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EFFORTPOST Drama on Place: Complete Recap

TLDR: We tried to draw Marsey :marseyexcited: in reddit's pixel art thing, an admin used her jew magic :marseymerchantelf: to erase her, causing an unironic controversy among redditors. :marsoyhype:

NOTE: This is my attempt to recap everything interesting that happened with /r/place. Information is spread between a bunch of posts, so I wanted to centralize it. Let me know if there is anything that I missed.

Prologue

/r/place is an April Fool's day """prank"""/social experiment, in which redditors are able to place down 1 pixel every five-ish minutes on a canvas. The first iteration of /r/place was in 2017, but due to overwhelming support, they brought it back for 2022.

The reddit admins announced this several days early. When this was announced, dramanauts began plotting how they could do a little trolling on it. The person mainly spearheading this effort was @DrTransmisia. A day before place opened, the doc made a post with the plan. It was very milquetoast - just a marsey with a trans flag behind it.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841350683068967.webp

Literally, as soon as /r/place opened, our fine dramachads began their work. It started out alright, but approximately 1 hr after we began, marsey was overpainted. Apparently, :marseytrain2:s saw our icon and thought that the marsey was vandalizing a heckin' valid flag, and so erased it. On the upside, this was the first trans flag, and it generated a good deal of organic seethe as it spread fairly wide. You can see it below in the timelapse: (I think it is the upper right one, can someone confirm?)

https://old.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tuivqu/1st_day_of_rplace_in_1_minute/

DFTBA

In that same timelapse, turn your attention to the middle-left section of the canvas, by the chessboard. After our tragic (but probably inevitable) defeat at the hands of the :marseytrain2:s, we rebuilt. We didn't have to do it alone, as random redditors were helping us

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841268311467621.webp

By mere coincidence, a group of Hank Green fans (of vlogbrothers, scishow, crash course, etc) were building a logo of Green's catchphrase, "Don't Forget To Be Awesome", abbreviated to "DFTBA". Some of our boys made a speech arrow from the logo, making it look like marsey was saying it. :marseylove:

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There's our girl!

As fate would have it, Hank was browsing /r/place himself, and spotted her, leading him to make a tweet where he pointed her out. The official reddit twitter account agreed that Marsey is best girl, and called her "a masterpiece", which is just amazing.

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Marsey Gets Fricking Killed :marseyhead:

Somehow or another, chtorrr found out about our exploits, and started fuming. If you didn't know, chtorrr is a reddit admin and professional killjoy, who has had many run-ins with the drama community. (TODO: More information about our relationship with chtorrr) She was also responsible for shuttering 2balkan4you. Worst of all, she is a *gasp* white woman.

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yes, that is a biofoid

At one point, added RDRAMA.NET to marsey, and this was the last straw. Remember how I said people could only place one pixel every five minutes? Well, Chtorr and Redtaboo were able to place pixels with no cooldown, a feature that they used to erase marsey. :marseyerasure: Luckily, @Vultures caught her in the act.

https://teddit.net/vids/vrowtfj1a9r81.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/Xn6BRh3.mp4

Then, they banned people that participated in drawing marsey. Proving this is kind of tricky, so for proof see this post by at @Noahface for the receipts. (If you were banned, let me know and I will add you) (Edit: There is a theory that people were banned based on a referrer link that was accidentally left in @DrTransmisia's template app)

Soyrage

Where some saw defeat, others saw the possibility for greatness. One of us (lmk if you know who) posted the above video to /r/place, and redditors were fricking PISSED. One thread pointing the marseycide out got over 140K updoots. The post was eventually jannied, but several more took their place. The moderators couldn't catch a break.

(Edit: Shoutout to /r/socialjusticeinaction mods for being one of the first to break the story, despite the possibility of being banned)

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Meanwhile, chtorrr dox was posted on Kiwi Farms. No one from rdrama has taken responsibility for this yet, so it may be an organic result of the seethestorm. To be fair to everyone involved, chtorrr herself participated in a "mod summit" where her face and name was said publicly, so she kind of doxxed herself. :marseyshrug:

A "blackout" was planned, but didn't go anywhere because we were only able to get drama-adjacent meme subs to join. gayspiderbrothel was allegedly going to nuke their sub by posting chtorrr dox, but we apparently have an impostor amogus because all of the mods were replaced. :marseyretard: Epic OPSEC fail, whoever posted about this on the website. (We unironically need a secret rdrama division for doing more cloak and dagger shit)

Janitors strike back

The jannies weren't going to take this sitting down, of course. Based Bardfinn had some true schizo moments. In one thread, he accused us of conspiring to kill chtorrr. In another, she demands that a user sit down and read the rules right now, darnit and continues to insist that the video was fake.

