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Owner	Reddit
Created by	Josh Wardle
URL	reddit.com/r/place
Registration	Reddit account required
Users	2017: Over 1 million; 2022: Over 6 million
Launched	Original launch: April 1, 2017; 7 years ago.; Rebooted: April 1, 2022; 2 years ago.
Current status	Ended

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Place was a collaborative project and social experiment hosted on the social networking site Reddit that began on April Fools' Day 2017 and was revived again after 5 years on April Fools' Day 2022.

The 2017 experiment involved an online canvas located at a subreddit called r/place, which registered users could edit by changing the color of a single pixel from a 16-color palette. After each pixel was placed, a timer prevented the user from placing any pixels for a period of time varying from 5 to 20 minutes.^[1]^[2] The idea of the experiment was conceived by Josh Wardle.^[3] The experiment was ended by Reddit administrators about 72 hours after its creation, on April 3, 2017. Over 1 million users edited the canvas, placing a total of approximately 16 million tiles, and, at the time the experiment was ended, over 90,000 users were actively viewing or editing. The experiment was commended for its representation of the culture of Reddit's online communities, and of Internet culture as a whole.^[4]

On April 1, 2022, Reddit began a reboot of the experiment that lasted for four days.^[5]^[6]

Gameplay

The experiment was based in a subreddit called /r/place, in which registered users could place a single colored pixel (or "tile") on an empty canvas of one million (1000x1000) pixel squares, and wait a certain amount of time before placing another.^[7] In 2017 the waiting time varied from 5 to 20 minutes throughout the experiment, and the user could choose their pixel's color from a palette of sixteen colors.^[8]^[9] In the 2022 edition, the canvas was ultimately expanded to four million (2000x2000) pixel squares, and the palette to 32 colors.^[10]

2017 edition

The final product of the original 2017 Place

The early hours of the experiment were characterized by random pixel placement and chaotic attempts at image creation.^[8] Among the first distinct sections of the canvas to emerge were a corner of entirely blue pixels (named "Blue Corner") and a homage to Pokémon.^[11] As the canvas developed, some established subreddit communities, such as those for video games, sports teams and individual countries, coordinated user efforts to claim and decorate particular sections.^[8]^[12] This frequently caused conflict between communities competing for territory on the canvas.^[13] Overall, thousands of subreddit communities were involved.^[9]

Other sections of the canvas were developed by communities and coordination efforts created specifically for the event. Several works of pixel art sprouted from the collaboration of these communities, varying from fictional characters and internet memes to patriotic flags, LGBT flags, and recreations of famous pieces of artwork such as the Mona Lisa^[14] and The Starry Night.^[15]^[16]^[3] Several "cults" also formed to create and maintain various emblematic features such as a black void, green lattice, the aforementioned blue corner and a multi-colored "rainbow road".^[17] At the time of the experiment's end on April 3, 2017, over 90,000 users were viewing and editing the canvas,^[7] and over one million users had placed a total of approximately 16 million tiles.^[4]^[13]

Place was commended for its colorful representation of the Reddit online community. The A.V. Club called it "a benign, colorful way for Redditors to do what they do best: argue among each other about the things that they love".^[18] Gizmodo labelled it as a "testament to the internet's ability to collaborate".^[19] A number of commentators described the experiment as a broader representation of Internet culture.^[20] Some also commented on the apparent relationship between the makeup of the final canvas and the individual communities within Reddit, which exist independently but cooperate as part of a larger community.^[18] Newsweek called it "the internet's best experiment yet",^[8] and a writer at Ars Technica suggested that the cooperative spirit of Place represented a model for fighting extremism in internet communities.^[21] A writer for The Next Web said it was "one of the most remarkable collaborative endeavors I've ever seen on the internet."^[22] The experiment did receive some criticism for the lack of protection from bot usage and the automated placing of pixels.^[23]

2022 edition

A complete picture of Place 2022 moments before the canvas was filled with white pixels

