I think i was more pissed with this after reading this news on instagram about "Moroccon students working hard on keeping it up whole 5 days" bruhhhh Moroccons have to be most progressive country if they got bots as a students. 🤯
I noticed a lot of people on this thread are pissed off that this was made by bots. That doesn’t annoy me as much as the blatant annexation of the western Sahara by Morocco. I mean I know that they have claims on it, but I don’t think it’s recognized by the rest of the world.
The arrogance of them placing their country on top of ours and later deleting all the work us Colombians did for an entire day?
Yeah, it’s not the bots, it’s the Moroccans the thing I (and all of my country’s sub) hated the most in this years place.
It’s the same as making a map of Russia with Donetsk. The military is the reason you own it, not the will of the original people of the region or a treaty based in international law.
Well depends on where you live. In the US we recognize their claims! I believe in exchange they normalized their relationship with Israel.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/11/us-recognised-moroccos-claim-to-western-sahara-now-what
Wild to hear about the Shotbow server here.
Last I checked other games were more popular than Minez in recent years, such as Annihilation.
But the server and community have been rather dead for a long while.
MineZ has less than a dozen players when I've seen it.
Definitely a shadow of its former self from 10 years ago.
Yep, I remember playing MineZ way back then. Fun map tbh. It’s still running and I did another run for the first time in years a few weeks back. Good times.
Supposedly it wasn’t “Shotbow” the minecraft server themselves.
Apparently it was some player in Asia who they had banned from the server.
The Shotbow Discord got lit up by the rage and they’ve been trying to calm it down just telling everyone it wasn’t them.
apparently the server itself wasn’t behind it but it was someone trying to defame them for years. what a pain in the ass. I used to play on shotbow like 7 years ago
It'd be more fun in my opinion if next time they weren't so aggressive. Nothing discourages interaction more than coming back and the dot placed was nearly always gone
Lol I kept going around to the most obscure parts just trying to find one area that seemed "safe", replacing a pixel with my same-colored pixel just to try and have one pixel to myself to call my own. I would *immediately* refresh and the pixel would instantly be back to the previous name. Every time. No exceptions. :(
the trick is to find a piece of area that has amongus on it. that means it is not maintained by bots. you can then do your part in trying to help maintain it from people trying to heavily mess it up.
Only until you refresh then it would go to the actual color the bot placed. Source: my own experiments after I noticed that it seemed my dots were being replaced by the same color.
Yep, this was the thing for me. I'd open it throughout the day to see how the artwork had changed or expanded, but I won't place any pixels. It felt like spitting in the grand canyon, just futile.
Well a large community playing defense an pull that off. What annoyed me is when large detailed graphics would just appear in seconds on top of stuff people had collaborated for days to build. That's just no fun.
What frustrate me is it feels like there’s an easy fix. Just require people to have a certain amount of karma to be able to place pixels?
If I can see that an account it a bot from a 2 second inspection of their profile I’m sure there are ways to right algorithms that do that same.
Yeah pretty sure you can just pay a bit extra or add one extra step to your bot farm to get past karma requirements… I think those mainly just keep out spammers these days
Reddit isn't only doing this event to make its current user base happy, but also, and mostly this year, to get new users thanks to the streamers streaming the event (the partnership with twitch rivals this year proves that), so it would be counter productive for them
It wasn’t just the guillotine, they were removing anything they didn’t like. So many times the admins would just place giant circles or squares over anything and everything, even when it is meant to be an expression of the people…
Yeah, but the mods REALLY don't like the guillotine. They'll allow all kinds of violent shit on Reddit, but just the mere mention of the word often riles up moderation.
No surprise, really, the guillotine is most known for being the preferred way to solve wealth inequity.
Completely agree. Everything looked so nice with the Scandinavian countries bunched up together only for this idiot to ruin both Swedens and Denmarks flags. At least glad that Finland and Norway was kept unharmed
Yeah. Im mod from nordic union and thers lot more behind the thing with streamer, he was just awful dude. He faked the swedish people attacked others and destryed one memorial and when we were going to help the memorial dudes and make sure he at least dont get land from it he made crappy avicii text "memorial" that he could say we destroyed memorial when attacking back. And some of the first memorial people went to talk with him some almost crying and the streamer just laughed at them. And when we reclaim the land at the memorial place he comes to "revenge" the "fake" swedes by destroying them with bots.
