The best part about place is its ability to accurately summarise the entire population of reddit in a single area. It's everything UA-cam Rewind ever wanted to be.
I see a lot of people saying they are excited for next years r/place. I hope this doesn't influence them to do it again so soon. Once every 5 years seems like the perfect spacing for such an event. Doing this every year would be too same-y and the event would be less special and meaningful.
@@user-wq9mw2xz3j I think doing it the second time was a good idea since everyone knew what to expect and people brought their all. The density of communities is much heavier than the 2017 one and that's a good thing. Though, doing it more times than this would begin a descent.
Apparently we germans had a really german-like coordination including an organigram, ambassedors for neighbor tiles, a night shift and a voting system among all contributors. Never been more proud of germany :D
ohne einen politischen Kontext, möchte ich sagen, dass jede morgentliche Machtübernahme super witzig war und ich glaube dass das das Klischee der deutschen Ausdauer etwas gestärkt hat XD... wie gesagt alles ohne politische Meinung ich rede nur von der internetbasierten "Machtübernahme"
If this becomes a tradition that's hosted every five years, just imagine how fascinating it's going to become. If it's still around in a hundred years, I wonder what it's going to look like then. Or even more interestingly, what will it be like for people in the future to look back at the very first ones? I think place is an incredible way to represent humanity as a whole.
In 2200 the maple leave will be finished In 2300 EVRYTHING is sus In 2350 Historians will commit suicide because they try to understand the origin of sus
This was such a fun project because It felt like all people that see themselves as a community participated in it. I enjoyed to just go through the whole image and I had so much fun whenever I found a reference to something I know or discovered something from a small community that I know. It was just full of little gems that just waited to be found. Shoutout to the guys from the Outer Wilds game! (A game that you should definetly play but without knowing anything about it).
There were lots of unexpected alliances too. As one of the main coordinators for touhou, we ended up working with the Romanian flag to have a small touhou character on it because her music theme referenced the Romanian capital. Then when poland invaded and the Romanians had no where left, Touhou changed their artwork title on the other side of the canvas to have the blue/yellow/red pattern, honoring their fallen comrades.
this event created some of the most cursed alliances that came out of this. Furry_IRL and neoLiberal-nonCredibleDefence? not only was it real, but it was literally the most ride or die alliance I have ever seen. I seriously can't describe just how fucking obsessively Protective they were over each other, it was insane, I have never seen anything like on the internet as a whole or even in real life. and who would've thought Megaman would team up with _Isreal?_ I sure didn't.
Factorio's magnificent gear was assaulted hours from the end by that polish flag, decimatingall art that was there. Yeah there was another factorio spot, but offbrand poland just had to take the iconic Factorio gear...
Tbh I would say that Germany is the biggest reason why the EU is falling apart now. Their strange anti european immigration politics already made the UK have enough of it so they left. They cant just throw everythin over board before the EU even became a stable union.... they risked everything because of bullshit politics. Also its driving other nations more into conservativism (such as Poland and Hungary) and right now is creating alot of stress when it comes to ukraine and helping Ukraine. Germany is a joke right now and was for the last 7 years. So its not only Scholzes Fault also Merkels. And I would know because I am in its capital city and I am really into geo politics and can easily tell you why the UN is crap instead of a GOOD thing like they pretend to be Example: They send FOOD instead of equipment, infrastructure and education to africa because africa needs to be controlled and reliant on the UN. Sending food destroy local farmers and businesses that cant compete with free UN food. And people cant be convinced to actually become farmers if they cant make a living out of it. The few that exist are kept small since they cant grow their business. Its a disgusting mechanism. They dont need food they need means to make their own food so they dont need the UN anymore.
I am in awe of the osu! community. They were among the most attacked artworks but they were defending their ground so well, they were accused of botting when in fact there were 1200 people on discord trying their best to not only defend their own place but also other communities. The flags were annoying at first but many of them were filled with skylines, important landmarks, memes or significant pieces of media of that country, like Belgium's Tin Tin, France's Asterix or Germany's Maus. Where Germany's and France's flags met, people drew the logo of the TV channel "arte" which is a channel in both German and French, symbolising the friendship between the two nations. I loved r/place. It's a love letter to so many things. It was a marvel to behold, the good, the bad, the horny, the sus, the void, the flags and the people who tried their best to keep other artworks safe and to keep Bananada's flag from ever resembling a maple leaf.
OSU did really well and good, even ther colabs did good, they build a very strong friendship with the other Anime coltures and this was the real goal for them and the anime cultires i think to survive against big streamers and the flags.
Having an organised community on Discord really is key to being able to have good real estate. I was moderating the Marvel Place and we got steamrolled and had to move multiple times, despite having a massive community, just because we didn't have an active Discord
r/placeNL visible across the top did a nice job at exactly that, although in a less ambit*ious way than other subreddits. But we're only 17 million in total lol
I can attest to this. The (relatively small) community I was in had maybe 20 people at any given time on place and we managed to make and maintain three relatively large (~60x60 on average) areas for ourselves in part because of this. The other part was collaborating with our neighbors.
@@electroflame6188 Same here. I was supporting one community where the only twitch streamer for it had less than 100 views and a discord of a small bunch of people, but we managed to get a surprising amount on the canvas
Context for that image for people wondering: The man is sad "Yagoo" CEO of a vtuber (virtual youtubers, anime avatars streamers that sing and stuff) group "Hololive". The meme behind why he is crying is because he pivoted his company to be a virtual idol (singer) group, but basically everyone in that group has became comedy streamers, so he's crying because his dream is dead of a PG 'seiso' idol singing group.
@@deeperthantheabyss624 The vtuber place experience was heckin awesome since we managed to build crazy large areas with close to no losses in territory; as someone who was fighting for Hololive on r/place from day 2 til the end, I think our main strengths were our alliances (Belgium, Germany, osu), our command structure and our coordination Alliance wise, we lucked out really hard by being on the corner of Belgium and Germany, so by day they'd tank attacks for us and by night we'd deal with the griefing on their flags. osu coming to our aid was kinda expected since we're all weebs together, and their help was super useful when xqc raided the Hololive logo on day 2. Command structure wise, the vtuber community had 3 main r/place discords, the first one spearheading most of the projects (vtuber-place) , the second one working on their own projects while helping out the other areas (okbh) and the third, smallest "discord" mostly worked on defending existing arts ("place" thread in Hololive Fan Server). We'd get pinged every time attacks were happening or when allies wanted specific demands, so things got done fast and we even managed to approve the existence of artworks on the Belgian flags Coordination wise, we'd utilise the discords to time placing pixels on the canvas. On the 3rd day, there was a 2-hour long battle in the eastern section of the canvas where a force of 200-400 people were defending from a Russian streamer with 6k live viewers, and through sheer passion for our stuff and coordination, we managed to force the streamer back o7 to all that fought on r/place
Canadian here! It wasn't that we couldn't place the leaf, it was that it was the most greifed flag on the map. Germany was very kind to help protect a bit of Canada on a less griefed spot.
i think this was an ongoing story the video doesn't really cover because only each individual community really understood what was unfolding. The sad dog was a war between two streamers Destiny and Hasan for instance. It would take mammoth research to really play all this back with enough background info for a casual viewer to understand it all. And I'm quite OK with that. It was a huge Internet thing that mostly everyone loved and then it was gone. I'll be ready next time to place more than the 1 pixel I managed, filthy casual that I am.
@@ClayManncan confirm. I helped a community that made small artworks and stayed relatively out of the limelight. Yet we somehow ended up allying with Romania, becoming Romanian nationalists from that alliance, hating Poland because of its aggression toward the Romanian flag, becoming enemies with peru due to a peru streamer invasion and causing a civil war within the peru group on who they wanted to support
@@D00000T that's hilarious. At one point I had 4 different streamers up in separate windows listening to each one scheming with others and it was madness
I didn't really team up, but was just helping out several teams, especially Germany and Poland. On the last day, some fucking idiots started drawing a big swastika on the German flag. Luckily, the German sub, including me, reacted quickly and removed it in a minute. It was lots of fun, I'm happy to have been a part of Place.
r/place was probably the most fun I've had on reddit. The difficulties coordinating with other communities crossing language and cultural borders was incredible and yet exciting at the same time. Every single instance where we had to begin communicating with another group was incredible. Alliances were formed and destroyed, truces were made and protections was promised. I personally worked on the Titanfall 2/Team Fortress 2 logos and that time when the only thing that mattered was the constant threat of xqc's void threatening to blot out every small community on the board was somehow stressful and exhilarating at the same time. Regardless of what happened to your artwork during the reign of r/place, I would like to say this: The internet, however vulgar will always find away to cooperate, communicate, and eventually destroy what was accomplished. Because amazing things cannot last forever and r/place is not any different. It should not be annual or even regular, which I think would take away what makes it special. But regardless of what your opinions are on the frequency of what r/place should be held at I think we can all agree on one thing: Fuck Chtorrr.
3:14 "This man remained sad, no matter how many anime characters he surrounded himself with" YAGOO's dream has been crushed, but his legacy will live on. o7
This was absolutely the most fun I've had in a while. I made alliances with other people and some massive communities and was able to secure a whole wonky 32 pixels. We were wiped twice, but everyone came together to help the little dino and tiny little muffin. We were assaulted by among us at the end but held strong! It was a pleasure placing pixels with everyone!
It was an honor representing Rainbow Six on r/place! In 2017, we had the big machine gun icon of Tachanka to represent us (as well as buff Blitz and epi, the community manager at the time). I wasn't involved with that, but I loved seeing the memes there at the time. Now in 2022, I started getting involved on the third day. We only had our 6 logo and Tachanka's big green helmet was wiped out. Seeing how massive the German flags were, we proposed to represent the game's German characters somewhere along the flag. I went to r/placeDE's Discord to propose this, and I met the head ambassador SKB, who also happened to moderate Rainbow Six's Discord. I invited him to our server and then we voted on which characters to represent. IQ and Jäger won the vote. We got to work on some mockups. SKB posted our mockup and made a plea to the German's, and they voted in approval! We were so happy that we secured a space. Though, the German's did most of the heavy lifting by making our sprite chibis actually work with r/place. The ending to r/place was poetic. It ended how it started. I would have been annoyed if some streamer decided to wipe us out. But everything turning white was somehow comforting. Not every plan along the way was a success, like trying to negotiate with Quebec to secure a space for our 6. But it was wonderful to see how different communities organized. I had fun representing, negotiating, and defending our part! I would like to thank r/placeDE and SKB for allowing us the space and making our chibis work within the flag!
