Bad Apple!! but it's on r/place (HIGH QUALITY, NO FLASHING/ALIASING)

This was generated by getting the snapshots of the canvas at perfect 39 second intervals directly from reddit, which was the framerate of the original animation on the canvas. This means it does not rely on Reddit's timelapse footage or recorded footage where the loading screen creates white flashes.
This was done using osuplace's templateManager, developed by LittleEndu, myself, and April, which is a script to create an overlay on the canvas for where users should place pixels. The animation of the frames that the template was supposed to be can be found at • v10 perfect audio
Original Animation: • [Alstroemeria Records]...
This version of the timelapse is meant to match the original template framerate. Therefore, it is 30fps. For a 4k60fps version, see • bad apple r/place 2023...
For a 4k60fps version with comparison videos, see • Bad Apple!! but in r/p...
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[@The4No]

Proof that proper collaboration is far better than botting

[@-_J_-]

Well said 🎉

[@hupteisso2292]

Tell that to canda

[@hueluca]

Germany is a way better proof for that lmao

[@greekswaglord-dathistoryla201]

Tbh, allot of the time the only way to defend ourselves is via boting. Greece and Cyprus wouldn't have survived countless 13 year old and tik tok streamer Turkish nationalist raids if it weren't.

[@bIowi]

Unlike Canada who stole our territory

[@phishb8]

never not gonna be funny watching canada fight for their fucking lives while an entire 3 and a half minute animation is executed near flawlessly right next to it

[@RayHosterMusic]

Honestly though! I clicked on this video to watch Bad Apple and wound up watching Canada the whole time, that was a wreck, feel bad for them :/

[@Doggoinbed]

F for Canada boys

[@otrotipoxd]

The prismivers thought

[@askylibrarianoftheoceans4102]

Hey, we got there in the end - you can even see it happen by the last part of the MV. And once that happened it stayed there for the rest of r/place. It's because of the Friendship Goose we gave Reimu. She protected us

[@emmaroseman3661]

I keep getting distracted by Canada and haven't managed to watch the full animation yet. That shits hilarious

[@myahjzxc9406]

I feel bad for Canada because everyone thinks they cant draw a goddamn leaf but what's actually happening is that they can but they keep getting targeted by trolls lmao

[@Kankokankokanko]

Canada to Banana to cannabis

[@grunklesam787]

If you look at an r/place heatmap, the leaf is incredibly bright.

[@thegeoinnitreator]

Those Germans-_-

[@Faolain]

As a friend told me earlier "I'm so glad Touhou fans have Touhou to be fans of god knows what they'd be capable of otherwise"

[@udontseemeiseeuuseemeiseeu]

what

[@jelly-cat-]

what

[@AxelHobo]

If you’re dedicated enough to play bad apple on anything you can be dedicated enough to be a terrorist

[@arandomguy9669]

​​@@jelly-cat-implying that their determination to be fan of something ( or a following ), would've been crazy if it weren't for something like tohou ( let's say a cult ).

[@razArolli]

Fr

[@virus2339]

The fact that they managed to animate it and it looks coherent enough to recognize each movement with only few pixels amidst all the war between each community is amazing.

[@_-LeChaos-_]

the fact that canada couldnt create a leaf while they made a fucking animation is amazingly stupid but yes a saw the animation when I was deleting few amongus thingies from the turkish flag

[@baguettefish]

​@@_-LeChaos-_ to be fait, there weren't many people trying do destroy bad apple (I think one streamer tried to raid it for 5 mins or so), while many were constantly removing the leaf or changing its shape... Not really Canada's fault

[@_-LeChaos-_]

@@baguettefish its not canada fault. It is banana fault XD

[@sossololpipi9633]

@@_-LeChaos-_they were able to make the leaf... but not in the flag!

[@mauer1]

​@@_-LeChaos-_well every troll would rather attack the Canada flag then attack bad apple when looking at this section

[@ollievalentine4239]

I love how osu, known for protecting its circle fiercely, let’s this cut into it. Mad respect

[@nncvbnGame]

OSU is a masterpiece, bad apple is a historical piece of the internet, what can you do about that ?

[@Skevzie]

If i'm not mistaken the Touhou and OSU! communities were teamed up

[@plungerknife]

@@Skevzieyeah i’m pretty sure they were allied

[@IceHeartAlpha]

the amount to versions of bad apple have is almost implied theres a lot of mix between them

[@FoxtleYouramore-ss7og]

For a while the circle was flipped lol

[@Yonyonmaymay]

Leaf? I was Leaf once. They put me in a room- a Leaf room. A Leaf room with leaves. And leaves make me Leaf.

[@mattmac1008]

My favorite detail is how they consistently made Marisa cry every time Canada overtook Reimu

[@zombii_cattlovesrui]

I thought i was the only one who noticed

[@cornstarch5920]

I made sure to look at that and yeah they made her cry every time lmao

[@mellow6268]

A small thing I love about this is that since obviously their coordination isn't gonna be 100% perfect, when there's a high amount of movement in the animation, all the loose pixels make it look like smear frames

[@Spencer_TheSpender]

Never thought of it like that but damn it makes me love it more

[@Megacooltommydee]

Or analog interference you used to get on old TVs when the signal was weak.

