Reddit maintains a ranking of the most active Internet users by country on r/Place. France is in a very good place.
r/Place is an occasional event on Reddit, which is both community and international. This was seen very well in 2022 at the time of the Pixel War – a battle opposing for days several French streamers to an American-Hispanic coalition. Each camp was then supported by white-hot Internet users.
This year, the conflict around pixels was much less spectacular – in France, many streamers preferred to pass their turn. However, the global dimension of this cooperative game remained. This is reflected very well by the many flags in pixel art representing the countries. Nations have been very strong in this little game, like France.
The most active countries on r/Place
While the 2023 edition of r/Place is due to end soon, Reddit has kept a ranking of the most active countries on the game area. This top is based on the IP addresses of each member participating in the game. This information makes it possible to geolocate more or less precisely an Internet user in the world (even if it is possible to distort this information with a VPN).
Unsurprisingly, the United States is the most active on r/Place, with more than 19.2 million pixels deposited as of July 25, 2023, at 1 p.m. Making almost equal game, Germany is placed on the second step of the podium, with almost 19 million pixels. France, third, is relatively far from the first two, with just over 10 million pixels on the counter.
The following nations are even further away from the top 3, but have been able to stand out: Turkey for its flag in the center, Argentina for having included Lionel Messi and the football World Cup, Vietnam with a visual worthy of a painting or even Canada which had some difficulty in finishing its maple leaf…
The 2023 edition of r/Place taking place in a context of strong tension between Internet users and the management of Reddit, suspicions of cheating have appeared throughout the past few days. In particular, the administrators of Reddit were implicated: they were accused of intervening on the visual to erase mentions “fuck spez”, which target the boss of Reddit.
In addition to administrators, the use of bots has also been denounced. Bots here refer to scripts that are calibrated to automatically perform a task — placing a drawing in a particular place, for example, erasing something, and so on. Certain reconstructions indeed appear both too rapid and too effective to be natural.
These dubious contributions to r/Place have in any case had the effect of causing Internet users to joke about it, like elch3w, who shared what, according to him, is the real ranking of r/Place. Others took the opportunity to make a few memes or to take the opportunity to complain directly to r/Place, denouncing the use of bots directly in pixel art.
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