I loved every minute of this, I wasn't that involved and the only pic I was apart of was the small Yu-Gi-Oh card that showed up at the very end (before becoming Sus) but seeing amazing art develop and how story lines are made was incredible. It's amazing what people can do as a collective
I helped with the "Botting is a sin" bubble on top of the Osu hitcircle at 727 1727 since it got severely vandalized and I'm actually glad to come back seeing it almost fully restored.
It's thematic for Among us. The game revolves around finding imposters and what do you find in the canvas? A lot of hidden amogus, everywhere no matter what art it is.
The little Amongus everywhere was great, the subtle ones used to shade artwork were fun to mind and is probably the best way that series has been used in awhile
Seeing how much effort I put into such a tiny insignificant corner of the map, only makes me appreciate more of all the effort that went into everything else. What an amazing thing to have been a part of. Hope they do this again, in another half a decade or so
The Outer Wilds animated timeloop in there was honestly the coolest most creative thing in my opinion, definitely worth looking up if you're an Outer Wilds fan or just curious
The one part of this I found myself getting involved with was the No Man's Sky community's "war for the pixel", in which, during day 3's expansion, after failing to get a proper bit of community cohesion and art going for 2 days, the No Man's Sky community agreed to fight for the newly available pixel 1616,1616; 16 being a super important number in No Man's Sky's lore and story, and after some back and forth eventually managed to carve a small artwork of No Man's Sky's Atlus next to it (almost as a barrier) which ended up being kept nice stable until the end; so it's fun looking back seeing the bigger picture after spending a day watching and helping a community I like fight for a single pixel :)
@@NutchapolSal I suppose so, the main difference being that WYSI comes from the community's interaction with the game, while 16! 16! 16! 16! is a line from the game itself that pops up absolutely everywhere within it, in terms of community obsession theough, the result is ultimately the same yeah :)
I love that you showed some of the graphs made by Chinese dissidents at 2:06. I am very proud to say that I am one of them. We also made a miniature Chinese zodiac sign below
@@alexanderl.6207 I think you are talking about Falun Gong. And no, being dissidents in China doesn't mean we support them. They are deep in some conspiracy shit like their leader, who is still alive today, can walk on sun or something. They also believe in all sorts of anti vaccine conspiracy
Sure, having an organized and active community got you far in terms of what you could make, but what _really_ let you punch above your weight was forming alliances. In an alliance, whenever one mural wasn't under attack, the people managing it were free to defend other allied murals - making for a incredibly solid defense. I was with the VA-11 HALL-A server, and while we were around 200 strong, we were able to tap into the collective manpower of _thousands_ through alliances with placepenguins, numerous gacha game communities - even Osu, as one of our murals was right next to that big-ass Peppy.
Alliances were by far my favorite thing about r/Place. I was part of the central alliance and never thought I would sacrifice pixels to defend the icon of a sports team from Barcelona but knowing that every member, all the people you defend would have your back in return when your area of the map got attacked by a streamer, was such an amazing feeling.
osu! and their allies were legit the NATO of r/place chances are if you touched any smaller community (or even WSB and Star Wars), they were allied with us and the osu army would obliterate any attempt at griefing
We had a similar experience in the NW corner, there's a lot of smaller pieces there, and Runescape is situated there. Runescape proved a resilient opponent to Nordicunion's invasion attempts, particularly Norway trying to expand to the Western Wall. Runescape did eventually lose a bit of ground, which lead to almost all the small pieces in the NW corner and notably r/NLplace forming one big NW corner alliance. As Norwegian Runescape veteran it was conflicting times having my own country invade on my underdog favourite, but I'm glad Runescape stood it's ground. It was a lot of fun working together to form the NW alliance, and speaking to people from other communities I never would engage with otherwise.
Thanks for mentioning the Missing Texture! I was one of the main leader of that project. It was hard, we had to move 5 times, and were troubled 7 times by streamers. But we succesfully got ourselves a place for our artwork at the top right, thanks to the r/poland community! Also the invasion on the American flag wasn't us at all, we had no control on that situation x)
funnily enough the people who were working on the trans flag invasion of america actually joined in on the missing texture, until it backfired and ate them back
Canada's flag issue was firstly due to random people trying to make our flag outside the group. Then when people memed it, spanish streamers tried to turn it into weed (its been legal here since 2016 (maybe 18) or something). Afterwards Canada got an overlay and sorta fixed the leaf, then with the map expansion quickly, they moved the flag 3 times with no success until germany allianced with Canada to make the maple leaf in their territory, since the germans felt bad for building over their flag a bit. Canada then got a hold of france's/spain's (spain was invading one of their new flags) botting software and method designed their own with similar code. The Canada members who used the bot quickly got banned and the flag returned to shit as the bot coders had accidentally coded a small mistake in the bot while the overlay designer was too incompetent to make a proper overlay, and he ruined the one they were using out of stupidity (I found the method to make a proper one but didn't want to give it to them due to the management allowing botting). Reddit then unbanned all their bot accounts and the flag finally returned to normal with the provinces above it. (There is more like tagpro moving and the organizers of the flag being too nice to them and not coordinating properly due to mixed priorities but yeah a lot went wrong) Atleast the flag was so griefed you can see it in the heatmap.)
3:17 as someone who was part of the community making the sad man, your description is quite hilarious. For those curious though, the joke is that the man is the CEO of Cover and Hololive, Yagoo as we call him. At the start he called Hololive an idol group and a few years later, a VTuber he was managing known as Kiryu Coco did a little trolling. It was basically agreed that his "idol dream" was dead and a photo of him was found from before Yagoo was a CEO and it became his signature photo for his shattered dream. Now running a comedian group instead of an idol group.
@@kebien6020 Sora saying "motherfucker" marked the end for Yagoo's idol dream. If I remember right he actually made the announcement that he was running an entertainment company literally the day after that shitpost review. I don't really remember who started it unfortunately, there's so much hololive has created in the past 2 years that my brain has started to delete some things.
I didn't know about it when it started, so I was only there for the last two days. I quickly joined the fairly small r/CaveStory community and the next 30-40 hours was some of the most fun I have ever had in my life. Constantly being under threat from streamers, with frequent losses and victories both big and small, it was exhilarating. It feels absolutely devastating for it to end so soon, and I know I'll be desperately craving to have this experience again for the next five years.
HEY VIB-RIBBON GAMER HERE I saw you guys get destroyed and I felt so fucking bad, ended up using my alts to try to help rebuild once the vibri art was safe ;0; Glad you guys were able to survive through the days and voids
while the star trek under cavestory being attacked by the same streamer 5th time and luckily we were persisrent enough to defend to the point he even call his gf to help and yet failed
I loved the cave story art! It made me so happy to see it. I was helping maintain the splatoon squid that was below you the first day or so before we got greened out and had to move.
It was so fun allying with Cave Story and a few others around us. I helped Noita and their community the whole time and was super sad to see Cave Story get raided within the last 30 min of r/place
My favorite part of the story was when the canvas doubled for the second time, pretty much all French streamers went online and rallied their communities to fight for their huge flag. Then, most Spanish streamers rallied their fanbase to go and attack and vandalize the flag repeatedly, even making an alliance with xQc at one point. The whole thing was extremely entertaining.
The French were so obviously botting, they were botting so hard that when the only colour available became white, their entire flag turned white (ironic) within minutes. Once again proving that when the going gets tough, the French raise the white flag.
@@ffredalot and once again your proving that spanish are lil salty idiot. The fact that the french flag became white so fast can be explained by the fact that there was something like 1.2M people on it placing pixel so no that doesnt prove french were botting. But guess im talking for nothing cause ofc if we didnt bot your little ego wouldnt be able to take the enormous L you got LMAO
@@ffredalot so the flag turning white is *not* the army of Spanish people trying to destroy the french flag finally being able to do so without any resistance
@@ffredalot nice bullshit dude, the flag turned white quickly but not instantly, probably because an actual million people were placing pixels on it when it happened. the only part that turned white immediatly was the army logo, because the spanish were the one boting. also if the french were boting, how can you explain they made a "fr" so quickly in the top when everything turned white? I mean, you can keep the aluminium hat on your head or just get some balls and accept defeat, french were just better in this "war"
Man created a VTuber idol group, got a VTuber comedian group instead. Oh yeah that's Motoaki Tanigo aka. Yagoo, he's the CEO of Cover Productions, the company behind Hololive.
"This man remained sad despite the anime girls surrounding him." His name is Yagoo, he's perpetually sad because those girls destroys his dreams on a daily basis.
as a member of osuplace, literally going to war with xqc was the highlight of these 4 days to me. it was just crazy in the discord with over 900 people in a live stage and about 15k on BTMC's stream coordinating to retake our logo and to help our allies. truly an incredible experience I'll definitely never forget. o7
its little stories that makes place cool for me, communities that you would never see together doing something for each other during the whole wave of wildness happening around them, I personally was defending and helping a little yume nikki artwork that appeared, and it was beautiful seeing how we made alliances with communities like the Detroit red wings and lions sport teams, the doom community and the Taiwan subreddit, our space got attacked twice, once by a group of turkish influencers and later by a streamer logo, but we all helped each other out and stood by until the end, it was truly a very unique experience and it made me proud to be part of something, it really made me appreciate more what people can do together, someone even made artwork of our little alliance in the yume nikki reddit, madotsuki playing hockey with the Detroit red wings, truly amazing, something only the internet can do
Me and some friends were working on little logos for the bands The Strokes and Oasis underneath the notre dame. It was legit some of the most fun I had in a while negotiating spaces with other communities and helping them out and trying our best to keep the logos intact, we even got one of The Strokes to see it! It was awesome.
Thank you for making this. Not only is it a beautiful project but it just so happen to catch the small moment my very small memorial for my brother who recently passed away had been on /place. If you pause at 2:46 look above the pink head (IGOR Album cover) you can see the RIP for jack. RIP JACK
So proud of the Osu! community, i see the botting accusations as compliments, anyone on their discord could see the the dedication and coordination they were putting into those pixels.
