xQc and other giant streamers made the whole thing worse and less organic. The black void serving as the main antagonistic entity combined with the blue corner being the main chaotic neutral faction was enough and it was perfect as it is before those guys showed their faces.

Proud to be a part of such a historic part of the Touhou community! Incredible video, absolute masterpiece. See you all in 2027!!!

This production quality is insane

I was originally from the clownpiss server but was recruited by the Marisad group during this event. I was also responsible for the alliance between the small Marisad and Tomoko because I shared the same hoi4 anime server with TheBear who was a important person on the Watamote server.

What a solid documentary Delta!

I've watched dozens of r/place videos now, but this is the best by far! I love the amount of detail shown, seeing the behind the scenes and planning of the factions is really interesting, as I'm researching art from all over the canvas.

1:48:05 Yes! The mention of Len'en!

This is a cool piece of internet history, thanks to all who were involved in putting together this rich and detailed video and the documents as well. Glad to have been a part of the madness!

been following the progress for a while, thanks for the hard work Delta!

Thank you again for helping to keep the Leg of The Legacy alive, everyone! 🙏

Thank you so much for immortalizing this incredible event that bonded together so many different communities, and showed what the touhou community is capable of achieving. It was an honor to be part of this, and I hope to see you all, next phantasm...

This was in my watch later list since it came out, finally came around with the new r/place just over. Great video, sure brought me nostalgic feels from that time! It was awesome, thanks for making it and congrats to all the archivists

God this was so much more exciting and cool than I ever thought it could, absolutely astounding video, great work!!!

I'm super proud to have been a part of this community in the 4 days of r/place. Happy to see this video finally surface, I don't think anyone could have chronicled it better. Seriously, awesome work!

I love how a guy went "Place is open, should we do smthn?" and then one of the most organized and renown factions was created

I've quit reddit after 2017 r/place, but damn this documentary makes me reconsider coming back. Amazing work on this video!

This is such a nice story, I love how you formed bonds with communities unrelated to touhou, it was very fun to watch. Also I cried during the Bad apple copypasta and the credits, it only lasted 4 days but it felt like the greatest adventure ever

Hype hype hype for 2023 video.

Yeah. We have been waiting for this one

What a fantastic, FANTASTIC video!!!. I knew touhou for a long time but really started to get into it on june 2022, unfortunately after the r/place event, so I knew nothing about all of this. However I participated on the event with a caring and enthusiasmic group trying to build the windows window icons on the top right of the canvas. We sorta did it, although we were obliterated by constant threats and, ultimately, by the gamestop moon and the netherlands, but we are on the video lol, and in the corner of the artwork of the great wave of kanagawa (great lads). Anyways I knew nothing about coordination, management, discord servers, diplomacy, or anything really, and it was a very stressful event even more so with me living in Spain and being awake all night organizing the server for a silly reddit thing. But it was a very, very special experience and this video made me relive the whole ordeal and all the tension, hope, hopelessness and patriotism. Seriously. It's super super well made. The amount of information you managed to give, the way the hijack worked and all the projects and ideas, the allies and the proccess to make new ones (I think the collab with Romania is amazing, I didn't even know Alice was from Romania), the enemies, the threats (Goddamn streamers, although I must admit, they truly gave the event a spicy feeling; man the war between France and Spain jhahaha), and all the little details such as independent artworks and diplomats, and of course the memes hahaha maaan I love that copypasta, it makes me feel proud to have been a part of such an event. All in all, I really hope there will be another place event, and to be able to 1cc subterranean animism. God damn I can't even beat utsuho with continues wtf man.

I'm glad to have been able to participate and work alongside all of the members of R/Touhou. It was truly special, I look forward to cooperating with all of you again in 2027.

If you think 2022 was wild, then you'll be blown back by 2023

Underated video, glad to have took part on our joint efforts during the event!

Thanks for everything! I was the one who proposed the kappa and protected her until the very end. These kind of events are what brings us together as a community. I wonder if anything like that is going to happen again like in 2027, if that's the case, I hope I could be there, otherwise, remember me as a legend that rolled from pixel to pixel like a cucumber katamari (That's why it's called Kappamari).

not a super relevant detail, but i made the yukari gap design! idrc that i wasnt mentioned, i wasnt even aware it was actually used, but hey great video as always tho, there was so much research it must have been a headache ❤️

Nice video. "defending" the little Nitori was truly a hell but also fun. The whole time was spent staring at the screen and doing everything in intervals of 5 minutes to optimise pixel placing. Such a splendid weekend...

Kino here, this Is a wonderful video! Congrats! And thank you so much!

This is great, thanks.

Great Work Delta.

I am proud of myself to participate with the marisad. Awesome documentary from you too!

I was very happy to help out with this! I painted like half of Teto by myself with 10 different accounts lmao

2:00:08 that reallllyyy got me During the event I didn't have a reddit account and I didn't really care too much but I did have a general interest in r/place while looking at the touhou stuff every once in a while, but without being in the discord server I only took notice of the big stuff

Buen video, me hubiera gustado ser parte de ello.

28:45 Yo, that's us! Working with the Touhou fans and everyone else was a ton of fun, as was working on the various projects the Legacy's related communities (mostly in the Civilization V sphere) were doing, and I'd like to hope the Legacy got some exposure out of it. Save Leg!

wow im so bored at home ,and i find a 2 hours video of 2hu,life is good

Yoooo let’s gooo!!!

