Pretense
Summer of 2021, Travis and Cole create a FarCry 5 outfit who wields
a shovel they act as the "Shovel Men" later becoming the "Citrus Men" when orange hats are added.
-They create a now inactive Instagram as the Citrus Men.
a shovel they act as the "Shovel Men" later becoming the "Citrus Men" when orange hats are added.
-They create a now inactive Instagram as the Citrus Men.
August 2021: The Beginning
August 16th, as a first day of school assignment, Abraham, Travis, Cole, and James are tasked to create a country.
Citrus-Land is formed, merely as an idea, only forming into a community once the website is created.
-The original flag depicts Citrus Man as an orange, it was later updated to represent the true Citrus Man, a human in an orange hat who has godlike abilities.
Citrus-Land is formed, merely as an idea, only forming into a community once the website is created.
-The original flag depicts Citrus Man as an orange, it was later updated to represent the true Citrus Man, a human in an orange hat who has godlike abilities.
The Original Citrus Land Flag
At the end of August we had ~10 members, mostly consisting of friends who simply wanted to checkout the website, it wasn't until October that it really started to take hold..
September 2021: The leap of faith
As September rolled by, it became a race to get all of your friends into Citrus Land.
-New updates were plastered on the homepage
-The Citrus Land socials were made (@CitrusManHBHS on Tiktok, Insta, Twitter)
-We got on Google Maps! (Which has been seen by 3,000+ people)
Even though most members were added in-person (without the form), there were about 25 members.
-New updates were plastered on the homepage
-The Citrus Land socials were made (@CitrusManHBHS on Tiktok, Insta, Twitter)
-We got on Google Maps! (Which has been seen by 3,000+ people)
Even though most members were added in-person (without the form), there were about 25 members.
Citrus Land on Google Maps
October 2021: Opposition rises
By October we were growing exponentially and without opposition (We even made a Discord)
That was until, a group was created to take us down, Carrot Coast
Unlike Citrus Land, they didn't include a list of members or a fan-art gallery, instead, opting for a more modern look.
-Carrot Coast laid dormant with the only updates being the release of their trash Garageband beats.
(Remember these guys, they come back later...)
This is likely when we started handing out Citrus Land “business cards”
-Also, Citrus Interactive released a prototype of the Citrus Man RPG (CMRPG)
By the end of October, we reached roughly 35 members
(This is also when we removed the old comments section, it's archived here)
That was until, a group was created to take us down, Carrot Coast
Unlike Citrus Land, they didn't include a list of members or a fan-art gallery, instead, opting for a more modern look.
-Carrot Coast laid dormant with the only updates being the release of their trash Garageband beats.
(Remember these guys, they come back later...)
This is likely when we started handing out Citrus Land “business cards”
-Also, Citrus Interactive released a prototype of the Citrus Man RPG (CMRPG)
By the end of October, we reached roughly 35 members
(This is also when we removed the old comments section, it's archived here)
nOVEMBER 2021: experimentation
November was a time of change,
-We switched from Medium.com to our built-in Citrus News
-The Discord server rose to 30 people (in four weeks)
-We reached 80 Instagram followers and 40 official members on the website
-After the juice locker's closure, we managed to sneak two tables and chairs under the bleachers finally pushing the staff to end the split-period & let everyone eat during all of the period (The juice locker got us some traction on SnapChat, too)
CONTEXT: The juice locker (1460) was an open locker advertised on Citrus Land that was filled with random food, RIP.
