What is r/Place?[]
r/Place stands out as a unique subreddit due to its interactive and collective nature. Unlike other subreddits, r/Place features a massive canvas measuring 500 square pixels, initially devoid of content. However, the distinctive aspect lies in its approach – every user can contribute to the canvas by placing a single colored pixel every seven minutes.
This concept has fostered a sense of community among various groups, including the QSMP community. Participants from around the Reddit platform come together to collectively create expansive artwork, utilizing the canvas as their shared playground. Through synchronized efforts, they craft intricate and large-scale designs pixel by pixel, exemplifying the power of collaboration.
The inception of this subreddit dates back to 2017, but its most prominent iteration gained widespread popularity in the year 2022. This resurgence showcased the enduring appeal of the concept.
Why do we have a page for r/Place?[]
A main purpose of this page is to provide comprehensive information to the community about the r/Place subreddit, where community members came together in collaboration to create a drawing. This drawing features all the members and prominently displays the QSMP logo in the center.
The origin of this project dates back to a tweet from the Quackity Info account, which called upon its followers to actively participate. This call quickly spread among the members. The QSMP community showcased their unity as soon as the r/Place canvas was made available to the public, immediately commencing a range of individual and collaborative creations.
History[]
Day 1 (July 20)[]
After deciding to make something new, at 20:40 CET a "Kirby Fumando" came to existance on a blue rectangle of the r/Destiny teritory but was quickly lost to the other community. After the defeat, at 21:00 CET the community took over the Swedish flag to make the Madcat logo in the middle of it but very soon changed their tactic and under Rubius’ command began a different project: same logo but on r/Destiny space, stretching all the way out to the big French flag with a black line. After planning out the attacks the community attacked with full force at 21:10 CET and managed to hold the smile for almost two hours.
After abandoning the Madcat project at around 22:30 CET [check this one], the Goofy face fell victim to Rubius’ black virus but was left in peace after a few seconds, the community turning to focus on voiding the blue space under a Polish flag. As a result of taking a break to go through possible new designs and confer with allies, Rubius and Cellbit joined forces and the fight was resumed. After helping the Brazilian community with their flag at 23:30 CET, the communities moved to the space next to the Goofy face to execute Rubius’ project at 00:00 CET. They agree to defend Rubius’ demon face,the Brazilian flag, Cellbit’s symbols and the QSMP Corner at all times. At 00:15 CET Foolish joins the alliance and all three communities team up to make a sharkwall emote art above the Brazilian flag. At the same time Rubius’ community managed to make an alliance with r/Destiny. Rubius contacted Destiny after hearing he wanted an official alliance and got a deal to make one arm stretching across a corner of their territory.
At 00:50 CET the arms are going strong and since the Goofy face seems to be invincible and one of the arms had to go around it, Rubius decides to transform the design into a spider and make the legs more aranha shaped. While it’s being done, Cellbit’s community protects the demon's face. Forever joins the alliance and the space above the Brazilian flag is expanded. Then the communities unite in effort to fuck with France and put a sharkwall emote on their flag.
Around 01:35 CET Rubius left the call to confer with Silithur and Pol and rewatch the r/place timelapse until now. At 01:50 he returned to the call to exchange discord mods with Cellbit so that they can keep in touch to protect their projects and said goodbye as he was ending the stream. After last check on his demon-aranha, he ended the stream. Around 04:00 CET Goofy started surrendering to the demon-aranha and after some time was consumed completely.Starting by its face, Cellbit's community managed to quickly cover everything with black and set themselves on the canvas. With the area conquered, they started to orderly paint the symbol at the black block. Suddenly, at 18:05 BRT, a wave of invaders attempted to attack Cellbit's area with yellow colors, but didn't fall so easily and his community fiercely defended the area and hastily got back on track. Taking into account r/Brasil's flag was getting invaded by Furia[3], Cellbit astoundingly declared they'd defend once his community is done, as the only way the QSMP corner and r/Brasil would ever get attacked shall be over his corpse. When a Portuguese member in his stream chat threatened to attack Brazil, Cellbit warned him not to try anything funny, as Portugal would lose in a war against them. As well, he planned to help r/Brasil not only to build their flag, but also to expand it.
