What Is r/Place?

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[@hololiveenjoyer5655]

Not only people were building pixel arts to represent their communities. Alliances were also formed between communities to help each other whenever one gets nuked.

[@chancewells4083]

Yeah, I heard Osu tried to defend r/dtg lol

[@panzerbumbum469]

Yea lmao the Turks helped Americans and Dutch and later on they helped the Turks that was great

[@Superbl0bby]

I remember the community that I was in (r/neoliberal and r/noncredibledefense) allied with our neighbors from r/furry_irl, r/Romania, and r/CLTV It was such a weird coalition, but we fought together against twitch streamers and tankies alike

[@ligmaligma205]

R/jojo and jerma was invaded by 4 streamers lmao its a miracle we managed to stay alive

[@Jason_Ultimate]

@@chancewells4083 Osu also helped the Hololive community when xQc tried to invade. With the two communities joined, xQc was actually unable to take over and had to go elsewhere.

[@globe0147]

To clarify, because LIMC didn’t quite make it clear, Reddit regularly has April fools events like this every year since 2013, however r/place in 2017 was the most memorable due to its unique concept and experience. For years afterwards a joke was made within the Reddit community after ever April fools event “place was better.” Many didn’t think it would come back but it did in April fools 2022. The event is now over, what happens next? We don’t know. But we can only pray that they bring it back again in 5 years.

[@SlashProducts]

I sadly only found out about this r/place after it was gone due to being busy. But I loved the original r/place so glad to see they brought it back. Hope I dont have to wait 5 years tho

[@lordecircojeca2039]

The Button was also a very memorable Reddit April fools

[@louisfrey1197]

So it's basically URF?

[@Fat_Rucker]

Really the only reason theyre bringing back the canvas is because Reddit is going public, which mean they need as many advertisement as they can. mods breaking the rule, no restriction on bot account, and censorship on things thats not ad friendly etc etc make it obvious enough.

[@_daleko]

Last year's April fool's thing was kinda weak, it was something called Second and I don't even remember what it was about

[@PozerPie]

The fact that there's an amongus everywhere you look in r/place proves that the silly little crewmate has evolved into a cultural phenomenon

[@cryofreezie3943]

The tomfoolerous little fella

[@runic3063]

They made a mango out of amogos. Mamongus

[@MiyamotoMusashi21]

@@runic3063 It was supposed to be a lemon. A little insider by the community of the turkish Twitch streamer Elraenn.

[@thegk-verse4216]

It's here to stay

[@Sephvf]

God when among us infiltrated rhe starwars poster and was eventually made of nothing but among us...

[@brendanbernales7458]

Canada Struggling to make a Leaf while the other surrounding countries mock them by making a better leaf is a Power Move...

[@SUSsykage]

didn't the whole flag turn into "Banada" at one point? ... that was some funny shit.

[@saintstein3632]

@@SUSsykage From Maple leaf to an abomination to a leaf nearly turned into a marijuana then turned into a banana flag lmao

[@brendanbernales7458]

@@SUSsykage yep saw that too lol

[@Dian_Borisov_SW]

The germans made a perfect leaf in the colors of their own flag right below the Canada flag, its like saying "We can draw your national symbol better than you can, and we did it"

[@Yindonessy]

@@SUSsykage it turned into a Banana too at somecpoint

[@ElwindMage]

I always found it poetic how for the majority of the time, most groups competed against each other for space and dominance, but when the eldritch dark spots starts to consume the canvas, only the combined cooperation of different communities could defeat it

[@doom4232]

And then the said communities join up with the Void either way to fight against the streamers instead. So good

[@RTU130]

Yer

[@manitobant6738]

@Товарищ Иван 🇺🇦🇺🇦SLAVA UKRAINI🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@TheThursty100]

When the void king emerged after second expansion he showed his power and ruled with an iron first and it was glorious All hail the void king

[@brinettevalorie4554]

True, they were a terrifying force and being present at the time, was more than glorious to see.

[@galvatron1585]

I'm glad to see this art getting attention,and the fact that placing some pixels is fun a lot,make the meme even better

[@thenoru.4435]

its not art when a big figure distributes a plugin and everyone just bots the design

[@Thfoxpz]

@@thenoru.4435 everyone, meaning the french streamers and the osu community

[@thegreendoge]

Let's hope it isn't sold as an nftts

[@Shimanas527]

@@thegreendoge they cant because almost if not all things are made from other things, so many games, books, movies, series, people, countries they all exist and are owned by something

[@waasar]

@@thenoru.4435 More complex designs simply require a higher level of co-operation and integration than e.g. a small subreddit logo

[@insertedgynamehere]

My favorite part of it was watching how the elden ring and hollow knight community interact. First two art pieces next to each other, then ranni and the knight standing together in a group of other smaller communities. And the radiance erdtree. It was beautiful

[@savvythedivineyethuggable7493]

I personally liked the Hollow Knight, Ori, Rain World, and Elden Ring communities interacting with one another. I also saw a Rain World lizard enemy thing crawling on a logo; it looked cool.

[@dodongo7819]

The elden Radiantce was really cool but it was too really funny. cause sometimes a guy just put tow pixel on is eye and the face that makes the things become pretty goofy.

