If I Had a Million Pixels: A Short History of /r/place 

I missed r/place. I wasn't aware it existed until it was too late

How could you not bring up the Germany France invasion and then them coming together to form the EU flag

lol pretty sure the void was mostly 4chan

Was really sad that rick roll QR code was vandalized at the last hour of r/place

No mention of the French and German flag that intersected each other creating the European Union.

2072: When I was your age, I fought in the war for the osu! logo territory and defended America and its flag!

I fought in the Norwegian war. I bravely defended the Texan flag to the last pixel. I will never forgot how the Yogscast offered their undying support. I thank the dwarven army for their help, we will never forget your support.

7:24 "the things that people love" first thing I see is the word "furrys"

This whole thing reminds me of the opening of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, where it starts out simple but gets more and more animated as it goes on.

April Fool's social experiments on Reddit date beyond The Button. Someone forgot about the great war of Periwinkle and OrangeRed.

In the top right, next to green lattice, I helped build the drifter from Hyper Light Drifter. We're one of the few peice that finished without a single pixel wrong. It was an incredible experience.

I was there during the great war of OSU

Should have mentioned Germany invading the French flag. The French evaded, and Germany continued to expand. They eventually crossed back together, and the EU flag was created in their crossing section.

Didn't mention r/prequelmemes? It's treason, then.

7:25 PC Master Race into PC Masturbate got me so good

6:51 That aged just swell 🙄

My favourite part was watching pcmasterrace get constantly turned into pcmasterbate

I took part in making the 4 Gorillaz members in the upper right corner. It ended up being way more fun than I thought I'd be :D

2:28 "Much like Lost, the button didn't mean anything" ...WHAT?! What are you talking about?! The button in Lost did mean A LOT and when they stopped pressing it everything​ went to shit

now imagine if 4chan did this

And you didn't even mention Germany and France!

"Maybe we're much more excited to share the things that we love than shit on the things that other people love that we actually hate." r/osugame cries.

Man watching this after getting the opportunity to be a part of r/place in 2022 feels nice. Hope he comes back maybe to make a follow up vid or something

Did he compare pepe to swastikas and dongmander?

I helped keep the Nintendo Switch logo at the top right intact. Mostly the text, though.

Interestingly no one mentions bots in their coverage of r/place. After the first 24 hours it became fairly evident that there are a lot of bots defending certain parts of it and as time went on and bots got better a lot of the new art was made by bots. It's hard to tell how many bots there were but I would say that without them the black void would be a lot bigger.

Purple corner > Blue corner. Though, if I had a chance now, I'd have built something new, instead of just... repeatedly making (0, 0) purple.

"Where are the swasticas?" My theory: Often trolls who want to insert those are alone. There is no open community behind trolling things by addind swasticas. It's more of an underground movement, where no one knows anyone else. Each individual feels like belonging to a movement, but there really is no community. I think anonymity plays a big role. The intent is to be sneaky. To annoy others without them having any clue who did it. This brings a feel of power, as the troll them has complete knowledge of the situation while others don't, hence he's feeling as if he was above them. However on r/place you could only place one pixel every 10 minutes making it impossible for a single person to create anything. And of course here comes the lack of communication in the troll community; there simply is no subreddit where people who would like to put a swastica on place would meet to plan. Such a sub would not make sense because a) anonymity, see above and b) the point of trolling is to do it everywhere, not just on one dedicated sub. This is such a special case, requiring a coordinated attack from groups of trolls, that simply never really existed before.

"Where are the swastikas?" Well, there actually was 3 big swastikas around the top right corner after ~3h of r/place being alive, made mostly by /pol/ (4chan) but the reddit mods deleted them, I think there is still screenshots of them but it was even erased from the official image recordings.

i am so sad that i missed r/place

Swastika spotted in the pc masterrace sign

It is time for your return.

Reddit users are just really smart ants.

This is like a buzzfeed article in video form

Didnt even show our Connection lost corner :(

1:03 **sees Radiohead logo** "EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE."

Kinda wanna see him dissect the deviantart fandoms and fetishes... I only saw the surface and know there is more.

if only the void hadn't been so edgy I would've liked it more at least I've the satisfaction of seeing their core forever unclean

Seeing Brazil, Argentina and Finland as friends /allies building an aliance at the left really made me happy LOL

I’ve always said this; Anarchy always leads to Order* *When, Ambition, and minimal, basic, constructive rules are applied, anarchy will always evolve into Order

the button was not way near the first April fools reddit experiment

Pokemon Go started off as an April fools joke. When you take the chains off creativity and just have fun, every now and then you get something awesome.... if fleeting.

I hope you do a video on r/place 2022! it's back and its cool!

The,” My little Dashie,” part is what I mostly know of this. I’m a giant Brony and I’m sad I wasn’t apart of this. The Brony fandom teamed up with quite a few others, especially Doctor who. It was amazing and beautiful.

No mention of r/2007scape and r/runescape having a total lockdown on the top left corner that was pretty much unchallenged?

