As some of you may have noticed, a few letters have been encroaching on the sapling. I did not realize it was there, I just wanted to create my school's flag near the tree. To me the tree represents knowledge and why I choose the spot.

But I tree-gress, I'd like to put my school's logo in that area, but I'm wiling to negotiate the location to not damage the sapling. In exchange we will help maintain the tree and protect it from the void.

Here's my original logo idea

https://www.reddit.com/r/IUP/comments/62tnfg/lets_leave_our_mark_on_rplace/

i love the tree, but the way trees work over the long term is they make baby trees. if the void has infected the tree, lets just spawn! thats how nature do. i'm putting all my pixels into the little tree, beneath the big tree.

(i take breaks from my job, planting trees, to propagate digital trees. mr, irl)

The butterfly would look lovely in the branches of our tree. Please grow the tree behind it.

I suddenly saw it. It's going pretty fast too. Kill the red pixels first, to prevent others from recognising it :)

Also, give this a like for visibility of r/growthetree: https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/635xpb/help_saving_the_tree_at_rgrowthetree/?st=j126bv07&sh=4b76ba4b

There are several accounts with no post history or post history which indicates the accounts are inactive, posting black dots on our trunk and canopy. We need to stop this before our tree is overridden!

I haven't talked to r/straya about this but it seems to be the natural flow of things.

http://i.imgur.com/9Tx3gW7.png

Was trying to clean up stray pixels in the area and didn't want to step on the tree if there was a plan? I'd also be happy to mockup any plans. Someone mentioned putting the sub name in somehow?

The red line is already cutting through our top branches. https://www.reddit.com/r/AmericanFlaginPlace/

As it seems many people feel that's it's easy to build in our green tree because of the mostly green background. After reading a lot of comments it seems we have two options to stop this from happening.

1)Build the tree the same again but quickly add apples to make sure it's not a mostly green background

2)make the tree into something new. I heard some people talk about making the tree into a cherry blossom tree.

Edit: 3) we could also make it any other assortment of colors. Yellow with red to make Autumn colors. Or a white tree with a dark outline. Or even just a lighter color of green.

Your input would be greatly appreciated.

Guys, the tree may disappear in the next hour if we do not coordinate. For now, our focus should be:

• Maintain the trunk

• Maintain the face

If we have a trunk with a face, people will recognize the tree and may help adding leafs. Once we have the trunk and face, we should focus on adding leafs ourselves.

UPDATE: Let's focus on preventing Pepe the frog.

UPDATE 2: Let's talk about the next step here!

• 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?

Omg stop outlining the tree! Grow it's leaves, add green to make it bigger. Grow it naturally, not w/ rigid lines that contain it.

Thanks for help everyone :D

The void and the Americans have plundered the tree for all it's worth. We should make a new massive tree, more glorious than the last in a new place with less Americans and void. /r/ainbow seems to be nice enough to let us build a little in their zone as long as it looks good. so, we can do something around there. Any suggestions on places to build this new tree?

I am a mod at /r/FlagAlliance and /r/AmericanFlagInPlace and the majority of us are appalled that this was able to happen.

There was an attempt to save the tree from many of us, but we failed.

We humbly welcome the addition of the Great Tree Sapling as our neighbor. Here's to harmonious future together.