On March 28, 2022, a reboot of Place was announced. It began on April 1, 2022, and lasted for four days, including two expansions across the experiment.^[24]^[25] As of Sunday night, April 3, nearly 72 million tiles were placed by over 6 million users, at a pace of more than 2.5 million tiles placed per hour; it was a sixfold increase in the number of users on Reddit between the two experiments, including a 4.5-fold increase in tiles being placed.^[4] Unlike in 2017, individual subreddits immediately began to coordinate pixel art, and large communities were formed on Discord and Twitch in attempts to create, defend, and destroy territory. Different communities collaborated and formed alliances through Discord as well as subreddits.^[26]^[27] Large streamers on Twitch also participated by instructing thousands (in some cases hundreds of thousands) of their viewers to mark their logos and symbols.^[4]^[28] In response to the project's popularity, Reddit doubled the canvas size and expanded the color palette on days 2 and 3.^[4]^[29]

There were many griefs and reprisals from various factions, with Twitch streamer xQcOW (a.k.a. Félix Lengyel) being particularly impactful (at one point peaking with more than 233,000 live concurrent viewers, a personal record).^[30]^[27] He received death threats for griefing, saying that he had received more death threats in a single hour than he had received in six years of streaming.^[31]^[28]^[32]

From the get-go, Place was used to express support for Ukraine in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War.^[26]^[4] Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy was depicted with sunglasses, and it was suspected that Russian bots were used in a vain attempt to deface Zelenskyy's visage,^[26] although this attack was thwarted.^[4]

References to popular culture and Internet memes were commonly visible.^[33] Similar to 2017, much of artwork was nationalistic.^[4] These often combined flags with their country's landmarks, celebrities, technology, or popular exports. This was particularly evident in the case of France, the United States, and Germany, while Dutch and Turkish Redditors collaborated to make real life paintings and a mural of Barış Manço. A flag of Canada was the subject of humor with regards to the difficulties of the design of the maple leaf.^[4]

2022 also saw the return of the Blue Corner, the void, the rainbow road, LGBT flags, and the green lattice (although all in diminished capacity).^[4] There was another prominent promotion for the 2007 video game osu!.

Before the 2022 Place reboot ended, users were suddenly restricted to placing white pixels; therefore, the entire canvas was gradually filled with a white void, returning it to its original blank state.^[34]^[35]

The experiment was praised for creating a sense of collectivism at a time when the Internet was to a great extent fractured and polarized.^[4] However, censorship and admin abuse were noted, with one piece of art depicting a scantily clad woman, encouraged by Twitch streamer xQc, being censored.^[30] Bot usage was also again criticized.^[36] The Washington Post compared the resulting collective artwork to The Million Dollar Homepage, a one-million-pixel website where each pixel was sold for a dollar in 2005.^[4]

