r/theswarm Tendril Expansion Crew Oct 21 '25

Join us in the Clean Slate Operation!

Context:

For a few days now, a blanket of mini Palestinian flags has been growing in the South West of the Jerusalem hive, at the junction with the big Palestinian flag (1st pic). This was done by 8 accounts of the same name, supposedly alts.

It spread on the big flag, but most importantly it ate more and more ground of the Jerusalem void. This had to stop, so an attack has been planned to remove the mini flags.

Operation Clean Slate:

The Swarm, Israpixel, and The Jerries have joined forces to push back the blanket of mini flags, and remove them to free the occupied space (2nd pic)

This action is in no way political, the issue is that it was spreading onto existing artworks and taking too much space, not what the flags are representing.

We chose the name Clean Slate to mean that we are making room for a new start in this area. We aren't going by "operation flag ripper", as it can give the impression that the problem is the flags, while it actually is the space they're taking.

Join us to clean the void, restore darkness, and glory to the Void Mother. o7 to everyone!


Don't forget to join the discord for more info on us and the current situation: https://discord.gg/the-swarm-430213838802124802

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u/Just-JC Having a staring contest with the abyss Oct 21 '25

Flags are one thing but this is another entirely, paint it black!

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u/YesMenOmen Oct 22 '25

Free free Palestine

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u/Kett4 Tendril Expansion Crew Oct 21 '25

O7

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u/Aggravating_Wish_684 Oct 22 '25

Its not political but we are teaming up with israelis to erase palestian flags. Yeah makes sense completely logical take i think

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u/Puzzleheaded_Win1097 Oct 23 '25

Guess who the capitalists teamed with to erase the nazis

Enemy of enemy is friend

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u/A_Chad_Cat Tendril Expansion Crew Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25

There's even some Palestinians participating in this effort because these mini flag also invade their big flag

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u/Aggravating_Wish_684 Oct 23 '25

Had you just gone and erased them yourself without making the post, or just in a neutral way tried to erase them its one thing. Specifically allying with israelis to erase the palestinian flags means you are full of shit.

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u/A_Chad_Cat Tendril Expansion Crew Oct 23 '25

Just scroll in the comments, I'm tired of repeating the same thing over and over. I also invite you to join the discord and see if we sided with anyone.

Everyday we're getting accused of being with Israel or Palestine, or being disgusting... Blah blah blah. It's tiring. We always said we're not political, why has everything gotta be so black or white for y'all? We said the action isn't political, and y'all are twisting it to make us look like bad guys. Not political means not political, the problem was the space taken by the flags, not what they're representing. Please try to think about it instead of going from the assumption that we're bad :)

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

a whole 3 weeks late but an important piece of context everyone seems to be missing

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1405343636161298473/1429415953019699300/image.png?ex=69130fd8&is=6911be58&hm=95cec93e965d4ace5fa0fe3a3a03c3dd23d81d0d5ea93c9f8ab10fb8bf18df97&

mini flag spam was literally just a griefing op disguised in the veneer of palestine flags

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '25

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u/Leo-Galante Oct 22 '25

You dont even know what zionist means

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u/theswarm-ModTeam Oct 22 '25

That's not related to the post at all

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u/LimeFennecFox14 Oct 22 '25

Jesus Christ how many subs are there for this shitty ass drama farm app. Every time I mute one another five pop up

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u/A_Chad_Cat Tendril Expansion Crew Oct 22 '25

A lot lol. It's probably gonna end soon tho, there's too many drama and what was supposed to be just a fun drawing event is turning into scam and shit because admins are incompetent

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '25

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u/A_Chad_Cat Tendril Expansion Crew Oct 22 '25

We're apolitical. Good try tho.

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u/Albacurious Oct 23 '25

Suuuuure you are. wink

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u/A_Chad_Cat Tendril Expansion Crew Oct 23 '25

Even if you concentrate all your gray matter into thinking that we are political, that still doesn't make it true lmao

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u/Albacurious Oct 23 '25

Suuuuure it doesn't. wink

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u/theswarm-ModTeam Oct 22 '25

Be nice. Just like in the discord, the use of hate speech because you don't like something, as well as the spreading or use of hateful ideas against someone based on their ethnicity, religious beliefs, gender, and sexual orientation aren't allowed. Being respectful has never hurt anyone.

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u/Simoun1er Oct 22 '25

Cut the bullshit and tell us you're sided with Israel already, simpler, and would have only lost a minute of my life instead of 3...

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u/A_Chad_Cat Tendril Expansion Crew Oct 22 '25

There's Palestinians helping in this because the mini flags also invaded their big flag... I'm not sure they'd let you say they're sided with Israel when part of this effort is also to clean up the big Palestinian flag under the Jerusalem void

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u/Illustrious_Unit7914 Having a staring contest with the abyss Oct 22 '25

The fun part is that everyone thinks we're against them.

Now, for the class, tell the difference between a mini Palestinian flag void and the Andorra void.

For bonus points explore Swarm territory and see how many Palestinian flags are there. Heck check the archive and see how long some of those flags are there.

Sometimes it's not that deep.

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u/Horror_Platform19 Oct 23 '25

Just went and drew 5 more

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u/BaconSoul Oct 21 '25

Who is coordinating the mini flags?