Around 18:15 BRT, Cellbit's symbol got attacked by a sudden wave of red, but they quickly defended one more time. Due to the frequent attacks, Cellbit split his community into two sides: one shall be for the area's defense, whilst another shall build, expand, and execute their plans on the canvas. When they got the Sigil of Fear nailed down, Cellbit told his community to draw the Blood, Death, Knowledge, and Energy Sigils[1] around the Fear one as well. However, before that, at 18:23 BRT, Cellbit got a message from r/Brasil's spokesman sharing they want to paint Brazil's flag to the side of Cellbit's area, so he quickly coordinated his community to execute their plans once they prototyped the other sigils. Not only that, but he also received a message directly from Rubius asking for an alliance, joining their communities together.
At 18:27 BRT, Rubius and Cellbit got into a voice call together and shared their plans with each other. Lending a hand one another, they united to execute their plans. 3 minutes later, they started to execute r/Brasil's plans. At 18:37 BRT, the void[4] attacked the flag, but they held it back. At 18:47 BRT, the Sigil of Death was concluded and Cellbit moved on to the Sigil of Energy. At 18:49 BRT, the Russians attacked r/Brasil's flag, but achieved nothing. At 18:53 BRT, Cellbit started the last sigil, the Sigil of Knowledge.
When it was 18:56 BRT, Cellbit was ready to execute Rubius' plans and they coordinated their communities to do so. At 19:15 BRT, Cellbit allied with Foolish upon taking notice of his plan. He then also joined the voice call Cellbit & Rubius were in. In the meantime, Cellbit made an agreement with Portugal to not attack its flag, in turn, they shall not be attacked as well.
At 19:36 BRT Cellbit coordinated his community to help with Forever's Richarlyson art. 10 minutes later, BadBoyHalo's avatar was being replaced by Skeppy's at the QSMP corner, but the trio and their communities helped defend, however, it took longer than expected. At 19:50 BRT, Quackity told them he's gonna join in as well and they were soon to be a bigger alliance. Although not together, at 19:56 BRT, Cellbit coordinated his community to help defend Felps' face and shared how he wants to write something in his area too.[5] Discussing with Foolish, Cellbit started to expand r/Brasil's flag up, alongside moving or taking over anything above it, including Foolish's emote.
At 20:00 BRT, Forever joined in the voice call with Cellbit, Foolish, and Rubius. Whilst they were expanding the flag, Uruguay, who had their flag taken over, took the opportunity to try and attack it, but failed. Cellbit agreed to open them a space for their flag later, because they're latino. As well, Cellbit went to talk with Wuant to collaborate with them to join Brazil's and Portugal's flag together. In talks with Wuant, Cellbit explained what's his and shall be defended, as well as coordinating to insert hearts between Brazil's and Portugal's flag, to demonstrate the alliance "Portugal + Brazil".
At 20:21 BRT Cellbit shared his plans for when the canvas expands, which is to make the logo of his game below the sigils and also a monster from it. As well, discussing with Rubius, they made plans to add Brazilian landmarks to r/Brasil's flag, starting by the Christ the Redeemer statue behind the flag's yellow rhomb. At 20:35 BRT, Cellbit coordinated his community to help Foolish rebuild his emote below Portugal's flag.
Once they had a reference to work with, at 20:42 BRT, Cellbit set his community to build the Christ statue. In the meantime, he gave his community settled over on his Discord server the job of decorating his Sigils. Taking notice of r/Uruguay being unable to finish their flag, dedicated to lend them a hand and finish it for them. At 20:54 BRT, Rubius left for the day and went to sleep.
Upon Forever's art being attacked by bots at 20:57 BRT, Cellbit quickly set the community to defend against them. Forever had the idea of expanding his area upwards and asked for Cellbit's help with it, which he agreed to and did so. At 21:03 BRT, Roier joined in the voice call and they planned to open an area for Roier above Forever's. At 21:13 BRT, Cellbit made an agreement with Deep Rock Galactic[6] to not attack them and vice versa.
Once Cellbit settled himself at the canvas and sorted everything out, he went out to play QSMP whilst his community over on Discord would be defending everything they did during the day.