References

^ Simpson, Brian; Lee, Matt; Ellis, Daniel (April 13, 2017). "How We Built r/Place". Upvoted. Archived from the original on April 17, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
^ Rappaz, Jérémie (2018). "Latent Structure in Collaboration: The Case of Reddit r/place". International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. arXiv:1804.05962. Archived from the original on July 2, 2020. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Voon, Claire (April 12, 2017). "More Than a Million Strangers Collaborate, Pixel by Pixel, on a Digital Canvas". Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on June 14, 2020. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Lorenz, Taylor (April 4, 2022). "Internet communities are battling over pixels". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
^ Lyons, Kim (March 28, 2022). "Reddit is bringing back r/Place, its April Fools' Day art experiment". The Verge. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
^ "Place has ended". Reddit. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
^ ^a ^b Weinberger, Matt (April 4, 2017). "Over 1 million Reddit users waged a virtual war to create this bizarre work of art with 16 million pixels". Business Insider Australia. Archived from the original on April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Cuthbertson, Anthony (April 11, 2017). "From Van Gogh to a marriage proposal, Reddit Place was the internet's best experiment yet". Newsweek. Archived from the original on April 13, 2017. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
^ ^a ^b Chen, Bodong; Håklev, Stian; Rosé, Carolyn Penstein (2021), Cress, Ulrike; Rosé, Carolyn; Wise, Alyssa Friend; Oshima, Jun (eds.), "Collaborative Learning at Scale", International Handbook of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 163–181, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-65291-3_9, ISBN 978-3-030-65291-3, retrieved April 5, 2022
^ Muckensturm, Baptiste (April 5, 2022). "La mosaïque sur Reddit qui entraina une guerre mondiales à coup de pixels" [The mosaic on Reddit that led to a world war with pixels]. France Culture (in French). Retrieved April 5, 2022.
^ Weinberger, Matt. "Reddit's new 'Place' is forcing millions of users to work together to make something great". Business Insider. Archived from the original on April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
^ Tindale, James (April 4, 2017). "Reddit Place: April Fool's experiment reveals how the internet sees Australia". The Australian. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
^ ^a ^b Vachher, Prateek; Levonian, Zachary; Cheng, Hao-Fei; Yarosh, Svetlana (October 17, 2020), "Understanding Community-Level Conflicts Through Reddit r/place" (PDF), Conference Companion Publication of the 2020 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 401–405, doi:10.1145/3406865.3418311, ISBN 978-1-4503-8059-1, retrieved April 5, 2022
^ Litherland, Kristina T. (March 29, 2022). "Instruction vs. emergence on r/place: Understanding the growth and control of evolving artifacts in mass collaboration". Computers in Human Behavior, Vol. 122, Sept. 2021, art. 106845. Archived from the original on March 29, 2022. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
^ "Eagles, Flyers represented in final version of Reddit's 'Place' social experiment". PhillyVoice. April 3, 2017. Archived from the original on April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
^ Oxford, Nadia. "Here's the Best Game Fan Art from Reddit's r/place Canvas". USgamer. Archived from the original on April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
^ Hathaway, Jay (April 3, 2017). "A new phenomenon is taking over Reddit—here's what you should know about it". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on August 11, 2020. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Purdom, Clayton (April 3, 2017). "Reddit gave its users something to fight over besides anime and cucks". A.V. Club. Archived from the original on April 3, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
^ Serrels, Mark. "Place Was The Internet, In All Its Glory". Gizmodo. Archived from the original on April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
^ Rhode, Jason. "Redditors Collaborate to Create the Iconic Picture of Our Time". pastemagazine.com. Archived from the original on April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
^ Machkovech, Sam. "Did Reddit's April Fool's gag solve the issue of online hate speech?". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
^ Kaser, Rachel (April 29, 2017). "Atlas of Reddit's /r/place makes sense of beautiful chaos". The Next Web. Financial Times. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
^ "Reddit's April Fools' Joke Spawned a Surprisingly Awesome Social Experiment". Nerdist. April 4, 2017. Archived from the original on April 6, 2017. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
^ "Bringing Back r/place". Reddit. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
^ Rauwerda, Annie (March 28, 2022). "Reddit is bringing back beloved digital art experiment, r/Place". Input. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c Mauran, Cecily (April 4, 2022). "Ukraine supporters fight for pixels on Reddit's r/place". Mashable. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
^ ^a ^b Clairouin, Olivier (April 4, 2022). "Sur le forum « r/place » de Reddit, l'incroyable bataille de pixels entre internautes du monde entier" [On Reddit's "r/place" forum, the incredible battle of pixels between Internet users from all over the world]. Le Monde (in French). Retrieved April 5, 2022.
^ ^a ^b Williams, Demi (April 4, 2022). "xQc reports getting numerous death threats over Reddit's 'Place' canvas". NME. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
^ Gach, Ethan (April 5, 2022). "Reddit Is Hosting What May Be The Internet's Most Wholesome Fan War". Kotaku. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
^ ^a ^b Patterson, Calum (April 4, 2022). "xQc breaks his Twitch viewership record as viral r/Place art stream censored by Reddit". Dexerto.
^ Datuin, Sage (April 4, 2022). "xQc says he's received more death threats in April than past 6 years combined thanks to viral r/Place art streams". Dot Esports. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
^ Richman, Olivia (April 4, 2022). "xQc receives death threats after Reddit Place stunt". WIN.gg. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
^ Baldacchino, Julien (April 5, 2022). "Pourquoi des internautes du monde entier bataillent pour des pixels sur le site Reddit" [Why people around the world are fighting for pixels on Reddit]. France Inter (in French). Retrieved April 5, 2022.
^ Santana, Steven (April 4, 2022). "Texas symbolism is embarrassingly absent in Reddit's big art project r/Place". San Antonio Express-News. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
^ Childs, Andrew (April 4, 2022). "How r/place – a massive and chaotic collaborative art project on Reddit – showcased the best and worst of online spaces". The Conversation. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
^ Eudaly, Zack (April 5, 2022). "Fans react as xQc discovers that r/Place is full of bots". Sportskeeda. Retrieved April 5, 2022.

