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r/place was Reddit's April Fools joke for 2017. Basically, it was a 1000 x 1000 pixel blank 'canvas'. Anyone with a more-than-a-month-old Reddit account could place a pixel on the canvas in one of 16 colors, but they then had to wait 5 minutes before placing another pixel. The idea was to encourage people to work together and create something.
It was pretty popular, there were a bunch of 'factions' trying to make different things, etc. If you want to know more about that just YouTube search "history of r/place".
r/place was shut down after 72 hours, almost immediately after that remakes started popping up like weeds.
r/place's slogan was 'Individually you can create something. Together we can create something more.'
...problem is, most people just banded together into little tribes. Kinda like life.
r/place by sapodilla June 19, 2017
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Social experiment carried out by Reddit in 2017 and 2022 (...) around April Fools, where every user could "paint" one pixel every five minutes on a 1000×1000 (and later expanding) canvas. The point of the experiment is creating a highly-competitive environment for people to form alliances and cooperate to "create something more".
My fandom group and one allied group created a picture in r/place, which we were able to defend together until the very end.
r/place by ONG3N April 14, 2022
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r/place R.I.P. in peace r r kelly R-ey R.A.I. R&R r-tard R.I.C. R.D.
A 1000x1000 pixel canvas where redditors feel they are bonding with one another even though they’ve spent the last three hours arguing over spelling .com as .cum
A: I used to date this ugly, sad, disgusting, short, vile, unfunny, smelly, weak, hairy, boring, creepy cuntbag.

B: He must have had Reddit.

A: even worse! He was a mod of a subreddit for r/place.

B: holy fuck
r/place by king girl coochie April 4, 2022

R.I.P. in peace 

An internet forum term twisting the well known "rest in peace" phrase, possibly originated from Football 365