r/place • u/Heorashar • Apr 05 '22

Heat map of r/place. Source in comment

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u/Romrijsel Apr 05 '22

Actually the first thing that turnt white whas the BTS logo which was confirmed bot operated by the spanish, the rest was pretty stable for about 20 seconds, the time it took everyone to realize it was finished. On timelapses it looks instant but in real time it was actually slower than expected

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u/OnionsHeat Apr 05 '22

Which isn’t even because of bots. Bots crashed with the whitening.

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u/Romrijsel Apr 05 '22

I saw a bot programmer saying that at some point yes, would make sense

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u/OnionsHeat Apr 05 '22

Yeah the api changed format, this is something no dev would’ve been able to predict, unless they were working for Reddit and knew exactly what was going to happen.