[@retroboi128thegamedev]

There was a short period of time where the template broke, and we had to wing it, I think it went pretty well.

[@Glowing0v3rlord]

​@@retroboi128thegamedevDo you know when in the animation that was? Because you guys did such a good job that I genuinely can't tell.

[@retroboi128thegamedev]

@@Glowing0v3rlord I believe it was around 0:42 a little after remilia went off screen, I believe the template was broken for only a few frames.

[@supernenechi]

"Botting is cringe" - 東方 Absolutely fucking right it is! Such an unforgettable thing you guys did.

[@ggchung727]

you mean the canada taking over reimu?

[@smily3750]

​@@ggchung727yes.

[@zadock6370]

that got me on the floor laughing

[@nicularstar]

​@@smily3750 Hopefully that was just trolls who wanted to paint a bad picture on Canada

[@JennyTheNerdBat]

My favorite part is how both messages weren't even part of the project - it's just an extra flex we improvized on the spot, lol (UPD: I stand corrected, only "bots are cringe" was improvized)

[@kylepangilinan9075]

I love the way at 2:05, you can see the streamer's failed attack on the animation getting quashed so quickly that you can't even make out what it was supposed to be

[@fishtail2616]

it just looks like reisen’s attack hit the flag and blew out a chunk. Kinda a cool effect

[@RealKnarli]

@@fishtail2616 no its the green pixels being placed on the animation

[@anthonytolar9899]

​@knurvtheenemycell just makes it look like that confirmed crit effect alot of animes do

[@Starz1317]

​@@anthonytolar9899even better, reisen's attack has a confirmed crit on Canada

[@theveryaveragegamer9865]

Was it fucking Asmondgold, I know he was a massive bully during r/place. I lost all respect for him after that

[@babydactyl]

it's so sick how they could immediately adapt to the new colors they added at 1:39, felt like perfect timing too for the ball of light w shading

[@mimisezlol]

It was a coordinated effort tbf; you can see that r/touhou signed it at the bottom, and I've been told a discord was the headquarters for the animation. My question is how they decided to add grey

[@aj_style1745]

@@mimisezlol There was a reply to another comment that said that grey was intended to be there from the beginning, but since it wasn’t available initially, it was replaced with black. When it became available, they probably just went back to the original plan.

[@ALLSTARrem]

The unholy amount of joy and respect that i have for you all managing to achieve doing this cannot be expressed

[@ABoyWhoLovesBalloon]

And yet, Canada still can't draw the leaf

[@spaghettiking7312]

Touhou truly remains the best. What everyone else tried to muster wasn't even close to us.

[@trxsboy]

bots

[@noeslucy]

​@@trxsboy3:40

[@Gaminating]

@@ABoyWhoLovesBallooneveryone attacks Canada, so not exactly on them.

[@zixea3318]

The fact that people started eventually placing GREY too just to make it even more detailed is amazing.

[@DIE-FRY]

The whole thing would have had different shades of grey in it if it wasn't for the starting color pallet.

[@meh3lp]

Grey was intended from the start, but it wasn't in the initial palette. We were placing black where there should have been grey instead.

[@jambon2730]

​@@DIE-FRYAnd this is why reimu's hair was purple at first

[@tinyturtle1898]

That was me :) I was just following the template, but there were "architects" in discord that went through every frame and made an updating overlay

[@Uniformtree000]

Only problem is that everyone started writing a big "fuck spez" in exorbitant detail so they canceled it in order to try and ruin it for everyone. Cause of course they did.

[@The4Tifier]

Tens of thousands of anonymous strangers who couldn’t even communicate with one another and could only animate one pixel at a time did this in 4 days… That’s honestly mind-blowing…

[@IBeforeAExceptAfterK]

There was communication though. A lot of the people involved were using a Discord channel to help coordinate.

[@asteruth7903]

2:08 they made a better leaf than canada lol

[@Zeroneii3]

Towards the end of the animation, they helped Canada on their flag you can see the difference

[@Zeroneii3]

around 3:15

[@43021]

Bad Apple is like Doom, People will always try to make it with anything.

[@aethericchannel4507]

Doom is like Bad Apple, People will always try to make it with anything.

[@IcomeInPeacetoo]

Then why isn't doom in the r/place?

[@oyudays]

@@IcomeInPeacetoo bad apple will be on anything that can display animations/slideshows doom will be on anything that can be programmed

[@Hijiri_MIRACHION]

And then there's Bad Apple.wad, a port of Bad Apple to DOOM. Because of course someone would think to merge the two at some point.

[@NaddleSchidaddle]

Can't wait to play Doom on Bad Apple and make Bad Apple on Doom

[@JBLZFTW]

The sheer contrast between the incredible coordination of bad apple next to the canadian flag attempting to make a leaf the entire time is hilarious

[@nicularstar]

They can't if everyone's always ruining it..

[@arctrix765]

@@nicularstarthe fact that, despite attackers, we could animate Bad Apple while they couldn’t draw a leaf, even with bots, speaks for itself

[@TheKing-kd9li]

@@arctrix765 don’t act like you were involved with bad apple dude, there were NEVER any major attacks on it while it was being animated while canada was constantly under attack because of the meme from 2022 place

[@flamingspinach]

@@TheKing-kd9li What was the meme?

