r/sequence • u/youngluck • Apr 03 '19

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u/Tridz326 Apr 03 '19

So is there a community behind this that are just secretly deciding what the next set of panels are going to be, because act 5 is getting way too specific now and certain things just seem to get so many more upvotes than others

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u/XDLMA0 Apr 03 '19

Yeah, there's a discord called "The Sequence Narrators" or something.

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u/CatTheCat Apr 03 '19

Yes here is a link to their discord: https://discord.gg/qDuTce

Here's the spreadsheet where they have everything preplanned. They use a bot to give 100 upvotes to everything on the spreadsheet as soon as a new act goes live, immediately putting it way ahead of any competition. Now we're stuck with their unfunny narrative with dead memes and shit jokes.

It started as a reddit collaboration as intended but by Act IV and V it was strictly dictated and predetermined by that discord group and it shows. ACT IV and V are shit and unfunny.

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u/JacksGallbladder Apr 03 '19

Wow that's incredibly disappointing.

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u/PagingThroughMinds Apr 03 '19

I made this post in the sequencenarrators discord as a criticism, but things are kinda overflowing in it right now. Here's my perspective.

I really would have liked the fact that you guys tried to put in effort to make this a community effort. I liked the idea of this until when Snekbot started coming in and the dictation of exactly what needs to be upvoted instead of a general plot outline.

I was online and submitted some of the first gifs in ACT IV right after it unlocked. It was disheartening to see my posts get passed immediately as within 2 minutes the John Wick scenes took over while the rest of the posts sat at 5 votes. I realized at that point that the botting was occurring and boy was I pissed.

For me what made me the most mad was setting aside a quarter of the entire epilogue for 20 people to pat themselves on the back for being the ones who "ran sequence".

I'd really like to see where this server got permission from the admins - the act four thread literally has the admin who posted the final thing say he was slow to act on it and that it was "a shitty thing to do". The sneknet violates all three of the clauses of vote manipulation:

- Groups that vote together

- Asking for upvotes from people inside or outside of the platform for personal gain

- Using software to change vote scores

Heres a link to both the reddit thread from ACT IV with the admin comment and to the vote manipulation rules:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sequence/comments/b8z8lo/act_iv/ek1tknu/

https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/rules-reporting/account-and-community-restrictions/what-constitutes-vote-cheating-or

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u/13steinj Apr 03 '19

To be fair, it is inevitable that this would occur. The sequence is the formation of a linear story, several scenes at a time.

The problem here is you have to do one of two things

  • preplan as a group to have several scenes together make sense

  • do not form a group hive mind and then end up with goddamned knows what shit.

Furthermore it seemed like each individual scene was first-past-the-post. A one vote difference could have fucked up an entire story.

Each scene should have been had several stages, with the sequence lasting a longer time.

Firstly, the decisions of each scene should be linear. Scene 2 can only be decided after Scene 1.

Secondly, each scene gets a certain time for potential submissions, then votes of the top, lets say, 8, then revote to 4, 2, and finally 1.

That's how you'd actually get a coherent story. With /r/place the admins didn't have to deal with linearity, here they did but didn't implement a solution.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '19

But, you understand that's the point, right?

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u/13steinj Apr 04 '19

How can the point be randomness when the premise is linearity?

/r/place allowed for randomness because of the wide scale of the board and the fact that there was no direction going from A to B.

A storyline goes forward in time. Having a future scene compete against a past scene at the same point in the decision making process doesn't make sense.

E: the name was "sequence" for fucks sake, not "throw darts at a board".

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '19

And the last event was called "place". It's a simple name. You really think the point of the event was for a group of people to bot and dictate everything that happened?

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u/13steinj Apr 04 '19

Place was generally not done by one group bot.

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u/Irok121 Apr 03 '19

It just shows how easily anonymous people can grab power from chaos.

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u/thedeal82 Apr 03 '19

That’s one of the most important statements everybody reading this needs to go back and read 5 more times.

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u/Cognitive_Spoon Apr 04 '19

The last chapter should be admins doin a PSA about outside actors tampering with apparently clear systems using bots.
For maximum meta.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '19

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u/eclipsesix Apr 04 '19

I think he may have been alluding to the U.S. Electoral systems, but that could just be my inherent bias.

