Reddit Brings Back r/place April Fools’ Day Stunt After 5 Years

In 2017, more than 1 million users placed roughly 16 million tiles on what started as a blank canvas

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One of Reddit’s most popular April Fools’ Day stunts returns April 1 after a five-year hiatus, and this is no joke.

At 6 a.m. PT/9 a.m. ET on April Fools’ Day, r/place will make its momentous return to the platform.

The communal, 1,000-by-1,000-pixel canvas enables logged-in Redditors to place a tile or pixel of their color choice once every five minutes by tapping or clicking anywhere on the canvas.

Reddit said that when r/place debuted in 2017, more than 1 million users placed roughly 16 million tiles on what started as a blank canvas, adding that Redditors have been asking for its return ever since.

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