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KLM Airplane

2023-08-05T21:27:53Z

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{{Artwork
| name = KLM Airplane
| description =
| creator = PlaceNL
| location = (1642, 16)
| image = KLM Boeing 737-800.png
| id =
}}
During the 2022 r/place, [[PlaceNL|r/placeNL]] built a [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twrgik//1643/17/4 KLM airplane]. This airplane was designed after a Boeing 737-800.

In 2022 KLM had a total of 31 737-800's. The 737-800 fleet of KLM was used for Flighs to everywhere in Europe and airports in the top of Africa and parts of Asia. With 31 737-800's the most percentage of KLM is these beautiful aircraft.

KLM is an acronym for Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Aviation Society). The company is very important for the country of the Netherlands and for the Dutch community, as it has brought billions of Dutch citizens and international tourists to and from the Kingdom of the Netherlands since its founding in 1919. This old age also makes it the oldest airline that still operates under its original name.

The first route that KLM ever flew was established under Alfred Plesman, and KLM still flies this route with its Boeing 737's and Embraer E175/E190's. The aforementioned route is Amsterdam-London.

r/osuplace

2023-08-05T20:59:18Z

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r/osuplace is a subreddit dedicated to the [[osu!]] logo on r/place. People would usually send anything related to r/place or osu! itself.

The Starry Night

2023-08-05T20:58:10Z

Alin2808: Link

{{Artwork
| name = The Starry Night
| description = A pixelart recreation of the van Gogh painting "De Sterrennacht" (The Starry Night). 2023 version is shown.
| image = Starry_Night2023.png
| coords = 350, 940 (2017). 1480, 18 (2022). -930, -500 (2023)
| AtlasID = 24 (2017), twpyl6 (2022), 1078 (2023)
| year = 2017, 2022, 2023
| community = r/placeNL, r/netherlands}}

The Starry Night was an artwork included on all past r/place canvases, created primarily by the [[PlaceNL|r/PlaceNL]] and r/netherlands communities. The artwork is a pixelart rendition of the famous painting "De Sterrennacht" (The Starry Night) by painter Vincent van Gogh. It has been included at three different sizes, with the 2023 edition taking up the most pixels, with a count of roughly 14000.

The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting made by van Gogh in June of 1889. It shows the view he had from his asylum room window just before sunrise, although he added a fictional village. It is widely regarded as van Gogh's best work, and is one of the most recognisable pieces of Western art.

===Events===
The Starry Night has seen versions included in all three past r/place events.

====2017====
The 2017 version of The Starry Night was included as part of the Windows 95 task bar that was included at the bottom of the canvas. It is included within a window, with the icon being a number of paint brushes and a canvas, and the title "Gogh.bmp". The painting itself covers an area of 7830 pixels, exluding the window, and was created mostly by the r/netherlands community.

The creation of the work began on Saturday April 1st, 2017 around 15:00 GMT. The recreation of the painting was completed on Sunday April 2nd, around 04:30 GMT, with the artwork being included within the Windows 95 taskbar around 18:00 the same day. The entire work assumed its near final form on the third day of the event, staying roughly the same untill its end.[[File:Starry_Night_2017.png|thumb|The 2017 edition of The Starry Night as seen at the end of the event.]]
====2022====
The 2022 version of The Starry Night was included on the Dutch flag at the top of the canvas, also crossing over into the orange bar at the very top. This rendition is notably smaller than those created during the 2017 and 2023 events, with a pixel count of 1736. Notably, this version includes a picture frame, and was accompanied by a small drawing of Vincent van Gogh himself. The painting was made by the r/placeNL community.

Construction of the 2022 edition began roughly around 21:00 GMT on Saturday, April 2nd 2022. Due to its small size, the artwork was completed within roughly half an hour. However, the work continued to be tweaked well into the third day, reaching its near final form at around 11:00 GMT. The small painting of Vincent van Gogh that obscures some of the right side of the work was added later that day.[[File:Starry_Night2022.png|thumb|The 2022 edition of The Starry Night as seen at the end of the event.]]
====2023====
[[File:Starry_Night2023.png|thumb|The 2023 edition of The Starry Night as seen at the end of the event.]]

The most recent edition of The Starry Night that was featured on an r/place canvas was made during the 2023 event by the r/placeNL community. This painting is the largest of all currently made renditions, at 13969 pixels. It was included in the Dutch flag and orange bar, located in the middle of the canvas. This version is also the most accurate to the original oil painting by van Gogh, with more accurate colors and more detail.

The creation of the 2023 edition was started around 09:00 GMT on Sunday, July 23rd, and was completed roughly three hours later. It remained largely unchanged for the remainder of the event, and was still on the canvas by the time the event closed on July 25th. The bottom right of the painting is obscured by part of a collaboration between r/placeNL and r/placeDE.

