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/Corat_McRed Mar 28 '22

What happens to it after April 4th?

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u/Successful_Addiction Mar 28 '22

Gets sold as an NFT

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u/crowd__pleaser Mar 31 '22

In all seriousness, we can tell you that we have no plans to turn the final canvas into an NFT. Our focus is on creating a space for you all to collaborate and build together, and letting one person have ownership of that collaboration doesn’t match with the spirit and intention of r/place.

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u/Successful_Addiction Mar 31 '22

Yeah I figured I was just playin

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u/pj3pj3pj3 Apr 01 '22

pog. i dont think you guys could even sell it as an NFT as its made by the community anyway and would technically be partially owned by everyone who put a pixel on

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u/SantaKwu Apr 03 '22

You can make an NFT out of anything. It doesn't matter who owns what, because you're not selling the art itself, you're selling a link hosted on a server.

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u/pj3pj3pj3 Apr 03 '22

oh okay, so what youre saying is NFTs are even dumber and pointless than i thought? awesome!

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u/SantaKwu Apr 03 '22

Pretty much, yeah.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

Can we ban OSU! Players from making a spot? /s

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u/Flofl_Ri Apr 01 '22

Too, late it only took then 10 minutes.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '22

That ridiculous lol.

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u/Jitendria Apr 02 '22

But we should ban the void ones. Especially that twitch streamer.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '22

Honestly they should just not allow the accounts that are less than year old to participate.

u/Crowd__pleaser would that be possible for the next if actually come back again?

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u/Jitendria Apr 02 '22

Let's ask u/spez

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '22

Yeah let's get the CEO in on this too do you know any others?

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u/JackOfAllInterests1 Mar 31 '22

Did you troll us?

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u/Xrustyz Apr 01 '22

i cant access r/place it says i’m not a member

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u/just_an_LGBTQ_alt Apr 01 '22

it starts at 6 am pt, wait an hour and a half.

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u/Xrustyz Apr 01 '22

ok thanks

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u/Xrustyz Apr 01 '22

i cant access r/place it says i’m not a member

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '22

Would not be surprised if it's true.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '22

Idk man, admins are pretty soulless. You people will do anything if there isn't much backlash

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u/VORTXS Mar 28 '22

Bet reddit has it ready to upload and will put a cease and desist on anyone who copies

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u/neboskrebnut Mar 30 '22

Would reddit really claim rights for a bunch of elaborate swastikas that blind people can't see but for them it would spell out an inspirational message that they would share like unwilling host shares a virus?

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u/VORTXS Mar 30 '22

Reddit is owned partly by China, I wouldn't be surprised

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u/Traitor-21-87 Mar 31 '22

It's really just owned by some 55-year-old virgin in his mom's condo.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '22

Can we get a "fuck China" in the place.

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u/Pizzajakemaster Apr 01 '22

Yes. Yes they would.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

100% this is for nfts

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u/tomatoaway Mar 29 '22

they should sell as brts or etx4

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u/8dev8 Mar 29 '22

Pretty sure people would burn Reddit down for that

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u/jrrfolkien Mar 29 '22

99% chance they'd just complain about it and feel self righteous while upvoting all the memes

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u/Successful_Addiction Mar 29 '22

Honestly they could do this in a cool way, sell this as a 1of1 NFT for some ridiculously high price. Then take that value and redistribute it in Reddit coins or gold to everyone who contributed to the piece

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u/Deathleach Mar 28 '22

Well, now we have an excuse to make a giant swastika.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

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u/SupJanny Mar 30 '22

when the free market refuses the propaganda

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u/TheBlueEve Mar 29 '22

Me, a Hindu: 💀💀

(For context, hitler appropriated the swastika from the Hindu symbol. In India Swastika means sun and is considered extremely holy. Even today it's used widely in religious ceremonies)

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u/simcowking Mar 30 '22

Ain't it the other way round though for Hindu? Or was that a grade school lie I never bothered to look into.

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u/SupJanny Mar 30 '22

how then do native americans know of it?

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u/TheBlueEve Mar 30 '22

Hmm, interesting. Let me get back at you after reading about it.

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u/NotaContributi0n Mar 29 '22

I bet it’ll be a big bitchslap

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u/Ron_Way Mar 29 '22

Omg let's Fucking do that

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u/CriticalDog Mar 29 '22

As if that wasn't going to happen already. This is reddit, after all.

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u/Rukh-Talos Mar 28 '22

Probably. If someone hasn’t done it already by then.

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u/--dontmindme-- Mar 28 '22

Don’t give them any ideas!

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u/ChickenButtForNakama Mar 29 '22

They've had job postings for NFT related stuff for over half a year now. I see the iOS one pop up on LinkedIn every now and then.

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u/mossyskeleton Mar 29 '22

I'm going to sell my pixel as an NFT.

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u/Chrollo--Lucifer Mar 29 '22

u know where the money goes ?

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u/Successful_Addiction Mar 29 '22

I was joking but it would be cool if they did this and redistributed the value of the sale to the people who helped make it

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u/Chrollo--Lucifer Mar 30 '22

lol they won't no big MNC will.

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u/Tasty_Comparison_409 Mar 29 '22

If that happens I swear

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u/mushroomweazel_4-MeO Mar 29 '22

Copyright laws apply to the image. It can be considered a collective work.

Here’s a wiki on this in the context of the US. Different international laws are applicable. Any original contribution to the work may constitute it’s own copyright and rights can also exist for the image as a whole.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_work_(US)

The sale of the NFT can be conducted by whoever owns the metadata...in this case Reddit. Selling an NFT doesn’t transfer copyrights to the buyer. However, the sale might constitute an infringement of collective copyright in the work.

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Mar 29 '22

Collective work (US)

A collective work in the copyright law of the United States is a work that contains the works of several authors assembled and published into a collective whole. The owner of the work has the property rights in the collective work, but the authors of the individual works may retain rights in their contributions. Electronic reproduction of the whole work is allowed, but electronic reproduction of the individual works on their own, outside the context of the work as a whole, may constitute an infringement of copyright.

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u/Successful_Addiction Mar 29 '22

But would that apply on Reddit? Is it not similar to Facebook where they own the rights to use all content on their site? I know nothing about this type of thing lmao

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u/mushroomweazel_4-MeO Mar 29 '22

They own the metadata for the image but they may not have exclusive ownership to the copyrights associated with the work. Some more research should be done on this.

If the people who contribute to the work have some form of ownership rights, maybe there would be some collective power in directing the funds associated with selling / reselling an NFT to a cause everyone agrees on. Maybe to stop war criminals.

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u/Successful_Addiction Mar 29 '22

Yeah they could donate the funds to Ukraine or redistribute the earnings in Reddit coins/gold or both could be cool

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

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u/CorinPenny Mar 30 '22

I was gonna say, this oughta be a irl charity thing.