I've seen and heard of plenty of "valued" artistic works that have nowhere near the real artistic value of r/place. I don't mean the actual picture, but the ever evolving representation of such a huge and diverse community's desire to create, destroy and be seen.
Is it really too difficult to have it as a permanent thing?
Posted Apr 2, 2022, 9:05 AM UTC
It's meant to be an April fools event and I think the thing would fall into chaos in less than two weeks if it was permanent
It's chaos now, a beautiful chaos and I don't see any reason why people wouldn't keep collaborating to create images, patterns or text. And if it did evolve into most people just putting black pixels on to destroy the piece that would be be interesting to know when it happened. But honestly there's no way it would.
it's hard to make something by just slapping a pixel on the canvas while everyone else just erases it with another color its so hard to do also there is legit sussy stuff in it and stuff people hate i wish the whole canvas would reset
It's only special because it's limited and everyone is giving it their all to be included.
If it was permanent people would get bored and exhausted, activity would drop off, you wouldn't get the big wars or takeovers, just some meager resistance against an ever-increasing tide of bots.
It's only special because its limited is a truly terrible take.
this is so true and facts even though not everything last forever
I think it'd be less special if it were permanent
1000% this.
It's like having your favorite thing more and more until it's just another every day occurrence and it loses its special essence.
It's one of those weird human traits where there's a balance involved in how much you expose yourself to a good thing before it is no longer good, almost like an aspect of art itself.
A little, in that way. But it's so unique, an idea on this scale, that I don't think it's value comes from its limited time at all. I think it's value comes from its implementation, the pixel limitations and the fact it's Reddit, which is possibly the largest and most diverse community on the internet and therefore the closest to a true cross section of humanity as a whole.