That German flag intersecting with the french flag and creating arte was kinda sweet. Arte is a joint tv channel between the two countries and part of the initiative to foster friendship between them after ww2.
It is also the best, most qualitative, channel I know of. So, at least of France, probably of Germany too. People have a dear place in their heart for Arte because it feeds us culture and intelligence.
Weirdly enough it is the German TV channel with the best online and RUclips presence. That's weird because it was considered to be more of a channel for older people or people interested in Art and Culture. Not a Channel that was very appealing for younger people. But I must admit that I really live their RUclips videos
@@johannanortmann9964 DW is bigger, but it is hard to compare because they just translate everything and rarely do their own documentaries, but their news channel is also very big
It was a bit better in 2017 because there weren't any established unwritten rules or coordination between communities early on. So the French and German flags happened to intersect and there was a lot of fighting over who would be on top in that spot. But then, the EU flag emerged.
I absolutely LOVE the fact that when the French and the germans crossed paths they made the EU flag,really goes to show how after ww2 we both became good friends
Ludwig is the few streamers I respect during the time of r/place. Actually creating art and not just destroying other smaller communities, malding, and then calling people bots.
how did I have no idea the same guy that made r/place made wordle? like it's pretty impressive to make a viral internet thing, but TWO viral internet things?!
Making general art like this is honestly probably the best way to go about it, because it’s not just your community that will keep it up, but once it’s established it can become self sustaining as people outside your control will want to keep it up too
That's what makes it awesome. I wasn't part of a community, I didn't help create art, but I protected it. The big art pieces and the small ones, I was helping. And I'm proud of it :)
I feel that by not doing his own piece of art but helping other communities, Lud and his fans left a bigger impact on the canvas, there were multiple posts in Lud's subreddit thanking him for either help them create their art or helping them when someone else tried to take over
Ludwig pretty much saved Kirby. The first Kirby was ugly af, and would've been taken over, over time. But because of Ludwig, he saved Kirby, by making it look good.
r/Place was such an amazing event in streaming history and internet history. It was really nice to see every community come together to make all sorts of different artworks
Just wanna say Jerma never asked his community to place anything on the canvas, but everyone took the initiative to build and rebuild until the absolute MASTERPIECE that was JoJoJermaSus was established 👏 amazing community.
As a French, let me tell you my respect for you and your community. It was sooo fun to see both you and my favorite French streamers interact (even though I don't enjoy Kameto, you spoke with Zerator and Antoine Daniel which I love). I'm a bit ashamed to say that, but it made me laugh so much when they gave you the spanish flag because yeah colonialism was a thing with France. Shoutouts to you and your community! You made incredible arts! (Your french is sooo good btw)
Ludwig's 1-9 gang system was so creative and engaging. I found it lame when other creators were using the extension that did everything but actually place the pixel. It was really impressive what we were able to create just by a simple picture overlay and a common goal
Honestly, it's impossible to build really complex things with this technique, but yeah it is more fun. We did a lot of baguettes around the map with this, it was really funny.
As a redditor who placed just 1 pixel in the entirety of r/place war, I can say that this is one of the best moments we've had on the internet in a long time.
7:44 I helped create a very small reference to my favourite anime with 4-5 other people in the final hours of r/place after hours of trying got permission from a bigger community and managed to be on the final canvas. It is so tiny and insignificant but at the time it meant the world to me. I went to sleep at 1 am that day, but I was smiling for days after that. I never expected to be so invested with r/place I even went way out of my comfort zone and was the main mediator for us.
I was part of the omori community, probably the most unifying 4 days I've felt with random people on discord in years building 2 headquarters and several characters with communities we allied with. Cant wait for another 5 years to go by
i was sitting in science class and got to watch the evolution of a bunch of art because i was just occasionally looking around for a couple of minutes at a time and it was so interesting to just look at everything slowly change and evolve and you could see all these little stories playing out with every art piece, r/place is such a massive thing and you could study the entire thing for hours and barely know a portion of the story behind it all
Those S.Korean and Japanese flags at the end had quite the story. Basically in the AoT community we did the Wings where the Ukraine mural was being built and then the S.Korean flag was placed on top, seeing how it kinda cut off the top of the wings we wanted to help move it up some pixels and while we were doing it the Japanese took over the flag. Later they would resolve to build it in the left and we helped with our pixels. Now it just looks really nice but man if it wasnt a process lmao, quite fkn ironic too.
I was working on the homestuck spot so it was fun seeing all that go down. Eventually someone tried to add a North Korea flag to the left of South Korea, but it was changed o Taiwan. We fought a lot with Taiwan trying to get on top of our card!
Fun fact: There was a tiny square in r/place 2023 where a bunch of people recreated the ENTIRETY OF BAD APPLE. And it wasn’t even very simple characters. It was perfect.
As someone from monkeytype, one of the small(ish) communities on the canvas, what you said about the power of streamers on r/place couldn't be more true. XQC completely voided the monkeytype logo twice, and connoreatspants even briefly tried to make art of top of us, but as soon as the streamer was offline or chose a different area of focus, it was easy to come back.
@@aguyontheinternet8436 He did add some cool art that not that many talked about, but also gave other smaller communities a chance to put their art over what he destroyed.
“Nobody dared to mess with good art” Ok that would make sense if x didn’t destroy star wars. I also love how x diminishes the importance of small communities by saying “it’s just pixels on a monitor” when he makes a living off of online content creation. Really goes to show how ignorant he is.