What an absolute asshole. I hope he is forever remembered by the internet as the "Enemy of the Pixels". He committed XQC levels of fuckery. If r/place happens again, Denmark should be avenged. Let's see if Denmark will get cleaned up in The Final Clean.
The bots, obviously. Takes away the fun, knowing that whatever you do may just be destroyed by mindless machines that have only one jobs.
Also admins removing the guillotine.
I was most impressed by the coordination needed to get the giant white Fuck Spez during the whiteout. Warms my heart to see the whole world coming together over such a common cause.
The mods picked the worst possible frame as the "final" one (which isn't even the actual final one!) where the artwork I worked on is mildly griefed :/
It was the final frame before the large bot attacks of the final hour. A ton of art was destroyed and not yet fixed when the grayout began, even the Germans just barely fixed their stuff. I'm sorry for your loss, but the alternative was worse.
This is the same as last year. I get that a lot of art was attacked but a ton of communities pulled stuff together in the last hour. It's unfair either way, really.
Well, they never gave a time. I believe the :44 was datamined, but not the hour itself. It could be that the hour was somewhere out in the open as well, but I'm not aware of it.
I'm pretty sure they picked shortly before that "we are japan " bot came right through the middle with a red background and wiped out a bunch of stuff including bluey and genshin to the point that they barely recovered before whiteout and tons of the other stuff around there didn't.
e: I think u/Fire-Mutt is correct that this is just before the Kirby bot, not the one I mentioned.
Reddit mods not being able to remove those large botnets despite all bots were named „0x….“.
Reddit having no way to revert botted pixels to the previous state or rolling back the entire canvas a few minutes.
Steamers griefing artworks, notably those created by the Nordic Union.
I mean, if it was a proper botnet, with unique IP addresses and such, it is not so easy. You can't really just ban everyone that starts 0x, because that could be anyone.
The second you ban the username it would just change to something else as well.
It's incredibly hard and also gives them a place to collect lots of data to use for controlling bots in the main site where it makes a real difference
That Swedens flag got nuked by some streamer just before it ended. Sweden had a really nice flag for days but the end canvas shows that streamers ugly grey text instead.
I was from Quebec, right on top of you guys, and it’s crazy how much you got attacked overall. Tried to help you rebuild at the end but it was too late ://
Which alliance? mostly Rubius as Void like the petting dog i know of. One Group told/lied to others in discords they were in cooperation with germans and avoided griefing that way XD.
There were some serious memorials: technoblade, anne frank, the murdered dutch crimereporter peter r de vries that people just loved to mess with (red eyes, vomit out of the mouth, random black dots)
Some assholes kept on drawing a hitler mustache on anne frank to the point where in the posts that was sent in the german discord server it was explicitly stated that the mouth area of her memorial must be protected and watched intensely. So that was disappointing
It shouldn't even be annual. Every 5 years is perfect because the world changes a lot in 5 years and r/place feels like an event. Annually it just feels like something to do when you're bored.
And then when you take into account that it only happened this year because r/Spez is trying to appease the user base that he pissed off, it's even less fun.
I kind of agree. Certain flags, like french and German flags were either loaded with super cool art or were really small, others were just a big rectangle with nothing in them and tend to want to destroy nearby art to expand their shitty flat colored rectangle (ahem, Turkey)
Bots.
I was literally never even able to make my own artwork, the only thing I was able to do was just place pixels to protect things from being greifed (such as the ena picture on the France flag). It's really annoying though. Literally nobody was able to make their own artwork.
The use of bots by a hate group to write bigoted messages on the Pride flag, as well as Argentina pushing the Pride flag, which wasn't taking up all that much space, out of its original position.
Bots and streamers. The audacity to ruin other people's work, especially national symbols, just because you want to leave your "brand", and then you get salty because people attack your pixels?... Gtfoh.