[@thegk-verse4216]

O O O O O O O O O O O O O H

[@noname420]

as a part of a kinda small community (not exactly small but still not as big as the other fandoms) who almost suffered 3 erasures, r/place is something special to me. seeing some people defend their place, have alliances and try to be diplomats is entertaining, and being part of it is fun too. i met many people who have the same interest as me. goodbye r/place, i hope you'll be back sometime.

[@SomeRandomPiggo]

what community is it

[@sfyfarthegreatm4540]

Dude for us we it was hell to stay in a place and we’ve been backstabbed twice by the Pitts and Sweden and had to relocate multiple times SCEW YOU SWEDEN WE STILL GOT IN YOUR FLAG ETHER WAY

[@spaceFL.]

bro the wave got erased 4 times

[@noname420]

@@sfyfarthegreatm4540 what community are you part of?

[@noname420]

@@spaceFL. r.i.p. did they come back and return or just disappeared from the final image?

[@hybirdmaximus6285]

As someone who love the pixel art,r/place is a true masterpiece and deserves the attention,such a nostalgic art not gonna lie,the r/place art is even better than the entire nfts

[@CaptnShrek]

Shut up we will have to buy pixels next time

[@LtCdrXander]

Saying it's "even better than nfts" implies that nfts are good to begin with, which is simply untrue.

[@mysteriouscentury]

@peanut butter water even JellyBean makes NFTs good

[@KleeGamign]

What if someone sell r/place as a nft 💀

[@SomeRandomPiggo]

why is everyone saying its nostalgic lmao, the first place happened 5 years ago and the second just a few days ago

[@IronWolf123]

The biggest drama during this r/place thing was how an admin was abusing the system by changing pixels every second instead of once every five minutes. It even caused an internal fight between the admins

[@ziron5385]

I didn't even hear about that, all I heard about is french accused of using bots and Spain really using them

[@Bebou06lola]

French build, spanish and xqc destroy. Judge the spirit

[@aeughtime]

And if you tried to call them out, your screams became silence.

[@KiffKan]

Honestly thats just pathetic. What a way to show how small your dick is.

[@unabatedbasher]

For the reccord, the admin was trying to erase a symbol for a banned community.

[@LodwenC]

pretty good experience! I usually don't interact a lot with my country's community (r/Bolivia) but it was awesome to see more than 40 people on a discord call coordinating our section of the canvas. pretty proud of the results!

[@fedegozz256]

🌊🚫

[@juanproductionsd680]

@@fedegozz256 este vato

[@Whouse370]

Me alegra mucho que al final pudiesen expandirse un poco más y no quedasen chicos como al principio, saludos de parte de un miembro de r/argentina.

[@edwardbrown3721]

Los sudamericanos ligamos fuerte con la primera expansión, nosotros los uruguayos hicimos lo posible por llenar nuestra bandera de cosas

[@hello-gm2dy]

My country (r/hungary) somehow managed to ally with our most hated neighbour (r/romania).

[@clutterspunk]

my favorite thing about r/place is seeing Turkey first struggling with the proportions of their moon and star then expanding and adding a city skyline under it, right next to Canada's flag spending most of its existence trying to figure out how to be a maple leaf until it gave up and became Banana instead

[@RomeinG.1918]

It's unreal seeing something you drew on an art canvas that will go down in history, whether that be an eye catching monument or just one lone pixel

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

Or seeing Amogus all too often...

[@ethanhiggins5766]

My favorite was the ss13 clown near the top left of the canvas, near the end of the wipe

[@firecatflameking]

@@ethanhiggins5766 holy shit i just noticed that and wondered if it was ss13 lmao good to know

[@ZealisReal]

I had my name on it for a few minutes. Sure it was only 5 x 21 Pixels so you have to zoom in a mile, but it still feels great to see that screenshot.

[@ethankoh6851]

@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Proud creator of at least 10 of them

[@bilal_Hadjlaoui907]

I love the fact that something like placing pixels will be so much fun,the r place deserves to be a meme,such a amazing and a pure art

Please use a space after a comma.

[@nanashi2146]

@ Really man

[@kaloyankostov6967]

@ ^_^ غنية من مسلسل النظرة الثانية ارناف وكوشي^_^ غنية من مسلسل النظرة الثانية ارناف وكوشي^_^ غنية من مسلسل النظرة الثانية ارناف وكوشي^_^ غنية من مسلسل النظرة الثانية ارناف وكوشي^_^ غنية من مسلسل النظرة الثانية ارناف وكوشي^_^ غنية من مسلسل النظرة الثانية ارناف وكوشي^_^ غنية من مسلسل النظرة الثانية ارناف وكوشي^_^ غنية من مسلسل النظرة الثانية ارناف وكوشي^_^ غنية من مسلسل النظرة الثانية ارناف وكوشي^_^ غنية من مسلسل النظرة الثانية ارناف وكوشي^_^ غنية من مسلسل النظرة الثانية ارناف وكوشي^_^ غنية من مسلسل النظرة الثانية ارناف وكوشي^_^ غنية من مسلسل النظرة الثانية ارناف وكوشي^_^ غنية من مسلسل النظرة الثانية ارناف وكوشي^_^ غنية من مسلسل النظرة الثانية ارناف وكوشي^_^ غنية من مسلسل النظرة الثانية ارناف وكوشي

[@ShiratoriIsOffline]

@@nanashi2146 better be corrected than leave it alone

@@pringle409 That is not an excuse.