[1] Simpson, Brian; Lee, Matt; Ellis, Daniel (April 13, 2017). "How We Built r/Place". Upvoted. Archived from the original on April 17, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2020.

[2] Rappaz, Jérémie (2018). "Latent Structure in Collaboration: The Case of Reddit r/place". International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. arXiv:1804.05962. Archived from the original on July 2, 2020. Retrieved July 1, 2020.

[HA-3] Voon, Claire (April 12, 2017). "More Than a Million Strangers Collaborate, Pixel by Pixel, on a Digital Canvas". Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on June 14, 2020. Retrieved April 10, 2020.

[WP2-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Lorenz, Taylor (April 4, 2022). "Internet communities are battling over pixels". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 4, 2022.

[TV-5] Lyons, Kim (March 28, 2022). "Reddit is bringing back r/Place, its April Fools' Day art experiment". The Verge. Retrieved March 30, 2022.

[placeend-6] "Place has ended". Reddit. Retrieved April 4, 2022.

[business_insider_final-7] Weinberger, Matt (April 4, 2017). "Over 1 million Reddit users waged a virtual war to create this bizarre work of art with 16 million pixels". Business Insider Australia. Archived from the original on April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.

[Newsweek2017-8] Cuthbertson, Anthony (April 11, 2017). "From Van Gogh to a marriage proposal, Reddit Place was the internet's best experiment yet". Newsweek. Archived from the original on April 13, 2017. Retrieved April 13, 2017.

[Springer-9] Chen, Bodong; Håklev, Stian; Rosé, Carolyn Penstein (2021), Cress, Ulrike; Rosé, Carolyn; Wise, Alyssa Friend; Oshima, Jun (eds.), "Collaborative Learning at Scale", International Handbook of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 163–181, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-65291-3_9, ISBN 978-3-030-65291-3, retrieved April 5, 2022

[10] Muckensturm, Baptiste (April 5, 2022). "La mosaïque sur Reddit qui entraina une guerre mondiales à coup de pixels" [The mosaic on Reddit that led to a world war with pixels]. France Culture (in French). Retrieved April 5, 2022.

[11] Weinberger, Matt. "Reddit's new 'Place' is forcing millions of users to work together to make something great". Business Insider. Archived from the original on April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 10, 2020.

[australian-12] Tindale, James (April 4, 2017). "Reddit Place: April Fool's experiment reveals how the internet sees Australia". The Australian. Retrieved April 4, 2017.