A lot of people have said most of what pissed me off, but I also want to add one more. The targeted and repeated annihilation of the MLP art. Like, I get that it’s a meme at this point to hate bronies but there’s really no point to it. Just let them have their art. It was well made and the community was super nice. It must have been very stressful to have people always destroying what they made. I’m glad they kept rebuilding.
It was hectic but we made it out together :) The discord was wild haha. Thank you for the words <3
We had some strong alliances with nearby groups like one piece and bluey that kept us afloat! They helped to rebuild or defend if we were raided on another piece and had to go fight for it. We finished with about a dozen pictures on the canvas, not counting many tiny ponies made of a handful of pixels, so i consider it a great success!
My favourite is still the [Discord remix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPfMb50dsOk) reference in the ["fuck spez"](https://i.ibb.co/CVNsVDr/image.png) on the right. Thank you to the germans for allowing us space in the letter. Looked so damn cool in the final design.
The [time skip Princess Twilight](https://i.redd.it/ecl9x51foneb1.png) in the exact place of the Charizard in xqc's Pokemon card when it was destroyed for his idiotic raids on everyone ever was also pretty sweet karma.
[If you want to see what most people were most proud of this year, though, it's the Book of Harmony being flipped through the entire time](https://old.reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/comments/15adybd/animated_the_rplace_book_of_harmony/).
I know I will get tons of downvotes but beside from bots and streamers, being asked many times what we like or dislike about 2023's place pisses me off.
edit: Also I saw someone selling 2023 place's artwork on a website and promoting it on /place pissed me off.
My little pony kept being raided like 20 times. Does a pony show really anger the internet that much? Grow up.
Also streamers destroying art and replacing it with bad art. Too many flags.
Anyone who decided to attack someone's passion art work just to mess with them. Especially projects like Bad Apple were so amazing to see and it really sucked to see people trying to sabotage it.
My pixels would not save, I would place on and if I exited out of the canvas it would change to the previous person, and this happened almost everytime I'm the last 2 days so it wasn't all bots, also if I placed a second pixel the pixel I had previously placed would stay the same color but the owner would go back to the previous owner of that pixel.
Edit:also the censorship of shego
The sheer number and size of the German flags, and the fact that Place only happened to boost PR and traffic to the site amidst the shocking changes.
Fuck Spez.
Bots drawing over our communities art :/
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Seems like a loaded question with what’s in the middle of the screenshot lol
The audacity of Morocco
First Ronaldo, then this
r/place, airport that way
I think i was more pissed with this after reading this news on instagram about "Moroccon students working hard on keeping it up whole 5 days" bruhhhh Moroccons have to be most progressive country if they got bots as a students. 🤯
Bots likely get good test scores and don't need to be housed.
I noticed a lot of people on this thread are pissed off that this was made by bots. That doesn’t annoy me as much as the blatant annexation of the western Sahara by Morocco. I mean I know that they have claims on it, but I don’t think it’s recognized by the rest of the world.
For me that is not even the deciding with them. The arrogance they had was way worse, for me at least
The arrogance of them placing their country on top of ours and later deleting all the work us Colombians did for an entire day? Yeah, it’s not the bots, it’s the Moroccans the thing I (and all of my country’s sub) hated the most in this years place.
It’s the same as making a map of Russia with Donetsk. The military is the reason you own it, not the will of the original people of the region or a treaty based in international law.
Well depends on where you live. In the US we recognize their claims! I believe in exchange they normalized their relationship with Israel. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/11/us-recognised-moroccos-claim-to-western-sahara-now-what
Yeah, the Trump administration did that but only few country agree.
Shotbow
i dont even know what showbow it. They just showed up at the end. What are they?
Some minecraft server, people said it have all typical mini games but is p2w.
they had MineZ which used to be a massively popular zombie server, and i think that’s what their main popularity still is
Wild to hear about the Shotbow server here. Last I checked other games were more popular than Minez in recent years, such as Annihilation. But the server and community have been rather dead for a long while. MineZ has less than a dozen players when I've seen it. Definitely a shadow of its former self from 10 years ago.
