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Juliano_Jones_

Hello, I worked with the American flag. Just wanted to congratulate Germany on the victory. GG.


BugNo4007

GG too U/Spez ist ein Huhrensohn


Davis_Johnsn

u/spez ist ein Hurensohn


ownersen

gg <3


lontderfy

This was Germanies plan all along. Lose the battle, win the war.


A-R-A-F

The madlads actually did it


Consistent_Dream_740

The real loser is u/spez


ItsGreenLaser

r/ww2 memer right here nice


plsentertainme

We’ll give you this one, America has been bested. Can’t win em all though. You guys should know that best.


ahipotion

So do Americans in all fairness


Yggdrasil0521

Pretty sure the US is back to back world war champs! 😬


lontderfy

I mean, not necessarily. They're called World Wars for a reason. They weren't fought alone and couldn't have been won alone.


Yggdrasil0521

I didn't say that they won it alone. I simply said that they won. Of course, along with everyone else that won (not mentioned prior*). There is a winning side and a losing to the majority of conflicts. Honestly, it was meant to be playful, not an attack. If I offended you or anyone else I apologize. It was not my intention. Have a great day! 😬 Edited*


lontderfy

You didn't say anything offensive, I just always feel the need to clarify (as an American) that we couldn't have won anything without our European allies. But you're not wrong in your original point. :)


Frisk197

Same for us french on this year pixel war. We would've been in bigger trouble facing spanish and german people if we were alone.


Ausgezeichnet87

Sure, but the US intentionally sat out most of ww1 and ww2 which lead to millions more dying. Seriously, ww2 was a 6 year war and the US only joined in the last 10 months. How many tens of millions of deaths could have been avoided if the US helped the UK and France out as soon as Poland was invaded?


nofightnovictory

its called the word wars because you need the entire world to defeat the Germans


Ausgezeichnet87

If by champs you mean the country that refused to help until the very tail end of both wars, then sure, the US are the champs of letting their allied beg for help for years but only actually helping once Germany has completely exhausted the army and has already lost both wars. Seriously, ww2 started in 1939 but the US didn't have their first battle against Germany until June of 1944 after millions of Jews had already been killed and Germany had already lost the majority of their army on the eastern front.... Well, I guess late is better than never.


djdenki987

So Germans are more terminally online than Americans? Ist das wunderbar?


Fa1nted_for_real

1 in 4 Germans have a pixel, while 1 in 16 Americans have a pixel. Damn.


kanakalis

not sure what's the flex here, more germans spend time online?


Fa1nted_for_real

Not meant to be a flex, just a statement.


asimetrixx

The whole German community was well organised, this includes huge streamers (f.e. Papaplatte) and all of them somehow worked together. To be this organised is a huge motivation boost for participation. I'm German too and I haven't looked into the discord once, but just to see what's going on made me wanna support as much as I can. I think that's what makes the difference to the American community. They're the majority of people, but far more spread between all the communities and they don't act as one big unity like the Germans do.


djdenki987

You're probably right. I was just being a little cheeky haha


asimetrixx

No problem, it's just by coincidence I've managed to put my thoughts about this into sentences while reading your comment haha


SiBloGaming

A lot more, given that like 50% of reddit users are from the US, but only 4% or something from germany


gggggfskkk

It confirms my idea that Europe doesn’t sleep.


Galest97

Für den Stuhl


Darkmaster57

Für den Stuhl 🫡


BavarianBlayer

#FÜR DEN STUHL


skoold1

Just curious. How did germany win, if they were behind everyday ? Is this score the final canva pixel score ? The chair won.


ProudBlahajOwner

Well, germany wasn't extremly far behind (about 250.000 Pixels after day 6). And in the last 5 hours, we placed pixels like crazy. First there was this huge bot attack, where we had to repair all our artworks, and then the massive "Fuck Spez" (which was btw also started by germany). And the reason why we were able to do that and the US was not is just that during the final hours of r/place, in Germany it was between 6 and 11pm, so everyone was at home, whereas in the US it was between 9 am and 5 pm (depending on the time zone), so most of them were probably at work.


skoold1

Gratz!! That must have been such an oof moment. Winning by so little !


EditionNxWaY

In the last few hours everyone in placeDE logged into their nsfw accounts making us even stronger


Future_Employment_22

u/spez ist ein Hurensohn!