[@TheKing-kd9li]

@@flamingspinach in 2022's place event canada was having trouble setting up their flag because there were 2 different groups trying to make it with conflicting designs, someone outside of their communities noticed and pointed it out, and from then on outsiders began to jump in to vandalize the flag through the rest of the event. In this year's place they had the same issue with conflicting designs, people noticed and were reminded of what happened last year, and the results you can see from this timelapse

[@bienaustria1014]

I love how every time Canada consumes Reimu, Marisa gets sad and cries and Seiga joined in too on the last half of the song.

[@IBeforeAExceptAfterK]

That's Wakasagihime, not Seiga

[@Dustpiece73]

That's Nitori 🤨

[@Nsquare_01]

​@@IBeforeAExceptAfterKPretty sure Wakasagihime was not in the bad apple animation.

[@IBeforeAExceptAfterK]

@@Nsquare_01 She's in the pixel art above it, next to Marisa.

[@Nsquare_01]

@@IBeforeAExceptAfterK Oh, my dumbass thought we were talking about a part in the animation 💀

[@artiomboyko]

I love how on 0:57 the smile is visible, when in reality it shouldn't be if you just pixelate the video. It shows how nice things can look even if pixelated, when each frame is actually redrawn by real people. That's just amazing.

[@_Mikarific_]

I'm not kidding when I say this. Before the event even started, every single frame of the video in the template we were following was pixelated using a pixelation AI that Endu himself created, and then each individual frame was checked and corrected by an actual human. Endu really wanted every frame in the template to be the best possible frame it could be. Insane.

[@artiomboyko]

@@_Mikarific_ I also noticed how at some point you started using grey pixels after trying to only deal with black and white for some time

[@_Mikarific_]

@@artiomboyko Yep! Our template assumed the full grayscale range of the palette from last year's event, but this year only started with black and white and later expanded to give us more gray options. We were very lucky to get the gray RIGHT before the most highly dithered section of the template.

[@ODISeth]

The effect at 2:05 of the white laser escaping the window was actually pretty sick

[@shinoku250_gaming]

Best part is that we didn't plan it, just went ahead and did it lmao

[@kaiguytv5276]

reisen shoots canada, which ultimately confuses canada even more and hinders their ability EVEN FURTHER to make a maple leaf.

[@puppies3330]

causing the Germans to form

[@agentw.3413]

​​@@kaiguytv5276According to a few rumors, they wanted to blackmail Canada for destroying Reimu by drawing a maple leaf red in the animation, but they eventually came to an agreement to not do it

[@zenochara7522]

Poor canada

[@iwillslapyou4982]

you can tell that one of the main difficulties were the quick switches between black and white due to the amount of pixels that had to be placed at the same time

[@Hyprst]

the ying yang swirl at the end was so hard they had to get help from other communities to build it because of the sheer number of pixels being changed

[@iwillslapyou4982]

@@Hyprst Yeah since not only is that the entire thing changing but it's changing constantly for quite a while

[@JennyTheNerdBat]

You can also see the animation quality turning better and crisper over time - due to other people jumping in on the project, as well as everyone getting better at coordinating :)

[@LuneWatcher]

There was a lot of "holding your pixels" for moments like that, so the sudden transitions would look a bit more smooth

[@Monody512]

It's funny how coincidentally similar it looked to heavy video compression.

[@PhoenixHunter_]

I was genuinely amazed by this. I know people will animate Bad Apple on anything, but animating it on a constantly sabotaged canvas where you can only change something on your own every 5 minutes takes a lot of teamwork and dedication. It was especially cool to see the animation get smoother towards the end (especially at the ying yang swirl) as more communities pitched in to help.

[@TheHibiscus]

2:07 The perfect leaves are so funny when you look at Canada fighting for their lives trying to make a decent maple leaf

[@alias6676]

i have almost lost hope that high quality version featuring the end credits will ever happen. I am so thankful

[@mazi3040]

Such epic project. I also find hilarious the struggles Canada had with their flag.

[@borntoclimb7116]

Same

[@SunIsLost]

Yea

[@SunIsLost]

@@mazi3040 yes

[@SignalRaptor_]

​​@@mazi3040you mean the struggles the canadians had with the Germans and banana enthusiasts regarding their flag

[@Cahrssomething]

I feel so bad for canada lmao, an entire 3 minute animation was executed right next to them while they had to deal with thousands of people thinking that a joke that got old OVER A YEAR ago was funny

[@lore3058]

they expanded their flag and deleted Reimu, deserved tbh

[@korkukokusu8311]

Its funny

[@schawangus]

Nah, it’s still funny. Besides, bullying Canada is just as funny so it’s a win-win.

[@DanDaFreakinMan]

It's not about being funny. It just has to be done. Bad Apple shall exist in every mediums possible!

[@jackdobbie7236]

the jokes still funny, plus fuck canada

[@number1granolahfan889]

1:55 I just love the fact that frog detective just appears on the Canada flag for a second and then just disappears, gone with the wind

[@overheaven8684]

Canada constantly getting raided was funny but miku constantly getting a nose then getting it taken away is also hilarious

[@HazySkies]

The gunshot blast at 2:05 was so much more epic with it extending even further than expected. Badass!