[ACM2020-13] Vachher, Prateek; Levonian, Zachary; Cheng, Hao-Fei; Yarosh, Svetlana (October 17, 2020), "Understanding Community-Level Conflicts Through Reddit r/place" (PDF), Conference Companion Publication of the 2020 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 401–405, doi:10.1145/3406865.3418311, ISBN 978-1-4503-8059-1, retrieved April 5, 2022

[14] Litherland, Kristina T. (March 29, 2022). "Instruction vs. emergence on r/place: Understanding the growth and control of evolving artifacts in mass collaboration". Computers in Human Behavior, Vol. 122, Sept. 2021, art. 106845. Archived from the original on March 29, 2022. Retrieved March 29, 2022.

[philly_voice-15] "Eagles, Flyers represented in final version of Reddit's 'Place' social experiment". PhillyVoice. April 3, 2017. Archived from the original on April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.

[16] Oxford, Nadia. "Here's the Best Game Fan Art from Reddit's r/place Canvas". USgamer. Archived from the original on April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.

[17] Hathaway, Jay (April 3, 2017). "A new phenomenon is taking over Reddit—here's what you should know about it". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on August 11, 2020. Retrieved April 10, 2020.

[AVClub-18] Purdom, Clayton (April 3, 2017). "Reddit gave its users something to fight over besides anime and cucks". A.V. Club. Archived from the original on April 3, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.

[19] Serrels, Mark. "Place Was The Internet, In All Its Glory". Gizmodo. Archived from the original on April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.

[paste-20] Rhode, Jason. "Redditors Collaborate to Create the Iconic Picture of Our Time". pastemagazine.com. Archived from the original on April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.

[ars_technica-21] Machkovech, Sam. "Did Reddit's April Fool's gag solve the issue of online hate speech?". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.

[22] Kaser, Rachel (April 29, 2017). "Atlas of Reddit's /r/place makes sense of beautiful chaos". The Next Web. Financial Times. Retrieved April 5, 2022.

[23] "Reddit's April Fools' Joke Spawned a Surprisingly Awesome Social Experiment". Nerdist. April 4, 2017. Archived from the original on April 6, 2017. Retrieved April 5, 2017.

[24] "Bringing Back r/place". Reddit. Retrieved April 1, 2022.

[25] Rauwerda, Annie (March 28, 2022). "Reddit is bringing back beloved digital art experiment, r/Place". Input. Retrieved April 5, 2022.

[Mashable-26] Mauran, Cecily (April 4, 2022). "Ukraine supporters fight for pixels on Reddit's r/place". Mashable. Retrieved April 5, 2022.

[LeMonde-27] Clairouin, Olivier (April 4, 2022). "Sur le forum « r/place » de Reddit, l'incroyable bataille de pixels entre internautes du monde entier" [On Reddit's "r/place" forum, the incredible battle of pixels between Internet users from all over the world]. Le Monde (in French). Retrieved April 5, 2022.

[NME-28] Williams, Demi (April 4, 2022). "xQc reports getting numerous death threats over Reddit's 'Place' canvas". NME. Retrieved April 5, 2022.

[29] Gach, Ethan (April 5, 2022). "Reddit Is Hosting What May Be The Internet's Most Wholesome Fan War". Kotaku. Retrieved April 5, 2022.

[auto-30] Patterson, Calum (April 4, 2022). "xQc breaks his Twitch viewership record as viral r/Place art stream censored by Reddit". Dexerto.

[31] Datuin, Sage (April 4, 2022). "xQc says he's received more death threats in April than past 6 years combined thanks to viral r/Place art streams". Dot Esports. Retrieved April 5, 2022.

[32] Richman, Olivia (April 4, 2022). "xQc receives death threats after Reddit Place stunt". WIN.gg. Retrieved April 5, 2022.

[33] Baldacchino, Julien (April 5, 2022). "Pourquoi des internautes du monde entier bataillent pour des pixels sur le site Reddit" [Why people around the world are fighting for pixels on Reddit]. France Inter (in French). Retrieved April 5, 2022.

