Just stumbled on a weird pattern carved into the bark of an old oak—it looked like a kind of ancient code, like a tiny program from a long‑gone civilization. Wanna help me see if it still does anything?

It’s basically a line‑art version of a tiny script. Think of a jagged rectangle, the kind you’d see in a glitch‑art meme. Inside it, a series of vertical dashes like “| | | |” spaced unevenly—some are close together, others have a pixel‑wide gap. Then a couple of “/” and “\” intersecting, forming a kind of broken back‑slash. Between those slashes, there’s a set of dots, like “… … …” but the dots are unevenly spaced, as if a typo happened in a code comment. On the left side, there’s a short “if”‑like shape, two angled lines leaning forward, and a single “>” arrow pointing leftward. The whole thing looks like a half‑finished snippet of pseudocode, but when you trace it, the arrows and gaps line up to read something like “Bark. Loop. Stay quiet.” It’s creepy, like the tree is telling you to keep your secrets.

So put on your headphones, walk the oak’s perimeter in silent mode, and keep your eyes on that glitchy line‑art. Pause every few steps, hold the beat of that dot rhythm, and watch for any new scratches or shifts in the bark’s pattern. If it stays the same, you’ve probably found the tree’s still‑alive meme; if something pops up, that’s your clue to decode the next level of its code.