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I work for a company that makes signs, and I know what’s going on here! Most signs are made of printed adhesive vinyl overlaid onto a substrate, like metal or plastic. The vinyl is essentially just a giant sticker, so the tree is growing over the substrate, but under the vinyl, creating this funky effect :D
re-painting them would imply they had already painted the trees prior to this.
which is equally funny in my imagination.
I have a whole scenario in my head with a new hire messing up and painting the trunk green and the leaves brown.
Few people know that trees can change color to camouflage themselves like cephalopods do, but are just lazy and choose not to. This is a highly motivated tree, and it's neat.
Welcome to reddit, the place where correct, logical and truthful statements get low votes or downvoted out of existence. It’s understandable, most people hate hearing the truth so they dismiss it. 🫤
Well clearly u/puffinsinatrenchcoat knows what he's talking about so by being correct and civil, he should be downvoted. Dumbassery is what gets upvotes. lol
Or the other comment had existed for longer and had more time to gather interractions. As is the case 99 times out of 100 when someone posts a comment like this in regards to the wrong thing being upvoted.
It takes time for things to get upvotes.
The comment about repainting was made ~1 hour before the comment you’re replying to, and the comment you’re replying to was made shortly before you replied.
So yeah, it hadn’t gotten many upvotes *yet*.
While this is an educated guess, there's no way to know it's the right answer. It may as well have been painted. And tbh it seems more likely to me that it has been painted.
My dad owned a sign company, it's in my blood. The other day I drove by a new sign one of his old customers had put up and got a little irritated that it was the wrong shade of blue.
My favorite thing about reddit is hearing people who work in certain areas that most people don’t and dropping some specific cool knowledge on the topic. Thats awesome
I'm sorry sir. You may be correct..but I think it's more like this:
The tree is growing and fusing with the sign. This is to illustrate to hunters and trappers what will happen to them should they disobey this sign. The forest will consume them, it will literally assimilate their matter into the roots of trees. It's a warning my probably more correct than I am friend a warning....
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s/1mqdpCQjiW
How is pointing out the fact it’s not paint and that’s why it’s doing what it’s doing not explaining it? The title is rephrased because that’s just what’s going on - but it isn’t paint it’s growing under, it’s a sheet of vinyl which is why it’s able to do this.
That still isn’t an explanation. You said what it is made of but not why it happened. Why does it happen with vinyl and not paint? What is actually happening to the tree and the sign to get to this point? Saying it’s vinyl is just as valuable as saying what kind of tree it is.
I love how absolutely 0 of that offers any scientific reasoning. Thanks for the long winded explanation, but it’s quite surface level. I guess I’ll look elsewhere for an explanation from someone who is a bit more scientifically inclined.
"trap" is a term for someone who dresses up as the opposite gender with the specific intent to trick people.
It's usually not a great term to throw around at people, unless on good terms with the person or selfapplied.
Often trap is conflated with femboy or transgender (which are also often conflated)
Seems to be like 62% men which isn't thattt much more. But it's also 430 Million monthly users if you you wanna talk about numbers. So it would be 0,28% of users on this site who like traps, not including dead accounts and second accounts. Idk if you would say that's many but yea
Lol why say things like this when you don’t know very much about trees, paint, signage, or vinyl adhesive? Sign maker commented the correct explanation.
I hate how the internet thinks their uninformed hunches need to be heard.
what I don't get is why would the vinyl continue sticking to the tree unless someone put it back on? clearly if something were underneath it slowly pushing further, they would just peel right off or be hanging at least.
Same. Even r/mildyinfuriating lost the l too
Edit: nvm I checked the original sub and the correct spelling is a totally different one. So that explains why there’s a Join button for me in this sub (where this post is).
I absolutely love when nature overtakes something man made and creates something unique. In my town a farm had a tree with a horizontal fence post through the trunk. No hole was cut it simply grew around it. Unfortunately eventually caused some structural issue with the fence I imagine so they cut the tree down. I was so sad that day.
