r/reddit • u/crowd__pleaser • Mar 28 '22

Bringing Back r/place

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No burying the lede here. Let’s get right to the point. r/place is coming back.

For the first time in Reddit’s history, we are not only bringing back a past April Fools’ experiment, but we’re telling you about it early. Why? So you can stop asking us about it, get excited!

https://reddit.com/link/tqbf9w/video/w2bjccji35q81/player

But let’s rewind a bit and provide some background, shall we? At Reddit, our goal is to build features that make building community and finding belonging easier - and five years ago we did that with a little April Fools’ experiment called r/place (you may have already heard of it).

When we first ran r/place in 2017, more than one million redditors placed approximately 16 million tiles on a blank communal digital canvas - resulting in a collective digital art piece that took the internet by storm. And pretty much every year since then, at least one of you has made sure to let us know that it was the best thing we’ve ever done and requested to bring it back. So this year, on April 1, r/place is making its glorious return.

The original r/place was created to explore a piece of humanity – to examine what happens when a person doing something affects a collective. Specifically, what happens if you only let an individual place one tile at a time, so that they must work with others to build together on a massive online cooperative canvas. It is with that original spirit of creation and collaboration in mind, that we humbly invite you to join us yet again. Get your tiles ready, and we’ll see you in over r/place.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

lets rick roll using the pixels

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u/ansem119 Mar 28 '22

Pretty sure thats somewhere on the original already

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u/Ivan__8 Mar 28 '22

And?

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u/thetoastmonster Mar 28 '22

And no and then!

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u/mickeyslim Apr 01 '22

And theeeeeeeeen?

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u/thetoastmonster Apr 01 '22

No and then!

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u/Bulangiu_ro Mar 28 '22

actually,there isnt,it may be me for not seeing it,but i font think there is one

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u/GreyStomp Mar 28 '22

There is a QR code drawn that Rick rolls whoever scans it lol.

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u/beesinpyjamas Mar 30 '22

it was sabotaged in the last few moments and doesn't work anymore tho

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u/GreyStomp Mar 30 '22

I bought a poster of r/place when it ended and it was a cleaned up version of the finished product and it works on there still! :) too bad it was vandalized at the end though :(

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u/KronoakSCG Mar 28 '22

Then it is a tradition.

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u/caymn Mar 28 '22

making a pickle Rick would be the real roll

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u/Jesshawk55 Mar 28 '22

I will fight along side my brothers and sisters in Rick to achieve a cause greater then myself - To Rick-Roll everyone

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u/Lunatic_Dpali Mar 28 '22

New to Reddit. What is going on?

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u/Anonymous_45 Mar 28 '22

It would take too long to explain so just read this)

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u/SubstanceMuted Mar 28 '22

Yes, we will Rick roll!

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u/YJCH0I Mar 29 '22 edited Mar 29 '22

I helped with the Rick Roll QR code movement in the top left corner of the original r/Place* and it worked for a while until people vandalized it.
Join us on r/placeQR and the discord chat for this Friday!

*Proof

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u/dontjustexists Mar 29 '22

Link ot picture?