r/place
Sign in to saveAlso known as /r/place, Place
r/place was a recurring collaborative project and social experiment hosted on the content aggregator site Reddit. Originally launched on April Fools' Day 2017, it has since been repeated again on April Fools' Day 2022 and on July 20, 2023.
Key facts
- Website.name
- r/place
- Website.creator
- Josh Wardle
- Website.screenshot
- File:R-place 2023 final.jpg
- Website.caption
- The canvas in 2023 on the last day of the event
- Website.registration
- Reddit account required
- Website.owner
- Website.launch_date
- Original launch: Second launch: Third launch:
- Website.current_status
- Hibernating
via Wikipedia infobox
~22 min read
Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Overview
- History
- 2017 experiment
- 2022 experiment
- 2023 experiment
- Media response
- Legacy
- Atlas
- Wplace
- See also
- References
- External links
r/place was a recurring collaborative project and social experiment hosted on the content aggregator site Reddit. Originally launched on April Fools' Day 2017, it has since been repeated again on April Fools' Day 2022 and on July 20, 2023.
The 2017 experiment involved an online canvas located at a subreddit called r/place. Registered users could edit the canvas by changing the color of a single pixel with a replacement from a 16-color palette. After each pixel was placed, a timer prevented the user from placing any more pixels for a period of time varying from 5 to 20 minutes (depending on whether the user had verified their email address). The idea of the experiment was conceived by Josh Wardle.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “r/place” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.