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how did I have no idea the same guy that made r/place made wordle? like it's pretty impressive to make a viral internet thing, but TWO viral internet things?!
That German flag intersecting with the french flag and creating arte was kinda sweet. Arte is a joint tv channel between the two countries and part of the initiative to foster friendship between them after ww2.
It is also the best, most qualitative, channel I know of. So, at least of France, probably of Germany too. People have a dear place in their heart for Arte because it feeds us culture and intelligence.
Weirdly enough it is the German TV channel with the best online and RU-vid presence. That's weird because it was considered to be more of a channel for older people or people interested in Art and Culture. Not a Channel that was very appealing for younger people. But I must admit that I really live their RU-vid videos
@@johannanortmann9964 DW is bigger, but it is hard to compare because they just translate everything and rarely do their own documentaries, but their news channel is also very big
It was a bit better in 2017 because there weren't any established unwritten rules or coordination between communities early on. So the French and German flags happened to intersect and there was a lot of fighting over who would be on top in that spot. But then, the EU flag emerged.
I absolutely LOVE the fact that when the French and the germans crossed paths they made the EU flag,really goes to show how after ww2 we both became good friends
r/Place was such an amazing event in streaming history and internet history. It was really nice to see every community come together to make all sorts of different artworks
Ludwig pretty much saved Kirby. The first Kirby was ugly af, and would've been taken over, over time. But because of Ludwig, he saved Kirby, by making it look good.
Ludwig is the few streamers I respect during the time of r/place. Actually creating art and not just destroying other smaller communities, malding, and then calling people bots.
Just wanna say Jerma never asked his community to place anything on the canvas, but everyone took the initiative to build and rebuild until the absolute MASTERPIECE that was JoJoJermaSus was established 👏 amazing community.
I feel that by not doing his own piece of art but helping other communities, Lud and his fans left a bigger impact on the canvas, there were multiple posts in Lud's subreddit thanking him for either help them create their art or helping them when someone else tried to take over
Ludwig's 1-9 gang system was so creative and engaging. I found it lame when other creators were using the extension that did everything but actually place the pixel. It was really impressive what we were able to create just by a simple picture overlay and a common goal
Honestly, it's impossible to build really complex things with this technique, but yeah it is more fun. We did a lot of baguettes around the map with this, it was really funny.
“Nobody dared to mess with good art” Ok that would make sense if x didn’t destroy star wars. I also love how x diminishes the importance of small communities by saying “it’s just pixels on a monitor” when he makes a living off of online content creation. Really goes to show how ignorant he is.
How is that ignorant? Online content creation isn't overwriting other peoples work with your own, there's an infinite space for your own content; r/place is very finite, and so it allows for that behavior and encourages it. The whole point is that everything is temporary on the canvas and is subject to constant evolution or change from other communities. xQc happens to have one of the biggest active communities, so naturally he can change a lot at once. The entire idea of larger communities making more change happen is completely natural and so is other communities fighting against it.
when he destroyed something was actually good because small communities could make their own art when before they couldnt, so he actually was making room, it allowed a small community that I am part of to fit in so :/
As a redditor who placed just 1 pixel in the entirety of r/place war, I can say that this is one of the best moments we've had on the internet in a long time.
Making general art like this is honestly probably the best way to go about it, because it’s not just your community that will keep it up, but once it’s established it can become self sustaining as people outside your control will want to keep it up too
That's what makes it awesome. I wasn't part of a community, I didn't help create art, but I protected it. The big art pieces and the small ones, I was helping. And I'm proud of it :)
I was part of the omori community, probably the most unifying 4 days I've felt with random people on discord in years building 2 headquarters and several characters with communities we allied with. Cant wait for another 5 years to go by
As a French, let me tell you my respect for you and your community. It was sooo fun to see both you and my favorite French streamers interact (even though I don't enjoy Kameto, you spoke with Zerator and Antoine Daniel which I love). I'm a bit ashamed to say that, but it made me laugh so much when they gave you the spanish flag because yeah colonialism was a thing with France. Shoutouts to you and your community! You made incredible arts! (Your french is sooo good btw)
Those S.Korean and Japanese flags at the end had quite the story. Basically in the AoT community we did the Wings where the Ukraine mural was being built and then the S.Korean flag was placed on top, seeing how it kinda cut off the top of the wings we wanted to help move it up some pixels and while we were doing it the Japanese took over the flag. Later they would resolve to build it in the left and we helped with our pixels. Now it just looks really nice but man if it wasnt a process lmao, quite fkn ironic too.