-The Citrus Land MC Server was made! (Join the Discord to play)
We also had our fair share of Failed Attempts:
-We were going to release Citrus Land shirts, I guess Powell Prints doesn't like oranges
-Citrus Coms was a branch of Citrus Land like Citrus Interactive but forums weren't useless since we had the Discord
-After Carrot Coast got a Spotify account, we were going to release a diss-track, turns out it's pretty boring making fun of a group that does nothing (we still have the Spotify account, in case we release something)
End of November Discord member count: 50+
-We switched from Medium.com to our built-in Citrus News
-The Discord server rose to 30 people (in four weeks)
-We reached 80 Instagram followers and 40 official members on the website
-After the juice locker's closure, we managed to sneak two tables and chairs under the bleachers finally pushing the staff to end the split-period & let everyone eat during all of the period (The juice locker got us some traction on SnapChat, too)
CONTEXT: The juice locker (1460) was an open locker advertised on Citrus Land that was filled with random food, RIP.
-The Citrus Land MC Server was made! (Join the Discord to play)
We also had our fair share of Failed Attempts:
-We were going to release Citrus Land shirts, I guess Powell Prints doesn't like oranges
-Citrus Coms was a branch of Citrus Land like Citrus Interactive but forums weren't useless since we had the Discord
-After Carrot Coast got a Spotify account, we were going to release a diss-track, turns out it's pretty boring making fun of a group that does nothing (we still have the Spotify account, in case we release something)
End of November Discord member count: 50+
December 2021: the membership purge
The last month of the year meant we had to fix a major issue since the beginning of Citrus Land.
Member management was tricky, so some did the form, others got added in-person, and some just joined the server.
-We setup a new membership form and told all 62 people who did the form or talked in-person to renew their membership, this was the same for people on the server, those who didn't do it got kicked. (We had 90 discord users)
-In the end we were left with 64 people (some left, some never renewed, and some invited friends)
During the end of December, we got CitrusLand.org and released Citrus Land Pins for $1 (try our new domain)
-We released CitrusMC, our Minecraft server!
The fanart gallery on the Citrus Land website was removed, it got too big, so we replaced it with Featured Art
(The voting function was later scrapped for an ordinary gallery)
Member management was tricky, so some did the form, others got added in-person, and some just joined the server.
-We setup a new membership form and told all 62 people who did the form or talked in-person to renew their membership, this was the same for people on the server, those who didn't do it got kicked. (We had 90 discord users)
-In the end we were left with 64 people (some left, some never renewed, and some invited friends)
During the end of December, we got CitrusLand.org and released Citrus Land Pins for $1 (try our new domain)
-We released CitrusMC, our Minecraft server!
The fanart gallery on the Citrus Land website was removed, it got too big, so we replaced it with Featured Art
(The voting function was later scrapped for an ordinary gallery)
Citrus Land's Official Donation in Support of #TeamSeas
January 2022: New year, new citrus
The New Year's just arrived, and we we're ready for some changes!
-We had done various polls on the server & Citrus pins were selling great.
(We shipped one 47 miles away!)
But then, the carrots attacked! (Raid/Spam Kick)
On January 16th, we lost 44 members of the Citrus Land server...
-In the upcoming days we used the form to bring back verified members.
In the end we were left with 48 people, a far cry from the 76 we had just two weeks prior.
We kept growing, adding new games to Citrus Land for mobile and PC!
-Although it was fully implemented Febuary 2nd, we also reset the CitrusMC!
It gained a new support team, factions, and a whole new world to explore!
(Shoutout to Jewel for our first fan-mail!)
Stats:
18 users visited the CitrusMC (excluding alts)
65 verified members / 11 foreign members (outside HCSD)
(Also checkout this swag documentary by Adam Haikal)
-We had done various polls on the server & Citrus pins were selling great.
(We shipped one 47 miles away!)
But then, the carrots attacked! (Raid/Spam Kick)
On January 16th, we lost 44 members of the Citrus Land server...
-In the upcoming days we used the form to bring back verified members.
In the end we were left with 48 people, a far cry from the 76 we had just two weeks prior.
We kept growing, adding new games to Citrus Land for mobile and PC!
-Although it was fully implemented Febuary 2nd, we also reset the CitrusMC!
It gained a new support team, factions, and a whole new world to explore!
(Shoutout to Jewel for our first fan-mail!)
