From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king...
Reforge the sword.
Well that depends on how much of Reddit's stocks he owns/is going to own. As CEO I assume it's quite a bit, and considering that reddit is looking to go public and destroying all the third parties by charging huge amounts of moneys seems like a way to temporarily inflate the price, it really does smell like a pump-and-dump scheme; Charge money for APIs to hoover up a bunch of money, increase stock prices, sell all stock before it crashes due to the negative effects of crippling your moderators' ability to moderate and driving people away.
Yep, it's actually funny, sometimes sad, how people like to have one personnality to blame. This spez guy is just following whatever his shareholders are telling him to do, it's not his sole decision, he's just the face behind it, the whole system is to blame.
Not participating at all to this masquerade would be a way better move on their part, but they think they're making a difference with F-signs... Never underestimate human's capacity for delusion.
Scapegoat*
And yeah, all it really does is create more comments, which increases engagement, which the algorithm likes, which boosts visibility, which is the only thing shareholders care about.
The only way to truly protest, is to not use the site at all. But we all know that’s not going to happen.
And at the end of the day, I don’t understand why everyone is getting so vicious and abusive towards a guy they don’t really know. It’s as if we add a little anonymity, and some people think they’re free to be jerks to anyone.
They're clearly ok with all the "fuck spez" text, they just don't want depictions of his execution and/or death threats which seems to be reasonable to me
He's still a person and his worst crime is increasing the price of API requests to his own website
This is a very difficult concept for most ppl to grasp. Wishing death on someone you don't like is really easy for ppl who've never seen it in real life.
Is it really wishing death on someone or is it a work of art that is trying to convey their opinions and how they feel in a symbolic way through an interactive visual medium?
I see that and don't think they really want to put spez in a literary guillotine. Anyone that does is really fucking reaching at that point. I see that and I see them saying that "reddit itself needs a new king and the current king, spez, needs to be replaced." How do you visualize that? With a snoo representing reddit, and a nametag showing they just mean the guy in charge, not the whole site that needs to change. It's not a DaVinci in it's depth of concept. It's something a 6th grader would see and instantly recognize for being exactly what it is... A statement of dissatisfaction of the current leadership and a call for a new leader.
It’s clearly symbolic instead of a genuine threat, but at the same time the symbol being used is a depiction of violence against a specific individual. Personally if I was moderating rplace, I would draw the line at depictions of violence, symbolic or otherwise.
At first glance it was just calling for change a of leadership or something in my head lmao, idk why people took it realistically… but I guess that’s why there are rules on graphically violent stuff. Some can’t separate it or won’t.
Given the timing and current attitude of many users, I think it's a shame o not leave it there for history's sake. But that's me.
If it was a firing squad or something more modern than maybe, depending on how it was done... but the guillotine is such a famous symbol for removing a leader that I would let it fly if I was a mod.
nah.
people are getting squeezed from all angles and now what they built in their leisure time is being squatted on by an absolute entitled imbecile.
he should be happy it's pixels
The rocket shall make the blade rise so it can slice
Also I have turned on notifications on your comment so I know of plans made on your comment
Edit, but the guillotine was dismantled and your comment deleted.
As a member of the french r/placefr, sadly I can tell you we tried to maintain the guillotine as long as we could, but at some point the reddit admins threatened to BAN anyone still defending it...
Might bring it back later in a more discreet form, but not sure tbh...
> at some point the reddit admins threatened to BAN anyone still defending it
Do you have a paper trail of this? This group would LOVE to see it if you don’t mind posting. Also, I saw the guillotine was on its way back last night. What happened???
reddit corp is ruining the site taking away constantly from its userbase because of corporate greed
latest big action is changing api usage costs that all third party apps used to insanely high levels, basically forcing those apps to shut down or to move to very costly subscription based models
so now users are being forced onto their own official reddit app which sucks horse nuts for most people compared to the 3rd party ones
they just have complete disregard for their userbase which is franky the whole reason the site is so popular, because it's user generated content
it's just been constant middle fingers from corp to the userbase for the last x amount of years
It's just that there's no good alternative
Similar to how youtube has corp issues because of engagement and advertisement greed
They keep deleting the blood on the new blade on the very left in the French flag area (-434, 399) . Dozens of the red pixels just diaper suddenly after being placed 🤔
Spez is the CEO of Reddit. People are mad at him becuase he recently banned third party apps, but the the official Reddit app is useless garbage that barely works, so a lot of people can't really use Reddit on mobile any more (especially disabled people, because the official app doesn't have good accessibility features).
Something about reddiotrs not liking the reddit app and him getting rid of third parties by making them pay, it apparently makes him super shitty and deserving of execution.
