Watching the r/Place timelapse is like staring into the heart of Reddit

Even though you can no longer place tiles on Reddit's r/Place canvas, which was a revival of an April Fools' Day experiment, the platform has given us the chance to relive the experience. The company has provided a treasure trove of data, including a recap post that goes over numbers and statistics (things like which country placed the most tiles or which subs talked about r/Place the most), alongside an entire CSV dataset for people to tinker with if they'd like.

But, as someone who watched the chaos unfold by checking in every hour or so (and placed a few tiles of my own), the coolest thing Reddit posted is a three-minute-long timelapse that shows how the canvas was shaped by users over four days.

Watching it evolve is like staring...

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