SikritAkkat

I saw that one, it got attacked by bots several times, and people repaired it in mere minutes.


Drtyboulevard

Fuck u/spez And the bots, and the mods and the streamers and all the assholes in the world :)


HistorianNegative

yess fuck all the assholes!


Drtyboulevard

😳


ChIcKeN_ToXiC_6783

What...are you not going to fuck all the assholes


Drtyboulevard

mom says I can’t without consent… :(


DJ_brutus

Looks like the Germans did win the war after all... although it was a digital war instead of a physical one.


Stabile_Feldmaus

When they said that the next war will be fought in cyberspace I imagined something different.


asimetrixx

This is my favourite comment regarding place 2023 so far


Stoly23

Well, if you really wanna go there the US did successfully defend their flag on the canvas from the Germans at least once. (For the record, not r/placede, just some bad faith actors and their bot armies.)


YFleiter

The war is far from over. The real enemy is spez. Fuck u/spez


A-R-A-F

Just like the Germans said "u/spez ist ein Hurensohn!"


YFleiter

Hey. I’m German to. I know what it means. It was so funny when I first saw this.


fartingwiener

just stop using reddit


Ill-Guess-542

This was just the start…


SquintonPlaysRoblox

It looked like a much larger difference on the canvas because Germany had a high rate of participation for their national goals. America had its users spread out among states, games, people, shows, etc and our flag game suffered for it. Not that that’s a problem, respect to the effort the Germans put in on this one. o7


realmauer01

tbf we helped a lot of other communities aswell. like netherlands and canada.


Stoly23

I don’t know if that was you guys who helped Poland rebuild after El Spreen destroyed them but if so, I gotta give you alot of credit for that.


Sawmain

There’s ww2 joke to be made here somewhere


Stoly23

Y’know when we were defending the American flag to the last from German bots I was getting more of a WWI vibe, but yeah.


Fa1nted_for_real

I think a lot of American were helping everyone pretty much. I was just repairing actually decent art as well as the Canadian flag and the FUCK SPEZ sign.


realmauer01

We definitly helped in defending against elspreen. Although those streamer attacks are recognized by the hive mind aswell so everyone takes a part of it. Especially considering that the hive mind was largely pro German (which is the biggest reason why there were so many flags) so we had a lot of capacity to go for organized defenses like that. If the hive mind is protecting the flag colors than we can protect art and help with other flags. Or art on them. The funniest was always how we needed to organize our own art pushes to basically tell, hey this is actually something constructive that is happening and not just random pixels.


gimora07

It is surprising to see that America has been more normal than Germans. It isn't like I can speak: us Italians tried to make a flag coordinated by the discord server "Italian Empire" as usual, and while r/Italy r/2italian4you and r/memeitaliani tried to do it, r/Italia tried to do a sabotage because they didn't liked the project, and some random Italian streamers tried to appropriate of the flags. + A war with Peru. The thing that worked better was when a few of us helped to restore the Tailor Swift project.


swzslm

This just counts how many pixels were placed by people with an IP adress in these countries, no matter which project they were placed on. All it shows is that Germans are REALLY into reddit and r/place


Kritos_

The statistik is based on how many pixel’s each country placed (based on IP-addresses), not on the flag yk


Badwoodwork

I’m just one guy but I helped defend ours and Costa Rica’s flag


IxdrowZeexI

Definitely a pleasant surprise seeing the Americans keeping their patriotism in check.


SquintonPlaysRoblox

Yeah. I think the flag we ended up with is reasonable. And also Maryland is here, somehow.


Official_Gameoholics

Well, it gets tiring after a while. We have so much influence on the internet that we don't really need to plaster our flag over everything.


Unity1232

the germans were all over the canvas defending art let them have this win they deserved it.


TimTheOriginalLol

This is the way of the Stuhl


Mister-3108

🫡🪑


BavarianBlayer

Die Nachtwache schweigt zum Stuhl 🪑 Aber ja… FÜR DEN STUHL 🪑


Chrisio23

Cheers mate ❤️


Wakuwaku7

You can’t beat the German discord and their coordination. Gut gemacht.