The gacha alliance was also accused of botting on a lesser scale as a smaller community than Osu! that got attacked less than Osu!, was formed during r/place instead of before, and was less visually apparent than Osu! and the big pink circle, that also managed to control almost as many pixels (if not as many or more than because even some of the alliance members couldn't keep track of all the smaller projects), and didn't have a streamer (BTMC) supporting them for full streams. Being accused of botting when you aren't botting is he biggest compliment. It's a testament to the dedication weebs have for pixels on a screen. No community is more obsessed with them than the weebs.
@@Xeconis As a member of r/grandorder, yes. Although I didn't participate that much in the gacha alliance. All my attention was on Komi-san (just above Osu)
Sadness of the man(Yagoo) at 3:14 is what keeps the anime characters(vtubers) and the fans happy. And we are glad you noticed them, because that makes us more happy!
For a while, the big Turkish flag had an absolutely brilliant piece of art going. They had their silhouetted skyline, and when the actual night fell they had people turning on, changing colour, and turning off the lights almost like it was a random yet collaborative animation. Csgo had one too for a moment with the logo firing out a version of a spray pattern onto a neighbouring logo, but i never got to see it in r/place and only in videos shared on the internet.
There are many stories untold too, for example the Hollow Knight community wanted to put a kebab through the C in Turkey's flag, but it never came to be.
Seeing Omori almost smack down in the middle of the canvas makes me feel proud. I've spent many hours of these 4 days helping build and maintain our artworks.
Being a Diplomat and Mod for the PlaceNL (Netherlands area) community was very intense but a lot of fun. Spoke with so many different communities and people from all around the world, set up alliances, collaborations and all. One of our highlights when painting our giant paintings was a huge effort to relocate most of the artworks we displaced, instead of just destroying them. The stories of diplomacy of all projects in this event are probably worth gathering and combining into some sort of documentary.
This was so fun to be apart of. SCP and GOC had to fight against a massive spampton nose and we got invaded by bulgaria once. so many stories to tell from so many small communities
I loved all of this, a wonderful 4 days of looking at place every 5 mins, helped with building the Deep Rock Galactic area and also made a memorial with others for one of our friends who passed away last year which was sweet. I hope they do it again, but in another 4 years as I am burned out of protecting pixels.
For me the VOID creatures drawings where the best things for they were totally uncordinated, humanity saw a black spot, and from the dark depts of our conscience those freaky creatures emerged. The coordinated efforts where cool, but for me the uncoordinated ones are where r/place truly shone.
Proud to have been part of the 3rd night watch of PlaceDE. It was such an amazing experience, even if I was only able to participate late. The defence when X finally dared to attack us was incredible. And when it comes to bots, yes there were plenty. We had a few thousand in form of a Python bot and a browser script by the last day to defend our pixelart, including the occasional downtime panic when they were iterated on and some self sabotage by changing colours in the reference png. We didn't use it to defend our flag colours though, as much as people want to claim that, that was all human input.
Night watch is a rough job o7. I was part of the night watch for the Senko loaf and rice cooker, and was staying up till 6, 7 am to pass on the torch to the next group. We didn't run a bot, so most of our battles were against ourselves, fixing and unfixing texturing. We were protected by Osu which served as a deterrent, although we only had to call them in for defense once, when a Peruvian streamer tried to expand the flag of Peru over the rice cooker.
I was on night watch duty for placeIndia. Seeing flag art that took hours being destroyed changes a man. Had to run scripts on 4 windows to fight greifers on day 2, bcos I had to defend flags and communities we made alliances with. Place was so much fun
me but it was actually stressful as fuck and i was hunted down by 4chins trolls on discord because i was trying to defend pride flags. so that was a good mental health experience
@@cybersteel8 it was great for me because we formed a team of about 150 people by the end, meeting a community and people I would never have seen otherwise. It was great to be in a call/chat with new faces all with the same collective goal and I've already made a few friends out of this.
Thanks for making this historical record! I had a lot of fun participating in Place this year and I'm happy to see a quick, concise video from an amazing youtuber covering it not 24 hours after it finished.
i missed the first r/place, and will never miss this year. was part of both r/ph and r/osuplace to guard their precious pixels, just like i was clicking circles to the beat. the coordination in r/osuplace was incredible, mostly everyone relying on everyone's birthmonths* to protect a certain area (e.g. January to March would be the letter 'o', or at the clock position of your birthmonth you'd protect the area of the circle, etc).
@@Jekkyboi r/Hololive basically used the same templates as osu to help everyone know what to place, then just let members do their thing. We expanded quite a bit, but we’re fanatical on the defence. It’s why almost everything we made survived, with the last thing almost surviving but just couldn’t be saved in time
I was there and it was beautiful. Hollow Knight community got their place by Elden Ring and at first it was just a simple agreement to write "git gud" between our spots. Then when the canvas expanded, we started to draw the Knight sitting on a bench, but we decided to invite Renni from Elden Ring to sit with us. Then Ori, guys from Ace Attorney, slugcat from Rainworld, Baba and so, so many more characters joined in to share the spot with us it was incredible. And when the canvas expanded once more, we and Elden Ring community became so close together that we immediately started working on a piece combining our games together, that we had prepared in advance. It was incredible to witness and that's not even all of the story that happened in our 3 little spots.
I was really only a spectator of this whole thing; only occasionally placing pixels to fix things and cleaning up some stuff, but this event was wild and I hope they do it again in 5 years. I did know about r/place in 2017 but I didn't have a reddit account at the time so I was glad to participate somewhat this year.
This was amazing. As someone who partook in the VTuber community, it was so much fun defending our space. And at the end of the day, I'm glad hololive will be getting more attention and there's going to be more VTuber fans of tomorrow thanks to this. Edit: @3:14 That is quite the apt description of YAGOO.
Hello, fellow soldiers. I had lots of fun helping with defense, as well as building the 5 chibi VShojo girls, Fubuking and Ironmouse's NyanHug emote. Too bad we lost Migo towards the end, but at least Suisex survived. Hopefully, we'll meet again if r/place comes back around once more.
@@ffredalot Well that's good to know. The only TTS VTuber I know of is Zentraya, and I don't think it was her because they had a spot on the final canvas. Also, I mainly partook in most VTuber stuff, like the main Hololive Logo and stuff like that, but that's interesting to hear tho.
The Celeste community had four very small but far from each other locations on the board and they kept all three by the end. It's an amazing game and I was there to defend the artwork in the almost dead center from being eaten up by Germany's massive flag. I think Celeste has some of the most individual locations in the board the was from a small, lesser known community and I am proud we could be there bc that's definitely where my pixels were going.
The attack on r/superstonks and the Celeste flag was kind of an accident. Basically, r/DE and the Germans purged all the overnight crap on the morning of day 2, and it built such a momentum that the randoms who weren't coordinating on r/DE's Discord just kept going on without realising that we had an alliance with r/superstonks and the smaller groups in that block and didn't wnat to expand there. Actually created sort of a diplomatic incident when it panicked everyone to the right of the german flag.
this place was so incredibly fun to participate in. so many memes created and communities represented, can't wait for the next one even though that could take some time
We ended up becoming the main allying force of a ton of others too; Elden Ring was the big one with our Radiance + Erdtree, but we also made a bench with Baba Is You, Ori, Bloodborne, Phoenix Wright, and a bunch of others. It was an awesome time :)
It was around 00:30 AM for me when I went to check on r/place the last time. By that point the lower left flag of France was already white and many other pixels two. I did not know what to make out of it. For a coordinated attack it was to big to spread out. It took me a few minutes to realize that one could only place white pixels. It took some time but then the shock faded and was replaced with happiness. We all know it would end. For me it was oddly satisfying seeing every thing return to its original state. I joined the discord where many others had gathered and spent the next one or two hours listening to our groups leaders who talked about how happy they where how good all went and the goals we did not achieve. This evening we gathered once more. Once again our leaders hold a speech explaining what kind of work was going on in the background. Talking with other sub reddits, planing new pieces of our art work... For me this weekend has been the happiest this entire year, maybe since the begin of the pandemic.
As someone who was very active this time around, and who had to be constantly on edge to make sure the art of my two small communities wasn’t swallowed in seconds, you cannot imagine the sheer, almost primal-like terror hearing that sound at 0:07 again caused me
I was from the r/outerwilds community and let me say we were stressed the entire time. We were in the bottom left corner at the start with our little patch, teaming up with Rainworld and Football Against Terrorism. This would've been enough, but we went for more. To simulate our game better, we made our plot dynamic, slowly changing the background of our patch before enveloping it in a supernova. When we were resetting the patch, our second plot across the canvas had its mask's eyes glow. Anyone who has touched outer wilds knows what this means, but I cannot say more for spoilers. I have never seen a more coordinated effort from a community. This is a small indie game, and our community was one of the first solidified on the canvas, and we managed to stand until the end. When the white pixels came, we knew our time had come, and immediately all wiped out our canvas. It was fitting for the theme of the game, after all, and we couldn't have asked for a better ending. So many small stories on this canvas that could be told.
france who is somewhat usually absent from reddit (having a lot of oc fr memes on facebook's neurchis) was an amazing thing, french twich and twitter coordinated the thing it was a great moment of our collective internet history
"this man remain sad even surrounded by anime girls" Tanigo, or YAGOO, is always have that feeling due to his employees doing questionable content in UA-cam lmao
It's a mighty large res image. Even if it's only technically 2000x2000, the pixels are sharp edges that need to be vectored properly otherwise it's not conveyed properly.
I love how many communities formed "neighborhoods" of likeminded subreddits, though there was still quite a bit of randomness. NCD/Neolib found themselves in the midst of other subs with a similar userbase. They were also next door neighbors to Furry IRL. Internet politics makes strange bedfellows indeed.
@@KerbalRocketry I'm glad we could be of assistance, even if there was a bit of chaos when Sweden invaded due to us being confused about the intended color of the background. To be fair it would've been the ultimate chad move to do a background color change in the middle of holding off an invasion at the same time, haha.
