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So beside the point, I think that this atlas is very interesting. I have known about this page for a while, it ran for 72 hours (3 days) and there were a lot of factions, most notably the rainbow road, and maybe also the black void, a void of black pixels that were just no fun. Many factions formed on 4-Chan, so that is cool. It was also interesting to see the process of making it, to see a bunch of people with a common goal work together to achieve greatness, honestly, I love it. There were also a few instances when I saw different parts of the atlas battling it out and trying to take over each other. Germany consumed France, and Rainbow Road attempted to consume the U.S. Looking at this was definitely a relieving break from all the debate talk we were having for a while before. Even though there were a billion small communities each building their own thing, the sense of community in everyone was very strong, and the people working on this had to collaborate a lot just to create what they wanted. For example, I could imagine a few people who wanted to have one thing as the entire page or at least have one thing as a very big part of it, but they had to recognize the wishes of other people too, and together, they made one big eye-straining image. It was interesting to see that people could work together and form big pieces of art pixel by pixel. There were others before this that also did this thing, but Reddit's write was the atlas that many people could access. I hope to remember the experience of learning about this place, r/place.

The interactive map says that all the hundreds of hearts spawned from some simple red hearts. Guess what those simple red hearts were in? The Love Live thing, representing Love gems which are the super ultra premium currency in the mobile game. B 06-32. Therefore Love Live has a greater influence on this than any other anime. Since this is obviously the most important thing in the world, this means Love Live is the most influential anime in the world. Victuri! Take that, Naruto! Also, laugh out loud SAO was completely consumed showing that SAO is a trash anime.

This image in itself is a representation of what the internet itself is and how everything dishes out. By the size of images, you can tell how big certain communities are, and how dedicated they are to defend their claimed real estate on the image. Also, how even if you changed one pixel then even that was still recorded kinda like how they say everything on the internet is there forever type thing. I wonder how many different groups participated? There's probably a count for that or something. . . oops

Yeah so now I'm here. Overall I think this project is one of the coolest things there is. You can just spend hours looking at it and having fun recalling things. I think it's amazing that they got so many people to work together to build this. You wanna know what I noticed? I noticed pokemon, rick and Morty, he-man, and more. It was just like looking back in time to see everything that we've done before. The end result I think was the hardest part. People had to find and see everything and label it. Do you know how much things are? But still, I think this experiment was overpowered.

I think that this project epitomizes what the Internet is. People who have never met in real life banding together to create works of art revolving around inside jokes is a great way to represent the Internet and its users. It still amazes me how these bands of people worked to organize and execute things like this that were seemingly impossible, 1 pixel per 5 minutes, and find a way to create something incredible together. I believe that the sizes of the picture show the relative size of those fan groups and their dedication to the said thing. The image would be a certain size depending on the number of people that were willing to cooperate on the image. The randomness of it all is humorous, yet representative of the modern generation and their interests.

I think "Reddit Place" is an extraordinary piece of art because there are a lot of details to it. On the final product, they featured flags from all around the world, cartoon characters, video games, movies, memes, TV shows, and more. I think that the final product was amazing because, despite the fact that there was no direction given, people worked together to create the masterpiece. I was also surprised that I did not see any violence or threatening contents since it was an open platform. In the process of creating this, people overwrote previous works. For example, the Germany flag absolutely bombarded the France flag. The rainbow road has also attempted to overwrite the American flag, but without success. On the other hand, there was the void trying to attack Place, they slowly swallow outward from the gap, engulfing all the artwork in its way, leaving an abandoned, lifeless black hole. While the members of The Void were busy expanding their territories, the other use the newly laid canvas to rebuilt. Like a forest fire that burns green leaves to ashes, this open land leaves a fertile canvas for people to create new, reworked art. I think it was incredible how everyone including people who probably did not even know each other came in and allied against the void. In order to compose a piece of art on the canvas, people had to communicate with each other online through various platforms. Very similarly, in TIC, we collaborate during activities like the discussion, project, and net-hunt. This makes everything more productive. In both situations, the only way to get stuff done is through strong collaboration.

Something that I noticed while the image was in the process of being arranged, once an image was full and big, like the US flag, people (mostly)stayed away from changing. Staying away as in changing the pixels. I think the reason for this was that it would take so much time to try to change it and even if they just used one pixel in the already formed image it would hardly make a difference.