[[Category:Artwork]]
[[Category:Painting]]

000205

2023-08-05T20:56:47Z

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#REDIRECT [[Divergence Meter]]

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2023-08-05T20:56:32Z

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#REDIRECT [[Saluting Rainbow Dash]]

Romania

2023-08-05T19:39:55Z

Alin2808: /* Void attack */ Link

{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo = Main Romanian flag 2023.png
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
[[File:First Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The first Romanian flag being destroyed]]
Eventually, it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#29/14 172, 267 coordinates].<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and [[Touhou]]. The flag expanded, however, it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however, the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it was completely covered.

===Final flags===
[[File:First impaled spez drawing.PNG|thumb|left|200px|The first impaled Spez drawing next to "Dracula's castle"]]
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France. This main flag hosted various artwork, both made by the Romanian community and by others. It was also the flag which had the first impaled Spez drawing. The drawing was made as an original idea based on Vlad III Dracula's punishments and placed next to "[[Bran Castle|Dracula's castle]]". It was removed by Reddit administrators and eventually replaced with a text reading "Muie Spez!" above the castle.

On the last day of r/place, the Romanian community focused on defending and fixing the flags and did not make any new artwork, though it helped streamer [https://www.youtube.com/@highman Highman] create [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4610/254/-1274/112/4 his shark mascot] on a Vietnamese flag in return for his help on the flag of Mexico which was destroyed by a Lithuanian streamer earlier that day. The attempt to retake the Mexican flag was never finished as r/place ended.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought it was unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artwork, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused some unhappy Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually, all was settled and the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#392//-407/-626/4 Moldovan flag] was relocated.

====Attacks====
The first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#87/250 Stitch's ear] (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped, though it managed to destroy the "Muie Spez" text from the flag which was no longer readded. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

[[File:Second Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The second Romanian flag on the final canvas]]

====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, France permitted Romania to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and made [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2023/156/-335/540/2.399 another French flag].

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. This flag covered the previous location of the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#3652//-1416/397/4 Nintendo Switch artwork], which was then moved to right following a partnership made between the two communities. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes he and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on 25 July. A previous impaled Spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
[[File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|iRaphahell's artwork]]
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4741/207/1310/739/4 a Romanian flag] of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4705/207/1289/704/4 banknote] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag, and the logos of two other Romanian youtubers ([https://www.youtube.com/@zaSami zaSami] and [https://www.youtube.com/@QSanity INSANITY]).

Both of these were destroyed: the banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/209/1237/614/1.774 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietnamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian Reddit community created two main flags, however, these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers on the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half-Life 3 logo, Adventure Time, and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by [[The Void|the Void]] but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on Discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, who first decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything was taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks was the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half-Life, and Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden Aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire Snoo, which replaced a more human-looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#739 Flagpole with a golden Aquila]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1696 Vampire Snoo]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1499 Friendship heart with Hungary]

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hgy7/145 Romanian Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzby16/145 Moldovan Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc364/145 Dacia 1300]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y2nccj/145 Friendship ribbon with Hungary] - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116s7be/151 Endless Column] of Constantin Brâncuși
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sg6r/145 Romanian Penguin] - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hcue/145 Half-Life 3 Logo], [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc0we/145 TNO Mod Logo], Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twmq7c/145 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#65/145 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#txb44k/151 Peter Parker] and [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sb9b/151 Miles Morales] (Spider-Man group), and [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twu6la/151 Romanian themed Factorio belt].

===2023 Artwork===
[[File:Second Impaled spez drawing.png|thumb|right|200px|The impaled Spez drawing on the second flag]]
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1659//-348/82/4 Endless Column] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" in Romanian) text (destroyed on the last day by the bot attack)
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4084/124 Impaled Spez] (deleted by Reddit Admins)

[[File:Ciucaș beer bottle.PNG|thumb|right|100px|The Ciucaș beer bottle replaced by the Spez drawing]]
Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#6044/207/-1448/393/4 Ciucaș beer bottle] (replaced with the second impaled Spez)
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#6043/212/-1452/395/4 Second impaled Spez] (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1442//-287/153/4 Alice Margatroid] (Touhou), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#738/254/-347/164/4 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#5504 Puck] (Berserk), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1655 Hinagarasu] (Haikyuu), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#3577 Prisoner Bobby] (Dead Cells).

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 Kessoku Band x Romania] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:Among Us Crewmate Sightings]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

States Lion

2023-08-03T21:08:27Z

Alin2808: Added gallery tag for images (WP:GALLERY)

{{Artwork
| name = States Lion
| description = The lion featured in the coat of arms of the constituent nations of the Benelux.
| location = (-1337, -519)
| id = 5533
| creator = [[Belgium]], [[PlaceNL]], and [[Luxembourg]]
| image = States_Lion.png
}}
The States Lion was a collaborative pixel art during {{pl3}} of the communities of [[Belgium]], [[PlaceNL|The Netherlands]], and [[Luxembourg]] during {{pl3}}. Together these countries form the Benelux, a politico-economic union. The countries have languages and history in common. In particular they formed one faction together in the Eighty Years' War.

