Reddit knew this was going to happen if they brought r/place back, right ?

Doesn't matter, it drives user engagement and website traffic. Easy way to show to advertisers that Reddit is very much alive. They don't care what is drawn, as long as it's nothing illegal or bad for advertisers. People want to spend 24h to write "fuck u/spez"? Sure, whatever.

Users have even gone full French revolution but admins are quite obviously blanking it out every few minutes with a db overwrite.

Start changing all the /r/ subreddit advertisements to /c/. That's the most strategic way to send the message.

They are aiming for this as a distraction

The text in the german flag area translates to

u/spez is a son of a removed

The flags are so braindead. Who gives a fuck about your country?

Higher traffic stats means higher user engagement. It helps with higher valuation for the IPO.

If you want to hurt them, remove your content, do a GDPR request, and disengage. Focus on the Fediverse instead.

The timing, the bots, the board, everything about this edition just feels weird... Definitely doesn't spark the same joy as earlier editions. Could've expected this ofcourse, just sad that a good decent thing is burning to ground

Only reason to bring r/pics now instead of April 1st was to drive the engagement, and by looks of it Reddit succeeded immensely in that.

They baited people and everyone bit it.

I don't think anyone at Reddit cares what message is passed through this as long as they get traffic.

They are like Velma of social media

They only waited one year when we had to wait 5 years for the previous one. No they're fooling us

I wonder if there are any shared canvas things like this outside of Reddit? The idea is pretty neat.

oh god it's pathetic... I remember very well the first r/place, then the second one was super cool too! But this one, wow, super pathetic :-( shame on reddit...

What is this supposed to accomplish?

"Hey Spez, we're going to use your site, consume the ads you give us, pay for useless premium features, drive up engagement, and participate in your meaningless events but fuck you so take that" - average Redditor

I mean employees aren't dumb and any opportunity to make management look stupid for stupid decisions that likely cost themselves (remember they get stock) money they will 100% take.

Going about as I expected.

I never actually visited r/place, but it seems like it's just drawball copied by Reddit. Is that accurate?

Reddit does not care. It's just engagement for them.

That's what I don't get. How could they think that this wouldn't happen?

Nope. They have brought in the corporate ghoul consultants. There is no context or feeling the situation. Just "oh, this was really popular last time, let's continue milking it, what could go wrong".