I was working on the homestuck spot so it was fun seeing all that go down. Eventually someone tried to add a North Korea flag to the left of South Korea, but it was changed o Taiwan. We fought a lot with Taiwan trying to get on top of our card!
As someone from monkeytype, one of the small(ish) communities on the canvas, what you said about the power of streamers on r/place couldn't be more true. XQC completely voided the monkeytype logo twice, and connoreatspants even briefly tried to make art of top of us, but as soon as the streamer was offline or chose a different area of focus, it was easy to come back.
The point XQC made, where he said that voiding the art of smaller communities would help create better art pieces in the end. was sometimes true. But if so, why would he ever attack Star Wars? one of the best art pieces in r/place?
@@Flash4ML why does a dog lick his balls and a man doesn't? *Because he can.* It's just a stupid argument. Unrelated to that saying, if you do something because you can, especially things that annoy or hurt other people, that's just abuse of power and nothing worthy of praise. The other things he said where mostly excuses that fell into his lap. There are good reasons for expecting that he did not have noble intentions. It's okay to be annoyed by annoying behavior and to question it. Saying people have to chill for questioning questionable behavior just isn't right.
@@aguyontheinternet8436 He did add some cool art that not that many talked about, but also gave other smaller communities a chance to put their art over what he destroyed.
i was sitting in science class and got to watch the evolution of a bunch of art because i was just occasionally looking around for a couple of minutes at a time and it was so interesting to just look at everything slowly change and evolve and you could see all these little stories playing out with every art piece, r/place is such a massive thing and you could study the entire thing for hours and barely know a portion of the story behind it all
That call back to the smash documentary at the end was great. It really shows how a community can spawn out of a shared goal or interest. Keep up the great content lud o7
I loved the void and all the eldritch horrors that came with it. The last one was especially good, with uncanny Mr. Incredible turning into a demonic Lord English. And how even though the coordinated Homestuck fans had little art, when uncoordinated they managed to bring the Helmsman as an eldritch horror. It actually turned into art more beautiful than all the previous eldritch horrors. I'm glad at least some of the void managed to stay till the end
7:44 I helped create a very small reference to my favourite anime with 4-5 other people in the final hours of r/place after hours of trying got permission from a bigger community and managed to be on the final canvas. It is so tiny and insignificant but at the time it meant the world to me. I went to sleep at 1 am that day, but I was smiling for days after that. I never expected to be so invested with r/place I even went way out of my comfort zone and was the main mediator for us.
I think the end of r/place was beautiful too. Everyone spent hours upon hours creating art together, just for it to be torn down in the end. A beautiful end to an amazing project. Happy April Fools Indeed
The fact that Ludwig actually wanted to make actual art that looks downright amazing and not just advertise himself (at least after he realized the podcast thing failed) makes me respect him way more than all the other streamers. COUGHFuckXQCCOUGHCOUGH Edit: XQC’s excuse was shit.
I mean I wouldn't call it advertising. It's just a logo which is obviously a huge part of the community so naturally that's the thing they put to let everyone else know what community made it.
I remember hearing about r/place and trying to find something to help out with. Not long after, Ludwig was streaming, directing us through a redesign of that Kirby art. It was really nice and I'm proud to say that I was a part of it.
same It felt really nice to help my favourite streamer on this platform and i helped build every artwork he designed even if it was just 1 pixel at a time
Ayo as a Czech person it made me really happy to see you show the Czech and Slovak flag first at the end of the video. Even tho neither of us had that much space compared to other countries, I love the art that made it into both of our flags, and that we stood proud next to our brothers.