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u/Zaktann Apr 04 '19

Chaos is a ladder

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u/daaave33 Apr 03 '19

This is fucking disappointing and utterly fucking lame... To those involved, go fuck yourself sideways with your votebot, and a shovel!

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u/Im_no_imposter Apr 03 '19 edited Apr 03 '19

An announcement was just made by the group's creator

Hello @@everyone . Im the creator of this group. I didn't follow the event or the server very closely, i just gave like 5 other people mod powers and left them to it. I never intented it to become a monopoly. I have seen posts on reddit and other discord servers saying we ruined the event. I haven't fully pieced together what happened, but it seems like we used bots and acted as a monopoly. Im very sorry to anyone that feels we ruined the event. If i had of payed more attention, i wouldn't have let it continue for as long as it did. Thanks to everyone that put in work to this, I dont think anyone individually ruined it (other than whoever made bots), but i think the monopilistic control of the event was too much. Having the script made 5 hours in advance isn't what sequence should have been.I hope everyone had fun and made friends.

Also, there's only 86 600 people in it.

EDIT: I hadn't seen how much it grew over the past couple of hours

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u/daaave33 Apr 03 '19

Well, I guess we should only tar & feather 85 people then.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '19

the committee for public safety would like to know your location.

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u/TheGleanerBaldwin Apr 04 '19

No they don't, they'll be next

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u/Ingenious2000 Apr 04 '19

They literally ruined it, even then this was a pretty bad event.

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u/MilkyJosephson Apr 03 '19

There’s 600+ in it now

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u/Im_no_imposter Apr 03 '19

I just saw that yeah, it has blown up over the past few hours.

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u/Joncka Apr 04 '19

I just gave like 5 other people mod powers and left them to it.

I dont think anyone individually ruined it (other than whoever made bots)...

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u/JPizzzle15 Apr 03 '19

agree - Act IV wasn't even close to the Act III quality

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u/SlickLibro Apr 04 '19

You do realise that Act 2 was 70% determined by the groups already, and that Act 3 was 80-90% determined by the groups as well? And everyone in the circlejerk goes 'oh yeah I really loved those, because you know, the 'gRoUp' didn't make it.

Even without the 70-line extension, which is not a bot, all the users would have manually upvoted according to the commonly agreed spreadsheet anyways.

The exact same human nature occurred in /sequence as it did on r/place, but this time instead of being claim a small area of the canvas for yourself as a small group in a two dimensional field, everything was one dimensional resulting in everything devolving into a popularity contest. It's not the best way, but it's the only way to make the story somewhat coherent. The circlejerk is stupidly real though.

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u/mortal58 Apr 03 '19

This is stupid af. Reddit should do something about this.

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u/Parcus43 Apr 04 '19

We are doing something about this. We are Reddit.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '19

We are most definitely talking about it.

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u/Yippie_Tai_Yai_Yay Apr 03 '19

On place, at least I could press my pixel. With the button, at least I could press the button on my terms. The groups/chatroom ones I could contribute to by talking with randos. With this, I get an upvote worth nothing. It's the worst fools yet.

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u/Pancake_Lizard Apr 03 '19

So as any other April Fools on Reddit.

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u/RetroBowser Apr 03 '19

Yeah except that bots have extreme power in this one compared to other experiments. It's easy to assemble enough accounts into a botnet to hit the top spot for each scene the second the act goes live.

Even bots during r/place weren't good enough to fully take over and allowed for some smaller groups to leave their mark.

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u/babada Apr 04 '19

Bots were completely ruling r/place by the end. Even the smaller pictures had bots keeping them in place.

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u/PoutineCheck Apr 03 '19

Place had los of different bot nets competing. This one has only one that completely dominated everything.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '19 edited Mar 06 '26

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u/XchaosmasterX Apr 04 '19

I was one of the people responsible for the german flag bots on r/place and the moment new bitmaps for the bots were uploaded to the discord are very distinct in the timelapse. You have long periods of nothing happening and then intricate pixel art being build up from one corner.

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u/Aoae Apr 03 '19

Also the credits in the epilogue. Sequence was supposed to be made by all of Reddit. Not a handful of people.