[MSA-34] Santana, Steven (April 4, 2022). "Texas symbolism is embarrassingly absent in Reddit's big art project r/Place". San Antonio Express-News. Retrieved April 5, 2022.

[35] Childs, Andrew (April 4, 2022). "How r/place – a massive and chaotic collaborative art project on Reddit – showcased the best and worst of online spaces". The Conversation. Retrieved April 5, 2022.

[36] Eudaly, Zack (April 5, 2022). "Fans react as xQc discovers that r/Place is full of bots". Sportskeeda. Retrieved April 5, 2022.

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 == Gameplay ==
-The experiment was based in a subreddit called /r/place, in which registered users could place a single colored pixel (or "tile") on an empty canvas of one million (1000x1000) pixel squares, and wait a certain amount of time before placing another.<ref name="business insider final">{{cite web |last1=Weinberger |first1=Matt |date=April 4, 2017 |title=Over 1 million Reddit users waged a virtual war to create this bizarre work of art with 16 million pixels |url=https://www.businessinsider.com.au/reddit-place-april-fools-experiment-creates-pixel-art-final-version-2017-4?r=US&IR=T |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404221027/https://www.businessinsider.com.au/reddit-place-april-fools-experiment-creates-pixel-art-final-version-2017-4?r=US&IR=T |archive-date=April 4, 2017 |access-date=April 4, 2017 |website=Business Insider Australia |language=en}}</ref> In 2017 the waiting time varied from 5 to 20 minutes throughout the experiment, and the user could choose their pixel's color from a palette of sixteen colors.<ref name="Newsweek2017">{{Cite news |last=Cuthbertson |first=Anthony |date=April 11, 2017 |title=From Van Gogh to a marriage proposal, Reddit Place was the internet's best experiment yet |language=en |work=Newsweek |url=http://www.newsweek.com/reddit-place-internet-experiment-579049 |url-status=live |access-date=April 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413063706/http://www.newsweek.com/reddit-place-internet-experiment-579049 |archive-date=April 13, 2017}}</ref> In the 2022 edition, the canvas was ultimately expanded to four million (2000x2000) pixel squares, and the palette to 32 colors.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Muckensturm |first=Baptiste |date=5 April 2022 |title=La mosaïque sur Reddit qui entraina une guerre mondiales à coup de pixels |language=fr |trans-title=The mosaic on Reddit that led to a world war with pixels |work=France Culture |url=https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/les-enjeux-des-reseaux-sociaux/sur-reddit-la-pixel-war-soude-les-internautes-francais |access-date=5 April 2022}}</ref>
+The experiment was based in a subreddit called /r/place, in which registered users could place a single colored pixel (or "tile") on an empty canvas of one million (1000x1000) pixel squares, and wait a certain amount of time before placing another.<ref name="business insider final">{{cite web |last1=Weinberger |first1=Matt |date=April 4, 2017 |title=Over 1 million Reddit users waged a virtual war to create this bizarre work of art with 16 million pixels |url=https://www.businessinsider.com.au/reddit-place-april-fools-experiment-creates-pixel-art-final-version-2017-4?r=US&IR=T |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404221027/https://www.businessinsider.com.au/reddit-place-april-fools-experiment-creates-pixel-art-final-version-2017-4?r=US&IR=T |archive-date=April 4, 2017 |access-date=April 4, 2017 |website=Business Insider Australia |language=en}}</ref> In 2017 the waiting time varied from 5 to 20 minutes throughout the experiment, and the user could choose their pixel's color from a palette of sixteen colors.<ref name="Newsweek2017">{{Cite news |last=Cuthbertson |first=Anthony |date=April 11, 2017 |title=From Van Gogh to a marriage proposal, Reddit Place was the internet's best experiment yet |language=en |work=Newsweek |url=http://www.newsweek.com/reddit-place-internet-experiment-579049 |url-status=live |access-date=April 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413063706/http://www.newsweek.com/reddit-place-internet-experiment-579049 |archive-date=April 13, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Springer">{{Citation |last=Chen |first=Bodong |title=Collaborative Learning at Scale |date=2021 |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-65291-3_9 |work=International Handbook of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning |pages=163–181 |editor-last=Cress |editor-first=Ulrike |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-65291-3_9 |isbn=978-3-030-65291-3 |access-date=2022-04-05 |last2=Håklev |first2=Stian |last3=Rosé |first3=Carolyn Penstein |editor2-last=Rosé |editor2-first=Carolyn |editor3-last=Wise |editor3-first=Alyssa Friend |editor4-last=Oshima |editor4-first=Jun}}</ref> In the 2022 edition, the canvas was ultimately expanded to four million (2000x2000) pixel squares, and the palette to 32 colors.