[@miy4li]

i spent 4 consecutive days on r/place, i know miserable. but i'm not that sad about how it ended i really liked making all those builds with the communities i'm in :) even if it was wiped clean it was still fun as hell. hoping to join again in a few years

[@severinehedi]

r/place is pure fun and creativity. It is also frustrating, however, when streamers use bot and power to destroy other people artworks. But what can i say, it's part of the internet culture now. It's also what makes this year event so much more enjoyable

[@PlatinumMage]

Streamers ruin r/place but in the end of the day it’s just a temporary canvas anyway

[@xman9354]

Not even just streamers. Argentina was trying to get messi on their flag but the bots stopped them from doing so a while. Also xqc proved that r/place was being censored by moderators (widowmaker ass lul)

[@gannielukks1811]

@@xman9354 Fuck Argentina, glory to the almighty Uruguay

[@spinylizardz]

r/place is like a gathering for the internet every 5 years. Every corner, every fandom, every race, doing one thing as one group. Sure there may be wars but it really just brings us all together in the sense that we all aren't so different despite being so far away from each other

[@primalknight]

its not really an every 5 year event since it has only happened twice. but i agree that its a culmination of multiple fandoms and communities in the internet

[@kahiruo]

@@primalknight it will become every five years if r/place comes back in 2027

[@m4rcyonstation93]

so basically standing here, i realize you were just like me trying to make history

[@lxshya3992]

this was one of the biggest events in twitch and reddit culture so I think this will become more of an yearly thing from now onwards

[@MazdaTiger]

add "every bot' because majority use bots both big and small communities

[@vio9105]

As an active participant in this year's r/place I want to thank everyone else who also participated! I'll never forget these 4 days! ♥️

[@TypeKK]

Someone just damn sell r/place art as an NFT

[@lunaris5685]

@@TypeKK yeah bro you wanna know how many copyrights the nft would get hit by?

[@mahdudes1523]

@@TypeKK whoever did that should just rot in hell

[@HankRichard]

I was late to the party but i had fun

[@AnomalocarisWizard]

I made 4 flies it was hard but fun

[@SoulBro12]

I like how the most unlikely alliances occured like how the vtuber fans teamed up with Belgium to create a flower on top of their character and there were so many weirder alliances in this whole thing

[@kadmuspl830]

for me a memorable thing was 'european cancer' where Poland was allowed to join map of Baltic states and then neighbouring countries started appearing uninvited, Italians were fighting Austrians over the South Tyrol, Germans were fighting themselves as they were aware they weren't welcome and that the ongoing expansion of Europe meant destruction of artwork whereas French didn't care much, then there was a void streamer that destroyed Germany and other countries but gave up on Poland which defended itself fiercely.

[@dayoki8091]

@@kadmuspl830 poland literally invaded its neighbors lol

[@brinettevalorie4554]

From where my older sister helped, I heard Minecraft teamed up with a nice JJBA piece. Don't remember the rest of the alliances though. She stayed up late lol (5+ AM).

[@iberis361]

An unlikely alliance was made from the Gacha community, we were usually divided by elitism and toxicity even though we were under the same gaming genre. We formed an alliance and created our game icons, GFL, Arknights, Guardian Tales, Genshin, Honkai Impact and etc. together at the bottom right, we built, defended and protected it. It was such a blast to be a part of it all. Shoutout to the OSU community as well, helped defended and protected the much smaller community and aid on so many projects like the windows taskbar

[@anusaukko6792]

I still remember seeing a little amogus guy in the FGO Arturia's hair, I cant fucking escape from it.

[@lordaias7423]

@@anusaukko6792 were you there when the AMOGUS hivemind attacked Gudako?

[@skadisimp]

Gacha gamers strong together

[@Xernitory]

@@lordaias7423 18 times, remember, 18 times

[@lordaias7423]

@@Xernitory we all held the line. The A M O G U S dong broke before the Guard did!

[@de3thre3]

XqC was a great villain we didn't know we needed. *Annoying* but great..

[@satyamSaha]

he pretty much stopped being the villain the moment he made the Widowmaker and 2B ass

[@Drakonus_]

@@satyamSaha He made the Kobe Bryant and Zyzz tribute even before that.

[@SteeezYWeezy]

Ngl he made r/place more entertaining more than it should had been. Seeing him become the evil dictator and in turn, uniting many communities together to make an alliance in order to defend against his evil army was just amazing. It was literally a war zone there

[@hearthatbird]

He was never annoying honestly. Probably because I wasn't really loyal to anything except my hatred for the Genshin logo.

[@andreijorge7084]

ngl getting triggered by pixels is Soo soft

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

R/Place is like the kind of place where every pixel artist's dreams come to life.

[@tizlol]

and (sadly) destroyed by voiders

[@foxmcfog7809]

@tizlol Griefing made this event enjoyable, Place users expecting their art to stay for the whole duration of the event then maulding when it's removed is so cringe

[@flipflop_bell]

@@foxmcfog7809 ^

[@myangelkoishi4052]

@@tizlol the void made it cooler and made communities reunite Only Sad Thing Some People Took it Too Seriously

[@pennerr]

@@tizlol Either way, the art was swallowed up by the end void. I was upset too at first since I spent a lot of time defending my community’s little spots but realized that it was the perfect ending. The griefers did make it fun and showed the unity of the fandoms.