[@backerson5576]

from what i had read, apparently that blast was extended not by people who worked on this bad apple project, but by some other people, all at the same time. it's insane.

[@iwillslapyou4982]

@@backerson5576 People see a line extending and want to extend it further

[@mthia]

@@backerson5576 i was in osu! logo builder stage at that time and they were mentioning that we can extend the line

[@backerson5576]

@@iwillslapyou4982 that too, but was talking about the coordination of other people that weren't really involved with the project timing it just right

[@vasxus]

@@backerson5576 we got a little.. overeager after the reimassacare that canada had done.

[@melodicholy]

This animation took so much time, dedication and manpower to complete, I still can't believe it's finished. This project started as a joint project with mainly r/Touhou, r/Hatsune and osu!place and by the end of it almost the entire canvas helped. Words cannot express how much gratitude I have for all the communities in not tampering with such a fragile project and instead actually helping us- ESPECIALLY that bonkers spin at the end. Each frame lasted 49 seconds in real-time. This was a 24/7 job, without a moment to spare and very little breaks to make sure the animation was on time with the overlay. People were staying up late, keeping track on graphs and user count to ensure that this worked smoothly. Sometimes there would be a raid or attack on one of our allies, and we would bungee-chord back and forth between defense and bad apple, sometimes at the same time. It was no easy task, and no matter what you might believe, there were no bots involved in this, just a lot of dedication from THOUSANDS of people. Thank you to all our allies, the people respecting our work and to all the countless communities that decided to help. This would not have been possible without any of you, and only through this collaborated effort were we able to accomplish this. Thanks to the people over on osuplace discord and to the awesome organizers for keeping track of the animation, morale up and making sure everyone was still taking care of themselves through this arduous journey. Thanks verified-chat for the memes, spam and unforgettable camaraderie that we forged during this. I will never forget staying up late to place pickles every five minutes and just how crazy this all was. As osu puts it every time: see you next time. o7 everyone, OORAH

[@OverseerXIII]

This was done with 24 fps right? Or 30?

[@OrigamiAhsoka]

o7

[@arandomguy9669]

You mean y'all painted a frame in 49 seconds? damn, that's peak human co operation

[@simply5cents]

Fuckin hell, that is *mad* dedication o7, lads.

[@FishyFishFish1923]

Canada just trying to make the leaf:

[@fieryr]

3:04 the fact that when Reimu gets cancelled from the Canadian flag Marisa starts crying

[@narpwa]

I hadn't seen lmaoo

[@qingxinn_]

why is no one talking about how the touhou characters cried in the end ?? that was so sweet

[@oxicleanlaundrystainremove1370]

Can we talk about how they were able to animate the entire Bad Apple video frame by frame but Canada couldn't draw a leaf

[@YokiDokiPanic]

I'm glad the bad apple space was so close to canada's so everyone was too distracted fucking with them instead of us, lmao!

[@whatisthishelpplz]

​@@YokiDokiPanicfrfr

[@LordDomielOfElysium]

Because we kept getting attacked because people thought it was funny 🙄🖕🏻

[@oxicleanlaundrystainremove1370]

@@LordDomielOfElysium i also participated in r/place and yeah, trolls are a pain in the ass

[@Cacrow20]

Also doesn’t help the Germans decided “yea lemme get a bite of this shit”

[@mystryvexyll]

3:02 is the highlight for me how people were able to get the movement for the splashes and the petals so well. This might be my favourite bad apple rendition so far just by the sheer amount of planning this must have taken. Mad respect for the touhou fans

[@osuplace]

That's the AI pixelation coming in clutch. No traditional downscaling algorithm managed to keep the petals intact.

[@TheFreakyFish251]

Yeah I remember hearing in the VC that someone ran the whole animation through a downscaler to get a baseline and then manually went through to tweak every frame over the course of like a day or something crazy like that

[@MisterSleep1123]

​@@TheFreakyFish251Every frame stayed in place for 39 seconds

[@FishyFrog]

well is made by ai

[@tkumeii02]

​@@FishyFrognope

[@Xeconis]

It's so wholesome that people from all across r/place that were on at the time, from so many different factions, dropped what they were doing and rushed to help the Bad Apple team pull off the last 10 seconds of the animation, the most taxing part of the entire thing due to the sheer manpower required to recolor so many pixels in such a short amount of time. You had to be there in the controlled chaos to truly appreciate the madness, and I'm glad to say that I was there. I helped. I was a part of this work of art even if only briefly (the last 10 seconds still took like 2 or 3 hours in real time LMAO)

[@ooshtoosht1695]

Alternate title: Marissa goes through the 5 stages of grief as canadians brutally murder her best friend Reimu (repeatedly).

[@yarharhar]

The fact the fandom was doing this and fighting Canadian bots to try and keep Reimu alive and actually managed to succeed with both objectives at the end it legendary

[@SirLanze-yy1iu]

while also defending osu which a common target but thankfully it wasn't a lot of griefing

[@HarunaKaiNi]

@@SirLanze-yy1iu yeah the raiders were too busy annihilating gg.sumeru's genshin artwork lol

[@Amelie12]

@@SirLanze-yy1iu ÖSÜ hehe

[@anonyx2488]

I need to clarify to you that the sudden expansion at 1:22 is done by the Morocco bots, NOT canadian bots. the repeated pasting in of the larger flag from 1:22 until the smaller beaver flag is ALL done by Morocco bots trying to frame us and we in the server were furious about it because they overran our allies. you can see even when we started to add in the beaver they pasted over us one more time before finally leaving us alone.