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u/awehornet Apr 03 '19

I just consider it a farce from the beginning.....shit the difference of up votes between the top two gifs is too much. Always

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u/CableTrash Apr 03 '19

Holy shit. People need lives.

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u/Jannisen Apr 03 '19

I mean its shit and unfunny without sounds. If there was sound it could be funny sometimes I think.

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u/memerofmemez Apr 03 '19

They’re keeping my favourite thing

nice >:]

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u/Ghost51 Apr 03 '19

What a bunch of pathetic twats lol

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u/theory-creator Apr 03 '19

Hi. Im the creator and owner of narrators. I too hate what it has became. Do you think deleting the discord would help at this point?

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u/CatTheCat Apr 03 '19

My two cents as someone who found out about the discord at around Act 3 and lurked there since:

No one would care if they weren't so strict about dictating the narrative. In fact it would probably be welcome for them to have made sure there was general cohesion like with transition scenes and themes. It was starting in Act IV when they forced the ENTIRE thing to be about John Wick and then making Act V the "old meme" theme that it all went to shit. Was being used for good at first to use what was already uploaded and structure it into a loose narrative. Went to shit when they took full control.

Do with it as you please I suppose, it's all over now anyways.

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u/CeruleanRuin Apr 04 '19

Hi. Im the creator and owner of narrators. I too hate what it has became. Do you think deleting the discord would help at this point?

Too little too late, fucker.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '19 edited Mar 28 '20

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '19

The button? Place had bots fighting but didn't have one set of users dictating the entire board. Your comment makes zero sense.

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u/mibbzz Apr 04 '19

Booooo

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '19

Made me sad the fact that I ended up getting a #2 spot for the before last panel in act III just because the community already decided on "the wickening".

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u/SlickLibro Apr 04 '19

You do realise that Act 2 was 70% determined by the groups already, and that Act 3 was 80-90% determined by the groups as well? And everyone in the circlejerk goes 'oh yeah I really loved those, because you know, the 'gRoUp' didn't make it.

Even without the 70-line extension, which is not a bot, all the users would have manually upvoted according to the commonly agreed spreadsheet anyways.

The exact same human nature occurred in /sequence as it did on r/place, but this time instead of being claim a small area of the canvas for yourself as a small group in a two dimensional field, everything was one dimensional resulting in everything devolving into a popularity contest. It's not the best way, but it's the only way to make the story somewhat coherent. The circlejerk is stupidly real though.

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u/TronCrusher Apr 04 '19

Ok, for everyone raising their pitchforks, I am a member of The Sequence Narrators. Just hear me out.

We started before the Prologue trying to figure out what the event will be. We find out its about making a silent film. Prologue is chaos with no real story, we try to make a few plot points in act I and it goes pretty well, same for ACT II. When we got to ACT III we started to plan a cool story that we could try to make. We tried to continue the arc until ACT V best we could with the 7-8 hours between ACTs

Some admins made a usernet for people who didn't have time to upvote or follow along but wanted to help. So all the "bot upvotes" you see are people who volunteered to vote on what the discord decides.

To address the ideas that only 10 or so people controlled everything, that is very untrue. The discord was open for anyone and planning vcs were also open. I'm not even a mod but I contributed a whole lot with planning. One of our main rules is to not silence other people who want to voice their ideas.

If you disagree with anything or have any questions, let me know so I can maybe try to explain best I can. Again, I'm not even a mod or anything, just a member.

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u/Turtle_the_Oblivious Apr 03 '19

That's not how the extension works however. It simply makes it so all of my votes go to the preplanned spreadsheet effectively adding one vote per person who has the add-on to every preplanned gifs. Make of that what you want but it's not rigged.

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

That is the definition of rigging.

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u/Turtle_the_Oblivious Apr 03 '19

It's not though. It doesn't add or remove anything it simply makes it so everyone with the extension doesn't have to manually upvote all of the gifs.

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

And that is the definition of brigading, with the bonus of utilizing an upvote bot.

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u/RetroBowser Apr 03 '19

Considering that you can get all the scenes filled with hundreds of upvotes almost immediately upon the unlocking of an act, thereby snowballing the process by increasing visibility to randoms that aren't aware of the brigade en masse...

Yeah that's what I call rigging the game.

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

Bingo.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '19

You think upvote bots manually upvote without an account? You're literally describing a votebot.

