Reddit is bringing back r/Place, its April Fools’ Day art experiment

Reddit has brought back its April Fools’ Day project. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Reddit said Monday that it’s bringing back its r/Place April Fools’ Day experience for four days beginning April 1st. Alex Le, Reddit executive vice president for strategy and special projects said in a blog post that the move was meant to showcase “the magic of online communities, conversation, and collaboration.”

The r/Place board, which launched on April 1st, 2017 featured a large, white pixel grid on which logged-in Reddit users could place colored pixels one at a time every five minutes just by tapping on it. It was wildly popular, attracting some 16 million tiles from more than 1 million users (but of course had its share of weird and crude images as well).

For the latest iteration of r/Place, which begins April 1st at 9AM ET, log...

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