Exactly. The alliances that formed were between the most random groups, it was very fun to see. For example, r/vexillology (study of flags) ended up somehow in a huge South East Asian alliance, spearheaded by r/Philippines. Then, because I was a member of both r/vexillology and r/community, the latter decided to ally the former. When my attention turned more towards r/community, we suddenly had allied the LA Dodgers, the Wilbur Soot subreddit, Batman (who was on the other side of the canvas!) and the Destiny alliance (Gigachad guys). It was really weird, but it was also extremely fun meeting all those people and negotiating with them
@@foxdancemedia yeah the confusion around that was due to the idea that "hey the signs wrecked anyway, lets just renovate it" which in practice turned out to not work as it just caused confusion
The NL-NCD alliance structure got really big, with many surprising allies along the way (looking at you waldo). We made a true NATO on r/place and I'm kinda proud of that, it wasn't just a flag it was an actual idea.
I am glad to have been able to have taken a part of this event, though I didn't do much. I, with the other bronies of Reddit, helped defend ponies from many raids. We managed to stick it out to the end and came out with around 8 or 9 images on place.
Actually dozens out we have a lot more than 8 or 9, we got the big ones which are around that, but more and more tiny ones are being found and marked, check out the atlas, we are updating them as we find them
Thia video and its comment section is a great source of war time stories for thoae of us who didn't keep up with the r/place developments in real time.
Our community tried to create a GM on r/place around 5 times, you can see us try above spacex, at the beginning... Being a small community really was a challenge on this experiment ! Nice video, as always !
It was really, really fun both watching and working on r/place, the troubles of defending what you have, trying to win territory, aggressively or diplomatically, and just seeing so many interesting things prop up (like the amogi everywhere), I worked with r/GFL and by extension the "gacha alliance" in the near southeast of the canvas, our works that remained until the end were an M4A1 + Va-11 Hall-a crossover piece next to the creator of OSU, and the large collaboration piece with a huge number of gacha games (the power of addics!) I hope place returns, but not too soon, it should be a special occasion.
Hey, a fellow Gacha Alliance member. I fought for r/grandorder during this event. The things I remember the most were fighting against the giant amogus cock that tried to snipe Hololive, going through Valorant and BB; defending Hololive when xQc tried to cover them in purple; fighting against ANOTHER giant amogus that tried to cum snipe Megumin, going through our Gudako build; helping Genshin and Honkai to fend off attacks on their game icons... I'll also never forget Costa Rica, our great ally. They were super nice and helped us A LOT. And I agree, Place should be special. Maybe a 5 years cooldown. This gives time for people to grow and for the internet to change.
The coordination here was really important. We defended the Estonian flag against r/PoliticalCompassMemes, despite the population of our entire country being just over twice as large as the amount of subscribers on their subreddit. Our country's subreddit is 10x smaller than theirs. They didn't manage to take anything from us and were instead infighting due to their lack of coordination. Meanwhile, we helped other Baltic States, drew our coat of arms on our flag, drew our national bird on our flag, coordinated with the other Baltic States to draw the borders of our countries with our flags inside them (which temporarily expanded into the rest of Europe till some streamer invaded them), and made a pixel art of one of our folk legends ("Suur Tõll") while also fighting the Colombian flag.
Really glad I got to be a part of r/place this year. And while it was frustrating having art pieces for things you hold dear getting attacked by huge waves of people following different streamers, the satisfaction of holding through to the end was worth it.
I became very quickly fascinated by r/place. I checked it so often and I was devastated seeing everything going white. The end was a really good April fools joke and for the first time in a while I didn't see any negative news or ignored them. Instead I followed streamers and placed my occasional pixel. Thank you Reddit!
Watching streams from kameto coordinating defenses with 600k viewers and participating protecting the french flag and the arc de triomphe was so hype. R/place was definitely the best internet event in a while.
@@ChindasASecas No, but I know for a fact that the spanish streamers did use bots, they told their viewers how to download it and they used it live aswell. They should be banned from twitch, cheating on anything is against twitch TOS
man definitely the best part of place 2022 was that it wasn't a lazy rehash but introduced some new twists that make me wonder if in five years in place 2027 is gonna happen, will canvas keep doubling? or will it half itself each day? maybe someting more unexpected?
The best part about place is its ability to accurately summarise the entire population of reddit in a single area. It's everything UA-cam Rewind ever wanted to be.
You mean what UA-cam Rewind was _supposed_ to be, but never wanted to.
@@danielnanski838 I mean the moderators also summaries reddit mods
@@danielnanski838 I'd say that's still a good representation of Reddit: annoying powermods who can't take criticism.
the thing i find crazy is that people really manage to make animations with this such as the minecraft one
Csgo did a pretty good one with the ak spray onto the fortnite logo
And the Turkish man crying for his Greek friend
Not to mention the meteor strike that hit the my little pony artwork
I helped burn down the christmas tree in the flag of Québec to send another fuck you to xqc. it's small but nice to see when whatching the timelapse
they became smart
I see a lot of people saying they are excited for next years r/place. I hope this doesn't influence them to do it again so soon. Once every 5 years seems like the perfect spacing for such an event. Doing this every year would be too same-y and the event would be less special and meaningful.
In calling it now, the next one won't happen until another 10 years
@@NonTwinBrothers it could be that or it could be happening in the next 2 years or so haha
doing it a second time was stupid. no point. once was amazing, twice is once too much
@@user-wq9mw2xz3j This was first time for me in r/place, I didnt even know it existed. I had fun and I hope they do it again
@@user-wq9mw2xz3j I think doing it the second time was a good idea since everyone knew what to expect and people brought their all. The density of communities is much heavier than the 2017 one and that's a good thing. Though, doing it more times than this would begin a descent.
Apparently we germans had a really german-like coordination including an organigram, ambassedors for neighbor tiles, a night shift and a voting system among all contributors. Never been more proud of germany :D
And the great purge on day 2 when germanys wake up time came and all of the non-allowed artworks on the flag were annihilated eerily quickly.
Einfach nur geil😂
ohne einen politischen Kontext, möchte ich sagen, dass jede morgentliche Machtübernahme super witzig war und ich glaube dass das das Klischee der deutschen Ausdauer etwas gestärkt hat XD... wie gesagt alles ohne politische Meinung ich rede nur von der internetbasierten "Machtübernahme"
@@requiemlul3140 to paraphrase the discord: 'we are deleting the hearts, they don't have a permit'
@@cecilj4129
DEUTSCHE BÜROKRATIE!
If this becomes a tradition that's hosted every five years, just imagine how fascinating it's going to become. If it's still around in a hundred years, I wonder what it's going to look like then. Or even more interestingly, what will it be like for people in the future to look back at the very first ones? I think place is an incredible way to represent humanity as a whole.
by 2100 the osu logo will fill all the canvas lol, mark my words
@@deus-vult5030 Haha yeah that would be funny!
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In 2200 the maple leave will be finished
In 2300 EVRYTHING is sus
In 2350 Historians will commit suicide because they try to understand the origin of sus
@@deus-vult5030 by 2100 no one will be playing osu
This was such a fun project because It felt like all people that see themselves as a community participated in it. I enjoyed to just go through the whole image and I had so much fun whenever I found a reference to something I know or discovered something from a small community that I know. It was just full of little gems that just waited to be found. Shoutout to the guys from the Outer Wilds game! (A game that you should definetly play but without knowing anything about it).
As a member of the Rain World community, the debt we owe them for our alliance is lifelong
As a part of the Outer Wilds community I was so happy to see alliances form with fellow indie games
I can approve of telling people to play outer wilds its a game so good you are not allowed to talk about it
I loved seeing Omori and Deltarune arts, I was very happy to know that people still knew about this games!
Even the evolution of the logo in r/place looked like a spoiler!
There were lots of unexpected alliances too. As one of the main coordinators for touhou, we ended up working with the Romanian flag to have a small touhou character on it because her music theme referenced the Romanian capital. Then when poland invaded and the Romanians had no where left, Touhou changed their artwork title on the other side of the canvas to have the blue/yellow/red pattern, honoring their fallen comrades.
Ah yeah, Alice! She has a music track titled "The Doll Maker of Bucaresti"
this event created some of the most cursed alliances that came out of this.
Furry_IRL and neoLiberal-nonCredibleDefence? not only was it real, but it was literally the most ride or die alliance I have ever seen. I seriously can't describe just how fucking obsessively Protective they were over each other, it was insane, I have never seen anything like on the internet as a whole or even in real life.
and who would've thought Megaman would team up with _Isreal?_ I sure didn't.
Factorio's magnificent gear was assaulted hours from the end by that polish flag, decimatingall art that was there. Yeah there was another factorio spot, but offbrand poland just had to take the iconic Factorio gear...
We even had the romanian flag in the conveyor belts!
Ours was the alliance between Babymetal and Foxhole, me being fans of both.
"This man remained sad no matter how many anime characters he surrounded himself with" Well of course, none of them could keep his dream alive
Best girl just can't stop suffering from success
Our best girl YAGOO can't seem to be able to keep his dream alive
"an idol group similar to AKB48"
Poor Yagoo, but Hololive is awesome as it is.
The more anime in your life, the unhappier you are.
Sora: am I a joke to you?
I like how Germany holds the image together, like it holds the EU together irl 😂
Tbh I would say that Germany is the biggest reason why the EU is falling apart now.
Their strange anti european immigration politics already made the UK have enough of it so they left. They cant just throw everythin over board before the EU even became a stable union.... they risked everything because of bullshit politics.
Also its driving other nations more into conservativism (such as Poland and Hungary) and right now is creating alot of stress when it comes to ukraine and helping Ukraine.
Germany is a joke right now and was for the last 7 years. So its not only Scholzes Fault also Merkels.
And I would know because I am in its capital city and I am really into geo politics and can easily tell you why the UN is crap instead of a GOOD thing like they pretend to be
Example:
They send FOOD instead of equipment, infrastructure and education to africa because africa needs to be controlled and reliant on the UN.
Sending food destroy local farmers and businesses that cant compete with free UN food. And people cant be convinced to actually become farmers if they cant make a living out of it. The few that exist are kept small since they cant grow their business.
Its a disgusting mechanism. They dont need food they need means to make their own food so they dont need the UN anymore.
Unsere Politiker sind alle Korrupt und unfähig. Das einzige was die zusammenhalten lässt ist Geld und Gier nach Macht.
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I am in awe of the osu! community. They were among the most attacked artworks but they were defending their ground so well, they were accused of botting when in fact there were 1200 people on discord trying their best to not only defend their own place but also other communities.