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Muckensturm |first=Baptiste |date=5 April 2022 |title=La mosaïque sur Reddit qui entraina une guerre mondiales à coup de pixels |language=fr |trans-title=The mosaic on Reddit that led to a world war with pixels |work=France Culture |url=https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/les-enjeux-des-reseaux-sociaux/sur-reddit-la-pixel-war-soude-les-internautes-francais |access-date=5 April 2022}}</ref>
 == 2017 edition ==
 [[File:RPlace2017.png|thumb|The final product of the original 2017 Place]]
-The early hours of the experiment were characterized by random pixel placement and chaotic attempts at image creation.<ref name="Newsweek2017" /> Among the first distinct sections of the canvas to emerge were a corner of entirely blue pixels {{anchor|BlueCorner}}(named "Blue Corner") and a homage to ''[[Pokémon]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-place-april-fools-experiment-canvas-2017-3|title=Reddit's new 'Place' is forcing millions of users to work together to make something great|last=Weinberger|first=Matt|website=Business Insider|access-date=April 10, 2020|archive-date=April 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404010115/http://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-place-april-fools-experiment-canvas-2017-3|url-status=live}}</ref> As the canvas developed, some established subreddit communities, such as those for [[video game]]s, [[sports]] teams and individual countries, coordinated user efforts to claim and decorate particular sections.<ref name="Newsweek2017" /><ref name="australian">{{cite news|last1=Tindale|first1=James|title=Reddit Place: April Fool's experiment reveals how the internet sees Australia|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/personal-technology/reddit-place-april-fools-experiment-reveals-how-the-internet-sees-australia/news-story/c60e4e20722f885eb3c8494cc6371d19|access-date=April 4, 2017|work=[[The Australian]]|date=April 4, 2017}}</ref> This frequently caused conflict between communities competing for territory on the canvas.<ref name="ACM2020">{{Citation |last=Vachher |first=Prateek |title=Understanding Community-Level Conflicts Through Reddit r/place |date=2020-10-17 |url=https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~levon003/files/CSCW2020_vachher_poster_camera_ready.pdf |work=Conference Companion Publication of the 2020 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing |pages=401–405 |place=New York, NY, USA |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |doi=10.1145/3406865.3418311 |isbn=978-1-4503-8059-1 |access-date=2022-04-05 |last2=Levonian |first2=Zachary |last3=Cheng |first3=Hao-Fei |last4=Yarosh |first4=Svetlana}}</ref>
+The early hours of the experiment were characterized by random pixel placement and chaotic attempts at image creation.<ref name="Newsweek2017" /> Among the first distinct sections of the canvas to emerge were a corner of entirely blue pixels {{anchor|BlueCorner}}(named "Blue Corner") and a homage to ''[[Pokémon]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-place-april-fools-experiment-canvas-2017-3|title=Reddit's new 'Place' is forcing millions of users to work together to make something great|last=Weinberger|first=Matt|website=Business Insider|access-date=April 10, 2020|archive-date=April 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404010115/http://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-place-april-fools-experiment-canvas-2017-3|url-status=live}}</ref> As the canvas developed, some established subreddit communities, such as those for [[video game]]s, [[sports]] teams and individual countries, coordinated user efforts to claim and decorate particular sections.