{"id":123562,"date":"2022-04-04T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-129778"},"modified":"2022-04-04T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T19:30:00","slug":"soapbox-the-video-game-camaraderie-on-r-place-is-a-lesson-about-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/04\/soapbox-the-video-game-camaraderie-on-r-place-is-a-lesson-about-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Soapbox: The Video Game Camaraderie On r\/place Is A Lesson About Community"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Soapbox articles give our team a chance to share some personal perspectives. Kate’s been keeping an eye on a Reddit art project for the last few days, and has some warm fuzzy feelings to share…<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Disclaimer: The very nature of r\/place means there may be some unpleasant imagery, pixel-nudity, and various other NSFW things included in the screenshots below. I’ve done my best to crop and censor but I advise caution all the same!<\/em><\/p>\n

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For April Fool’s Day in 2017, the brains behind online forum community Reddit decided to invent something they called “r\/place<\/a>” \u2014 a gigantic blank canvas that allowed users to place one pixel each every five minutes. The experiment quickly grew from people placing random colours to various subreddits banding together to create logos, flags, and other art. By the time the r\/place canvas was closed, a million people had taken part, and it passed into internet legend.<\/p>\n

The legend returned in 2022 for the five-year anniversary of r\/place, and unbeknownst to the users, the canvas was designed to slowly quadruple in size over the course of four days, allowing for millions of pixels to be placed, and new artworks to be made.<\/p>\n