The lion historically represents the Low Countries area as a whole, since each constituent nation possesses a coat of arms featuring the ''Leo Belgicus''; a lion rampant facing left. During the 17th century the lion already symbolized the Low Lands.

=={{pl3}}==
The States Lion pixel art was completed around 9:00 GMT on July 24th on partly the [[Netherlands Flag|flag of The Netherlands]], and partly on the [[Orange Pennant]] where it would remain until the end.

==Coat of arms==
<gallery mode=packed>
File:State Coat of Arms of Belgium.png|The state coat of arms of Belgium.
File:State coat of arms of the Netherlands.png|The state coat of arms of The Netherlands.
File:Coat of arms of Luxembourg.png|The coat of arms of Luxembourg.
</gallery>

The ''Leo Belgicus'' is featured on the coat of arms of each member nation of the Benelux union. The symbol originates from the Eighty Years' War (1566 – 1648), and it symbolized the Dutch Republic that fought for its independence. The Dutch Republic consisted of what is present-day Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

The symbol is also featured in the coat of arms of the house of Orange-Nassau, which [[William the Silent]] founded, and of which descendants belong to the royal family of The Netherlands, among whom are the current king and queen of The Netherlands: [[Willem-Alexander and Máxima]].

Romania

2023-08-03T20:59:31Z

Alin2808: /* Expanding and second flag */

{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo = Main Romanian flag 2023.png
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
[[File:First Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The first Romanian flag being destroyed]]
Eventually, it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#29/14 172, 267 coordinates].<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and [[Touhou]]. The flag expanded, however, it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however, the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it was completely covered.

===Final flags===
[[File:First impaled spez drawing.PNG|thumb|left|200px|The first impaled Spez drawing next to "Dracula's castle"]]
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France. This main flag hosted various artwork, both made by the Romanian community and by others. It was also the flag which had the first impaled Spez drawing. The drawing was made as an original idea based on Vlad III Dracula's punishments and placed next to "[[Bran Castle|Dracula's castle]]". It was removed by Reddit administrators and eventually replaced with a text reading "Muie Spez!" above the castle.

On the last day of r/place, the Romanian community focused on defending and fixing the flags and did not make any new artwork, though it helped streamer [https://www.youtube.com/@highman Highman] create [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4610/254/-1274/112/4 his shark mascot] on a Vietnamese flag in return for his help on the flag of Mexico which was destroyed by a Lithuanian streamer earlier that day. The attempt to retake the Mexican flag was never finished as r/place ended.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought it was unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artwork, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused some unhappy Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually, all was settled and the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#392//-407/-626/4 Moldovan flag] was relocated.

====Attacks====
The first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#87/250 Stitch's ear] (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped, though it managed to destroy the "Muie Spez" text from the flag which was no longer readded. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

[[File:Second Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The second Romanian flag on the final canvas]]

====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, France permitted Romania to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and made [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2023/156/-335/540/2.399 another French flag].

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. This flag covered the previous location of the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#3652//-1416/397/4 Nintendo Switch artwork], which was then moved to right following a partnership made between the two communities. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes he and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on 25 July. A previous impaled Spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
[[File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|iRaphahell's artwork]]
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4741/207/1310/739/4 a Romanian flag] of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4705/207/1289/704/4 banknote] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag, and the logos of two other Romanian youtubers ([https://www.youtube.com/@zaSami zaSami] and [https://www.youtube.com/@QSanity INSANITY]).

Both of these were destroyed: the banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/209/1237/614/1.774 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietnamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian Reddit community created two main flags, however, these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers on the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half-Life 3 logo, Adventure Time, and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on Discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, who first decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything was taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks was the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half-Life, and Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden Aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire Snoo, which replaced a more human-looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#739 Flagpole with a golden Aquila]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1696 Vampire Snoo]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1499 Friendship heart with Hungary]

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hgy7/145 Romanian Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzby16/145 Moldovan Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc364/145 Dacia 1300]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y2nccj/145 Friendship ribbon with Hungary] - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116s7be/151 Endless Column] of Constantin Brâncuși
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sg6r/145 Romanian Penguin] - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hcue/145 Half-Life 3 Logo], [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc0we/145 TNO Mod Logo], Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twmq7c/145 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#65/145 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#txb44k/151 Peter Parker] and [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sb9b/151 Miles Morales] (Spider-Man group), and [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twu6la/151 Romanian themed Factorio belt].