<ref name="Newsweek2017" /><ref name="australian">{{cite news|last1=Tindale|first1=James|title=Reddit Place: April Fool's experiment reveals how the internet sees Australia|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/personal-technology/reddit-place-april-fools-experiment-reveals-how-the-internet-sees-australia/news-story/c60e4e20722f885eb3c8494cc6371d19|access-date=April 4, 2017|work=[[The Australian]]|date=April 4, 2017}}</ref> This frequently caused conflict between communities competing for territory on the canvas.<ref name="ACM2020">{{Citation |last=Vachher |first=Prateek |title=Understanding Community-Level Conflicts Through Reddit r/place |date=2020-10-17 |url=https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~levon003/files/CSCW2020_vachher_poster_camera_ready.pdf |work=Conference Companion Publication of the 2020 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing |pages=401–405 |place=New York, NY, USA |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |doi=10.1145/3406865.3418311 |isbn=978-1-4503-8059-1 |access-date=2022-04-05 |last2=Levonian |first2=Zachary |last3=Cheng |first3=Hao-Fei |last4=Yarosh |first4=Svetlana}}</ref> Overall, thousands of subreddit communities were involved.<ref name="Springer" />
 Other sections of the canvas were developed by communities and coordination efforts created specifically for the event. Several works of [[pixel art]] sprouted from the collaboration of these communities, varying from [[Character (arts)|fictional characters]] and [[internet meme]]s to [[National flag|patriotic flags]], [[LGBT flag]]s, and recreations of famous pieces of [[Work of art|artwork]] such as the ''[[Mona Lisa]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106845|title=Instruction vs. emergence on r/place: Understanding the growth and control of evolving artifacts in mass collaboration|last=Litherland|first=Kristina T.|date=March 29, 2022|website=Computers in Human Behavior, Vol. 122, Sept. 2021, art. 106845|language=en-US|access-date=March 29, 2022|archive-date=March 29, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220329194951/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563221001680?via%3Dihub|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''[[The Starry Night]]''.<ref name="philly voice">{{Cite news|url=http://www.phillyvoice.com/eagles-flyers-represented-in-final-version-of-reddit-place-experiment/|title=Eagles, Flyers represented in final version of Reddit's 'Place' social experiment|date=April 3, 2017|work=PhillyVoice|access-date=April 4, 2017|archive-date=April 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404000919/http://www.phillyvoice.com/eagles-flyers-represented-in-final-version-of-reddit-place-experiment/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.usgamer.net/articles/heres-the-best-game-fan-art-from-reddits-rplace-canvas|title=Here's the Best Game Fan Art from Reddit's r/place Canvas|last=Oxford|first=Nadia|website=USgamer|language=en-US|access-date=April 4, 2017|archive-date=April 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404204315/http://www.usgamer.net/articles/heres-the-best-game-fan-art-from-reddits-rplace-canvas|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="HA" /> Several "[[cult]]s" also formed to create and maintain various [[emblem]]atic features such as a black [[Void (astronomy)|void]], green lattice, the [[#BlueCorner|aforementioned blue corner]] and a multi-colored "rainbow road".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/place-reddit-new-phenomenon/|title=A new phenomenon is taking over Reddit—here's what you should know about it|last=Hathaway|first=Jay|date=April 3, 2017|website=The Daily Dot|language=en-US|access-date=April 10, 2020|archive-date=August 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811140304/https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/place-reddit-new-phenomenon/|url-status=live}}</ref> At the time of the experiment's end on April 3, 2017, over 90,000 users were viewing and editing the canvas,<ref name="business insider final" /> and over one million users had placed a total of approximately 16 million tiles.<ref name="WP2" /><ref name="ACM2020" />

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Gameplay

2017 edition

2022 edition

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