The flags were annoying at first but many of them were filled with skylines, important landmarks, memes or significant pieces of media of that country, like Belgium's Tin Tin, France's Asterix or Germany's Maus.
Where Germany's and France's flags met, people drew the logo of the TV channel "arte" which is a channel in both German and French, symbolising the friendship between the two nations.
I loved r/place. It's a love letter to so many things. It was a marvel to behold, the good, the bad, the horny, the sus, the void, the flags and the people who tried their best to keep other artworks safe and to keep Bananada's flag from ever resembling a maple leaf.
And Czech’s little mole!
No, they botted. They literally gave a bot network to WallStreetBets, and multiple WSB streamers streamed the bots going to work.
@@basedimperialism we did on fact not bot, we have a Discord with around 10k verified actual humans who we coordinated throughoit the event.
@@basedimperialism you probably never heard that you cannot leave once you play osu,and that it has captured a lot of players.
OSU did really well and good, even ther colabs did good, they build a very strong friendship with the other Anime coltures and this was the real goal for them and the anime cultires i think to survive against big streamers and the flags.
Having an organised community on Discord really is key to being able to have good real estate. I was moderating the Marvel Place and we got steamrolled and had to move multiple times, despite having a massive community, just because we didn't have an active Discord
r/placeNL visible across the top did a nice job at exactly that, although in a less ambit*ious way than other subreddits. But we're only 17 million in total lol
Bots... mainly bots
It may have been a reddit thing but it was mostly dominated by organized discord communities
I can attest to this. The (relatively small) community I was in had maybe 20 people at any given time on place and we managed to make and maintain three relatively large (~60x60 on average) areas for ourselves in part because of this. The other part was collaborating with our neighbors.
@@electroflame6188 Same here. I was supporting one community where the only twitch streamer for it had less than 100 views and a discord of a small bunch of people, but we managed to get a surprising amount on the canvas
"This man remained sad no matter how many Anime characters he surrounded himself with"
This one hit a little too close to home
Context for that image for people wondering: The man is sad "Yagoo" CEO of a vtuber (virtual youtubers, anime avatars streamers that sing and stuff) group "Hololive". The meme behind why he is crying is because he pivoted his company to be a virtual idol (singer) group, but basically everyone in that group has became comedy streamers, so he's crying because his dream is dead of a PG 'seiso' idol singing group.
@@__aceofspades The man *had* a dream
@@__aceofspades It's amazing how the community immortalized the depressed Yagoo meme and survived from attacks
@@deeperthantheabyss624 The vtuber place experience was heckin awesome since we managed to build crazy large areas with close to no losses in territory; as someone who was fighting for Hololive on r/place from day 2 til the end, I think our main strengths were our alliances (Belgium, Germany, osu), our command structure and our coordination
Alliance wise, we lucked out really hard by being on the corner of Belgium and Germany, so by day they'd tank attacks for us and by night we'd deal with the griefing on their flags. osu coming to our aid was kinda expected since we're all weebs together, and their help was super useful when xqc raided the Hololive logo on day 2.
Command structure wise, the vtuber community had 3 main r/place discords, the first one spearheading most of the projects (vtuber-place) , the second one working on their own projects while helping out the other areas (okbh) and the third, smallest "discord" mostly worked on defending existing arts ("place" thread in Hololive Fan Server). We'd get pinged every time attacks were happening or when allies wanted specific demands, so things got done fast and we even managed to approve the existence of artworks on the Belgian flags
Coordination wise, we'd utilise the discords to time placing pixels on the canvas. On the 3rd day, there was a 2-hour long battle in the eastern section of the canvas where a force of 200-400 people were defending from a Russian streamer with 6k live viewers, and through sheer passion for our stuff and coordination, we managed to force the streamer back
o7 to all that fought on r/place
@@theextratank7792 i am so sad I didn't have enough time for this ;-;
Canadian here! It wasn't that we couldn't place the leaf, it was that it was the most greifed flag on the map. Germany was very kind to help protect a bit of Canada on a less griefed spot.
i think this was an ongoing story the video doesn't really cover because only each individual community really understood what was unfolding. The sad dog was a war between two streamers Destiny and Hasan for instance. It would take mammoth research to really play all this back with enough background info for a casual viewer to understand it all. And I'm quite OK with that. It was a huge Internet thing that mostly everyone loved and then it was gone. I'll be ready next time to place more than the 1 pixel I managed, filthy casual that I am.
@@ClayManncan confirm. I helped a community that made small artworks and stayed relatively out of the limelight. Yet we somehow ended up allying with Romania, becoming Romanian nationalists from that alliance, hating Poland because of its aggression toward the Romanian flag, becoming enemies with peru due to a peru streamer invasion and causing a civil war within the peru group on who they wanted to support
I think it started out as a joke to mock the canadians(and to promote german efficiancy) but im happy it turned out to be a sign of friendship.
@@D00000T that's hilarious. At one point I had 4 different streamers up in separate windows listening to each one scheming with others and it was madness
I mean some Canadians were sabotaging their own flag
I didn't really team up, but was just helping out several teams, especially Germany and Poland. On the last day, some fucking idiots started drawing a big swastika on the German flag. Luckily, the German sub, including me, reacted quickly and removed it in a minute.
It was lots of fun, I'm happy to have been a part of Place.
Buzzkill
@@mynameisjeff6988 No, in fact it's even banned in our country.
@@officialnoonon and I am quite happy it is
@@dr-malgus2892 Us both, I see 👍
r/place was probably the most fun I've had on reddit. The difficulties coordinating with other communities crossing language and cultural borders was incredible and yet exciting at the same time. Every single instance where we had to begin communicating with another group was incredible. Alliances were formed and destroyed, truces were made and protections was promised. I personally worked on the Titanfall 2/Team Fortress 2 logos and that time when the only thing that mattered was the constant threat of xqc's void threatening to blot out every small community on the board was somehow stressful and exhilarating at the same time. Regardless of what happened to your artwork during the reign of r/place, I would like to say this: The internet, however vulgar will always find away to cooperate, communicate, and eventually destroy what was accomplished. Because amazing things cannot last forever and r/place is not any different. It should not be annual or even regular, which I think would take away what makes it special. But regardless of what your opinions are on the frequency of what r/place should be held at I think we can all agree on one thing: Fuck Chtorrr.
3:14
"This man remained sad, no matter how many anime characters he surrounded himself with"
YAGOO's dream has been crushed, but his legacy will live on. o7
sou desu ne
Hi Maddy :D
@@charautreal sup chara, how's your mass genocide going?
sou des ne....
Nice pfp.
This was absolutely the most fun I've had in a while.
I made alliances with other people and some massive communities and was able to secure a whole wonky 32 pixels. We were wiped twice, but everyone came together to help the little dino and tiny little muffin.
We were assaulted by among us at the end but held strong!
It was a pleasure placing pixels with everyone!
I can gold trim your rune kiteshield(t) if you want, hand it over
I think I know what dino you made. It was located at the very bottom of the image at the right?
TotalBiscuit's memorial was humbling! Glad that legend is still remembered to this day
I hope it wasnt just twitch users spamming LUL and actually people who knew about totalbiscuit
What the guy who defended GamerGate when it was relevant?🤨
@@WayStedYou Above the LUL emote it says "Totalbiscuit RIP"
@@Simoran That was added by others afterwards.
Source: Was the teapot below his ear and watched it develop.
Also there was a small text to the left saying: RIPBYRON, and lets not forget the image of Aniki, and Zyzz
It was an honor representing Rainbow Six on r/place! In 2017, we had the big machine gun icon of Tachanka to represent us (as well as buff Blitz and epi, the community manager at the time). I wasn't involved with that, but I loved seeing the memes there at the time. Now in 2022, I started getting involved on the third day. We only had our 6 logo and Tachanka's big green helmet was wiped out. Seeing how massive the German flags were, we proposed to represent the game's German characters somewhere along the flag. I went to r/placeDE's Discord to propose this, and I met the head ambassador SKB, who also happened to moderate Rainbow Six's Discord. I invited him to our server and then we voted on which characters to represent. IQ and Jäger won the vote. We got to work on some mockups. SKB posted our mockup and made a plea to the German's, and they voted in approval! We were so happy that we secured a space. Though, the German's did most of the heavy lifting by making our sprite chibis actually work with r/place.
The ending to r/place was poetic. It ended how it started. I would have been annoyed if some streamer decided to wipe us out. But everything turning white was somehow comforting. Not every plan along the way was a success, like trying to negotiate with Quebec to secure a space for our 6. But it was wonderful to see how different communities organized. I had fun representing, negotiating, and defending our part!
I would like to thank r/placeDE and SKB for allowing us the space and making our chibis work within the flag!
3:13 "this man was sad, no matter how many anime characters he surrounded himself with"
Yagoo's crushed dreams are now seen with a larger audience.
I loved every minute of this, I wasn't that involved and the only pic I was apart of was the small Yu-Gi-Oh card that showed up at the very end (before becoming Sus) but seeing amazing art develop and how story lines are made was incredible.
It's amazing what people can do as a collective
I helped with the READ WORM one. Seriously read the serial novel WORM it's great
i was part of the team building the void creature that the Yu-Gi-Oh card invaded when a 200k viewer spanish streamer attacked us. 💖
@@srjamesjr the chille flag fight for dominance was a battle for the ages 🙏 eventually we had to submit and decrease the height of the card :(
I helped with the "Botting is a sin" bubble on top of the Osu hitcircle at 727 1727 since it got severely vandalized and I'm actually glad to come back seeing it almost fully restored.
Oh yes I remember yall, I was with the osu peeps
Amogus is the true winner of r/place. They act in no pact, only to sus every work
Unironically my favorite part of the whole thing. Meme's aside, its just a blast to look at each pixel art piece and find the hidden amogus guys.
Sus
After getting invaded by Germany, the GameStop people defended their territory from any and all amongi.
SUS!!
It's thematic for Among us. The game revolves around finding imposters and what do you find in the canvas? A lot of hidden amogus, everywhere no matter what art it is.