Stats:
18 users visited the CitrusMC (excluding alts)
65 verified members / 11 foreign members (outside HCSD)
(Also checkout this swag documentary by Adam Haikal)
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FEBRUARY 2022: Decline and growth
February a wild month, for Citrus Land, and for the world!
-C.C got kicked into another plane of existence, announcing it has a new owner, Adam, who isn't even in HCSD.
Their website mentions a “reboot”, we’re still waiting for an update.
Most mods and plugins don't work for our crossplay MC server but datapacks do!
We added tanks, helicopters, cars, pvp heads, many small vanilla updates.
-While CitrusMC got it's update, we expanded into NFTs (as a joke).
You can get the Thiccoln NFT in the link below!
(Don't forget to join a minecraft faction!)
Now, here's a more important topic:
Russia and Ukraine tensions have been rising since the collapse of the USSR.
In 2021, Russia set an insane number of troops at Ukraine's border.
When the US failed to meet Russia's insane demands in 2022, they invaded.
-We setup #🌐current-events with automatic updates on the conflict sub-hourly.
At the very end of February, a potential ally came into picture, Banana Land INC (BLI).
To be continued...
Stats:
16 Active CitrusMC Users (excluding alts)
75 Verified Members / 12 Foreign Members (outside HCSD)
52 Discord Members / 14 Active Members (300+ Messages)
(Note: The term Hilliard Cyber Country (HCC) will be used to describe new cyber/online "countries" in the future.)
-C.C got kicked into another plane of existence, announcing it has a new owner, Adam, who isn't even in HCSD.
Their website mentions a “reboot”, we’re still waiting for an update.
Most mods and plugins don't work for our crossplay MC server but datapacks do!
We added tanks, helicopters, cars, pvp heads, many small vanilla updates.
-While CitrusMC got it's update, we expanded into NFTs (as a joke).
You can get the Thiccoln NFT in the link below!
(Don't forget to join a minecraft faction!)
Now, here's a more important topic:
Russia and Ukraine tensions have been rising since the collapse of the USSR.
In 2021, Russia set an insane number of troops at Ukraine's border.
When the US failed to meet Russia's insane demands in 2022, they invaded.
-We setup #🌐current-events with automatic updates on the conflict sub-hourly.
At the very end of February, a potential ally came into picture, Banana Land INC (BLI).
To be continued...
Stats:
16 Active CitrusMC Users (excluding alts)
75 Verified Members / 12 Foreign Members (outside HCSD)
52 Discord Members / 14 Active Members (300+ Messages)
(Note: The term Hilliard Cyber Country (HCC) will be used to describe new cyber/online "countries" in the future.)
March 2022: stability
March began as a slow month, little did we know, this 8th month would be historic in many ways..
March saw the end of Citrus Land's 4.5 star streak as we were removed from Google Maps.
We were rejected a spot in Darby's multicultural fair, but we persisted.
On March 18, CitrusLand.weebly.com & CitrusLand.org were blocked.
The URL was changed to CitrusMan.weebly.com and we introduced the Citrus Proxy to spite a certain teacher..
-The ??? page was added, too, why not check it out?
The #WeSayGay walkout was definitely a topic of discussion, going as far as Travis pinning the bill's PDF in the announcements channel.
For some Citrus Land W's,
-CallMeBruhGaming (Mr.Borden) became an official Twitch partner and cracked 22 views after adding it to the CL homepage.
-Chase Letcavits announced Fry Challenge 4 would be a partnership with Citrus Land (coming in April)
-Carrot Coast brings end to a long-fought battle, with no update to their website at all, proving it has bled its coffers dry of support, leaving Citrus Land victorious in this war of cultures
-Citrus Land went through a program of opening up all mediums to people outside the HCSD
The biggest thing of all this month might be..
Citrus Man RPG is out of the demo phase and is being 3D modeled as we speak.
