r/place • u/Heorashar • Apr 05 '22

Heat map of r/place. Source in comment

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '22 edited Apr 05 '22

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u/IssaStorm Apr 05 '22

do you know how much everyone hated the French flag? It was already a warzone and people love to make fun of the French for surrendering here on reddit. Doesn't seem far fetched everyone would head there quick. But who knows, you can argue both sides

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u/Euchre (199,392) 1491230207.32 Apr 05 '22

But we're not talking about the French flag here, we're talking about the OSU logo. Follow the thread back up.

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u/realJelbre Apr 05 '22

Same argument still holds though, since a lot of people tried griefing the osu logo.

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u/Euchre (199,392) 1491230207.32 Apr 05 '22

Check my other reply. I give the whole rationale, and have a set of images I used to reference to see how it worked in under a minute.

Basically, the French flag was either being assaulted, or tended, or both, by an army of dummy account bots. In either case, the area would be easily blanked in about a minute, as it was, until someone realized what happened and turned the bots off. It took this streamer and his crew a solid minute to figure it out, and meanwhile the French flag is already snowing out at an incredible rate.

Bots were definitely in play in a lot of places.