Whenever Reddit hosted r/place, it got instantly dominated by streamers and massive clans covering the canvas in their insignia, anybody else who wanted to draw be damned. I remember in 2022 I was working with a smaller subreddit to try to put a 16x16 graphic somewhere unobtrusive and could scarcely put 3 pixels down before getting overwritten by the German flag that was already taking up 1/3 of the canvas.
On Canvas yesterday, somebody put up a ~50 pixels wide drawing of Princess Celestia fighting Nightmare Moon (something that wouldn’t have survived 20 seconds on Reddit before being vandalized) and the people drawing the osu! logo went behind it!
I’m just kind of amazed and stunned and glad that we seem to be infinitely better at silently collaborating and not stepping on each other than the people on That Other Site who are obsessed with pointless internet clout.
i had to assemble people to take down a Russian flag
The first canvas was like that. I was able to put my name in there and no one messed with it.
I was honestly surprised when it was over and it was still there because I wasn’t monitoring it at all.
Up until they started to try to take down the NCD NATO flag at least
I drew the word “Mexico” with the colors of the flag yesterday all by myself and not only I could finish it, it’s still up. I love you guys.
Empathy is a beautiful thing ❤️😍
