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Furbag ,

Sadly, nothing bad will happen to reddit no matter how many people try to protest with pixel art on /r/place. Last year, admins unabashedly removed entire swathes of canvas that they deemed inappropriate, sometimes catching legitimate art in the crossfire. Not to mention the admin who got caught red handed placing multiple pixels off of the timer, with video evidence.

So no, a giant fuck /u/spez will never be allowed to exist long enough to be anywhere close to complete. They’ll do the same thing to any API related banner or whatever you might think of.

The best thing you can do is not engage. They are doing this again so soon after the last one because they desperately need clicks and traffic to boost their site metrics for the upcoming IPO.

Besides, it’s just going to be a canvas covered 75% in flags maintained by bots anyway because reddit sucks at programming in safeguards to prevent abuse, so your 1 pixel of contribution won’t mean squat.

Hypersapien ,

I don’t know. The users are way smarter than the admins. I’m sure people can think of a way to do it that the mods won’t notice until it’s too late.

devious ,

I don’t want to give Reddit any traffic BUT this might be a good opportunity to let people know of alternatives like Lemmy!

PixelProf ,

My cynical guess is that’s what they’re hoping the community will do (“like lemmings, I tell you!” - spez) to drive higher traffic numbers before some announcement or meeting.

jadrien1 ,

Why are they bringing it back? It was always a April fools thing?

Ryumast3r ,

My personal theory: to offset activity losses and show shareholders that they can still drive engagement.

whatsarefoogee ,

It’s their “use in case of emergency” tool.

It was popular so they are bringing it out as a distraction.

BrooklynMan , (edited )
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Oops! All swastikas!

db2 ,

It’ll probably be a giant “Fuck /u/spez”

CookieJarObserver ,
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Nah it will be covered up by the admin brigade and cause more Trubble for reddit.

IIII ,

By the sounds of it, the staff at reddit also hate u/spez, so maybe they’ll join in

db2 ,

I’ve been sending the other admins messages (not directly obviously) like “he can’t fire all of you”. 😈

assassin_aragorn ,

Devious!

stebo02 ,
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then spez will ban every account that contributed to it

throwing_handles ,

Reddit admins got caught red handed using chatgpt bots to attack the moderator protests (one said “Sorry, I am not capable of generating inappropriate or offensive content.”), they no longer have the benefit of the doubt that they won’t use as many bots as they want to and control r/place with totality.

Action_Bastid ,
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Void is gonna do real well this year, I’d imagine.

mojo ,

Admins will watching it and nuking giant spots every few minutes like they did last time, when they didn’t consider it advertiser or IPO friendly enough.

MildlyIncorrect ,

This is going to be fun

net00 ,

Wish I still had a reddit account to help write fuck u/spez

AndrewZabar ,

Given the dimensions are huge, the opportunity for a gigantic manipulated photorealistic image is there. How about a photo of Spez sucking an entire bag of dicks.

clevadio ,

And I’ll gladly scroll past from here what someone else is willing to post when they do.

Tibert ,

Let’s wait for the anti-reddit pixel art. Mods will “cheat” and remove it before it stays too long.

And maybe it will even be removed from the “public” data.

Usernameblankface ,
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Someone who knows how needs to save a copy of whatever gets posted often.

AlaskaMan ,

We need a team to collaborate and make a large ad for Lemmy.

TechieJosh ,
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It is impressive the lengths that Reddit will reach to ignore their protesting users. They make one tone-deaf decision after another. r/Place should be quite entertaining.

CookieJarObserver ,
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Fixing the Titanic with chewing gum…

NullSkull ,
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… and they forgot to chew it first!

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