I find it funny that XQC tried to invade Germany but he got destroyed and his chat got invaded by the germans. A few minutes later he backed down

The fact that the spanish decided to focus so hard on destroying french's art that they didn't actually build anything remotely close to it is just too funny

I feel like, r/place is a representation of how our society came to be, from an unorganized mess, to small groups forming, to groups making alliances and then going to war to protect their territory from outsiders. I myself was part of the r/Arknights community which had a total of 3 territories that we defended with every inch of our pixels (981x117, 1149x103, 1648x1733) and we eventually formed an alliance with all Gacha games (United Place Gacha Alliance), Tetris, VRChat and a small Poland flag and helped eachother to defend our artworks until the very end.

As someone with Lebanese heritage, Lebanon maintained a little flag for the duration of r/place from the very first hour. Located at (10, 452) which is also the country's area 10,452 km² I thought that was pretty neat.

honestly, props to everyone involved, even xqc, i honestly doubt place would've been as interesting without a main "villain".

Was part of the osu! community, our admins were super organized, we were assigned pixels, and we defended hard for 4 days whilst forming alliances with smaller communities.

Love how France proved that with its caritative events like ZEvent (which broke the world record for funds gathered twice), it really grew a sense of coordination and engagement with and between streams over the years. Together we stand!

Joining a community to make not 1 but 2 things was a great experience and it felt great to defend and negotiate with communities beside us.

all i remember is that the french flag was too big but when they agreed to leave the part of azbullah, spain and the americans continued to attack and ultimately destroy without ever building anything. the french defended their ground in addition to the pixel art of one pieces, OSU, reckfull, etc. which were incredible. it lacked irish but it was cool

French, what is your profession ? - We don't have one !!!!!! (in France we call it the "RSA power spike")

Charlie made a great point about people hating on XQC for his shenanigans. He gave those communities a story to tell. How they banded together to fight off the "villain". And tbh, he made it fun. Seeing his void take over places only to be taken back over made for great time lapses. Proud to say I also helped Charlie claim his M0ist Esports spot for the duration of when he first got it. The whole thing was a blast. Glad I was able to be apart of it.

How to sumerize this years R/place: When an April fools joke turns into the next Command and Conquere: Red Alert XD

saying France uses bots is literally the best compliment you can give, the organisation was so good that people unironically thought France was using bots lol. And yes, Reddit is kinda unknown in France not a lot of French uses it which can explain why so many new accounts were created hahaha i even made an account for this event, was really fun! so many good art was made by everyone it was amazing :D

As a french speaker (and somebody who took part in the war) I can assure everybody that nobody was botting on the french side. We were using a Chrome extension to see an overlay to know which color went where.

The fact that Rubius and Ibai had their ego shattered over some pixels still makes me laugh to this day.

R/place Where the French Revolution started again to push back the Spanish Inquisition.

personally xqc was a good villain and even when he claimed stuff it was taken back and more art was made on top of it, xqc has received so much hate when honestly he made r/place a lot more memorable.

It was interesting seeing my community of Hololive allying with Germany and Belgium, it was kinda bizzarre that a community of just anime weebs and simps got to ally 2 big countries, that also helped us survive and fight against one of the first XQC attacks, also how we all defende agaousn the big red among us dick that apeared on the canvas, it was somethig amazing those 4 days were super fun, and i hope it returns.

The Outer Wilds animated timeloop in there was honestly the coolest most creative thing in my opinion, definitely worth looking up if you're an Outer Wilds fan or just curious

I love the fact that your media talk about the french bots accusations (where france never used bot) But nobody talks about Spain using bots where we saw in live Rubius and Ibai use their automatic pixels script and some of spanish getting banned France did won the war They did build art, in final Spain did build nothing If you want to talk about countries please get more informed (and yes nobody was using reddit before in france so we all got new account)

That was a really fun event. Seeing some Spanish streamers crying about French using bots when there's absolutely no proof of it was hilarious. If we add the fact French showed how their overlay worked to Ibai, and he answered with "it's fine by me, it's not a bot", it makes it even more hilarious. But is still made accusation of cheating after all, and he himself used a bot and promoted it on his stream, so shamefull. The French streaming community is holding so much events that other communities not used to doing it can't keep up with a well organised group. There were no cheating, French streaming community just dedicated their heart to the cause.