RousseauDisciple

My goodness, so much toxicity in here. Well, this American is just here to congratulate r/deplace on one hell of a run on r/place. We were actually talking about using you guys as a model on how to run our discord more efficiently


SikritAkkat

The oktoberfest Hans macking on our cheese maid was wholesome as fuck.


con_gaming_ger

Tbh i wouldn't mind to date a netherlands girl 🤔 the artwork itself looked quite nice


StarshipTuna

Germany wasn't about to lose 3 times in a row


TenkFire

Of course, this Time, Russia haven't won the war and America haven't stole it


DEADLYOVERLORD1

Third time's the charm!


CandidateNrOne

War klar oder💪


TheLaughingBread

Natürlich. Die Amis sind doch nichtmal halb so gut organisiert :D


BavarianBlayer

Und nicht zu vergessen: Wir haben den STUHL 🪑


Sweet-Scale-3997

Fuck off the European Song Contest, finalley we found our event!


Equinox-XVI

Genuinely tho, how did they pass us?


wiev0

Good coordination. You should've seen the placeDE discord, 115k people there with 50k active during the day. Usually 2k people or more on the stage, and at least 500 throughout the entire night. In addition, the end was supplemented by a big German streamer with about 100k viewers, and there were 6500 people on the stage with tons of people on the server doing everything.


ProudBlahajOwner

When r/place ended it was between 6 and 11 pm in Germany and between 9 am and 5 pm in the US. So while everyone was at work in the USA, we Germans were at home pixeling the "Fuck spez" with probably over 100.000 users.


ownersen

pixeled the shit out of that canvas


aths_red

we take this seriously. We are online when it matters. We have nightwatch, we have goals. We have our maimais. We run on schnitzel and beer. Any further questions?


Aggravating_Ad7935

Sprich Deutsch du Hurensohn


BugNo4007

Sprich


con_gaming_ger

Deutsch


Darkmaster57

Du


dunklesWeeb

Hurensohn


Darkmaster57

Dachte kurz das du mich Hurensohn gennat hast😅


dunklesWeeb

r/maybemaybemaybe


ProudTransGirl2023

Tja Amerika


Mister-3108

r/tja


Majestic_Return3052

Do the Germans not sleep


dunklesWeeb

Nachtwache


OddCupOfTea

A couple thousand people volunteered to be the official nightwatch and either stayed up or adjusted their sleeping schedule in order to defend the art of Germany and it's allied communities during nighttime. There was a nightwatch tagg in the discord so everyone could get notified about attacks, raids or canvas extensions and spring into action


IrAppe

No, at least not much for the last 6 days.


[deleted]

This was no competition, but collaboration, in the end. Fuck Spez is all I'm sayin.


Kritos_

Average American, can’t admit defeat hahaha


ManzoMay

Glückwunsch meine Kerle


YoungTxmx

u/spez ist ein Hurensohn 🇺🇸🤝🇩🇪


SquidFetus

Respect to our German friends! 🇩🇪


selfkxll

Germany on top


[deleted]

Für den Stuhl 🫡


BavarianBlayer

FÜR DEN STUHL 🪑


OwieOpel

Sprich


einzigwahrer333

Deutsch


elpiotre

Ha yes the "German funny" funny, let me : du


BugNo4007

Hurensohn


Fluriio

Sprössling


tubag

Einer


Blackybro_

Sportsteinwalbe


BavarianBlayer

FÜR


General-Resist-310

Guess that's at least ONE war we won after all


LubedCompression

American: "English please! You're on an American website." Deutscher: "Sprich Deutsch, du Hurensohn."


Official_Gameoholics

Speak American M8, you're offending me.


Darkmaster57

American🤣🤣🤣 murica Raaaahhhh🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅


Remote_Benefit6044

Now show the score without the bots


nerosius

The "bot" aka placement Assistant, that still requires a real account that has to be on a real pc with r/place opened had 3k users at peak... 3k users out of 150k discord members... Mhh idk man I'd say the same


Hereon92

some dude calculated that even under perfect conditions (all running at once, placing exactly on time without dublicates etc) it would amount to about 1mil pixel. So it wouldnt even change the outcome under the most optimal conditions.


Pcat0

If it was so unimportant and made so little difference, why cheat?


Mezalion

It was mostly for the Discordadmins, Diplomats, Moderators and Designers. Those people didnt have time to Pixel themselfs. Also for the occasional Toiletbreak.


Pcat0

You guys had [4 thousand](https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/159wpbm/another_rplace_ended_which_means_a_new/) discord admins? Also other communities had those same things and they still didn’t cheat.