How is that ignorant? Online content creation isn't overwriting other peoples work with your own, there's an infinite space for your own content; r/place is very finite, and so it allows for that behavior and encourages it. The whole point is that everything is temporary on the canvas and is subject to constant evolution or change from other communities. xQc happens to have one of the biggest active communities, so naturally he can change a lot at once. The entire idea of larger communities making more change happen is completely natural and so is other communities fighting against it.
when he destroyed something was actually good because small communities could make their own art when before they couldnt, so he actually was making room, it allowed a small community that I am part of to fit in so :/
That call back to the smash documentary at the end was great. It really shows how a community can spawn out of a shared goal or interest. Keep up the great content lud o7
I loved how Ludwig went about streaming on r/place!! He helped build beautiful art pieces that many would enjoy and want to uphold, and he also tried to help build back some spots that had been damaged. Really sweet, and really worth it. Had a nice time being part of the building groups.
I loved the void and all the eldritch horrors that came with it. The last one was especially good, with uncanny Mr. Incredible turning into a demonic Lord English. And how even though the coordinated Homestuck fans had little art, when uncoordinated they managed to bring the Helmsman as an eldritch horror. It actually turned into art more beautiful than all the previous eldritch horrors. I'm glad at least some of the void managed to stay till the end
Ayo as a Czech person it made me really happy to see you show the Czech and Slovak flag first at the end of the video. Even tho neither of us had that much space compared to other countries, I love the art that made it into both of our flags, and that we stood proud next to our brothers.
Ludwig always manages to make normal videos and then out of the blue, make something so poetic it can make me feel like crying. I was there, and forever will be, I’ll see you pixels in 5 years
I think the end of r/place was beautiful too. Everyone spent hours upon hours creating art together, just for it to be torn down in the end. A beautiful end to an amazing project. Happy April Fools Indeed
The next time this happens, I want a community to try to frame the entire r/place. You know, like how a really fancy painting is, with the gold frame and an intricate pattern on it. I think the would just be the cherry on top.
The point XQC made, where he said that voiding the art of smaller communities would help create better art pieces in the end. was sometimes true. But if so, why would he ever attack Star Wars? one of the best art pieces in r/place?
@@Flash4ML why does a dog lick his balls and a man doesn't? *Because he can.* It's just a stupid argument. Unrelated to that saying, if you do something because you can, especially things that annoy or hurt other people, that's just abuse of power and nothing worthy of praise. The other things he said where mostly excuses that fell into his lap. There are good reasons for expecting that he did not have noble intentions. It's okay to be annoyed by annoying behavior and to question it. Saying people have to chill for questioning questionable behavior just isn't right.
Let's not forget the germans. They legit FOUGHT and almost always WON every battle they had. Even teamed up with Belgium and flexed the leeve in Canada's flag (they made it in their flag better for the first try when Canada needed all of r/place to make it).
I remember hearing about r/place and trying to find something to help out with. Not long after, Ludwig was streaming, directing us through a redesign of that Kirby art. It was really nice and I'm proud to say that I was a part of it.
same It felt really nice to help my favourite streamer on this platform and i helped build every artwork he designed even if it was just 1 pixel at a time
Honestly the last part hit hard I was part of one of the smaller communities, we made the spider with the eye on it above the second German flag and it was a tribute to an amazing horror podcast called the magnus archives Everytime I watch a time-lapse, see ot there fighting off a streamer, get taken by bots and then rebuild in the last couple of hours it brings so much joy. The server that we coordinated in is still up and we're a really close group now with in jokes and memes XD
This whole event was honestly some of the most fun I've had online this year. Hopping between different streams and subreddits to check how their projects are going, seeing collaboration and rivalry and ultimately the creation of beatiful art was really nice. Despite the drama and "wars", after the event finished I think it was a lot more about unity and collaboration. I think I'll remember this one for a while.
this was one of my favourite online events ever, I remember getting home Monday night and dedicating the whole time to helping keep rainbow dash alive from nuke after nuke. We had such a good time in the server vc and I met some really great people, and I think that the sense of community this sort of thing brings only comes about once every once in a while, and I'm always glad to get to experience it.
If you look at the heat map rainbow dash is one of the reddest areas. Sadly France ruins the heat map a little bit by dwarfing everything else. I had so much fun defending Sadly I wasnt there for the first version of Rainbowdash and wasnt able to stay until the end.
If you think about it deeply enough and pronounce it weirdly you get “our place” technically this could be the name of the game exactly like this in the future
I’m glad you brought up Gol Rogers picture. I think the art pieces that nobody messed with are the staples of an idea like this. An overarching idea that “oh yeah that’s a staple to everyone even though I’m not a part of that community” is amazing
i haphazardly helped out the small hollow knight art and it was really cute how elden ring fans put ranni on the bench, and a ton of other indie game pixel art (like hollow knight, not elden ring lmao) got added around it.
The great whiteout of r/place still makes me emotional, weirdly enough while it was there I thought it was cool and that was it. I guess you truly never really understand the beauty of something till it’s gone.
The fact that Ludwig actually wanted to make actual art that looks downright amazing and not just advertise himself (at least after he realized the podcast thing failed) makes me respect him way more than all the other streamers. COUGHFuckXQCCOUGHCOUGH Edit: XQC’s excuse was shit.
I mean I wouldn't call it advertising. It's just a logo which is obviously a huge part of the community so naturally that's the thing they put to let everyone else know what community made it.
I was apart of the reckful tribute led by General mizkif. Alliances were made and war was waged but despite that, something beautiful came out of it and at the end after the dust had settled and the grid had once more been engulfed in white pixels, everyone had reconciled and agreed that it was a really fun time and no grudges were held. Thanks to everyone who took part and helped protect reckfuls tribute, he would be proud.
Yeah, people took things too seriously imo, but it’s Reddit so I guess that should be expected. Streamers really didn’t do much damage, they made the whole thing much more interesting
Nobody talks about the fact that at the end, you can only place white tiles. Meaning the art could be preseved if everyone agreed to stop, but instead everyone destroys it
ludwig mentioned something in the end, how in five years from now you can look back at the most recent r/place and remember “oh yeah, i helped make that,” and stuff like that, and that’s one of the biggest reasons why i love it so much. knowing that multiple pictures that stayed til the very end were works from the communities that im in and that i helped build makes me feel so special for some reason. can’t wait for next time:))
This video is so well done. I remember the first r/place, but I didn't participate. Being able to put art on the board, even though most of it was erased, was fun. I can admit that I had never watched xQc before, but I joined him to void out some space at one point because death brings new life. The void efforts he put in made space for communities who wouldn't have had space otherwise, even if only for a second. Also, I had no idea that leaves on the vine was Lud's community. You guys did great with that one.
