Draki Kona Walks Through the Meanings of About 20 Flowers, Then Hunts Eggs for Hours

PIXELA PROJECT — Draki Kona of Pixela Project spent the opening hour of a Thai-language stream on Sunday going through about 20 flowers, saying what each one means and asking viewers who should receive it. The stream ran 234 minutes. Kona said at the start that the flowers had been prepared in large numbers and that the images were too small to read until she opened them on another screen.

Kona worked largely from memory and searched when unsure. The sunflower, she said, stands for steadfast love, and she retold the Greek story of a woman turned into a sunflower after watching the sun god for nine days. White lilies, she said, suggest purity and new beginnings, while pink ones lean toward sweet romance. She warned that giving blue-toned flowers as a gesture of love could read as a rejection, and she described the morning glory as a symbol of love that arrives and quickly fades. She called the forget-me-not a flower she likes for its meaning, noting that it is used to remember people living with dementia and people who have died. Her repeated advice was that most meanings overlap, so the best gift is whatever flower the recipient already likes.

“I’m not giving this one to anyone. I’m buying out the whole garden. If you want one, go buy it yourself.” — Draki Kona, on the lily of the valley

The one flower she would not hand out was the lily of the valley. She said it was hers, that she was taking the whole garden, and that anyone who wanted one should buy it. She said she liked it partly because it is poisonous and partly because its name is cute, adding that it is hard to grow. The segment closed with a flower whose name came with a song, which she said she would go and listen to.

About an hour in, Kona moved to a game that viewers referred to as Aniimo. The play involved gathering eggs in rooms under a time limit and carrying them to an exit with other players, and the captions follow the countdown from 20 seconds to 2 during one tense escape. Kona questioned whether the game’s drop rates had really been adjusted, after a lower-tier item turned up in a high-tier box. Later she traded her eggs in. After a run of electric-type dogs, she asked by name for a fire-type dog, and chat said the result matched her request. She also said an in-game event had nine days left and that she doubted she would complete her collection in time.

Chat reacted to the flower picks with jokes about who would receive which one. Kona closed by saying she would stream again at 20:00 the next day, with a game she had never played from a maker she already likes.