Thursday, March 28

Reddit Place is the fool that has half the internet fighting and trolling at the stroke of a pixel


In 2017 Reddit took advantage of April Fools’ Day in the US (April Fools’ Day, April 1) to launch a collaborative mural called Place. Now that joke has been activated again in this 2022, and that mural has become a unique battlefield.

Reddit communities have scrambled to carve out their little niche in the mural, but the fever has spread to other communities like Forocoches or various Spanish Twitch streamers.

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The operation of this unique project is simple: every Reddit user can “paint” a pixel from a 16-color palette on the r/Place subreddit, and then can’t edit it for anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes.

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In 2017, more than a million users participated in this community art project, and the result was a canvas of 16 million pixels which was running for 72 hours.

This time the project will last four days and will conclude this afternoon at 17:00 (Spanish peninsular time). Activity is frenetic once againand the canvas does not stop being painted and repainted by users who coordinate especially on subreddits —such as r/esPlace in the case of the Spanish— to “fight” against other communities and try to impose their final designs.

Communities such as Forocoches have tried, for example, to coordinate a joint effort to achieve a space that represents Spain: in the mural you can see a part in which the country’s flag is accompanied by symbols of our culture such as Don Quixote, Spanish omelette, the ham or Mortadelo and Filemón.

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These coordinated efforts are not only trying to “gain ground” on the mural and keep a small piece of the mural, but have become a unique troll fight in which some countries are trolling others.

In Forocoches, for example, there were attempts to troll Turkey, while it was a group called ‘Green Lattice’ who were trolling spanish users covering a small Spanish flag and hiding it

There are other clashes at the stroke of the pixel, of course. Spanish and French streamers have started trolling each other too: Ibai llanos discovered on his channel the logo of K-Corp —a French eSports club— in the lower right corner, and asked his followers to “paint” together the logo of KOI, his own eSports club.

This has caused a coordinated effort by several streamers such as Karchez, Rubius, Axozer or Komanche, who have used a Discord channel to “conquer” that space and then “fight” French counterattacks to keep that little bit of the mural.

The r/Place subreddit itself has become a curious showcase for those coordinated efforts that have managed to rack up thousands upon thousands of upvotes and once again prove that Reddit is a crazy and wonderful platform.

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