Thank you for not confusing Belgium with Germany! 🇧🇪❤️🇩🇪
Belgium is just Germany but more mixed lmfao
what's(J)_the_(K)difference
hahaha
@@huleyn135 Yeah, you're right. Its just a shortcut for german tanks to france
Greetings from germany brother
The little Amongus everywhere was great, the subtle ones used to shade artwork were fun to mind and is probably the best way that series has been used in awhile
Germany and France intersecting as ARTE is actually very wholesome
Seeing how much effort I put into such a tiny insignificant corner of the map, only makes me appreciate more of all the effort that went into everything else. What an amazing thing to have been a part of. Hope they do this again, in another half a decade or so
The Outer Wilds animated timeloop in there was honestly the coolest most creative thing in my opinion, definitely worth looking up if you're an Outer Wilds fan or just curious
Wow...
Do you have a link to this? I can't find a video on it but it sounds amazing
@@axeace1413 ua-cam.com/video/FslS9Ne8LUw/v-deo.html heres the time loop if you were asking for that
@@axeace1413 it's on r/outerwilds
whaaaat where is that located? OW one of my favorite games ever, didn't see it in there but there's so much going on in the videos.
The one part of this I found myself getting involved with was the No Man's Sky community's "war for the pixel", in which, during day 3's expansion, after failing to get a proper bit of community cohesion and art going for 2 days, the No Man's Sky community agreed to fight for the newly available pixel 1616,1616; 16 being a super important number in No Man's Sky's lore and story, and after some back and forth eventually managed to carve a small artwork of No Man's Sky's Atlus next to it (almost as a barrier) which ended up being kept nice stable until the end; so it's fun looking back seeing the bigger picture after spending a day watching and helping a community I like fight for a single pixel :)
so 16 is basically No Man's Sky equivalent of osu! WYSI
@@NutchapolSal I suppose so, the main difference being that WYSI comes from the community's interaction with the game, while 16! 16! 16! 16! is a line from the game itself that pops up absolutely everywhere within it, in terms of community obsession theough, the result is ultimately the same yeah :)
I saw your guys work, sadly I couldn't change colours...
Every little second of Place's existence, from beginning, to expansion, to end, was a testament to the beauty of the internet.
I love that you showed some of the graphs made by Chinese dissidents at 2:06. I am very proud to say that I am one of them. We also made a miniature Chinese zodiac sign below
I was worried paid Wumao would destroy them, then it stayed all the way. I think they were cluless before realsing what happened.
so are you part of that one anti-communist cult?
idk what it's called i always forget lul
@@alexanderl.6207 I think you are talking about Falun Gong.
And no, being dissidents in China doesn't mean we support them. They are deep in some conspiracy shit like their leader, who is still alive today, can walk on sun or something. They also believe in all sorts of anti vaccine conspiracy
Sure, having an organized and active community got you far in terms of what you could make, but what _really_ let you punch above your weight was forming alliances. In an alliance, whenever one mural wasn't under attack, the people managing it were free to defend other allied murals - making for a incredibly solid defense. I was with the VA-11 HALL-A server, and while we were around 200 strong, we were able to tap into the collective manpower of _thousands_ through alliances with placepenguins, numerous gacha game communities - even Osu, as one of our murals was right next to that big-ass Peppy.
Alliances were by far my favorite thing about r/Place. I was part of the central alliance and never thought I would sacrifice pixels to defend the icon of a sports team from Barcelona but knowing that every member, all the people you defend would have your back in return when your area of the map got attacked by a streamer, was such an amazing feeling.
osu! and their allies were legit the NATO of r/place
chances are if you touched any smaller community (or even WSB and Star Wars), they were allied with us and the osu army would obliterate any attempt at griefing
We had a similar experience in the NW corner, there's a lot of smaller pieces there, and Runescape is situated there. Runescape proved a resilient opponent to Nordicunion's invasion attempts, particularly Norway trying to expand to the Western Wall. Runescape did eventually lose a bit of ground, which lead to almost all the small pieces in the NW corner and notably r/NLplace forming one big NW corner alliance.
As Norwegian Runescape veteran it was conflicting times having my own country invade on my underdog favourite, but I'm glad Runescape stood it's ground. It was a lot of fun working together to form the NW alliance, and speaking to people from other communities I never would engage with otherwise.
We made friends with the french, Paraguayans, vtubers, and once-piece. It was a great time
@@ethanrapp6998 A fellow central alliance member o7
Thanks for mentioning the Missing Texture! I was one of the main leader of that project. It was hard, we had to move 5 times, and were troubled 7 times by streamers. But we succesfully got ourselves a place for our artwork at the top right, thanks to the r/poland community!
Also the invasion on the American flag wasn't us at all, we had no control on that situation x)
The fact we got mentioned is astounding
funnily enough the people who were working on the trans flag invasion of america actually joined in on the missing texture, until it backfired and ate them back
Canada's flag issue was firstly due to random people trying to make our flag outside the group. Then when people memed it, spanish streamers tried to turn it into weed (its been legal here since 2016 (maybe 18) or something). Afterwards Canada got an overlay and sorta fixed the leaf, then with the map expansion quickly, they moved the flag 3 times with no success until germany allianced with Canada to make the maple leaf in their territory, since the germans felt bad for building over their flag a bit. Canada then got a hold of france's/spain's (spain was invading one of their new flags) botting software and method designed their own with similar code. The Canada members who used the bot quickly got banned and the flag returned to shit as the bot coders had accidentally coded a small mistake in the bot while the overlay designer was too incompetent to make a proper overlay, and he ruined the one they were using out of stupidity (I found the method to make a proper one but didn't want to give it to them due to the management allowing botting). Reddit then unbanned all their bot accounts and the flag finally returned to normal with the provinces above it.
(There is more like tagpro moving and the organizers of the flag being too nice to them and not coordinating properly due to mixed priorities but yeah a lot went wrong) Atleast the flag was so griefed you can see it in the heatmap.)
it's been legal since 2017 actually; the law passing legalization happened later in the year
So Canada and Germany tried to out sorry each other?
Dont forget that whole phase where canada was transformed into banana
@@adrian23422 yeah but that was when everyone got banned
@@WayStedYou LULW
"And this man was sad no matter how many anime characters he surrounded himself with"
Yagoo is suffering from success
3:17 as someone who was part of the community making the sad man, your description is quite hilarious.
For those curious though, the joke is that the man is the CEO of Cover and Hololive, Yagoo as we call him. At the start he called Hololive an idol group and a few years later, a VTuber he was managing known as Kiryu Coco did a little trolling. It was basically agreed that his "idol dream" was dead and a photo of him was found from before Yagoo was a CEO and it became his signature photo for his shattered dream. Now running a comedian group instead of an idol group.
Yeah, except before Coco there was senchou. And before senchou there was Matsuri and Haachama. It was rigged from the start.
@@kebien6020 Sora saying "motherfucker" marked the end for Yagoo's idol dream. If I remember right he actually made the announcement that he was running an entertainment company literally the day after that shitpost review. I don't really remember who started it unfortunately, there's so much hololive has created in the past 2 years that my brain has started to delete some things.
I didn't know about it when it started, so I was only there for the last two days. I quickly joined the fairly small r/CaveStory community and the next 30-40 hours was some of the most fun I have ever had in my life. Constantly being under threat from streamers, with frequent losses and victories both big and small, it was exhilarating. It feels absolutely devastating for it to end so soon, and I know I'll be desperately craving to have this experience again for the next five years.
Greetings fellow Cave Story soldier
HEY VIB-RIBBON GAMER HERE
I saw you guys get destroyed and I felt so fucking bad, ended up using my alts to try to help rebuild once the vibri art was safe ;0;
Glad you guys were able to survive through the days and voids
while the star trek under cavestory being attacked by the same streamer 5th time and luckily we were persisrent enough to defend to the point he even call his gf to help and yet failed
I loved the cave story art! It made me so happy to see it. I was helping maintain the splatoon squid that was below you the first day or so before we got greened out and had to move.
It was so fun allying with Cave Story and a few others around us. I helped Noita and their community the whole time and was super sad to see Cave Story get raided within the last 30 min of r/place
My favorite part of the story was when the canvas doubled for the second time, pretty much all French streamers went online and rallied their communities to fight for their huge flag. Then, most Spanish streamers rallied their fanbase to go and attack and vandalize the flag repeatedly, even making an alliance with xQc at one point. The whole thing was extremely entertaining.
The French were so obviously botting, they were botting so hard that when the only colour available became white, their entire flag turned white (ironic) within minutes. Once again proving that when the going gets tough, the French raise the white flag.
@@ffredalot and once again your proving that spanish are lil salty idiot. The fact that the french flag became white so fast can be explained by the fact that there was something like 1.2M people on it placing pixel so no that doesnt prove french were botting. But guess im talking for nothing cause ofc if we didnt bot your little ego wouldnt be able to take the enormous L you got LMAO
@@ffredalot so the flag turning white is *not* the army of Spanish people trying to destroy the french flag finally being able to do so without any resistance
@@error-null no because the whiteout was instant and didn't come from a direction it just happened all across instantly
@@ffredalot nice bullshit dude, the flag turned white quickly but not instantly, probably because an actual million people were placing pixels on it when it happened.
the only part that turned white immediatly was the army logo, because the spanish were the one boting.
also if the french were boting, how can you explain they made a "fr" so quickly in the top when everything turned white?
I mean, you can keep the aluminium hat on your head or just get some balls and accept defeat, french were just better in this "war"
3:13 "And this man remained sad, no matter how many anime characters he surrounded himself with."
Sums up yagoo's dream 🤣
Man created a VTuber idol group, got a VTuber comedian group instead.
Oh yeah that's Motoaki Tanigo aka. Yagoo, he's the CEO of Cover Productions, the company behind Hololive.
Cringetuber fans 🤢
Also known as pedophiles
Yea, he didn't realize that man made those but they betray him lmao
@@rbbl_ why did you have a pokimane fart clip
"This man remained sad despite the anime girls surrounding him."
His name is Yagoo, he's perpetually sad because those girls destroys his dreams on a daily basis.
No joke this was probably the most happiest event of 2022. A testament for everything internet
as a member of osuplace, literally going to war with xqc was the highlight of these 4 days to me. it was just crazy in the discord with over 900 people in a live stage and about 15k on BTMC's stream coordinating to retake our logo and to help our allies. truly an incredible experience I'll definitely never forget.
o7
osu was too big, like wtf even is an osu?
It's a rhythm game.
@@trimakin6148 hmmm but why so big?
