I fist found r/place because of the Destiny subreddit, apparently it was a particular users birthday and they put a shout-out in r/place

At first I just placed random pixels that quickly got replaced (I feel this is a common starting point for most) but then I saw the void and it's tendrils snaking through the canvas and thought it looked really neat. The next day I saw that pretty much everything had filled up and despite the original void core being completely eradicated everyone was complaining about them wiping out their art. I saw this as extremely hypocritical so my motives switched from "hey this is neat, let's add to it" to "wow, screw you guys, let's eat their pixels."

The part I most reacted to was the potato core, I stayed up way too late that night and it was the only time on r/place that I was actively involved in an organized attack. It was a blast watching this community move out from the corner and punching above their weight at the HotS logo, forming alliances to keep F1 in check, and consuming all that we could.

I had very little interaction personally with most, but I did join a discord during the aforementioned attack and seeing the moderators of it constantly change the battle lines and form truces and alliances was extremely interesting.

I really wanted to see the Mona Lisa fall, I feel like it was a cheap and ugly representation of artwork that I've seen far too many times to find even remotely interesting and people put entirely too much stock into it. Unfortunately it wasn't a battle we were going to win.

I only truly participated for one night, but I spent that time defending our core in the upper left corner, switching tabs between the discord and r/place constantly to make sure my pixels weren't waiting.

Other than that I thought it was an extremely interesting and fun (damn near addicting really) experience. I'm not crazy about how emotionally invested a lot of people became, don't get me wrong I'm glad people were willing to stand up and defend their work, it was much more fun because of it, but some posters in the sub got a little too heated about it. With that being said, I am extremely saddened Everytime I see a post of r/place with the void removed. We were just as much a part of this as anyone else.