HasanAbi, Ludwig, Mizkif, and other Twitch streamers have reacted to the end of this year’s r/Place event. Users could edit a blank canvas by changing the color of a single pixel in a social experiment hosted on Reddit. As a result, some of Twitch’s most popular communities banded together to create art on the platform.
Since the end of r/Place, people have been sharing their thoughts on the collaborative project on social media.
r/Place is a collaborative art project involving millions of people from all over the world. People used it to support causes, create memes, and represent their countries with flags.
Some Twitch communities came together to create beautiful renditions of classic art, such as the Mona Lisa and The Starry Night, while larger Twitch communities came together to destroy the work of others.
It’s a fascinating look into the minds of streamers and online communities who spent several days working together to create this massive canvas, one pixel at a time every five minutes.
Users could only place white pixels at the very end, so everything that had been done was undone, leaving the canvas with a blank, white void.
Ludwig, HasanAbi, Mizkif, and many others have taken to social media to express their feelings about r/Place as it fades away.
The r/Place experiment received a lot of positive feedback, with Ludwig displaying some beautiful, genuine art that his community had created over the last few days.
Mizkif seemed to appreciate the community effort, describing it as “one of the best things I’ve seen in several years of streaming.”
Other streamers, such as HasanAbi, appeared to be inspired by the event. Like Ludwig, he showed off a section of the r/Place map, but his thoughts were more external. He wants to inspire people to come together in the same way that he did.
Other streamers, such as HasanAbi, appeared to be inspired by the event. Like Ludwig, he showed off a section of the r/Place map, but his thoughts were more external. He wants to inspire people to come together again, whether it’s to paint pixels on a canvas or to do something else.
NymN also shared a Minecraft animation created by their community on the r/Place subreddit.
Fans of Dragon Quest gathered on the map as well. As r/Place came to a close, they, like Ludwig, displayed the fruits of their labor. In honor of the Twitch streamer, JRPG fans gathered to show off Slime Stack and Ironmouse Slime.
Others praised this year’s effort by pointing out their favorite parts of the canvas, such as a Rembrandt painting, while others simply displayed the entire canvas.
Some Twitter users shared their favorite, family-friendly pieces of art from the event.
There’s no way of knowing if another r/Place event will take place next year, but if this one’s popularity is any indication, there’s a good chance. Over 6 million people participated in 2022, a huge increase from the 1 million or so who participated in 2017.