Reddit protests see r/Place experiment immediately hijacked with grotesque graffiti

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Reddit protests see r/Place experiment immediately hijacked with grotesque graffiti
independent.co.uk
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Aw, I hate to admit it but I feel sad to be missing place. I liked it

I said yesterday in another thread that this was going to be a shit show because of Huffman...I loved last year's r/space. I can say I miss it, but I gave up that community for what I believe to be a better one. They can have it, we can build better communities in Fediverse

Place was good once, but you're not missing anything now. Trying to recapture that magic just feels like Reddit is out of ideas and just desperately trying to remind people of the one good thing they ever did. It's like Al Bundy still hyping up his high school football career because the rest of his life has been downhill since then.

We should make a Lemmy Tundra

Lemmy Tundra

Good call! That way we can draw either blue or white mana for anti-reddit counterspells and protection. Control decks were always my favorite.

There's sites that do it. Heck we could probably do it just by spamming a link.

"protesters"... I'm sure Spez is sadly walking to the bank to cash all of his checks from all the money he made on r/place from the "protesters."


this image is also from your link

It’s fucking pathetic that people still won’t let it go. Congrats on bringing traffic to the thing you hate so much.

Grotesque? Maybe I missed seeing something else, but "Fuck Spez," isnt grotesque.

Nor can you really call using the canvas as intended "graffiti."

the following image is from your link and I believe not from this year.

Aye they show that, and also the current one both in the article.

oups, I know, so made one more comment
( the Right image in other comment )

That was the first place IIRC. I am fairly sure we in the nordic countries made the viking ship on top of the Union Jack in the first place.

They are still getting publicity and engagement so it’s working for them.