Remix tree
The remix tree is a branching tree of remices on Scratch, budding from the small animation [WARRIORS AMV] Despacito :3, and morphing into games, animations, prose, and more over the years. Though it started small, by now it has a frankly absurd amount of branches and projects, seeming to never end. And despite its overwhelming inanity, over the years it has gained recurring characters, spinoffs, and even the occasional story arc, mostly set in the remix world.
The range of fictional universes that the remix canon encompasses is known as the Arboremistus.
Browse
It's hard, though possible, to understand the entirety of the remix tree. A complete list of remix media is available at List of remix media, or in spreadsheet form at List of remix media/Spreadsheet. These pages are ways to consume it all, or just randomly pick highlights.
If you want to understand some of the core projects of the remix tree, the original branch and main branch are a good place to start. Various well-known arcs include the Crazy Noisy Showdown (part of the main branch), as well as Pico's Bizarre Adventure, the Phoogo Saga, and the Reddit Saga. It's also a good idea to simply go to a random page and idly browse remices from there.
History
The tree was born on March 14, 2018, when ZiqwerkelSharda created the project [WARRIORS AMV] Despacito :3 out of boredom in study hall. iangecko remixed it into AAAAAAAAAAAAA, and though within a few projects his interest in the tree petered out, turtlehat saw what was happening and decided to pile on; the remix tree remained a tennis game between ZiqwerkelSharda and turtlehat for a while, with occasional contributions by other people such as fishfritters. Meanwhile, no longer wanting to associate himself with the tree, iangecko unshared his original three projects. One of them, desrever neeb sah tcejorp, was all but forgotten about.
In autumn of 2018, other people in the friendgroup decided to add to it, and the original trio added side projects as well, creating more branches and scattered remices than there were previously, all as smaller offshoots of the main string of projects. Wanting a label, ZiqwerkelSharda, turtlehat, and fishfritters named said main string the main branch, and things continued on like this for a while. Main branch projects became more and more convoluted, eventually evolving into full-on video games, and the three remixers decided to outlaw games from the main branch, and start simplifying projects to make it easier to make new ones. This was kept to de jure but not in spirit, as projects became just as ambitious, just in new ways: the Crazy Noisy Showdown arc got going, and suddenly the remix tree had a full-on story.
2019 started just as that arc ended, and things started to calm down, with Riding Bean Fanart!! \(^O^)/ marking a sudden simplification of projects again, by the hand of turtlehat. Contributions from people besides ZiqwerkelSharda and turtlehat very much tapered out, and it became a straightforward game of tennis again, for the most part. This went on past the anniversary, and through to May, when suddenly the two realized that they were nearing the 100th project in the tree overall, and the 50th in the main branch. They made a few side projects (along with a contribution by TriadHero117), causing the numbers to match up, and thus it happened that Wholly Cow, or "The Time I Played Fifty-Two Hours of Mirror's Edge in One Go" ended up with two landmark numbers at once.
Wholly Cow would also end the tree entirely for a while, as it featured a cutscene where turtlehat announced his intention to stop making remices for the tree. It took a break for the entire summer of 2019, although the "remix spirit" did briefly return in the form of the Lunchables tree. Eventually, the remix tree made a full return when TriadHero117 posted Alphabet Soop MVA super edition 2019 and ZiqwerkelSharda remixed it. turtlehat got in on the fun, and suddenly the tree was moving again... and ZiqwerkelSharda had some daring ideas for this new iteration of the tree. In November of 2019, she roped turtlehat into an experimental "remix challenge", where the two created two branches of remices in a shockingly short amount of time. The end result was six wild remices. Keen to repeat the success, she kicked off 2020 with a sleepover where she, turtlehat, fishfritters, and AngieJones made four remices each across four branches, resulting in 16 remices. Unsurprisingly, these remices ended up fairly nonsensical and somewhat uninteresting, but it was memorable for the occasion if nothing else.
(to be continued...!)