• jon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Several years ago for April Fools Day, Reddit launched /r/place, which created a canvas where users could place individual pixels every few minutes. Communities would get together to carve out their own little corner of the canvas for a piece of art, and overall the whole thing was pretty well received.

    Last year for April Fools Day, they did it again. Overall, once again pretty well received.

    Now, since Reddit has pissed everyone off, they’re doing it again again, likely in a desperate move to try and generate some positive community interactions. /r/place has always been pretty popular when they’ve done it before, so this is probably a ‘push in case of emergency’ attempt to placate users. Predictably, everyone’s still mad so they’ve littered the whole canvas with ‘fuck spez’ posts.

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      1 year ago

      Never understood why they did it again not on April Fools Day, nor why they have no other ideas for April Fools jokes.