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Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment

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Re: Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment

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Post by chillacy »

Raphmedia wrote: post #16

I love those kind of "get together and improvise" experiments. The last time I had felt such a sense of wonder and community was the first few days of Pokemon Go when everyone was in the street trying to figure it out. There's an untapped concept behind all of those. Content that is ephemeral but brings a lot of people together...

A really great radiolab on the subject is their episode on Emergence: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91500-emergence/

That's what /r/place was like in the first few hours, where people saw a pattern and just laid their pixel down to continue it, which is how you got things like a blue line (accelerating as time went on) and the blue corner. You as a contributor don't know what you're building, but as a group you build something.

Later as communities started planning and running scripts, it became much less "improv"-y.

Re: Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment

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Post by Karunamon »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #177
Karunamon wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Your what matters. And it matters to other people. It's inescapably political because you live in a polity and your decisions impact other people. By the same standard, then, I can safely write off BlackLivesMatter as a group whose members are inherently racist, and in some cases engage in literal terrorism (definition: violence applied for political goals) with the sanction of the larger group? Why or why not? You…

> By the same standard They were describing a situation of 99% bad people where you write off the 1%. You seem to be describing the inverse. That's not the same standard.

Not at all. But I'm afraid that's not a great conversation to have here.

Re: Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment

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Post by jwilk »

jwilk wrote: post #140

> 16-bit palette Did they mean 16 color palette?

Answering to myself:

They almost certainly did. There's only 16 colors in the final image:

  $ curl -s https://i.redd.it/wc436nf7fdpy.png | pngtopnm | ppmhist
  libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
     r     g     b         lum     count  
   ----- ----- -----      -----   ------- 
      34    34    34         34    258550 
     255   255   255        255    154487 
     229     0     0         68    123218 
       0     0   234         27     90720 
     229   217     0        196     63755 
     229   149     0        156     55643 
       2   190     1        112     40918 
       0   131   199        100     32930 
       0   211   221        149     29820 
     255   167   209        198     28576 
     228   228   228        228     27733 
     136   136   136        136     26035 
     130     0   128         54     20019 
     160   106    66        118     18023 
     148   224    68        183     16047 
     207   110   228        153     13526

Re: Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment

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Post by Qub3d »

jedanbik wrote: post #148

Not a fan of the 3D chart they used - lots of data gets hidden by towering spires, and the camera tilt adds its own bit of distortion. Did anyone create an old fashioned 2D heatmap?

Yep [0]. They also made a cool TV show intro [1] out of it.

[0]:https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/63240q/rplace_activi...

[1]:https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/63amnd/rplace_heatm...

Re: Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment

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Post by smitherfield »

sqeaky wrote: post #95
AimHere wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to mention a small anarchocapitalist (black/yellow) flag under the snakes near the top left. Supposedly the Trump Supporters at The_Donald attempted to create a few Trump memes and Pepe frogs, but gave up and concentrated on keeping the US flag intact. Other than that, the right couldn't get much traction at all.

Do you think they are angry about the US/Mexico heart?

That's Ireland.

Re: Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment

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Post by hopfog »

The Button and Robin were awesome but this was on another level. I loved hanging out in the different factions' Discord servers and observe troops being rallied and defenses coordinated. It was an amazing 72 hours and I wonder how Reddit will top this next year.

I was also really impressed with how little obscenity there was. I fully expected it to be overrun by trolls. In retrospect I agree with the article that the technical limitation for creating was a contributing factor. If you want to see what happens when no such limitation exists and trolls get the upperhand, check out the timelapse of my own multiplayer drawing site:

https://youtu.be/qIJ3XFPRsSw

Re: Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment

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Post by icc97 »

C4K3 wrote: post #187
icc97 wrote: post #158

I find this interesting in what it lacked: * No Google / Twitter / Facebook / Amazon * No news networks (except NPR) * Hardly any corporations except for Tesla, Space X, AMD, Lego and IKEA * No GTA, FIFA, large corporate games * Only 6 actual people (1/3 of which was the Dutch dutchy) * No films * No iconic logos - e.g. Olympics rings, Nike, McDonalds

Lego and IKEA were only there because they represented the rivalry between Denmark and Sweden. But I do find it interesting how Tesla and Space X fans are so dedicated that they'd be willing to fight for them.

> so dedicated that they'd be willing to fight for them

Now that's brand loyalty.

I'm imagining the Great World Brand War of 2130 and the aftermath with McDonalds youth movement being convicted of the genocide of the Nike sneakers resellers

Re: Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment

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Post by qu4z-2 »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #177
Karunamon wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Your what matters. And it matters to other people. It's inescapably political because you live in a polity and your decisions impact other people. By the same standard, then, I can safely write off BlackLivesMatter as a group whose members are inherently racist, and in some cases engage in literal terrorism (definition: violence applied for political goals) with the sanction of the larger group? Why or why not? You…

> By the same standard They were describing a situation of 99% bad people where you write off the 1%. You seem to be describing the inverse. That's not the same standard.

Is there some source for these percentages or are the numbers generated purely from a sense of "I like this group" vs "I don't like that group"?

Re: Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment

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Post by kristofferR »

shuntress wrote: post #175
sooheon wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Somebody who does not even know you exist, puts up a drawing which they have no idea whether you will see or not, for their own purposes which you have no way of knowing, and you happen to come across it and feel bad. I think it's not fair to the word "bullying" to use it in this context. There's a point where the word is no longer appropriate--I think "passive" bullying is an oxymoron. A bully is someone who targets…

The symbols, especially in this particular context, are put up as representations of the communities (and their ideals) that put them there. What community does the swastika represent and what are their ideals? The 'passive' bullying is done by displaying the symbol in a public space to 'bully' those who recognize it as a message that they are not welcome and not wanted in that space.

> What community does the swastika represent and what are their ideals?

Honestly, in this case it was probably mostly representing rebellious teenagers who love to offend the easily offended, not nazis or nazi symphatizers.

Re: Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment

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Post by Coincoin »

stouset wrote: post #181
dugditches wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe it was even useful as bait, eliminating lots of accounts of those users from their userbase.

If so, even better IMO.

Yes! Let's prevent them from expressing themselves so they will never debate their ideas and never realize they might be wrong. Let's ostracize them until they have no choice but fester their frustration, hidden from the rest of world. Let's make those ideas illegal so that any of our parents, sibling and children, if they ever entertain them, will keep it their most sacred secret, protected from scrutiny.

All that, in the name of some people not wanting to be offended.

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