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Part Twitch Plays Pokemon, part MS Paint, Reddit's r/Place is a multiplayer phenomenon that dives into the very essence of human nature.
Apr 06, 2017 This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Apr 03, 2017 PLACE, Reddit's thing that coincided with April Fools for 2017, was an interactive canvas that allowed for any site user to change a single pixel every 5 minutes (10 at one point, then back to 5.
It’s been a long couple of sleepless nights since r/Place was unveiled on Reddit. At first, I wasn’t entirely convinced the subreddit wasn’t an April Fool’s joke — the concept unveiled by the admins of Reddit was cryptic and bizarre, to say the least.
There is an empty canvas.
You may place a tile upon it, but you must wait to place another.
Individually you can create something.
Together you can create something more.
You may place a tile upon it, but you must wait to place another.
Individually you can create something.
Together you can create something more.
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I got the notification while at work and immediately dismissed it. The concept seemed ridiculous and, frankly, the last thing that the internet super-community Reddit should be concerned with. An initial scan over the game/social experiment/art piece looked simplistic at best.
The linked subreddit showed off a 1,000×1,000 pixel grid — initially all white — with a growing amount of colorful dots scattered around the board. With literally a million pixels to fill in, the organization of it was barebones.
“An initial scan over the game/social experiment/art piece looked simplistic at best.”
Assuming you have an account with Reddit that is over a day old, players are able to go to r/Place and lay down a tile in one of the 16 colors available. After doing that, a 5 to 10 minute timer is initiated — you aren’t able to touch the board until that timer runs out.
My first block I put down was on my iPhone, waiting in traffic somewhere around Nashville: a small blue dot in an endless ocean of white. Not a second later, another blue dot joins right next to mine on the left. “Huh,” I thought, “that was pretty cool.”
Ten minutes later, I was pulling into my driveway when I got a notification on my phone: “Your next tile is now available.” I turned our 1×2 blue rectangle into a stumpy blue “L.”
I went back home and started alternating between Fast RMX on Nintendo Switch and Loot Rascals on PlayStation 4, occasionally taking some time to add to the million-pixel tapestry.
As one would imagine, the free white campus soon turned into a mix of penises and an all-out color faction war. Red started occupying the top right corner, green the lower left corner, and blue dominating vast portion of the maps with a sweeping Great Britain-like colonization campaign. Subreddits were forming to help accomplish these goals.
“Assuming you have an account with Reddit that is over a day old, players are able to go to r/Place and lay down a tile in one of the 16 colors available. After doing that, a 5 to 10 minute timer is initiated — you aren’t able to touch the board until that timer runs out.”
I checked out again for what seemed like a few moments, and when I returned, blue had nearly dominated the map thanks to a heavy propaganda and recruitment campaign. Small bits of organization were beginning to flourish — rainbows were starting to emerge, flags of nationality were raining down from the various communities, and pixel art of the Rocket League logo was beginning to be developed.
I went to bed and, while I was asleep, the world worked developing the map without halting. Over the next 13 hours overnight, this had developed:
“Rainbows were starting to emerge, flags of nationality were raining down from the various communities, and pixel art of the Rocket League logo was beginning to be developed.”
A mythos had been created overnight. There were protagonists, antagonists, and pure evil taking over the r/Place grid. Wars had been started and ended overnight, alliances had been drawn, and the war was still raging on tirelessly.
I scrambled to catch up with the events. Overnight, blue had systematically begun to take every corner — they were equally loved and hated as the imperials on the board. Flags had become more than a symbol of national pride — Germany had annexed France and Denmark’s flag was being tainted into Sweden’s. Lord Helix (who anyone will remember from the “Twitch Plays Pokemon” phenomenon) returned with a vengeance, protected diligently by Rainbow Road, the rainbow group now dedicated to order an tranquility.
“A mythos had been created overnight.”