This was a very good documentary

holy shit guys it's finally happening

Thank you so much for this video ! I have a lot of fun memories of this event and I'm glad I now have a good ressource to comeback to, to remember all the fun time I had with the touhou Hijack server, and discover the few details I missed. I wish you included the voice call happening at the time when the copypasta was first posted in chat, that moment was probably my favorite moment of the entire event. If you have it but didn't include it in the video, is there anywhere I can find that recording ? finally, “I am disappointed that you all gave up but I will continue fighting the helpless fight until I perish alone, surrounded by enemies. I will die a martyr, and you will feel shame that you have abandoned the greater cause. My struggle will be in vain, but only because you have betrayed us all. Remember what we are doing this for. We are doing it for Bad Apple. We are doing it for Nitori. We are doing it for the Touhou that we love. For the Touhou that ZUN has created and the Touhou community has shaped. Never forget why we are all here together fighting this fight. Remember that our cause is just, and remember that our goal is not negotiable. When our enemy attacks, we defend. Because defending Mitori and Bad Apple is the same as defending the entirety of Touhou. So I ask you all, DO NOT GIVE UP! CONTINUE THE FIGHT! BRING BACK THE OLD TEMPLATE AND FIGHT BACK THE PERUVIANS! WE MUST NOT FALTER!”

this better not be some april fools prank you hear me

This was a brilliant video!! I didn't know anything about Touhou (not even that it was a game xd), but this was really captivating to watch ^-^ I was part of the Brony faction during the whole thing, and it was fascinating to see things from another point of view ^^ Good job everyone, and...see you on June 23rd :p

23:30 they could do the entire OST of PCB and I would watch it all.

I'm sorry for being 1 month late :sad_marisa: but I wanna thank you for this great hardwork you made! Definitely so happy to form part of this community. Looking forward to future r/places representing Sanae and defending any Touhou related work 💪💪

Thank you for for the Chronicle! Hope you also make the 2023 one.

It was fun, and I pray I have time to adjust for the next one

Was fun joining r/place would do again -haku

Also on the topic of alliances, I still think the Polandball x Genshin impact one on the top of the map was the cutest one, I mean what could be cuter than Polandball wearing Hu Tao's hat?

this is great

Will you cover the 2023 Touhou r/place? I found how you made this video great and would be very cool if you covered the 2023 one. In fact, I believe that there have already been very extensive efforts to record everything that happened, probably in the discord server. Edit: I just realized you are one of the people in charge at the discord lol.

Hi, I'm a guy from Leg. Though I was not involved in their operations (I was trying diplomacy for another server) I'm just here to say, for one, congratulations on your work, and for two, thanks to let the leg end where it did

Sorry for being late this whole "hi i used to be a diplomat and im really proud of what we were able to accomplish" party, guess i forgor to make a comment here, but i am Drakenforge or as i am now on the server, American Momiji, and i am just glad i was able to not only partake in this but be at the helm of all of it was truly a great moment of my life. Thank you delta pie, and i cannot wait to reclaim the title of captain for '27 (i am a diplomat of the ROR community btw and i am called the captain of the USS Guplin on the ROR2 r/place server)

how does this only have 2k vies this feels like the kind of documentary who would easily get 400k views

Almost time!!

12:00 I lost it when it came up that a Cirno user had leaked the plans.

Let's goooooo!

SUPER NICE, video on Touhoufest next?

More side info, me (Neko Miko Reimu) and AZ had some correspondence regarding scarlet marisa. I was also not aware of the scarlet marisa relocation

Thanks for the 2+ hour essay that successfully convinced me to declare allegiance to touhou if there’s ever another r/place

yes new touhou content to consume

r/place 2023 has bad apple

Dam good work it must have taken along time to verify all the information, next time I’m hopeing that something from kkhta gets in

Holy shit I did not realize how much lore there was to this

Question, what song is used in 44:06 ?

God damn that was a year ago Good times

Now after r place 2023, i want to see more

Oh my.

When fragments by hatsunetsumiko's started playing i got a little emotional ngl

I like how Armenia, Miku, and touhou all worked together. Twas a moment

If it isn't a ten-part musical played by Timur as promised, I'm disliking

For some reason I forgot what was i doing in this r/place event Brijade

great, now do another one

God was it that long ago? I got SO stressed out working on this. I can't wait to do it again. Fuck Canada!

The one thing I now know is that peru and Poland are sworn enemies of touhou, and will be dealt with in 2027

Danger is Coming!

1:48:20 Woah, I didn't expect to see mention of r/Maiplace I didn't personally participate in r/place (due to thinking that it was stupid) but r/maiplace was formed by r/churchofmaisakurajima which is a sub that I moderate I did not expect to see mention of my waifu when I just came here to learn about how touhou fans interacted with r/place

1:48:57 lol During the whole r/place thing I used Reddit regularly but only interacted with the canvas once or twice when I was reminded I saw a few big events like the xqc Winston and whatnot but damn did I missed a lotta things that happened looking back my only regret now is not being as active or a part of it much when it happened

35:31 Omg! He said "The Red Banner"! He knows!

I suppose I should get ready for the 2027 r/place.

Interesting that it happened by coincidence because Miku was near the r/touhou banner

the lesbian flag being a barrier for the pcb trio from xqc twice lmfao

I'm doing my part! Also i never realized xqc was that annoying lmao

Alterisa: "Why am I here?"

You guys better be there for 2027

I did my part!

it's joever

Mini-cirno was my favorite build. Next to the Hatsune Miku X Reimu art edit: i appear at 58:52 this is for later just in case i need it

whats the fan anime at 44:13

I was there.

It really wasn’t Joever

It's real, after all this time

I like in the 1:02 mark you threw unconnected marketeers cuz you didnt idsn't had space

Holy shit

No way guys its happening

It's finally Joever.

i never had any idea Romania is CANON IN THE TOUHOU UNIVERSE my jaw dropped at that part of the video (i’m romanian)

Real

Ah so many pleasant memories, tho the xqc hate boner has yet to subside

2:02:00 Foreshadowing...

Imagine using plebbit

When's the chronicle for the 2023 hijack coming out?