Managed to track down a high quality photo of r/place prior to the destruction for those who want it. May it rest in internet history.
Can someone explain what this is and why everyone was obsessed with it for a few days because I kept seeing it referenced with no context
r/place was an April fool’s event put on by Reddit (first in 2017, then again this year in 2022) where a blank canvas opened up on April 1 where users could place one single pixel, once every five minutes. Pixels would overwrite anything placed in that same spot previously, with the canvas constantly changing in flux. Hundreds of communities and hundreds of thousands of people came together to build incredible pixel art, defend their little swaths of territory on the canvas from griefing, form alliances with nearby territory to protect each other’s artwork, and hide lots and lots (and I mean lots) of amogus characters.
After 3 days of war, fighting bots, twitch streamers, and griefers, this was the final canvas. On April 4th the only pixel that could be placed was white, and the canvas quickly reverted back to a blank slate, with only screenshots like this to commemorate what hundreds of thousands of people came together to create.
I’ve been talking to DevonandMark more regularly on IRC. Some of the other people have faded away. Mark is still romantic as always and I enjoy our little role play adventures but Devon always gets me super aroused. I don’t know what it is about him but he can turn me on with just a few words. We don’t even role play together, just chat. I find myself thinking about him all the time. I just wish he was more available. I never know when I’ll run into him.
I’ve had some fun chats with Reddit people but they never stick around. Nothing seems to last there. :(
I’ve been hanging around on Reddit (natalietv). I’ve mainly been commenting on all the dick pics guys love to post and have been having a blast doing it but I really miss the old days of Tumblr. The porn there is good but it’s just not the same :/ Maybe I’m still too much of a Reddit newbie.