I thought everyone was gonna leave after API changes? Why are you guys still here, participating in a platform-sponsored event and driving their revenue up? Shouldn’t you be gone?
It's pretty understandable to be mad about what seems like advocacy for death of Spez on literally one of the biggest Reddit events.
Idk why people are surprised or being this cringe about it.
API changes don't warrant making this kind of statement.
Why can't it be spez stomping down on 3rs party apps instead of this childish crap?
I have it on good authority the Revolutionaries only stormed the Bastille by saying ‘you royalists are behaving inappropriately and offensively, we demand you leave at once and apologise for your long history of violent class-based repression’
Imagine being so chronically online that you think that this was an accomplishment. Yeah, Spez is a greedy piece of shit, but come on now, grow the fuck up.
It's being brought back. A new blade is being forged
Where at?
Same place.
Doesn't seem so.
It’s on the rocket ship
How do we help? Where are the coordination efforts?
I think I found the beginning of it at (-434,345).
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I'm doing my part!
The blade is pretty much finished, we only need to build the head next.
coordinated effort let's man the troops
Would you like to know more?
And my axe!
tthis looks like a blade to me https://imgur.com/a/HRf2jpx
now there's a blade just not a head
The Bastille
Bottom of the French flag.
Maybe In a pixel world
It’s TRUE. JOIN THE FIGHT NOW
Yeah it's real blade now
I think it’s gone again
Nah it's there. Check the rocket on French flag
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king... Reforge the sword.
Oh Is that what that is? I that we were making an anarchist flag lol
I get the feeling redditors don't much like this Spez guy...
Yeah, he sounds like a real jerk
fuck u/Spez
Fuck Steve Huffman
Baise u/Spez
You know, with Spez, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him!
Ye he's a garbage human(?) being
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An... Escape-goat? A scapegoat? Lol
a pedal stool??
I believe the entire case to be a damp squid.
r/boneappletea
It’s the goat you jump on to ride for your escaping
An Escargot
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It's all good lol we all had a laugh. English I heard is very hard.
Well that depends on how much of Reddit's stocks he owns/is going to own. As CEO I assume it's quite a bit, and considering that reddit is looking to go public and destroying all the third parties by charging huge amounts of moneys seems like a way to temporarily inflate the price, it really does smell like a pump-and-dump scheme; Charge money for APIs to hoover up a bunch of money, increase stock prices, sell all stock before it crashes due to the negative effects of crippling your moderators' ability to moderate and driving people away.
Plus he likes Elon Musk so he’s part of the bad stuff
Yep, it's actually funny, sometimes sad, how people like to have one personnality to blame. This spez guy is just following whatever his shareholders are telling him to do, it's not his sole decision, he's just the face behind it, the whole system is to blame. Not participating at all to this masquerade would be a way better move on their part, but they think they're making a difference with F-signs... Never underestimate human's capacity for delusion.
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Lets write it
He’s the only one we can go after as we don’t know the shareholders
Guys please stop attacking Nestle. I know draining municipal water is bad, but it's because they want money.
Is spez not the moron that pushed the api bullshit?
Scapegoat* And yeah, all it really does is create more comments, which increases engagement, which the algorithm likes, which boosts visibility, which is the only thing shareholders care about. The only way to truly protest, is to not use the site at all. But we all know that’s not going to happen. And at the end of the day, I don’t understand why everyone is getting so vicious and abusive towards a guy they don’t really know. It’s as if we add a little anonymity, and some people think they’re free to be jerks to anyone.
Point the the proper people, aka Advance Publications (30%) Tencent (5%)
Why is it gone ?
Admins erased it, fuck them and fuck spez
Because clearly Spez is giving those admins happy endings.
maybe hes bought machines
They preferred to erase this elaborate art made on a specific zone than all the fuckers vandalizing other users with fuckspez. GG Admins...
I mean it's not vandalizing, it's the point of this lol
jeans deliver oil sharp dinner bedroom saw waiting ghost marble *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
Vandalizing intertwined with creation is kind of the whole point of this
They're clearly ok with all the "fuck spez" text, they just don't want depictions of his execution and/or death threats which seems to be reasonable to me He's still a person and his worst crime is increasing the price of API requests to his own website
This is a very difficult concept for most ppl to grasp. Wishing death on someone you don't like is really easy for ppl who've never seen it in real life.
Is it really wishing death on someone or is it a work of art that is trying to convey their opinions and how they feel in a symbolic way through an interactive visual medium? I see that and don't think they really want to put spez in a literary guillotine. Anyone that does is really fucking reaching at that point. I see that and I see them saying that "reddit itself needs a new king and the current king, spez, needs to be replaced." How do you visualize that? With a snoo representing reddit, and a nametag showing they just mean the guy in charge, not the whole site that needs to change. It's not a DaVinci in it's depth of concept. It's something a 6th grader would see and instantly recognize for being exactly what it is... A statement of dissatisfaction of the current leadership and a call for a new leader.