[@CarlitoxProductions]

The World War between Ibai/Rubius/XqC/BTS Army vs Kamet0 was one of the best manga arc I've ever read about r/place(and probably the reason why Reddit decided to end the event with white pixels, to end the war). Totally recommend it!

[@anielsanman6254]

🤖🤖🤖🤖🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

[@masoke]

@@anielsanman6254 ça pue le seum ici

[@samt3412]

It wasn't just Kamet0, the boys at r/onepiece were fighting alongside him to the bitter end

[@masoke]

@@samt3412 it was a lot of french steamers and an incredible amount of french viewers (like me).

[@samt3412]

@@masoke obviously that too, but I distinctly remember the One Piece r/place Discord sounding alarm bells to help the French allies.

[@z4ndurr]

I was fortunate enough to help work on the Jerma section and it was a ton of fun! The community and other communities we allied with were all so nice, it really was such a special event!

[@DvH_2]

As part of the SiIvaGunner community, thank you for helping us relocate! I don’t think we could’ve done it without you and r/vinesauce's help

[@evudro3618]

as a french and kameto's viewer sorry for destroying your art in the begining we had not yet understood the purpose of r/place

[@z4ndurr]

@@evudro3618 Ayy good to see ya! No need to apologize, everyone was fighting over space, thats part of what made it so fun! It was great to see so many communities participating!

[@Theakritas_]

r/place is the only good subreddit to me, just seeing people from a buncha different communities, countries, backgrounds etc. making art (even if it also means destroying others just to make said art) about it is very heartwarming.

[@universeresetting7703]

found the degenerate in the comments

[@d1kgaws12]

There are still some problems tho (one being the u/Chtorrr power trip, where they abuse their lower cooldown)

[@-loarado]

@@d1kgaws12 aw cmon is that really one of the main takeaways?

[@d1kgaws12]

@@-loarado forgot to mention that they remove all posts exposing them.

[@extrapathos]

Ayy cute pfp!! And speaking of, have you seen the r/protogen piece?

[@exoticismisaword4635]

r/place is one of the greatest events I have been in, I had no idea what the hell what's going on at the time and then started my experience on it. I swear osu! And Star Wars are one of the toughest juggernauts in r/place and was also glad One Piece was able to be in there 5 times.

[@Steffert.]

Osu and star wars were actually in an alliance so whenever one of them got attacked the other would help restore it

[@exoticismisaword4635]

@@Steffert. Yeah, I know! They also had a collaboration where they used the Death star to shoot Osu! for it to be obliterated which is so awesome (but of course they fixed it right after lol)

[@extrapathos]

And MLP too! I saw a comment from of of them talking about how they got grieved multiple times and always rebuilt, and how they helped out other communities around them too

[@Steffert.]

@@extrapathos i think they worked with the doctor who fandom if I'm not wrong

[@p-ball_from_SEA]

Playing whack-a-mole with the constant Amogus crew members that keep appearing in works I helped in was a fun way to kill time, and also witnessing the creation of some of the most unexpected alliances between communities you'd never thought would be interacting.

[@chudavieets]

Im glad that I could participate in such an event, 'cause I was sure it was the first and the last time in 2017. The community I was in managed to pull 4 arts. I bet Michi is proud of us

[@SUSsykage]

o7 for Michigun...

[@zmansadventures]

I'm pretty sure there was a bonus fifth icon of robtop, or was it another player?

[@wisconsinwintergreen6296]

The community I was in managed to make 2,500 arts. Yeah. I was with the Amogus makers lol

[@Kaika433]

Oh fuck michigun what a legend

[@32mazechannel]

I love how r/place 2022 ended Just give everyone 1 color, you cant defend the attacks anymore since you can only destroy 2017 was good but 2022 was crazy See you again in 2027

[@marmolejomartinezjoseemili9043]

For me, the wars only made the thing more entertaining, if nothing moved or evolved it would have been so fun, and honestly everyone who came to the event should have understood that their pixels could have been replaced, besides, the biggest wars were from the biggest people: France And spanish speaking streamers

[@ommsterlitz1805]

Spain got destroyed and finished with 0 flag on the place because they tried to attack France lmao 😅

[@marcossegon5433]

@@ommsterlitz1805 wrong, there is actually a Spain flag next to Portugal's and Italy's on the top half of the map. Still, it was really fun to see Spanish and French streamers fight so fiercely though.

[@ommsterlitz1805]

@@marcossegon5433 Would have been way better if the Spanish tried to make actual art and stop destroying the French art.

[@marmolejomartinezjoseemili9043]

@@ommsterlitz1805 Frace got destroyed first thouh lol

[@evudro3618]

@@marcossegon5433 you'r right people keep saying spain finished with no pixel on the map but the truth is that spanish twich finish with no pixel. btw spanish reddit flag is beautiful and as a french i'm happy our streamers made the difference between reddit and twitch community to preserve this flag

[@theriddled214]

This shows how much the internet can do if we work together. This art shows what we are. A community full of communities. That's why this deserves to be in a museum. Adults may see an immature mess, but we are inspired by each other to build r/place

[@irregular_banana]

Amogus

[@extrapathos]

Most of them were adults

[@user-fg5ho3tg3u]

It’s cool to see r/place get a lot more recognition this year

[@mangaprofilepicture5820]

r/place is basically the ultimate archive of how internet culture has changed over the years. Some communities still stamp their place in relevancy (Osu, for example) while others have been left behind in 2017, and new memes and fanbases spawn up to cement their place in internet history

[@REEEPROGRAM]

GenShrek: The Griefers 🤝 Genshin Community: *"You call it vandalism, we call it art"*

[@pixeldemon6173]

And then SexShrek 😂

[@justboycottlife9044]

It got purged tho sadge

[@minerdxxd733]

@@justboycottlife9044 at least we got to witness SexShrek before the purge

[@jiro7990]

@@justboycottlife9044 but the game icon, the Chinese title and different characters survived until the void.