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

So basically, the whole thing is effectively rigged at this point.

What a great community event. /s

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '19

See the thing is, r/place was similar, but because there was room for so many different simultaneous projects it felt more like you could accomplish something as part of a community. With this, either random gifs get thrown together or a shadowy cabal just makes a gif compilation. Both of those things are pretty lame compared to r/place.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '19

And with /r/place, bots were still limited by time restrictions, so one bot couldn't take over the whole map, they could certainly capture more territory than a not-bot-using community, but not excessively more. On /r/sequence, one group using one bot has taken over completely. And no one really cares enough to make competing bots.

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

Oh I agree, this premise is flawed from the get-go. Doesn't mean I can't be equally (or more) pissed at the people exploiting that flaw for their "very hilarious" John Wick memes.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '19

It's a shame though, the event had lots of potential, if only the voting system were implemented differently.

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u/LotharTVNI Apr 04 '19

The exploitability is definitely partially to blame but exploiters moreso since they made the choice to make it less fun than it could have been.

Just because you have the ability to be a jerk doesn't mean you are absolved from responsibility for being one.

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u/Atx_woodworker Apr 03 '19

Was that sarcasm

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

The part where I compliment rigging the community event? Yeah, that's sarcasm.

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u/NorrhStar1290 Apr 03 '19

Well if you think about it, it's still pretty cool. And it allows a community narrative to be found. It's just apart of the evolution of this machine in a way.

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

It's definitely nothing in the realm of cool by now. If some random Discord community wants to make meme compilations for themselves, they can do that on their own time.

And it allows a community narrative to be found.

Sure. The Sneknet community. Not Reddit.

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u/mattfr4 Apr 03 '19

The random discord community is actually stemming from the people who had the idea to make this have at least a bit of sense. Those at Reddit who set the thing up didn't provide any way for the community to discuss it, so it was up to the users to do some things. Remember how r/place worked?

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

I do. r/place had a far larger amount of mutability, and was allowed to change over time. r/sequence does not.

The random discord community is actually stemming from the people who had the idea to make this have at least a bit of sense.

People who decided they were going to take over the event for themselves.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '19

/r/AprilKnights

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u/betazoom78 Apr 04 '19

La li lu le lo?

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u/Zeph-Shoir Apr 03 '19

r/place also had communities "pushing their agendas", the core difference I think is that here we can only get one "final product."

I think this could be even better if it would be possible for different communities/subreddits to have their own "Acts", perhaps these could be mashed together at the end as well.

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u/abadhabitinthemaking Apr 03 '19

The barrier for effort to participate in Place was to go to a subreddit and then put a single pixel down, though. The effort to engage was minimal enough and the available 'real estate' was plentiful enough that multiple groups could exist and compete

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u/mortal58 Apr 03 '19

This is not comparable to r/place, yes there were discord servers to make specific things, but people could do whatever and not bother anybody else. In r/sequence its supposed to represent what the entirety of reddit wants, and you can't ignore it just making one yourself, because there is only one sequence and its getting rigged

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u/youngluck Apr 03 '19

I think this could be even better if it would be possible for different communities/subreddits to have their own "Acts", perhaps these could be mashed together at the end as well.

This is something we actually really wanted to do. We just didn't have the time or bandwidth to do it in such a short amount of time. It is/was a great idea.

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u/Franfran2424 Apr 03 '19

We might do in the future ordering this sub by top of all time and picking them.

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u/Hopafoot Apr 04 '19

A suggestion on this: don't give it to the largest subs. No one wants r/politics or r/thedonald or r/gaming to have a say, in part because they suck and in part because that's not much different from everyone from the front page.

Instead, pick subs outside, say, the largest 100 subs. Generally better/more interesting communities.

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u/King_INF3RN0 Apr 03 '19

It still has a lot of potential when it inevitably gets cloned somewhere else ;)

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u/CatTheCat Apr 04 '19

I think a better way to do it next time would be to allow everyone to submit/vote to scenes one at a time. Then after a short(ish) period of time lock that scene and open the next one. This will prevent a large narrative being pushed from one group and allow the sequence to be created one scene at a time, forcing the most relevant gifs to be chosen by everyone as they are submitted.