Seeing the little hermit craft area become kermit craft, and stay that way because the community liked it just made me so happy

To anyone wondering if French people used bots : no. I was part of the thing and truth is one of us quickly developped a chrome extension to place an overlay over the canvas indicating to every single person where to place pixels. It was NOT anything near bots or automatization of some sort. As to why so many account were new It's because many people joined reddit for the occasion. On Kameto's stream, we reached 408,707 viewers. Nothing broke french twitter as much as this or brought us together as much since 2018 Football Worldcup. I am strongly against cheating in general and would have told if any suspicious script was used by the community to my knowledge. I still want to congratulate the spanish reddit community for having built in peace their own flag and stuff, but really despise their twitch community that crossed the line many time and just made it personal.

Just to clarify: the French were NOT using bots. They were using an overlay to help people place the right color in the right pixel to help draw nicely.

I can't believe how people still not understand how 1M pixels at your disposal doesn't mean you'r going to instantly win especially while you guys can actually go watch the streams of the french and see their POV ... I encourage people to search for themselves nowadays there are subtitles you can check the french streams to understand what happend.

Okay, the accusation of french Bots, and the arguments made for it specifically, is ridiculous. Time to debunk the main ones: "It was impossible for France to defend against the Spanish and Americans whose numbers are way superior": Well the thing is, 200k people attacking all at once specific parts of a banner of 120k pixels, is surpringly not very effective. The French had an hell of an organization and cohesion between streamers and communities; by splitting the task force between the 4 seasons (Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter), so they always had a reserve of pixels for defending immediately if necessary, and with the use of an Overlay, a visual aid which allows to see which pixels to place where in order to recreate images and artworks (but still needed to manually place the pixel, so it's not a bot). The French were just better organized, strength in number not always comes out on top in these situations, especially in sieges like here. "France has to have bots, because a lot of the names placing pixels are randomly generated ones": On the contrary of the US and the other countries, France don't really use Reddit as primary social network, they use more Twitter or Discord for exemple, so many of them didn't have a reddit account until the r/place; to repeat what I said earlier, French streamers have a great cohesion between themselves and their communities, so when they call for everyone to take part in it, many followed and created an account just for the occasion using Gmail, and when reddit create a new account, it generates a random name, which the French didn't bother changing. There, problem solved. "If French didn't have Bots, then why their flag disappeared faster than anyone else's creations ?": It's even simpler, at the time of the end of the r/place, the French flag was in constant attacks by the Spanish and US communities, so when reddit changed the color of pixel to only white, the French couldn't defend anymore and quickly realized that that was the end of r/place; meanwhile, the US and the Spanish communities thought that was only a glitch, and jumped on the occasion to obliterate the French flag, only realizing afterwards that this "glitch" wasn't one, but the end of the r/place. There, the force in numbers worked wonders for making the flag disappear in minutes, no need for bots on this one. "But French is using bots, even some streamers admitted it on their live, or others accused them of doing so" All that is well and good, but that's not proof, the clips used as "proof" of that were quickly debunked as a misinterpretation on the translator's part or an outright lie. You can check the streams of the French if you want, but there's 0 indication anywhere on their stream that they used bots, even the story of the script overlay that we talked about earlier. On the other hand, the french have apparently some proof that the Spanish streamers were using bot who's much more substantiated using clips of streamers and screenshots. If you want to accuse the French streamers of botting, provide some actual proofs to go along with your accusation (after verifying that your proof is valid, and not just misinterpretations to use at your advantage of course), otherwise, that's just a statement and not a fact. I'm not saying that anyone in the community didn't use bots; there will always be people who'll use bots, regardless of the community. But during the r/place, the French Streamers never encouraged anyone in their community to bot, and were even against it; and it's not by using the arguments above that you'll be able to prove the contrary.