Works of art — ranging from pixel art to literal masterpieces — had developed. Monokuma from Danganronpa, generation one starter Pokemon and Mario (on Rainbow Road, no less) sprouted from the woodwork thanks to the various subreddit communities promoting the projects. More in-depth pieces like He-Man and the Mona Lisa sprouted from the ashes of failed projects, and were unbelievably successful.
Most troubling of all was the growing Void — a cancer-like series of black pixels in the middle of the board, actively growing and tainting art. The active community (largely promoted by 4chan) wasn’t looking to take over the board in the name of glory, but instead cleanse the board to create unity in pure black.
“Works of art — ranging from pixel art to literal masterpieces — had developed. Monokuma from Danganronpa, generation one starter Pokemon and Mario (on Rainbow Road, no less) sprouted from the woodwork thanks to the various subreddit communities promoting the projects.”
Caught up with the overnight drama across the board, I picked a faction — Rainbow Road — and started fighting the Void wherever it tried to consume. Casual subreddits turned into active ones, strategy-related Discord servers were filling up by the hundreds, and there were over 100,000 people placing tiles at once.
Faction in-fighting began to cease — the communities dedicated to making hearts let the Rainbow clan pass through, turning all the hearts that touched it rainbow-themed. Germany and France came to an alliance; the old annexed France became the European Union flag with a rainbow outline. All active hands shifted to fighting the creeping Void infection.
I turned off r/Place late into the night while completing a Rainbow frame around the Mona Lisa — a flagrant attempt to stop it from becoming a second Void, despite the faux-alliance the moderators of both groups had. I woke up to that same frame being done: the Void had been entirely contained and had spread to another part of the map, and art was continuing to flourish.
At this point, it’s hard to imagine that r/Place’s grid had ever been white. The space is almost entirely filled with elaborate designs, memorials to influential personalities (like Bob Ross and Steve Irwin), popular logos, and pixel art galore. Yet the map is consistently in a state of flux — I’ve disappeared for over an hour to write this feature, and when I return, the balance of power will have ultimately shifted.
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“At this point, it’s hard to imagine that r/Place’s grid had ever been white. The space is almost entirely filled with elaborate designs, memorials to influential personalities (like Bob Ross and Steve Irwin), popular logos, and pixel art galore.”
Reddit’s r/Place isn’t necessarily a “game” as much as it is an experience: a social experiment reflecting human nature in group environments. Some people create, others destroy. A few people will develop plans and art, while others focus on maintaining the existing structures. A group took the mantle of being PR creators, while natural-born leaders emerged forging peace treaties.
The fact I can have this conversation about a Reddit page that feels analogous to an Excel document is baffling. But this is the first weekend in a long time where I haven’t turned on Rocket League, and Mass Effect Andromeda has sat firmly in its case on my shelf.
It isn’t immediately clear whether r/Place is a permanent fixture of Reddit, or a short-lived experiment designed around April Fool’s Day. But nothing has made me cooperate with random internet strangers this intensely in recent memory.
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A resized image of the final Place canvas | |
Dissolved | 8 April 2017 |
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Owner | |
URL | www.reddit.com/r/place |
Users | Over 1 million |
Launched | 1 April 2017; 2 years ago |
Current status | Archived |
Place was a collaborative project and social experiment hosted on the social networking site Reddit that began on April Fools' Day 2017. The experiment involved an online canvas of one million (1000x1000) pixel squares, located at a subreddit called /r/place, which registered users could edit by changing the color of a single pixel from a 16-colour palette. After each pixel was placed, a timer prevented the user from placing any pixels for a period of time varying from 5 to 20 minutes.[1]
The experiment was ended by Reddit administrators around 72 hours after its creation, on 3 April 2017.[2] Over 1 million unique users edited the canvas, placing a total of approximately 16 million tiles, and, at the time the experiment was ended, had over 90,000 users viewing or editing it.[3] The Place subreddit was archived on 19 April 2017.
