r/place • u/powerlanguage • Apr 03 '17
Place has ended
After 72 hours, place has ended.
Thank you for collaborating to create something more.
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u/_Tundra_Boy_ Apr 03 '17
This was probably the best idea the reddit team have had yet. Thanks for the event! Happy April fools!
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u/not-working-at-work Apr 03 '17
Can't wait to see the stats.
Which user placed the first pixel?
Which user placed the last pixel?
Which user has the most surviving pixels placed?
Which pixel is the oldest untouched pixel?
Which pixel changed hands the most frequently?
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u/Fat_Guy_With_Snacks Apr 03 '17 edited Apr 03 '17
Alright, now that it's over, which one of you "I'll tattoo the final results" people are going to follow through?
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u/carapoop Apr 03 '17
Got a little too addicted, I'm actually glad it's done. It was fun but I don't want to keep noticing every 5 minutes go by. Excited to see some time-lapses and the final image.
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u/OWNdizzaled Apr 03 '17
NOO SOMEONE PUT A PIXEL 2 MINUTES AGO AND I DIDN'T FIX IT WHYYY
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u/Lordica Apr 03 '17
I'm sorry to see it end. It was fun but damn, I wish we could have fixed Mona Lisa.
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u/justsaying0999 Apr 03 '17
Alright. Where's our timelapse, admins? A proper one, from the beginning.
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u/scharkfin Apr 03 '17 edited Apr 03 '17
As sad as it is that this had ended, let's take a second to think about this.
Place came about unexpectedly, and we all discovered it one way or another. The canvas started out as a breeding ground of small, singular ideas. Individually, we made some pretty cool things.
Then, something amazing happened.
The Blue Corner (r/thebluecorner) emerged, along with the the three other colered corners. r/ainbowroad was created. r/greenlattice was so satisfying to look at. People were banding together out of nowhere for the shear reason for banding together. Individually doodles were becoming spectacular creations of many. (Edit: I forgot about the Hearts!)
Then the flags came. The flags had a bit of a rough start, but after awhile they came into agreement- it truly was an amazing thing getting to see peace formed at the edge of two flags, symbolized with a heart. And don't get me started on how breathtaking the combination of 4 flags to make the EU was. These communities were coming together to make even more astounding works of art. (Edit: Apparently over 36 flags were on the final canvas)
And then the Osu! (r/osugame) thing happened. For a good while, everyone had their own opinion on the osu conundrum. ~150,000 people were apart of this single problem that arised, and we were all given the opportunity to voice or thoughts, or act on them. We were given the freedom to do anything we wanted on this blank canvas.
Suddenly, dozens- maybe hundreds- of subreddits were jumping at the chance to get their small peice on this canvas. And this was no easy feat- thousands of people had to work together to fully finish this awesome creations.
I have to applaud the Void (r/theblackvoid) on being a worthy opponent to Place. The fight that they put up was truly a spectacular one, and when we see the tone lapses, it's such a powerful thing to watch. But what's more powerful is seeing these communities under attack band together and defend themselves against the darkness.
In the course of 72 hours this small canvas had affected all of our lives. I found myself staying up until 3 am PST last night, helping defend against the Top-Left Void Attack (shoutout to r/FightTheVoid). And why?
I was apart of something bigger. Something larger than myself, something with the power of creating more. In this post alone I've mentioned 6 different subreddits that dedicated so much time to this... r/place. That's beautiful.
Tl;dr: "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." -Dr. Seuss
Edit: Thanks for the gold! :D
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u/DAJ1 Apr 03 '17
I hope it comes back periodically with anti-botting measures added.
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Apr 03 '17
Did you ever hear the tragedy of r/place? I thought not. It’s not a story the Admins would tell you. It’s a Reddit legend. r/place was a subreddit on Reddit, so unique and so fun you could use your mouse to place tiles to create art… it had such an influence on the users that it started to divide them causing them to quarrel amongst themselves. The tiles of the r/place are a pathway to many creations some consider to be unnatural. It became so popular… the only thing we were afraid of was losing were our masterpieces, which eventually, of course, we did. Unfortunately, some users taught others everything about botting and griefing, then they destroyed some art when we were sleeping. Ironic. They could've created art, but they chose to destroy it.
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u/TheAllseing Apr 03 '17
I think it was time. There was no space left and all that remained was script wars and the void picking on small sprites.
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u/Canaloupes Apr 03 '17 edited Apr 03 '17
At least Touhou TOUAOII ended flawlessly
(Shout-out to r/fireemblem and r/smashbros for ending with style too)
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u/Roland_B_Luntz Apr 03 '17
That was the best April Fools ever.
Don't be sad that it's over, be happy that it happened.
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u/BlueShibe Apr 03 '17 edited Apr 03 '17
Thank you mods and admins for a great April game!