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Hello friends,

So this is a meetup I've been wanting to do since this summer, but I haven't gotten around it, so here it is!

In this meetup, we'll explore the 72h lifespan of the "/r/place" experiment, what we are confident in asserting regarding it, what is outside of our prediction models, and hopefully what conclusions and insights we can draw from it.

What is /r/place?

In just 72 hours, over a million redditors placed 16.5 million tiles to transform a simple, white, 1000×1000-pixel canvas into a surprisingly beautiful clash of communities, nations, ideologies, and fandoms. Because each user could only place one tile every five minutes, any single individual would have struggled to create a meaningful image on their own. However, through community collaboration, users quickly produced complex creations, surpassing all of our expectations about how this project would turn out once the 72 hours were up.

Basically, as far as transitivity in memetic structures go as a function of in-groupishness, r/place and the subsequent studies are pretty much the place to be.

After the experiment, the subreddit stayed open for a while, but I haven't focused on that part of the adventure, and more on the experiment itself. If anyone wants to do a quick research and present something about it for the meetup, feel free to do so!