Members of the /r/place Vtubers discord also rallied our support for you guys. What a time to be alive.
Yo, about that osu thingy
Wan't your community actively botting? Not as bad as France, that was literal cancer
its little stories that makes place cool for me, communities that you would never see together doing something for each other during the whole wave of wildness happening around them, I personally was defending and helping a little yume nikki artwork that appeared, and it was beautiful seeing how we made alliances with communities like the Detroit red wings and lions sport teams, the doom community and the Taiwan subreddit, our space got attacked twice, once by a group of turkish influencers and later by a streamer logo, but we all helped each other out and stood by until the end, it was truly a very unique experience and it made me proud to be part of something, it really made me appreciate more what people can do together, someone even made artwork of our little alliance in the yume nikki reddit, madotsuki playing hockey with the Detroit red wings, truly amazing, something only the internet can do
I was surprised michigan got so much land, from the Lions-Redwings-Spartans to the UofM that outlasted the void (and ohio state)
Me and some friends were working on little logos for the bands The Strokes and Oasis underneath the notre dame. It was legit some of the most fun I had in a while negotiating spaces with other communities and helping them out and trying our best to keep the logos intact, we even got one of The Strokes to see it! It was awesome.
Awesome band, im seeing them for the first time like in July, so fuckin keen
@@OliverPascoe hell yeah man, that's awesome!
Thank you for making this. Not only is it a beautiful project but it just so happen to catch the small moment my very small memorial for my brother who recently passed away had been on /place. If you pause at 2:46 look above the pink head (IGOR Album cover) you can see the RIP for jack.
RIP JACK
So proud of the Osu! community, i see the botting accusations as compliments, anyone on their discord could see the the dedication and coordination they were putting into those pixels.
They're so good, they call them hacker. Which is actually the best compliment.
They went from "click the circles" to pixels. They are in their natural habitat.
The gacha alliance was also accused of botting on a lesser scale as a smaller community than Osu! that got attacked less than Osu!, was formed during r/place instead of before, and was less visually apparent than Osu! and the big pink circle, that also managed to control almost as many pixels (if not as many or more than because even some of the alliance members couldn't keep track of all the smaller projects), and didn't have a streamer (BTMC) supporting them for full streams. Being accused of botting when you aren't botting is he biggest compliment. It's a testament to the dedication weebs have for pixels on a screen. No community is more obsessed with them than the weebs.
@@Xeconis As a member of r/grandorder, yes.
Although I didn't participate that much in the gacha alliance. All my attention was on Komi-san (just above Osu)
Pretty sure the Osu! community also rebuilt the Star Wars poster next to them after being destroyed by XQC.
Sadness of the man(Yagoo) at 3:14 is what keeps the anime characters(vtubers) and the fans happy.
And we are glad you noticed them, because that makes us more happy!
For a while, the big Turkish flag had an absolutely brilliant piece of art going. They had their silhouetted skyline, and when the actual night fell they had people turning on, changing colour, and turning off the lights almost like it was a random yet collaborative animation. Csgo had one too for a moment with the logo firing out a version of a spray pattern onto a neighbouring logo, but i never got to see it in r/place and only in videos shared on the internet.
Yes, it was an amazingly beautiful artwork with all the architecture and details
There are many stories untold too, for example the Hollow Knight community wanted to put a kebab through the C in Turkey's flag, but it never came to be.
Seeing Omori almost smack down in the middle of the canvas makes me feel proud. I've spent many hours of these 4 days helping build and maintain our artworks.
i defended those sprites with my LIFE bro
Being a Diplomat and Mod for the PlaceNL (Netherlands area) community was very intense but a lot of fun. Spoke with so many different communities and people from all around the world, set up alliances, collaborations and all. One of our highlights when painting our giant paintings was a huge effort to relocate most of the artworks we displaced, instead of just destroying them. The stories of diplomacy of all projects in this event are probably worth gathering and combining into some sort of documentary.
This was so fun to be apart of. SCP and GOC had to fight against a massive spampton nose and we got invaded by bulgaria once. so many stories to tell from so many small communities
I loved all of this, a wonderful 4 days of looking at place every 5 mins, helped with building the Deep Rock Galactic area and also made a memorial with others for one of our friends who passed away last year which was sweet.
I hope they do it again, but in another 4 years as I am burned out of protecting pixels.
Trying to spot every fully formed/intentionally made amogus on the canvas was a minigame in of itself, it's even funnier with friends.
It's one of the coolest things that happened this year, and finally being a part of it was amazing as well.
For me the VOID creatures drawings where the best things for they were totally uncordinated, humanity saw a black spot, and from the dark depts of our conscience those freaky creatures emerged. The coordinated efforts where cool, but for me the uncoordinated ones are where r/place truly shone.
The "France had won" in the subtitles when the canvas went all white made me lmao so hard.
Cause it didn´t XD
Proud to have been part of the 3rd night watch of PlaceDE. It was such an amazing experience, even if I was only able to participate late. The defence when X finally dared to attack us was incredible.
And when it comes to bots, yes there were plenty. We had a few thousand in form of a Python bot and a browser script by the last day to defend our pixelart, including the occasional downtime panic when they were iterated on and some self sabotage by changing colours in the reference png. We didn't use it to defend our flag colours though, as much as people want to claim that, that was all human input.
Night watch is a rough job o7. I was part of the night watch for the Senko loaf and rice cooker, and was staying up till 6, 7 am to pass on the torch to the next group. We didn't run a bot, so most of our battles were against ourselves, fixing and unfixing texturing. We were protected by Osu which served as a deterrent, although we only had to call them in for defense once, when a Peruvian streamer tried to expand the flag of Peru over the rice cooker.
I was on night watch duty for placeIndia. Seeing flag art that took hours being destroyed changes a man. Had to run scripts on 4 windows to fight greifers on day 2, bcos I had to defend flags and communities we made alliances with. Place was so much fun
Virgin spotted
1:59
"And star wars was invaded by sneaky Among Us" 🤣
I am so happy I got recommended this video.
I forgot your channel existed for like two years after having watched nearly every 2/3kliks video.
r/Place has single-handedly given me more joy than any other individual thing on the internet.
Meanwhile it gave Pakistanis depression - the Indians threatened so much of our members and drove a girl to the verge of suicide due to rape threats
me but it was actually stressful as fuck and i was hunted down by 4chins trolls on discord because i was trying to defend pride flags.
so that was a good mental health experience
That sounds more depressing than you realise
@@cybersteel8 it was great for me because we formed a team of about 150 people by the end, meeting a community and people I would never have seen otherwise. It was great to be in a call/chat with new faces all with the same collective goal and I've already made a few friends out of this.
Thanks for making this historical record! I had a lot of fun participating in Place this year and I'm happy to see a quick, concise video from an amazing youtuber covering it not 24 hours after it finished.
i missed the first r/place, and will never miss this year. was part of both r/ph and r/osuplace to guard their precious pixels, just like i was clicking circles to the beat. the coordination in r/osuplace was incredible, mostly everyone relying on everyone's birthmonths* to protect a certain area (e.g. January to March would be the letter 'o', or at the clock position of your birthmonth you'd protect the area of the circle, etc).
Thats some smart coordination, im curious about how some of the other grouos worked it out
@@Jekkyboi r/Hololive basically used the same templates as osu to help everyone know what to place, then just let members do their thing. We expanded quite a bit, but we’re fanatical on the defence. It’s why almost everything we made survived, with the last thing almost surviving but just couldn’t be saved in time
*"this man remained sad no matter how many anime characters he surrounded himself with"*
I was there and it was beautiful. Hollow Knight community got their place by Elden Ring and at first it was just a simple agreement to write "git gud" between our spots. Then when the canvas expanded, we started to draw the Knight sitting on a bench, but we decided to invite Renni from Elden Ring to sit with us. Then Ori, guys from Ace Attorney, slugcat from Rainworld, Baba and so, so many more characters joined in to share the spot with us it was incredible. And when the canvas expanded once more, we and Elden Ring community became so close together that we immediately started working on a piece combining our games together, that we had prepared in advance.
It was incredible to witness and that's not even all of the story that happened in our 3 little spots.
I was really only a spectator of this whole thing; only occasionally placing pixels to fix things and cleaning up some stuff, but this event was wild and I hope they do it again in 5 years. I did know about r/place in 2017 but I didn't have a reddit account at the time so I was glad to participate somewhat this year.
This was amazing.
As someone who partook in the VTuber community, it was so much fun defending our space. And at the end of the day, I'm glad hololive will be getting more attention and there's going to be more VTuber fans of tomorrow thanks to this.
Edit: @3:14 That is quite the apt description of YAGOO.
also the fact that Ironmouse and BTMC toe to toe against XQC was something i didnt expect
Hello fellow soldier, nice seeing you here
Hello, fellow soldiers. I had lots of fun helping with defense, as well as building the 5 chibi VShojo girls, Fubuking and Ironmouse's NyanHug emote. Too bad we lost Migo towards the end, but at least Suisex survived.
Hopefully, we'll meet again if r/place comes back around once more.
i loved how the eastern nijisanji art kept getting wiped by streamers, but every time pomu would survive and we'd rebuild from her :')
@@ffredalot Well that's good to know. The only TTS VTuber I know of is Zentraya, and I don't think it was her because they had a spot on the final canvas.
Also, I mainly partook in most VTuber stuff, like the main Hololive Logo and stuff like that, but that's interesting to hear tho.
The Celeste community had four very small but far from each other locations on the board and they kept all three by the end. It's an amazing game and I was there to defend the artwork in the almost dead center from being eaten up by Germany's massive flag. I think Celeste has some of the most individual locations in the board the was from a small, lesser known community and I am proud we could be there bc that's definitely where my pixels were going.
NATO here. Glad to know our battle buddies made it to the end. We sent a few hundred pink and blues your way I believe.
Thanks to you and the indie game alliance for defending Scotland from the German (and purple) invasions!
Dutch here. Glad we could host the berry’s!
you didnt apply for it to the germans. no approval? no existance.
The attack on r/superstonks and the Celeste flag was kind of an accident. Basically, r/DE and the Germans purged all the overnight crap on the morning of day 2, and it built such a momentum that the randoms who weren't coordinating on r/DE's Discord just kept going on without realising that we had an alliance with r/superstonks and the smaller groups in that block and didn't wnat to expand there. Actually created sort of a diplomatic incident when it panicked everyone to the right of the german flag.
