The r/place Situation Explained

Something crazy happened last weekend. The internet descended upon an online canvas of roughly 4 million pixels.

Millions of people took part in the great social experiment that was r/place. Art was created, wars were fought and at its peak – it took over Twitch.

Whether you missed it or made it, here’s how it all happened…

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[RoteTonne.band.]

I find it funny that XQC tried to invade Germany but he got destroyed and his chat got invaded by the germans. A few minutes later he backed down

[sample.text.]

As someone with Lebanese heritage, Lebanon maintained a little flag for the duration of r/place from the very first hour.
Located at (10, 452) which is also the country's area 10, 452 km²
I thought that was pretty neat.

[greaterdog]

The fact that the spanish decided to focus so hard on destroying french's art that they didn't actually build anything remotely close to it is just too funny

[DylansLappalterCopium]

I feel like, r/place is a representation of how our society came to be, from an unorganized mess, to small groups forming, to groups making alliances and then going to war to protect their territory from outsiders.
I myself was part of the r/Arknights community which had a total of 3 territories that we defended with every inch of our pixels (981x117, 1149x103, 1648x1733) and we eventually formed an alliance with all Gacha games (United Place Gacha Alliance), Tetris, VRChat and a small Poland flag and helped eachother to defend our artworks until the very end.

[bit_ronic]

honestly, props to everyone involved, even xqc, i honestly doubt place would've been as interesting without a main "villain".

[Tiro_Chopper]

Love how France proved that with its caritative events like ZEvent (which broke the world record for funds gathered twice), it really grew a sense of coordination and engagement with and between streams over the years. Together we stand!

[Beboulola]

all i remember is that the french flag was too big but when they agreed to leave the part of azbullah, spain and the americans continued to attack and ultimately destroy without ever building anything. the french defended their ground in addition to the pixel art of one pieces, OSU, reckfull, etc. which were incredible. it lacked irish but it was cool

[kochan]

Was part of the osu! community, our admins were super organized, we were assigned pixels, and we defended hard for 4 days whilst forming alliances with smaller communities.

[thettmt]

French, what is your profession ?
- We don't have one

(in France we call it the "RSA power spike")

[benallmon]

Charlie made a great point about people hating on XQC for his shenanigans. He gave those communities a story to tell. How they banded together to fight off the "villain". And tbh, he made it fun. Seeing his void take over places only to be taken back over made for great time lapses. Proud to say I also helped Charlie claim his M0ist Esports spot for the duration of when he first got it. The whole thing was a blast. Glad I was able to be apart of it.

[Sabs-_-]

saying France uses bots is literally the best compliment you can give, the organisation was so good that people unironically thought France was using bots lol.
And yes, Reddit is kinda unknown in France not a lot of French uses it which can explain why so many new accounts were created hahaha i even made an account for this event, was really fun!
so many good art was made by everyone it was amazing :D

[tdkb]

Joining a community to make not 1 but 2 things was a great experience and it felt great to defend and negotiate with communities beside us.

[parham]

How to sumerize this years R/place: When an April fools joke turns into the next Command and Conquere: Red Alert XD

[tdum]

As a french speaker (and somebody who took part in the war) I can assure everybody that nobody was botting on the french side. We were using a Chrome extension to see an overlay to know which color went where.

[hayateww]

The fact that Rubius and Ibai had their ego shattered over some pixels still makes me laugh to this day.

[eltoons]

personally xqc was a good villain and even when he claimed stuff it was taken back and more art was made on top of it, xqc has received so much hate when honestly he made r/place a lot more memorable.

[TheNeon-rhkk]

R/place
Where the French Revolution started again to push back the Spanish Inquisition.

[Msslayer]

It was interesting seeing my community of Hololive allying with Germany and Belgium, it was kinda bizzarre that a community of just anime weebs and simps got to ally 2 big countries, that also helped us survive and fight against one of the first XQC attacks, also how we all defende agaousn the big red among us dick that apeared on the canvas, it was somethig amazing those 4 days were super fun, and i hope it returns.

[dalkent]

That was a really fun event. Seeing some Spanish streamers crying about French using bots when there's absolutely no proof of it was hilarious. If we add the fact French showed how their overlay worked to Ibai, and he answered with "it's fine by me, it's not a bot", it makes it even more hilarious. But is still made accusation of cheating after all, and he himself used a bot and promoted it on his stream, so shamefull.

The French streaming community is holding so much events that other communities not used to doing it can't keep up with a well organised group. There were no cheating, French streaming community just dedicated their heart to the cause.

[wixardo]

The Outer Wilds animated timeloop in there was honestly the coolest most creative thing in my opinion, definitely worth looking up if you're an Outer Wilds fan or just curious