PixelTree's Arknights Anonymous

P.A.A.

A safe, non-judgmental space for those affected by PixelTree's prolonged Arknights inactivity. We meet, we share, we cope — one scheduled stream at a time.

Together, we wait.
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Who We Are A Statement of Purpose

PixelTree's Arknights Anonymous is a fellowship of viewers, Dokutahs, and emotionally invested lurkers who have gathered to support one another through the ongoing, inexplicable drought of Arknights content on the PixelTree channel.

We do not blame. We do not judge. We acknowledge that PixelTree is a brilliant streamer with diverse interests — but we also acknowledge the ache.

"We are not here to change PixelTree. We are here to change how we respond when yet another Tuesday night stream turns out to be Limbus Company."
0/??? SANITY
"I've been refreshing the VOD page for six hours. I don't remember when I last ate. The stream title still says Limbus Company. I can hear the IS-3 theme playing from somewhere — I think it's in my walls. Or my head. At this point, are they even different things?"
— Flixerine, 0 Sanity Moment

Recognising the Symptoms A Diagnostic Guide

You may be affected if you recognise any of the following patterns:

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The Pre-Stream Headache

A mysterious, stream-cancelling migraine that strikes approximately 47 minutes before any scheduled Arknights broadcast. No other game triggers it.

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Technical Difficulties

Audio desyncs, OBS crashes, internet outages — occurring with suspicious precision only on Arknights days. The tech gods have a peculiar sense of humour.

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Limbus Diversion

A sudden, overwhelming urge to extract Identities and guide Sinners through the City, often occurring just as the chat begins chanting "Arknights." Highly contagious.

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Football Supremacy

An acute awareness that a match is happening somewhere in the world, rendering any previously discussed streaming plans null and void. The beautiful game claims another victim.

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Schedule Optimism

The recurrent belief that this time the scheduled Arknights stream will actually happen. Characterised by taking the day off, preparing snacks, and telling friends "he's finally playing it."

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VOD Delusion

The cycle of checking the VODs page, finding nothing, checking again 5 minutes later, and repeating until the heat death of the universe. Also known as the F5 spiral.

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The Babel Video

A legendary video essay on the Babel sidestory — one of Arknights' finest narratives — perpetually "in production" while Limbus Canto videos get churned out monthly. The editor's timeline mocks us from beyond the veil.

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Chapter 14 Stalemate

Two missions into Chapter 14 / Episode 14. That's it. For months. The Doctor is stranded at the gates of the chapter, staring at the "Continue" button like a ghost. We all live there now.

Stage 1: Denial — 47 members Stage 2: Bargaining — 34 members Stage 3: Acceptance — 19 members Stage 4: Limbus — 0 members

Campaign Status Where We Left Off

Last Arknights stream: several months ago  ·  Missions completed since: 2
Chapter 14 / EP-14 2 / ? missions
14-1 ✓ 14-2 ✓ 14-3 … 14-4 … …
The Doctor has been staring at the deployment screen for months. No one has moved.

The Babel Manifesto A Video That Never Was

Once, there was talk of a video. A deep dive into the Babel sidestory — the tragedy, the betrayal, the sheer emotional weight of what happened before Rhodes Island. PixelTree called it "one of the best stories in Arknights."

Then the Limbus Cantos came. Canto IV. Canto V. Canto VI. Each one a beautiful, polished video essay — while the Babel script gathers dust in a Google Doc somewhere, a monument to what could have been.

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Babel Videos Released
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Limbus Canto Videos Since
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Copium Supply

The 12 Steps Toward Healing

  1. We admitted we were powerless over the stream schedule — that our hype had become unmanageable. "I have a folder of Arknights clips I'm saving for when he plays." — Anonymous
  2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves — perhaps a consistent upload schedule — could restore us to sanity. Some call this power "the YouTube algorithm." Others call it "copium."
  3. Made a decision to turn our will and our hype over to the care of the Stream Schedule as we understood it. Which is to say: we check it, but we do not trust it.
  4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of every "he said he'd play it" clip, every "soon™" emote, every hopeful tweet. The results were sobering. There were 47 instances. In the last month alone.
  5. Admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our disappointment when the "Arknights" tab on the stream title silently changed to "Limbus Company: Mirror Dungeon #12." It's okay to have cried. Many of us have.
  6. Became entirely ready to watch PixelTree play other games without resentment, jealousy, or passive-aggressive chat messages. We're not there yet. But we're working on it.
  7. Humbly asked PixelTree — through vibes and manifesting and the occasional carefully-worded Discord message — to remove our shortcomings (the lack of Arknights). No response yet. We assume he's busy. Probably watching football.
  8. Made a list of all persons we had unfollowed in frustration and became willing to follow them back. This step is optional and rarely completed.
  9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible — except when doing so would require unsubscribing from the channel. That's where we draw the line.
  10. Continued to take personal inventory of the stream schedule and when we were wrong about a "definitely this week" prediction, promptly admitted it. "I was wrong. Again. For the 12th time."
  11. Sought through prayer, meditation, and VOD-watching to improve our conscious contact with the old Arknights videos — praying only for knowledge of his next stream and the power to bear it. The old IS-3 clear video has been watched 84 times this week alone. The Babel video script remains in draft, untouched, like a fossil in shale.
  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other affected viewers, and to practice these principles in all our affairs — including not spamming "Arknights?" in chat. This is the hardest step.

