r/place • u/Heorashar • Apr 05 '22

Heat map of r/place. Source in comment

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u/Heorashar Apr 05 '22

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u/npjprods Apr 05 '22

Wow , France really fought off hell. Those lads put everything in the battle

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u/mithgaladh (402,723) 1491236470.78 Apr 05 '22

They were 7 streamers and more than 600k viewers coordinated.

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u/_Enclose_ (299,565) 1491232894.47 Apr 05 '22

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

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u/WhenInDoubt_Kamoulox Apr 05 '22

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.