[@ojie285]

​@@anonyx2488did you ever contact the touhou community after that incident to clarify you were botted?

[@soulz0387]

I love that canada actually had a decent flag near the end.

[@kiudare]

yet unfortunately, it was botted xd

[@LuneWatcher]

​@@kiudarehonestly when it was just used to defend the leaf, I didn't mind. Canada gets shit on so much for funnies that it seems fair enough.

[@LexisMichelle]

character development fr

[@soulz0387]

@@kiudare worth it to defend the leaf.

[@fernorlyak]

Touhou: playing animation Hatsune and Komi - standing strong and quietly Osu - inso? Canada - ....

[@lorojose1950]

inso was a Brazilian streamer who was turning some drawings upside down. Causo wanted to know his name and Felps

[@SuspiciousTemmie]

I am scared of the Touhou community, if they can do this I can't even begin to imagine the other things they could do if they all came together and truly put their minds to it

[@Dustpiece73]

Well Touhou community made their own animated anime, animated mv , high-quality fangame, popular plushies (fumo) and now Touhou 19 just officially out , could be more than that after this.... But chill it just an average day of Touhou community for that thing

[@bfdioldie]

somehow, drawing a maple leaf is harder than animating bad apple

[@nicularstar]

Drawing a maple leaf is so much harder if tons of people are trying to ruin it as well

[@Canadasit17]

​@@nicularstar yea, there wouldn't be much of an animation if Bad Apple was targeted like the Canadian flag was lol

[@dabasil]

They literally animate a maple leaf at 2:05

[@Fanbter]

@@dabasilwoah i can't believe it maybe it's cause nobody is touching their animation and is focusing on ruining canada's flag 😱

[@DMZZ_DZDM]

Tbf, the Canadian flag was banana'd and germanied so much its kinda funny, not to mention they shot it

[@CDara.]

2:43 the small character dancing to the music on the left killed me 😂😂

[@Calcetinuxia]

Cambio cambio cambio

[@Plotpurotto]

It was like he was waving and supporting bad apple. I find that kind of wholesome.

[@baranjan6969]

I thought he was trying to escape r/place lol

[@Xtrextclips]

@@Calcetinuxia CAMBIOOO CAMBIOOO CAMBIOOO

[@TheColorOrang]

Meanwhile, canada fails to draw a maple leaf on their own flag.

[@OwainCynanRoberts]

I ain’t a Touhou person, but watching the process and execution and managing to perform it frame-by-frame just goes to show how far people commit to something. Bravo to all involved. 👏👏

[@kaorukomoeta3446]

2:05 I was there when Bad Apple almost got griefed by a streamer all because we were trying to remove their artwork over the Foxhole art. And even though, that streamer has around 3,000 viewers, we still manage to pull it off.

[@heuuughv1139]

Even though I’m not in the touhou community, I love everyone’s dedication to a bit of an animation multiple years old. Good on you guys

[@joao34386]

The fact that Canada's developments sync up pretty nicely with the music is quite a cool detail.

[@Maaseruu]

yea canada's leaf finally stays consistent near the bad apple climax. and both community cried after it's over, it's magnificent

[@teamok1025]

Ye

[@scratch-agunner]

1:35 almost every time the alarm soundin noise goes off it changes

[@bellermVA]

@@scratch-agunner oh my god.

[@TheHuTao.]

I like how canada just accepted Reimu being there on the right of their flag

[@Pluvillion]

Reisen shooting her laser through Canada and then proceeds to animate *_four rotating leaves_* while Canada is still struggling to draw their own is poetry. I’m glad to be part of history.

[@Goofy-ah_channel]

Canada finally healed and had it's animals to celebrate. 3:18

[@la1m1e]

Did they learn the whole r/place attack pattern so they can instantly counter any extra pizels

[@vasxus]

look at momiji. the patterns were learned.

[@DerpyNub]

I was always scared that 1 dumb streamer coordinatimg an entire and the animation would’ve been ruined but fortunately it turned out to be so good

[@palettemedley5676]

There was a really close call at 2:07 and from what I heard, it was just bc some guy didn’t want his cat pixel art to be overtaken so the dude tried sabotaging bad apple and threatening to ruin it lol

[@Xeconis]

@@palettemedley5676 He would've instantly become public enemy number one despite all the crap that particular russian streamer did the whole event

[@la1m1e]

@@Xeconis i like how attacking genshin is like attacking everyone. No. He only did attack genshin and all other wars (with rubius and Mexico) were ended with negotiations

[@MiguelRiverro]

im suprised that it still had a proper pacing when also put in with music

[@EddyConejo]

They were placing pixels every 40 seconds as far as I know, so the animation is smooth. You just have to adjust it to the beginning and the end of the song and it will fit perfectly. Magnificent work, honestly.