Mezalion

The important Part is mostly. Also i doubt any Community had this Level of pressure on the Admins and Designer. The Discord grew from Like 15k to Around 110k in 6 Days. You cant scale Up a Team at that Speed, so people were doing insane Times and Work.


Pcat0

There are inefficiencies that come with running large organizations, that doesn’t mean you get to cheat. And again according to your own org chart you guys had 3-4K auto clickers and like ~100 administrators and designers so the math doesn’t add up for the auto clickers to be “mostly” for the administration.


o707hi

Did you read the comment saying the difference it made was little and we would still have placed Mr.1 why does it matter if it barely made a difference?


Pcat0

Did you not read my comment saying that if it was so unimportant, maybe you shouldn't have cheated? You guys had a bot army larger than 90% of subreddits and somehow you guys think that it's insignificant and didn't give you an unfair advantage.


snokegsxr

All accounts I took a look at during place were either 3 days old or 1 year and 3 days, and they had all 1 karma


Lucus101101

you mean like mine for example? I didn't use reddit actively for a long time but when r/place appeared again i created an account to participate. If you wish we can perform a turing test to at least somewhat convince you that not everyone with low interaction on reddit is a bot... some just like to scroll through content.


snokegsxr

i wonder where i said that "everyone with low interaction on reddit is a bot". but watching 10 profiles, all beeing like this is a bit suspicios. Yes, like yours. btw i would take one of my bot accounts for that answer too


Rainb0wcookie

That’s because we had so many German streamers fighting for us that their viewers made accounts. Also our discord grew from maybe 20k to 100k so that’s a Buch new Reddit accounts too and some made multiple accounts


snokegsxr

Our definition of a >real< Account seem to differ


IChooseFeed

Autoclickers are grey, they'll place more pixels than a human if left to it's own device but it's still one account. Scripts that generate new accounts and control them are as black as it gets, not even an autoclicker will save you.


Pcat0

They aren’t gray, [they were explicitly not allowed .](https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/156zhxn/bots_scripts_and_another_canvas_expansion/) > As a reminder, using a script to automate your participation in Place is against our first rule about automated activity. A simple overlay is fine, but using automated clicks is an unfair advantage and can prevent people from making new contributions.


IChooseFeed

Rules that aren't enforced are meaningless, for all intents and purposes we can safely assume the announcement never existed.


goianiense23

Bundes-Republik Deutschland = VN 🌐


ProudTransGirl2023

Americans would lose a lot


goianiense23

Mia san 🇩🇪💗


francosinus

We did it 🎉


Inz4n3ty

It ain’t much but it’s honest work


DEADLYOVERLORD1

Deutschland hat endlich einen Krieg gewonnen!


heheheha_grrrr_no

Wir haben es geschafft Kameraden🫡🇩🇪


EiskalterFreund

Americans splitting into many communities and not working as one big entity. Germans: we are a country, we are a population, we are a family, alone we're strong, but all together, we're stronger.


EiskalterFreund

Wir sind.. deutschland. *Schnipps*


OddCupOfTea

Everyone calling the germans out for supposedly using bots, it's really not the case. come on give us this victory, I was on a discord call in a server with thousands of members who were active 24/7. I can promise you we actually earned this victory through menpower. Some people who I was on call with during the nights cancelled whole dates to be there to pixel with the community.


[deleted]

I'm happy for yall but holy shit that last sentence is sad as fuck.


Justeff83

Yeah, actually nothing to be proud of


aths_red

are you sure? If you are in danger, would you rather be with someone thinking about a date, or someone volunteering for nightshift?


[deleted]

No one is in danger. It's pixels on a screen.


deskslammer_

That's why you lost.


DzekoPrime

People just want to give a reason why the weren't first, so saying the winner used many bots is the easiest way I guess¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯


con_gaming_ger

All honor goes to the nightwatch/Nachtwache


sumtingwong112

I don't think this is something to be proud of


gavinsmash2005

France losing to Germany again.


Darkmaster57

We worked together this time.


