A Salute to r/place

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Everyone knows that the internet is a very interesting place. There’s the good and happy side of it and the dark and disturbing part of it. But one important fact is that the Internet is the most diverse community in the world. Its made up of people of different nationalities, race, religions, genders, age groups etc. So its always very fun when an internet site creates a project to rally the internet together. One of the most popular projects is r/place.

r/place was a community experiment that started on April’s Fools Day 2017. Reddit users were given five days to colour a (1000x1000) canvas. Here’s the catch, users can only paint one pixel at a time before having to wait 5-20 minutes to paint another pixel. 

Therefore, alliances needed to be formed to create the image or picture people wanted.
Immediately when the canvas opened to users, alliances began forming as users tried to paint and colour the canvas with whatever they wanted. After 5 days, r/place went from 1 million white pixels to a vivid amount of colours forming different artworks. Immediately after launching, r/place was commended by various media outlets as a creative way to rally the internet’s different communities together. But after launching in 2017, r/place mysteriously disappeared as many awaited r/place 2018.


^^ r/place Final Design (2017)

However, after 5 years, r/place was revived on April’s Fools Day 2022. This time, the canvas was filled up within hours. Administrators of r/place made the move to double the canvas size to (2000x1000). As of the launch of this article, r/place 2022 is still going on and will close on April 5th. Just create a Reddit account and fly around the canvas.
If you are uninterested in r/place but want to see the final canvas design, there are hundreds of timelapse of the canvas drawn in 2017. I’ll leave with a simple quote, “The Internet is the best place and the worst place at the same time.

Happy Reading!

r/place URL - https://www.reddit.com/r/place/

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