===2023 Artwork===
[[File:Second Impaled spez drawing.png|thumb|right|200px|The impaled Spez drawing on the second flag]]
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1659//-348/82/4 Endless Column] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" in Romanian) text (destroyed on the last day by the bot attack)
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4084/124 Impaled Spez] (deleted by Reddit Admins)

[[File:Ciucaș beer bottle.PNG|thumb|right|100px|The Ciucaș beer bottle replaced by the Spez drawing]]
Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#6044/207/-1448/393/4 Ciucaș beer bottle] (replaced with the second impaled Spez)
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#6043/212/-1452/395/4 Second impaled Spez] (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1442//-287/153/4 Alice Margatroid] (Touhou), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#738/254/-347/164/4 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#5504 Puck] (Berserk), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1655 Hinagarasu] (Haikyuu), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#3577 Prisoner Bobby] (Dead Cells).

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 Kessoku Band x Romania] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
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[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:Among Us Crewmate Sightings]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

Romania

2023-08-03T20:58:24Z

Alin2808: /* Expanding and second flag */ Nintendo Switch info

{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo = Main Romanian flag 2023.png
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
[[File:First Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The first Romanian flag being destroyed]]
Eventually, it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#29/14 172, 267 coordinates].<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and [[Touhou]]. The flag expanded, however, it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however, the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it was completely covered.

===Final flags===
[[File:First impaled spez drawing.PNG|thumb|left|200px|The first impaled Spez drawing next to "Dracula's castle"]]
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France. This main flag hosted various artwork, both made by the Romanian community and by others. It was also the flag which had the first impaled Spez drawing. The drawing was made as an original idea based on Vlad III Dracula's punishments and placed next to "[[Bran Castle|Dracula's castle]]". It was removed by Reddit administrators and eventually replaced with a text reading "Muie Spez!" above the castle.

On the last day of r/place, the Romanian community focused on defending and fixing the flags and did not make any new artwork, though it helped streamer [https://www.youtube.com/@highman Highman] create [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4610/254/-1274/112/4 his shark mascot] on a Vietnamese flag in return for his help on the flag of Mexico which was destroyed by a Lithuanian streamer earlier that day. The attempt to retake the Mexican flag was never finished as r/place ended.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought it was unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artwork, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused some unhappy Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually, all was settled and the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#392//-407/-626/4 Moldovan flag] was relocated.

====Attacks====
The first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#87/250 Stitch's ear] (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped, though it managed to destroy the "Muie Spez" text from the flag which was no longer readded. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

[[File:Second Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The second Romanian flag on the final canvas]]

====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, France permitted Romania to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2023/156/-335/540/2.399 made another French flag].

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. This flag covered the previous location of the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#3652//-1416/397/4 Nintendo Switch artwork], which was then moved to right following a partnership made between the two communities. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes he and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on 25 July. A previous impaled Spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
[[File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|iRaphahell's artwork]]
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4741/207/1310/739/4 a Romanian flag] of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4705/207/1289/704/4 banknote] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag, and the logos of two other Romanian youtubers ([https://www.youtube.com/@zaSami zaSami] and [https://www.youtube.com/@QSanity INSANITY]).

Both of these were destroyed: the banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/209/1237/614/1.774 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietnamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian Reddit community created two main flags, however, these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers on the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half-Life 3 logo, Adventure Time, and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on Discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, who first decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything was taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks was the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half-Life, and Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden Aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire Snoo, which replaced a more human-looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#739 Flagpole with a golden Aquila]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1696 Vampire Snoo]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1499 Friendship heart with Hungary]

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hgy7/145 Romanian Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzby16/145 Moldovan Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc364/145 Dacia 1300]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y2nccj/145 Friendship ribbon with Hungary] - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116s7be/151 Endless Column] of Constantin Brâncuși
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sg6r/145 Romanian Penguin] - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hcue/145 Half-Life 3 Logo], [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc0we/145 TNO Mod Logo], Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twmq7c/145 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#65/145 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#txb44k/151 Peter Parker] and [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sb9b/151 Miles Morales] (Spider-Man group), and [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twu6la/151 Romanian themed Factorio belt].

===2023 Artwork===
[[File:Second Impaled spez drawing.png|thumb|right|200px|The impaled Spez drawing on the second flag]]
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1659//-348/82/4 Endless Column] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" in Romanian) text (destroyed on the last day by the bot attack)
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4084/124 Impaled Spez] (deleted by Reddit Admins)

[[File:Ciucaș beer bottle.PNG|thumb|right|100px|The Ciucaș beer bottle replaced by the Spez drawing]]
Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#6044/207/-1448/393/4 Ciucaș beer bottle] (replaced with the second impaled Spez)
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#6043/212/-1452/395/4 Second impaled Spez] (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1442//-287/153/4 Alice Margatroid] (Touhou), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#738/254/-347/164/4 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#5504 Puck] (Berserk), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1655 Hinagarasu] (Haikyuu), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#3577 Prisoner Bobby] (Dead Cells).

