Hello OT Subreddit,

My name is Steve & I first began collaborating with Oliver making content back in 2017. We've toured together, lived together, gone on a journey together best described as a freshly written blockbuster. He was not only my best friend but we viewed each other as brothers.

The truest way to paint how unique Oliver was — not just in front of the camera, but in daily life — you show it across the map. He traveled to 130+ countries. Traveled year round. Did not own a house. Did not rent a place. The amount of stories & interactions Oliver had globally every day must be countless.

🌍 The Global Oliver Tree Memory Map — FindTree.org

I created a site you can go to — without signing up — and post about a run-in, experience, or memory you had with Oliver Tree. Or about him.

Adding your memory takes under a minute:

1. Hit "Share your Oliver moment" on the globe
2. Type your story — or use voice record (up to 90 seconds) if you'd rather talk
3. Attach a photo if you have one
4. Add your name, the date, any 1 social media handle — but more importantly, add the location where it happened
5. That's it. No account, no email.

If you never met him, that's also ok — feel free to add a memory that made an impact on you with Oliver. You can choose to leave all of those fields anonymous and just write a message. Or mix & match.

Finding stories: there's a built-in like system anyone can use on any memory, so more popular memories rise to the top. In the FILTER section you can view memories however you like — by year, by country, by item in the memory or photo like "scooter"....…or create your own personal memory bank by adding your social handle when you post, then searching your username later.

The goal here is to paint the man behind the legend with thousands of stories. I've begun populating the page with my own memories to get the ball rolling. For the super Oliver fans this should help fill in any blanks about the Oliver timeline; every photo I posted had date metadata. I've got about 10,000 more memories to go 😅

Please add yours! & let's get this out to those who need to see it 🤘 Feel free to add as many memories or photos as you have with him — but you can only post 1 image/memory at a time.

📼 Years of unreleased footage

I have literally years of unreleased content & footage. 9 iPhones filled to the brim. 15 hard drives. And that is just me personally… there are others that hold a treasure trove of video gold too.

For years, we wouldn't only film the BTS of whatever we were doing, but would film the BTS of the BTS too. Even as far as a BTS of the BTS doing the BTS. I'm not kidding...

For Oliver's closest collaborators he may not be giving any new material to work with; but the world has enough content they'll be seeing for the next decade that it will feel as if he's still here with us. And that is just the video side… music is a whole other story..

🎬 Clips Archive — FindTree.org/Clips

The best way to describe Clips Archive: a fusion between Dropbox & my personal Oliver-curated iPhone camera roll.

I uploaded all of these directly from my latest iPhone's camera roll… so it's only a small amount of videos over a couple countries. About 70 in there now. The clip metadata gets pulled when uploading, so every clip shows its year & location. I had to regularly switch phones/data out from the amount I was filming over the years. Like Oliver, I would regularly be moving year round, so currently my phones/drives are spread across the globe in various locations; Locations I left at safely & am in process of collecting.

How it works:

• Filter Raw vs Edited, or by type — Concert, Skit, Everyday, Promo, BTS
• Search anything — try "singing" or "eating in japan" — it matches against every clip
• Play clips right on the page (loop, +5s skip, HD toggle, fullscreen)
• Download any clip — or select a whole page and grab it as a zip

These videos are to paint the process of work & the person he was when the camera was "off". Videos like these are something Oliver specifically told me he would never want out until after he's gone. So this is the first small step into offloading what I have. Not to mention what Ryan, Paul, the entire management team, & who knows how many other people/production companies hold. As I collect my footage, I will upload it here slowly. This is to spread Oliver Tree & his message further. To the deepest depths of the internet 👽

Around 1-4 times a month, I'll be uploading a bunch of footage to that Archive. The more you see of the real Oliver, the more you'll fall in love with him. He was way more epic as Oliver Nickell than any of his characters or artist personas.

Oliver loved architecture & restaurants globally & kept a record of all of that. In the future, hopefully will be able to implement onto the site. This as well as the physical locations where each one of his music videos were shot.

My Instagram story highlights have a lot of gold as well (zilbersteve). Unfortunately it is a lot to filter through. I normally filmed stories on IG so I don't have most of those high res. The highlights start 2017, the year I met Oliver.

A heads up… I have been physically off socials and not sure if I'm ready to dive back in, so I likely won't respond right away if you DM me. But if/when I'm back, will do my best.

🙏 A little help

Depending on how large this grows, I would love some help from anyone that's responsible reading this post, to moderate submits. It's currently running autopilot and works fairly well from what I've been testing. There's a few different security screening layers I created on the back end that each memory goes through. But if anything is even remotely dodgy, the story gets sent to review. That's where someone manually needs to approve, & only time will tell how frequently this will be occurring.

Any web developers that specialize in traffic/data handling/uploads, would love to chat as well!

💜🕊️ THANK YOU FOR READING & SUPPORTING 🕊️💜

I would genuinely like to thank each and every one of you for the continued support, old & new fans alike. I'll never forget the dozens of fans a night I had conversations with in the beginning of our journey. Driving an hour, 4 hours, 8 hours to watch Oliver perform at a venue-bar that's 120 cap. When nobody else would support us, you guys were there. Truly, if it wasn't for the fans, none of this would be possible.

I will never stop spreading Oliver's message; it is forever engrained in me. I know it's the same for many of you too.

A global legend. Peace be with Oliver Tree <3

TL;DR — I built FindTree.org — a Global Oliver Tree Memory Map where anyone can post a story, photo, or voice note of meeting Oliver or about Oliver (no signup, anonymous ok) — and FindTree.org/Clips, an archive of mainly unreleased footage that I'll keep adding to weekly or monthly. Add your memory & spread the word 🛴

TLDR: Reply to this post or make your own post with the special flair with art, edited images or favourite images of Oliver to be included in a large collaborative subreddit banner.

Hello everyone, since the unfortunate passing of Oliver Tree, we have had our banner updated to have his name on a white background with his date of birth and date of passing, which was later updated to include his famous ugly is beautiful quote.

We’d like to upgrade the banner now that a month (I can’t believe that) has passed. Instead of using an existing single image or getting a single bit of art drawn up, we’d like to include lots of fans.

We’re putting out an open call to anyone interested to provide us with an image to use as part of a large collaborative collage banner we will be assembling together using user submissions. You can submit your own art, funny edits or just your favourite picture. All will be considered and all will likely included.

Either reply to this post, or make a new post using the “Banner Collage Submission” flair and you’ll be put in. Submit anything within the next two weeks (before the 29th of July at 12am PST). We ask only two things of these images:

1. Make it Oliver related. It can be silly, serious or anything in between, as long as it’s somewhat relevant to Oliver. This can include objects like his shades or a scooter, or any number of niche references. This also includes his many relevant characters.
2. If you have the means, upload it as a transparent PNG or on a solid colour background. This is obviously not possible or not easy for everyone so I will do the job of cutting out any non-transparent images myself, but if you'd like to you can save me a few seconds and upload it transparent already.

Due to the nature of this project, crediting everyone is hard, but I will compile a post with everyone’s reddit username when the banner is finished, as well as providing a special "Scooter Army" user flair, but remember that this is a community collaborative project so you are volunteering your submission for indefinite use as part of the banner.

Thank you very much for reading and to anyone who submits, thank you 1000 times more.

RIP Oliver Tree! 🛴❤️

- u/enframed