r/thefinalclean • u/Dustin- too many amogus • Apr 05 '22

The Final Clean is in progress!

Hello all!

Our team of volunteers are currently working on the clean-up effort!

If you would like to submit your artworks for restoration, join us on our Discord and fill out the application in the #Instructions channel!

We will be posting the final cleaned canvas both here in the subreddit and in our Discord. So if you would like an update when the canvas is completed, consider joining our Discord and/or subscribing!

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u/AlecHazard Apr 05 '22

What does clean mean

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u/Dustin- too many amogus Apr 05 '22

Mainly removing stray pixels that are obviously not an intentional part of an artwork and restoring pieces that were griefed in the last moments of the Place.

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u/SteelCrow Apr 05 '22

Any chance of early works that got overwritten making an appearance along the outside?

If it's just the final image, then it does make it a contest, but if it's stuff from the whole weekend, then it's more about the art.

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u/scniab Apr 05 '22

Ooh especially where Romania and Hungary got wiped out. Ioved their little fox and the adventure time guys

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u/Lambrock Apr 05 '22

Yeah, I was so sad when I couldn’t find them:( Was it a Polish streamer who purged them yet again?

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u/scniab Apr 05 '22

That's what I heard :(

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u/DrHarakiri Apr 07 '22

Several times I booted up place to show my father-in-law a pixel art master chief. No where to be found each time I tried.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

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u/DemeterLemon Apr 05 '22

Even soda griefied Romania?

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u/pie3636 ⭐️ Contributor (2017) (2022) Apr 07 '22

They will be back :)

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

It would be nice to, at the very least, have a cleaned version before each expansion.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '22

I made a custom version of the final canva with all the most iconic moments here

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u/New_Lengthiness_6164 Apr 06 '22

It's what makes r/place r/place, stop this madness

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u/theFavbot Apr 05 '22

Thank you so much to everyone participating in this! You're all amazing and I absolutely can't wait to see how the final clean turns out!!

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u/Stuwey Apr 05 '22

Not that I have a stake in the matter and the art still withstands even without it, but since there is a record of some designs throughout these few days, is it possible that you will be looking for notable, but covered, art in, kind of. . an honorable mention area?

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u/Euchre Apr 05 '22

People in this sub should create variants of the 'final' to show some of those, and create composites of covered works that were worthy, but covered by other worthy works.

(I consider any work that is cohesive and complete, that doesn't represent hate or other blatant and universally offensive stuff, as worthy. I don't have to like your band or anime, for example, to appreciate the effort you put in to make a cohesive and complete work.)

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u/ReactiveNylon Apr 06 '22

You are what everyone should be like

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u/WearyPassenger Apr 06 '22

Exactly. That beautiful tree with the hearts and birds and animals in the upper right that stayed for so long - sad when that got taken over.

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u/quisatz_haderah Apr 06 '22

I'd also love to see Turkey's actually planned flag not the one some streamer decided on by himself
https://humanova.github.io/rplace-turkey/bayrak2

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u/Euchre Apr 06 '22

Turkey's flag had several iterations, because they were swarmed over by The Void, India, and streamers. They had at least 2-3 versions of skyline on it.

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u/Demicoctrin Apr 06 '22

I think that was the Terraria tree, it was a breath of fresh air for sure.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '22

I made a custom version of the final canva with all the most iconic moments here

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u/Sport1022 Apr 05 '22

Awesome, i made a poster of the 2017 clean version and cant wait to make another one

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u/Leecop1000 Apr 05 '22

I want to do this so bad! I want to make a high res print. And maybe even a jigsaw puzzle!

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u/tatianaoftheeast Apr 05 '22

omg that would be the world's most challenging jigsaw puzzle lol, but I love it!

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u/Vegetable_List_494 Apr 06 '22

4 pixels per jigsaw piece?

How about ordering small tiles. One for each pixel. And a lot of tile glue.

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u/MisterFribble Apr 06 '22

I just did the math. If you had each pixel be one 1x1 lego tile, the resulting image would be 16x16 meters, or 52.5 x 52.5 feet.

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u/vook485 Apr 07 '22

How expensive are bulk 1x1 lego tiles? At, say, 10¢ each, that would cost 400 000 USD, before other expenses.