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 Kessoku Band x Romania] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:Among Us Crewmate Sightings]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

Romania

2023-08-03T20:39:04Z

Alin2808: /* Expanding and second flag */ Clarify

{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo = Main Romanian flag 2023.png
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
[[File:First Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The first Romanian flag being destroyed]]
Eventually, it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#29/14 172, 267 coordinates].<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and [[Touhou]]. The flag expanded, however, it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however, the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it was completely covered.

===Final flags===
[[File:First impaled spez drawing.PNG|thumb|left|200px|The first impaled Spez drawing next to "Dracula's castle"]]
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France. This main flag hosted various artwork, both made by the Romanian community and by others. It was also the flag which had the first impaled Spez drawing. The drawing was made as an original idea based on Vlad III Dracula's punishments and placed next to "[[Bran Castle|Dracula's castle]]". It was removed by Reddit administrators and eventually replaced with a text reading "Muie Spez!" above the castle.

On the last day of r/place, the Romanian community focused on defending and fixing the flags and did not make any new artwork, though it helped streamer [https://www.youtube.com/@highman Highman] create [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4610/254/-1274/112/4 his shark mascot] on a Vietnamese flag in return for his help on the flag of Mexico which was destroyed by a Lithuanian streamer earlier that day. The attempt to retake the Mexican flag was never finished as r/place ended.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought it was unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artwork, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused some unhappy Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually, all was settled and the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#392//-407/-626/4 Moldovan flag] was relocated.

====Attacks====
The first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#87/250 Stitch's ear] (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped, though it managed to destroy the "Muie Spez" text from the flag which was no longer readded. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

[[File:Second Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The second Romanian flag on the final canvas]]

====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, France permitted Romania to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2023/156/-335/540/2.399 made another French flag].

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes he and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on 25 July. A previous impaled Spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
[[File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|iRaphahell's artwork]]
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4741/207/1310/739/4 a Romanian flag] of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4705/207/1289/704/4 banknote] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag, and the logos of two other Romanian youtubers ([https://www.youtube.com/@zaSami zaSami] and [https://www.youtube.com/@QSanity INSANITY]).

Both of these were destroyed: the banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/209/1237/614/1.774 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietnamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian Reddit community created two main flags, however, these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers on the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half-Life 3 logo, Adventure Time, and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on Discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, who first decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything was taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks was the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half-Life, and Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden Aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire Snoo, which replaced a more human-looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#739 Flagpole with a golden Aquila]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1696 Vampire Snoo]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1499 Friendship heart with Hungary]

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hgy7/145 Romanian Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzby16/145 Moldovan Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc364/145 Dacia 1300]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y2nccj/145 Friendship ribbon with Hungary] - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116s7be/151 Endless Column] of Constantin Brâncuși
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sg6r/145 Romanian Penguin] - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hcue/145 Half-Life 3 Logo], [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc0we/145 TNO Mod Logo], Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twmq7c/145 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#65/145 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#txb44k/151 Peter Parker] and [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sb9b/151 Miles Morales] (Spider-Man group), and [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twu6la/151 Romanian themed Factorio belt].

===2023 Artwork===
[[File:Second Impaled spez drawing.png|thumb|right|200px|The impaled Spez drawing on the second flag]]
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1659//-348/82/4 Endless Column] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" in Romanian) text (destroyed on the last day by the bot attack)
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4084/124 Impaled Spez] (deleted by Reddit Admins)

[[File:Ciucaș beer bottle.PNG|thumb|right|100px|The Ciucaș beer bottle replaced by the Spez drawing]]
Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#6044/207/-1448/393/4 Ciucaș beer bottle] (replaced with the second impaled Spez)
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#6043/212/-1452/395/4 Second impaled Spez] (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1442//-287/153/4 Alice Margatroid] (Touhou), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#738/254/-347/164/4 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#5504 Puck] (Berserk), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1655 Hinagarasu] (Haikyuu), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#3577 Prisoner Bobby] (Dead Cells).

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 Kessoku Band x Romania] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:Among Us Crewmate Sightings]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

Bran Castle

2023-07-30T22:25:40Z

Alin2808: /* Impaled spez */ Links

{{Artwork
| name = Bran Castle
| description = The Bran castle small village under it and a vampire behind it
| creator = [[Romania]]
| location = (-324, 123)
| image = Bran Castle on the final canvas.png
| id = 2639
}}
[[File:Castelul Bran - panoramio.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A photo of Bran castle]]
Bran (Slavonic name meaning "gate") is a castle in Bran village, Brașov county, Romania. It was built by the Teutonic knights in the 13th century and later passed to the Saxons of Kronstadt (the modern-day city of Brașov).<ref>https://bran-castle.com/historical/</ref> Historically it was the point where the border with Wallachia was kept.<ref name="wikipedia">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bran_Castle</ref>