Briefly, at 22:40 BRT, while making a pause to check r/Place before going back to the QSMP, upon learning Uruguay abandoned their area to move into a new one, Cellbit coordinated his community to make a Blood Zombie[7] and his logo where Uruguay used to be. This was a strategy move made by Cellbit to prevent some other community from taking over the area and maybe use it as a way to invade the nearby ones, which are all allied with him.At exactly 20:00 BRT, Felps shared how he wants to expand his area, planning to write "Vugnaes sreo"[8] below the face. 8 minutes later, he coordinated his community to expand their area. 25 minutes later, they plotted to change the face of the person at the French flag to the "Carinha" and somehow, eventually they got it.
After, at 20:38 BRT, he told his community to move the face to the center of their newly expanded area. Once they were done, they started to write "Vugnaes sreo" below it. Succeeding, they decorated the area with black dots. Unnoticed, his community also managed to hide a bunch of Swedish flags below, including the Swedish national football team emblem. Noticing it, he quickly and quietly told his community to not touch them and even left a white border around it.
At 21:13 BRT, Felps started to expand their area downwards to be able to start building the next big project, this being a huge Brazilian flag right above Portugal's. At 21:24 BRT, they started to expand the area's left border so they'd be able to write Vugnaes sreo.
During the expansion, at 21:29 BRT, they discovered a hidden Finnish flag and emblem under the yellow of Portugal's flag. Although they felt sorry for it, Felps decided to destroy them to expand the area and start the Brazilian flag.
After that, they started expanding the area upwards, towards Portugal's flag. 4 minutes later, at 21:37 BRT, Felps got the confirmation that Cellbit and Portugal's flag were allied and they were free to build and expand the area around their flags. Now that they could continue, they plotted to continue expanding upwards to build the Brazilian flag, alongside preparing everything for the national anthem to be written below it, as well as a white border above.
At 21:49 BRT, Portugal started moving downwards and Felps' community also expanded its area to the left. 4 minutes later, they plotted to write "Vugnaes sreo" below the border that was to be made. At 22:10 BRT, Felps called the alliance he, Cellbit, Foolish, Forever, Roier, and Quackity formed "Brasil" and at 22:12, he posted on his Twitter account asking his fans to defend the Brazilian flag. At 22:30 BRT, he and his community started to actually build the Brazilian flag, starting from the top.
At 22:50 BRT, Felps' community successfully completed the first line of the Brazilian flag, moving down from now on. Shortly after, at 22:58 BRT, Felps took a break to shower and eat. Around 01:00 BRT, Felps returned to the canvas and took a moment to appreciate the progress of the Brazilian flag. At 02:23 BRT, he left for a break again, and his community continued building the flag in his absence.
At 03:50 BRT, Felps returned once more and coordinated his community to continue building the Brazilian flag. He was amazed by the progress they had made during his absence. After that, he continued streaming and leading his community's efforts to build and defend the Brazilian flag.At 19:13 CDT, Foolish and his community started working on their next big project, which was a Minecraft Enderman character. They created a pixel art representation of the Enderman's face, and Foolish was excited about how it was turning out. He continued building and defending his art against attacks from other communities.
At 20:08 CDT, Foolish noticed a wave of blue attacking his Enderman art, likely from the French community. He rallied his viewers to defend the art and make sure it remained intact. He was grateful for the support from his community in defending the art he was creating.
Throughout the evening, Foolish focused on building and maintaining his Enderman art. He interacted with his viewers, discussed plans for the future, and shared his excitement about being a part of the r/Place event. He continued streaming until late into the night, dedicated to his project and the collaborative canvas effort.Day 2 (July 21)[]
At 21:05 CET Rubius returned, already victorious to see the demon still on the canvas. After a small correction of its placement, at 21:20 CET the design was powerfully attacked by a white void of the Turkish community. The fight was long and brutal, requiring planning out and attacking in waves. Around 21:30 it seems like the effort payed off because white pixels no longer appear and Rubius' community can resume working on the shape of the skull. At 21:33 CET a blue attack is launched at the art but is covered by black and red in no time. At 21:40 CET the project is fenced off wit a thick red line and work on the demon’s arms begins, at 22:00 CET the tentacles reaching far in all directions. Since the project is safe for now, the community decides to go for the right big French flag along with the flag stripes of Germany and Spain. At 22:10 CET an alliance with the neighbouring "doggy team" is formed. They help with invading France and Rubius’ community help them with painting their background white. At 22:14 CET the demon is attacked by a white void but the raid is dealt with quickly.
