r/unexpectedsabaton

there's probably some of it left if you sort by Controversial or New, but we removed most of it :-)

I spy with my little eye a Ddagger p++ as well

So thats at that was!

That was vandalism.

And nyan cat turning dutch.

Mario's transformation was hilarious. Before he was transformed to Luigi, people were plaguing him with the void, lol

I spent most of my time protecting "fly eagles fly" from Cowboys fans, definitely worth it.

It makes me happy to hear people were amused by that, I spent several hours trying to get the first Mario -> Luigi jump before whoever was defending red left/stopped.

^{Luigi is #1}

I remember when every Mario on the canvas had a penis sticking out.

On the bottom, to the right of the pink blob

Scanned this image like 5 times now, can someone make a map key?

I'm significantly partially responsible for the Starfleet insignia! I placed maybe a quarter of it myself, but also turned a new artist onto it after the original artist abandoned the project (looks like they didn't abandon it, I just thought that after a slow period, my mistake). Very proud :)

Edit I don't mean to sound like it's totally my thing, I was just so excited to play a significant role in such an important icon being memorialized in the Place. Thanks to everybody who worked on it or protected it from vandals!!

Please, I'm a veteran, give me Karma, I had all my pixels swallowed by r/de during the 2nd invasion of r/france

Put it on your resume

I placed a couple yellow and black dots

I protected Norway's and Sweden's heart

I started making Megumin right near the German flag and St. Louis Blues note, and r/konosuba and /r/stlouisblues are now friends.

I help make the hyper light drifter next to the Skyrim logo!

Mona lisa was such a pain in the ass to maintain.

I helped build a little of Funhaus and then defended it for as long as possible. I also solo built an orange square in reference to the Game Grumps (it was annihilated within 3 hours) I'm so oddly proud of the part I played in this.

I helped coordinate the STL cardinals logo!

That was my least favorite part of the canvas TBH. The idea of reserving 'approved' space really went against the whole idea of Place.

PORTUGAL CARALHO!

I was in charge of the Papyrus face.

same!

I turned the trans-flag from a bar into a cross. Nothing else I did stuck, though.

I added a dot

I was all in on the rainbow road for a while, then spent time fixing wrong pixels all over the board as I saw them.

I helped stop "PCMASTERRACE" turning into the n-word.

i placed of the trans flag and the darth plagueis text

I helped r/FULLCOMMUNISM out :3

So happy that turned out for you guys! I saw the beginning of your plans and that it was taking a few hours to get it all going, & I was silently rooting for you as I helped with the humble Stranger Things logo!

I was following the Bender situation closely all weekend. Got concerned about him getting gobbled up by all the blue!

love how he went gold, then wood, than back to normal, what was up with that?

i was with the little Guybrush under bender and saw the hole thing hahaha

I thought wooden bender was funny.

Yes! I spent most of my time trying to keep his eyes yellow! I enjoyed this so much

I don't understand turing him back to grey. I would think that Bender would want to be made of gold.

MBGA!

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A few of Mega Man's flames there were totally me!

Where's that?

Me too! I sure did love making my blue dots

In the early years of my RuneScape experience, I always played with dialup. I would recognize that message anywhere lol.

unregistered hypercum 2

FTFY

Man I'm so proud of everyone. We really pulled that off

Hater

It makes me sad that there are 3 out of place pixels in it. Red under one of the words, and a black and white border pixel was swapped in the top left...

I spend a whole day with a tab open just to clean it up when it gets vandalized. It was strangely satisfying.

you're welcome

I think the 73 35 is a reference to a "73 is the new 35" meme when B0aty was killed by a guy with a dwh that hit a 35 on him in dmm

She also had her tits out for a bit.

For a short time she also had dem titties out

Oh god, that's so awesome. Didn't even notice that.

Nice.

Username checks out

It doesn't ingame tho...

In game it's a still image with no dots at all

Maybe I just got randomly lucky but I never saw a single swastika when I checked it which was a pleasant surprise. I thought for sure there would be some edgelord out there that would make it his purpose to get one in there somewhere.

Imagine doing something like this in real life... with real pixels.

Except bots did the actual art.

Wasnt so wholesome for osu sadly

The narrative behind it is pretty cool too. I discovered it on r/pathofexile where they were making their sign. And to do so they had to secure alliances with numerous other subreddits to help maintain their art and prevent theirs from being attacked. Including an alliance with r/newzealand who were using their kiwi to shoot lasers from its eyes at r/Denmark or something. Similarly they had a pre emptive treaty with r/greenlattice who have a fairly large territory and were swallowing anyone they weren't allied with. And those guys were at war with thevoid who were indiscriminately trying to swallow everything in black. Although after all the hubbub I heard about them it turns out all they swallowed was Tiny Rick's foot.