(Also the server had a minor redesign)
Stats:
N/A CitrusMc users (had to shut it down, maybe next month)
83 Verified Members / No longer counting "foreign members"
63 Discord Members / 13 Active Members (300+ Messages)
Fun Fact: Gabe is the first person to be completely BANNED from Citrus Land
(after going through the Citrus Court System 4 times)
March saw the end of Citrus Land's 4.5 star streak as we were removed from Google Maps.
We were rejected a spot in Darby's multicultural fair, but we persisted.
On March 18, CitrusLand.weebly.com & CitrusLand.org were blocked.
The URL was changed to CitrusMan.weebly.com and we introduced the Citrus Proxy to spite a certain teacher..
-The ??? page was added, too, why not check it out?
The #WeSayGay walkout was definitely a topic of discussion, going as far as Travis pinning the bill's PDF in the announcements channel.
For some Citrus Land W's,
-CallMeBruhGaming (Mr.Borden) became an official Twitch partner and cracked 22 views after adding it to the CL homepage.
-Chase Letcavits announced Fry Challenge 4 would be a partnership with Citrus Land (coming in April)
-Carrot Coast brings end to a long-fought battle, with no update to their website at all, proving it has bled its coffers dry of support, leaving Citrus Land victorious in this war of cultures
-Citrus Land went through a program of opening up all mediums to people outside the HCSD
The biggest thing of all this month might be..
Citrus Man RPG is out of the demo phase and is being 3D modeled as we speak.
(Also the server had a minor redesign)
Stats:
N/A CitrusMc users (had to shut it down, maybe next month)
83 Verified Members / No longer counting "foreign members"
63 Discord Members / 13 Active Members (300+ Messages)
Fun Fact: Gabe is the first person to be completely BANNED from Citrus Land
(after going through the Citrus Court System 4 times)
God Awful Photos From The Citrus Land Discord Server
April 2022: the Citrus Golden Age
April seemed like any other month, but by the end, Citrus Land had skyrocketed like never before…
By the end of March Citrus Land had been out for 8 months and keeping Citrus Land as a Hilliard-district only community was limiting in our reach. We decided to start removing references to Bradley HS and in April we started advertising on Reddit, Discord, and Tiktok.
-We managed to go from 4.5k visits to over 7.5k
We even had an article written about us, click here to check it out!
We weren’t the only ones getting articles, Hilliard Darby HS was talked about all over the news after a walkout regarding House Bill 616, although this isn’t the school Citrus Land began in, we read up on any news regarding the situation and asked you guys for your thoughts in the discord!
Jagtimes, the official “news station” of our school, has notified us they are writing a segment on Citrus Land, while we wait for that we can pray that Chase Letcavits releases FC4 (Fry Challenge 4) with a special sponsorship from Citrus Land!
Meanwhile we had some fun in the Citruscord (our discord server) like a Chick-Fil A giveaway, a free-admin event for Eid, and we even managed to claim Citrus Land’s official color on colornames.org
-We brought back CitrusMC, our Minecraft server, but it’s likely to become a yearly event instead of an always-up Minecraft server. (To prevent spam, it is HCSD-students only)
(We’ve decided not to accept any donations to preserve the non-monetary spirit of Citrus Land, if we come out with another batch of pins or release shirts in the future we pledge to invest it back into charity and to keep Citrus Land running)
CitrusNet has finally come out! Despite the challenges we faced, Citrus Land now has it’s own proxy.
It has certain issues, especially with Instagram, but we’ll be sure to fix it as soon as possible!
(the YouTube Unblocker has been relocated to there as well, following a mini-redesign)
-Along with CitrusNet, we got some new domains! You can generate one in the mirrors page!
While the Citrus Man RPG is still being worked on, we managed to find Citrus Man listed as an official character on Akinator! If you’d like to help out with developing, we need artists for textures, 3D modeling, and 3D animation (we’re avoiding Unity’s preset assets)
Our school had a prom challenge and we managed to use Citrus Land’s power to push a friend to first place with over 300 likes! While that was a success, r/place definitely was not. We never intended on joining but when the community requested it we decided to take a go and put our glorious orange on display for the last few hours of the subreddit. The template was small but we only managed to get about 10% up before being destroyed by the insane amount of bots!