To celebrate the most recent alliance an arm petting the dog is added to the demon’s design.
At 22:20 CET a very strong French attack is launched at the artwork and Rubius contacts Cellbit to ask him for help. At 22:25 France starts to expand, extending a blue stripe from their flag through the demon. With the two communities working together the project is saved at around 22:30 CET. After receiving an information about a German attack planned at 22:30 CET, Rubius and Cellbit direct all their forces to defend the demon, Rubius calling Roier up as well. It seems to be the most major attack since the beginning, the blue void eating the skull alive for solid five minutes, even managing to form a French flag there for a while.
At 22:35 CET Rubius receives a notice from the One Piece community. They want to help him with the demon if Rubius’ community helps them with their own design. At 22:43 CET another blue wave of attack is directed at the demon but it doesn’t last more than two minutes as the defense is strong. At 22:52 CET the blue pixels attack for the third time, this time it's dealt with in seconds. After that the community continues their work of making the arm petting the dog. At 23:00 CET a new addition to the project is introduced (a small “r/ubius” on red background with an orange cat - Wilson) and Roier joins the call to help with it. When the community focuses on that, one more blue wave is launched at the demon along with a “Ratio” that appears and disappears in seconds (bots). At 23:12 CET the attack repeated, this time the inscription saying “RATIO” all caps. With Roiers help the situation is handled with ease. Also, a small Mexican axolotle is now under Rubius’ and his community’s protection.
At 23:16 CET Roier’s and Rubius’ community united to mess with the osu! logo and make it say “ozuna”. More blue attacks were pushed back at 23:20 CET and 23:40 CET. At 23:28 a great war for the axolotle commences, Rubius protecting it from the expanding Belgium flag, and is won around 23:40 CET as the Belgium community leaves the animal on their flag despite the expansion. At 23:30 CET Rubius helps defending Cellbit's “Enigma Do Medo” logo. At 23:52 a thin yellow line appeares, going through the whole square of the demon and further up the canvas but is quickly erased, unfortunately along with Wilson who has to be rebuilt.
[VOD 5:35 - end]The first attack was taking over a giant part of the canvas next to the QSMP related content, where he placed dozens of little black squares to mark out territory, and the defenders couldnt even try to resist. Suddendly, a part of Rubius' skull started attacking, not knowing that it was Cellbit's work. Cellbit called rubius ad told him that everything was on his control, when Rubius oticed that he was beig attacked. The attack was huge and almost couldn't be handled by Cellbit and Rubius' community together, but it calmed down rapidly, after the attackers were out of pixels.
After the time they took to defend the skull, Cellbit separated his chat in four groups, according to their months of birth and told the first group to take over the place that was taken back from the original owners, where cellbit wanted to make his game panel. The attack was done easily, since there was fourty thousand people in the livestream at that moment, and the defenders couldn't even try to resist. The war was hard, since other communities joined after, but were easily stopped by the group method Cellbit did before.
Cellbit pulled up a promotional image for his game and told the first group to start building it. It was a zombie with the name of the game in the background, people started to build its shape really quickly, when Rubius entered the call and asked if Cellbit was being attacked (Since he a lot of red pixels were being put suddendly), and he said no. Roier joined the call and they started to write "Enigma do Medo" in the background of the zombie. After the completion of the zombie, Cellbit started playing minecraft.
After a long day of QSMP, Cellbit went back again into the r/Place subreddit, but now with one intention in mind: Do a little trolling; He firstly started to turn the r/HastuneMiku space into Wilbur Soot's face, then made Ramón's mustache into SpreenDMC's space, and did more. This was pretty quick, then he logged off again to play horror games for the rest of his stream.At around 22:00 BRT, Felps coordinated his community to draw a capybara at the bottom-right of r/Brasil's flag, quickly finishing it in less than 10 minutes. Succeeding, r/Brasil asked help to redraw the Christ statue and Felps' community hastily got to it.