The castle became famous for its association with "Dracula's castle" though there is no connection between Bran and Stoker's novel, nor with the Wallachian Voivode Vlad III Dracula.<ref name="wikipedia"/>

==r/place 2023==
[[File:Artwork before the attack.PNG|thumb|left|200px|The castle before the bot attack]]
The idea to draw a castle like last year when the [[Peleș Castle]] was drawn, came from the second day of the event, however, it was not until the 21st of July that a template was created for it. Though not a complete match to the real castle, it was accepted as the flag still lacked artwork (besides the hosted Guardian Tales drawings) at that time. Construction on the castle began the same day. The slow process of construction was further delayed by Bratishkinoff's attack, which destroyed all the progress up to that point. After settling the dispute, construction restarted, picking up pace with the help of an increasing number of people. During the construction, the castle was wrongly extended past the template, as people who did not have the template also worked on it.

Soon after its completion, several crosses began appearing on the castle, in a similar way to Peleș from last year. These were deleted, and re-added several times throughout the event. A small village was also added to the base of the castle, and later a vampire was also drawn behind it.

On the last day of the event, the castle was damaged during the bot attack. It was repaired quickly, however, and it made it to the final canvas.

===Impaled spez===
[[File:First impaled spez drawing.PNG|thumb|200px|The first impaled spez drawing with the crosses already appearing on the castle]]
With the initial construction being completed, the idea to participate in the protests against spez came up. To take a more unique way of protesting, similar to how the French used the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#674/11 guillotine] in their protest, it was decided to draw an [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4084/124 impaled Snoo head] with the text "Spez" written on a sign under it, and place the stake next to the castle. This was in reference to Vlad III Dracula's punishments.

The artwork did not survive for long, as Reddit administrators soon censored it. The stake was replaced with a sign only reading "Fuck Spez", though later replaced with a text above the castle reading "Muie Spez" (Fuck Spez in Romanian). An invitation to the discord server was also added under it. The text however, did not survive on the final canvas as it was destroyed during the bot attack and never reconstructed.

==External Links==
[https://bran-castle.com/ Official site]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Artwork]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]

Peleș Castle

2023-07-30T22:25:18Z

Alin2808: /* r/place 2022 */ Link

{{Artwork
| name = Peleș Castle
| description = The Peleș from Romania, together with an r/Romania banner under it
| creator = [[Romania]]
| location = (674, 176)
| image = Peles.png
| id = tzbshd
}}

The Peleș Castle is a Neo-Renaissance castle located in Sinaia, Romania. It was built between 1873 and 1914, its inauguration was held in 1883. Originally personal property of the Romanian Royal Family, the castle now houses the Peleș National Museum, as well as being occasionally used for public royal ceremonies.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pele%C8%99_Castle</ref>
[[File:Peles Castle - 2005.jpg|thumb|right|250x250px|A photo of the Peleș castle]]
The pixel artwork was made by r/Romania and was destroyed by Polish streamers twice.

==r/place 2022==
[[File:Initial Banner.png|thumb|left|200x200px|The initial idea of the Romania banner]]
On the second day of the event, it was decided to make a pixel art of the Peleș Castle above the banner with r/Romania written on it. Initially this banner was supposed to have a traditional pattern on it as well, however as work began on the second flag, the empty space was given to r/Buro, which was eventually changed to write "EURO".

After the castle was initially built, several crosses were added over the roof. As the real castle does not feature any crosses, these were replaced with flags in order to stop people from adding them back. When the castle was finished, work on the friendship ribbon with Hungary began. After completing the ribbon and finishing the [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116s7be/151 Endless Column] on the second flag, the main flag was attacked by a Polish streamer on the third day. The flag was destroyed entirely, including the castle.

The castle along with the flag was rebuilt shortly after, with support from several communities including the Anti-Void Alliances, which organized an event for rebuilding the flag.

During the last day of the event, the flag was attacked once again by more Polish streamers and the castle was once again destroyed. This time the flag could no longer be taken back and the castle did not make it in the end.

==External Links==
[https://peles.ro/ Official site (in Romanian)]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Artwork]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]

Romania

2023-07-30T21:55:12Z

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{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo = Main Romanian flag 2023.png
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
[[File:First Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The first Romanian flag being destroyed]]
Eventually, it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#29/14 172, 267 coordinates].<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and [[Touhou]]. The flag expanded, however, it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however, the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it was completely covered.

===Final flags===
[[File:First impaled spez drawing.PNG|thumb|left|200px|The first impaled Spez drawing next to "Dracula's castle"]]
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France. This main flag hosted various artwork, both made by the Romanian community and by others. It was also the flag which had the first impaled Spez drawing. The drawing was made as an original idea based on Vlad III Dracula's punishments and placed next to "[[Bran Castle|Dracula's castle]]". It was removed by Reddit administrators and eventually replaced with a text reading "Muie Spez!" above the castle.