Normally, we’d include stats on how many people “joined” Citrus Land.
However, with the introduction of THOUSANDS of new visitors from all around the US and beyond, we’ve abandoned the idea of “foreign visitors” or doing a form to “join”.
Citrus Land is open to everyone to meet friends and have fun, thanks for sticking with us these past 9 months!
You might still see a little inside joke here and there, what can we say, Mr.[redacted] is just too thicc 🥵
IMAGES TO ADD:
-AI generated Citrus Land
-crying Video with the caption (this is travis)
-“my shade velour” vid here
By the end of March Citrus Land had been out for 8 months and keeping Citrus Land as a Hilliard-district only community was limiting in our reach. We decided to start removing references to Bradley HS and in April we started advertising on Reddit, Discord, and Tiktok.
-We managed to go from 4.5k visits to over 7.5k
We even had an article written about us, click here to check it out!
We weren’t the only ones getting articles, Hilliard Darby HS was talked about all over the news after a walkout regarding House Bill 616, although this isn’t the school Citrus Land began in, we read up on any news regarding the situation and asked you guys for your thoughts in the discord!
Jagtimes, the official “news station” of our school, has notified us they are writing a segment on Citrus Land, while we wait for that we can pray that Chase Letcavits releases FC4 (Fry Challenge 4) with a special sponsorship from Citrus Land!
Meanwhile we had some fun in the Citruscord (our discord server) like a Chick-Fil A giveaway, a free-admin event for Eid, and we even managed to claim Citrus Land’s official color on colornames.org
-We brought back CitrusMC, our Minecraft server, but it’s likely to become a yearly event instead of an always-up Minecraft server. (To prevent spam, it is HCSD-students only)
(We’ve decided not to accept any donations to preserve the non-monetary spirit of Citrus Land, if we come out with another batch of pins or release shirts in the future we pledge to invest it back into charity and to keep Citrus Land running)
CitrusNet has finally come out! Despite the challenges we faced, Citrus Land now has it’s own proxy.
It has certain issues, especially with Instagram, but we’ll be sure to fix it as soon as possible!
(the YouTube Unblocker has been relocated to there as well, following a mini-redesign)
-Along with CitrusNet, we got some new domains! You can generate one in the mirrors page!
While the Citrus Man RPG is still being worked on, we managed to find Citrus Man listed as an official character on Akinator! If you’d like to help out with developing, we need artists for textures, 3D modeling, and 3D animation (we’re avoiding Unity’s preset assets)
Our school had a prom challenge and we managed to use Citrus Land’s power to push a friend to first place with over 300 likes! While that was a success, r/place definitely was not. We never intended on joining but when the community requested it we decided to take a go and put our glorious orange on display for the last few hours of the subreddit. The template was small but we only managed to get about 10% up before being destroyed by the insane amount of bots!
Normally, we’d include stats on how many people “joined” Citrus Land.
However, with the introduction of THOUSANDS of new visitors from all around the US and beyond, we’ve abandoned the idea of “foreign visitors” or doing a form to “join”.
Citrus Land is open to everyone to meet friends and have fun, thanks for sticking with us these past 9 months!
You might still see a little inside joke here and there, what can we say, Mr.[redacted] is just too thicc 🥵
IMAGES TO ADD:
-AI generated Citrus Land
-crying Video with the caption (this is travis)
-“my shade velour” vid here
Quick Growth Update
Here's an estimated graph of Citrus Land's growth
May 2022: The end of the horizon
With summer approaching, we reflect on Citrus Land's growth.
This is not an end, merely a new beginning...