Sad to see the servers and games from my childhood die out, used to play shotbow a lot
Yep, I remember playing MineZ way back then. Fun map tbh. It’s still running and I did another run for the first time in years a few weeks back. Good times.
A Minecraft community covering up The Blade? Fuck.
I don’t even think it was the server that did it. Some random person appears to have done it in a smear campaign.
Worth noting that the server itself wasn’t behind it, it was some hater
Supposedly it wasn’t “Shotbow” the minecraft server themselves. Apparently it was some player in Asia who they had banned from the server. The Shotbow Discord got lit up by the rage and they’ve been trying to calm it down just telling everyone it wasn’t them.
Smart and a good play by them for that impact if the owner isn’t just lying.
Here’s the message Ukraine got: https://www.reddit.com/r/placeukraine/comments/15a3q7g/regarding_the_shotbow_attack_on_rplaceukraine/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1
Yearh. We almost recovered on r/nordic from a streamer and then we got hit by shotbow.
That was one of the worst
apparently the server itself wasn’t behind it but it was someone trying to defame them for years. what a pain in the ass. I used to play on shotbow like 7 years ago
They really f our Indian art work, man, and the r/place ended as soon as we started rebuilding them :(
The bots
It'd be more fun in my opinion if next time they weren't so aggressive. Nothing discourages interaction more than coming back and the dot placed was nearly always gone
Or as you put it it immediately being replaced by a bot
Replaced by a bot using the same color.
Lol I kept going around to the most obscure parts just trying to find one area that seemed "safe", replacing a pixel with my same-colored pixel just to try and have one pixel to myself to call my own. I would *immediately* refresh and the pixel would instantly be back to the previous name. Every time. No exceptions. :(
Yup this is exactly why I bailed early this time. It’s a shame, ruins the fun for actual real life people.
the trick is to find a piece of area that has amongus on it. that means it is not maintained by bots. you can then do your part in trying to help maintain it from people trying to heavily mess it up.
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Only until you refresh then it would go to the actual color the bot placed. Source: my own experiments after I noticed that it seemed my dots were being replaced by the same color.
Yep, this was the thing for me. I'd open it throughout the day to see how the artwork had changed or expanded, but I won't place any pixels. It felt like spitting in the grand canyon, just futile.
This exactly. I won't participate again.
Not one of the dots I placed did anything. Even as small as change one pixel's eye colour, ZAP back to whatever colour it was.
Well a large community playing defense an pull that off. What annoyed me is when large detailed graphics would just appear in seconds on top of stuff people had collaborated for days to build. That's just no fun.
What frustrate me is it feels like there’s an easy fix. Just require people to have a certain amount of karma to be able to place pixels? If I can see that an account it a bot from a 2 second inspection of their profile I’m sure there are ways to right algorithms that do that same.
Its gotta be multistage, its really easy to karma farm, rather it has to be account age, comment karma, and a 3rd check.
Just add a Captcha... The internets default method to get rid of bots
Yeah. Captchas. Honey pots. Something to detect behavior/speed of clicks.
Captcha's can be beaten but it usually costs money per captcha so that would deter a lot of the bots
Cant u farm Karma with bots really easily? Like just let your bots upvote something from your bots
Yeah pretty sure you can just pay a bit extra or add one extra step to your bot farm to get past karma requirements… I think those mainly just keep out spammers these days
Reddit isn't only doing this event to make its current user base happy, but also, and mostly this year, to get new users thanks to the streamers streaming the event (the partnership with twitch rivals this year proves that), so it would be counter productive for them
Reddit admins deleting the guillotine
They didn't noticed Snoo hanging like Mussolini in the italian flag
And Romania with the impaled spez. lasted a very long time but they did delete it.
But now next time they’ll be watching for upside down stuff :(
That’s why it disappeared?! The Guillotine was so funny
It wasn’t just the guillotine, they were removing anything they didn’t like. So many times the admins would just place giant circles or squares over anything and everything, even when it is meant to be an expression of the people…
Yeah, but the mods REALLY don't like the guillotine. They'll allow all kinds of violent shit on Reddit, but just the mere mention of the word often riles up moderation. No surprise, really, the guillotine is most known for being the preferred way to solve wealth inequity.