On the last day of r/place, the Romanian community focused on defending and fixing the flags and did not make any new artwork, though it helped streamer [https://www.youtube.com/@highman Highman] create [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4610/254/-1274/112/4 his shark mascot] on a Vietnamese flag in return for his help on the flag of Mexico which was destroyed by a Lithuanian streamer earlier that day. The attempt to retake the Mexican flag was never finished as r/place ended.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought it was unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artwork, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused some unhappy Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually, all was settled and the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#392//-407/-626/4 Moldovan flag] was relocated.

====Attacks====
The first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#87/250 Stitch's ear] (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped, though it managed to destroy the "Muie Spez" text from the flag which was no longer readded. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

[[File:Second Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The second Romanian flag on the final canvas]]

====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, Romania was permitted to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and made another French flag.

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes he and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on 25 July. A previous impaled Spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
[[File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|iRaphahell's artwork]]
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4741/207/1310/739/4 a Romanian flag] of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4705/207/1289/704/4 banknote] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag, and the logos of two other Romanian youtubers ([https://www.youtube.com/@zaSami zaSami] and [https://www.youtube.com/@QSanity INSANITY]).

Both of these were destroyed: the banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/209/1237/614/1.774 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietnamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian Reddit community created two main flags, however, these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers on the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half-Life 3 logo, Adventure Time, and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on Discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, who first decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything was taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks was the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half-Life, and Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden Aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire Snoo, which replaced a more human-looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#739 Flagpole with a golden Aquila]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1696 Vampire Snoo]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1499 Friendship heart with Hungary]

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hgy7/145 Romanian Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzby16/145 Moldovan Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc364/145 Dacia 1300]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y2nccj/145 Friendship ribbon with Hungary] - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116s7be/151 Endless Column] of Constantin Brâncuși
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sg6r/145 Romanian Penguin] - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hcue/145 Half-Life 3 Logo], [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc0we/145 TNO Mod Logo], Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twmq7c/145 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#65/145 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#txb44k/151 Peter Parker] and [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sb9b/151 Miles Morales] (Spider-Man group), and [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twu6la/151 Romanian themed Factorio belt].

===2023 Artwork===
[[File:Second Impaled spez drawing.png|thumb|right|200px|The impaled Spez drawing on the second flag]]
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1659//-348/82/4 Endless Column] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" in Romanian) text (destroyed on the last day by the bot attack)
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4084/124 Impaled Spez] (deleted by Reddit Admins)

[[File:Ciucaș beer bottle.PNG|thumb|right|100px|The Ciucaș beer bottle replaced by the Spez drawing]]
Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#6044/207/-1448/393/4 Ciucaș beer bottle] (replaced with the second impaled Spez)
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#6043/212/-1452/395/4 Second impaled Spez] (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1442//-287/153/4 Alice Margatroid] (Touhou), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#738/254/-347/164/4 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#5504 Puck] (Berserk), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1655 Hinagarasu] (Haikyuu), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#3577 Prisoner Bobby] (Dead Cells).

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 Kessoku Band x Romania] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:Among Us Crewmate Sightings]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

Romania

2023-07-30T17:43:20Z

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{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo = Main Romanian flag 2023.png
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
[[File:First Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The first Romanian flag being destroyed]]
Eventually, it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#29/14 172, 267 coordinates].<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and [[Touhou]]. The flag expanded, however, it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however, the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it was completely covered.

===Final flags===
[[File:First impaled spez drawing.PNG|thumb|left|200px|The first impaled Spez drawing next to "Dracula's castle"]]
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France. This main flag hosted various artwork, both made by the Romanian community and by others. It was also the flag which had the first impaled Spez drawing. The drawing was made as an original idea based on Vlad III Dracula's punishments and placed next to "[[Bran Castle|Dracula's castle]]". It was removed by Reddit administrators and eventually replaced with a text reading "Muie Spez!" above the castle.

On the last day of r/place, the Romanian community focused on defending and fixing the flags and did not make any new artwork, though it helped streamer [https://www.youtube.com/@highman Highman] create [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4610/254/-1274/112/4 his shark mascot] on a Vietnamese flag in return for his help on the flag of Mexico which was destroyed by a Lithuanian streamer earlier that day. The attempt to retake the Mexican flag was never finished as r/place ended.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought it was unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artwork, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused some unhappy Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually, all was settled and the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#392//-407/-626/4 Moldovan flag] was relocated.

====Attacks====
The first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#87/250 Stitch's ear] (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped, though it managed to destroy the "Muie Spez" text from the flag which was no longer readded. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

[[File:Second Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The second Romanian flag on the final canvas]]

====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, Romania was permitted to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and made another French flag.

