Tiny pixel art peppered the screen before a massive, and I mean gigantic, Ukrainian flag utterly bulldozed a horizontal stripe in the middle, making it clear how the most r/Place enjoyers feel about the Russo-Ukrainian war. A Nordic Union emerged with three small flags for Iceland, Faroe Islands, and Åland. This must be the r/Place - Fans of a popular rhythm game called “ osu!” coordinated very well to quickly deploy a circular logo. It’s stupid, it’s beautiful, it’s the internet in all its glory. For some reason, r/Place activates a certain tribalism in people that makes them scramble for any symbol that gives them a source of identity and plaster it onto a big, meaningless map. Each account can alter just one pixel every five minutes so that no single person could dominate. This morning, when the project began, all pixels in the project were white and until midnight ET on April 5, redditors can add a single pixel to the 1000 x 1000 grid. Reddit’s r/Place project is back this April Fools Day, five years after the original experiment in 2017, in which “more than one million redditors placed approximately 16 million tiles on a blank communal digital canvas.” Like other Reddit projects, like _, the original was created by Josh Wardle of Wordle fame, who wrote in the original Place announcement, that “individually you can create something.
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