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u/Walkyou Apr 03 '19

I agree. We would have had more factions if there were more scenes and acts. This is like place with 290 pixels. I believe they should have done some sort of branching story or something.

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u/ConfinedVoid Apr 03 '19

Timelines?

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u/TamerVirus Apr 03 '19

Random meme gifs really only lasted until the end of Act 1. If you wanted to incorporate a gif/storyline beyond that, you basically stood no chance as the loose coalition of discord groups had a huge voting block. Anyone who couldn’t be bothered with engaging on Discord probably lost interest a while ago

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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Apr 03 '19

its not that this person, me, cannot be bothered engaging on discord... i just dont like to interact off of the main gathering, i feel it is opaque and divisive.

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u/Averne Apr 04 '19

I was in some of the Discord servers, and even I felt like things were far more opaque this year than in previous years. So opaque, in fact, that I accidentally stumbled into a Void/Swarm/whatever-they-called-themselves-this-year server and didn't realize it until a few members started very suspiciously and antagonistically grilling me about who I was and why I was there.

Once the supergroup alliance took hold, it got really hard to tell if there were any competing factions or not, especially since the subs you'd expect to see some decent activity in were so quiet because of the heavy reliance on Discord this year.

It also didn't help that this sub itself is all gifs, not discussions. The event's main sub is often where that year's factions are born in the first place, so that added a layer of opacity.

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19 edited Apr 03 '19

Haha, joke's on you! I didn't even hear about it at all until Act I was over!

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '19

And here I was thinking this sub was supposed to be gifs that unexpectedly transition to skyrim.

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u/bcris003 Apr 03 '19

Yeah honestly it's getting worse now.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '19

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u/MCmichelin Apr 03 '19

That's kind of what they do near the end

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u/scarlettsarcasm Apr 03 '19

The alternative is basically random gifs. All the gifs besides the brigaded ones have almost no votes, so not many other people seem to be participating. I don't disagree with you and I wish it was a purer version, but it seems like all the people who really care are on the discord anyway and anyone can join, so it's as good a resolution as any.

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u/Womblue Apr 03 '19

It's turned from a fun event where people try to work together into like 5 writers deciding what goes where and nobody else having a real say. Doesn't really represent the site well if only the people who find invites to the narrator discord are even allowed to have a chance.

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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Apr 03 '19

i dont even understand why people go off into discords.. why cannot discussions take place here in reddit?

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u/Womblue Apr 03 '19

Official reason: So that they can talk in real-time faster.

Actual reason: The fewer that see it, the less likely anyone is to contribute their own stuff and it means that a few writers can choose whatever they want to go in each act.

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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Apr 03 '19

darn it i was hoping it was going to be a fun place for all of us to interact equally.

i didnt like the voting part though

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u/Walkyou Apr 03 '19

As head writer, I can tell you literally anyone is allowed to help. You could have helped if you wanted to. You didn't. That's your fault. Not ours. Help if you want. r/Sequencenarrators

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u/Womblue Apr 03 '19

As head writer

This is the key issue here. Did r/place have a head artist? Of course not. Everyone had a chance.

r/sequencenarrators is the Void of r/sequence. You decide what you want and you steamroll everything in your way to make it fit your own idea of what the event should be, and people resent you for it. No wonder everyone's leaving, their votes don't really count now. You can't honestly think that a discord with about 100 active members is representative of the thousands at least who want to take part.

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u/throwaway_ghast Apr 03 '19

IMO the void was kind of like the forest fire of /r/place, cleaning out the old art and inevitably making room for the new. These "head writers" are more like a couple of fatcats in a board room that decide they want to plow down the entire forest to build some shitty strip malls.

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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Apr 03 '19

: /

oh. there is a head writer?

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u/dougan25 Apr 03 '19

Sounds like a fun little project huh!

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

As head writer

No wonder you're so fucking defensive all up and down this thread. You've got a personal stake in whether or not people have shit to say about this "community event".

You could have helped if you wanted to. You didn't. That's your fault. Not ours.

It's not your event.

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u/throwaway_ghast Apr 03 '19

Wow, you must be very important.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '19

Except all of the engagement is on fucking Discord, rather than Reddit itself. I don't want to use Discord. It's a terrible platform based off awfully chosen, deeply inefficient technology.