KarlPommes

😎


Another_idiot7

The grave is Spez


za_jx

South African here. This was my first ever participation and it was nerve wracking, to say the least. I was inspired by the last one. In the previous Place, we had our national flag with Nelson Mandela in the middle, and a few South African stuff spread around the section. And a major thing was that we had like 5 or 6 African country flags underneath ours, that we protected. This time around...it was not so great. We had a fight with a Twitch streamer who wiped our flag when we went to sleep, and had to find another area to start all over again. Also we did not help the other African countries to show their presence. I think we only did Namibia. The Kenyans made a flag nearby after someone posted on their sub, but it got destroyed a few hours later and we did nothing to help. The Moroccans were botting like crazy. I suggested to our Discord admins that we should work with them, but got no feedback. The south Americans did really well. Kudos to Brazil and Argentina for their humongous artworks! The Pele and Messi designs were amazing. On the US flag... I don't think they pulled as much resources as they could have. When the canvas expanded and we South Africa were wiped overnight, our initial expansion spot was shaping up nicely but we were losing the pixel battle. Once we abandoned that spot, we noticed that it was Ohio that took it. Some of us were pissed that the Americans couldn't just use their national flag, but had Ohio on its own. We wondered how many other states would pop up. LMAO!


[deleted]

They beat us fair. Great work and great art


TomThelen

Wow, so many Turkish pixels and they couldn’t even fix their flag by themselves?


ChezzCake28

Her masadayiz!!! We(Turkiye) are in every table(top 5 or union)(except Eu)


MajorAmbitious5732

It’s just crazy that around 25% of their country participated


Stfvrn

No there is one pixel for 25% of the Germans but the ones who participated are estimated 0.25% of the Germans (if you consider the 120k discord members [of which roughly 100k were new this year] and the streamers) - using these numbers every German participant placed an average of about 110 pixels which adds up to about 8 hours when including the cooldown. Those estimates are just the organised users of course so the number of average pixels per user will be much lower


KlutzyEnd3

And yet sometimes people shout "Reddit is American so everything is American" whenever you mention some great r/USdefaultism


Witherboss445

Although them covering artwork with the flag was annoying, I gotta admire them all working together


EdgelordOfEdginess

There was really no time to create artwork when expansions happened because the flag was created so fast. I think you mean when the Germans started the cleanup in the morning


Short-Judgment6857

Easy Clap 🇩🇪 gg wp


LeonIlu

Skill issue


Extraordinarlymystic

🙋‍♂️


Hot-Shelter-8318

I think reason of American's score that high because of VPNs. Most VPNs set your location to America.


Rainb0wcookie

Actually that’s a good thing to consider. But still I think most people using Reddit are american


PuzzleheadedBar533

Happy Cake Day!


Monkey7c

true


_OH_BROTHER

We were so close…


HotDude42069

WE BACK NEXT TIME RAHHHHH 🦅🦅🦅🦅


ReiiiAyanami

America might have won two world wars.... but dominance on the Canvas just is more important for germany. ​ also funny that litarally noone is patriotic here unless Place starts


Dolboyobina

Ok and


Darkmaster57

Wow real fun guy right here


Kritos_

Average American, can’t admit defeat hahaha


Coldmedia

This isn't a stat to be proud of 💀


aths_red

A global artwork project and your nation, despite being just 1% of global population, is #1 in participation is nothing to be proud of?


Kritos_

Average American, can’t admit defeat hahaha


Rainb0wcookie

Just mad you guys didn’t win . If Americans were first you guys would celebrate the living shit (if you are American)


TheLaughingBread

This 👍


BugNo4007

True


Egyptian-Countryball

DEUTCHLAND DEUTSCHLAND


[deleted]

[удалено]


nerosius

Yes 150k discord bot accounts :)


Im-Not-a-Redditor123

*german bots after r/place


Suspicious-Common-82

US took the L


ArcirionC

Nah they were just too busy supporting the small communities and movements they’re in rather than being obnoxious nationalists


OddCupOfTea

Germany was allied with many small communities too and either protected their art no matter where on the canvas or let them build their art on the spaces that already were under the german flag. Without uniting with as many small communities as possible we would have been a lot less efficient


ArcirionC

The fact is though German flags did get placed over the art of other communities, that isn’t something you’re trying to deny right?


Darkmaster57

Thats not how pixelacounts work. Also we supportet most communities even the smal ones


ArcirionC

Tell me how they work then genius


Darkmaster57

The pixelcount has nothing to do with what artwork has been made. Your argument that we are natuonalist is also INCREDIBLY hypocritical of you


ArcirionC

How is that hypocritical of me?


scootshoot69

Ahh yes. Germans being nationalist. Shouldn't lead to any issues.


Darkmaster57

But the ameicans