And that's just a tiny part of the whole thing!

I know, it makes me so happy that this experiment actually worked!

It still broke out into a turf war, but it ended pretty peacefully

I got so giddy when I watched that video and the project I worked on popped up towards the end. I could even tell which individual pixels I placed on part of it. It feels cool to be part of something with this many other people.

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Those flag wars looked pretty intense though

/r/wholesomeart

I mean there's an r/funhaus logo in there and that's pretty close...

Except for some dickbags trying to wreck the OSU thing they actually had some cool incorporation ideas.

Probably all bots

Yep, also no trash from /r/the_donald either

And then there were the assholes that would purposely fuck with the image by putting random pixels in places they shouldn't be. OP's pic has so many little errors in it from people just being assholes. Look in the bottom right corner at the "Praise the Sun" pic. Two black pixels created typos that make it look dumb.

Except for "Unregistered Hypercum"

It's just such a wholesome idea, everyone bots coming together to make a giant pixel mosaic, and it actually worked.

ftfy

And forget the bots and advertisements

Wholesome? Do you not know how many wars there were between the different groups? This was a battle to destroy others artwork for many people

I saw the beginning of the blue corner, but didn't really understand what was happening. When I tuned in hours later there was this amazing creation, and cooperation and factions and staving off of destruction. I'm sad I didn't pay more attention, though I did destroy a few randomly placed pixels. And I want to share it with someone, but no one outside of reddit would "get it".

Sadly the sicle and hammer made it into the finished project, and they represent an even more destructive ideology

Just a bit sad that most of it was just automated scripts towards the end.

It's just a shame there was that black blob popped up near the end and ruined a bunch of people's images =\ The PUBG's subreddit's image was getting overwritten by a bot that was made to move another poster's submission up a few spaces (he didn't know they were going to place it over the PUBG one) and it looks like someone just got PISSED at the end and wrote a bot to overwrite that entire area.

It's a great reminder that the assholes of the world are outnumbered by a wide margin, they just tell the loudest.

Yea it was definitely one of the better ideas reddits had. Even before the scripting things were fun. Like the giant blue corner, or when rainbow road formed. Hell I think they even made Mona Lisa without script.

Is it the idea that people did this? what if the truth was it was mostly done by 40-50 bots running for 72 hours?

I'm glad to see the story the jedi never wanted you to know got put up almost immediately and was left alone.

Even more fascinating were the alliances and such formed between groups to defend their small piece of turf against invasion, similar to countries.

For example, I helped work on the /r/DestinyTheGame design. We had /r/Scotland and /r/RocketLeague near us, and there were some bots that kept trying to make some flag right on us, and a couple people placing pixels in the middle of designs. We all helped protect each other.

We really had a strong alliance formed, and helped each other. Another nearby ally gave up a little bit of their turf for us to expand and make our design even cooler.

Would have been really interesting to see this go on longer, what would happen? Would "governments" form between large designs? Like what if there were two huge entities next to each other and they had a treaty between each other, like don't mess with me, and you'll be okay? And then someone breaches the border, and the one side gets pissed off and invades the other and destroys their design... would people have gotten together to stop the Black Plague?

Amazing. I loved this game.

You put everything I was thinking into words - yes! I've been feeling super cynical lately and this just made me happy!! Yay humans of Reddit!

Damn man.

Well said.

The state of Reddit lately especially has been very... Sad...

This was really refreshing. Thanks to the admins I guess for using art to prove that the largess of the userbase is inherently decent.

The only real revolution happens right inside of you

I'm kinda glad the void was still around in a small way at the end. Hate what they are, but they are part of the story of /r/place and I feel that they deserved at least to have -some- small amount of space there at the end (other than the void heart).

But looking at the timelapse I have to think that the only reason the void got big at the start was because most people were focused more on making their own community art. Once most pieces were finished you can see that the Void never really gets going like it used to, probably because there were more people free to focus on fighting them. (well that and the fact that once most pieces were finished the void was the most accessible 'free' space left for new comers.)

Thanks for that comment, man.

Thank you for writing that out. This is what struck me most about the experiment. I first saw /r/place and thought "this thing is immediately going to be filled exclusively with dicks and 'send nudes.'" And initially, it was. (Don't get me wrong, sometimes these things are funny). But as the hours went on, collaboration began to appear and ultimately, that is what prevailed. I was part of the efforts of a few smaller subs to make their marks and was shocked by the level of collaboration between communities when space became scarce. It was very little "we are taking your space, deal with it" and much more "here is a proposal for how both our pieces of art can coexist." This was usually the case even when one community totally dwarfed a neighboring one and could have easily wiped them out.