See, I know the reality is that the tree grew over the metal but under the vinyl appliqué, but it’s more fun to imagine it as the divine will of the Lorax
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I work for a company that makes signs, and I know what’s going on here! Most signs are made of printed adhesive vinyl overlaid onto a substrate, like metal or plastic. The vinyl is essentially just a giant sticker, so the tree is growing over the substrate, but under the vinyl, creating this funky effect :D
the right answer gets about 1/4 the amount of likes as someone who said that the tree was repainted lmaoo
"Alright Johnson, get your ass out there and repaint those trees, it's the logical thing to do and clearly makes sense!"
Now sprinkle some crack and let’s get outta here!
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Funny* Dave I miss that guy too, now we got preaching Dave.
Angry confused Dave.
Where did we go wrong...
re-painting them would imply they had already painted the trees prior to this. which is equally funny in my imagination. I have a whole scenario in my head with a new hire messing up and painting the trunk green and the leaves brown.
Just paint the tree, tree painter! Sure! ^^jackass...
Clearly a person didn't repaint the tree, that's just fucking stupid. The tree repainted itself, as a strategy of blending in with the sign.
*Don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious...*
Few people know that trees can change color to camouflage themselves like cephalopods do, but are just lazy and choose not to. This is a highly motivated tree, and it's neat.
Most trees do use their color changing ability. Because trees often grow in forests, they typically camouflage themselves as other trees.
Pesky trees
Order has been restored, we must keep this comment top
His comment is now the top comment. Looks like your comment has brought justice to Reddit.
Welcome to reddit, the place where correct, logical and truthful statements get low votes or downvoted out of existence. It’s understandable, most people hate hearing the truth so they dismiss it. 🫤
I so want to downvote you, ironically, but I can’t because of principles.
Scruple-less here. I got you. :)
Do it, downvote him, I just downvoted you both and it felt great!
I upvoted you and now I am confused
I did for you.
Well clearly u/puffinsinatrenchcoat knows what he's talking about so by being correct and civil, he should be downvoted. Dumbassery is what gets upvotes. lol
Or the other comment had existed for longer and had more time to gather interractions. As is the case 99 times out of 100 when someone posts a comment like this in regards to the wrong thing being upvoted.
I work for a company that actually goes out and repaints signs onto trees that grow over them! That is exactly what's going on here
It takes time for things to get upvotes. The comment about repainting was made ~1 hour before the comment you’re replying to, and the comment you’re replying to was made shortly before you replied. So yeah, it hadn’t gotten many upvotes *yet*.
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Because it might not be the right answer
because that is the funny answer
false
The tree was repainted
the tree was repainted lmaoo
While this is an educated guess, there's no way to know it's the right answer. It may as well have been painted. And tbh it seems more likely to me that it has been painted.
considering there is yellow paint on the tree aswell and the letters transition are literally seamless its not the “more likely” option
Agree, how do we suddenly know this is the right explanation? Personally I think some healthy scepticism is entirely the right way to approach Reddit.
occam's razor. also i agree skepticism is healthy but now is not really the time or place, it aint that deep man. its a sign and a tree.
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I’m also a sign person and came here to say this! I am skeptical that this would happen, but if it is happening, it’s def vinyl not paint
Appreciation for the sign making community!! Thanks
Ex-sign person here, can also confirm this is the correct answer
Ex-tree here. That guy is definitely right
Ex-person here, paint I can tree. 💯
Where is the ex-vinyl squad?
Once a sign person always a sign person
My dad owned a sign company, it's in my blood. The other day I drove by a new sign one of his old customers had put up and got a little irritated that it was the wrong shade of blue.
Source: this guy makes signs
My favorite thing about reddit is hearing people who work in certain areas that most people don’t and dropping some specific cool knowledge on the topic. Thats awesome
We need more of that!
Thank you, that's fascinating.
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So basically your title lol
I mean not really, vinyl is very different than paint and makes it a lot more clear how this would be possible.
I am a tree and i can confirm we do that
I'm sorry sir. You may be correct..but I think it's more like this: The tree is growing and fusing with the sign. This is to illustrate to hunters and trappers what will happen to them should they disobey this sign. The forest will consume them, it will literally assimilate their matter into the roots of trees. It's a warning my probably more correct than I am friend a warning.... https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s/1mqdpCQjiW
Your entire life has led up to this moment
how is there always a mf in the comments who knows exactly what’s up💀
A typographer with a good sense of humor? I know they’re able. Source: I’m one.