[@justboycottlife9044]

@@jiro7990 the keqing holding a heart was also pretty cute ngl

[@RedLuminous]

Nothing was more memorable about r/place than the unlikely alliances formed. Splatoon helped the Bread Clip collecting community make our artwork last to the end. I stood up all night warning them with messages like "Kuwait might invade us. No wait they're getting fought off by Katana Zero." It was wild.

[@savvythedivineyethuggable7493]

Don't forget the MLP and Berserk communities working together to make a memorial.

[@LanieMae]

One of my favourite alliances is when France and the Inscryption community teamed up to fight iran when the day before France and the Inscryption community were at war

[@CybernerdShua]

For those who aren't in the loop, the reason r/place regained so much attention this year was because it came back and had an active canvas once again. LIMC didn't seem to explicitly mention that part.

[@christian_swjy]

It was an absolutely beautiful event that have graced the internet. Glad to be a part of it!

[@meurer13daniel]

Shout out to r/OnePiece for creating the biggest anime comunity in this mural

[@samt3412]

In terms of pixels, it was by far the biggest fandom on r/place. It was behind various countries and the LGBTQ+ community overall

[@forsene2297]

@@samt3412 lgbtq+ community again? 🤢

[@x-a-]

OnePiece was allied to France

[@arneoduca2915]

Making the maple leaf on canada was a pain. Because we messed up the leaf in the first few hours, people memed it. Because it became a meme, so much people griefed our flag. At least we got it close to perfect before it ended.

[@howdoipickaname9815]

IKR? People always say “oh canada can’t even draw a maple leaf lololololol” when they’ve lnever tried it themselves. SHITS HARD

[@pyro3215]

My r/place journey was just incredible, I started the XO art you see on the right for The Weeknd. I managed to gather some people from Reddit and discord but we weren't that many and we failed many times. But i'm so happy we managed to make it in the end. Had a very fun time. I already miss preparing the various designs and seeing my community so exited and determined. Hope to see everyone in 5 years

[@tomariscos1558]

France beat the shit out of Spain and that's fine for me Kameto MY CEO !

[@notaleagueplayer220]

Général de Kameto 😂

[@sator6754]

My favorite part of all r/place shenanigans is a clip in which OSU members congratulate each other in a discord call for defending their spot in the canvas. Then they say "I know some of us have lost relationships because of this..." like bro 💀💀💀

[@officialxipherx]

literally degenerates

[@paulschamm1655]

As a french, I'm so proud of ours streamers. They were able to made 4 teams for better effeciency ! Without any bots unlike the spanish ! That was a Huge Flex.

[@BigBex]

We italians also had great fun! It was great changing those 32 pixels in your wine bottle flag xd

[@Merluso415]

jajaja XD ustedes usaron bots y aun así perdieron , típico de Francia :y

[@paulschamm1655]

@@Merluso415 ¿Incapaz de enfrentarse a la verdad? Bueno, crea lo que quiera, pero una cosa es cierta: el único color disponible era el blanco para poder borrar esta bandera ;) Bien hecho, nos vemos en cinco años !

[@FausWeon]

Racism and xenofobia The place

[@ZealisReal]

I had my name on there for a few minutes before being attacked. Sure it was only 5 x 21 Pixels so you have to zoom in a mile, but it still feels great to see that screenshot.

[@Dashie04]

From the MLP community: take that streamers! In all seriousness, r/place was an incredibly fun time, even if I didn’t really participate and just watched the fights and the memes. It was crazy to see how the internet could come together and make something so beautiful. A little rocky, sure, but such a communal undertaking nonetheless.

[@Quazex]

From the void: sorry for eating you a couple times lol

[@abigcoI]

adding pixels to a canvas for 10 hours won't add inches to your cock

[@yeoldeseawitch]

no one fucking likes you guys

[@savvythedivineyethuggable7493]

From the Legend of Zelda and Hollow Knight communities, glad to see you guys are doing okay.

[@flipflop_bell]

damn the streamers were being based

[@Quickmf56]

My only question is how the hell was 2017 5 years ago

[@ValueNetwork]

I personally battled in the great northern war, preventing a map of the European content from destroying the top corner. I joined a alliance between the Void of destruction, the polish who changed sides, the Netherlands who ruled the top of the map and the Undertale/Deltarune communities in order to destroy a joint german French expansion. It was a honour to serve in the war.

[@lucatthedoor5391]

You'll have great stories to tell to your grandchildren. 😂👌

[@kadmuspl830]

I was the one trying to expand Polish territory westwards and the one who was trying to take over Vilnus. Funny how I somehow convinced a viod streamer focus on yellow part of germany and go west while we used the red in german flag to turn it into our territory :D

[@LanieMae]

@@lucatthedoor5391 I can tell them all about the time where a stoat teamed up with France and the binding of Issac to halt Iran’s invasion

[@belagore9862]

A place where people who never touch grass go to, to cry over pixels XD

[@randaranatunga7259]

Well the way I see it is, r/place is an open canvas that has brought many people from different background to put some piece of something they love or enjoy on the internet. One pixel at a time, every five minutes. And I have got to say the result has been quite extraordinary. It’s crazy what people can do when they collaborate. Especially on such a specific scale like this.

