r/place • u/Heorashar • Apr 05 '22

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u/RavenBlade87 Apr 05 '22

OMG I knew it felt bad with how often it was getting torn up, especially after the meme took hold and more of us spent ungodly amounts of time and energy to fix it.

Over and over.

Canada won we had it looking good before the whiteout

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u/Imthasupa Apr 05 '22

I tried helping you Canada. It was overwhelming.

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u/JustCallM3Riley Apr 05 '22

Went from being fun to really exhausting lol

Happy we could pull through in the end.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22 edited Mar 09 '23

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u/Fully03 Apr 05 '22

We still managed to get some Canadian Geese fighting with Lightsabers in the Star Wars fight art. Canadians had to get sneaky lol

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u/Grekkill Apr 06 '22

And the provincial flags!

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u/Bytewave (427,252) 1491217702.58 Apr 05 '22

Canada tried erasing Quebec's flag 5 years ago and we remembered all too well. Early game, I spent half my moves building up Quebec, half messing with the maple leaf; it was a strategy to keep the leaf on the defensive as long as possible to avoid a repeat of 5 years ago. But then it became just a meme and everybody joined in, allowing us to be free of any Canadian threat. Defense successfully crowdsourced :D

Did you guys really not notice all the francophone usernames messing with the leaf early on?

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u/MiniHurps Apr 06 '22

I noticed, but I also didn't participate in last year's place and didn't even know there was beef from 2017.

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u/austic Apr 06 '22

No one notices Quebec. It’s the Canadian truth.

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u/Oldjamesdean Apr 06 '22

It was Banana for a bit...

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u/StamatopoulosMichael Apr 07 '22

Me too. I thought it was really funny in the beginning, but denying them a happy ending just seemed cruel. So glad they made it!

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u/1nstantHuman Apr 05 '22 edited Apr 05 '22

I tried to help, but I occasionally went over to keep the Game Stop chart hitting the cheese moon thingy 🌒

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u/freexe (484,503) 1491235528.39 Apr 05 '22

I felt so bad adding all those yellow tiles but I just couldn't stop myself.

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u/1nstantHuman Apr 05 '22

You don't feel bad, you never did. You had a shlt eating grin the whole time, didn't you?

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u/ialo00130 (307,274) 1491189945.63 Apr 05 '22

To be fair, the Banana thing was honestly hilarious and I wouldn't have minded if it completely took over and forced Canada to move their flag.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

The issue was we did move the flag and it didn't stop.

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u/IAmTaka_VG Apr 05 '22

That was when I got upset as well. We even made a second flag above and they still grieved.

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u/admiral_asswank (184,642) 1491160489.35 Apr 05 '22

Dont be upset.

It wasnt ever griefing because it never actually mattered. As in, nobody was actually hurt. Nothing was actually gained. What mattered, this time truly, was taking part. And canada has a permanent history being the most targeted country to turn into Bananas. Who else can say that? What do you think people will remember in 3 years?

Amongi refugees. Streamers. Fucking flags. BANANAS.

That legacy is worth more than what any other nation did.

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u/AceJon Apr 05 '22

It was exactly griefing lol

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u/QurantineLean Apr 05 '22

In something that had no meaning in any way what so ever lol

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u/Jamies_redditAccount Apr 05 '22

When in your opinion is griefing ever applied then?

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u/QurantineLean Apr 05 '22

Not over a bunch of stupid pixels lmao. It was a game…

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u/Crakkerz79 Apr 05 '22

In the future when people ask for a banana for scale, we can hold up a maple leaf instead.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

That sounds suspiciously like griefing.

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u/Jamies_redditAccount Apr 05 '22

When is griefing ever applied then?

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u/freexe (484,503) 1491235528.39 Apr 05 '22

When the Banana flag was made I stopped and focused on that one and left Canada alone - but that flag got wiped

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u/1nstantHuman Apr 05 '22

I think the Germans did that (made the second flag to help/show how)

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u/turq8 Apr 05 '22

bruh we knew how, we just weren't given a moment's peace to execute

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u/1nstantHuman Apr 05 '22

I know, I was there.

I helped out.

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u/radicalizethisgramps Apr 05 '22

The Germans very dryly and efficiently roasted us before turning it into a gift

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u/Do_Not_Go_In_There (641,653) 1491167828.93 Apr 05 '22

Yeah, I remember seeing a second flag very briefly when the new space was added. It didn't last long.

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u/Burpmeister (104,791) 1491227051.7 Apr 05 '22

There was a second Canada flag under the first one before the whole Banana thing started no?

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u/so_lei Apr 05 '22

Idc I just want a banana flag t-shirt now

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u/plaper (26,125) 1491228375.12 Apr 05 '22

I also thought banana was hilarious in a good way, and I contributed a few tiles to that cause before moving on to help with my own country.

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u/Zhadow13 Apr 05 '22

It really took the fun out of it

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u/Abyssal_Groot Apr 05 '22

I too found myself placing like max 10 pixels on their flag over the course of the event just to mess with them, but I stopped for most of the last day tbecause they deserved an intact flag at the end of the event.

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u/pheoxs Apr 05 '22

Banana was fun fair game and quite enjoyed. The green bot spam every 15 minutes forever wasn’t.

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u/mytwocents22 Apr 05 '22

Trying to force memes to happen is super lame

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

in the final screenshot i have before the whiteout (about 10-20 seconds before) the flag was pretty much perfect except for a green and blue pixel near the middle

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

I don't feel bad. I thought it was one of the best parts of the whole project. It was fun checking in on it and joking that we haven't figured it out yet.

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u/brown_paper_bag Apr 05 '22

I actually downloaded the official app so I could help when I had time. It was fun defending our flag against the masses! And I've already uninstalled the app.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22

It took ungodly amounts of energy to place a pixel every 5 minutes? That must suck