Yeah streamers made it so much more interesting, redditors who don’t watch twitch are really out of touch, too bad for them they missed the most exciting aspects of r/place
I am so happy to have participated in the r/place event. It was an amazing experience. As you mentioned, a few years from now, I'll look back at r/place in 5 years and point at the fact that I was there and that I contributed to my community. Good video as always Ludwig!
It wasn’t just Miz who was at war with the brony faction. Other major streamers like asmongold and xqc also launched multiple attacks on our art pieces. In fact, the bronies were actually one of the few factions who survived the attacks of xqc’s army. We were getting constantly attacked by streamers, to the point where by the end of the event we had been hit by a total of 22 major attacks (not little strikes, full blown warfare). We kept getting pelted by some of the strongest attackers of the event, yet we managed to survive and rebuild every single time and make it all the way to the end. We definitely had a harder and more chaotic run than most of the other factions, but I’d say it was worth it just to prove to those streamers that we were one enemy they wouldn’t defeat. Thanks for your contributions to the canvas Ludwig, and thank you for not abusing your power to attack other people’s art like a lot of other streamers did.
Damn, that brings back memories when I was there to experience all the days of 2023's r/Place, my first r/Place experience. I was glad to be part of our community as a fellow brony x3
Here is a comment from a French : Thank you for the fun & respectful discussion you had with us! I admire the fact that you preferred building art instead of your logo and participate in the ego trip of most streamer. Finally, they was good point on the place, and French gave some parts (windows bar, among us, one piece on top,...) and even helped other (rekful, black out for you etc..), but thank you for not joining the stupid war of spannish streamer and content only streamer (xqc mizkif..). That denaturated the r/place, and didn't help building art! At the end, it was an amazing event, and I hope next one will be more respectful!
That's because we had a way better organisation, we were separated in wave of viewer classed by what season we are born in, for example I was in the summer army, every 5min everyone from the summer and winter army put a pixel, then it rotates to the two other season 5min later over and over meaning we had no downtime and an even amount of viewer putting pixel non stop, Americans and Spanish just put everything at once and had to wait to recharge, while they were waiting we were just trying to rebuild the outside of our art not the inside to not lose the general aspect of our art and affect the moral of the ennemies making them back off at some point, then we were able to fully recover our art, and on top of that we had a lot of pride hiding behind that because french people are known to surrender easily - which is false - and foreign streamers kept saying that at some point we were going to sleep and surrender and while we were sleeping they could just annihilate our art but like I said out of pride litteraly everyone were ready to stay up all night and even the day after to make the opponent surrender and we succeeded There was even a special task force on the command of another streamer called ZeratoR which had only one role him and his viewer to destroy all the small art the opponent community made which mean we were constantly defending our art and attacking a bit of the other art everywhere making the opponent disoriented not knowing what to do In the end like I said we just had a better organisation fighting this pixel war even while being outnumbered by a lot, thx to our general in command Kameto and all the other streamers who wouldn't back down no matter what we came out on top 💪
This was great. Seriously love this video style. Seriously was a lot of fun making the art and the respect I've seen online for not being toxic. Felt good. Anyways congratulations to you and everyone else who worked on it together!
This was such a beautiful event. It was so nice to see all of the communities brought together like this. I wouldn’t want them to do it too soon but I definitely wanna see this happen once more.
I would like to mention that the foxhole community managed to fight off wall street bets AND xqc, with half of their own numbers. It truly does show you how much dedication certian communities have.
Ludwig i must say seeing the avatar art you made made feel many emotions. even after the stream was done the community improved it more and honored mako. God dammit you made me cry
I remember this. I never had so many discord notifs before or since. But i was there. At one point i was talking to a group of turkish people on behalf of r/hollowknight and r/elden ring. The second day was mainly flitting between some small artworks of fandoms i was in (We got WOF on the canvas, now That is Thrilling.) The last day was mainly spent on the technoblade artwork, and the Erd-Radiance. What a fucking journey. Also lud forgot to mention the increased palette, Day 2 had the hollowknight discord in a collaborative anyuerism trying to make the back ground Blue. Gotta love Stotal missplay, one of my faves.
Im really happy and proud of what my community did even tho its small. Seeing us in a Lud video and see the tale of how we almost got whipped out twice but survived and conquered over streamers 5 times our size its amazing! I feel like we are so united after that. The streamer that led us was kind and we helped rebuild our neighbours and gave tribute to friends along the way. Overall a great experience!
In the timelapse, the white hand painting being the first form of human art reaching out like the hand of the void, followed by the entire canvas exploding in white destruction and turning into a expanding heart emanating from the void is absolutely beautiful.
“If it was beautiful enough nobody fucked with it” meanwhile xqc destroying the insane star wars poster to have a logo he already had just a bit to the right of it at the time.
And it came back a few minutes later when he moved on. You don’t seriously think that it would have been destroyed from that do you? I don’t expect to get through to you but people need to chill out about streamers
"No matter how small your community was, or how big it was" (7:43). I am incredibly proud to say I was in charge of a small community for a short while. I don't usually get to do big things like be a moderator for big servers or anything like that, but I noticed that despite there being all kinds of pieces for Marvel and superheroes and manga, a show I really liked was left out. Daredevil. So I gathered up friends and posted everywhere I could find and eventually gathered a bunch of people onto a few different servers. Surprisingly, I think it's one of the things that I am the most proud of online. I helped lead a bunch of people to get one tiny square (and I mean tiny, it was barely 10x10 pixels, if that) onto a canvas of a million people. Part of the experience is that adrenaline rush of knowing you made an impact and contributed. If that is what I am eventually remembered by on the internet, for just a small group of people, I will be happy. 10000/10 a very cool project.
