You missed the best part, in the German Flag, they've written "u/spez ist ein Hurensohn!"

Translation: u/spez is a son of a whore/bitch (Google says bitch, commenters are saying whore.)

Our French compatriots are giving Spez the guillotine!

By opening up r/place again, they've stolen the magic from it.

The first time it happened, it was amazing and novel.

The second time was an incredible surprise each time the board opened up again. I was involved with the r/Beach House community to put up an homage to our favorite band.

But now... It's become repetitive. It feels like just an attention grab, like a ploy to artificially increase traffic to the site. This time, it looks no different from every other time r/place has taken... place. It's flags everywhere, there's so much anger surrounding it, and it's just not fun.

r/place was special because of its spontaneity. But now it's soulless, like every other corporate-owned internet phenomenon is.

Fuck Steve Huffman.

I saw a suggestion to go put a "join Lemmy" banner on there, is it happening?

This is still traffic on the site.

every time they do r/place it feels a little less special

So, at the end, it worked?... shame

Reddit does not need love, people enjoying it or whatever, they need traffic. Advertisers dont care if you are there just to express how awfull reddit is, they need views. I would have love to see this shit staying blank.

The Among Us characters are also back, but they are all FUCK SPEZ. 😆

this is like following your ex on instagram. time to let them go

Starting a J for "Join Lemmy" at (22,-202)

Apparently there's also a "Lemmy" going on at (-190,-195)

should've written join lemmy

"Hey, we're still cool. Remember this cool thing we did, look, we're doing it again, aren't we cool". Like that annoying kid in the class who had everybody laugh with one joke 2 years ago, and now he is repeating it time and again in order to get the same laughs.
Except in this case he's after any engagement so hateclicks are as good as loveclicks.

The only thing I expected that hasn’t shown up yet is the Apollo app logo.

Place has always been a bit shit. The first time was interesting and novel because all the factions emerged with different ideologies that actually created personas and identities for themselves, but ever since then it's just been 50/50 nationalism or consumer products. There's so many more interesting things that could be painted and yet half of it will be flags of bourgeoise states.

I don’t understand why r/place is back, 2017 and 22 were very popular. I can only imagine they trying to drive traffic after the exodus. Anybody have insight?

Just stop giving it attention. This is driving traffic and ultimately increases the number of interaction, which is good for reddit. I see people post screenshots of their phones, again driving numbers for the app that they just propped up by killing 3rd party apps.

i entered to see how it was, and it seems that there are only like 8 colors? so it is worse than the last time? like, the trans flag can't be done correctly, and probably the pixel art is going to look much worse. truly enshitification for literally no reason

Many people don't know who spez (or Steve Huffman for that matter) is, a more general text should work: Fuck Reddit.

I'm actually surprised the fuck spez messages have lasted long since admins probably have access to brushes to clear it up like it was paint.

Call me a conspiracy theorist but the amount and intensity of data they must get out of this is huge. They will know all the accounts that are anti-spez which they can monitor and algorithmically demote (soft censorship).

Reddit, like most captive-tech these days, is shifting to optimizing only for providing endless distraction to the 90% of mindless hoards which are easy to monetize.

I suspect Youtube will be next in line to squeeze the lemon, now that they are trying to block adblockers.

The fuck spez is perfect. Also I can't even view r/place because you have to either use their app or go to new reddit.

Didn‘t know they brought it back. They probably need to fix their engagement numbers for the IPO…

Since reddit is like 90% bots these days. Do you think these events are catering to the bots since this event is 100% bots? Do you think the bots are gaining sentience?

Either way, just ignore reddit's attempt to draw people back or seem "cool"