At around 22:15 BRT, Felps got the idea to "Walrus"[9] Cellbit. So, upon deciding on the location, they started to draw the walrus frame from the Attack-on-Pingu[9] meme at the top of the right-side French flag. However, it proved to be a hassle, as the French had a very strong defense. So, at 22:20 BRT, the relocated to the Indian flag, as it already had green on it and would be easier to draw the frame there. At, 22:30 BRT, the community warned Cellbit about "Felps' new drawing" and, oblivious to what it was, got Walrus'd looking into it.
At 23:05 BRT, as if they weren't helpless already, Felps went to mess with Canada's flag and draw Frog Detective[10] on it.
At 23:30 BRT, Felps had the brilliant idea of flipping the Carinha upside down. Not only that, after they were done, the Felps' community went on a streak to flip many other arts around the canvas. Subsequently, Felps went on to flip the Osu![11] logo, then MeiaUm's[12] logo, and afterwards, his pixel art caricature in Forever's area. Amidst all of this, Felps flipped his stream as well. Next, he went to flip Cellbit's logo in one of his areas, but not upside down, as a "C" is a "C" regardless, so he flipped it horizontally. Succeeding, he flipped the Stardew Valley[13] area. After, he flipped one of Goularte's[14] areas. Then he flipped the Blue Corner upside down, and not long after the Hollow Knight's[15] main character. Very much alike, he then flipped Omori.[16] Somewhere along the way, Felps also changed the fox sleeping on top of Genshin Impact's[17] logo to be hanging by its paws at the logo's bottom. Finally, he flipped Toby Fox[18] before ending his stream and ending the day at 04:35 BRT.Day 3 (July 22)[]
At 19:50 CET execution of a new project begins, an artistic collaboration of r/ubius and r/onepiece. The plan is to place it on the French territory on the bottom left of the canvas with the help of Germany and Russia as a newly formed alliance. Attack waves are planned out and at 20:05 CET it looks like the end of France has begun. The whole flag is now covered in colorful pixels and at 20:08 CET French community admits defeat, however at 20:15 CET a new information is revealed - r/onepiece has contacted France, a treason not confirmed but still a suspicious act. At 20:20 CET a red accusation “rubius bots” appeares on the forming art, showing the power Rubius’ community holds. French flag keeps disappearing slowly but surely. When the space on the canvas is relatively well established at 20:45 CET Rubius delegates a part of the community to help other flags expanding on the French one. At 21:35 CET, after a long and dull battle, the design starts to take the shape of the reference picture. At that time the left French flag is almost completely consumed by a black void, Germany and other communities.
At 21:50 CET the design is almost done and safe, Rubius enters a call with Quackity, Roier and Cellbit. The community can now take a breath and chill for a few minutes, taking that time to prank Roier by making his Pinguino Rojo Culon poop (a lot). Part of the French flag appears back but isn’t expanding to where it was before. The arms of El Ente petting the dog are back around 22:10 CET, the horns are fixed again as well. At 22:30 CET some help is given to one of the flags being attacked back by France as well as to Spreen’s project. At 22:23 CET bots start attacking the demon but are quickly noticed and fended off. At 22:37 CET one horn of the demon is extended to link with Canada's maple leaf, another bot inscription appears on the design but doesn’t last longer than a few seconds.
At 22:40 CET Cellbit joins the call and invites Rubius to a war, carefully not wanting to say any specifics yet though. After leaving a call for a few minutes to help Silithur with defending the Spanish flag, then also lending a hand to the Egyptian flag, he returns to Cellbit and the three of them briefly speak about what’s gonna happen now. Cellbit carries on with his war against the right french flag and Rubius directs his forces to prevent the left one from expanding. Forever joins the call and Rubius fills him in on what is going on. At 23:00 CET a German streamer, Papaplatte, wants to speak with Rubius who reaches back to contact him and adds him to the discord call at 23:15 CET. France is going down again, both flags being consumed by a black void. At 23:10 CET the left French flag is gone completely, a part of the right one following thanks to Cellbit’s community. Papaplatte says he wants to remove the right French flag entirely and invites others to a big attack planned at 23:20 CET. After everyone prepares their pixels, the battle begins, with the common effort a part of the flag voided in seconds. After a short break to help a CS:GO logo at 23:25 CET, another attack is launched at the French, leaving the space that once was a tricolored flag completely black. Asterix and Obelix, who were severely damaged by the war, are rebuilt, however one of El Ente’s arms is extended to consume Asterix. Since Rubius told his community to respect the drawing, it seems like it might be someone else attacking the cartoon character.