This is one of those videos Ludwig makes that just make me stare in amazement at what he as a creator can do and what we as a community have the power to influence... Great video mate thank you for that.
This was such a historic event. Waiting for it in the next 5 years. As much as I liked the steamers part taking sometimes but then they just started building their own logos n creating chaos. I still enjoyed it alot~!!
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Dude this guy made BOTH wordle and r/place. What a legend
He made simplistic yet brilliant things
Absolute gigachad
He also made marbles
He also made chairs.
He also made minecraft
That German flag intersecting with the french flag and creating arte was kinda sweet. Arte is a joint tv channel between the two countries and part of the initiative to foster friendship between them after ww2.
It is also the best, most qualitative, channel I know of. So, at least of France, probably of Germany too.
People have a dear place in their heart for Arte because it feeds us culture and intelligence.
Weirdly enough it is the German TV channel with the best online and RUclips presence. That's weird because it was considered to be more of a channel for older people or people interested in Art and Culture. Not a Channel that was very appealing for younger people. But I must admit that I really live their RUclips videos
My favorite was the german flag making a memory with belgium for WWI
@@johannanortmann9964 DW is bigger, but it is hard to compare because they just translate everything and rarely do their own documentaries, but their news channel is also very big
It was a bit better in 2017 because there weren't any established unwritten rules or coordination between communities early on. So the French and German flags happened to intersect and there was a lot of fighting over who would be on top in that spot. But then, the EU flag emerged.
I absolutely LOVE the fact that when the French and the germans crossed paths they made the EU flag,really goes to show how after ww2 we both became good friends
It happened in the 2017 one so people did it again
There is the EU flag and also somewhere else the logo of ARTE which is a french/german TV channel
I still think the first german and belgium crossing was even more legendary considering they decided to give the eagle beer and then muscles.
Get ze Flammenwerfer
There was another German Belgian crossing at one point where they made a ww1 memorial
Ludwig is the few streamers I respect during the time of r/place. Actually creating art and not just destroying other smaller communities, malding, and then calling people bots.
He forgot the void!
Worst communities were the spanish
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I’m impressed someone managed to make a video on r/place without mentioning Among Us
Without mentioning germany
Seems like a big oversight if it’s supposed to be an entire history of r/place. Among Us was kind of ubiquitous.
how did I have no idea the same guy that made r/place made wordle? like it's pretty impressive to make a viral internet thing, but TWO viral internet things?!
Also the button
I guess if you can make 2, then you make 10! He definitely has solved the viral algorithm :p
@@jaajoo1660 idk what "worlde" is but ok
@@dooddoingstuff It’s a game, about well words
@@nanda28cc did you not realize i was replying to the guy that said "worlde" is bad
Still laughing about Jerma's sus face being absolute nightmare fuel
I spent a long time making the smile wider and wider.
@@specialmonkey68 maybe one day we can achieve a jerma sus face that smiles all across r/place.
The amount of times 985 turned into SUS at the beginning was also nightmare fuel
There’s a video of the timelapse for the face but with the Cleric Beast’s theme put over it. Absolutely terrifying
he also has jotaro’s hat
Making general art like this is honestly probably the best way to go about it, because it’s not just your community that will keep it up, but once it’s established it can become self sustaining as people outside your control will want to keep it up too
That's what makes it awesome. I wasn't part of a community, I didn't help create art, but I protected it. The big art pieces and the small ones, I was helping. And I'm proud of it :)
I feel that by not doing his own piece of art but helping other communities, Lud and his fans left a bigger impact on the canvas, there were multiple posts in Lud's subreddit thanking him for either help them create their art or helping them when someone else tried to take over
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Ludwig pretty much saved Kirby. The first Kirby was ugly af, and would've been taken over, over time. But because of Ludwig, he saved Kirby, by making it look good.
Nah because the dude who built the first kirby had a lot of skilled army so they could build kirby instantly
@@KOT-jk7dh A skilled army wouldn't really make a fucked up Kirby would it? So it's not really a skilled army, but an army nonetheless.
@@johngrimm2074hey, how can u know if it’s skilled? Bc I was a soldier of his army, so stfu
r/Place was such an amazing event in streaming history and internet history. It was really nice to see every community come together to make all sorts of different artworks
i loved how fast it went from wholesome reddit community to full out international war.
only for a bunch of fucking streamers who just downloaded reddit to get their 9 year old viewers and ruin said artworks
@@noaheaston2147 not sure about the French and osu though
Lol if you think that's what history is then you might have a mental deficiency
@@GorillaFan_32 nah the French did they had tutorials to show how to bot it and even encouraged it but hey what are you gonna do there French
As a canadian, seeing the flag get messed up that bad made me laugh so hard
the german flag had a better flag for you than you did for yourself
right? hell if i know what a maple leaf looks like
i loved that lol
My guess is the stoners were trying to make it into a marijuana leaf. The sabotage came from the inside
It also turned into a banana at some point lmao
Just wanna say Jerma never asked his community to place anything on the canvas, but everyone took the initiative to build and rebuild until the absolute MASTERPIECE that was JoJoJermaSus was established 👏 amazing community.
Are you a female that watches Ludwig? If so the higher ups need to hear of this.
I mean we welcome you is what i meant to say of course.
@@sethbishop6890 would you mind shutting the hell up, why you making it weird?
Nobody ever typed in JoJoJermaSus but you and now me. It doesn't exist anywhere on the internet.
