{"id":11197,"date":"2022-04-06T13:45:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T04:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=11197"},"modified":"2022-04-06T13:46:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T04:46:24","slug":"20220406-11197","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220406-11197\/","title":{"rendered":"\/r\/place experiment contains tiny Among Us crewmates hidden throughout the canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Written by. Nick Mosier based on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20220405-198024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a>&nbsp;(original article&#8217;s publication date: 2022-04-05 19:01<\/em> <em>JST)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Reddit\u2019s \/r\/place subreddit held a social experiment of sorts from April 1 \u2013 4. The experiment let users place one pixel on a 1,000 by 1,000-pixel grid, and after selecting a color, would have to wait 5 minutes before being able to place another. Under these conditions users gradually produced a large image. This same experiment was also conducted on April 1, 2017, being revived for the first time in 5 years. The resulting pixel art is truly a sight to behold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-reddit wp-block-embed-reddit\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:500px\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/place\/comments\/twft1q\/full_screenshot_of_rplace_2022\/\">Full screenshot of r\/place 2022<\/a><br> by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Wawv\/\">u\/Wawv<\/a> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/place\/\">place<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A noteworthy point of the \/r\/place experiment is how users seemed to come together as if they planned it out beforehand. In the time lapse below, we can see various country flags, a recreation of the famous painting \u201cThe Night Watch,\u201d <em>Star Wars<\/em> art, and various other motifs throughout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-reddit wp-block-embed-reddit\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:500px\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/place\/comments\/twk1rb\/rplace_2022_complete_timelapse\/\">r\/place 2022 complete time-lapse<\/a><br> by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/stngys\/\">u\/stngys<\/a> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/place\/\">place<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There was also plenty of game related imagery from the triforce and Kirby to indie game representation from <em>Undertale<\/em> and <em>Hollow Knight<\/em>. But one gaming motif that was popping up all over the place was the crewmate from <em>Among Us<\/em>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1461\" height=\"675\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1461px) 100vw, 1461px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220405-198024-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220405-198024-001.jpg 1461w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220405-198024-001-600x277.jpg 600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220405-198024-001-380x176.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220405-198024-001-768x355.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220405-198024-001-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220405-198024-001-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220405-198024-001-696x322.jpg 696w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220405-198024-001-1068x493.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220405-198024-001-909x420.jpg 909w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>Among Us<\/em> is a social deduction game that was released by developer Innersloth in 2018. And through word of mouth, the game became a smash hit in 2020, receiving a steady stream of updates since. Crewmates are the controllable characters in <em>Among Us<\/em>, and they certainly have a simple design that\u2019s easy to depict in pixel form. But \/r\/place users were especially creative in how they implemented crewmates into their designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I think Among Us fans have created a new type of pixel art dithering <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cCdsUsjGX0\">pic.twitter.com\/cCdsUsjGX0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Foolish Girl \ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc2e\ud83c\udf37 (@WinguThings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WinguThings\/status\/1510811887570767880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Holy shit there are amogus everywhere <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CDwTJMDC4g\">pic.twitter.com\/CDwTJMDC4g<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Noobnesz (@Noobnesz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Noobnesz\/status\/1510612071947259908?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the above images you can see what looks like a lemon, a scene from <em>Star Wars<\/em>, a cow, and other motifs unrelated to <em>Among Us<\/em>. But if you look closely, you\u2019ll notice something interesting hidden in the details. There are little crewmates hidden throughout the canvas like some kind of subliminal messaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One user even made a tool to check just how many crewmates were in the image. According to this tool, the number of crewmates had reached 2,000 by the end. And while maybe not relevant, the tool also tracked data across different patterns used to represent crewmates, like \u201cNormal Right,\u201d \u201cMinimongus Right,\u201d and \u201cNo Backpack Minimongus Right.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s \/r\/place experiment had over 4.8 million participants and demonstrated the power of chaos and cooperation on the internet with amazing results. What compels us to draw these crewmates when presented with a canvas? Perhaps that\u2019s a question for future generations to figure out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">it&#39;s so fun to see how easily they blend in??????? and it looks legit???<\/p>&mdash; Among Us (@AmongUsGame) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmongUsGame\/status\/1511099800061558785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\/r\/place experiment contains tiny Among Us crewmates hidden throughout the canvas like some kind of subliminal messaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-11197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-global-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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