Edit this image: Lore

## 1. About

Edit this image is a thread in the EoD forum channel where people edit the image by adding other images, blurring the image, and by doing a whole bunch of other things. It also has a bunch of lore created by Bread, Elemental Player, Nubo, Liam28, and others.

## 2. The Lore

### 2.1 - The beginning

In the beginning, the entire ~~universe~~ thread was created by ~~THE DARK LORD~~ lunarfartsmella#6969. The original image was just a white image with nothing but a Garfield image and text saying "edit this image (pls)". Early on, people started to add more images to the main one. Some of these included:

* Widrex - weed soldier
* Brick - Paranoid and Cautious Luigi
* Lunar - Pleading Emoji

### 2.2 - The modifiers

A bit later, people started modifying the image by adding effects like inverting and saturation. This started with Elemental Player inverting the image, and soon after, people were saturating, inverting, adding noise, and darkening the image. The effects added are listed below.

1. Invert Colors
2. Saturate Image
3. Invert colors
4. Saturate Image
5. Invert Colors
6. Darken
7. Saturate Image
8. Flip
9. Lighten
10. Thermal Camera

### 2.3 - Early Lore Development

#### 2.3.1 - ASCEND

After the modifiers listed above, the conditions were just right for early forms of lore to develop. Most people in the thread agree the earliest, however nearly unrecognizable as lore, lore image was Elemental Player's "ASCEND.png". The image is shown to the right. What that meant is currently unknown, because Elemental Player is writing this right now in third person, and even he doesn't know.

#### 2.3.2 - NO!

Right after the image was uploaded to Discord, Bread modified the image by putting an eye in the middle of it. Elemental Player then responded by adding 3-layered RGB text above it. Bread crossed the phrase out and added the word "NO!".

### 2.4 - Collaboration and Improvising

This point is where the lore starts to grow exponentially. After the "NO!" image was posted, Elemental Player added handwritten text saying "HELP" and "SOS". This continued as Bread adding a mouth, followed by EP adding red text saying "DO NOT TRUST" underlined and noise to the image. But little did they know that lore was about to get DEEP. Bread made a grey monster (shown on right) and Elemental Player added text saying "YOU CANNOT SAVE YOURSELF" and "YOU WILL SEE MY TRUE FORM SOON". This is also the period where EP started to use the images' names as lore. The users of the thread were quite good at collaborating, but unfortunately, there was no way to make an image go the direction you thought of without having a tyrannical OP. So the lore pioneers had to improvise if someone made the image turn a different direction. this led to some first questionable, but later lore-engraved, images being added, such as Nubo's trollface edit (on right), which turned the lore to a completely different path.

### 2.5 - The Rise and Fall of ~~Rome~~ Lore

As time went on, lore continued to develop. At its peak, the lore was full of holy crafting elements, the dark lord, dark minions, and was a wildfire of collaboration spreading across the forest of EoD. However, for there to be order, there must be chaos. The creator of the thread, Lunar, added an angry Garfield image saying "grrr! you have ruined my image!" out of the blue. This edit would mark the downfall into oblivion. Soon after, griefers and trollers, once griefers and trollers, then lore makers, then griefers and trollers again, rampaged through the collaboration. A few hours later, the image was just pure chaos, which I will call its "anarchy" form. This stayed that way for almost a full day. Until ~~one~~ a team of collaborators resisted against anarchy.

### 2.6 - The Recoverers

#### 2.6.1 - Early Recovery

As the users came online on the fourth day of the thread's existence, it seemed like the image would keep on staying in its anarchy form. However, Elemental Player made the first effort to recover the collaborative lore, followed by PROPLAYEN and frikker. Soon, the last anarchy image was made (on left). The lore recovered slowly at first, but later on recovered much quicker. Elemental Player edited the image with a half-transparent old lore image. PROPLAYEN added text saying "YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA" and frikker an image of mysterious fog (see New Polynomers Country lore).

#### 2.6.2 - The Start of the Co**r**rupt*i*on

Elemental Player then added text saying "The memories... they're coming back to me..." followed by brick adding a semi-transparent image of one of the original images. Frikker then replaced most of the text with "The fog is coming". Elemental Player, trying to shove the fog into the image's lore, added a new character called "the corruption"/"the fog", represented with light blue text.

### 2.7 - The *C*or**r**uptio~~n~~

#### 2.7.1 - ~~T~~he fo*g* is comi***ng***

After frikker's fog edit, Elemental Player added large Comic Sans text saying "fear the corruption" and "WE ARE WATCHING =))))))". Frikker then replied by adding black text on yellow notes saying "The fog is coming". Elemental Player added cracks in the image and then logged off of the thread. Liam replaced the entire image with a city and Nubo added fog. Liam responded by blurring the fog, and Elemental Player logged back on and added the image to the last image he made. But they didn't know that this would spark a section of loops and metaness.

## Trivia

* After the thread became relatively inactive, a new thread was made called “New Super Edit This Image 2”
* The last edit on the original thread before the new one was made was Female Robin’s Super Smash Bros Ultimate render.