How long until r/place is canceled?
Love how foxhole has gone for exactly the same art as last time
well this is going about as well as I thought. “u/spez ist ein Hurensohn” made me laugh
I would upvote, but you’re on 69 atm
I am at 62 now. what is happening
Das ist sehr gut!
They can’t have seriously thought this would work in their favor lmao
People just want to consume mindless entertainment. I’m extremely jaded over the whole thing and I’ll be very glad to be proven wrong, but I betcha regular users will participate as usual and drown out any form of protest.
Preaching to the choir there. But with that being said, a lot of the actual content creators on reddit have jumped ship. It’s still going but it’s not as busy as it used to be, and upvote/comment numbers are down across almost every sub whenever I look at it. There is clearly a market for that form of content, seeing how it has frequently been plagiarized by Youtubers, instagrammers, and now tiktokers for the past decade or so. If that content truly falls off then reddit will be in serious trouble.
It still boosts their stats up.
Sure, but at the same time all of the casual redditors who somehow weren’t aware of the controversy (the ones making threads asking who spez is, for example) are now going to learn more about the controversy and be informed enough to make their own decisions on continuing to use the site. For the short term their engagement will go up but it’s very possible that their long-term engagement drops even further after this decision
They’re doing r/place again? Didn’t they just have one last year or something? I thought it was supposed to be once every five years event, much like somebody telling spez he is loved.
It looks to me that they’re basically doing it as a desperate last resort.
“even though mods hate us, everyone else loves reddit. See these recent spikes in user engagement”
It can only be accessed through their mobile app, or on the web with the new interface (old.reddit.com won’t work).
They don’t care what people are putting on the board, it’s still an increase in people engaging with the new interface and the official app.
Just like they don’t care about r/pics turning into John Oliver only. It pumps up the numbers, so they can show advertisers and investors a rosy outlook.
Inb4 every black pixel gets a warning that they’ll be replaced by a different user. Repeat black pixel posters get perma banned without warning.
That’d probably just lead to rainbow text insulting spez instead.
The canvas already has the same junk from last year. Looks like people are getting memory holed faster than expected.
I normally don’t sympatize with Germans. But today I smile upon them.
Join the movement
Finding the right time for r/place to return proved to be a challenge – but hey, what better time to offer a blank canvas to our communities than when our users and mods are at their most passionate… right?
This is the most blatantly obvious “please boost our subscriber numbers” statement I’ve ever seen without directly calling for it.
I’d rather see more “fuck Reddit” on there than spez. Spez isn’t the only one to blame for their issues, he’s just been at the forefront. He’ll get his golden parachute and bounce if all this anger is directly specifically towards him. My 3 pennies
Just like Pao before him. He’s the new scapegoat to bring in unwanted changes.
I don’t think so, largely because his ego wouldn’t allow it.
It warms my heart to see so much fuck spez amidst the normal nation-state flag spam.
Thank you for the screenshot so I don’t have to give Reddit any traffic.
The Germany shows up hard with both. It’s so clean I thought it was a the top border.
There’s honestly not enough “fuck spez” lol
Ah German efficiency.
Fuck him.
Classic tactic. Let em rant in a special “freedom zone” and do nothing else. I know, obvious, but still maddening. I left reddit behind forever.
Yeah there is no way they didn’t intend this when they opened it back up. It’s protest theatre, give them a punching bag so they don’t stir up real shit.
Being enraged is also being engaged (see Fox News).
So this was a great tactic because all the people that could have left reddit are still there yelling into the void.
So this was a great tactic because all the people that could have left reddit are still there yelling into the void.
I feel like those people are pretty dumb. Like, if they could all just leave and go elsewhere, they’d be much better off than yelling in circles and not getting anything accomplished.
The website is obviously run by a crazy fuckhead CEO, so might as well go elsewhere - especially somewhere decentralized where that can’t be a problem.
Exactly my thoughts. They saw a drop in traffic this month after the API changes killed 3rd party apps and just want to boost this month’s numbers so it doesn’t hurt their valuation and upcoming IPO further.
Would love to see some lemmy advertising there.
Cringe flagspam ruins this shit every time.
The giant French flag especially is ridiculous (and I’m saying this as a French person). Also, I was expecting more fuck u/spez, but I guess the normies don’t care
Edit: wow I sound salty (I am)
Did you look again? That French flag was a setup for a guillotine of spez. Granted it didn’t need to be that big, but they had a goal and they sure did execute it.
Seems like I can’t without the app, oh well 🙃 https://i.ibb.co/zmBjNGK/IMG-4531.png
Sounds cool though!
Haha, nice!
It’s exactly what would happen if facebook made r/place.
I don’t think it’s cringe, more of an indication on what’s going on in reddit. Rip another “cool” social network.
It stopped being cool like 4 years ago
You’re probably cooler than I am
B-but my defining character trait is the country that I was born in. Yes, I am the most boring person alive, why do you ask?