@@NaudVanDalen and now me, and im still confused about what it is
As a French, let me tell you my respect for you and your community. It was sooo fun to see both you and my favorite French streamers interact (even though I don't enjoy Kameto, you spoke with Zerator and Antoine Daniel which I love). I'm a bit ashamed to say that, but it made me laugh so much when they gave you the spanish flag because yeah colonialism was a thing with France. Shoutouts to you and your community! You made incredible arts! (Your french is sooo good btw)
Ludwig's 1-9 gang system was so creative and engaging. I found it lame when other creators were using the extension that did everything but actually place the pixel. It was really impressive what we were able to create just by a simple picture overlay and a common goal
Shots fired at Rubber Ross, I guess?
Honestly, it's impossible to build really complex things with this technique, but yeah it is more fun. We did a lot of baguettes around the map with this, it was really funny.
Wow, I actually had no clue our Newgrounds tank was a hair away from being nuked. 6:40
The little tank that could 😢
Hi Ross 🙂
omg ur right
Am part of the Isab community above new grounds, our tank could not
@@danielsauterr Aliensrock. our tank couldnt either
Iirc XQC specifically asked to leave the new grounds and FNF murals done by your chat alone
As a redditor who placed just 1 pixel in the entirety of r/place war, I can say that this is one of the best moments we've had on the internet in a long time.
I placed 2 B)
i placed 3
@@crypton7572 jk i love you
Lucky, I didn't know it existed until it ended ;-;
**sad noises**
Can we talk about how genius ludwig’s gang system was though?
Six and nine gang held down the fort fr
1-3 gang wya 😤✊
5 gang 😤😤
6 gang pull up
Meanwhile 7 gang didn't even get called yo do anything.
7:44 I helped create a very small reference to my favourite anime with 4-5 other people in the final hours of r/place after hours of trying got permission from a bigger community and managed to be on the final canvas. It is so tiny and insignificant but at the time it meant the world to me. I went to sleep at 1 am that day, but I was smiling for days after that. I never expected to be so invested with r/place I even went way out of my comfort zone and was the main mediator for us.
I was part of the omori community, probably the most unifying 4 days I've felt with random people on discord in years building 2 headquarters and several characters with communities we allied with. Cant wait for another 5 years to go by
I remember seeing XQC almost destroy that. I also saw Lisa the Painful next to Omori, although not sure if that was also you guys.
Scotland was allied with omori in both your locations, it was really great to be next to your work :)
omori clan rise
i was sitting in science class and got to watch the evolution of a bunch of art because i was just occasionally looking around for a couple of minutes at a time and it was so interesting to just look at everything slowly change and evolve and you could see all these little stories playing out with every art piece, r/place is such a massive thing and you could study the entire thing for hours and barely know a portion of the story behind it all
Those S.Korean and Japanese flags at the end had quite the story. Basically in the AoT community we did the Wings where the Ukraine mural was being built and then the S.Korean flag was placed on top, seeing how it kinda cut off the top of the wings we wanted to help move it up some pixels and while we were doing it the Japanese took over the flag.
Later they would resolve to build it in the left and we helped with our pixels. Now it just looks really nice but man if it wasnt a process lmao, quite fkn ironic too.
I was working on the homestuck spot so it was fun seeing all that go down. Eventually someone tried to add a North Korea flag to the left of South Korea, but it was changed o Taiwan. We fought a lot with Taiwan trying to get on top of our card!
Lol
"He laughed" was probably one of the greatest pieces on r/place
Probably one of the greatest lines ever honestly.
Straight up.
No ew anime sucks
I was blown away the first time I saw it there. It’s such a beautiful panel
@@Magst3r1 That’s what I used to think, but then I watched One Piece.
Fun fact: There was a tiny square in r/place 2023 where a bunch of people recreated the ENTIRETY OF BAD APPLE. And it wasn’t even very simple characters. It was perfect.
As someone from monkeytype, one of the small(ish) communities on the canvas, what you said about the power of streamers on r/place couldn't be more true. XQC completely voided the monkeytype logo twice, and connoreatspants even briefly tried to make art of top of us, but as soon as the streamer was offline or chose a different area of focus, it was easy to come back.
omg you're one of the monkeytype people! i was in the animal crossing community people in an alliance w you that helped rebuild lmao
monkeytype best type….
I helped made the monkey type too! Was pretty fun
Honestly its really awesome what lud did with r/place. Renovating and creating instead of leaving an advertising mark
Honestly, what xqc did maybe wasn't so bad either
@@aguyontheinternet8436 He did add some cool art that not that many talked about, but also gave other smaller communities a chance to put their art over what he destroyed.
@@aguyontheinternet8436 I mean, his Zyzz tribute speaks for itself
his first artpiece was the Yard logo LOL. but ya afterwards agreed.
@@chodak3709 The widow booty was what made r/place accept him lmao
“Nobody dared to mess with good art” Ok that would make sense if x didn’t destroy star wars. I also love how x diminishes the importance of small communities by saying “it’s just pixels on a monitor” when he makes a living off of online content creation. Really goes to show how ignorant he is.
yeah he's the expert of making excuses. he kept fucking with turkey's skyline art and that was good art as well
your mad about pixels on a white canvas 🤣
@@thebuttermaster9618 mad at letters on your screen?
How is that ignorant? Online content creation isn't overwriting other peoples work with your own, there's an infinite space for your own content; r/place is very finite, and so it allows for that behavior and encourages it. The whole point is that everything is temporary on the canvas and is subject to constant evolution or change from other communities. xQc happens to have one of the biggest active communities, so naturally he can change a lot at once. The entire idea of larger communities making more change happen is completely natural and so is other communities fighting against it.
when he destroyed something was actually good because small communities could make their own art when before they couldnt, so he actually was making room, it allowed a small community that I am part of to fit in so :/
That call back to the smash documentary at the end was great. It really shows how a community can spawn out of a shared goal or interest. Keep up the great content lud o7
Glad someone else pointed this out. Had the same music and everything 🙏
Favorite part of the video :)
I loved how Ludwig went about streaming on r/place!! He helped build beautiful art pieces that many would enjoy and want to uphold, and he also tried to help build back some spots that had been damaged. Really sweet, and really worth it. Had a nice time being part of the building groups.
