this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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r/place was originally an April fool's event, which they did in two different years. The second one upset a lot of people because Reddit admins were caught censoring things.
The fact that they're doing it now is speculated to be an attempt to drive up participation after all the bad press. Many people guessed that doing it now would be a bad move because there is still a lot of anger about the handling of 3PAs, and this place is full of people who feel that way.
As predicted, the current r/place has a lot of anti-Reddit and anti-Spez sentiment, so people here are relishing it. But most don't want to go to Reddit and give them the traffic, so they're upvoting the threads here.