[@AnimaRandom]

at first, i didn't wanted to participate but after i saw blue archive's mural. i decided to hope in and join the ride (yah. i join the r/ba/ r/blue archive and spend 3 days doing that. very worth it) its also fascinating how much politics going on in this thing, so much negotiation, there's always a tension that your artwork might get nuke especially when streamers like xQc or the french/russian or spanish came so yeah. that was the best 3 days of my year..possibly my life xD...well..i do have PTSD now on frenchies and pixel but hey, it was fun xD (shoutout to united gacha alliance and bottom left alliance especially the jerma community)

[@formatdm7330]

The gacha alliance was something I totally didnt expect. Usually gacha communites hate each other lmao. And the gacha alliance is apparently #31 on the highest pixel count which is pretty awesome

[@AnimaRandom]

@@formatdm7330 Same. When i heard from our leaders and negotiators in r/ba that there will have a huge collaboration between gacha communities. I was like "wait... really?" But man, the cooperation between gacha community is amazing especially when a russian streamer starts invading the paimon and kiana mural

[@leugim8435]

I swear the person who thought of this idea is a FUCKING GENIUS

[@kronosthetimewaifu4841]

MLP art got griefed so many times, and we only came back stronger. We finished with 7 pieces of art, including a giant Derpy.

[@savvythedivineyethuggable7493]

Hail Yeah!

[@sbevemakesmemes]

Had a lot of fun designing bits for Australia this year, r/place was a straight banger.

[@belckan549]

Where even was autralia lmao

[@yuezuha7970]

@@belckan549 there was one near osu and another one i cant remember where

[@sbevemakesmemes]

@@belckan549 We were on the OSU! logo, with a kangaroo resting on it. We had an aussie flag there, a harbour bridge, VB, vegemite, Aboriginal Flag, and more. We also did have a Steve Irwin memorial, but a russian streamer ruined it.

[@Arcoconut]

Je vois pas à quel moment on s'est rendus, on a juste eu le meilleur drapeau, soyez pas dégoûtés

[@alphag7449]

💪💪

[@Merluso415]

XD dilo sin llorar

[@pedinhuh16]

Props for all the legends that drawned Guts it there 👍 RIP Miura.

[@vjollila96]

also puck was there too

[@comanderlucky656]

Honestly, it is was so much stress and fun building and defending artwork, and such imense pride always washes over me when I see my artwork design on the canvas, truly incredible

[@deju5302]

My favorite was when Arsenal fans and Foxhole players became allies. with the words ARSE HOLE to solidify their frienship

[@zerotwo8300]

VIVE LA FRANCE

[@k-disboher1105]

it was so fascinating, you'd see how the whole image would progress as a whole, but then you'd zoom in and see all the individual pixels come and go CONSTANTLY; as a whole, it was an astounding piece of art and collaboration, but once you looked at the finer details, you'd see the heart of it's nature, an ever-evolving, living, breathing, work of art

[@valsonder]

i was part of a small fandom community trying to make our mark on r/place and we managed to keep 2 small plots all the way to the end! we had the weirdest neighbours on the board,,,2 nft groups(one popcorn, one monkey) 2...possibly universities?? and fucking _iggle piggle from the night garden_ r/place really is a patchwork of every community

[@Magic_Ice]

What /place means to me. These constantly changing 4,000,000 pixels was/is a snapshop of the internet, our culture. A picture we still have and can always look back on but we can never change. Big fanbases like Star Wars made huge, sprawling works of art that can be seen from all the way zoomed out. Smaller communities such as Xenoblade, Pikmin, Rhythm Heaven, and EarthBound made their own art and have their own story. There were bad moments. Artwork that got ran over, negotiations had to be made, bot spam, vandalism, flag extenders existed. But despite all of this, all of it still exist in memory. A memory that can never be taken a way. Place is a moment of eternity. One short moment in our long, long lives but one we will always look fondly back on. The stories each user tells, The stories each picture tells, The stories each pixel tell, The stories we all tell.

[@Marlin123]

There is more to say about it, please continue this comment thread

[@omarpikm2101]

My only contribution to r/Place present on the final screenshot is Breadbug

[@Magic_Ice]

@@omarpikm2101 You sir are a hero. Whenever I hear anyone talk about place I always mention Breadbug and how the Pikmin community fought against eraser all the time.

[@monsterupdatewhen]

when the canvas expanded we made an alliance with omori and got brad from lisa the painful right above the german flag and i still can't believe we made it. it was great and it stayed there the whole time

[@runic3063]

Talking about small communities? Pixel Dungeon. They made the rat king and the Amulet of Yendor, i was shocked to find out someone still remembered that game.

