People made MILLIONS farming a Steam game that's literally just a picture of a banana

In April 2024, 4 guys released a free Steam game called Banana as an April Fools joke
The entire game is a picture of a banana on a green background that you click
There's no levels, no characters, no story and nothing to unlock
Every 3 hours the game drops a free banana skin into your Steam inventory that you can sell on the Steam Marketplace for real money
Most skins sell for 3 cents, but rarer ones go for hundreds and one Special Golden Banana sold for $1,378.58
Because the game only used 1% of a computer's resources, people started running up to 1,000 alt Steam accounts at once on a single PC, farming bananas 24 hours a day
By June 16, 2024 Banana had 858,915 players on Steam
That was more than Counter Strike 2, more than Baldur's Gate 3, more than GTA 5
Two thirds of those players were bot accounts run by farmers
The game was doing 10 million transactions a day, Steam and the devs took a cut of every single one
One of the developers even told Polygon it was "a legal infinite money glitch"