This showed me the love people have for the things they love

4:07 put that rainbow in my mouth!!!!

I've always wanted to join r/place thanks to this video, but I never imagined they'd actually return. So happy to see they're back.

Someone needs to make a place.io game, it would be so popular :D (well that and I didn't get to play it originally so if there is a place.io I will actually get to ;_;)

7:34 There you go, people trying to modify the r/PCMasterRace logo to look like a swastika 😂😂😂

7:21 since when pepe is same as swastika? wtf

3:58 Sweden tries to take over Denmark. Motherf****** haha

can r/place please come back as a permanent thing

love the midi version of im blue at 5:40

"Where are the swastikas" This isnt 4chan yall

honestly i’m so glad they brought place back this year. it was cool being able to not only contribute to but also watch the entire internet create something in real time. i spent the entire 4 days defending one pixel on the oneshot mural.

Disrespecting Pepe? What a _commoner_.

Check out R/place now xp

rPlace exists AGAIN!

6:18 right side... LMG MOUNTED AND LOADED!!

See RU-vid? This is what you call a social experiment.

I disagree. Greatest social experiment was Twitch Plays Pokémon (the first one) Otherwise, great episode = )

Well 5 years later and r/place returned! It was greater than ever!!!

But the button did mean something in Lost. The swan was a cork for the intense amount of energy under the island, failing to press the button caused the energy pocket to burst

@7:10 - What's wrong with Pepe? It's a fucking meme. It was never a hate symbol, the media spun it that way and Anti-Semite/etc groups decided to roll with it. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I was on it! See the origami6 logo on the top left?

i participated, but then again i love digital graffiti, and the entire concept of it, making a semi perm mark in areas where you wouldnt expect it, MMO books that let you leave things in them, etc etc, their is an entire underground world of just this concept alone, and devolping new ways to leave a mark somewhere, this experiment was amazing

I was actually thinking about the million dollar home page when I saw this.

A "The Great War" youtube series style mini documentary on rPlace would be interesting

Place should come back randomly for 1 hour

Hahaha, the Argentine and German flags were the first 🇦🇷🇩🇪

I only today learned of this experiment and I'm completely floored by it. One of the greatest social experiments ever performed with an online population, and I hope someone earned their doctorate for it.

2:28 you're saying that the button in Lost didn't mean anything? Sounds like somebody stopped watching. The button prevents a powerful electromagnet from in part destroying the island after a hydrogen bomb was detonated over an electromagnetic pocket at the end of series 5.

I feel so out of the loop when something that awesome happens and I'm not there!

2:21 That was the BEST reference you could've used. xD THANK YOU! :D

The only good one was the Irish flag with up da ra above it

This was a great episode! I'd love to see one on SaltyBet.

I found r/place on accident and then helped defend Tiny Rick while watching the Rick and Morty premiere.. lol I didn't know when it began. It was already covered in pixels by then and it had only been up for less than a day. I miss it.

This is genuinely interesting, i would’ve loved to participate in this.

In one of the lesser-known examples, I was one of the many who helped organize fans of the Ace Combat video games to put the logo of an organization in the games, ISAF, on r/place. We were overwritten by fans of the Montreal Canadiens, but both communities worked together to rebuild Ace Combat elsewhere. In the bottom-right, we put down the logo of Project Aces, the internal team at Bandai Namco that makes Ace Combat games, as well as "r/acecombat". We were vandalized a bit right before it all shut down, but I'm still very proud of what we managed to accomplish. r/place truly was lightning, the briefest moment in history but a beautiful one.

Watching the black void inching towards my flag like "LEAVE IRELAND ALONE!!1!"

I am just so proud we at r/Thefarleftside managed to keep our symbols alive even though we were under attack 24/7, also loved how subreddits with nothing in common just manage to get together and shared the same space

Damn this thing was gorgeous and beautiful, just watching one small gif/timelapse over and over could make you see new things, and notice so many things you might not have even realized exist. Cant wait for next years event.

Time for everyone to come here for a refresher!

Haha "paint it black" nice song choice

Sounds like an amazing social experiment. Thanks !

prequelmemes was probably the most fascinating thing to come about, since it was enormous and mostly fine

Pepe did nothing wrong

It came back a few days ago on the 5 year anniversary!

4:24 Ah, I get it. An orchestral arrangement of Paint It Black

This experiment was amazing and it also shows human nature just as how civilization started, a lot of groups each with a diferent thing all disorganized and when this small groups started to cooperate with eahc other, they started doing big proyects

the blue corner defeating Dongmander was the best thing i have ever seen tbh

It's coming back!!

HOLY SHIT THIS CHANNEL ISN'T DEAD

We're gonna need the sequel to this, Sam

I like the idea that it is an expression who the community really is. It allowed the power of the group to express themselves instead of the usual lone wolf spoiling things.

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?

TINY TARDIS!!!

Its Fun to hear stories from every faction

7:36 I love how on the pcmasterrace logo people kept changing the little grid next to it into a swastika