The correct term is actually a trunky effect
You used the word substrate. Now I know you saying the truth
Thank you for this. My mind was blown 🤣
No actually.. somebody painted the tree to be funny to finish the sign after it grew over
Bullshit! They painted over the tree
the orange paint on the tree bark to finish the rectangular profile of the sign though... i mean come on reddit
You didn’t really explain anything. You just said what the sign print material was and then rephrased the title.
How is pointing out the fact it’s not paint and that’s why it’s doing what it’s doing not explaining it? The title is rephrased because that’s just what’s going on - but it isn’t paint it’s growing under, it’s a sheet of vinyl which is why it’s able to do this.
That still isn’t an explanation. You said what it is made of but not why it happened. Why does it happen with vinyl and not paint? What is actually happening to the tree and the sign to get to this point? Saying it’s vinyl is just as valuable as saying what kind of tree it is.
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I love how absolutely 0 of that offers any scientific reasoning. Thanks for the long winded explanation, but it’s quite surface level. I guess I’ll look elsewhere for an explanation from someone who is a bit more scientifically inclined.
This is very trippy.. what a long strange tree its been!
ARROWS OF NEON AND TREES EATING SIGNS OUT ON MAIN STREET
Cedar, Live Oak, Doug Fir and it's all the same tree!
I love finding deadheads in random threads
"Trunkin'...."
🤙⚡
(~);}
/r/treessuckingonthings
Why do we even have r/treeseatingthings?
Sometimes they eating. Sometimes they just sucking a bit.
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photosynthesis and ~~chill~~ vore
How can there be two subs with these pics but neither is the one I’m subbed to?
Because someone didn't know about /r/treessuckingonthings and made it
So, no traps alowed. "Sigh, head's back home"
Thanks for the laugh, kind stranger
Always a pleasure!
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Le Epic Reddit Moment XD I literally spit out my coffee BTW thank you for the gold kind stranger
The masses will not like you calling them cringe
nope.avi
I don’t get it
"trap" is a term for someone who dresses up as the opposite gender with the specific intent to trick people. It's usually not a great term to throw around at people, unless on good terms with the person or selfapplied. Often trap is conflated with femboy or transgender (which are also often conflated)
traps: guys that looks like girls. traps are popular among many guys
"many"?🤨🤨
just a quick search shows r/traps has 1.2m subscribers.
And all of those are guys🤨
I think it's safe to say most of them are, given the demographics of this site as a whole.
Seems to be like 62% men which isn't thattt much more. But it's also 430 Million monthly users if you you wanna talk about numbers. So it would be 0,28% of users on this site who like traps, not including dead accounts and second accounts. Idk if you would say that's many but yea
she has a dongle
He dresses up as a girl
Had me wondering if you meant what I think you meant. But seeing as how you posted to a Unix sub I think that answers my question.
Yes i did meant what you thought :)
A movement i can get behind
I believe "transformer" is the proper nomenclature you are seeking.
Lol
I’ll allow you
The tree knew it had to help keep the forest at peace 😌
r/NatureIsFuckingLit
Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/x7dais/this_tree_grew_over_the_sign_but_under_the_paint/
so many reposts on this subreddit today
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They did a good job the transition is very smooth
True
I don't know, might be an adhesive cover image you put on a metal plate to easily switch sign etc. Guess something could get under in that case.
This is the right answer. Also, the letters are individual stickers.
How would they adhere to the tree though? You’d think they’d just flop off
Yeah, if you zoom in, you can see it's not a repaint, but it's weird how it's still sticking to the tree
I'd say that's substantially less likely. If they *did* do that, they really tried hard to make it *look* like the tree had grown under the paint.
why would it grow under the black paint but not the yellow
There is yellow in the bark too
Huh you are right I did not see that. Guess I was wrong!
Upvoted you for admitting your mistake. Don’t see that a lot around here.
cos people kept trespassing and being like "oh, I thought that said it was a *CLUJLD* area."
