About

Blossom Garden is a structure added by the Infernum Mod for Terraria. The structure is intended to generate within the game's underground jungle biome but erroneously generates nearly everywhere else. This ability to spawn in absurd locations inspired many to make images of the Blossom Garden generating in places from other franchises or memes. The ability to spot the reference or confusion for those who aren't generates most of the humor surrounding the meme. Comparisons have been made to other pattern recognition-based memes such as the Dash Spider or Amogus.

Origin

The Infernum Mod is an addon for the Calamity Mod for the game Terraria which aims to overhaul the Calamity Mod's bosses. Along with this, it adds several new features dedicated to its developers, one including the Blossom Garden which was added in the Final Farewell which released on May 7th, 2023. The Blossom Garden is intended to generate within Terraria's underground jungle biome, which is primarily composed of mud, which is what the structure's code looks for when generating it. However, mud isn't exclusive to the underground jungle biome, leading the Blossom Garden to generate anywhere within a world where mud is located. This leads to the Blossom Garden spawning in places ranging from the surface jungle biome to completely different locations, far from the jungle.

Within the update which added the structure's initial release, bug reports were submitted to the mod as well as several Reddit posts questioning if occurrences of the structure spawning in strange locations was normal. On April 26th, 2024, /u/Jh3nnO posted a screenshot to /r/CalamityMod^[1] showcasing the structure spawning on the surface of the jungle biome, earning 251 upvotes. Over the next few days, several more reports of the structure spawning in different locations would appear.

Several months later, on June 14th, 2024, /u/HTG_11 posted an image^[2] of the structure generating within the game's Jungle Temple. This post accumulated 200 upvotes.

This post would cause various users to start making memes about the structure. An early example of this is a meme^[3] showcasing the Blossom Garden appearing up in the sky with the caption, "wtf is going on in Chicago". This post would accumulate over a thousand upvotes, a rare sighting for the /r/CalamityMod subreddit.

Over the next few days, similar memes would continue to pop up on the subreddit. On June 18th, 2024, /u/everquartz, one of the subreddit's moderators, posted a compilation^[4] of memes people made referencing the structure.

Similarly to the Dash Spider meme, users of the Calamity Mod community would start bringing the Blossom Garden to other subreddits. A notable example of this is a post^[5] by /u/throwAway837474728 on /r/HollowKnightMemes depicting Hollow Knight's map but with the Blossom Garden having replaced one of the game's areas. The post garnered 558 upvotes.

On July 14th, 2024 the YouTuber Phoenix SC featured the Blossom Garden on a video^[6] viewing the /r/MinecraftMemes subreddit with a meme featuring the garden appearing. The meme was used as the thumbnail for the video.

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