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r / Place, the Reddit framework created one pixel at a time

r/Place, il quadro di Reddit creato un pixel alla volta thumbnail

On the occasion of April 1, Reddit has repurposed the digital artwork created by greater number of artists: r/Place. For four days, each registered user on the platform was able to change the color of only one pixel of the million available on the digital canvas. With really interesting results: a condensation of world internet culture, made together.

r / Place, Reddit’s digital framework created by millions of users

A thousand pixels horizontally, a thousand vertically. A total of one million pixels. An image not particularly large but with enormous potential. In fact, Reddit allowed anyone registered to change the color of one card only di this huge mosaic, choosing from 16 shades.

But users, for the most part, didn’t act alone. In fact they moved like subredditorganizing itself around different declinations of fandomof belonging for interest, nationality, passions, ideas.

The result when r / Place closes

You can distinguish several flags, from national to that of transgender communication. If, as he writes, you are passionate about manga One Piece you may have noticed the face of the pirate Gol D. Roger, the character of one of the many video games e film represented, or real digital recreations of artwork famous. At the bottom left the icon of Start button of an old Windows. Many symbols of peace.

The first experiment had already taken place in 2017. Over a million redditors had participated, placing a total of 16 million tiles. According to the Washington Post, this time already on Sunday evening we had passed the 72 million mark, at the rate of 2.5 million pixels per hour. So much so that between the second and third day the organizers enlarged the canvas and expanded the number of colors available.

And after the fourth, they erased the canvas. In fact, the goal was not to create a summary of the entire web to be left to posterity. But simply an activity for work together with other subreddit redditors that you love. A very popular and very special social experiment: the work of art created by the greatest artistic collective ever.