I love how immediately when the canvas doubled to 3, mr incredible's face is like one of the first things that appears.
The best part is that the subtitles last sentence is „France had won.“
this place was so incredibly fun to participate in. so many memes created and communities represented, can't wait for the next one even though that could take some time
forsen1 I C BAJS
@@rileyjevs 🔭 forsen1 I C
really proud of the silksong/hollowknight community for staying strong and present all the way through
We ended up becoming the main allying force of a ton of others too; Elden Ring was the big one with our Radiance + Erdtree, but we also made a bench with Baba Is You, Ori, Bloodborne, Phoenix Wright, and a bunch of others. It was an awesome time :)
saw your collaborative piece with eldenring! one of the coolest things on the banner, really
@@sirshadowstep9984 Yeah I was helping out with the Ace Attorney art, it was so much fun seeing all the little game emblems pop up around the bench :)
It was around 00:30 AM for me when I went to check on r/place the last time. By that point the lower left flag of France was already white and many other pixels two. I did not know what to make out of it. For a coordinated attack it was to big to spread out. It took me a few minutes to realize that one could only place white pixels. It took some time but then the shock faded and was replaced with happiness. We all know it would end. For me it was oddly satisfying seeing every thing return to its original state.
I joined the discord where many others had gathered and spent the next one or two hours listening to our groups leaders who talked about how happy they where how good all went and the goals we did not achieve.
This evening we gathered once more. Once again our leaders hold a speech explaining what kind of work was going on in the background. Talking with other sub reddits, planing new pieces of our art work...
For me this weekend has been the happiest this entire year, maybe since the begin of the pandemic.
awesome how the music stays the same when u click on the 8k timelapse. nice touch !!
i find it beautiful that the RIP Michi logo was one of the first to appear and how it survived until the end with basically no vandalism
As someone who was very active this time around, and who had to be constantly on edge to make sure the art of my two small communities wasn’t swallowed in seconds, you cannot imagine the sheer, almost primal-like terror hearing that sound at 0:07 again caused me
Fr that legit jumpscared me sometimes
I was from the r/outerwilds community and let me say we were stressed the entire time. We were in the bottom left corner at the start with our little patch, teaming up with Rainworld and Football Against Terrorism.
This would've been enough, but we went for more. To simulate our game better, we made our plot dynamic, slowly changing the background of our patch before enveloping it in a supernova. When we were resetting the patch, our second plot across the canvas had its mask's eyes glow. Anyone who has touched outer wilds knows what this means, but I cannot say more for spoilers.
I have never seen a more coordinated effort from a community. This is a small indie game, and our community was one of the first solidified on the canvas, and we managed to stand until the end. When the white pixels came, we knew our time had come, and immediately all wiped out our canvas. It was fitting for the theme of the game, after all, and we couldn't have asked for a better ending.
So many small stories on this canvas that could be told.
Egg ship
@@BagelBoi4000 WE DONT TALK ABOUT THE EGG SHIP
The Outer Wilds art is easily my favorite piece on the entire canvas. Best game of all time and the art was dynamic and super creative!
as someone who hasnt even beaten the game yet this comment made me almost cry god damn
france who is somewhat usually absent from reddit (having a lot of oc fr memes on facebook's neurchis) was an amazing thing, french twich and twitter coordinated the thing it was a great moment of our collective internet history
J'y ai passé des heures pour protéger les sourcils de Zizou mais ça valait tellement le coût
I was helping the defense of the French flag. ON NE PASSE PAS
The stream was so hype, it really felt like being part of something
In the subtitles once the canvas becomes white "France has won" LMFAO
"this man remain sad even surrounded by anime girls"
Tanigo, or YAGOO, is always have that feeling due to his employees doing questionable content in UA-cam lmao
Literally laughs in Haachama, who outright reviews porn of herself and does freaky ass shit
I liked watching the CS logo get vandalised, and the snake codec and erens head were some of my favourite
I remember seeing your 2017 video on place after I missed out on the whole thing, I am actually so happy to have been apart of this 2022 one.
Read the subtitles right in the end. Looks like Philip removed a savage burn in the last second, but it slipped past in text form.
i still wanna hang one of the final versions of the board on my wall, its litterally art and there is so much to see and explore
It's a mighty large res image.
Even if it's only technically 2000x2000, the pixels are sharp edges that need to be vectored properly otherwise it's not conveyed properly.
Im just happy to see Eren making an appearance here. AoT was such a phenomenon this year, glad to see it left a landmark in the internet.
I love how many communities formed "neighborhoods" of likeminded subreddits, though there was still quite a bit of randomness. NCD/Neolib found themselves in the midst of other subs with a similar userbase. They were also next door neighbors to Furry IRL. Internet politics makes strange bedfellows indeed.
the Furries where the best allies we could ever have asked for though.
@@KerbalRocketry I'm glad we could be of assistance, even if there was a bit of chaos when Sweden invaded due to us being confused about the intended color of the background.
To be fair it would've been the ultimate chad move to do a background color change in the middle of holding off an invasion at the same time, haha.
Exactly. The alliances that formed were between the most random groups, it was very fun to see. For example, r/vexillology (study of flags) ended up somehow in a huge South East Asian alliance, spearheaded by r/Philippines. Then, because I was a member of both r/vexillology and r/community, the latter decided to ally the former. When my attention turned more towards r/community, we suddenly had allied the LA Dodgers, the Wilbur Soot subreddit, Batman (who was on the other side of the canvas!) and the Destiny alliance (Gigachad guys). It was really weird, but it was also extremely fun meeting all those people and negotiating with them
@@foxdancemedia yeah the confusion around that was due to the idea that "hey the signs wrecked anyway, lets just renovate it" which in practice turned out to not work as it just caused confusion
The NL-NCD alliance structure got really big, with many surprising allies along the way (looking at you waldo). We made a true NATO on r/place and I'm kinda proud of that, it wasn't just a flag it was an actual idea.
I am glad to have been able to have taken a part of this event, though I didn't do much. I, with the other bronies of Reddit, helped defend ponies from many raids. We managed to stick it out to the end and came out with around 8 or 9 images on place.
Actually dozens out we have a lot more than 8 or 9, we got the big ones which are around that, but more and more tiny ones are being found and marked, check out the atlas, we are updating them as we find them
The amount of creativity in place is just beautiful. Different thing form the surroundings being combined is clever ways, just amazing!
Thia video and its comment section is a great source of war time stories for thoae of us who didn't keep up with the r/place developments in real time.
"Edging it's way across England"
*Slams table*
Our community tried to create a GM on r/place around 5 times, you can see us try above spacex, at the beginning...
Being a small community really was a challenge on this experiment !
Nice video, as always !
it was a struggle just praying a big streamer wouldnt walk in and slap their logo on you. had it happen 3 times lmao. fun experience
It was really, really fun both watching and working on r/place, the troubles of defending what you have, trying to win territory, aggressively or diplomatically, and just seeing so many interesting things prop up (like the amogi everywhere), I worked with r/GFL and by extension the "gacha alliance" in the near southeast of the canvas, our works that remained until the end were an M4A1 + Va-11 Hall-a crossover piece next to the creator of OSU, and the large collaboration piece with a huge number of gacha games (the power of addics!)
I hope place returns, but not too soon, it should be a special occasion.
Hey, a fellow Gacha Alliance member. I fought for r/grandorder during this event. The things I remember the most were fighting against the giant amogus cock that tried to snipe Hololive, going through Valorant and BB; defending Hololive when xQc tried to cover them in purple; fighting against ANOTHER giant amogus that tried to cum snipe Megumin, going through our Gudako build; helping Genshin and Honkai to fend off attacks on their game icons...
I'll also never forget Costa Rica, our great ally. They were super nice and helped us A LOT.
And I agree, Place should be special. Maybe a 5 years cooldown. This gives time for people to grow and for the internet to change.
Hey, glad to see an r/GFL member here, I was part of the VA-11 HALL-A community. We couldn't have survived it without yall, much love
The coordination here was really important. We defended the Estonian flag against r/PoliticalCompassMemes, despite the population of our entire country being just over twice as large as the amount of subscribers on their subreddit. Our country's subreddit is 10x smaller than theirs. They didn't manage to take anything from us and were instead infighting due to their lack of coordination. Meanwhile, we helped other Baltic States, drew our coat of arms on our flag, drew our national bird on our flag, coordinated with the other Baltic States to draw the borders of our countries with our flags inside them (which temporarily expanded into the rest of Europe till some streamer invaded them), and made a pixel art of one of our folk legends ("Suur Tõll") while also fighting the Colombian flag.
Nice summary of some of the most interesting things happening.
As a Vietnamese, I'm so proud of making and protecting our flag!
Really glad I got to be a part of r/place this year. And while it was frustrating having art pieces for things you hold dear getting attacked by huge waves of people following different streamers, the satisfaction of holding through to the end was worth it.
Nice profile pic.
@@thebronywiking You too ^^
I became very quickly fascinated by r/place. I checked it so often and I was devastated seeing everything going white. The end was a really good April fools joke and for the first time in a while I didn't see any negative news or ignored them. Instead I followed streamers and placed my occasional pixel. Thank you Reddit!
Even if they're gone, they will be immortalized by the internet.
Watching streams from kameto coordinating defenses with 600k viewers and participating protecting the french flag and the arc de triomphe was so hype. R/place was definitely the best internet event in a while.
You mean bots
@@ChindasASecas No, but I know for a fact that the spanish streamers did use bots, they told their viewers how to download it and they used it live aswell. They should be banned from twitch, cheating on anything is against twitch TOS
@@SFCommanderSFM ratio
@@ChindasASecas speak normally lol
@@SFCommanderSFM no
1:12 You had a lot of fun writing this, didn't you? :P
The Stardew Valley hat mouse setting up shop was the greatest achievement.
man definitely the best part of place 2022 was that it wasn't a lazy rehash but introduced some new twists that make me wonder if in five years in place 2027 is gonna happen, will canvas keep doubling? or will it half itself each day? maybe someting more unexpected?
love the time you take putting in your captions. 5:46 reads "france had won" as it fades to white. brilliant :)
don't be mad 😁👍
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