By 3 April, nearly 72 million pixels were placed by over 6 million users, at a pace of more than 2.5 million pixels placed per hour. Unlike in 2017, individual subreddits immediately began to coordinate in designing pixel art, and large communities were formed on Discord and Twitch in attempts to expand existing art, replace defaced pixels, and superimpose new images over existing ones. The color palette was also expanded on the second and third days. It began on 1 April 2022, and lasted for four days, including two expansions of the canvas to allow for more space. On 28 March 2022, a reboot of Place was announced. A website called The r/place Atlas was created after the experiment finished, dedicated to identifying the various components of the final piece. The experiment did receive some criticism for the lack of protection from bot usage and the automated placing of pixels. Newsweek called it 'the internet's best experiment yet', and a writer at Ars Technica suggested that the cooperative spirit of Place represented a model for fighting extremism in internet communities. Some also commented on the apparent relationship between the makeup of the final canvas and the individual communities within Reddit, which exist independently but cooperate as part of a larger community. A number of commentators described the experiment as a broader representation of Internet culture. Gizmodo labelled it as a 'testament to the internet's ability to collaborate'. Club called it 'a benign, colorful way for Redditors to do what they do best: argue among each other about the things that they love'. Place was commended for its colorful representation of the Reddit online community. An analysis found that the final version of the 2017 experiment consisted of art from over 800 communities. At the time of the experiment's end on 3 April 2017, over 90,000 users were viewing and editing the canvas, and over one million users had placed a total of approximately 16 million pixels. Several self-declared ' cults' also formed to create and maintain various emblematic features such as a black void, a green lattice, the aforementioned blue corner, and a multi-colored 'rainbow road'. Several works of pixel art sprouted from the collaboration of these communities, varying from fictional characters and internet memes to patriotic flags, LGBT flags, and recreations of famous pieces of artwork such as the Mona Lisa and The Starry Night. Other sections of the canvas were developed by communities and coordination efforts created specifically for the event. Overall, thousands of subreddit communities were involved. This frequently caused conflict between communities competing for space on the canvas. As the canvas developed, some established subreddit communities, such as those for video games, sports teams and individual countries, coordinated user efforts to claim and decorate particular sections. Among the first distinct sections of the canvas to emerge was a corner of entirely blue pixels (named 'Blue Corner') and an homage to PokГ©mon.

The early hours of the experiment were characterized by random pixel placement and chaotic attempts at image creation. The final product of the original 2017 r/place experiment. On 1 April 2022, Reddit began a reboot of the experiment that lasted for four days. The experiment was commended for its representation of the culture of Reddit's online communities, and of Internet culture as a whole. Over 1 million users edited the canvas, placing a total of approximately 16 million pixels, and, at the time the experiment was ended, over 90,000 users were actively viewing or editing the canvas. The experiment was ended by Reddit administrators about 72 hours after its creation, on 3 April 2017. The idea of the experiment was conceived by Josh Wardle. After each pixel was placed, a timer prevented the user from placing any more pixels for a period of time varying from 5 to 20 minutes. The 2017 experiment involved an online canvas located at a subreddit called r/place, which registered users could edit the canvas by changing the color of a single pixel with a replacement from a 16-color palette. R/place was a collaborative project and social experiment hosted on the social networking site Reddit on April Fools' Day 2017 and repeated again on April Fools' Day 2022.

Rebooted: AprilВ 1, 2022 2 months ago ( ). Original launch: AprilВ 1, 2017 5 years ago ( ). The canvas in 2022 on the last day of the event

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