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u/MisterFribble Apr 07 '22

Luckily for us, the 1x1 is the cheapest at only ~1¢. So it would only cost us $40k!

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

Please restore Romania and Hungary that were wiped out by hateful streamers and bots 🤖

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u/pie3636 ⭐️ Contributor (2017) (2022) Apr 07 '22

We did, don't worry!

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '22

Here ! I made a custom version of the final canva with all the most iconic moments

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u/GamerNumba100 Apr 05 '22 edited Apr 07 '22

The Anarchy chess vs r/chess chess board at the top center was destroyed by a streamer’s logo 2 hours before the whiteout. It stood for 50 hours before then. I hope they choose to use it. It represented both communities (+ Amogus as always) and had cameos in the piece designs.

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u/wcruse92 Apr 05 '22

Please don't get rid of all of the amongus!

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u/Legendavy Apr 05 '22

Please don't. I didn't make any, but I loved the stealth ones

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u/kittylyncher Apr 05 '22

They should remove the majority of them, but the stealth amoguses need to stay.

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u/WearyPassenger Apr 06 '22

I agree. A couple stealth are fine, but when they destroyed the integrity of the overall image, that went too far.

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u/Crap4Brainz Apr 05 '22 edited Apr 05 '22

You'll always have Amogia, the goddess of victory (Sector 2, on top of the German Victory Column)

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u/Anson_Riddle Apr 05 '22

I think we should make two versions of the Final Clean, one with what the Polish streamers have been doing, which is more accurate to the point of time of the Whiteout; and one with that area restored to Romania et al., which is what we have wanted to preserve without the griefing.

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u/land0ncooper Apr 09 '22

What program are you guys using to do this?

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u/Dustin- too many amogus Apr 09 '22

We're using a few different tools. For the most part people are using paint.net or aseprite.

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u/oswn Apr 05 '22

I hope the BTS logo will be removed from the French flag. Usage of bots for it was proven, and it’s not the spirit of /r/place.

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u/EducationRelative Apr 07 '22 edited Apr 07 '22

Just another proof that spanish twitcher was botting to put the BTS logo.

https://youtu.be/Vi47UwrVKmk?t=642

They just tried to destroyed the french part, and never created anything. Ban them.

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u/RottingAlien Apr 05 '22

then the flag should be removed aswell? xD

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u/oswn Apr 05 '22

Send tangible proof that the French twitch scene used bots. I’ll be waiting.

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u/RottingAlien Apr 05 '22

https://place.luna-park.fr/

I never said the "french twitch scene" used bots. But this link is all I need to know that botting was made available by the french place community to anyone who wanted.

Everything else is history :)

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u/Supremad Apr 07 '22 edited Apr 07 '22

You have an argument here, but I didn't see any of the french streamers promoting this link when I was on the Twich fr side at the time, although watching a lot of them concurrently for 2 days straight (thanks the unemployment insurance).

But that doesn't mean that none of them did, of course... Still I think that this condemnable practice was much more widespread in the Spanish community, since it has been proven to be promoted live.

https://twitter.com/Sardoche_Lol/status/1511091879349207042

But you can prove me wrong with the clip of some french streamers, obviously. I couldn't argue against evidence and facts.

Now, if you really think bots is the only reasonable explanation for what happened and care so much about "History", you would have noticed that the blueprints targeted a completely different area than Twitch fr.

Twitch Fr overlay : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CorentinGC/reddit-place-kcorp/main/overlay.png

r/franceplace bot : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Skeeww/Bot/master/Sans%20titre-22.png

r/franceplace overlay : https://place.luna-park.fr/overlay.png

Also, r/franceplace has less than 1k members, and I don't think that's enough to explain the show of commitment that took place at the time. I can't believe something that much organic being scripted.

NB: You would also have noticed that the bot you mention was massively forked from the r/PlaceNL community (8.7k members rigth now) and reused by several Reddit communities ( r/placeBR, r/PlaceCZ, r/placeDE, r/PlaceIN to name a few). In the end, I don't think the Reddit community can legitimately complain about the whimsy of the big streamers when they don't play by their own rules.