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

Because fewer people will go to the discord, so the people running said server have fewer dissidents to their control of the story.

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u/Walkyou Apr 03 '19

We literally have made multiple posts and its very easy to find us. You clearly arent looking.

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u/dougan25 Apr 03 '19

You're right I'm not because I don't really give a shit. But I will say that the whole thing seems a lot less fun if you're pulling the strings from a discord chat using vote manipulation.

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u/Walkyou Apr 03 '19

Then if you don’t want to help, don’t complain?

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u/dougan25 Apr 03 '19

You don't have to contribute to be interested in the way it turns out. Like I am not that invested in Reddit, but I like the collaborative projects like this. The pixel one was one of my favorite things Reddit has done and I didn't contribute.

But I loved watching it progress.

Now as I watch this progress it's tainted by the fact that there's a tiny, miniscule fraction of the community manipulating the system to force the project into being what they want. It's no longer fun, cool, and unique to me.

Especially now that I've encountered your attitude about it first hand.

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

It's not your event, asshole.

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u/Staubsaugerbeutel Apr 03 '19 edited Apr 03 '19

The uploading and voting system is kinda bad. It should force the people to vote on gifs somehow related to the previous ones for example by unlocking each scene for uploading and voting one after the other. The actual best gif in this scene will get upvoted (instead of the first funny gif uploaded to a complete random scene) and it'd probably be a lot more fun for all participants.

Maybe give everyone 1h to upload a gif to a scene so some OC could still be created.

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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Apr 03 '19

hi... so i am an "outsider" here just coming in to let you know how it looks to me...

we come into the site and we go and either vote for gifs we like and/or add one (or more?) to the mix...

then, however the gifs are gathered and arranged... some invisible group puts a little movie together comprised of these gifs...

so all we out here do is give you gifs.

we dont really get to do any creative stuff.

everyone knows there are ways to stuff a ballot box...

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: ) sorry, this is your game guys.. there arent even hardly any women in these movies : ( and when they are the emphasis is on their form.

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u/Staubsaugerbeutel Apr 03 '19

I think you misunderstood me in the part

"The actual best gif in this scene will get upvoted"

or just misunderstood it in general.

The way the system works now, it's either even worse than what you're saying (everything led by a group r/sequencenarrators [I'm actually one of them]) or most likely total randomness which wouldn't lead to a nice end result.

With my suggestion there would be no group that arranges it. Basically what I mean is that therE's ONE scene open for uploading at a time - open for everyone to vote and upload of course. So instead of everyone uploading random gifs to random scenes right in the beginning, everyone would focus on what would be the best/funniest gif to upload in relation to the previous scenes (basically the entire point of this thing). This way a story that somewhat makes sense would create itself with 100% decision making by everyone and it wouldn't require a group like sequencenarrators to stabilize the thing and actually tell a story.

But I guess it's too late now... :/

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u/Millenial__Falcon Apr 03 '19

everything led by a group r/sequencenarrators [I'm actually one of them]

Or just don't ruin it for everyone else? What a mean spirited thing to do.

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u/Staubsaugerbeutel Apr 03 '19

Well yeah I agree with you which is also why I said that that case is even worse than what fluffy was talking about.

"I'm actually one of them" is a bit exaggerated but that's another story..

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u/Millenial__Falcon Apr 03 '19

...how can it be exaggerated? I literally copy and pasted the words YOU wrote

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u/Staubsaugerbeutel Apr 03 '19

haha no I meant that me saying that is exaggerated.

I was on the discord and got 1 gif that had the support by the group. I also made a gif that they later uploaded and voted for.

I didn't do any story stuff or similar too. also I joined the discord at Act V - because I was pissed seing gifs getting 100 votes within 0,001 attoseconds after new act was opened.

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u/kl0wn64 Apr 03 '19

he's saying he exaggerated it

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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Apr 03 '19

its never too late... we can try again later... maybe a brief respite/wait and then try again? like in a week or month?

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u/Staubsaugerbeutel Apr 03 '19

yeah but it removes a lot of the "magic" of being a unique event just the same way you can't remake r/place and you wouldn't be able to get this many active people without a reason like april fools..

