C92 Bee raids
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| C92 Bee raids | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
| Beekeepers[1] Pro-beekeeper volunteers | Anti-bee groups:  The Arsonists Pro-Arsonist volunteers Pro-tree volunteers | ||||
| Leaders | |||||
| (🐝) sad_bun (🐝) Virgu | (🔥) Opal (Pro-tree) Arinnnnnn | ||||
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| 7+ | Arsonists: 4 Pro-tree: 4 | ||||
During Canvas 92, the Sabrina Carpenter bee artwork by sad_bun and Virgu became the target of multiple griefing campaigns. The first griefs began with Arinnnnnn, who attempted to place a tree over the artwork in protest of its perceived NSFW nature. These initial griefs were met with heavy resistance from defenders and ultimately failed to make lasting progress.
2 days after Arinnnnnn began his raids, The Arsonists launched a larger-scale raid placing fire over the bee. At its peak this campaign resulted in the loss of approximately 1,400 pixels for the defenders before the raid was repelled and the artwork was restored. The conflict is ongoing, with minor frequent griefs currently being done by Arinnnnnn and heavy resistance from the bee defenders.[1]
Background
The Sabrina Carpenter bee artwork was originally created by @thisislux on X (Twitter), based on Sabrina Carpenter's Rolling Stone cover photoshoot in which she is nude except for a pair of socks. The artwork was initially placed to match the original art, but following a moderator request due to the original art violating the "No nudity" rule, the art was adjusted to give her clothes while removing her socks.
This drew a significant amount of criticism from members of the pxls.space Discord, some of which, including Arinnnnnn viewed the artwork as still violating the "No art with clear NSFW intentions or origins" rule, while others viewed the moderator ruling as inconsistent with their past decisions on related issues.
Timeline
Pre-Arsonist Raid
On the 4th of August, 2025, Arinnnnnn started his raid of the Sabrina Carpenter bee, intending to place a tree design originally made for The Ember Empire over it. He continuously griefed the artwork for all of his active hours. While Arin was usually the sole griefer prior to the large-scale raid by The Arsonists, he recieved intermittent help from Universe. These waves of Arin's raid did not cause any lasting damage as he faced fierce resistance from placers who volunteered to help defend the bee artwork.
Arin's template featured a Minecraft bee above where the tree would be placed, the design of this bee was copied by the bee defenders and placed to the right of the Sabrina bee artwork.
Arsonist Raid
At around midnight UTC on the 6th of August, 2025, 2 days after Arinnnnnn started his raid, The Arsonists launched a large-scale griefing campaign of the Sabrina Carpenter bee art. Their template was a version of Arinnnnnn's tree template, but with an explosion-like fire where the bee's left eye was. During the raid, they would only place the fire part of the template.
The raid lasted 6-7 hours, setting the bee art back approximately 1,400 pixels at its climax before The Arsonists went offline and the defenders were able to restore the art around an hour after it concluded. During the raid, the bee defenders had the help of Chantii, the top placer of Canvas 92, and the third place alltime placer.
While the raid was raging on, a new placer named FL attempted to void the eyes of the Sabrina bee, they successfully voided her left eye but eventually surrendered after being pushed back by both the Arsonists and the bee defenders[1].
During the raid, Fisk and Onion77 had the Brown Pixelstuck in-canvas tag equipped, leading the defenders to believe that they were under attack by the faction and causing the Brown Pixelstuck unhelpings.
Post-Arsonist Raid
Arinnnnnn was largely absent during the Arsonist raid, waking up only a few hours before the bee art was fully restored and upon returning, resumed griefing the artwork by placing the tree over the bee. Arin has received intermittent assistance from Universe and two new placers in placing the tree artwork. These griefs are ongoing but have caused limited visual impact so far, as they are typically repaired shortly after appearing.
A second Minecraft bee, using the same design as the previous one but flipped to be right-facing was placed by the bee defenders[1] to the left of the Sabrina bee artwork. A third Minecraft bee, using the same design as the previous two but left-facing was placed by the bee defenders to the right of the Sabrina bee artwork.
While the third Minecraft bee was being placed, two of the bee defenders began assisting Arinnnnnn in placing his ego art, which is part of the NPom collab. At the time of writing, the bee defenders, now known as beekeepers, have paused further support, it is unclear if they plan to continue assisting with the artwork. They made significant progress in placing the transgender flag section of the ego prior to apparently ceasing their support.
Later, the bee defenders planned to place the tree design used by Arinnnnnn over the intended location of the Fukae as Gura artwork by the NPom collab, which was outlined but hadn't been placed due to the defiddle being unfinished. They recieved permission from the Fukae artwork's defiddler, Chirps, but Virgu, decided against personally contributing to the campaign after the artist of the tree artwork, Selio stated: "The tree and dog are my arts that I provided to arin exclusively for the raid. Do not build them."
Despite the permission concern, one of the bee defenders, Fruity is currently placing the tree artwork in the planned location. An artwork of Mephiro's boopling by Wisteria was moved from the area due to it overlapping with the tree artwork's template.
On the 9th of August, the primary bee defenders formally formed a faction called the Beekeepers, under the leadership of sad_bun.
Brown Pixelstuck unhelpings
After the bee was mostly repaired from the prior Arsonist raid, 4 of the bee defenders[1] started replacing pixels on Brown Pixelstuck's art that they had placed with azure pixels, imitating the state of the initial canvas. These actions were explained as an effort to retract their prior support for the faction due to members of Brown Pixelstuck, including the leader, Onion77 participating in the Arsonist raid.
6 hours into the "unhelpings" it was discovered and clarified that this response stemmed from a misunderstanding, as the bee defenders believed the entire faction was participating in the griefs due to Fisk and Onion, who participated in the raids, both having the on-site Brown Pixelstuck tag equipped. Virgu offered to help with rebuilding, but Onion declined the offer.
This time would also be when the "unhelpings" peaked, resulting in a loss of approximately 1,800 pixels for Brown Pixelstuck. After this, the griefs went on for one more hour resulting in the bee defenders fully reverting all of the pixels that they had contributed to the faction. 21 hours after the "unhelpings" ceased, Brown Pixelstuck fully restored their artwork.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 The primary pro-bee volunteers operated as an independent group with shared goals and leadership until the 9th of August, when they organized into a faction called the Beekeepers. For clarity, mentions of their actions before the faction’s formation use the term ‘bee defenders.’
- ↑ Brown Pixelstuck members, Onion77 and Fisk participated in the raids independently from the faction, but with the in-canvas tag equipped.