Place 01:40 CEST
Place 01:40 CEST
I have only one thing to say:
lmao
I mean I do analytics on site engagement metrics professionally, like as my FTE job that pays me money, and based on that and past instances of r/place, I can make an educated guess that:
They were desperate to improve July usage numbers because projections were looking shitty after the events of the past month.
r/place has traditionally been a good way to juice engagement numbers
They pulled a lever they knew would generate the results they needed
Is it temporary? Sure. But this buys them some time and August's numbers are August's problem.
Here's are the stats from a previous instance of r/place:
Social platform Reddit re-introduced its collaborative social experiment r/Place on April 1, leading to the highest daily active users (DAUs) its mobile app has ever seen
So yeah, they'll get the juice they need, probably, but the fact that they were compelled to even need to pull that lever says a lot, imo.
Happy to see everyone working together.
Also, Bluey.
BEEF COCK GALACTIC
FOR KARL
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^ please tell me if this shows up, if not, [insert dicaprio clapping gif here]
ah.
fuck!
You need to write this

I'm not sure where they got their information, but The Independent says
Reddit Place is set to continue for the next four days, allowing users to contribute to its evolving creation.
Earlier on the French flag they had constructed a massive guillotine that was coming down on a Snoo’s head with Spez wrote on its face.
Then you started seeing large blobs being put over it where admins/mods were trying to blot it out.
I’m pretty sure it’s not just the mods/admins.
Some kind of void creature was forming earlier and it got whited out by a bot army.
I know, that is why I said
I’m pretty sure it’s not just the mods/admins.
Blotting shit out.
I’ve participated in that thing since the beginning and was kinda sad to miss it this time until now.
Hahahahahahaha. It’s beautiful.
r/place was special enough to me that it was the only reason I stopped at deleting my content, instead of full-on deleting my account.
It just feels so hollow this year. Not sure if its all the anger, the clear repetition for corporate motives, or both.
This.
We need and organized campaign to turn this into a giant advert for Reddit alternatives.
Reddit doesn’t care that people are writing fuck spez, they care that traffic is up.
We need to make this back fire and drive traffic away from Reddit.
It’s like, what were they expect?
Traffic and attention. Looks like it's working.