/r/Place is a temporary event that allows people to draw by placing one colored pixel per 5 minutes in a shared board. Using collaboration (and a lot of bots), subreddits can draw big things like flags, messages, etc. It was created by the same person who designed Wordle, and the first edition was very popular as people and the media wondered what would be the end result of an image created by a lot of random internet users interacting.
This time around, there were extra tools to help big subreddits claim portions of the board for themselves. Regardless, people (bots) kept finding ways of insulting spez in the board.
Very quickly, people noticed admins could override parts of the board with random noise instantly, and would do so to avoid the hate messages.
Towards the end of the event, which is usually where the final screenshot will be made, several subreddits collaborated to write a big “fuck spez” message, however, it was overriden and the event was terminated before it could be rewritten.
Some people are accusing the admins of ending it early to hide the message. The truth is that while they were indeed overwriting it, the event was scheduled to end regardless.
And that’s about as good of a summary as I’ll write, because honestly, I haven’t browsed Reddit in over a month and I couldn’t care less about the silly empty protests or the admin’s reactions.
Can’t wait for them to try and sell NFTs of the event or charge $0.99 per pixel.
/r/Place is a temporary event that allows people to draw by placing one colored pixel per 5 minutes in a shared board. Using collaboration (and a lot of bots), subreddits can draw big things like flags, messages, etc. It was created by the same person who designed Wordle, and the first edition was very popular as people and the media wondered what would be the end result of an image created by a lot of random internet users interacting.
This time around, there were extra tools to help big subreddits claim portions of the board for themselves. Regardless, people (bots) kept finding ways of insulting spez in the board.
Very quickly, people noticed admins could override parts of the board with random noise instantly, and would do so to avoid the hate messages.
Towards the end of the event, which is usually where the final screenshot will be made, several subreddits collaborated to write a big “fuck spez” message, however, it was overriden and the event was terminated before it could be rewritten.
Some people are accusing the admins of ending it early to hide the message. The truth is that while they were indeed overwriting it, the event was scheduled to end regardless.
And that’s about as good of a summary as I’ll write, because honestly, I haven’t browsed Reddit in over a month and I couldn’t care less about the silly empty protests or the admin’s reactions.
Can’t wait for them to try and sell NFTs of the event or charge $0.99 per pixel.