[@cay7809]

timelapse

[@curiouscommand5916]

@@cay7809 Even with a timelapse, each frame needed to be created at a consistent rate, otherwise you would need to speed up or slow down the video to match the pacing. They had an overlay template that updated in real time and for fast scenes like the yin and yang at the end, they had to maintain the proper placement otherwise it would be a blurry mess. (Like how sometimes there was a left over trail of pixels that didn't get updated to black or white on time). The fact that this wasn't raided heavily like the OSU logo itself was also extremely lucky.

[@markpaulpangan7618]

compared to genshin, osu is pretty chill, genshin got targeted more than 20 times, one attack lasted over 30 mins

[@LuneWatcher]

​@@markpaulpangan7618And I was part of building both, the contrast was wild. For bad apple, I'd wake up and at worst it was oh no Reimu got taken over by the rogue canadians again. For genshin, there would be 50+ messages in the announcements channel and it turns out that one streamer attacked us 6 times in 6 hours, again. And we'd spend half an hour fixing only to be attacked again.

[@kukukachu]

The finger shot going into the Canadian flag was a really nice touch. Also the Tohou character continually being brought back in Canada's flag is hilarious.

[@minnienish]

love the detail of reimu's hair starting purple like in the pc-98 era and turning brown

[@YuriEnthusiast]

2:05 Easily the best part of this creation. Canada taking that shot and then immediately gets flexed on cause touhou created 4 different leaves in a short amount of time

[@TUR0NN3]

Canada got emoted by bad apple

[@nicularstar]

Canada was getting bombarded by tons of people placing random pixels, of course they couldn't make a leaf properly until everyone diverted their attention

[@jacobmartin7434]

I didnt even noticed the shot before!

[@yuuotosaka2834]

Banana!!

[@qzzqz4963]

u do realize they were unable to create them coz lot of people were breaking them ? not coz its hard to do or anything, u are enjoying this animation coz no one tried to break it like previous ones that got bombarded, this was 3rd attempt at different spot

[@DechCJC]

Thank God, I no longer need to make the decision between having a seizure and watching this masterpiece.

[@damir_van_kalaz]

@@darcipeeps Because they managed to record r/place loading on multiple occasions, it shows a white screen with the r/place logo before it shows you the canvas, so whoever recorded it before just didn't bother to edit that out each time they captured footage of bad apple's progress, resulting in rapid flashing when you string all the recordings together.

[@wolfy-woo]

It was horrendous, now I can actually send this phenomenon to people in good faith

[@madingthree]

An entire year has passed and the Canadians still do not know how to draw the leaf on their flag

[@DeltaPie]

Did anyone else see Bad Apple being animated off to the side??? That's insane!

[@Audrican]

I remember first opening this r/place ang going directly to my little pony section, looking a bit sideways and seeing an utterly random frame (was about 0:24), my first reaction was "hm, interesting they chose that frame to honor Bad Apple, it's recognizable enough", just to get a sudden realization of the insanity you guys decided to put yourself into.

[@chickensandunicorns3089]

I was working on a couple of the designs close to bad apple, and I kept looking at it each time I came onto place and going "nope, still can't work out what it is." And then after place was complete, I found this video and was actually shocked 😭😭

[@kazvvtto]

3:18 This is a rare moment in the history of r/place! Canada finally managed to make the leaf (to be destroyed soon after)

[@optimusfan1007]

Not really destroyed ,tho. They were being attacked sure, but if you look at a timelapse you will notice that after that they managed to stick it out until the end of this years r/place.

[@rzw__.]

I love that part where a laser shoots through canada and makes a perfect maple leaf while canada is yet STILL STRUGGLING TO MAKE THEIR FLAG- and they finish it by the end of the song

[@cornstarch5920]

I like how at the end they start putting “Botting is cringe” to show how much effort each person took to work on this even if they were getting attacked because they quickly fixed it

[@user-ut6qk9iz8k]

This r/place segment: peacefully cleaning arts from random dots Canada flag: *current objective: survive*

[@someguest101]

my ass spent so much time on this, its finally joever... thank you everybody who helped us along this wild ride.

[@FungsteRRR]

SIR YES SIR OORAH

[@2eyedZnake]

It’s barrack…

[@sidonthetroll2868]

Its not Junkover till its finally over

[@cornifer511]

SIR YES SIR OORAH

[@yani9726]

It’s touhouver…

[@Yonyonmaymay]

Canada CAN draw a leaf 😤

[@Reizaroth]

Being part of this was an honor and also the only reason why I even joined this year's r/place. It was such an amazing experience seeing the Touhou community and our many allies work together to create this masterpiece. I'm glad that I was able to place my pixels and contribute to the animation, because honestly, I've never been happier to be part of a community, I mean it. Respects to everyone who participated.

[@Mady0]

2:05 I love how it continues off the frame into Canada.

[@sazanwe]

Because Canada placed it's flag on Reimu

[@Chicken4War]

@@sazanweas a Canadian I apologize to Reimu

[@nicularstar]

​@@sazanwe as a Non-Canadian i think it's trolls

[@MZZE-my7hz]

It's insane to me just how quickly you all got your act together with it. You started animating bad apple while most places had like 12 pixels lol. And the way the shit breaks out the frame at 2:06 is just glorious.

