It warms my heart to see so much fuck spez amidst the normal nation-state flag spam.
Thank you for the screenshot so I don't have to give Reddit any traffic.
There's honestly not enough "fuck spez" lol
If you sort by New on /r/place people are asking who is Spez.
This is appalling
Sounds like that Spez person is a very popular porn star.
Yes he’s the guy that flirted with doing underage porn while moderating the jailbait sub.
Close. He peddled borderline CP when he was a mere mod.
Dude probably loves getting shit on in his movies.
Classic tactic. Let em rant in a special "freedom zone" and do nothing else. I know, obvious, but still maddening. I left reddit behind forever.
Yeah there is no way they didn't intend this when they opened it back up. It's protest theatre, give them a punching bag so they don't stir up real shit.
Would love to see some lemmy advertising there.
well this is going about as well as I thought. "u/spez ist ein Hurensohn" made me laugh
Das ist sehr gut!
Kreiswichs showing up in a big spot.
Cringe flagspam ruins this shit every time.
B-but my defining character trait is the country that I was born in. Yes, I am the most boring person alive, why do you ask?
The giant French flag especially is ridiculous (and I’m saying this as a French person). Also, I was expecting more fuck u/spez, but I guess the normies don’t care
Edit: wow I sound salty (I am)
They're doing r/place again? Didn't they just have one last year or something? I thought it was supposed to be once every five years event, much like somebody telling spez he is loved.
It looks to me that they’re basically doing it as a desperate last resort.
"even though mods hate us, everyone else loves reddit. See these recent spikes in user engagement"
It can only be accessed through their mobile app, or on the web with the new interface (old.reddit.com won't work).
They don't care what people are putting on the board, it's still an increase in people engaging with the new interface and the official app.
Bread and circuses
I’d rather see more “fuck Reddit” on there than spez. Spez isn’t the only one to blame for their issues, he’s just been at the forefront. He’ll get his golden parachute and bounce if all this anger is directly specifically towards him. My 3 pennies
Just like Pao before him. He’s the new scapegoat to bring in unwanted changes.
I don't think so, largely because his ego wouldn't allow it.
Finding the right time for r/place to return proved to be a challenge – but hey, what better time to offer a blank canvas to our communities than when our users and mods are at their most passionate… right?
This is the most blatantly obvious "please boost our subscriber numbers" statement I've ever seen without directly calling for it.
That’s crazy I was just thinking a few days ago how funny it would be if they decided to do it again, and fuck u/spez got plastered all over it. Surreal that reality is a step ahead of me.
r/place from 2017 was one of the things that really pulled me into Reddit. I loved the idea and I appreciated the strong community engagement with it.
2022 was fun but disappointing to see mostly just MORE flags and big douchy streamers covering up some of the actually decent artwork with their logos.
And now again in 2023? I predict there’s no way this isn’t a dumpster fire and a big bold fuck spez will end up on the final version.
Someone else mentioned it below but we should REALLY use this opportunity to get more Lemmy exposure on there.
What subs do you think would be most on board? redditalternatives? that modcoordinator one? I will sign up as a pixel trooper, this could help spread awareness on how far Reddit sentiment has fallen.
Inb4 every black pixel gets a warning that they'll be replaced by a different user. Repeat black pixel posters get perma banned without warning.
That'd probably just lead to rainbow text insulting spez instead.
The canvas already has the same junk from last year. Looks like people are getting memory holed faster than expected.
Saying "Fuck u/Spez" on Reddit is like protesting McDonald's by buying BigMacs.
It seems like going to McDonald's and handing out flyers. It might briefly make McDonald's look more popular but in the long run it could peel away customers.
True, we should advertise federated alternatives instead. Can we make a Lemmy icon with "Lemmy" next to it somehow?
They can't have seriously thought this would work in their favor lmao
People just want to consume mindless entertainment. I'm extremely jaded over the whole thing and I'll be very glad to be proven wrong, but I betcha regular users will participate as usual and drown out any form of protest.
Preaching to the choir there. But with that being said, a lot of the actual content creators on reddit have jumped ship. It's still going but it's not as busy as it used to be, and upvote/comment numbers are down across almost every sub whenever I look at it. There is clearly a market for that form of content, seeing how it has frequently been plagiarized by Youtubers, instagrammers, and now tiktokers for the past decade or so. If that content truly falls off then reddit will be in serious trouble.
It still boosts their stats up.
Sure, but at the same time all of the casual redditors who somehow weren't aware of the controversy (the ones making threads asking who spez is, for example) are now going to learn more about the controversy and be informed enough to make their own decisions on continuing to use the site. For the short term their engagement will go up but it's very possible that their long-term engagement drops even further after this decision
What did they expect? Lmao
How long until r/place is canceled?
Join the movement
After weeks of not giving their users a platform to speak about the changes they decide to give their users a giant platform, some real 4D chess being played here
Reddit's admins should be declared legally blind because there's no other explanation for how they could couldn't have seen this coming.
I normally don't sympatize with Germans. But today I smile upon them.
Love how foxhole has gone for exactly the same art as last time
