User:Gergdown/Gergpedia/The Canadian-Purple Leaf War

The Canadian-Purple Leaf War

The Canadian-Purple Leaf War
Part of An image built one pixel at a time
The purple leaf at its peak
Date 29 April 2025 — present (6 months, 3 weeks and 1 day) Location An image built one pixel at a time • An image built one pixel at a time (Big) Status Ongoing Territorial changes - Voiding of the Canadian leaf in An image built one pixel at a time - Minor skirmishes in AIBOPAAT/Big - Canadian victory and later truce in AIBOPAAT/Big
Belligerents
Canadian nationalists	Purple leafers Pink spreaders
Commanders and leaders
Gergdown	Data Devourer   Fish on skates Turb0-Sunrise
Units involved
Gergdown Soviet (During the AIBOPAAT/Big campaign) 2 in total	Data Devourer   Fish on skates Turb0-Sunrise Squaw Dee  † SystemPhantom L10nM4st3r OPOSSUM Soviet (In AIBOPAAT) DaniPine3 (During May 21st) L10nM4st3r ColonelKurtz Alula 12 in total
Strength
1 user (at war's start) 2 users (at Canada's height)	1 purple reactionaries (at war's start) 7 purple reactionaries (at Purple's height) 1 pink spreader
Casualties and losses
Several hours	2 units

“Make Canada Purple Again!”

– Fish on skates

“I WAS GONE FOR A MONTH WHAT HAPPENED”

– Gergdown

The Canadian-Purple Leaf War or the The Great Canadian Maple Leaf War (29 April 2025 — current) was a conflict fought between user Gergdown and user Fish on skates and her allies in An image built one pixel at a time, and its bigger variant. It was a conflict between two coalitions: the canadian nationalists, proud and defendant of their nation, and the purple leafers, who took actions to vandalize the flag—although it should be stated that the purple leafers never truly had a flag, identity, or symbol. The only thing connecting them was vandalizing Canada, and the purple leaf was the most popular symbol of that movement. The Canadian-Purple Leaf War is the deadliest and most costly edit war in the history of Uncyclopedia, ranking up on an approximated five hundred and twenty-four edits on Canada alone, with half of those being on the twenty-first of May.

Background

The first signs of the Canadian flag becoming a part of the canvas started on the 18th of March, 2025, the same day as the moccasin on the canvas was completed.. In this early era of the canvas, the board was completely chaotic, made out of sporadic spots of pixels. At the time, the region that would become Canada was filled with random colours everywhere. It would take another day for Canada to truly be born, as on the 20th of March, 2025, creator of the canvas OPOSSUM stated this:

“Have you seen the merple lerf from /r/place 2022?”

– OPOSSUM

In which, user Gergdown responded:

“yes opossum, i do remember the maple leaf from 2022... it was better-er in 2023, right?”

– Gergdown

Progress on the flag continued for the rest of the day, although, with no unified plan, the group would be disorganized. These events lead to the creation of the OPOSSUM plan.

The OPOSSUM Plan

The OPOSSUM plan was created on the 21st of March, 2025, as user OPOSSUM sent a message to Gergdown's talk page:

“To see it, you must visit the Lingojam Sealese translator that you made, then scroll down to the comment section.”

– OPOSSUM

For the necessary context about this situation, on the 28th of January, 2025, (And formally, the 29th), user Gergdown releases UnNotPron, which OPOSSUM sees. UnNotPron is a game about solving puzzles, especially cryptology-based puzzles. After struggling with this game, OPOSSUM realized that Gergdown was something of a cryptographical quasi-genius who could likely solve even the most obtuse of Internet enigmas. So OPOSSUM put together the most arduous puzzle he could conceive in approximately fifteen minutes, and obviously, Gergdown solved OPOSSUM's puzzle in mere minutes and told OPOSSUM at his talk page.