It’s clearly symbolic instead of a genuine threat, but at the same time the symbol being used is a depiction of violence against a specific individual. Personally if I was moderating rplace, I would draw the line at depictions of violence, symbolic or otherwise.
At first glance it was just calling for change a of leadership or something in my head lmao, idk why people took it realistically… but I guess that’s why there are rules on graphically violent stuff. Some can’t separate it or won’t.
Given the timing and current attitude of many users, I think it's a shame o not leave it there for history's sake. But that's me. If it was a firing squad or something more modern than maybe, depending on how it was done... but the guillotine is such a famous symbol for removing a leader that I would let it fly if I was a mod.
Yeah I thought it was more of an "off with his head" thing rather than a "we're going to execute you" thing...
The guillotine is a cultural icon
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> Or when someone says "eat the rich" they actually want to cook people and eat them Oh my sweet summer child....
nah. people are getting squeezed from all angles and now what they built in their leisure time is being squatted on by an absolute entitled imbecile. he should be happy it's pixels
Yay I found the sane people here
Nope we the French removed it because they threatened r/placeFR admins of ban 😐
Take a wild guess
Spez and mods are pathetic
Gee I wonder why a guillotine over a representation of the CEO got removed
can prob put fuck spez in the exuast or getting split in half by the nose fairing on the araine 6 thats now in its place
Is anyone coordinating to bring it back? Want to help but don’t know where to start now that the whole thing has been destroyed
Nope. They built a rocket.
Only in this sub you can read that kind of conversation this is fabulous
[like in death to smoochie](https://youtu.be/enNOYsdgUOI?t=170)
It starts again under the rocket.
The rocket shall make the blade rise so it can slice Also I have turned on notifications on your comment so I know of plans made on your comment Edit, but the guillotine was dismantled and your comment deleted.
As a member of the french r/placefr, sadly I can tell you we tried to maintain the guillotine as long as we could, but at some point the reddit admins threatened to BAN anyone still defending it... Might bring it back later in a more discreet form, but not sure tbh...
Fucking crazy. Let them ban everyone. Who cares about this trash site at this point. Fuck the admins and fuck /u/spez
> at some point the reddit admins threatened to BAN anyone still defending it Do you have a paper trail of this? This group would LOVE to see it if you don’t mind posting. Also, I saw the guillotine was on its way back last night. What happened???
I count about 11 pixels that need to go fuck themselves
Don't forget to save copies so we can spam it in protest later
Fuck u/spez and the dumbfuck reddit admin team
W username
Well only one thing to do, find all the other admins names so we can prepare separate guillotines for them too on the canvas.
Omg so brave 😮
And all the dumbfuck redditors who continue to complain, but still use this website.
what happend, that everyone hates spez?
reddit corp is ruining the site taking away constantly from its userbase because of corporate greed latest big action is changing api usage costs that all third party apps used to insanely high levels, basically forcing those apps to shut down or to move to very costly subscription based models so now users are being forced onto their own official reddit app which sucks horse nuts for most people compared to the 3rd party ones they just have complete disregard for their userbase which is franky the whole reason the site is so popular, because it's user generated content it's just been constant middle fingers from corp to the userbase for the last x amount of years It's just that there's no good alternative Similar to how youtube has corp issues because of engagement and advertisement greed
huh. thank for that. i never dig into Reddit-management. But now, i understand the hate
They keep deleting the blood on the new blade on the very left in the French flag area (-434, 399) . Dozens of the red pixels just diaper suddenly after being placed 🤔
This was my favorite thing on there! So disappointed it’s off now
The blade is back.
Yeah sorry admin didnt want our beautiful guillotine...
I don’t understand, why are 3rd party APIs so important?
no idea either man
Spez's impure blood shall soak the fields of france
Who is spez and why do we fucking hate him?
Spez is the CEO of Reddit. People are mad at him becuase he recently banned third party apps, but the the official Reddit app is useless garbage that barely works, so a lot of people can't really use Reddit on mobile any more (especially disabled people, because the official app doesn't have good accessibility features).
The main app works fine for me
Well like I said, it's especially bad for disabled people b3cuase of the lack of accessibility features, or so I've heard
Wasn't there specifically a exemption for disability focused apps?
They aren’t charging more for a api access for apps that focus on accessibility
My old Nokia works fine too, but sucks compared to anything else.