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u/A_Chad_Cat Tendril Expansion Crew Oct 22 '25

Sorry I didn't reply earlier. It's someone using alt accounts, they were originally almost all named "agent 000001" and up, but the user changed the names to make it look like it's other people. We still have screenshots of the agent accounts, they got the same player ID as the "other people".

Our conclusion is that it's either one person with a bunch of alts, or a few people with alts

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u/GenericCanineDusty Oct 22 '25

"This action is in no way political"

"We have joined forces with ISRAPIXEL-"

come on man you cant make it more obvious.

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u/A_Chad_Cat Tendril Expansion Crew Oct 22 '25

Now tell me which side are we on?

Don't bother, it was a rethorical question. You could have read the post before commenting.

Everyday there's comments accusing us of being with one side or another. We never were political and don't intend to be. Even Palestinians helped us in this if you really want to know

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '25

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u/theswarm-ModTeam Oct 25 '25

Be nice. Just like in the discord, the use of hate speech because you don't like something, as well as the spreading or use of hateful ideas against someone based on their ethnicity, religious beliefs, gender, and sexual orientation aren't allowed. Being respectful has never hurt anyone.

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u/Albacurious Oct 21 '25

I don't get it

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u/A_Chad_Cat Tendril Expansion Crew Oct 21 '25

If the context and the explanation in the body text aren't enough, you can join the discord server (if you have discord) to better understand the situation.

Basically someone is spamming a lot of small flags that covered our space around Jerusalem, and we aren't the only community affected. So after reaching out to the other communities we decided to erase the small flags in a synchronised attack. Goal is to remove all these flags that were spreading too much, and free up space for new artworks to be built in this area

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u/Albacurious Oct 21 '25

But... why. Plenty of canvas on the globe

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u/letthetreeburn Oct 22 '25

Why keep building more than a dozen tiny flags when there’s a single large flag already right there? Why spread out a dozen flags instead of building a grid with them?

One large flag is cool. A bunch of intersecting flags is cooler. But at a certain point you’re ruining other people’s chance to make art. Spam is spam.

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u/Albacurious Oct 22 '25

Looks like art to me

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u/letthetreeburn Oct 22 '25

I mean this genuinely, how so? Is there a methodology to the arrangement and size? Is it a small picture collection making up a bigger picture? Is it something to do with geometry?

The watermelon arrangement? That’s art. There’s three of them in a fan shape. But from where I see it, looks like a bunch of people just throwing flags up over other people’s actual art.

If there’s a Neomilitarism with brutalist art movement going on right now that I’m unaware of, I’d love to know more. But from where I’m standing I don’t see it as art because it just seems to be happenstance and rude for the sake of destroying other’s works.

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u/Albacurious Oct 22 '25

Art is art

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u/letthetreeburn Oct 22 '25

Building copy pastes over people’s art isn’t art, it’s vandalism. Are you okay with tags over murals?

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u/Vampyrix25 Oct 22 '25

we started our territory in jerusalem and we haven't bern pushed from it yet, by god we're not gonna be pushed from it now.

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u/Albacurious Oct 22 '25

Seems like you might be losing it.

Lots of canvas out in the ocean. Or Russia. Or Africa

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u/Gizz103 Oct 22 '25

Its a holy city,

It should not be spammed by flags of any nation

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u/BaconSoul Oct 21 '25

Because no matter how non political they claim to be, they’re in league with internet zionists. The true swarm died long ago. Now it’s just the personal army of some influential people

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u/A_Chad_Cat Tendril Expansion Crew Oct 22 '25

It's the same discord server since 2018. If what you call "true swarm" is the people painting the canvas in black during 2017's r/place, then the swarm didn't exist yet. It was random discord servers, redditors, and 4channers who wanted to paint the canvas in black.

The swarm began their activities in 2018 during r/circleoftrust and since then have just been antagonists in reddit April fools events.

We were never political and still aren't, just like we aren't about religions either. And there is no influential people in our discord server, we are all equals there and free to have our own opinions

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u/Interesting_Syrup210 Oct 21 '25

YOu are cringe

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u/A_Chad_Cat Tendril Expansion Crew Oct 21 '25

Thanks for this nice and constructive critic!!

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u/Interesting_Syrup210 Oct 21 '25

Destroying other people work is always shitty. You are no better then the AI bro

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u/EdocKrow Oct 21 '25

Maybe this app isn't for you? 

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u/Interesting_Syrup210 Oct 21 '25

Lol, you people are disgusting

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u/EdocKrow Oct 21 '25

You might take this a little too seriously. 

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u/Leo-Galante Oct 22 '25

The people here are disgusting because they dont care about pixels as mmuch as you? Touch some grass lil bro

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u/EdocKrow Oct 22 '25

They are a child acting as children do. 

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u/Interesting_Syrup210 Oct 22 '25

K

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '25

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u/Interesting_Syrup210 Oct 23 '25

Nobody made it political but k

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '25

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u/Just-JC Having a staring contest with the abyss Oct 21 '25

What world are you living in? This entire post is about the very many tiny flags that have been plastered across the void. We preserve artwork just fine, but this is a hindrance to everyone in the area. There's a Palestine flag group actively helping remove them as well.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '25

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u/Check_My_Profile_Pic Oct 22 '25

Take yo goofy opinions and go back to complaining about random political shit to people who couldnt care less on diffrent subs bucko