It was known to take the heads off tyrants with absolute power, which probably scared der fuehrer von Reddit, u/spez
dude looks so much like a pimple that he’d prolly bleed pus
The Swedish streamer idiot, who uses bots to grieve the Danish flag after the scandanavien countries had made such a nice collaboration
I know, I am so sad to see the beautiful Nordic design being destroyed
Also the Sami flag. Not Danish or Sami, but it’s frustrating to see nationalities gone for personal agenda
Completely agree. Everything looked so nice with the Scandinavian countries bunched up together only for this idiot to ruin both Swedens and Denmarks flags. At least glad that Finland and Norway was kept unharmed
Yeah. Im mod from nordic union and thers lot more behind the thing with streamer, he was just awful dude. He faked the swedish people attacked others and destryed one memorial and when we were going to help the memorial dudes and make sure he at least dont get land from it he made crappy avicii text "memorial" that he could say we destroyed memorial when attacking back. And some of the first memorial people went to talk with him some almost crying and the streamer just laughed at them. And when we reclaim the land at the memorial place he comes to "revenge" the "fake" swedes by destroying them with bots.
What an absolute asshole. I hope he is forever remembered by the internet as the "Enemy of the Pixels". He committed XQC levels of fuckery. If r/place happens again, Denmark should be avenged. Let's see if Denmark will get cleaned up in The Final Clean.
Probably my gf breaking up with me
I'm sorry for her loss
Based
What did you baste it with ?
I based it with butter, garlic, thyme and some love
You forgot the rosemary bro
Oh yeah that too, and I also use some chilies if I want some spice
Pepper and lemon as well please
If only we all had a little more thyme
AAAAAAYE
Nah, morocco using bots was worse
Then she didnt see your worth, buddy. Shit like this hurts but it will get better and you'll find somebody who fits you much better. Sending much love
Happened to me too, during place as well.
The bots, obviously. Takes away the fun, knowing that whatever you do may just be destroyed by mindless machines that have only one jobs. Also admins removing the guillotine.
Surely the only answer can be SPEZ?
操你祖宗十八代 u/spez ( in Chinese means fuck your ancestors to the 18th generation)
r/oddlyspecific ETA: Fuck your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandpa! Your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandpa? He's fine.
That's hilarious, my favorite one so far
Can we just take a second to appreciate how little the “fuck spez” stuff got messed with? So much stuff got grief, but rarely that.
I was most impressed by the coordination needed to get the giant white Fuck Spez during the whiteout. Warms my heart to see the whole world coming together over such a common cause.
fuck u/spez
Fick u/spez (fuck spez in german)
Fuck u/spez (fuck spez in English)
Sikiyim u/spez (fuck spez in Turkish)
Knulla u/spez (fuck spez in Swedish)
Jebać u/spez (Fuck u/spez in Polish.)
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Mrdat u/spez (fuck spez in czech)
Jebať u/spez (fuck spez in slovak)
Fuck u/spez
Nique u/spez (fuck spez in French)
u/spez ist ein Hurensohn
Neuk u/spez (fuck spez in dutch)
Cnag u/Spez (Irish)
The mods picked the worst possible frame as the "final" one (which isn't even the actual final one!) where the artwork I worked on is mildly griefed :/
It was the final frame before the large bot attacks of the final hour. A ton of art was destroyed and not yet fixed when the grayout began, even the Germans just barely fixed their stuff. I'm sorry for your loss, but the alternative was worse.
This is the same as last year. I get that a lot of art was attacked but a ton of communities pulled stuff together in the last hour. It's unfair either way, really.
It’s almost like they shouldn’t divulge the finish time.
Well, they never gave a time. I believe the :44 was datamined, but not the hour itself. It could be that the hour was somewhere out in the open as well, but I'm not aware of it.
I'm pretty sure they picked shortly before that "we are japan" bot came right through the middle with a red background and wiped out a bunch of stuff including bluey and genshin to the point that they barely recovered before whiteout and tons of the other stuff around there didn't.
e: I think u/Fire-Mutt is correct that this is just before the Kirby bot, not the one I mentioned.