[@the-protogen-of-the-sky]

The shit

[@masonboone4307]

It looks like a gun shooting kinda

[@alex33344]

@@masonboone4307 thats cause it is a gun shooting

[@ISELLSALT]

@@alex33344 except it isnt, it is Reisen using her finger to fire off a bullet

[@alex33344]

@@ISELLSALT yeah, a finger gun!

[@IceHeartAlpha]

r/place being where people try to claim their space for whatever community they want , with how sucessfull it was as the last frame yet, bad apple enjoyed the journey, not the destination and still completed ! amazing

[@GLUBSCHI]

Last year i spent about 5 hours of my day working on the minecraft loading screen animation and i'm awestruck at how coordinated this is in comparison

[@AkaObbies]

i put like 150 pixels total onto this and damn it turned out amazing

[@mthia]

i was there for like 10 hours in a row, i went to sleep at 9am :D

[@Zidakuh]

I am honered to be a part of this massive project! Thank you all for all the hard work! o7 At this point, the only thing that would make it 100 times more epic is if we had all the people who helped create this singing Bad Apple in unison, kinda like how the FF:XIV community did for "Close in the Distance". Just imagine a 3000+ people choir. EDIT: I'd be happy to organize, arrange and mix a project like that if it ever comes up.

[@sazanwe]

One time I joined voicechat in discord (where people coordinated), there was almost a third of people singing bad apple, lol

[@ninjakivi2]

From hour 1 when recognized the few pixels to be bad apple I helped building the project, it was nice being part of it! Salute to all who helped, it has been a ride o7

[@definitelynotcris]

we had a karaoke night when it was over, it was a wreck lmao. Over 200 people singing bad apple, overdrive, cirno's perfect math class etc went excactly how you'd expect. 10/10

[@Zidakuh]

@@sazanwe I never got around to join the VC in the Touhou server, I mostly followed along from the osu! server (also: "Sir yes Sir! OORAH!"). But I can imagine that people where constantly singing Bad Apple.

[@Zidakuh]

@@ninjakivi2 It has been a pleasure to work together you! o7

[@esther24_]

I love how marisa's tie slowly turned into cat ears

[@LondenTower]

I love the way the animation looks. Almost as if it's been heavily compressed, but in a good way (A good example is when there's a lot of movement going on. A good comparison is Bad Apple on a DOS demo called 8088 domination.) 0:58 OML! A few people even managed to make that smirk on that character, hats off to whoever did that 2:06 Damn! that finger gunshot was so powerful, it left the frame!

[@flednanders7630]

Not gonna lie, I'm not sure which required more patience / dedication. The Bad Apple Square or the Canadian flag.

[@ShadowEclipse777]

Due to the sheer amount of greifing the Canadian flag had to deal with in terms of just the deployment on r/place they had more. In terms of the prep-work and planning things out definitely Bad Apple

[@sazo1st]

2:05 huh I wonder where that shot landed

[@philipdowdell3429]

it shot a bit further to the left but fizzled out when it was about to hit madoka

[@darkfir3.]

It hit the border of madoka

[@Fanbter]

pretty sure it vanished when it went near madoka

[@Glatier]

it sorta ricocheted off Madoka

[@MacNZ-_-]

Bad apple: _chilling_ Canada: *"Guys, please make it stop already... It's been decades of making this goddamn leaf!!"*

[@nyaive]

canada loosing to reimu is the funniest thing in this whole thing. also osu just turning upside down at one point for no apparent reason

[@Stuugie.]

Finally, I thought for a bit that nobody did a full high quality zoomed in recording of this. It looks fantastic, definitely the coolest project to come out of r/place

[@arctrix765]

He probably recorded it in the canvas afterwards, because now you can go to any time you want in the canvas and watch what was there

[@jettheyoshi4784]

r/mlp faction member here. You guys are NUTS for pulling this off. Congrats to you lot for managing this without any interupptions!

[@nathanael9159]

GIGACHAD That's why.

[@vasxus]

@@nathanael9159 xQc was always a huge concern, and every time someone mentioned osu in his stream chat we had to spam other places. ElZein tried to take over us and we were outnumbered 30-1, but dedicated.

[@Nsquare_01]

Yeah, I heard that EIZein fortunately saw the animation and thought it was cool so he stopped the attack

[@probablynotleo4340]

All this is happening while Canada is failing to draw a leaf.

[@Meca-Mat]

I love how the Touhou characters cry at the end of the animation.

[@anzorunono4967]

Front row tickets to Canada suffering

[@xofox_studio]

My genuine reaction is as the same as everyone else, cried after the Bad Apple animation ended 3:33

[@-inFinity05-]

As a Canadian, when Canada and the anime girl reach perfect balance it almost brought a tear to my eye.

[@o5-1-formerlycalvinlucien60]

This is hilarious watching the entirety of bad apple be animated while Canada struggles to not become banana

[@rejkun3267]

how she fired through canada at 2:05, and also is funny how canada was strugglin to make an maple leaf while they made it perfectly while moving in the clip

[@aprilnya]

Even bad apple fucking with canada 😭

[@MidnightCapricorn2696]

@@aprilnya To be fair, canada was also removing reimu

[@Nsquare_01]

​​​@@aprilnyatw it's actually not the real canada, it was confirmed to be bots, the real Canada moved somewhere else at this point of the animation. The real one came back later on

[@anonyx2488]

​@@Nsquare_01 is correct; they were the same bots as the 1337 morroco bots who would paste in the design repeatedly. during the entire time they were doing that, we (PlaceCanada) had moved elsewhere on the map, but eventually had to return.