To solve it, you would have to go the Rough Sealese Translator, scroll down to the comments, and click on a link. That link lead to OPOSSUM's talk page, which was replaced with a keypad. The answer to that keypad was also in the LingoJam page, although it has now been deleted. After that, you would be given access to the flag, with the text:

“Welcome to my lair, Ultimate Gergdown. I must now disclose my battle plan on AIBOPAAT. You must now visit: https://imgur.com/gallery/antepenultimate-gergforward-WWauzOh”

– OPOSSUM

This was quickly leaked however, as user DaniPine3 decrypted the code faster than Gerg could ever. Instead of solving the puzzle, he looked inside of the page, and found the answer to the combination lock. As OPOSSUM learned about this, he sent a message to DaniPine3's page:

“Isnlviefnlivanoiafnlksnvlvkdnslksndldksnkjsdbkjvsdbkvjsdbkvdsjbksjvdbkvsdjnlsdvjnladincalinsaclinacslinacslincsalincsalinascljcnasljnacsljnacskjcnsa

Alright, my attempts at encryption were pretty shoddy, but how the fuck did you get the password so quickly? That was the strongest leak [sic] in the otherwise really weak chain…”

– OPOSSUM

The aftermath of the OPOSSUM plan though was very significant in the creation of Canada. In the span of three days, the flag was reconstructed and created. The final pixel was placed on the 23rd of March, 2025, the flag was completed.

It should be stated, however, although Gergdown did leak the plans publicly to OPOSSUM on his talk page, which was viewed by DaniPine3, he found the code before the leak.

Pre-war events

Mugshot of the infamous warlord Squaw Dee, who was executed and hanged by Canadian mercenaries, hence his death, and his inactivity from Uncyclopedia

At 4:09 PM (UTC), on the 24th of March, 2025, a day after the Canadian flag was completed, user Squaw Dee replaced the bottom of the Canadian maple leaf with a white pixel. This offensive was short lived, as on 5:25 PM (UTC) on the same day, Gergdown began his own counter-offensive against Squaw Dee. User Data Devourer would also join with the clean up of the flag. The offensive ended on 11:16 PM (UTC) as Gergdown captured vandal Squaw Dee, but quickly released him on probation. Squaw Dee would cause another insurrection the same day, and after his offensive failed, he was captured and hung by Gergdown.

Photograph of Canada and the Grue, at the Grue's peak

Several other insignificant skirmishes occurred after that, but they were stopped by Gergdown, Data Devourer, and OPOSSUM. Eventually, one day, specifically the 3rd of March, 2025, Gergdown broke his right arrow key. He had to get it replaced, and since he was a laptop user, had to replace the keyboard on the laptop. It took over a month for it to get replaced. In that time, no one was defending Canada. It was free real estate.

On the 14th of April, 2025, user Fish on skates commits to doing a special military operation into Canada via the grue drawing in the west of the border. Although Gerg was using a crappy laptop at the time, as his laptop was taken away for repairs, he knew it was temporary, and didn't bother checking Uncyclopedia. During this time, the grue's arm spread far into Canadian territory, reaching the tip of the maple leaf. On the 19th of April, 2025, a counter-offensive was formed by OPOSSUM, DaniPine3, and eventually Gergdown, who pushed the grue back to the west. It was only until the 28th of April in which the grue was defeated.

Several other skirmishes occurred between the 1st of April to the 29th of April, however, most were insignificant, and they were repaired by OPOSSUM and Data Devourer. Tension grew among Gergdown as he impatiently waited for his laptop to come back. It was stated to him that his laptop would only come back on the first week of May. He waited, impatiently, tensely, wondering what was going on while he was missing from his online career.

Events

April Offensive

Gerg at this time

5/21

The ROFL-copter, an integral part on why the Canadians won

October Treaty

In late October 2025, after another failed invasion, the Purplers and Gergdown signed a treaty. The treaty made everybody kiss each other and turn the entire canvas black.

Trivia

• As a cause of the leaking of the OPOSSUM treaty, Gergdown created another encryption method that accidentally caused OPOSSUM's talk page to become the fifth largest page in Uncyclopedia.