[@rahalmulet1220]

Sad Fact: There's mod censor on the french flag when xqc tried to build the holy bottom

[@MaxC_1]

but there was no censor for boobies that stayed there for hours Apparently the salty mods clearly were just attacking the guy alone

[@gl_eo]

allows meat rods everywhere, including on the pink amogus, but censored a bottom that wasnt even hardcore ok

[@aloe9441]

@@gl_eo they prolly like those more

[@ommsterlitz1805]

Because it also destroyed the best art on the place

[@dodhethompson4841]

That's not even the worst fact, most people don't realize it, but if you notice, there is absolutely nothing stopping bots for this one. Now that's kind of odd, seeing as how the original had things for bots, but it makes sense when you realize what the actual intentions of this were. Reddit didn't do this so people could be creative and enjoy their thing, they did this for cash, pretty soon Reddit is going public, so they want to make there platform look as big as possible to make as much money as possible, what better way to do that than to get a bunch of people to make bots? This is pretty fucked up for two reasons, first of all, it makes the entirety of r/place, seem almost, bland compared to the first, virtually nothing happened, because the sheer amount of bots wouldn't let it happen. The second thing that's fucked up about this is that It led them to censoring things, because they didn't want anything none advertiser friendly on something they would possibly use to try to sell reddit to the public

[@CiCaruana]

Watching bonds between communities that typically don't intersect much grow into mutual organisation and cooperation was such a sweet thing to witness

[@Penroseapostle]

As a person who switched sides from the void, i can confirm there is more than just what LIMC said, there were wars and alliances

[@SUSsykage]

the hololive community being reinforced by the osu!, Ironmouse and Turkey community was super wholesome when xQc attempted to nuke it with his "purple plague" and the icing on the cake was when Ironmouse rushed with her contingent of troops to help defend the osu!-Komi logo while we stationed some of our own soldiers at home-base to rebuild and ward off any internal conflicts (specifically the Suisex thing)...

[@SoulBro12]

There were so many infighting and border disputes It would be awesome if somebody looked into every single miniscule event that happened in that canvas

[@AnUnusualEg]

It's so awesome to see the internet and every community on it come together. Looking at this canvas is like going back in time.

[@n-jay9579]

This video also shows how much unnecessary hate France and Spain both got...

[@shizuka1598]

The hate on spanish streamers was entirelly justified tho

[@n-jay9579]

@@shizuka1598 yeah but the hate on Spain in general... Well actually there's more hate toward France in Spain and USA than toward Spain in France

[@shizuka1598]

@@n-jay9579 I watch around 20h of streams on both the english and french side. The amount of hate and disrespect the french received is just ridiculous. It was supposed to be a little game but it clearly turned otherwise. When you go as far as racial insults, I think there's a problem

[@n-jay9579]

@@shizuka1598 yeah... and I won't even talk about some Spanish and Americans streamers posting insulting stuff on Twitter, before congratulating French streamers like nothing happened... But I also saw some French viewers doing shitty stuff, not as much but still... but you know, thats Twitter

[@robertspeedwagon982]

I'm a bit sad that you didn't talked about the war between the French and Spanish (and then 'murican) Twitch scene.

[@ResinUdongeInaba]

I enjoyed watching the entirety of r/place. At first it was a battle royal to solidify a community's position onto the blank canvas but it didn't take long until each community began to rekindle old friendships or start new alliances with their neighbors.

[@lymbical]

Man I was so glad to be part of the 2022 r/place. Was real fun helping prequel memes

[@GokuSolosInfinitely]

i like how canada leaf literally turned into a banana

[@EbenFell]

It got so crazy in certain communities I managed to make a whole ass mini doc on what the carti subreddit did lmao

[@vrathion1567]

One piece had nearly 8 pieces whilst some struggled to get even one done

[@vrathion1567]

@@kei6121 also r/fantasy with whom we shared some space. It was amazing to see the community come together.

[@realkingofantarctica]

You realise something after a moment staring at it. Nothing much has changed. Our Internet landscape has been drastically flipped since 2017, and yet the same symbols, same flags, same people; same fans. An Among Us here, a Gigachad there, a Genshin logo over yonder, and a Bored Ape not taking much longer. It doesn't really amount to much in comparison. Five years go by, and I suppose we aren't as different as we think.

[@SUSsykage]

the fact that the "Genshin" logo went through like 4 phases before relocating was some hilarious shit...

[@darthmander9448]

Love seeing people starting a whole argument over pixels

[@its_aj251]

But there is actual effort and appt of patience put into all of the art and you wouldn't want to be taken over by for example, xqc with their gorilla logo. Or just invaded by a bit of void.

[@jo-ri-oh8950]

Basically, everyone vs France

[@Cityz3nn]

@@jo-ri-oh8950 yeah, as a french there was something so funny and stupid about uniting as a whole country to fight spanish and american streamers over pixels lol. Too bad some spanish people took it a bit too personally tho

[@user-nr5xp6yd8z]

@@Cityz3nn both countries took it too seriously, but anyway it was a really really fun moment and i hope Spain and France will unite in the next r/place to become an unstoppable pixel machine 🤝

[@Vanilla3609]

2:05 I had this in full volume and my cat stared at me like the world is about to end. When he said or else my cat did a backflip and fell of the bed. It's a bunk bed. I hope she's gonna be okay.

[@LongX49]

defending my country flag was the most patriotic i ever feel

[@cow1816]

That actually would be a great idea to have the place come back every 5 years, a sort of time frame to see what internet culture was 5 years ago or 10 years ago.

[@birgiollo9229]

I joined in a lot of time and saw the construction of this incredible masterpiece, I hope that it will be made 1 time a month!