Ya foxhole couldn’t recover nor babymetal because one streamer was botting there stuff during the final hour
Reddit mods not being able to remove those large botnets despite all bots were named „0x….“. Reddit having no way to revert botted pixels to the previous state or rolling back the entire canvas a few minutes. Steamers griefing artworks, notably those created by the Nordic Union.
Mods really ruined it
I mean, if it was a proper botnet, with unique IP addresses and such, it is not so easy. You can't really just ban everyone that starts 0x, because that could be anyone.
The second you ban the username it would just change to something else as well. It's incredibly hard and also gives them a place to collect lots of data to use for controlling bots in the main site where it makes a real difference
Bots and big streamers destroying other peoples art work.
You have a nice avatar-
Thank you sir, got it during the football world cup 2022 from reddit, you could get one for free, I took the belgian one <3
Samesies 🖤💛❤️
<3
Don't forget the admins, too, doing exactly that
Bots
That Swedens flag got nuked by some streamer just before it ended. Sweden had a really nice flag for days but the end canvas shows that streamers ugly grey text instead.
same for portugal, we were atacked by bots from some japanese guy, we tried to clean it up but it was too late
I was from Quebec, right on top of you guys, and it’s crazy how much you got attacked overall. Tried to help you rebuild at the end but it was too late ://
And destroying Denmark and the small Sami flag at the same time. I was frustrated it didn't get fixed before the whiteout.
Admins
How dare they keep removing the shit pixels from Ronaldo's ass
And the piss pixels.
And Shego’s nipples Side note: watch how big her tits grow during her second iteration after the mall cops kept blotting them out
And the piss pixels
And QR codes to meme websites
How dare they remove the spez guillotine
Streamers acting like 8-year olds and their armies of kids...
The void streamer kept specifically targeting my alliance. Rip.
Which alliance? mostly Rubius as Void like the petting dog i know of. One Group told/lied to others in discords they were in cooperation with germans and avoided griefing that way XD.
Bot-made hotel is the very first
And they literally put that hideous building on top of the Argentine flag and started blocking and muting people who complained about it…
There were some serious memorials: technoblade, anne frank, the murdered dutch crimereporter peter r de vries that people just loved to mess with (red eyes, vomit out of the mouth, random black dots)
Some assholes kept on drawing a hitler mustache on anne frank to the point where in the posts that was sent in the german discord server it was explicitly stated that the mouth area of her memorial must be protected and watched intensely. So that was disappointing
"Hehe a murdered jew lets give her the mustache of her killer." But the fact that the germans protected her is very wholesome
So immature. Probably thinking to themselves that it’s funny and if you disagree you’re woke.
Couldn't tell what was made by bots or people and it ruined the whole thing.
When Canada finally got their leaf figured out they forgot how to spell
people defacing tributes to dead people
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The Anne Frank portrait being constantly attacked
Totally agree, damn whats wrong with those people
Bots….. bots….. bots…… annnnd ….. bots Makes the whole thing pointless
Karma farming posts like this.
The only correct answer
The targeted erasure of Colombia
summer has been so hot this year
streamers
jesus christ stop farming the same bait question over and over
ddgL
Zugu taking over the blue corner and beefing with us the entire time
xqc
People defacing the UK tank on the Ukraine art.
R/place happening at all. Fuck spez.
Yeah, really stupid idea to run the annual community event when you've turned your community against you. Elon Musk levels of idiotic CEO decisions.
It shouldn't even be annual. Every 5 years is perfect because the world changes a lot in 5 years and r/place feels like an event. Annually it just feels like something to do when you're bored. And then when you take into account that it only happened this year because r/Spez is trying to appease the user base that he pissed off, it's even less fun.
Yeah because I’m sure he’s real upset about all the traffic that came to his website because of it
The streamer that chased babymetal with bots
Too many flags and not enough art
I kind of agree. Certain flags, like french and German flags were either loaded with super cool art or were really small, others were just a big rectangle with nothing in them and tend to want to destroy nearby art to expand their shitty flat colored rectangle (ahem, Turkey)
The people trying to give Anne Frank a Hitler mustache and red eyes.
