I got the official confirmation while playing Left 4 Dead 2. So many zombies so little time.
This is my life, and it's ending one zombie at a time.
53,599 zombies killed tonight. What was the name of the achievement?
https://steamcommunity.com/id/Maddog_Delphi97/stats/L4D2
In Dead Rising, there was an achievement for killing 53,594 zombies (the real population of the town the game is set in)
In Left 4 Dead 1, Valve referenced this by "one-upping" Dead Rising by requiring 53,595 zombies to be killed.
Then, Dead Rising 2 had an achievement for 53,596
Then, another game had 53,597
Then another had 53,598
And now L4D2 has 53,599
And now I have that achievement.
Z-GENOCIDEST 2: EPISODE 2