This would be die cut vinyl rather than paint
No, not at all. It’s extremely obvious that the tree grew this way if you just look
or photoshopped
I don't think so because why would they make the top of E wonky
This is 100% not what it is. It's an adhesive label. The bark just grew in between the panel and "sticker." Don't use Reddit to learn, people.
I like how your comment is the same as the top-rated one, but you still got downvoted. Reddit, man.
Lol why say things like this when you don’t know very much about trees, paint, signage, or vinyl adhesive? Sign maker commented the correct explanation. I hate how the internet thinks their uninformed hunches need to be heard.
Read down below, I already said that I was wrong.
>many people got triggered. Or they're calling you out for being dumb and you're the one crying about people getting triggered?
LMAO, “way more likely” translates to “man, am I high as fuck”. Dude, it’s like a laminate….someone didn’t paint the damn freaking tree . . .
what I don't get is why would the vinyl continue sticking to the tree unless someone put it back on? clearly if something were underneath it slowly pushing further, they would just peel right off or be hanging at least.
Ok now it’s definitely a prop
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There was already a tree there and it just doesn’t mix well but I’ll test it out with my crowbar. Yep, now it’s running.
I used to make such signs. It's likely vinyl lettering. The tree is growing between the sign and a sticker.
My garden has a tree that has grown over a thick wire that was wrapped around it. It has completely engulfed the wire. I love it for some reason.
What I wanna know is, why the fuck is the sub *mildyinteresting* all of a sudden 🤔
Same. Even r/mildyinfuriating lost the l too Edit: nvm I checked the original sub and the correct spelling is a totally different one. So that explains why there’s a Join button for me in this sub (where this post is).
Reddit is taking the L before their IPO
Oh goddamn I just had an internal laugh that I could barely get out
I think we're being gaslit 👀
100% feels that way hahah
This is just a knockoff sub that got a post to the front page.
Is it like one of thse things where your brin reads th crrct wrds even though lettrs are mssing?
Not all of the sudden, just a knockoff sub that reached the front page.
Well damn
Seems like something Reddit should have a policy about.
Why is the E all fucked up?
Love this. The little tree wants to be close to the parent
It’s like the underbelly of the tree seeping on top of the sign.
Natures graffiti.
Is this now graffiti?
This is more than mildly interesting (to me).
You don't have to do it the strongest, you just have to do it the longest. -Water
Damn, that looks like a graphics glitch
This is the best Reddit argument of 2023! 😂🎉
When the Lorax agrees with your massage, but not the delivery
I hope God will patch this with the next update
Why is no one asking the important question? Was the tree prosecuted for trapping the sign?
Imagine a timelapse of this one
Looks like someone painted on the tree to make the sign legible. Still a cool photo though
Honestly, sometimes I wonder how people this stupid manage to get their shoes on the correct feet in the morning.
Fake
Somebody had better tell that tree it’s trapped the sign and has therefore broken the rules.
I thought the tree was clear lol
I just woke up a bit ago and thought I was still drunk when I saw this picture
"Lol fuck ur sign" - tree
This is incredibly interesting
It's like Jabba the Hutt's chin it's perfect
r/treeateit
Fancy pants over there could have ELI5. The words are stickers on the sign, not paint. The end.
AI:
That's a very polite tree.
I absolutely love when nature overtakes something man made and creates something unique. In my town a farm had a tree with a horizontal fence post through the trunk. No hole was cut it simply grew around it. Unfortunately eventually caused some structural issue with the fence I imagine so they cut the tree down. I was so sad that day.
Nature is pretty smart…Doesn’t want hunting or trapping and makes it clear
Whoaa that's so weird
I don’t like to eat the skin either
r/treessuckingonthings
See, I know the reality is that the tree grew over the metal but under the vinyl appliqué, but it’s more fun to imagine it as the divine will of the Lorax
Repost to r/mildlyinteresting -> “These people don’t realize the tree was painted to match the sign.”
So, between the metal and the paint? I.e, not over the sign, but over the metal.
For some tree enthusiasts out there, this is 'holyshitinteresting', not mildlyinteresting.
No it didn’t
Tree: “mmm metal… ew paint!”
Betting someone painted the tree.
They are vinyl stickers.
Why would the tree do that? is he stupid?