r/place

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Event
Event: Place
Participants: reddit users
Date(s): 1st April 2017 - 3rd April 2017
1st April 2022 - 4th April 2022
20th July 2023 - 25th July 2023
Type:
Fandom: Multifandom
URL: r/place
r/place[dead link] (via libreddit)
Final Canvas
final canvas 2023
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r/place is a subreddit in which the event Place occurs. Place is a collaborative project in which reddit users contribute to a canvas by changing the colour of a single pixel on the page a a time, usually to create pixel art. Wikipedia article here.

Several fandom subreddits and fans took part in the two events: MLP: Friendship is Magic, Star Wars, Phoenix Wright, and The Legend of Zelda are just some of the fandoms represented through pixel art on the finished canvas.

Pikachu with sunglasses over the Germany flag on /r/place 2023

Fan practices and activities

Discord servers or streamers might coordinate the collaborative pixel placing.

Specific years

2017

an r/place/ annotated atlas . Some notable entries:

The First Void

The place where the Void started. The place it consumed first. Probably the most controversial faction had its birth here with the destiny to merely consume. Out of intense disapproval, the complete canvas joined forces to eradicate the Void and protect the most beautiful art on the internet. Many pixels have been wasted, many fights have been fought. The folks at /r/TransFlagPlace tried all they could to drive away the darkness, with limited success. Ideas were thrown around to create the first (and horrible) version of what is now known as The Void Prism that shined only dynasties later. Only after several organised attacks and the persistence of those who bear the blue/pink/white-ribbon and companions, the darkness was defeated, and the canvas was at peace. “The true mind can weather all lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can touch the poison of hatred without being harmed. Since beginning-less time, darkness thrives in the void, but always yields to purifying light.”

- Lion Turtle

r/Thegreatblackhole, describing the history of the section of Place that became a reference to Pink Floyd

Screenshot

Darth Plagueis The Wise

One of the first additions to the map, this text of a meme from the prequel Star Wars movies started out as an uncoordinated attempt to write something everyone knew, and was refined to the masterpiece you see today.

from r/prequel memes - Darth Vader Prequel Meme

2022

At the end of the 2022 event, Reddit took away all the colour options and left only white, leaving the users to slowly blank the canvas themselves. User u/dombatoe made a video of the blanking named "My world is ending...." using the Evangelion song Komm, Süsser Tod.

2023

final canvas 2023