The less well-known but equally valid Merari01 had a meltdown as well. He started out strong, hilariously claiming that marsey is a neo-nazi hate symbol. He continued his meltdown on slack, where various people attempted to calm him down with rightoid dogwhistles like "common sense", but he saw straight through those pieces of russian propaganda.

Out of nowhere, Merari smugposted in the comment section of one of carps post about him. (Yes, it was actually him - @Joan told him what was happening). Before he disappeared into the aether, he posted the hate symbol twerking. (Carp speculated that he didn't make any more posts because he didn't realize he couldn't delete them)

Marsey: Rebirth

This wasn't the end of marsey on /r/place, however! The gang bravely made a new one. @Suprememe https://rdrama.net/post/57343/-, a URL that currently redirects to https://www.supportukraine.co, and the gang added it to the new marsey. Last I heard it was getting swallowed by green goo, but that's just par on course for /r/place, rather than a concerted effort by the admins.

EDIT: Peace was made with the goo, and Marsey lived until the end of /r/place :marseywholesome:

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:#marseyclappingglasses:

You forgot that was the presence of the RDRAMA.NET URL next to Marsey -- which stayed for a few hours on the canvas -- that triggered the Marseycide from redtaboo, chtorrr and her colleagues.

Also it is speculated (although it will never be possible to confirm or rule out the hypothesis unless some dramatard get hired by Reddit Inc. as an anti-hate engineer {btw they're hiring}) that it was a bug in my js script that turned the Marsey in a giant honeypot

Also add the video of redtaboo janning the URL

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:marseypatriot: The drama sphere needs you to go work at reddit and make a mess

Ask not what bussy can do for you, but what you can do for bussy.

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> How did you hear about this job? (mandatory question in the form)
> rdrama.net

:#gigachad2:

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Added, thx

Also it is speculated (although it will never be possible to confirm or rule out the hypothesis unless some dramatard get hired by Reddit Inc. as an anti-hate engineer {btw they're hiring}) that it was a bug in my js script that turned the Marsey in a giant honeypot

:marseyconfused:

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:troll: How to le epic troll :troll:

  1. Write a small html+js application that, given a PNG pixel art, creates a map with coordinates for rplace
  2. Dramar-slured start missing coordinates by few pixel. Add for each cell of the map a direct link to the /r/place canvas at the proper coordinates
  3. Forgot to explicitly disable the HTTP referer
  4. ???
  5. The Great Marseycide of April 2022

:#killherkillher: :#trolldespair:

this is just speculation btw

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I got all my accounts jannied and I didn't click anything on your website, so it's not referers.

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I'm pretty sure it wasn't the cat, it was people who wrote the DRAHA.NET URL

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I only put pixels on marsey at the start, like ears and the tail, the URL was much later so it's not that either.

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Did your accounts post on /r/drama? I had mine banned, one only posted 1 pixel on Marsey.

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The account I used had a /r/drama history yeah, and I got a temp suspension on it too for trolling the /r/actuallesbians mods so I was on AEO's/chtorr's radar.

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we might have been flagged on a watchlist :marseyglow: :marseyglow: :marseyglow: due to the subs we post on and that's how the cat ladies didn't get banned. They've been banning a ton of big drama-actors in the last couple weeks so it wouldn't be surprising. I was about to get banned for /r/the_Nword anyway

edit: I just realised they banned that sub 2 days ago, I made it like 4 years ago and never posted on it lmao.

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I built the drama url and didn't get banned (well I did get banned today for telling bardfinn that he's wrong)

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Probably got overwritten by others? She was picking off people who were fighting her as she was overwriting it. Most of us were in the chat room.

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No lol I was overwriting redtaboo for good half a hour

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Darn you got lucky

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🚨Bard bot alert!🚨

Reset the counter. Current counter was: 0 days, 1 hours, 24 minutes

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conversely, I did click stuff from the website a few times, though I wasn't placing pixels from it and I didn't get jannied

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Interesting, added

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I avoid using clickthrough shit exactly because of this. I didn't go to /r/place through your post, but on a separate browser as a matter of fact :marseyglow:. I did not draw on the url because I moved to another gayop.

I do think the neet just checked anybody who had pixels on marsey on time t and jannied everybody without discrimination.

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rdrama.net sends referers to Gay Rabbi's blog website, maybe it still sends referrers to reddit.com

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added

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Imagine unironically calling this shit "Anti Evil Engineer"

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Fardbinn was talking about how to deplatform these ebil postmodernist hate group of neo-nazis on /r/modsupport

I posted this and she blocked me :marseycry:

Bardy I miss your schizo rants already, unblock me

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Federal government, open up!

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:marseykingcrown:

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:#marseyobese:

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lol hang in there, kid.

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:#marseyhmm: :#marseyhmmm:

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:marseysoypoint: golden think

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Hatred of Gigajannies is truly blessed.

