What Is r/Place?

r/place is the greatest art project of all time
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[galvatron]

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

[hololiveenjoyer]

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.

[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

[globe]

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.

[hybirdmaximus]

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

[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

[noname]

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.

[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

[RomeinG.]

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

[brendanbernales]

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

[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!

[IronWolf]

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

[bilal_Hadjlaoui]

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

[miyli]

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

[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

[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

[vio]

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! ♥️

[iberis]

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

[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

[TerminaBroTheFirst]

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