I loved the void and all the eldritch horrors that came with it. The last one was especially good, with uncanny Mr. Incredible turning into a demonic Lord English. And how even though the coordinated Homestuck fans had little art, when uncoordinated they managed to bring the Helmsman as an eldritch horror. It actually turned into art more beautiful than all the previous eldritch horrors.
I'm glad at least some of the void managed to stay till the end
Ayo as a Czech person it made me really happy to see you show the Czech and Slovak flag first at the end of the video. Even tho neither of us had that much space compared to other countries, I love the art that made it into both of our flags, and that we stood proud next to our brothers.
certified Czech moment
náhodou, keď si zoberieš napr. pomer počtu obyvateľov Slovenska a veľkosť našej vlajky, patrili sme k jedným s najväčších!
Would have loved to see a Nigerian flag there lol....but I couldn't never get one
Ludwig always manages to make normal videos and then out of the blue, make something so poetic it can make me feel like crying. I was there, and forever will be, I’ll see you pixels in 5 years
Idk if i want them to do it every year, or every 5 just to keep it special. Very torn
I think the end of r/place was beautiful too. Everyone spent hours upon hours creating art together, just for it to be torn down in the end. A beautiful end to an amazing project. Happy April Fools Indeed
I was fighting for my life when Kirby was attacked. Little did I know that Ludwig was just gonna make it better.
The next time this happens, I want a community to try to frame the entire r/place. You know, like how a really fancy painting is, with the gold frame and an intricate pattern on it. I think the would just be the cherry on top.
The point XQC made, where he said that voiding the art of smaller communities would help create better art pieces in the end. was sometimes true.
But if so, why would he ever attack Star Wars? one of the best art pieces in r/place?
Because in the end, he *is* the villain.
A villain can be a hero one day, but he'll come back to his good old habits afterwards :-)
Because it was never something he actually believed. He would just say anything at all that he thought might deflect criticism in the moment.
because his ego cant handle it, if he cant have fun anyone cant
Because he could. And Star Wars was guaranteed to rebuild immediately afterward. People need to chill when it comes to xQc
@@Flash4ML why does a dog lick his balls and a man doesn't? *Because he can.*
It's just a stupid argument.
Unrelated to that saying, if you do something because you can, especially things that annoy or hurt other people, that's just abuse of power and nothing worthy of praise.
The other things he said where mostly excuses that fell into his lap. There are good reasons for expecting that he did not have noble intentions.
It's okay to be annoyed by annoying behavior and to question it. Saying people have to chill for questioning questionable behavior just isn't right.
i’m so happy lud is making more videos like these, i love this format, and as great as stream highlights are, these are the videos that truly slap
Not gonna lie, the fact that people have a war for pixels is funny
Silence. Join us in petty meaningless internet war
Sorry can’t hear you over funny pixel changes
The pixels might outlive us
and streamers make money out of it, and it was fun
Let's not forget the germans. They legit FOUGHT and almost always WON every battle they had. Even teamed up with Belgium and flexed the leeve in Canada's flag (they made it in their flag better for the first try when Canada needed all of r/place to make it).
This event was true anarchy. It reminded me of 2b2t in the sense of community, war, and conquering.
I remember hearing about r/place and trying to find something to help out with. Not long after, Ludwig was streaming, directing us through a redesign of that Kirby art. It was really nice and I'm proud to say that I was a part of it.
Same! First one I felt a part of as well.
same It felt really nice to help my favourite streamer on this platform and i helped build every artwork he designed even if it was just 1 pixel at a time
If you know anything about Korea and Japan's relationship you know just how big and wholesome that little heart is.
r/place: Alright so you have this whole space to draw anything you want, be creative :)
Reddit Users: *p a t r i o t i s m*
Also redditors later:
*d e g e n e r a c y*
actually redditors: *s* *u* *s*
meanwhile the foxhole community just remakes a game map and starts fighting a war just like in the mmo
nationalism *
Nationalism*
Honestly the last part hit hard
I was part of one of the smaller communities, we made the spider with the eye on it above the second German flag and it was a tribute to an amazing horror podcast called the magnus archives
Everytime I watch a time-lapse, see ot there fighting off a streamer, get taken by bots and then rebuild in the last couple of hours it brings so much joy. The server that we coordinated in is still up and we're a really close group now with in jokes and memes XD
And r/place has made a comeback..
I feel like it's not gonna be as good as last year
@@imbaguette1985hey, you were right
This whole event was honestly some of the most fun I've had online this year. Hopping between different streams and subreddits to check how their projects are going, seeing collaboration and rivalry and ultimately the creation of beatiful art was really nice. Despite the drama and "wars", after the event finished I think it was a lot more about unity and collaboration. I think I'll remember this one for a while.
this was one of my favourite online events ever, I remember getting home Monday night and dedicating the whole time to helping keep rainbow dash alive from nuke after nuke. We had such a good time in the server vc and I met some really great people, and I think that the sense of community this sort of thing brings only comes about once every once in a while, and I'm always glad to get to experience it.
people hate bronies _so much_ and its honestly stupid. let people enjoy a show about rainbow horses.
If you look at the heat map rainbow dash is one of the reddest areas.
Sadly France ruins the heat map a little bit by dwarfing everything else.
I had so much fun defending
Sadly I wasnt there for the first version of Rainbowdash and wasnt able to stay until the end.
@@spurrit7156 right, half the people who target mlp fans watch sonic the fucking hedgehog
If you think about it deeply enough and pronounce it weirdly you get “our place” technically this could be the name of the game exactly like this in the future
a game with joinable in game guild, Live world chat and built in heatmap perhaps.
