There's a r/place for us

Endless Thread

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Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

After its first successful iteration in 2017, r/place returned on April 1, 2022 for four days of battling fandoms vying for space inside a pixelated canvas. We talk to two Redditors who recount the challenges of claiming their stake in r/place—despite being vastly outnumbered.

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1:01.0	WBWR podcasts, Boston.
1:04.0	What is your favorite thing that just perfectly typifies how on the internet there's so much good and also everything is terrible?
1:23.0	Oh, there's a long list for that, but I'm going to holler back to an episode from our meme series, the one about the woman yelling at a cat meme.
1:34.0	I know.
1:35.0	If you've heard that episode, if you haven't, I mean, come on.
1:38.0	Get on it.
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1:57.0	All right. So one of my favorite things that really, I feel like represents the full spectrum of the internet is our slash place.
2:05.0	If you don't know what our slash place is, you're in for a treat because we heard from a bunch of listeners who wanted us to cover our slash place.
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