If you think about it deeply enough and pronounce it weirdly you get “our place” technically this could be the name of the game exactly like this in the future
Ludwig always manages to make normal videos and then out of the blue, make something so poetic it can make me feel like crying. I was there, and forever will be, I’ll see you pixels in 5 years
Let's not forget the germans. They legit FOUGHT and almost always WON every battle they had. Even teamed up with Belgium and flexed the leeve in Canada's flag (they made it in their flag better for the first try when Canada needed all of r/place to make it).
Fr, people were watching his stream like a hawk. At one point he said that anything that was purple would voided with complete purple. Hollow knights background had to change from purple to blue just because he said that lol
The great whiteout of r/place still makes me emotional, weirdly enough while it was there I thought it was cool and that was it. I guess you truly never really understand the beauty of something till it’s gone.
Yeah, people took things too seriously imo, but it’s Reddit so I guess that should be expected. Streamers really didn’t do much damage, they made the whole thing much more interesting
The entire history of steamers on r/place. There was so much more than just streamers. From bots to cheating mods to the among us characters being added every where to the void mothers evolution. Even behind the scenes stuff like 4chan making the trans flag bigger to make the trans community look invasive. Place is more than just the streamers
This whole event was honestly some of the most fun I've had online this year. Hopping between different streams and subreddits to check how their projects are going, seeing collaboration and rivalry and ultimately the creation of beatiful art was really nice. Despite the drama and "wars", after the event finished I think it was a lot more about unity and collaboration. I think I'll remember this one for a while.
this was one of my favourite online events ever, I remember getting home Monday night and dedicating the whole time to helping keep rainbow dash alive from nuke after nuke. We had such a good time in the server vc and I met some really great people, and I think that the sense of community this sort of thing brings only comes about once every once in a while, and I'm always glad to get to experience it.
If you look at the heat map rainbow dash is one of the reddest areas. Sadly France ruins the heat map a little bit by dwarfing everything else. I had so much fun defending Sadly I wasnt there for the first version of Rainbowdash and wasnt able to stay until the end.
3:48 Kamet0 (our french general) even admit we gone too far. For those interesting ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2YvjcEgPJLA.html (English dubbed) shows the event from a French perspective.Note how many voices you can hear sometimes. We have some big events in France so streamers (and viewers) are used to gather for those...
Honestly the last part hit hard I was part of one of the smaller communities, we made the spider with the eye on it above the second German flag and it was a tribute to an amazing horror podcast called the magnus archives Everytime I watch a time-lapse, see ot there fighting off a streamer, get taken by bots and then rebuild in the last couple of hours it brings so much joy. The server that we coordinated in is still up and we're a really close group now with in jokes and memes XD
This video is so well done. I remember the first r/place, but I didn't participate. Being able to put art on the board, even though most of it was erased, was fun. I can admit that I had never watched xQc before, but I joined him to void out some space at one point because death brings new life. The void efforts he put in made space for communities who wouldn't have had space otherwise, even if only for a second. Also, I had no idea that leaves on the vine was Lud's community. You guys did great with that one.
Yeah streamers made it so much more interesting, redditors who don’t watch twitch are really out of touch, too bad for them they missed the most exciting aspects of r/place
Fun fact: There was a tiny square in r/place 2023 where a bunch of people recreated the ENTIRETY OF BAD APPLE. And it wasn’t even very simple characters. It was perfect.
Ludwig, thank you so much for helping us after xqc destroyed us with his "meteor." We wouldn't have recovered without you. We thank you - us at r/scottthewoz
“If it was beautiful enough nobody fucked with it” meanwhile xqc destroying the insane star wars poster to have a logo he already had just a bit to the right of it at the time.
And it came back a few minutes later when he moved on. You don’t seriously think that it would have been destroyed from that do you? I don’t expect to get through to you but people need to chill out about streamers
Ludwig i must say seeing the avatar art you made made feel many emotions. even after the stream was done the community improved it more and honored mako. God dammit you made me cry
This was such a historic event. Waiting for it in the next 5 years. As much as I liked the steamers part taking sometimes but then they just started building their own logos n creating chaos. I still enjoyed it alot~!!