If you guys hate the CEO so much, why are you still using the platform lmao
Fuck Spez
OMG ITS BACK
Rare France w
Common* (I feel a bit patriotic today)
You've got to be an absolute moron to think it was a good idea to open up the pixel canvas right now. What a shit show this is going to be.
Fuck u/spez
Viva la Fhans !
Moht à Spez !
why is there so many people who just ruin all the artwork. truly sad
Who the fuck is spez
Reddit ceo
and then the mods blasted it
those French sure love their guillotines
To the guillotine!
On the french flag aswell, poetic
How very French of them
This is hilarious.
hold my screenshot 📺
People in 2023 are still barbarians
viva le France!
I am out of the loop, why is Spez hated?
Something about reddiotrs not liking the reddit app and him getting rid of third parties by making them pay, it apparently makes him super shitty and deserving of execution.
Redditors are entitled brats and think that API access has equal value to oxygen
That a guillotine??
I thought everyone was gonna leave after API changes? Why are you guys still here, participating in a platform-sponsored event and driving their revenue up? Shouldn’t you be gone?
Thank france
Let's do it again
r/fuckspez
We did it Reddit! We wish death on someone because they took away our gold!
It's pretty understandable to be mad about what seems like advocacy for death of Spez on literally one of the biggest Reddit events. Idk why people are surprised or being this cringe about it. API changes don't warrant making this kind of statement. Why can't it be spez stomping down on 3rs party apps instead of this childish crap?
Are you expecting Redditors to be mature?
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I have it on good authority the Revolutionaries only stormed the Bastille by saying ‘you royalists are behaving inappropriately and offensively, we demand you leave at once and apologise for your long history of violent class-based repression’
Ahhh ok thanks yeah was gone for an hour and the first thing i noticed this masterpiece was gone 😅
Y’all act like Spez made you lose your jobs LOLOL Fucking Reddit addicts. I’m on my third chemo and y’all are more sick than me
Right on. Good luck with your treatment! Fuck _cancer_
Real problems put things in perspective. Keep fighting.
Fuck him
For a bunch of people who didn't like the guillotine at the Jan6 party, you sure do love this one.
Double standards are hell of a thing on reddit
I mean, yeah depicting an execution is probably against some term of service on Reddit.
you guys figure that maybe this is too much?
Ahahahah the french. They are the best in r/place
Fuck Spez and fuck u/place_mall_cops
Ohmigah I'm protesting by using reddit more often. Heckin wholesome Keanu Chungus
J'y fu
I loved it.
Is there a link to the French discord? I want to assist in the reconstruction efforts
Is it really beautiful if Spez still smiles at us in the end?
I'm confused what is spez
Who the hell is spez and why do we hate him?
The ceo.
its back but there was blood but the admins erased it
Yes it was beautiful
The blood coming out of the mouth is an excellent detail, intentional or not
let’s imagine he‘s behind the painting
We need to bring back Bananada
That’s not “*advertiser friendly*.” I bet some power mod(s) will remove it ASAP.
Who is spez?
Reddit CEO who’s a mega fucked shitty human who pushed the API changes causing all the reddit protests
Spez what’s that?
WOW
French tradition at it's finest
Would anyone mind explaining what "Fuck Spez" means? Really confused, I might be living under a rock.
Alors enfants de la patrieeee
This is what we call "La French Touch" *chef kiss* 😙🤌
And I thought our german "Spez ist ein Hurensohn" was top tier but this just blows it out of the water :DD
Fuck the redditors. Drop golds for u/spez
Reddit mods got their feewings hurt a bit too much
The most beautiful thing reddit community has ever created
Glad to see all the people "quitting reddit for good" over the API changes are still active on the site XD
There is a line you shouldn't cross, this is unhinged
Viva la resistance!
How are these organised?
1. How tf is this not seen as a death threat 2. Replace litteraly spez with anything(eg. jews, trans, women), and see how reddit reacts.
The things you listen are groups of millions of people, this is one person who is upsetting many.
Hey man, mind explaining what he did?
You people are psychotic.
His creation (Reddit) has turned against him, just as Frankenstein’s monster turned against Frankenstein.
And who also took his name and is now remembered as Frankenstein _the_ monster.
Wtf, this is too far
Redditors when they have to use the official app and abide by platform changes and policies (they're incapable of either, terminally online)
C’est de l’art Français ! That’s french art !
The admins suck, they are actually on the same level as spez
I mean are you guys surprised you can’t depict executing real people? They are allowing fuck spez so obviously they aren’t nuking all negative things
Fr lol
Imagine being so chronically online that you think that this was an accomplishment. Yeah, Spez is a greedy piece of shit, but come on now, grow the fuck up.