Twitch Streamers Are Battling for Their Piece of r/place Subreddit
There's a lot that can be said about Reddit's April Fool's Day «joke,» the subreddit known as r/place. In r/place, users are able to place individual pixels at a rate of one per five minutes, collaborating with thousands of other users, either to help create a mosaic of art or to destroy that art to make room for something new. Imagine that power in the hands of a popular Twitch streamer and their community. Now imagine dozens of popular Twitch streamers battling each other for pixel territory. That's the current state of r/place.
To capture exactly what's happening in r/place, take Twitch streamer Mizkif's brief summary of his interaction with the subreddit. Mizkif explains that when r/place first started, he and his community made a little Peepo piece of art inspired by his Twitch emotes. He says that soon after Twitch streamer xQc discovered r/place and had his community obliterate the little Peepo. Mizkif moved to a different area of r/place, only for xQc to target the new area, too. Things get worse from there.
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«So now, [xQc]'s attacking me everywhere, which means [BruceDropemOff] is attacking America, OTK's getting canceled, and now we're going over here and we're attacking xQC,» is how Mizkif describes the fallout. Twitch streamers are striving to create and protect their own patches of r/place, only to start battles with other Twitch streamers, which builds to rampant destruction outside the Twitch streamer community. It's a disaster in motion.
Some Twitch streamers have taken up what they believe to be righteous crusades on r/place. Asmongold, for example, rallied his community of tens of thousands to erase NFT advertisements made by cryptocurrency communities. As
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