To take your comment a bit further: If anything, I feel like this helped answer the age-old question of whether humans are inherently good or inherently evil. So often on the internet, it's hard argue the former. Reading youtube comments, reading comments on any major news source, even reading FaceBook comments on public articles just leaves me with a sense of depression regarding the nature of humans when given a forum a small amount of anonymity or with little to no consequence for their actions. These places become overwhelmingly filled with hate and it begins to skew our view of the general population.

As you pointed out, /r/place essentially leveled the playing field so that the impact of each person was mostly equal. Once the playing field was level, it became apparent that the overwhelming majority of users were focused on creating and preserving art as opposed to attacking and destroying it. Even The Void was usually creative in how it spread (with tendrils instead of just blacking something out).

I would love to read about what the admins thought would happen here vs what actually happened. Because I personally had a much more pessimistic prediction and am shocked and overwhelmed with pride in how things turned out.

Yes, it was truly beautiful. I'm proud to say I was a part of it. I protected things from vandalism and fought the void.

It makes me happy because it says to me that most people are awesome and want to build cool things, and the ruiners and destroyers are in the minority.

Actually, I would say the complete opposite. I think that people are awesome and want to build cool things, but after people are set in their ways, it makes it damn near impossible to change anything--even if it could make it better. All this did was demonstrate how /r/place slowly shifted from liberal (anything goes) values to conservative (preserve the status quo) ones. Very few original ideas, too. People just went with what they already knew.

And this ideological war--a war of competing visions--was fought over nothing but pixels.

beautiful

I think the void was awesome, every time it took over an area cool stuff was built in it's place. Some of the smaller stuff was lost but it kind of reminded me of a forest fire giving space for new growth.

You realize that normal people like you and me had nothing to do with this whole thing?

It was a competition for auto scripters who could write the best scripts. People who could only click once 1 every 5 minutes had absolutely no impact. It wasnt about collective effort, it was about effective scripting.

they chose to fill it with really cool things and expressions of teamwork and love. And they successfully fought off the few who tried to ruin it

Uhhhh.....dude. Nah. Watch a time lapse. The flags gobbled up everything near them. My relatively small University sub got our spot taken from us by the UK bot net. Check us out in a time lapse, upper left corner of the UK flag, about six hours before r/place ended we got demolished by a botnet and kicked off of r/place and we never got a chance to get back in. They stopped by in our sub to let us know this and basically told us eat shit, if we don't like it we can take somebody else's spot because we're too small to do anything about it. All this experiment proved is that bigger groups will inevitably start to shit all over smaller ones eventually, and that people will cheat at literally anything. I guarantee if this went on for a few more days it would have turned in to about a dozen groups in a nonstop bot war with about 6 flags and 6 memes dominating everything. Basically the opposite of cool things, teamwork, and love. You should watch a time lapse of r/place to see the bullying occuring everywhere. This picture isn't even the final picture, compare this to the final, or better yet just watch a time lapse and tell me that r/places was trending in a positive direction.

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I'm mesmerised by seeing 'Toronto Maple Leafs' change to 'Fuck My Life" and back again over and over....

The way the German flag takes over the French flag. I could've sworn I've seen that happen a time or two already....

The US flag was almost destroyed at the end, but it made a defiant comeback... 'MErica!

I love seeing Manningface come into creation right at the end.

I love the german flag eating the french flag.

Here is my favorite part. At 24 seconds, you can see the american flag start to form. At 29 seconds you can see /r/indieheads start on their icon. (To the right of the american flag, it looks like this when finshed. http://images.genius.com/8ab11637e4843f9fc0d26cce6776dfa2.1000x1000x1.jpg

Although it was never our intention to destroy any artwork, They finished their design at 31 seconds and by 33 seconds, we had covered a good portion of their artwork. The people working on the American Flag then helped move the artwork to the right, and by 37 seconds their work was completely moved, to remain until the end. I liked the fact that subreddits who have never spoke to each other before reached out to help. I'm sure acts of kindness like this happened 100's of times over the last 72 hours.

I feel that this showed the good sides of the internet, and the bad side of the internet, and the good prevailed. It was an honor to help /r/indieheads with artwork. By the end they felt like neighbors to me, and I helped clean up their pixels from time to time. Although I'm not really sure what is up with Neutral milk hotel, I tried listening to it, and that is not my thing. I welcome /r/indieheads as my neighbors, but try to keep the music down.