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:#marseysoypoint:

!blackjack250

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:#marseysaint:

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!slots100

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Gotta thank the SJIA jannies for posting it first and risking their accounts lol

https://rdrama.net/post/57006/marseyhappytears-rsocialjusticeinaction-jannies-posted-chtorrrs-marsey

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we morphed DFTBA into RDRAMA.NET, and this was the last straw

we didnt touch DFTBA, those guys were wayy too neurodivergent for us. instead we took the area above marsey that had some weirdo crypto shit. thats where /u/redtaboo came in started replacing https://imgur.com/a/dBwx1tY

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thanks chief

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This whole thing showed non dramachads how mentally ill Reddit jannies truly are

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The funniest thing about all of this is how over the top everyone’s reaction was for some dumb pixelated art. Reddit Admin and Bardfinn had a full blown schizo episode, streamers and redditors blowed the whole thing out of proportion, probably leading to :marseyjanny: receiving countless unwholesome messages.

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the power of concern trolling :marseywholesome:

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secret rdrama division for doing more cloak and dagger shit

Sounds pretty gay, we should definitely do it.

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incredibly gay, which is why it suits us

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Just need to have it require some truescore that would be impossible to achieve for an interloper.


:#marseytwerking:

:marseycoin::marseycoin::marseycoin:
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They could even do paypigs only. As long as it's not in groomercord.

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Prolouge

:#marseyautism:


https://files.catbox.moe/y2zrro.png https://i.rdrama.net/images/172082001273549.webp

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darnit I knew there was a u in there

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Don't worry bby this is quality post.

:marseyblowkiss:


https://files.catbox.moe/y2zrro.png https://i.rdrama.net/images/172082001273549.webp

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Yes that is a biofoid

are we....sure?

how sure are we exactly

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No :marseytrain2: can do a biofoid voice that accurately. See mod summit vid.

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chtorrr herself participated in a "mod summit"

Back in the good old days we had to pay for that kind of a freak show at a circus but like her internet job she did it for free.

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Chtorr has a long history of harassing us in SocialJusticeInAction's modmail (And sistersub TumblrInAction) over AEO violations on a "Uptick" which is complete bullshit, I think at the time we only had 5 removals from AEO. We were constantly being bothered about heckin cute and valid train threads not being okay because it was wrongthink.

So yeah, the second I got ahold of that footage I put it right up on Cringetopia because I knew they wouldn't cuck instantly and it'd get a lot of eyes quickly from the non-admin bootlickers of Reddit. Then Gammaking shared it over into DeclineIntoCensorship for some added insult to injury.

All in all, it was a job well done. Frick Chtorr, (Who is so heckin cute and valid cause train)

Tips hat from SJIA

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I heard that the TiAs couldn't even mention the word "transgender" lol

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They have never said it directly, but Chtorr and CookiesNomNom (Aka, the two biggest train defenders of Reddit) have heavily alluded to that being the resolution they want in order for TIA to continue on Reddit. Which of course isn't going to happen. But yeah, it's been heavily implied that's what they want.

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So we have you to thank for it all escalating the way it did?

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Maybe? I'm not really sure who did what first. I know the cringetopia crossposts are what stoked the fire in /r/Place though.

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Few side parts: Marsey was being colored in orange once we got the outline going on the second spot, which would have been disastrous with orange part of the Croatian flag starting to take shape right by it. I thought it was Croatia raiding, but @August tipped me off that it was just cat ladies and average redditors trying to help what they thought was a cute kitty drawing. A few of us sent a bunch of messages to people we saw placing tiles with the blueprint, and miraculously the tide turned and we got Marsey back. Very close to being over within the first couple hours yet again

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1684128458710565.webp

Also someone from /r/nerdfighters found their way here and began tattling to their groomercord and the Irish/Croatian subreddit that we were big meany heads which caused them to disconnect the speech bubble and denounce us. Which is why we fell so quickly after the admins started deleted tiles (god darn Croatians, I have a new people to be racist towards)

I'll attach pictures when I get home

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added, thanks

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Marsey was THIS close of appearing on national fr*nch TV

https://old.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw8y9t/rplace_is_on_the_french_tv/

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:#marseyjam: :!#marseyjam:

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Marsey new plan in rdrama.net/chat

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:marseythumbsup:

the last few days have been hilarious. I love Marsey so much it's unreal

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I love you guys so much

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Prolouge


:#marseytwerking:

:marseycoin::marseycoin::marseycoin:
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Checked

!slots100

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Include me in the screen shot🎯

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Looks like marsey survived until the final canvas. :marseyclapping:

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I was banned, there was about 10 of us on the chat who got banned over a 30min period. I was one of the last

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Wait wait wait that thing is a women?

![](https://media.giphy.com/media/QE8hREXIgRXeo/giphy.webp)

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As of right now there is a truce with the green goo guys (they are a bunch of zoomers following some streamer, Roblox I think? not sure). Marsey is alive and being actively defended, though the text didn't survive.

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