The pixel war is over on r/Place! If you want to see a retrospective / Timelapse of this social experience on video, this is where it happens.
Place is a collaborative project and a social experiment. This started on April 1, 2017 and was relaunched after 5 years in 2022.
This experiment aimed to offer the possibility to each user to use pixels of 24 different colors to a white canvas. Each person could therefore add their artistic touch every 5 minutes.
However, all good things come to an end and the experiment was halted on April 4 late in the evening.
If you weren’t able to participate or simply want to see what the experience has given as artistic creation, here is a retrospective.
Timelapse of the r/Place social experiment, France against the world
With Kameto in command, war constantly raged on the French flag.
FRANCE WILL NOT MOVEhttps://t.co/yMEWkprRam pic.twitter.com/8owqUiJfUx
—Kameto (@Kameto) April 4, 2022
Multiple accusations of cheating
Indeed, the Spanish and American communities who could not bear to see France maintain their territory as they were quickly launched accusations of using bots (using programs to automatically place Pixels).
However, it would seem that the accuser was the perpetrator.
This is definitely cheating @IbaiLlanos pic.twitter.com/g8mGeIYStD
— Sardoche (@Sardoche_Lol) April 4, 2022
IBAI PAID FOR A SCRIPT THAT AUTOMATICALLY PLACES TILES WITHOUT ANY HUMAN ACTION.
It’s a CRAZY they are desperate, there’s a guy who took a ticket for a pixel war #PixelWar pic.twitter.com/yTKqIf1jXH
— Eliott “YRT” (@YRT_TV) April 4, 2022
All’s well that ends well, see you in 5 years!
The two generals from opposite sides finally shook hands in mutual respect for the fight waged.
GG, you pissed us off but it was a great battle, respect to the whole Hispanic community and see you in 5 years ????
—Kameto (@Kameto) April 5, 2022
The video of the complete r/Place experience: Timelapse
Hopefully the experience will come back one of these days, but in the meantime, here is the full video and music!