Member Testimonials Stories of Courage

I had been clean for three weeks. I was watching old contingency contract videos, telling myself I didn't need new content. Then he tweeted a screenshot of the Arknights title screen. I fell off the wagon so hard I bought a monthly card. But this group helped me admit I have a problem. He was never going to stream it.
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daily_observer_42 · member since 2024 · 6 relapses
My lowest point was when I watched a 4-hour Limbus Company stream, waiting and hoping he'd say "alright, now let's do a quick Arknights run." He didn't. He played another Limbus Company run. I sat through the entire thing. I don't even like Limbus Company. That's when I knew I needed help.
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limbus_free_since_march · member since 2023 · 12 relapses
I keep checking if he's played past 14-2. It's been months. I know the exact position of every enemy in those two missions. I could recite the dialogue from memory. The worst part is I still haven't played past them myself — I'm saving the experience for when we can share it together. That's called codependency, apparently. The group is helping me unpack that.
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stuck_at_14_2_forever · member since 2024 · 9 relapses
The Babel video is what broke me. He called it "one of the best stories in Arknights." I saw the tweet. I got excited. I waited. And then another Limbus Canto video dropped. And another. I've accepted that the Babel video exists only in the quantum state — simultaneously being worked on and never being worked on, until observed. Schrödinger's video essay.
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babel_orphan · member since 2025 · 15 relapses
The group taught me that it's not PixelTree's fault. He's free to stream what he wants. But that doesn't mean I can't feel the void. The Arknights void is real, it's valid, and it deserves to be acknowledged. Baby steps. One day at a time. One F5 at a time.
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dokutah_in_waiting · member since 2024 · 3 relapses

Meet the Regulars Familiar Faces in the Waiting Room

Every support group has its recurring voices. These are the members you'll see in every meeting, every VOD watchalong, every despair thread.

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Ken™
Endfield's toughest critic
Could not contain his frustration and started shitting on Arknights: Endfield unprompted. Again. Nobody asked. Nobody ever asks. But the Endfield slander flows forth like an eternal spring, baffling and exhausting the room in equal measure.
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Lance
The normaler reviewer
A dedicated Limbus player who also genuinely loves Arknights. The voice of reason. When Ken™ goes off on Endfield, Lance quietly steers the conversation back. The only person in the room with both feet on the ground. We don't deserve him.
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Baku
Arknights or nothing
Only here for the Arknights. Doesn't watch Limbus, doesn't care about Limbus, has never even opened Limbus. Sits through entire Limbus streams in silence, waiting for the one Arknights segment that never comes. A monument to single-game loyalty.
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Rusandru
Lappland's biggest fan
Lappland enthusiast through and through. Joined the group after realising he hasn't seen his favourite wolf-themed lunatic in a stream for months. Misses the chaos. Misses the Texas memes. Misses when the Doctor's roster got screen time that wasn't a Limbus Company Canto.
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Freezy
WuWa mention enthusiast
Somehow, impossibly, always finds a way to bring up Wuthering Waves in a sarcastic tone. "Actually WuWa did it first" — about everything, always dripping with irony. Parodies the toxic part of the WuWa fandom that insists it's the best game ever. DuckLords backs him up every time. It's a bit, but nobody's sure where the bit ends.
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DuckLords
Freezy's co-pilot
Freezy's partner in crime. Whenever Freezy drops a sarcastic "WuWa did it first," DuckLords is there with the follow-up, the escalation, or the perfectly timed clip of a WuWa feature that absolutely nobody asked about. A double act that somehow keeps the room sane by being deliberately insane.
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DukLawd
Former Genshin main (retired)
Used to play Genshin. Doesn't anymore. Will tell you about his Genshin retirement arc if asked, which he usually isn't. Now he's here, waiting for Arknights content like the rest of us. Occasionally gets drawn into the WuWa vs Genshin discourse against his will. A man trying to escape a gacha war he's already left behind.
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Ilyich
Anti-football committee chair
Every time PixelTree cancels an Arknights stream to watch football, Ilyich is there. "Too much hooliganing again, Pix." The group's resident football critic, frustrated beyond reason at the beautiful game's constant theft of Arknights airtime. Has a running tally of matches that have stolen streams. It's in the hundreds.
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Moose
Fellow streamer, fellow sufferer
A streamer himself, here in solidarity — or maybe just as a fan who can't escape the drought. Understands the content creator struggle while also feeling the viewer pain. The rare member who can speak both languages. Often caught saying "I should just play Arknights on my own stream at this point." He should. We'd watch.
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Egg
Eternally early or late
Always waits for the stream. Always gets the date wrong. Shows up on Wednesday for a Thursday stream, or Thursday for a stream that was actually last Tuesday. A walking time zone disaster whose heart is in the right place even if his calendar isn't. Has missed every single Arknights stream that ever happened — both of them — by at least 24 hours.
Today's Affirmation "I accept that PixelTree's channel is his own. I release my attachment to the schedule. I am enough, even without new Arknights content."

Meeting Schedule All Times in Copium Time (CT)

Day Time Type Status
Monday 8:00 PM CT VOD Review & Coping Confirmed
Tuesday 7:00 PM CT Pre-Stream Hype Management Tentative
Wednesday 8:30 PM CT "It Was Limbus Again" Support Group Confirmed
Thursday 7:00 PM CT Babel Watch & Script Seance Tentative
Friday 9:00 PM CT Open Mic / Grieving Session / Chapter 14 Vigil Confirmed
Saturday 6:00 PM CT Hope & Relapse Prevention Tentative — Awaiting Schedule
Sunday All Day F5 Anonymous (Drop-in) Confirmed

All meetings are subject to change without notice, much like a certain stream schedule.