[@apuppetandacookie8200]

​@@MidnightCapricorn2696yeah, while I usually root for Canada (I'm not Canadian) they kinda deserved what happened to them after basically declaring a war against the touhou community and their allies (hatsume and OSU) At least Canada was able to make an alliance with them and finally made a consistent leaf.

[@ArianesDrawingPH]

Respect to these 2 communities who recreated this kind of masterpiece. And, *Botting is Cringe*

[@shako4907]

3, r/hatsune also helped out a lot

[@sazanwe]

And to a lot of randoms and other communities who helped

[@Lucianox39]

4. Genshin impact

[@Nsquare_01]

There are a lot of communities helped btw, not just 2. And we're thankful for them

[@TheFreakyFish251]

Touhou, osu!, Hatsune, Foxhole, Genshin, I think some of Neurosama all chipped in

[@the_fish909]

at 2:06, its pretty cool to see how much impact that bullet had, its cool how it went through the screen

[@uncledoggo]

I love that it blasted through Canada at 2:05

[@guardian596]

That was so cleaaan

[@King0fHero]

how the f*** did you do this frame by frame? communities of big subreddits and/or streamers used template overlays to organise themselves, but how do you do that with every other minute changing to the next frame? my mind is officially blown 🤯 I have so much respect for you guys 🫡 us from the relatively small r/TheLastAirbender community even struggled with small static pieces

[@Kairi-ou]

Hello from one of the participating communities! (Gg.sumeru) The answer to your question is that there was a template that changed frames every couple of minutes, (like a really slow gif) so long as it was working, we could follow along. They also streamed the entire discord VC, with the predicted amount of people per frame, and mods directing the timing, so that they knew when they needed help for a big change. There was a website and everything to coordinate! Honestly was in awe at the level of planning it took.

[@King0fHero]

@@gnouc20 that is so cool to hear I loved to hear, see and witness all kinds of collaborations and alliances this year - from small to extremely bug ones like r/placeDE and many others supporting Papaplatte against xQc

[@baranjan6969]

We also had bunch of people help with griefer pixels purely out of respect I think?

[@LuneWatcher]

I remember one call to action was something like "Our stuff can wait because it's a static image, Bad Apple _has_ to look good in the timelapse so go help them" And in the end, the attack wasn't even noticeable. We couldn't have done it without everyone helping.

[@nairdamatic2576]

@@Kairi-ou correction: the frames changed every 39 seconds

[@Brownyan]

honestly, the moment it finished, r/place lost all interest from me. this was amazing to witness, but once it was over, i saw little point to watch the canvas anymore. i did help with the jibanyan art a few times, but it just didnt feel the same not being able to see the progress on bad apple. but... i just cant help but smile when i see the finished product. it's one thing to make a image, but it's a whole other... i cant even come up with a word. they made a whole entire animation. a animation on a canvas where only one pixel can be placed by a person every 5 minutes. it's honestly just amazing, that they did this. i could go on and on, but im probably already rambling. ill just say that my respect for the touhou community has gone up a ton. and a little to everyone else for not interfering once. I... already said this before, i simply copy and pasted it from another video. I just wanted to express my thoughts again. And also, HOLY SHIT THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS ITS SO NICE TO HAVE A HIGH QUALITY VERSION

[@chrisruss_]

i lile that when this came to a close canada finally got the hang of drawing a leaf

[@erin1569]

What's more entertaining than Bad apple, is seeing Canada struggling to make the leaf

[@princkleminckle1159]

the fact r/osuplace helped out (from what I heard) proves that they're a true homie

[@unaverageavocado159]

I believe r/hatsune also placed a really large role

[@fifkun_]

I’m glad that Canada’s beaver is in every Bad Apple timelapse. Huge respect from Poland!

[@BlazeBrawn]

It's funny how you can see bad apple being made and Canada struggling to make their leaf

[@MaryMeKo]

Through all this we can see Canada struggling to keep its maple leaf

[@dark-death6982]

What I love about this is that people knew what was happening as soon as they saw this so mostly everyone left it alone to play until the end, and only then did the space get taken after the anim was done

[@arctrix765]

Wdym with „got taken“

[@agentw.3413]

The Japanese kanji were part of it. It says "Touhou"

[@helpme9746]

I think at some point afterwards it got taken up

[@ooshtoosht1695]

It got wiped over on the last day

[@osuplace]

@@ooshtoosht1695 yeah, but everything got wiped over on the last day. The 東方 text was there until the end, it got deleted by the E of fck spez

[@ResinUdongeInaba]

It’s beautiful. Easily one of the best things to happen at r/place 2023.

[@1unar_eclipse]

The only good thing to come from this year's Place

[@winxwest2964]

Nah, it’s one of the best things to happen in r/place across all the years.

[@Michael37476]

Bad apple is the most 2000s thing ever and can’t escape it

[@potatolad-mn6vl]

I like how Canada is having a fucking sezure right next to it