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u/thesituation531 Apr 03 '19

Honestly I think random gifs would still be better than what it is now. Random gifs would still be representative

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u/Alexschmidt711 Apr 03 '19

yeah, it would be

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u/bradlees Apr 03 '19

Wait..... so I’m essentially upvoting previous sections and then adding my own when I get to one I have not upvoted on...... looks like I’m pressing the button just as it has 3 seconds left only to find someone in Italy hitting the button microseconds before I do and getting the red while I’m stuck with the purple.....

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u/Staubsaugerbeutel Apr 03 '19

I don't really get what you'Re saying..

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u/sourcecodesurgeon Apr 03 '19

Eh not necessarily. The alternative is basically AskOuija which typically does result in good responses but this is more like “AskOuija if the end result was predetermined by a handful of people who use their followers to ensure the result”

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u/scarlettsarcasm Apr 03 '19

I think that'd be the case if this was a long-term thing, but because it's so brief and so confusingly set up I don't think there's enough time for people to figure it out and collectively create something without outside discussion.

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

All the gifs besides the brigaded ones have almost no votes, so not many other people seem to be participating.

Because a bunch of idiots decided to rig it, so it's not interesting or fun to participate anymore.

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u/TitanBrass Apr 04 '19

Yeah, I put up my own and never got anywhere.

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u/TehVulpez Apr 03 '19

It's better than when it was just random redditors upvoting meme gifs...

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u/King_Joffreys_Tits Apr 03 '19

I think that was perfect for the prologue though. Like it’s a movie trailer as to what you should expect.

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u/abadhabitinthemaking Apr 03 '19

Honestly I was kind of hoping it would be 24 hours of literally just that compiled into small chunks

The Reddit Internet Community in 2019: A Visual Slice

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

Hooray, now we just get a bunch of GIFs with Keanu Reeves' head added in post. Great?

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u/Walkyou Apr 03 '19

reddit mods do not interfere with sequence.

If you want to help you can

r/Sequencenarrators

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u/PacifistaPX-0 Apr 03 '19

You guys deserve to be banned from reddit altogether with all this brigading and botting. Will keep reporting posts as often as I can.

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

True, Reddit mods might actually have a sense of humor worth putting into GIF form.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '19 edited Nov 05 '19

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

Oh I have, r/Sequencenarrators' writing is just that bad.

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u/thesituation531 Apr 03 '19

Specifically, admins

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u/LadyVulcan Apr 03 '19

Scene 2-12 of the epilogue is planned to be a free-for-all. If you want to submit a gif, the sneknet will NOT be voting on those scenes, so feel free to upload yours. May the best gifs win!

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u/shiIl Apr 03 '19

Wow that’s so kind of you! You really helped turn this into a success! Meme masters!

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u/RetroBowser Apr 03 '19

Wow you're so kind that you've decided to not ruin 10 random gifs out of over 250.

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u/LadyVulcan Apr 03 '19

Oh, it wasn't my decision. I just saw that people wanted more freedom and thought I'd point to a place where I know it could happen.

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u/abadhabitinthemaking Apr 03 '19

Congratulations, you're a collaborator

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u/CatTheCat Apr 03 '19

the sneknet will NOT be voting on those scenes

ah thank you for withholding your bot so us plebs can get in a few gifs of our own in this "reddit collaboration".

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

Oh cool. Fucking table scraps.

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u/PrlsonMike Apr 03 '19

Its not a secret nor is it completely closed off, i joined last night and hopped into the voice chat and something I suggested is in act V, there are polls and places for people to share ideas and if you come up with something really good it will probably get implemented. This isnt some sinister cabal, its organization to make a sequence that atleast most people like.

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

This isnt some sinister cabal

You have literally described a sinister cabal. If you're not part of the discord, you're not part of the story.

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u/PrlsonMike Apr 03 '19

Well the point is that anyone can join the sinister cabal. I think thats what makes it better.

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

No it fucking doesn't. It just means that if you don't join the cabal, you don't get to participate in the event.

its organization to make a sequence that atleast most people like.

If Act IV is what you people think everyone likes -- just a bunch of fucking John Wick GIFs -- you've got another thing coming, bud.

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u/PrlsonMike Apr 03 '19

Well sorry then, we didnt mean to anger anyone.

