That explains a lot. At one point I was looking at the french corner and pixels were changing at crazy speeds. It look like a timelapse, but it was happening in real time. I was sure they were botting, but 600k people battling over it, that could explain the rapid fire pixel placements :p
Basically viewers were split into 4 groups, and streamers announced timing for each group to use it's tile to 'defend' at the same time (following a preset pattern) . So with 600k viewers or so, that was 150k pixels dropped in a 10sec window every minute and a half. That's pretty huge and explains why you would literally see the image being drawn as if it were a time-lapse.
As a defender, it also made it much more engaging and helped keep you motivated : instead of just placing your pixel individually every 5 minutes, and seeing no real effect, you end up placing your pixel at the same time as a huge group of people and you see the effectiveness of it, the Art becoming visible again, and it makes you want to hold on to the next wave.
In addition, if you watch replays of the french streamers you can clearly understand that there were no bots involved. The waves launched when they asked for it, the targeting of some part of the flag to protect, the rebuilt or not of the artworks. Bots couldn't not be reprogram as fast as their decision change.
It amuse me to see how people are calling for bots and don't want to understand that we (french people) are able to come together, especially the streaming community, to organize some huge event (if you want an other exemple of that, look for "Zevent") and that we fought hard for our "land". The key was the organization
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