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.
Here’s a (hopefully, if tumblr will play nice) even bigger one that one of my friends grabbed.
you can see a timelapse of the whole canvas here. (content warning as there’s some nudity at times) The changes in canvas size reflect the fact that new blank space was added on April 2nd and 3rd. One part of it I’d like to highlight is the minecraft loading screen seen here, which afaik was the only piece which was animated over time (other than the void moving around I guess).
Hi guys. Today one incredibly fucking brainless man said Ukraine literally shouldn’t exist.
I’m Ukrainian born in Donbass and risen there, now living in another Ukrainian city even closer to the R*ssian borders. My family stood still. In the exact same houses they spent their lifes in - in Donetsk where the war is about to continue with new strength.
I’m scared of literally everything, and I can’t believe that after EIGHT YEARS of straggling for safe and sound life it gets worse. I hate it here. Not because of my motherland. But because somebody who thinks to be a mother giving birth to my country.
I want to share with you my favorite Ukrainian singers
1. ONUKA (literally: granddaughter) is a Ukrainian electro-folk band. It was created in 2013 by Ukrainian musicians Yevhen Filatov and Nata Zhyzhchenko
2. Kazka is a Ukrainian band that performs pop with elements of electro-folk. Since its creation in 2017, vocalist Oleksandra Zaritska.
3. Max Barskih is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter.
NEBO is my favorite song, he wrote it in Ukrainian.
After russia invaded Ukraine, he joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine, left his little son at home and defends our homeland. This is his last track dedicated to the war in Ukraine in this music video you can see real footage of the destruction of russian fascists, who came to our land to commit genocide of the Ukrainian people.
4. The Hardkiss is a Ukrainian rock band.
They participated in the Ukrainian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song “Helpless”. The band placed 2nd in the national final. The Hardkiss were formed in 2011 by wife and husband - lead singer Julia Sanina and guitarist Valeriy Bebko.
This week we’re going to pick up these babies, their mother was killed by the russians. And 24 more dogs and cats from the liberated villages from russian orcs.
☝This guy lost his job due to the war and he can’t feed or treat abandoned animals.
Last time thanks your donations, we were able to feed over 30 animals. 7 of them were sent for treatment because they suffered deafness and were injured after the explosions. And we have already posted about it:
Also we were able to get not only food, but gasoline (it’s a very difficult situation with gasoline in Ukraine right now, very expensive and hard to get) in order to be able to get to the small villages that we liberated from the russian orcs.
So please help if you can, we will provide video and photo reports, checks.
As you may know, I am Ukrainian. I live in Kyiv. I have lived here since I was born and I love my country with my whole heart.
I see a lot of misinformation under the tag “Ukraine”. Most of it comes from American people, who try to explain the conflict in their own words. They can’t. It’s impossible to explain if you haven’t lived here. There are too many influences on this conflict. You keep looking from an american perspective, which is not crucial in understanding the conflict.
For example, have you ever had you language forbidden? Like straight up forbidden by the law? It happened to Ukrainian language a lot of times thought our history. And who did it? The Russian Empire. And it’s not the end of it. The genocides, the assimilation, the deportation. Have you even researched Ukrainian history?
You do not uplift Ukrainian voices enough. And you should if you care about what’s happening. If you don’t do it, you’re just doing a performance of your support and activism.
Lucky for you, I am a Ukrainian person! And I am DYING TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS. I scored 191/200 points on my graduation exam in history, so you can suppose I know something about Ukrainian history.
If you stand for Ukraine, uplift Ukrainian voices. Educate yourself. Learn Ukrainian history. Ask Ukrainian people