French didnt bot, like all my friend i just créated a reddit account for the évent without rename it

France against the world, we were so organized that people thought we had bots, what we did is creating waves and called them by the seasons names, spring, summer, fall, and winter that's how we defended so many attackers

i love that as a runescape player, us nerds have back 2 back owned the top left corner. we have botting at a crazy rate. we have people who are pixel perfect every .6 seconds, we have dudes who just have played the game for 20 years, since children, and love it and we still put “connection lost” on the top left. it’s hilarious social commentary to me, and it’s hilarious that it’s a few hundred pixels and every few hundred have their own story.

Props to xQc, Mizkif, Osu Communitny, the Turks, French and Spanish, because of them, this whole war became so entertaining.

I'm french and I swear to God we were not voting we had section and generals for this we were prepared and ready.

French didn't bot but spanishbros certainly do cope

French and Spanish streamers yelling at each other in heavily accented English is incredible. English: Bringing People Together ✌😊🙏

Genshin>Genshit>Gayshit>SexShrek is literally the best community driven change, along with Bananada.

People really thought the white tiles help finding out who was botting but the case of France was that they were attacked in mass and couldn't defend (because had only white tiles), that's why it became white so fast.

Bro XQC’s 100k viewers vs Everyone on rplace was nuts.

R/place needs to be an every 2 or 3 year thing. Give some times for communities and events to change

When mizkif started "shaking" while pouring that water is the moment i have laughed the hardest this year. The timing just makes it comedy gold to me!

The funniest part for me was xqc literally throwing the fortnite tournament just so he could go to war lmao

> There is war raging everywhere in the canvas r/Amogus: *Sneaki Breeki, time to Amogus everything*

This was ridiculously fun; my favorite part was forming crazy alliances with totally unrelated fandoms, and working as one team to help each other out. At the end we had over 1000 members and over 50 different communities! Central Alliance (formerly SXSE) will always hold a special place with me

France was absolutely not botted, the top french streamer Kamet0 had over 500k viewers at peak.

Wow this guy is creating so much stuff that is actually pretty popular!

People getting mad at the German over the Belgian flag expanding was hilarious to me

Dude, I was defending the Indian flag and and artworks from 2 more communities. Denmark flag was right next to ours and people from our community straight up expanded the flag on it, deleting it. They went to the point of half-deleting Lego until some people from our comm with actual sense decided to back track the flag and help rebuild the denmark flag. It was a fun few days haha

Damn I remember, only sleeping 3 hours just to help keep the real Eren's face and Floch from being vandalized. The worst 3 days I experienced but completely worth it, cause finally we get to tatake for 10 years atleast.

"Mom, I'm going to be fighting in WWIII!" "Okay."

thank you for this. I was so confused what was going on.

As someone who was part of two groups in building things it was such a fun experience. A bit frustrating at some points when people destroyed it, but it was still awesome.

There is still an aftermath going on between French and Spanish. Thxfully you did not cover the big L Hispanic community took on .

French soldier from winter squad hier! Thank you for not saying that we are bots! it's had to see our hard work tarnished by somes haters. but i think that people dont realise that when our General sayed that he have a whole country to defend he was speaking truth! EVRY big and small french streamer started to stream and protect the flag, i personnaly created a reddit account just to be able to help. Maybe for Spanish and Americans it was just a twitch community fight, but for France, it was our national pride, because they attacked our flag. Btw it was fun, but i'm glad it's over, i needed some time to sleep XD

i cant help but feel this sense of achievement after being involved in some great arts on that canvas! rip Miura sensei reckH

XQC's face was very funny when he said to Kameto that the Louvre pyramid would never be up again and while arguing the french recreated the pyramid XD

I really love the pixel esports very competitive and exiting placing pixels every hour or so. Keep covering this esports!

Place is a very good way to simply create an interesting storyline about nothing it’s like the warriors every community has their own territory with their weird graffiti and friends just keeping shit pushing 😂😂

It's pretty stupid that xqc got death threats. I get that some hold the art closer to the their heart than I do, representation, nationalism, blahblah what have you...but it's just pixels. Like damn, get mad that's fine. But death threats? That's different.

