The platform gave us the chance to relive the experience, even though you can no longer place tiles on the r/Place canvas. The company has provided a treasure trove of data, including a recap post that goes over numbers and statistics, as well as an entire CSV dataset for people to tinker with.
As someone who watched the chaos unfold by checking in every hour or so, and placing a few tiles of my own, the cool thing is a three-minute-long timelapse that shows how the canvas was shaped by users over four days.
Watching it evolve is like looking into the heart of a community. You can see communities fighting to take over tiles or collaborating to make their own pieces of artwork, which included everything from an Among Us crewmate to a giant trans pride flag. There is a terrifying face peeking out from a void.
The end of the Gif was made so that users could only place white tiles at the end, not because everyone worked together to wipe the board clean, but because Reddit made it so that users could only place white tiles at the end. Everyone's tiling work is still going on. There is an interactive version of the canvas where you can zoom in as far as you want.
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