Reddit officially launched the 2023 edition of its collaborative art project r/Place on Thursday morning, and so far, it’s already littered with posts protesting Reddit and the Reddit CEO. You can see the current iteration of the canvas in the r/Place subreddit or by following the prompt at the top of the app. (Note that you can’t access ar/Place on Old Reddit; you’ll need to be on New Reddit or one of the company’s mobile apps.)
On r/Place, individual users can place a single pixel of color every five minutes on a huge canvas, including overriding other pixel placements if you want to try and claim some territory. In the utopian version of this idea, r/Place becomes an ever-changing work of art where users work together to draw all kinds of pixelated images in a giant collage.
Here’s a photo from r/Place shortly before this story was published and about three hours after the project launched:
Here are some things I’m already seeing:
When asked if Reddit will remove protest messages, spokeswoman Courtney Geesey-Dorr pointed to the r/ Canvas Rules of the Place. One of those rules says that “hate or harassment directed at private individuals (including moderators and administrators) and protected groups are violations of our
Reddit officially launched the 2023 edition of its r/Place collaborative art project on Thursday morning, and so far, it’s already littered with messages protesting Reddit and Reddit’s CEO. You can see the current iteration of the canvas on the r/Place subreddit or by following the prompt at the top of the app. (Note that you can’t access r/Place on Old Reddit; you’ll need to be on New Reddit or one of the company’s mobile apps.)
In r/Place, individual users can drop a single pixel of color every five minutes on a huge canvas, including overriding other pixel placements if you want to try and claim some turf. In the utopian version of this idea, r/Place becomes an ever-changing piece of art where users work together to draw all sorts of…
policy (Rule 1) and it will be removed. Additionally, posts, comments, and images that are hateful, graphic, sexually explicit, and/or offensive are violations of our policy (Rule 6) and will be removed.”
Geesey-Dorr declined to specify when the r/Place canvas will close.
There is a lot of art that is No protesting Reddit. Many of the drawings are flags. There is also a giant logo for the rhythm game. osu!, and another section features the word “DICKS” spelled out in a rainbow of colors. But amid the more light-hearted fare, it’s almost impossible to miss the anger against Reddit that’s currently on the canvas. and with the users active planning of protest designs – even in Own Reddit post about the opening of r/Place — I imagine that they will continue fighting to make their feelings known.