I love it! Everything looked amazing and just watching streamers talk about helping each other, taking over places and wars. Fucking awesome

Why dont you even mention the name of the French army ? Kameto gathered 350k ppl on his stream and organised a lots of communities to défend the french flag

I wasn't very active on place, but I continuously placed a slightly off colour orange pixel on the Canadian Flag, purely for fun

Mizkif calling his mom is hilarious.

you guys forgot about the admin that placed tiles without cooldown

You didn't mention that at 8:36 the french tried to write "FRANCE" with the white tiles in the middle and the spanish turned it into "FAIL"

5:18 PagMan I see my name! Great video dude

France literally fought usa and spain at the same time and won, so easy.

LOL I don't understand how some people can say france botted when you literally have the heatmap that prove that France didn't use bot 7:15 . If it was botted the flacg would be red constantly like the moment spain streamers started to bot over the french flag with the BTS logo.

I was honestly surprised how big the dutch flag was and the amount of stuff on it.

Other people: watching pixel art video to build cool builds Me: reading art of war

i mean i get it that it's "only pixels" but when you spend much effort and time to said pixel, i think it's reasonable for them to be mad about it when they get griefed.

Everyone: The French are under Attack Germans: Mein Handtuch liegt schon da!!! The Noway4U Community: We made a Chinchilla UwU

btw, Gemany helped france a lot with the defending. there was a little cooperation

r/place needs to be an Internet Historian episode.

XQC: " Lets start chaos" The asian animation community: "How about we reverse what your doing"

oh no someone put their pixel on top of mine

Don't destroy my pixels!!!

The QR code that rick rolls people is so funny lol

just to let you know french didnt use bots and the reason grance was wiped first was not because they botted but because everyone attacked them

How do you forget to mention the entire osu! event and xqc literally in a discord call with BTMC

I for one worked with the r/waifubartending subreddit to make sure Jill Valentine got her rightful well... place :P Also credit to all the other subs who, intead of warring with r/waifubartending just added their subs art to her wall. It was wholseome af Reddit needs to do this every year no lie.

Thanks for this resume. I happened to randomly access Redditch both during the canvas and wallstreet bets crazy times but never had the time to delve into it.

I know a big part of this was the battles between communities, but can we also speak about how so many just made cool stuff together without fights. All the little hearts in the ukrainian flag. And that in the end we're all one

This just says when people have the same enemy unity can be achieved

The funniest moment in the war was the end when spanish though they wins whithout understanding it was the end, while french poeple tried to write France in big white letters

My man just explains the whole r/place situation and gets everyone rickrolled

If you look at the heat map and look to the top right ish you can see something that looks like a star. It's a part of ISL flag, it was under war constantly, was funny to watch. (Idc about politics, I just find it funny that in the end the fact people tried to destroy it made it glow so much in the heat map)

I thought the event would end when everyone agreed to one picture , I guess I was right

Me placing one pixel: I'm doing my part!

This whole r/place made my weekend fun. it was really fun

7:02 well actualy some of the french streamer encouraged peaple to create new account's , but that was targeting the part of the french streaming comunity that didn't had a account alredy created at the time only to my understanding as a frenchman miself , this is why there was a big group of fresh account's defending the country

The project is a perfect distillation of the whole of humanity. "We can do really dope things if we work together." YEP :smile:

Pokemon GO sounds so fun after this explanation...

As a former Old School Runescape fanatic I found myself defending the three dots at the end of the “connection lost attempting to reestablish . . .”

I am proud to be a member of r/osugame and r/place in general.

The Foxhole community did so well, and so many more learned not to mess with gamers who spend 12 hours a day fighting over inches of land every day. Shoutout to all of you fellow foxhole players! Also Collies are the best and the wardens are stinky.

6:57 not only the french, the german place community helped the french defending their flag.

I would've wanted someone to capture the full canvas and make it the internet flag, until r/place come back and make new art

I've been watching r/Place till 8 am in the morning when it ended, I Loved every second of it, i kinda hate france now XD.

r/place feels more like: 1939 alternative history pixels.

r/new zealand stood strong the entire time we allied with Thailand

French are able to raise millions for charity on twitch, wake up guys

By favourite battle was transplace Vs UK. UK kept trying to destroy the shared heart