Overview[edit]
The experiment was based in a subreddit, called /r/place, in which the user would be greeted by a screen displaying a section of the canvas with posts showing below. Registered users could place a pixel (or 'tile') on an empty canvas, but had to wait before placing another.[3] The waiting time varied from 5 to 20 minutes throughout the experiment. The choice of color for a user's pixel was between white, light gray, gray, black, pink, red, orange, brown, yellow, light green, green, aqua-blue, green-blue, blue, violet and purple.[4]
The early hours of the canvas were characterized by random pixel placement and chaotic attempts at image creation. Among the first distinct sections of the canvas to emerge were a corner of entirely blue pixels (named 'Blue Corner') and a homage to Pokémon. As the canvas developed, some established subreddit communities, such as those for video games, sports teams and individual countries, coordinated user efforts to claim and decorate particular sections.[5] Other sections of the canvas were developed by specially created communities and coordination efforts, such as reproductions of the Mona Lisa and The Starry Night.[6]
Several works of pixel art were created as a result of the experiment, varying from fictional characters and internet memes to patriotic flags, LGBT flags, and recreations of famous pieces of artwork.[7][8][9] Several 'cults' also formed to create and maintain various emblematic features such as a black void, green lattice, and a multi-colored 'rainbow road'.[1]
Reception[edit]
The idea of 'place' was commended for its representation of the Reddit online community. The A.V. Club called it 'a benign, colorful way for Redditors to do what they do best: argue among each other about the things that they love'.[10] ValueWalk.com described it as a 'microcosm of the emergent, spontaneous order that characterize society',[11] with Gizmodo labelling it as a 'testament to the internet's ability to collaborate'.[12] A number of commentators described Place as a representation of internet culture.[6] Some also commented on the apparent relationship between the makeup of the final canvas and the individual communities within Reddit, which exist independently but cooperate as part of a larger community.[13]Newsweek called it 'the internet's best experiment yet'.[14] One writer at Ars Technica suggested that the cooperative spirit of Place represented a model for fighting extremism in internet communities.[1] The experiment did receive some criticism for the lack of protection from bot usage and the automated placing of pixels.[15] After its ending, many clones of /r/place were created.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
- The Button (Reddit April Fools' Day 2015)
- Robin (Reddit April Fools' Day 2016)
- The Million Dollar Homepage, which also consists of a 1000x1000 pixel canvas
- Poietic Generator, a similar social pixel art work
References[edit]
- ^ abcMachkovech, Sam. 'Did Reddit's April Fool's gag solve the issue of online hate speech?'. Ars Technica. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^powerlanguage. 'Place has ended • r/place'. reddit. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
- ^ abWeinberger, Matt (4 April 2017). 'Over 1 million Reddit users waged a virtual war to create this bizarre work of art with 16 million pixels'. Business Insider Australia. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^Weinberger, Matt (1 April 2017). 'Reddit's new 'Place' is forcing millions of users to work together to make something great'. Business Insider. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^Tindale, James (4 April 2017). 'Reddit Place: April Fool's experiment reveals how the internet sees Australia'. The Australian. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^ abRhode, Jason. 'Redditors Collaborate to Create the Iconic Picture of Our Time'. pastemagazine.com. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^'Reddit's Bizarre Social Experiment: 5 Weirdest Things Created On r/place'. International Business Times. 1 April 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^'Eagles, Flyers represented in final version of Reddit's 'Place' social experiment'. PhillyVoice. 3 April 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^Oxford, Nadia. 'Here's the Best Game Fan Art from Reddit's r/place Canvas'. USgamer. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^'Reddit gave its users something to fight over besides anime and cucks'. 3 April 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^'Reddit 'Place' Project, Order Emerges One Pixel at a Time'. ValueWalk. 1 April 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^Serrels, Mark. 'Place Was The Internet, In All Its Glory'. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^Purdom, Clayton (3 April 2017). 'Reddit gave its users something to fight over besides anime and cucks'. A.V. Club. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^'From Van Gogh to a marriage proposal, Reddit Place was the internet's best experiment yet'. Newsweek. 11 April 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
- ^'Reddit's April Fools' Joke Spawned a Surprisingly Awesome Social Experiment | Nerdist'. Nerdist. 4 April 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
External links[edit]
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