On April 1st 2022, social news site Reddit relaunched their strange, collaborative, combative art project known as /r/Place, the second of such a challenge, with the first taking place on April 1, 2017. As part of this project, several hundred Cascadians worked together for four days, day and night - to ensure we got an amazing Cascadia flag into the final image.
You can view our Cascadia flag, and learn more about other communities and art pieces on the reddit atlas: https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx6tdx
As probably the worlds largest mandala, after an unannounced fade to white signaling the end of the 4 day mad dash, our Cascadia Flag survived through our insane tireless pixel blotting and awesome alliances. Huge thank you to PaymoneyWubby, Dinklebean, Grinefolk, Terraria, Zelda, Voidpunk, the Faces Crew, MM, FELLOWS and the Expanse subreddit - for @JimmyisAwkward who made the first Reddit post, @TYTCoexist who worked that Wubby alliance, the Seattle Crew who like jumped in and already had a Cascadia Flag up in one second when the map started, to everyone in our /r/Cascadia discord who kept the coordination rolling, and everyone who jumped in even once to drop a pixel.
What is /r/Place?
/r/Place is a challenge where members of different communities, subreddits, groups, fans of causes or individuals, all ban together to create a piece of art on a collaborative canvas. Each user can place one pixel every five minutes. No one knows how long the challenge is going to go, or what twists the developers will throw in, such as in this version, doubling the canvas size each day and opening up swaths of new areas for people to color in.
Larger communities run rampant. Smaller communities try and hold the few pixels they can carve out, and alliances are made with the groups and subreddits around you.
In total, the 2022 rendition of r/place tallied more than 943 million screen views, 1 billion minutes spent in the subreddit per day and 4 billion minutes spent in r/place in total over the four days when the stunt was ongoing (April 1 through 4). The r/place subreddit averaged over 10.4 million daily active users.
