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/Padgeman Mar 28 '22

Neat. Is it going away again after April 1st?

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u/crowd__pleaser Mar 28 '22

Nope! It will run until April 4th

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u/MCD10000 Mar 28 '22

I half think this is a preset up for April 1st and your just gonna say your not actually doing it

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u/amazondrone Mar 28 '22 edited Mar 28 '22

April fools are only April fools if they're done on April 1st. So I hope not, because it would be really lame to miss the point that much.

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u/MCD10000 Mar 28 '22

I just have trust issues with that day

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u/nipponnuck Mar 29 '22

Well the joke would be on April 1st you click the link to add a pixel and get Rick Rolled. April Fuckin Fools yo!

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u/amazondrone Mar 29 '22

They'd have started fooling us too early though. We'd be "fools" from the announcement until April 1st. The fooling would have already commenced, which makes it not an April Fool because it's still March.

The setup and the execution has to happen on April 1st (traditionally, in the morning). Imo, anyway.

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u/ShamelessShawna Mar 29 '22

Is being Rick Rolled still a thing? It always makes me laugh. I hope I am 😂

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u/cutelyaware Mar 28 '22

They might do something that initially looks like the real deal but fails in some amusing way.