That's because we had a way better organisation, we were separated in wave of viewer classed by what season we are born in, for example I was in the summer army, every 5min everyone from the summer and winter army put a pixel, then it rotates to the two other season 5min later over and over meaning we had no downtime and an even amount of viewer putting pixel non stop, Americans and Spanish just put everything at once and had to wait to recharge, while they were waiting we were just trying to rebuild the outside of our art not the inside to not lose the general aspect of our art and affect the moral of the ennemies making them back off at some point, then we were able to fully recover our art, and on top of that we had a lot of pride hiding behind that because french people are known to surrender easily - which is false - and foreign streamers kept saying that at some point we were going to sleep and surrender and while we were sleeping they could just annihilate our art but like I said out of pride litteraly everyone were ready to stay up all night and even the day after to make the opponent surrender and we succeeded There was even a special task force on the command of another streamer called ZeratoR which had only one role him and his viewer to destroy all the small art the opponent community made which mean we were constantly defending our art and attacking a bit of the other art everywhere making the opponent disoriented not knowing what to do In the end like I said we just had a better organisation fighting this pixel war even while being outnumbered by a lot, thx to our general in command Kameto and all the other streamers who wouldn't back down no matter what we came out on top 💪
The hate for X was expected but unwarranted, sure art was destroyed but that's apart of the point of r/place it's not a "draw and then it's done" it's a rotating canvas with the culmination of passions from various communities and individuals which changes and adapts until it's demise at the end.
Pretty sure the original hate was just xqc replacing art with multiple of his logos and no one liking those. Later on xqc made art on the r/place which i actually enjoyed. I'd still call xqc the villain of this story because xqc continues razing down art of other communities and the other communities grouped together to fight this big bad villain which was actually fun to watch. Saying r/place is meant to be used for building/fighting doesnt mean people will stop disliking someone for removing their piece of art, even if its just acting for a group of audience.
This was such a beautiful event. It was so nice to see all of the communities brought together like this. I wouldn’t want them to do it too soon but I definitely wanna see this happen once more.
i haphazardly helped out the small hollow knight art and it was really cute how elden ring fans put ranni on the bench, and a ton of other indie game pixel art (like hollow knight, not elden ring lmao) got added around it.
This was great. Seriously love this video style. Seriously was a lot of fun making the art and the respect I've seen online for not being toxic. Felt good. Anyways congratulations to you and everyone else who worked on it together!
I was apart of the reckful tribute led by General mizkif. Alliances were made and war was waged but despite that, something beautiful came out of it and at the end after the dust had settled and the grid had once more been engulfed in white pixels, everyone had reconciled and agreed that it was a really fun time and no grudges were held. Thanks to everyone who took part and helped protect reckfuls tribute, he would be proud.
2:59 I think ending your stream was not the only thing. Germany and France have been allies for a while now at that point. I'm not to knowledgeable to r/place, but I think most of the EU states are generally not attacking each other and are more often than not helping each other out. So attacking one EU member state is like attacking all EU member states XD
r/place was THE place where you got to see the best and the worst of the internet, from people sending death threats to each other, to people botting and hijacking spots, to like lud, revamping artworks. I had a good time on it, but I also hated it. We had a streamer cover our spot, which was fine, its part of the game, but we had a troll that made tens of alt accounts to raid our discord to make it look like he himself got the streamer to destroy our spot. Leaves a bad taste let me tell ya
It wasn’t just Miz who was at war with the brony faction. Other major streamers like asmongold and xqc also launched multiple attacks on our art pieces. In fact, the bronies were actually one of the few factions who survived the attacks of xqc’s army. We were getting constantly attacked by streamers, to the point where by the end of the event we had been hit by a total of 22 major attacks (not little strikes, full blown warfare). We kept getting pelted by some of the strongest attackers of the event, yet we managed to survive and rebuild every single time and make it all the way to the end. We definitely had a harder and more chaotic run than most of the other factions, but I’d say it was worth it just to prove to those streamers that we were one enemy they wouldn’t defeat. Thanks for your contributions to the canvas Ludwig, and thank you for not abusing your power to attack other people’s art like a lot of other streamers did.
Damn, that brings back memories when I was there to experience all the days of 2023's r/Place, my first r/Place experience. I was glad to be part of our community as a fellow brony x3
