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In November 2019, during the promotion of Death Stranding, Kojima received two Guinness World Records for being the game director with the most followers on both Twitter and Instagram.
Anecdote 2019-11 Siliconera (on Kojima's Guinness records) -
“Since the pandemic has gotten somewhat better, I was planning to ask him to do some more music for us. And then this news came in.”
Anecdote 2022-11 HIDEO KOJIMA presents Brain Structure, ep. 11 «Messages from our listeners!» (Spotify Studios × Kojima Productions); official English dub, own transcription -
“I was listening to Caroline Polachek last year and became a big fan of hers. After I put that on my Instagram, she contacted me, and then she DM'ed. We kept in touch and then eventually met up in Paris, and that's when she told me she wanted to write a new song for Death Stranding 2.”
Quote 2025-06-23 Under the Radar (reproduces a Videogames Chronicle interview) -
Kojima uses as the biography on his Instagram and X profiles the line Game Creator: 70% of my body is made of movies. On Instagram he presents it in English and in Japanese (ゲームデザイナー：僕の体の70%は映画でできている).
Quote Instagram, Hideo Kojima's account @hideo_kojima