Someone Turned Linktree Into a Cherry Blossom Tree—and It Needs Regular Pruning

Zara Zhang posted on X: What if your Linktree were a real tree? In the video, the trunk of the cherry-blossom bonsai twists, pink petals fall, and blog, Instagram, YouTube, Substack, GitHub, and X addresses hang beside the branches.

This visual has a source. The original post came from Majid Manzarpour, who used Claude Opus 5 plus Three.js to generate a cherry-blossom bonsai—entirely code, with no external model files. The demo is at sakurabonsai.netlify.app; the page reads “富士桜 床の間” and requires a browser that supports WebGL2.

One comment was quite accurate: each branch was originally a link, and pruning is editing. The bonsai version is even more ruthless: it deliberately stays small, and the effort is all in what you cut away; what you add is secondary.

For pages like link in bio, anyone who has done paid media for years should know: after users click through, they mostly scatter. Marius du Preez wrote that link pages have always been a graveyard for clicks; a tree that makes people want to reach out and poke it may not improve conversion, but at least it can make bouncing happen half a beat slower.

Others aren't convinced. Jack Vinijtrongjit said it looks fine from afar, but up close there are still too many unnatural details, so he might as well treat it as a new benchmark. Harikanth Lingutla said he had thought about something similar in 2025, called Linkbonsai, where the tree grows as social accounts grow.

The technical side is more interesting than the visuals. Someone asked whether Majid's prompt was based on an L-systems approach; he didn't answer directly, only saying he planned to turn it into a tree generator and open-source it. Another person, chris rogers, mentioned using Claude to generate interior scenes in Blender at half the cost of a certain model and faster; however, he added that he hadn't done a rigorous comparison. Majid also posted his own harness: threejs-game-skills, ready to run a full game loop.

Taken together, the appeal of this post isn't just that “AI generated another pretty image.” Link pages are among the least designed pages on the internet; everyone assumes they just look that way. Now someone has used a piece of code to turn one into a gardening project that needs tending, and in passing changed the verb for “editing your personal homepage.”

If it were actually made into a product, there would be plenty of headaches. WebGL2 on mobile brings heat, low-end devices struggle with frame rates, screen readers need to know how to read a tree aloud, and search engines need to crawl links on branches. No matter how pretty the cherry blossoms are, they can't save a list of links nobody clicks.