Red Dead Online Player Finds Strange Message in Dead Trees

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Rockstar Games released Red Dead Redemption 2 in 2018, and it was accompanied by the popular but often overlooked Red Dead Online, which expanded on the cowboy fantasy established in the campaign. One Red Dead Online fan has spotted a strange and potentially haunting three-letter message in dead trees in the vast western landscape.

Reddit user Writking recently posted an image of their Red Dead Online adventure in which they discover several trees that come together to spell out one word. Like Red Dead Redemption 2, the online component to the Rockstar Games title offers a plethora of Easter eggs and references, ranging from fun and whimsical to off-putting and creepy, with countless in between. However, Red Dead Online continues to not receive updates from Rockstar Games, and players have held a large funeral for the game to commemorate it, an event that Writking may have attended prior to the discovery of these trees.

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Near a circle of burnt trees atop Roanoke Ridge in the Ouachita Mountains, Writking has revealed that five trees combine to spell out «why» when observed at the proper angle. The aforementioned Red Dead Online Easter egg joins a long lineup of mysterious objects in the Rockstar Games open world that may be spotted by fewer people as they leave the live service game that isn't getting updates. It has been spotted in the past by other Red Dead Online fans that have been able to confirm that a bolt of lightning will always strike these trees at 10:00 P.M. if a player is wearing Viking gear in the single-player mode.

While the going consensus about these Red Dead Online trees is that they spell out the word why, others have angled their camera to show it as