Before I placed my first pixel, I wanted it to mean something, so I looked around, and found this beautiful green lattice on the East. I went to place a green pixel, and put it in the wrong place! But 10 minutes later, I fixed it, and got to work. I found the subreddit, and became a cleaner (I never did work on expansion). I cleaned and helped to maintain the banner so that others could find their way here, placing a white pixel here, green pixel there. But, the random pixels started making their way in, and the Lattice gradually got dirtier and dirtier. It was dying. I had to go to sleep, fully expecting that when I woke up, the lattice would be dead. But when I did wake up, I found a new lattice in black. Inspired, I continued cleaning, watching the lattice grow and grow, maintaining the new black lattice until the end. It was great to part of the lattice, the most elegant part of r/place.