 1.0 context is created fine (renderer reports Mali-G715, no context loss, no GL errors).

- readPixels on our WebGL canvas returns the rendered frame with colour. The canvas is drawn, it is just never composited to the screen.

- Raw WebGL test canvases with every context attribute combination (alpha on/off, preserveDrawingBuffer, antialias off) and CSS variants (translateZ, will-change, opacity 0.99) are all black on screen.

- A bitmaprenderer canvas (transferFromImageBitmap) is also black on screen.

- A plain 2D canvas displays correctly.

- Copying the WebGL frame into a 2D canvas with drawImage every frame makes the game visible. That is our current workaround.

- Performance in the same webview: requestAnimationFrame idles at 57fps with nothing to draw, but a 3M iteration JS loop takes ~25ms versus ~6ms in phone Chrome, and the game runs at ~20fps at every canvas size, with or without the copy. The webview process appears CPU throttled, and it is not per pixel.

- The inline (non-expanded) card webview behaves the same.

Impact

Every WebGL Devvit Web app is black on Android 2026.35.0 unless it copies frames through a 2D canvas, and even then runs at a third of the frame rate it had last week.

Ask

Is the expanded webview now running with hardware acceleration disabled (software compositing) in 2026.35.0? Can that be restored, or is there an attribute or manifest setting an app should set?

Happy to share a screenshot of the diagnostic panel, the app version, or a build that reproduces on request.

Edit: the biggest proof I have of this bug is that it works at 60fps in chrome browser on phone and 20fps in the android app, it was 60fps in android app yesterday.

A new hidden boss in CLICK BAIT, the Robot Devil.

Really fun mechanic here is that when you wiff, it spawns a fiddle on the wheel, if you dont click it in time it increases the wheel speed by 5% each time, it has a counter to keep track of this by adding more poker chips on the table. The more poker chips, the more speed!

I changed up all the rules for this fight, there are no longer white nodes on the wheel, instead we have blue nodes and clicking on them fills up your mana bar to let you cast spells!

I had so much fun making this fight and setup the scene. Setting up all of the mechanics of the tank/healear/mage/ranger was a really challenging but rewarding build.

I also used the 4 starting characters from my other game Path Defenders in this fight, that game is basically single player MMO on android/Steam.

I didn't think I'd ever get here, but 1000+ hours later, Click Bait has a Steam page. This has been a massive labor of love. If you want to support it, wishlist it please! It costs nothing and helps a ton. Happy to answer any questions, and as always I love getting feedback in the comments.

Wishlist on steam

Our newest enemy has a free trial, subscription mechanics, and enough wind damage to ruin your whole run.

In our game every enemy has a special gimmick or minigame. This enemy is known as the Echo Chamber. I wanted to model his minigame after one of my favorite gameshows as a kid.

This new enemies gimmick is that he has you answer multiple choice questions, get it right, you get $50 and if you get it wrong, the wheel FLOODS with red nodes.

Uyt9-w1v2b from YT asked me to create this enemy in my game, so here I am delivering!

If anyone has any other suggestions for a new enemy, or how I should change an existing gimmick, or a new relic, or basically anything they to see, I will implement it! let me hear your ideas

This boss makes you spell words correctly mid-fight or he slaps you through the screen. Full kill + his report card grading my performance after. One of the wildest boss gimmicks in CLICK BAIT.

I'm sorry, and so embarrassed, but if you get a 8 hit combo the game crashes, just do a wiff before that happens.

I'm out my wife right now and I can't fix it right now.

He is the undead embodyment of all websites that have died out. He turns your cursor into a zombie, and you lose HP every second, you have to click the antivirus to heal.

His new gimmick of DDOS fills the wheel with tiny nodes that explode when you fail to click them in time

Forced feeding of AI slop is just brutal, new mechanics added.

Have I gone off the deepend? Is this just too much? I'm fun at least haha.

Also this fight will have a special machanic called REAP and SOW.

You have to click on a white node to plant the seed SOW, after that a plant will grow and show a flower, you have to click it again to do damage REAP.

I want to make more unique mechanics like this for each fight because its a lot more fun and creative, would love to hear some ideas from you guys on what else I could build for other fights.

I've been having so much fun making these!

To go from these basic images to full on 3d models of characters gives them so much more life.

What do you guys think, are these better or do you prefer the static images and keep the game simpler?