It started off being pretty cool to me, and then the discourse around it just got worse and worse to the point it turned me off completely. An example was this big struggle session over Deltarune fans using the site to draw sprites and the sprites showing up in every city/town, and people immediately jumped to being unbelievably transphobic because of course they did. The fact that people were being this shitty about a site where you draw pixels on a map (while also ignoring any actual red flags about the site) was a sign that I should disconnect and just never think about this site again
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
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I visit it from time to time so see what kind of freaks (approbative term) live near me
I played around with it in my city for a little bit, then I learned that the developers are chud-adjacent and that's why their moderation policy was/is nonexistent and allowing Nazi things to fill everywhere so I stopped.
The whole pixel canvas concept became hackneyed about an hour after r/place was made and every implentation after that was just embarassing.
I reckon it's popular among teens on things like lunchbreaks. Collaborating with friends to do little bits of work in their area of the map or next to their school, on their houses or whatever.
I thought I never heard if it, looked it up and realized I had and totally forgot, kind of an alright idea because it's sort of like digital graffiti, you can tie it to physical reality with the map. Around Minneapolis:
I made a few things in my town and then got a temporary ban for “griefing.” What really happened was that someone scribbled over my work because it was too woke for them I guess. It was a watermelon slice on a keffiyeh pattern. So I started making it again and got hit with a ban. I appealed with screenshots and eventually got unbanned. Finished recreating my keffiyeh piece, then started on a Soviet Mario, and kinda lost interest.
My town is pretty rural, so it was also a little disappointing to see obvious bot accounts making huge murals that spanned dozens of square kilometers all over.
never heard of it
I remember going to take a look when people were hyped about it and getting hit with a "please disable your vpn" then leaving and never going back