@@riardomilos8014 you know what we need someone to make this
Idea
@@Bone_Incidents pixelplace exists
I’m glad you brought up Gol Rogers picture. I think the art pieces that nobody messed with are the staples of an idea like this. An overarching idea that “oh yeah that’s a staple to everyone even though I’m not a part of that community” is amazing
i haphazardly helped out the small hollow knight art and it was really cute how elden ring fans put ranni on the bench, and a ton of other indie game pixel art (like hollow knight, not elden ring lmao) got added around it.
The great whiteout of r/place still makes me emotional, weirdly enough while it was there I thought it was cool and that was it. I guess you truly never really understand the beauty of something till it’s gone.
Yep 😢
The fact that Ludwig actually wanted to make actual art that looks downright amazing and not just advertise himself (at least after he realized the podcast thing failed) makes me respect him way more than all the other streamers. COUGHFuckXQCCOUGHCOUGH
Edit: XQC’s excuse was shit.
But the art XQC erased were replaced by better art.
I mean I wouldn't call it advertising. It's just a logo which is obviously a huge part of the community so naturally that's the thing they put to let everyone else know what community made it.
@@dcp0102 hey it’s fun to let loose and be petty over harmless little things like this sometimes ;)
XQC made a lot of cool art too
fuck arkeanos... anarchychess had a second board with 50+ tiny communities and he nuked us with his shitty overpixelated dinosaur
I was apart of the reckful tribute led by General mizkif. Alliances were made and war was waged but despite that, something beautiful came out of it and at the end after the dust had settled and the grid had once more been engulfed in white pixels, everyone had reconciled and agreed that it was a really fun time and no grudges were held. Thanks to everyone who took part and helped protect reckfuls tribute, he would be proud.
This was an awesome experience, thanks to all of you for participating.
Just when I think Reddit can't get any crazier...it does.
Some of the art I saw was absolutely beautiful
Id say the most interesting community was the void, mainly because they had nothing to go off of, they just made it and adapted to their surroundings
Yeah, people took things too seriously imo, but it’s Reddit so I guess that should be expected. Streamers really didn’t do much damage, they made the whole thing much more interesting
r/Place became more of an MMO Experience
I didn't know much about you but your community made few of the best pieces ♥
Bravo! Congrats from France
this was such a great time...being part of this community and event etc... memories were made. ♥️
“XQC became the villain” When has XQC not been the villain? Hes always starting some shit and it’s usually funny af
Nobody talks about the fact that at the end, you can only place white tiles. Meaning the art could be preseved if everyone agreed to stop, but instead everyone destroys it
ludwig mentioned something in the end, how in five years from now you can look back at the most recent r/place and remember “oh yeah, i helped make that,” and stuff like that, and that’s one of the biggest reasons why i love it so much. knowing that multiple pictures that stayed til the very end were works from the communities that im in and that i helped build makes me feel so special for some reason. can’t wait for next time:))
This video is so well done. I remember the first r/place, but I didn't participate. Being able to put art on the board, even though most of it was erased, was fun. I can admit that I had never watched xQc before, but I joined him to void out some space at one point because death brings new life. The void efforts he put in made space for communities who wouldn't have had space otherwise, even if only for a second.
Also, I had no idea that leaves on the vine was Lud's community. You guys did great with that one.
I was also glued to xqc's stream. He was the most interesting streamer in a sea of streamers who did nothing but focus on maintaining existing pixels.
Yeah streamers made it so much more interesting, redditors who don’t watch twitch are really out of touch, too bad for them they missed the most exciting aspects of r/place
he said “it’s me” like this was the intro to an anime 💀
im so glad i got to be a part of this from the first few minutes
Ludwig’s story telling is always top tier
"the entire history of r/place, i guess"
Saving the first title for when Lud changes it.
This is a reference to a huge Bill Wurtz video
@@rekzors This is a reference to your huge mom
It's a reference, not an accidental title
It was such an interesting experience. Diplomacy, war, negotiation, and banding together to create something beautiful. Absolutely amazing ^_^
I am so happy to have participated in the r/place event. It was an amazing experience. As you mentioned, a few years from now, I'll look back at r/place in 5 years and point at the fact that I was there and that I contributed to my community. Good video as always Ludwig!
It wasn’t just Miz who was at war with the brony faction. Other major streamers like asmongold and xqc also launched multiple attacks on our art pieces. In fact, the bronies were actually one of the few factions who survived the attacks of xqc’s army. We were getting constantly attacked by streamers, to the point where by the end of the event we had been hit by a total of 22 major attacks (not little strikes, full blown warfare). We kept getting pelted by some of the strongest attackers of the event, yet we managed to survive and rebuild every single time and make it all the way to the end. We definitely had a harder and more chaotic run than most of the other factions, but I’d say it was worth it just to prove to those streamers that we were one enemy they wouldn’t defeat. Thanks for your contributions to the canvas Ludwig, and thank you for not abusing your power to attack other people’s art like a lot of other streamers did.
Damn, that brings back memories when I was there to experience all the days of 2023's r/Place, my first r/Place experience. I was glad to be part of our community as a fellow brony x3
Here is a comment from a French :
Thank you for the fun & respectful discussion you had with us! I admire the fact that you preferred building art instead of your logo and participate in the ego trip of most streamer.
Finally, they was good point on the place, and French gave some parts (windows bar, among us, one piece on top,...) and even helped other (rekful, black out for you etc..), but thank you for not joining the stupid war of spannish streamer and content only streamer (xqc mizkif..). That denaturated the r/place, and didn't help building art!
At the end, it was an amazing event, and I hope next one will be more respectful!
