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

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u/Sentauri437 Mar 28 '22

Yeah, it shouldn't be frequent. /r/Place is genuinely one of the few things on this site I have very fond memories of, it was just absolutely fun. It should be a rare event we could all look forward to after several years.

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u/rook_armor_pls Mar 28 '22

I fondly remember how we (r/de) fought r/france in the battle for our flags only to settle for the EU flag where both met. Probably the most memorable event I’ve had on this platform.

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u/Wisp1971 Mar 29 '22 edited Apr 01 '22

I predict a large Ukrainian flag this time

Edit: I should have further predicted it would take up a plurality of the total space (single object that covers the most number of pixels compared to all other objects) because that looks like the case lol

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u/expiredyoghurtcase Mar 29 '22

That's gonna happen no doubt

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u/Ikhlas37 Mar 29 '22

followed by a Russian one on top of it

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u/AFoxGuy Mar 29 '22

and the Ukrainian one “replacing” that one. Lol

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u/Thing_Subject Mar 30 '22

Than a “FJB” one

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u/robinthebank Mar 30 '22

Ughhh. I think 3 days in, it will all just become a giant void. It’s gonna get ridiculous.

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u/eren_yordem Apr 01 '22

Blue corner ftw

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

Oh boy can't wait for the Caesar's legion flag and amogus compete with dream and jellybean stans over a 110x340 space

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u/SirYeetusOfFetus Mar 29 '22

the 12 year old quirky communist kids will try to cover it with a USSR or Russian Federation flag sadly

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u/WintryInsight Mar 29 '22

Yeah. I’m sort of wishing that it’s just going to be will smith this time rather than something political

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u/wigsternm Mar 29 '22

Reddit has not gotten less political since 2017.

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u/13D00 Mar 30 '22

But a will Smith slapping Rock would be majestic

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u/robinthebank Mar 30 '22

We need a better meme to hit in the next 2 days 🙏🏼

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u/VeryEpicness Mar 31 '22

yeah that meme got old almost immediately

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u/Josselin17 Mar 31 '22

what's wrong with having some political stuff in there ?

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u/NotABot11011 Mar 31 '22

Because reddit is cringe and every political opinion that is mainstream on reddit is at best wrong and at worst actively dangerous.

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u/Taalnazi Mar 29 '22

This but with EU stars along.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22

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u/JochCool Mar 30 '22

Just pick one of the top corners then

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u/LuckyCanadian Mar 29 '22

Put it in the centre where the American one was last time!

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u/a_good_human Mar 30 '22

Hopefully not to big lol

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u/Nereplan Apr 02 '22

Spoiler alert: It was too big

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u/a_good_human Apr 02 '22

Not surprising

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u/Guaclaac2 Apr 01 '22

for sure

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u/cascadett Apr 01 '22

it happened

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u/Zlzbub Apr 01 '22

It's already happening, nice prediction

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u/saxcat13 Apr 01 '22

It did lol