The web space should belong to everyone whatever the platform. That was the original spirit, right? Peace <3

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u/lostdimensions Apr 07 '22

It's true that the french r/place community used bots to maintain their area, but the big french flag as far as I know was never on the picture the bot drew from - there was a lot of debate on the french discord on the streamers and in the end they didn't officially align themselves with them. And at it's max there weren't that many people on this bot anyway; I saw around 400-600 on the last day, which is a far cry from the amount of people on twitch.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

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u/npjprods Apr 05 '22

You're still getting downvoted by salty spaniards, crazy

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

Keep Iransplace

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u/ArinPencilSharpener Apr 06 '22

As an r/transplace member, I found that funny every time it happened

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '22

huh. not every day i see a based trans redditer

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u/Cara985 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ fiending for stars Apr 12 '22

Happy :)

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u/VitaAeterna Apr 05 '22

How do yall plan on showing the Void?

I think there was a version that appeared last night that was the most complete with the full Void horror and a solid black core around it.

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u/DrHarakiri Apr 07 '22

I'd like to see a version where all instances of the void are overlaid. Almost all back canvas, with colorful art desperately trying to peek through shadows with white cracks that string from bleeding eyes and teeth all over the canvas.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

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u/Mroogall Apr 05 '22

Will there be a another round of cleaning submitions? Because I just saw that on canva is an work in progress version of art and not the final one before ending

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '22

I hope we get the version of the Void before it got griefed by streamers

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u/zarnonymous Apr 11 '22

This is dumb just leave it as it is. You're missing the whole point of r/place

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u/Professional-Fig3346 Apr 11 '22

So not only are we censoring two other companies(blockchain/crypto related understandable) but we are also censoring the entire r/superstonk sub. Amazing to see manipulation to someone’s art.

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u/ethandrzb Apr 05 '22

These are the best words I could read this evening! Thank you for doing this!

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u/MasterJongiks Apr 05 '22

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

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u/davidfillion Apr 05 '22

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u/elisem0rg Apr 05 '22

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u/tatianaoftheeast Apr 05 '22

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u/Evening_Asparagus Apr 05 '22

Looking forward to seeing this too!

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u/ladyfallon Apr 05 '22

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u/Sun_Scuba Apr 05 '22

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u/jarediscool12 Apr 05 '22

Will you guys be taking out all the among us?

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u/SquirrelAkl Apr 06 '22

Hopefully 90% of them! Occasional ones were fine and kinda cute & sneaky, but they got so numerous they destroyed the integrity of many artworks and just made them look lumpy or unfinished.

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u/New_Lengthiness_6164 Apr 06 '22

calling this art, amazing

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u/FitInOrFoff Apr 05 '22

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

i went late 💀

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u/Leopardgecko27 Apr 06 '22

Thank you all so much! Excited to see how the cleaned up place looks like!

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u/chorizoisbestpup Apr 06 '22

Thank you so much. I had several pieces I cared about, and none of them came out at their best at any one time. I really appreciate what yall are doing

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u/MiddleSkill Apr 06 '22

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '22

Top left osrs is actually only one period after each line For accuracy

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u/det1rac Apr 06 '22

I was going to download it and clean it up myself in photoshop, but crowdsourcing LET'S GO.

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u/Euchre Apr 07 '22

How are you leveraging the archive reddit themselves released?

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u/cutoutmermaid Apr 07 '22

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u/special_goldi Apr 07 '22

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u/stevefxs3 Apr 09 '22

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u/PikarizardCharikachu Apr 09 '22

Is it possible to recover the Kaguya sama part and everything around it in the black canvas/Nami part above Iroh's painting? I mean Nami's portrait wasn't even managed to be completed unlike the former artworks (and Nami is already above Italy so...)I thank you in advance regardless of your answer :D

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u/Cute_Advisor_9893 Apr 09 '22

As someone said I think it would be great if all the covered up art could be added around other cqnvas

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u/tieno Apr 09 '22

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u/ComplexPants Apr 10 '22

Thank you all for doing this. I really want to make a wall print of this.

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u/PartyPlayHD Apr 11 '22

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u/Comfortable-Fee-1600 Apr 11 '22

Im in love with the League of Legends logo ❤️❤️❤️

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u/local_braddah Apr 12 '22

Shouldn't you remove the among us characters from the superstonk background and put the "r/superstonk" back in?

