Place is going exactly as expected

You missed the best part, in the German Flag, they've written "u/spez ist ein Hurensohn!"

Translation: u/spez is a son of a whore/bitch (Google says bitch, commenters are saying whore.)

Our French compatriots are giving Spez the guillotine!

Our French compatriots are giving Spez the guillotine

By opening up r/place again, they've stolen the magic from it.

The first time it happened, it was amazing and novel.

The second time was an incredible surprise each time the board opened up again. I was involved with the r/Beach House community to put up an homage to our favorite band.

But now... It's become repetitive. It feels like just an attention grab, like a ploy to artificially increase traffic to the site. This time, it looks no different from every other time r/place has taken... place. It's flags everywhere, there's so much anger surrounding it, and it's just not fun.

r/place was special because of its spontaneity. But now it's soulless, like every other corporate-owned internet phenomenon is.

Fuck Steve Huffman.

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I saw a suggestion to go put a "join Lemmy" banner on there, is it happening?

This is still traffic on the site.

every time they do r/place it feels a little less special

So, at the end, it worked?... shame

Reddit does not need love, people enjoying it or whatever, they need traffic. Advertisers dont care if you are there just to express how awfull reddit is, they need views. I would have love to see this shit staying blank.

The Among Us characters are also back, but they are all FUCK SPEZ. 😆

this is like following your ex on instagram. time to let them go

Starting a J for "Join Lemmy" at (22,-202)

Apparently there's also a "Lemmy" going on at (-190,-195)

"Hey, we're still cool. Remember this cool thing we did, look, we're doing it again, aren't we cool". Like that annoying kid in the class who had everybody laugh with one joke 2 years ago, and now he is repeating it time and again in order to get the same laughs.
Except in this case he's after any engagement so hateclicks are as good as loveclicks.

should've written join lemmy

The only thing I expected that hasn’t shown up yet is the Apollo app logo.

Place has always been a bit shit. The first time was interesting and novel because all the factions emerged with different ideologies that actually created personas and identities for themselves, but ever since then it's just been 50/50 nationalism or consumer products. There's so many more interesting things that could be painted and yet half of it will be flags of bourgeoise states.

I don’t understand why r/place is back, 2017 and 22 were very popular. I can only imagine they trying to drive traffic after the exodus. Anybody have insight?

Just stop giving it attention. This is driving traffic and ultimately increases the number of interaction, which is good for reddit. I see people post screenshots of their phones, again driving numbers for the app that they just propped up by killing 3rd party apps.

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i entered to see how it was, and it seems that there are only like 8 colors? so it is worse than the last time? like, the trans flag can't be done correctly, and probably the pixel art is going to look much worse. truly enshitification for literally no reason

Call me a conspiracy theorist but the amount and intensity of data they must get out of this is huge. They will know all the accounts that are anti-spez which they can monitor and algorithmically demote (soft censorship).

Reddit, like most captive-tech these days, is shifting to optimizing only for providing endless distraction to the 90% of mindless hoards which are easy to monetize.

I suspect Youtube will be next in line to squeeze the lemon, now that they are trying to block adblockers.

Many people don't know who spez (or Steve Huffman for that matter) is, a more general text should work: Fuck Reddit.

I'm actually surprised the fuck spez messages have lasted long since admins probably have access to brushes to clear it up like it was paint.

The fuck spez is perfect. Also I can't even view r/place because you have to either use their app or go to new reddit.

Didn‘t know they brought it back. They probably need to fix their engagement numbers for the IPO…

It's interesting to see the people who are willing to "cross the picket line" as it were and use it for self-promotion. Nationalists and TF2 players.

Since reddit is like 90% bots these days. Do you think these events are catering to the bots since this event is 100% bots? Do you think the bots are gaining sentience?

Either way, just ignore reddit's attempt to draw people back or seem "cool"

It's basically bots vs admins now. Most pixels are places by new accounts or by entities without accounts at all.

The highlight this year is going to be that animation by the Osu! I think.

Really surprised there aren't more/any swastikas in the stars of the US flag

you can see the eness stream of black dots harassing the LGBT flag.

I really want to keep updated on this, bit don't want to visit Reddit at all. Is there a way for me to do it other then relying on some one here posting it?

Ironic, by engaging with the website they end up promoting it far more than any "fuck spez" could harm it, assuming that is their intended goal.

I don't like how all of this complex capitalistic greed that can be seen time and time again all got turned into hate for a single person.

I mean, I don't like the guy either, and I don't like the actions of reddit, but boiling it down to one single insult repeated over and over is childish. I'm quite happy that r/save3rdpartyapps has such a big spot, that's a much better avenue for the discussion of this topic

Wasn't it an event for the 1st of April? Why is it going on right now?

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The only stunt I liked was the button. The separation that was manufactured just cracked me up.

Where my fellow neverpressers at?

Hurensohn lmao

Since I've updated the main post picture, here's the original I uploaded (with less cut off)

They are still generating traffic for reddit this way. Anyway, Deep Cock Galactic - Cock and Stone Brothers!

Update. Open in new tab to see full resolution.

BONER KEBAB

the admins are using their powers to remove things.

I'll take your word for it

Why would the admins expect anything different? Are they really that out of touch?

I rarely literally laugh out loud when I see something on the internet, but LOL is appropriate as hell this time because I let out a big laugh.

I get a lot of pleasure, even laughing by myself hysterically, when I help "Deep Rock" become "Deer Cock", when I help make "Connecting" into "Cumnecting", and when with one little pixel I make "Factorio" into a slur...

Is there something wrong with me?

I printed off a large 18x18 inch vinyl decal of last years /r/Place and put it on my fridge. I love looking at it every time I am cooking, because I see something new every time.

Can't wait to print this years off and stick it blow.

I think this might be the year that the void is going to win.

r/place is like the absent minded salesmen trying to carry on the pitch as its going all wrong. Glorious. Given the curves on some of those S', the next step is clear: Time to NSFW an S.

Is that a G on Factorio 💀

Is tha Vim logo at the bottom?

Talk about a company not having vision, innovation, or ideas…. SHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSHHHHHH

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Are there any bots this time that will autofill these things?

That black hole there is a bit ominous! Maybe r/place will get sucked into it along with the rest of Reddit. One can hope

Obligatory fuck spez.

Probably gonna get censored.

It's missing flames on the American flag.

I'm surprised the Nazis haven't put a swastika up yet.

@BonfireOvDreams I think we should be all doing something for the Fediverse on there lol

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Tis beautiful <3

Surprised to see the Beam.NG logo in all the chaos!

Is that an anus?

Save 3rd Party Aapppspps !

Big oof, this was a pretty bad time for that

Wow, some bootlickers are retaliating. There was more fuck spez before.

Edit: ah, this post is from 9h ago, nevermind.

It's almost entirely schilling bots and reddit admins fighting protesters attvis point. And Germans and a really cool animation.

Long live the Blue Corner!

It would be better if no one used place but probably impossible.

I'm only going there to help out fellow bronies (the MLP sub is going strong with their pixelart, but they did lock new posts until r/Place is over), and to see the protest art.