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By S. R. Holloway, Staff Writer, Unsettled Media
October 2026 – Every few years, the internet coughs up a phrase so strange, so grammatically broken yet emotionally precise, that it seeps into your dreams. “The woods have taken her plantsvscunts new” is that phrase for 2026. Since early spring, cryptic imageboards, abandoned gardening blogs, and whispered TikTok comment sections have been consumed by three words that feel like a threat, a eulogy, and a misheard spell all at once.
Let’s be clear: there is no official game, film, or book with this exact title. But that’s the point. The phenomenon known among deep-web sleuths as PHVCN (Plants/Has/Vs/Cunts/New) or colloquially “the green sorrow” appears to be a decentralized, evolving piece of transmedia storytelling. Its fragments suggest a narrative: a woman (her), an consuming force (the woods), a failed binary conflict (plants vs cunts), and a promise of recurrence (new). Below, we break down everything uncovered so far. the woods have taken her plantsvscunts new
On March 12, 2026, a user named @rottingmycelium posted a single sentence in a dead subsection of a permaculture forum: “The woods have taken her. Plantsvscunts new.” The post had no context, no replies for 11 days. Then, someone replied with a photograph—a woman’s hand, half-buried in black leaf litter, fingernails grown into tiny white roots. The image’s metadata pointed to a set of GPS coordinates near Hoh Rainforest, Washington.
That thread was deleted within an hour. But screenshots spread. Soon, dozens of low-resolution videos appeared on banned video platforms, each showing a figure in a rotting sundress walking backward into old-growth forest. The title of each video: plantsvscunts new.
This phrase evokes a folk horror or dark fairy tale atmosphere. It suggests a person (female) who has been consumed, claimed, or transformed by a wild, ancient forest. If you wish to engage with PHVCN as
Who is “her”? Clues scattered across ephemeral Discord servers and dead URLs point to a composite figure. Some recognize her as Lydia Vermeulen (1962–1997), a Dutch botanist who disappeared in the Ardennes forest while researching fungal mimicry of human vocal cords. Her field notes were published posthumously as The Speaking Mycelium, which contains the line: “The forest does not hate women. It simply confuses them for soil.”
Others believe “her” is fictional: the protagonist of a lost 1970s Polish eco-horror film Zabiorą Ją Lasy (“The Woods Will Take Her”), which exists only as a single 8mm reel stored in the basement of the Warsaw Film Museum. I tracked down a partial transcript. The final line: “Nie ma roślin, nie ma suki. Jest tylko nowy las.” (“No plants, no bitch. Only new forest.”)
For the uninitiated, the Plants vs. Cunts (PvC) label has always been about subverting the "nature is healing" trope. It takes the beauty of a blooming garden and twists it into something parasitic and possessive. It isn't just about foliage; it’s about consumption. “The woods have taken her plantsvscunts new” is
But this new entry—this "new" wave we are seeing—feels different.
Previous iterations focused on the invasive nature of the flora. The vines were the aggressors; the human element was the victim. In "The Woods Have Taken Her," the dynamic has shifted. The woods aren't just attacking; they are assimilating.