[@c-arfredvillaluz7961]

I had so much fun just zooming in and just exploring the canvas seeing what references I could find. Really do hope it comes backs at some point

[@CarapuceZehr]

The fact that french people were legit only defending their art against American, Spanish/LATAM and a shit ton of other streamers/persons (who were kinda auto placing tiles and shit) and succeeded is mind-blowing

[@starkiler13]

By the way french were also using scripts

[@foarm5166]

@@starkiler13 French used scripts to know where and witch tiles need to be placed, everyone use thing like that, but the spanish streamers ( I don't know for US ) used scripts that autoplace a tile with the good color without human interaction

[@CarapuceZehr]

@@starkiler13 an overlay to see which color should be placed where, not an auto clicker

[@pn4960]

I like how French dominated

[@WhyJusticeWhy]

The war between french and spanish/ usa was so entertaining We defended ourselves so much with our great general Kameto Now surrend joke dont affect us Funny how french people will say "Beep boop me human" cause of the bot accusation x)

[@spazmataz]

You did bot a lot though it’s a fact you and the Turks.

[@ommsterlitz1805]

@@spazmataz No French are actually united unlike all the others that the main difference

[@vicocloutier9607]

@@spazmataz We didn't bot ^^

[@floriandury5720]

@@spazmataz we didn't, we just have one of the most active community online. On the other side you can clearly see spanish streamers sharing script with their viewers to fight france back.. smh

[@Warmachine_23]

My absolute favorite thing is what the Outer Wilds community did. Just look up outer wilds r/place and it's a 3:20 video. What they did is basically animate a major event that happens in the game.

[@0Jiko]

I'm gonna go watch it rn, but I'm amazed outer wilds did something and hyped to see what it is!!

[@metagross1512]

I like how “r/FUCKCARS” kept being changed to “r/FUCKEARS”

[@JustAMonty]

Spent so much time doing r/place for the brony faction became a diplomatic and spent the majority of the time recovering from the 22 times we got nuked by twitch streamers like asmongold, mizkif and Xqc among others. Definitely super fun had great laughs in the voice chats and overall made new friends! :D

[@redstonetf5595]

Just found out about r/place 2 days ago, to bad it's gone now, I wanted to try placing a pixel just to try it out.

[@de1etion96]

0:50 repost randy fans anyone?

[@stopyouneedhelp6115]

At this point and with the way pop/meme culture moves so incredibly fast in the ever changing world especially in recent years, I feel r/place should be an annual thing.

[@cerealkurus]

I always get a dopamine boost whenever I see our community's small pixel art featured

[@amaidolce2x660]

This was a Chaotic Collaboration between communities and you love to see it happen in real time. Wars Treaties Friendship Collaboration The desire to survive the onslaught of streamers It was such an amazing event that participating in it didn't matter whether it was frustrating or not because at the end of the day, you can feel proud you took part in it. Sure, it's just 1 pixel, but that pixel mattered in the group effort to create something much bigger and beautiful.

[@SpringDavid]

>places one single pixel at the corner of a image >leaves

[@sczer]

0:48 It may be a stupid circle... But it is our stupid circle!

[@julraud7776]

France had the biggest piece

[@justaserbiandoomer497]

Bruh when r/place just started people (who I presume to be from America) have just been trying to ruin the Serbian flag thinking it's a Russian flag. I was genuinely sad, but hey, the French helped us in the end.

[@dazz2895]

That's such a shame

[@zielu7680]

oh my god... Bruh man romanian started to name Poland second Russia just bcs they took territory of they flag It was good event but it created much more toxicity than it was supposed to

[@ziron5385]

Alliances, wars, blue squares. So much emotions in one event. (Also as a French, you guys are welcome and I hope we will do great things in the future)

[@LanieMae]

Yeah I know right. I was in that area too and I saw people trying to attack the French flag as wel

[@natalie6811]

One of my favorite things about it was how you could zoom in almost anywhere and there would be a hidden crewmate. Felt almost like an Amogi Easter egg hun at times

[@guillaumeroudiere5749]

You didn't mention the perhaps most impressive of all. The war between France and Spain/America which mobilized 500,000 and 800,000 people respectively, and I'm certainly forgetting many other communities like R /Onepiece who helped France and others.

[@-Raylight]

I was wondering what's r/place. Thank you for explaining this for us, appreciate it! Hopefully it'll be back, saw so many people happy with it, so it must be good! They tried to make Canada's flag and failed miserably will never get old lol

[@ozenisbestmom4261]

Yeah lol im Canadian so I tried fixing it along with the others but trolls loved to mess it up XD

[@johngrimm2074]

@@ozenisbestmom4261 you mean bananadian.

[@MrSandManGiveMeADream]

r/place is like the endgame of internet. everything comes together for the biggest Crossover of all time.

[@R3DX_EXE]

I was there, a foot soldiers for the United Gacha Alliance, an alliance where 9 different Gachas banded together to leave a make place on that canvas. We fought for our arts, we negotiated with our neighbors and we thrived till the end! Even when Dragalia Lost and Granblue didn't make it, even when Miyu got raided! We as a whole left a mark on history! We all held out, against bots! Against streamers! Against raiders! We survived!

[@euvo_sound]

I participated in restoring the osu logo and the tiny ddr pad on its top right, i feel proud about it being shown in one of the timelapses!