At 23:30 CET the communities leave the ruins remaining after the war and focus on the black square left after the destruction. Rubius and Papaplatte start making a Kim Possible girl there.Taking advantage of the streamers being distracted with their new works, parts of the French flags start to come back at around 23:40 CET. At 23:45 CET a thin demon arm is extended next to Cellbit’s creature to make a spider web there. At 23:47 CET Kim Possible girl breaks out of PG control and Papaplatte has to hold back his community a bit but the hell seems to have broken free already, the girl soon given up and surrendered to the void community. At 23:50 CET Rubius goes back to his demon to focus on extending the virus arms.
At 00:00 CET Papaplatte invites Rubius and Cellbit to his idea of making the star on a Turkish flag a sexy Patrick who manages to stay there surprisingly long. At 00:05 CET Rubius leaves the call and decides on destroying the Canadian flag to change it into a Spanish one. He also helps Cellbit find a representative of the Chilean community and asks them to stop attacking the Chume Labs logo. At around 00:20 CET the community cleans out a square and starts making a HUH emote next to the blue corner. At 00:47 CET Rubius notices a Wilson art near an Indian flag was destroyed and the cat is quickly brought back. As the Canadian flag returned to its place, another attack is launched at it at 00:50 CET, blacking it out again. At 1:00 CET a KEKW emote takes its place.
At 01:05 CET the canvas expands upwards. Rubius, Cellbit and Forever join forces to grab and secure some space for their future drawings. Rubius, with Cellbit’s and Silihtur’s help, starts with making Dragonito (Charizard with a Spanish flag in the background) in the top right corner. At 01:25 CET Rubius comes forward with a proposition to the One Piece community. He wants their help with Dragonito in exchange for his help with the next One Piece project.
At 02:02 CET he asked the Germans to retreat from the space initially taken by Forever and let the Brazilian community do their things. At 2:15 CET, after some calmer time, the community gets back to work and starts helping r/onepiece with their huge new project. After bringing El Ente’s Wilson back to existence at 02:28 CET, the community chooses chaos and helps expand the newly forming void already covering a part on the recent expansion. After reviewing all of the work that was done today and a quick call with one of the German streamers regarding the Brazilian territory, Rubius ends the stream.Day 4 (July 23)[]
Day 5 (July 24)[]
Day 6 (July 25)[]
Progress Screenshots[]
Close Up of July 22, 2023 at 6:30pm EST[]
Close up of July 23, 2023 at 2:30 pm EST[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Sigils are symbols from Cellbit's RPG series and game "Enigma do Medo" (Enigma of Fear).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 NymN is a very popular twitch streamer and beloved by Cellbit himself.
- ↑ Furia is a Brazilian eSports team.
- ↑ The Void is one of r/Place communities. They have no concrete plans but to vandalize and destroy arts around the canvas.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 The Carinha is an emoticon ('-') Felps frequently uses as his trademark.
- ↑ Deep Rock Galactic is a Danish cooperative first-person shooter game.
- ↑ The Blood Zombie is one of the creatures from Ordem Paranormal.
- ↑ "Vugnaes sreo" is literally just someone writing something really wrong that Felps and his community adopted as a meme.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Being friends for so long, along the years Felps and Cellbit developed the tradition of pranking one another, in a similar fashion to the Rickroll, with a meme from the Pingu Walrus episode. One can only "Walrus" each other once per place, which got them into this race of Walrusing one another before the other does so.
- ↑ Frog Detective is a series of short comedy/mystery games where you're a detective and a frog.
- ↑ Osu! is a very popular free-to-play rythm game and of r/Place's biggest communities.
- ↑ MeiaUm is a Brazilian content-creator, musical artist, and very close friend of Felps.
- ↑ Stardew Valley is a country-life simulation RPG game.
- ↑ Goularte is a Brazilian content-creator.
- ↑ Hollow Knight is a 2D side-scrolling metroidvania game.
- ↑ Omori is both a RPG game and the main character's name in said game.
- ↑ Genshin Impact is an action role-playing game.
- ↑ Toby Fox is a video game developer and the creator of both Undertale and Deltarune.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/feeeelps/status/1682859209006759937