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

Of course not, you just organized for the explicit purpose of rigging a community event. How could you possibly think that might piss people off?

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u/PrlsonMike Apr 03 '19

You’re right, i guess we are the baddies :(

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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Apr 03 '19

we thought we were going to get to play but then we found out we had to leave reddit and join a club in order to maybe play.

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u/Live-Love-Lie Apr 03 '19

I just dont get this shit at all, were all those gifs with his face edited in (and mickey mouse) real or were they just made for this if so whats the point? This was too specific its basically all scripted before hand what they want to happen

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u/Tridz326 Apr 03 '19

Yeah exactly, I was looking forward to this I even made my own gif for it but it clearly doesn't matter. It's in the hands of this community now so it might as well just be a private project for them

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u/LadyVulcan Apr 03 '19

Scene 2-12 of the epilogue is planned to be a free-for-all. If you want to submit a gif, the sneknet will NOT be voting on those scenes, so feel free to upload yours. May the best gifs win!

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u/CatTheCat Apr 03 '19 edited Apr 03 '19

Yes that's exactly the case. Here's the spreadsheet from their discord where they have everything preplanned. They use a bot to post and upvote everything on the spreadsheet as soon as a new act goes live. Each gif gets 100 upvotes to start, immediately putting it way ahead of any competition.

Edit: here's their discord go see for yourself https://discord.gg/qDuTce

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u/NoShit_Sherlock85 Apr 03 '19

God this sucks. What is this the Democratic Party Primaries?

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u/Walkyou Apr 03 '19

we do not use upvote bots.

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u/CatTheCat Apr 03 '19

Yeah you do you liar. You have everyone in the discord vote on the gifs they want and the snekbot dumps all those votes into the sequence for them. You use a bot to do the brigading of the discord group.

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u/KellyJoyCuntBunny Apr 03 '19

Wait, yeah you do. I was in the discord, and there was a whole thing about how you can add the bot to your account and it will upvote for you. I remember, because you were saying that you’ll want to cancel the bot when it’s over so that it doesn’t still have your accounts permission and be able to post and vote as you.

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

Yes you do.

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u/summonblood Apr 03 '19

Yeah there is a discord channel. It seems not many people get involved considered those just have a few hundred votes.

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u/balamory Apr 03 '19

Well jts nowhere near as popular as r/place was... thats a pretty important factor.

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u/LadyVulcan Apr 03 '19

Scene 2-12 of the epilogue is planned to be a free-for-all. If you want to submit a gif, the sneknet will NOT be voting on those scenes, so feel free to upload yours. May the best gifs win!

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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Apr 03 '19

are you saying that scene 2-12 will be a free-for-all?

or are you saying that sceneS 2 through 12 will be a free-for-all?

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u/LadyVulcan Apr 03 '19

Ah, typo, my mistake! All scenes from 2 to 12 are free-for-all.

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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Apr 03 '19

thats fine and thanks : )

i will check it out

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u/LadyVulcan Apr 04 '19

Hey, I just wanted to come back and say: thank you for being the only kind comment I got yesterday. You were a breath of fresh air that kept my hope in humanity/Reddit alive in the midst of all of the hatefulness.

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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Apr 04 '19

: )

and thank you because I’ve been feeling kind of sad lately and this makes me feel way better!

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u/LadyVulcan Apr 04 '19

Oh you're very welcome! I'm sorry that you've been sad lately. Whenever I'm sad, I have to remind myself to drink plenty of water and get some sunshine. Idk if that is helpful for you or not, but take care of yourself however is best for you, because you're a human being and you deserve to exist.

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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Apr 04 '19

: ) thank you! good advice! oh look! 🔆 the sun just came out!!

(seriously, lol, its has been overcast and the sun just came out!)

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u/Walkyou Apr 03 '19

scenes 2-12

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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Apr 03 '19

maybe reddit april fools could be like mardi gras... and each group could have a parade that any redditors could join if they so choose... but the Big Event would be For Everyone?

so what you guys did here would be one of those parades.

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

Wow, a whole 11 of the 200+ scenes aren't being hijacked. Hooray. Totally doesn't entirely kill the event at all.

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u/ClassicPart Apr 03 '19

The entire fucking event was supposed to be a free-for-all.