Website Visits (total): 12,000
Instagram Followers: 96
Twitter Followers: 4
Tiktok Followers/Likes: 17 - 63
Youtube Subs/Views: 17 - 1,400
Citruscord Users: 106
CitrusMC Users (all-time): 21
Roblox Members: 8
Steam Members: 3
The OG's (irl): 74
Money Raised (Charity): $20
Fan Artwork: 200+
Games Released: 0
Articles/Videos: 5
Devices (clicks):
89.8% Desktop
8.5% Mobile
1.7% Tablet
Top Countries (clicks):
VPNs can affect this data!
United States (94.3%)
United Kingdom (2.92%)
Puerto Rico (1.51%)
Switzerland (0.7%)
Spain (0.5%)
MORE ANALYTICS LATER!
(Google Analytics hasn't been setup for this domain)
Contact: [email protected]
Citrus Land started as a passion project, to meet new friends and work on ourselves.
We hope to continue inspiring people to make a real change.
Thank you all for an amazing 11 months, hopefully we'll still be here for the new year!
This is not an end, merely a new beginning...
Website Visits (total): 12,000
Instagram Followers: 96
Twitter Followers: 4
Tiktok Followers/Likes: 17 - 63
Youtube Subs/Views: 17 - 1,400
Citruscord Users: 106
CitrusMC Users (all-time): 21
Roblox Members: 8
Steam Members: 3
The OG's (irl): 74
Money Raised (Charity): $20
Fan Artwork: 200+
Games Released: 0
Articles/Videos: 5
Devices (clicks):
89.8% Desktop
8.5% Mobile
1.7% Tablet
Top Countries (clicks):
VPNs can affect this data!
United States (94.3%)
United Kingdom (2.92%)
Puerto Rico (1.51%)
Switzerland (0.7%)
Spain (0.5%)
MORE ANALYTICS LATER!
(Google Analytics hasn't been setup for this domain)
Contact: [email protected]
Citrus Land started as a passion project, to meet new friends and work on ourselves.
We hope to continue inspiring people to make a real change.
Thank you all for an amazing 11 months, hopefully we'll still be here for the new year!
June 2022: Time for a break
No point in being dramatic, we looked for artists for the Citrus Man RPG (CMPRG) and touched grass.
July 2022: Little steps
School was approaching and we wanted to do something big for Citrus Land's upcoming anniversary, but we realized none of us were ready to make the Citrus Man RPG.
We decided to focus on making smaller Citrus Man oriented mini-games and move on from there.
The focus of Citrus Land won't be unblocked games this year, but rather, a teenage passion project..
We decided to focus on making smaller Citrus Man oriented mini-games and move on from there.
The focus of Citrus Land won't be unblocked games this year, but rather, a teenage passion project..
August 2022: a new life
School has officially started!
We started off with a website decluttering for mobile users, this meant moving the ads we added in the end of May.
The money is going to be used for starting merch, game development, and charity but it isn't worth the eyesore for mobile users.
The .org domain was retired for CitrusLand.tk since it was blocked at the OG school of CL & for it's cost.
-This year began the transition from being an unblocked game website to being a community around Citrus Man indie games.
Unblocked games get consistent growth but isn't sustainable or the end goal of Citrus Land.
Updates for Citrus Interactive opened after deciding to merge Citrus Land and Citrus Interactive, C.I's old website is archived @ https://citrusinteractive.weebly.com/
To be continued.
We started off with a website decluttering for mobile users, this meant moving the ads we added in the end of May.
The money is going to be used for starting merch, game development, and charity but it isn't worth the eyesore for mobile users.
The .org domain was retired for CitrusLand.tk since it was blocked at the OG school of CL & for it's cost.
-This year began the transition from being an unblocked game website to being a community around Citrus Man indie games.
Unblocked games get consistent growth but isn't sustainable or the end goal of Citrus Land.
Updates for Citrus Interactive opened after deciding to merge Citrus Land and Citrus Interactive, C.I's old website is archived @ https://citrusinteractive.weebly.com/
To be continued.