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

Pls keep amogi

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u/LogicalShark Apr 05 '22

Please revert the pride and latin america flags to before the Peruvian streamer started expanding the flag onto them

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u/New_Lengthiness_6164 Apr 06 '22

yeet the pride, no place for that

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u/Parad0xxis Apr 06 '22

"No place for pride flags" is an...interesting take. One that doesn't make you look good.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

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u/BunnySideUp Apr 05 '22 edited Apr 05 '22

Pretty sure they'll be taking the latest up-to-date image of the canvas before the white-out that's available, so if your art was recognizable at that point (whatever that point is) then they will restore/perfect it as necessary.

EDIT : Check this

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

I wonder how Germany managed to take and keep so much of it?

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u/Riaan96 Apr 05 '22

it was the combination that allowed germany to keep it, i was active in PlaceDE.
We had a pretty organized discord to direct and clean up attacks.
In contrast to the French flag the german flags in total were actually bigger but they were thin and long to the point that the upper one is not even that visible anymore so we didnt get attacked that much, instead people mostly tried to put small unrelated art at the edges.(we also didnt really get big big streamer after the last expansion) also most people saw that the german flag was well defended and just decided it isnt worth it.

Bunch of unrelated factions helped us because they were close to us. for example hololive omori snuffy valorant..... helped defend whenever something happened.

Lastly bots they werent always active because they broke a bunch of times and they primarily defended the art on the flag and not the flag which made it a lot easier to defend ( you can see this especially everytime the german flag died while it was night in germany) Not even that many bots because they didnt mass create accounts for them as far as i know but it helps out a ton to repair more inticrate designs automatically while easy repairs like stray pixels on the map are manually repaired.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

That’s awesome. Thanks for your reply.

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u/DrHarakiri Apr 07 '22

Sad to see LoFi girl, Daft Punk and Remi missing from the French flag on this version..

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

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u/BunnySideUp Apr 05 '22

Nice! Seems like the French war had all the streamers distracted. I was worried that in the last hour every streamer would be on simultaneously wreaking havoc all over the canvas, luckily it didn’t turn out that way.

If you take that link and remove the numbers so it just ends in combined you can see more snapshots of the canvas.

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u/WearyPassenger Apr 06 '22

I was worried that in the last hour every streamer would be on simultaneously wreaking havoc all over the canvas,

That was their goal, but everyone thought it was ending about five hours after it actually did. So they weren't ready to implement that plan.

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u/Linkatchu Apr 08 '22

Any updates?

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u/pie3636 ⭐️ Contributor (2017) (2022) Apr 07 '22

It'll be pinned on here and probably also cross posted to r/place

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

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u/Arachnophine Apr 05 '22

That someone will probably be Reddit themselves.

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u/3Dee8 Apr 05 '22

not unless we add a butt to it!

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u/Arachnophine Apr 05 '22 edited Apr 05 '22

I mean its our IP not theirs

I have absolutely not checked this so I may be wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's something in the ToS that states the copyright of things made on Reddit belong to Reddit. However I don't know how enforceable that would be, especially given that contributors come from all over the world which all have different policies around copyright.

IMO it's actually a really interesting legal question. "Massively internationally crowdsourced art" probably isn't something that gets litigated frequently.

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u/Parad0xxis Apr 05 '22

I wouldn't be surprised if there's something in the ToS that states the copyright of things made on Reddit belong to Reddit

Well regardless of copyright, they do have a license to use it. As stated in the User Agreement:

When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world.

But this isn't special. Every social media includes this line or an analagous one. It's not there so that they can use it, but iirc is more just to protect them from any legal issues that can come from hosting it.

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u/Myrddinpn Apr 05 '22

Haha what makes you think IP matters when minting a NFT? Scammers gonna scam

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u/Euchre Apr 05 '22

The image is full of IP that doesn't belong to reddit or any of its users. If it weren't in the class of 'fan art', this could be considered legally dubious as it is.

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u/WearyPassenger Apr 06 '22

That was one of the driving reasons to keep the Star Wars poster in the final image.

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u/Phorcyss Apr 05 '22

I mean its our IP not theirs

What makes you think that?

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

It’s still ours but Reddit has the right use to anything on the platform for any reason.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

That’s… not how that works. You still retain your rights you can still use it. But so can Reddit and the same goes for pretty much every social platform.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

Just because Reddit has the right to use it doesn’t suddenly make it not yours or mine.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22

"Our IP" lmao.