Ludwig has a way of making this seem like a major world event
Yeah my dude really out there making us feel bad about not paying any attention to it
Because it was a major world event lmao
r/place was truly a amazing place to be in and i think that everybody that was there for it is a happy person
I absolutely love seeing Lud make such different types of videos to show his actual variety, but it always ends with his classic ending
so impressed that the french community defended against the spanish and american alliance though being so fewer
That's because we had a way better organisation, we were separated in wave of viewer classed by what season we are born in, for example I was in the summer army, every 5min everyone from the summer and winter army put a pixel, then it rotates to the two other season 5min later over and over meaning we had no downtime and an even amount of viewer putting pixel non stop, Americans and Spanish just put everything at once and had to wait to recharge, while they were waiting we were just trying to rebuild the outside of our art not the inside to not lose the general aspect of our art and affect the moral of the ennemies making them back off at some point, then we were able to fully recover our art, and on top of that we had a lot of pride hiding behind that because french people are known to surrender easily - which is false - and foreign streamers kept saying that at some point we were going to sleep and surrender and while we were sleeping they could just annihilate our art but like I said out of pride litteraly everyone were ready to stay up all night and even the day after to make the opponent surrender and we succeeded
There was even a special task force on the command of another streamer called ZeratoR which had only one role him and his viewer to destroy all the small art the opponent community made which mean we were constantly defending our art and attacking a bit of the other art everywhere making the opponent disoriented not knowing what to do
In the end like I said we just had a better organisation fighting this pixel war even while being outnumbered by a lot, thx to our general in command Kameto and all the other streamers who wouldn't back down no matter what we came out on top 💪
@@renta2987 tqt je sais j'y fus ! haha
the heart turned out so well!!!!!! I'm so happy to have been a part of this
This was great. Seriously love this video style. Seriously was a lot of fun making the art and the respect I've seen online for not being toxic. Felt good. Anyways congratulations to you and everyone else who worked on it together!
This was such a beautiful event. It was so nice to see all of the communities brought together like this. I wouldn’t want them to do it too soon but I definitely wanna see this happen once more.
definitely the best internet event in a while
so happy that r/india held strong and defeated the void proud to have helped
I would like to mention that the foxhole community managed to fight off wall street bets AND xqc, with half of their own numbers. It truly does show you how much dedication certian communities have.
0:49 BRO THE SANS AND PAPYRUS PIXEL ART IS SO GOOD
Ludwig i must say seeing the avatar art you made made feel many emotions. even after the stream was done the community improved it more and honored mako.
God dammit you made me cry
I remember that scene
I really hope they make this an annual thing, it was extremely entertaining.
The problem with that is that it doesn’t become special anymore.
It was pretty cool being apart of this watching the process and such. Interested to see what happens 1 to 5 years from now
I remember this.
I never had so many discord notifs before or since.
But i was there.
At one point i was talking to a group of turkish people on behalf of r/hollowknight and r/elden ring. The second day was mainly flitting between some small artworks of fandoms i was in (We got WOF on the canvas, now That is Thrilling.)
The last day was mainly spent on the technoblade artwork, and the Erd-Radiance. What a fucking journey.
Also lud forgot to mention the increased palette, Day 2 had the hollowknight discord in a collaborative anyuerism trying to make the back ground Blue. Gotta love Stotal missplay, one of my faves.
Im really happy and proud of what my community did even tho its small. Seeing us in a Lud video and see the tale of how we almost got whipped out twice but survived and conquered over streamers 5 times our size its amazing! I feel like we are so united after that. The streamer that led us was kind and we helped rebuild our neighbours and gave tribute to friends along the way. Overall a great experience!
I was a moderator for r/placeukraine
and i’ve gotta say
this sure was a ride
thanks to everyone ❤️
It was so much fun placing pixels during the Ludwig stream. Kirby was adorable 🥰
In the timelapse, the white hand painting being the first form of human art reaching out like the hand of the void, followed by the entire canvas exploding in white destruction and turning into a expanding heart emanating from the void is absolutely beautiful.
i loved the portugal and argentina flags, they were next to eachother and had messi & ronaldo on the opposite side walking together
" What is the eysore here?"
" The french"
Couldn't agree more my friend
The french streamer isn't called "Kamet Zero" , his name is " Kamel " or "Kameto " lol
Because of "Kamet0" he made a mistake.
@@rayanchaouche7487 strange, since they talked together during the event.
Gotta say I never comment but this has gotta be one of Ludwig’s most well put together video, putting that journalism degree to work
“If it was beautiful enough nobody fucked with it” meanwhile xqc destroying the insane star wars poster to have a logo he already had just a bit to the right of it at the time.
And it came back a few minutes later when he moved on. You don’t seriously think that it would have been destroyed from that do you? I don’t expect to get through to you but people need to chill out about streamers
2:06 I was part of the Italy Discord server that made that art. One hell of a community, always good to see your work recognized. thank you Ludwig :)
"No matter how small your community was, or how big it was" (7:43). I am incredibly proud to say I was in charge of a small community for a short while. I don't usually get to do big things like be a moderator for big servers or anything like that, but I noticed that despite there being all kinds of pieces for Marvel and superheroes and manga, a show I really liked was left out. Daredevil. So I gathered up friends and posted everywhere I could find and eventually gathered a bunch of people onto a few different servers. Surprisingly, I think it's one of the things that I am the most proud of online. I helped lead a bunch of people to get one tiny square (and I mean tiny, it was barely 10x10 pixels, if that) onto a canvas of a million people. Part of the experience is that adrenaline rush of knowing you made an impact and contributed. If that is what I am eventually remembered by on the internet, for just a small group of people, I will be happy. 10000/10 a very cool project.
The white heart we built during the ending is so beautiful if looked like this, through the timelapse. Really sums up the true principle of r/place
This is one of those videos Ludwig makes that just make me stare in amazement at what he as a creator can do and what we as a community have the power to influence... Great video mate thank you for that.
This was such a historic event. Waiting for it in the next 5 years. As much as I liked the steamers part taking sometimes but then they just started building their own logos n creating chaos. I still enjoyed it alot~!!
I don't really watch streamers, I'm sort of aware of who Ludwig is but I don't know anything about him.
This guy can talk!
Fantastic storyteller.
the czech one is so cute, krtek is being spread worldwide, WE LOVE YOU KRTEK