• TheWaterGod@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    r/place is an interactive art project run by reddit on April Fools. It ran in 2017 and 2022. Now they’ve brought it back for 2023 (it was supposed to have happened on April Fools this year, but various…things…happened). It kicked off again today and as expected, it’s gained attention for the bad timing (protests, tone deaf admin, etc…) and people have coordinated to write “fuck spez” messages and other things (at some point, there was a guillotine + reddit’s head).

    • Aviandelight @mander.xyz
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      2 years ago

      Thanks for the clarification. I’ve been wondering all day how I was on Reddit for years and never saw this. It’s because I purposely stayed off the site (and most of the internet for that matter) on April 1st every damn year.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    r/place was originally an April fool’s event, which they did in two different years. The second one upset a lot of people because Reddit admins were caught censoring things.

    The fact that they’re doing it now is speculated to be an attempt to drive up participation after all the bad press. Many people guessed that doing it now would be a bad move because there is still a lot of anger about the handling of 3PAs, and this place is full of people who feel that way.

    As predicted, the current r/place has a lot of anti-Reddit and anti-Spez sentiment, so people here are relishing it. But most don’t want to go to Reddit and give them the traffic, so they’re upvoting the threads here.

    • TeddE@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      The way I see it, a lot of us are going through the 5 stages of grief. My apologies for us being difficult as a group.

    • eddanja@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      It’s like a fresh break-up. I hate reddit. Reddit is so stupid. I swear I’m totally over reddit. You haven’t seen reddit by any chance, have you? I mean, I totally don’t care but how is reddit doing?

      • Mic_Check_One_Two@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        This is the most accurate description I’ve heard so far. Old habits die hard, and people naturally want to fall back into what they know.