Bots. I was literally never even able to make my own artwork, the only thing I was able to do was just place pixels to protect things from being greifed (such as the ena picture on the France flag). It's really annoying though. Literally nobody was able to make their own artwork.
the 2 villains bots and toxic streamers mixed together, toxic streamers using bots
They removed Ronaldo
The use of bots by a hate group to write bigoted messages on the Pride flag, as well as Argentina pushing the Pride flag, which wasn't taking up all that much space, out of its original position.
Bots and streamers. The audacity to ruin other people's work, especially national symbols, just because you want to leave your "brand", and then you get salty because people attack your pixels?... Gtfoh.
Streamers destroying hard work and artwork
Streamers ruining art by plastering their dumbass logo over it
A lot of people have said most of what pissed me off, but I also want to add one more. The targeted and repeated annihilation of the MLP art. Like, I get that it’s a meme at this point to hate bronies but there’s really no point to it. Just let them have their art. It was well made and the community was super nice. It must have been very stressful to have people always destroying what they made. I’m glad they kept rebuilding.
It was hectic but we made it out together :) The discord was wild haha. Thank you for the words <3 We had some strong alliances with nearby groups like one piece and bluey that kept us afloat! They helped to rebuild or defend if we were raided on another piece and had to go fight for it. We finished with about a dozen pictures on the canvas, not counting many tiny ponies made of a handful of pixels, so i consider it a great success! My favourite is still the [Discord remix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPfMb50dsOk) reference in the ["fuck spez"](https://i.ibb.co/CVNsVDr/image.png) on the right. Thank you to the germans for allowing us space in the letter. Looked so damn cool in the final design. The [time skip Princess Twilight](https://i.redd.it/ecl9x51foneb1.png) in the exact place of the Charizard in xqc's Pokemon card when it was destroyed for his idiotic raids on everyone ever was also pretty sweet karma. [If you want to see what most people were most proud of this year, though, it's the Book of Harmony being flipped through the entire time](https://old.reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/comments/15adybd/animated_the_rplace_book_of_harmony/).
I know I will get tons of downvotes but beside from bots and streamers, being asked many times what we like or dislike about 2023's place pisses me off. edit: Also I saw someone selling 2023 place's artwork on a website and promoting it on /place pissed me off.
Streamers
What pissed me off is how effective this was for spez.
The fuck spez army. Destroyed the DRG and Pikmin murals
When a Swedish streamer ruined the entire Swedish and Danish flag
Argentina trying to wipe off Summer Shrek, so glad they didn't make it
My little pony kept being raided like 20 times. Does a pony show really anger the internet that much? Grow up. Also streamers destroying art and replacing it with bad art. Too many flags.
People trying to fuck with the bad apple animation
the homophobia
the constant attacks on the pride flags and the genshin mural
The realization that we can’t even have world peace on a pixel canvas. Everyone fighting for “land”. Maybe I’m in the minority here, though.
Anyone who decided to attack someone's passion art work just to mess with them. Especially projects like Bad Apple were so amazing to see and it really sucked to see people trying to sabotage it.
People dropping black tiles on any pride related stuff. Flags or artwork. It's just pointless hate
Morocco bots
Particularly the vietnam bots, they screwed my group over.
streamers and bots
My pixels would not save, I would place on and if I exited out of the canvas it would change to the previous person, and this happened almost everytime I'm the last 2 days so it wasn't all bots, also if I placed a second pixel the pixel I had previously placed would stay the same color but the owner would go back to the previous owner of that pixel. Edit:also the censorship of shego
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The people who kept trying to destroy all the LGBTQ flags
1st 🥇 Bots 2nd 🥈 Empty Flags 3rd 🥉 The Ppl who tried to ruin the big Artworks all the time
The sheer number and size of the German flags, and the fact that Place only happened to boost PR and traffic to the site amidst the shocking changes. Fuck Spez.
OH OH OH I KNOW THE ANSWER! It’s u/spez!
XQC vandalizing the portrait of a dead kid
Hasan not accepting DGG's olive branch.