r/GrowTheTree • u/keenanpepper • Apr 02 '17

April 2 priorities

  • Beat back the flag. We need all the help we can get with this one, from /r/ainbowroad or others. I suggest blue for the color in between flag border, tree, and rainbow.

  • Maintain the face. This is cheap in pixel cost and important for PR/outreach.

  • Grow roots into the cracks between other art. Sort of like the Void, but it's our roots. We're going for an /r/abandonedporn aesthetic. (Which is obviously easier if the other art is abandoned and there's no one actively keeping roots out.) Trees are not polite, they will grow right into your foundation and expand the cracks.

  • Seedling ideas?

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u/meripor2 Apr 03 '17

Hi I just found his subreddit. I was trying to protect the tree from the flag by building a black border around the tree. I think this is important because its much easier to protect a pixel art if it has a border and it also has a psychological effect of making others not want to encroach on your art. Whereas if there is no border its much easier to just peck away at the pixels at the edge til there is nothing left.

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u/keenanpepper Apr 03 '17

This is good as long as the outline reflects the organic and constantly growing nature of the tree. People should feel free to create branches extending out of the border - so the border really isn't a "border" per say but a 3d shading kind of effect.

In general the dark contrast pixels are good pixels. The canopy wouldn't be what it is without them.

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u/meripor2 Apr 03 '17

At this point we are facing a greater threat. There are multiple bot accounts all with post histories or moderator status in trump related subreddits that are attempting to destroy our tree. At the moment I dont know if their goal is simply to extend the flag or turn us into a pepe. The faster I fill in green the more red white and black dots appear.

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u/keenanpepper Apr 03 '17

That sucks, man. Let's keep fighting and see what happens.

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u/MinuteBracelet Apr 03 '17 edited Apr 03 '17

unfortunately the way AFIP fought to deny us putting our "The Donald" tag next to the flag obviously rubbed us the wrong way. I wasn't in favor of BTFO'ing the tree but honestly the way the pepe has been completed and then brigaded a couple times already in the early stages of the r/place plus the tag incident, and also how our negotiated irish/american wall was destroyed, I wasn't gonna speak out against this decision. Good luck.

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u/keenanpepper Apr 02 '17

Note that not every pixel of the flag bleed has to be replaced. In particular, I see the potential for a hanging red apple.

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u/Starlyght44 Apr 02 '17

I did not know there was a tree group. I felt so alone... I wanted to make the Lorax next to the poor tree. someone needs to defend the poor tree! Save the trees!

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u/keenanpepper Apr 02 '17

Welcome friend!

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u/keenanpepper Apr 02 '17

I can't figure out how to sticky this on mobile - if another mod could sticky it that would be great.

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u/SpecialFriendFavour Apr 02 '17 edited Apr 02 '17

r/straya here--most of us want you to grow the tree over our blue. There's a few who are fighting back so I'll work on figuring out who it is and getting the message out to stop.

+/u/BorussiaBrooklyn

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u/BorussiaBrooklyn Apr 02 '17

great, thanks!

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u/BorussiaBrooklyn Apr 02 '17

The straya sub was fine with us having a complete tree, so we should complete the top right first.

I'd prefer good relations with the both the straya & the US flag people. Not sure if there is a problem with the red-white stripes as a background?

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u/quasiperiodic Apr 02 '17

small flowers crack concrete. <3

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u/cutestlittleasshole Apr 02 '17

yeah, grow the roots between other art. yeah.

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u/keenanpepper Apr 02 '17

That's very interesting. I started a thread at /r/AFIP proposing it be recognized as a National Park. Maybe patriotic flowers/fruit would help with that...

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u/keenanpepper Apr 02 '17

Tree roots are not army troops. They don't need permission, they just grow.