If you are new to Reddit Place or / reddit, it is best to start from the beginning. As the name suggests, we are talking about Reddit and it was an interesting joint project at the time, in which all users can participate. Imagine a huge empty panel, 2,000 x 2,000 pixels (a total of four million dots) and the community that creates and changes the color of these dots. Over the years, it has been a peaceful space in which users, at least for the most part, have participated together.

This year, however, something has changed at Reddit Place, namely a long-standing rivalry between Spain and France exploded in this areaand it made it quite poisonous. And I say this year, because year after year, Reddit Place is only open for a few days and the resulting panel remains visible for the rest of the year until the next issue opens. That is, a confrontation that lasts until six o’clock in the morning, until seven o’clock, when the panel is closed until next year.

Spanish and French users are thus attacking the proposals of the rival country, which would not be a small anecdote without it Twitch streamers as relevant as Ibai, ElRubius and AuronPlay on the Spanish side and others just as relevant on the other side of the Pyrenees have joined the confrontation and have been mobilizing their followers for several days to register with Reddit (those who do not yet have an account) and to join the boycott of Reddit Place proposals from a competing country.

In addition, both sides are trying to add as much support as possible. DFrom the ForoCoches community to the Korean BTS fan movementwho call themselves the Army, any support adds up, although in this game of loyalty and support there is nothing free. In fact, the military has asked for support from the Spanish community to work in return to maintain the BTS presence in Reddit Place.

The French side, more organized, has been using scripts for some time to make coordination easier for French users who defend their part of the panel and attack those Spanish and Latin American creators. a move that some rival streamers, especially Ibai, tried to avoid until the last minute. However, given the evidence that coordination is of key value, they have changed their minds over the last few minutes, so confrontations will use it during the last hours.

Also there are suspicions that the French community uses robotsand there are even users and streamers who claim that the French accidentally escaped the Python code they would use in this conflict. As you can imagine, if you didn’t know what was going on, there was a huge mobilization around it with several hundred thousand users on each side and the Reddit Place panel as a battlefield.

And how does Reddit Place work? In order for users to communicate with the panel, they must be registered and after adjusting the pixel color, the user will have to wait five minutes before being able to adjust the next one. If two or more users edit the same pixel at the same time, only one of them remains. And that’s exactly why the scripts that enable event coordination are so important, and why France has so far managed to keep the large space it has taken in the lower left corner of Reddit Place.

At a time when the word war is goosebumps, when images of the traces of death left by Russian troops in Buch we can talk about a confrontation on Reddit Place, in which an apparently friendly confrontation is limited to changing color pixels to a plate of 2,000 x 2,000 dots, provides humor and color (never better said) because it serves to trigger a smile and leaves us a better taste in our mouths. So let’s fight it at Reddit Place, the bottom left corner must be ours (and BTS)!