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes he and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on 25 July. A previous impaled Spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
[[File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|iRaphahell's artwork]]
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4741/207/1310/739/4 a Romanian flag] of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4705/207/1289/704/4 banknote] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag, and the logos of two other Romanian youtubers ([https://www.youtube.com/@zaSami zaSami] and [https://www.youtube.com/@QSanity INSANITY]).

Both of these were destroyed: the banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/209/1237/614/1.774 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietnamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian Reddit community created two main flags, however, these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers on the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half-Life 3 logo, Adventure Time, and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on Discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, who first decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything was taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks was the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half-Life, and Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden Aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire Snoo, which replaced a more human-looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#739 Flagpole with a golden Aquila]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1696 Vampire Snoo]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1499 Friendship heart with Hungary]

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hgy7/145 Romanian Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzby16/145 Moldovan Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc364/145 Dacia 1300]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y2nccj/145 Friendship ribbon with Hungary] - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116s7be/151 Endless Column] of Constantin Brâncuși
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sg6r/145 Romanian Penguin] - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hcue/145 Half-Life 3 Logo], [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc0we/145 TNO Mod Logo], Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twmq7c/145 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#65/145 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#txb44k/151 Peter Parker] and [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sb9b/151 Miles Morales] (Spider-Man group), and [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twu6la/151 Romanian themed Factorio belt].

===2023 Artwork===
[[File:Second Impaled spez drawing.png|thumb|right|200px|The impaled Spez drawing on the second flag]]
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1659//-348/82/4 Endless Column] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" in Romanian) text (destroyed on the last day by the bot attack)
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4084/124 Impaled Spez] (deleted by Reddit Admins)

[[File:Ciucaș beer bottle.PNG|thumb|right|100px|The Ciucaș beer bottle replaced by the Spez drawing]]
Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*Ciucaș beer bottle (replaced with the second impaled Spez)
*Second impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1442//-287/153/4 Alice Margatroid] (Touhou), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#738/254/-347/164/4 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#5504 Puck] (Berserk), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1655 Hinagarasu] (Haikyuu), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#3577 Prisoner Bobby] (Dead Cells).

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 The Three Colors of Kessoku Band] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:Among Us Crewmate Sightings]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

Romania

2023-07-30T17:13:29Z

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{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo = Main Romanian flag 2023.png
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
[[File:First Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The first Romanian flag being destroyed]]
Eventually, it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#29/14 172, 267 coordinates].<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and [[Touhou]]. The flag expanded, however, it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however, the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it was completely covered.

===Final flags===
[[File:First impaled spez drawing.PNG|thumb|left|200px|The first impaled Spez drawing next to "Dracula's castle"]]
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France. This main flag hosted various artwork, both made by the Romanian community and by others. It was also the flag which had the first impaled Spez drawing. The drawing was made as an original idea based on Vlad III Dracula's punishments and placed next to "[[Bran Castle|Dracula's castle]]". It was removed by Reddit administrators and eventually replaced with a text reading "Muie Spez!" above the castle.

On the last day of r/place, the Romanian community focused on defending and fixing the flags and did not make any new artwork, though it helped streamer [https://www.youtube.com/@highman/videos Highman] create [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4610 his shark mascot] on a Vietnamese flag in return for his help on the flag of Mexico which was destroyed by a Lithuanian streamer earlier that day. The attempt to retake the Mexican flag was never finished as r/place ended.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought it was unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artwork, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused some unhappy Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually, all was settled and the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#392/250 Moldovan flag] was relocated.

====Attacks====
The first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#87/250 Stitch's ear] (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped, though it managed to destroy the "Muie Spez" text from the flag which was no longer readded. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

[[File:Second Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The second Romanian flag on the final canvas]]

====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, Romania was permitted to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and made another French flag.

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes he and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on 25 July. A previous impaled Spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
[[File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|iRaphahell's artwork]]
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created a Romanian flag of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a banknote of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag, and the logos of two other Romanian youtubers ([https://www.youtube.com/@zaSami zaSami] and [https://www.youtube.com/@QSanity INSANITY]).

Both of these were destroyed: the banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/210 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietnamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian Reddit community created two main flags, however, these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers on the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half-Life 3 logo, Adventure Time, and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on Discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, who first decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything was taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks was the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half-Life, and Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden Aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire Snoo, which replaced a more human-looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#739 Flagpole with a golden Aquila]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1696 Vampire Snoo]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1499 Friendship heart with Hungary]

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hgy7/145 Romanian Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzby16/145 Moldovan Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc364/145 Dacia 1300]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y2nccj/145 Friendship ribbon with Hungary] - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*Endless Column of Constantin Brâncuși
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sg6r/145 Romanian Penguin] - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hcue/145 Half-Life 3 Logo], [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc0we/145 TNO Mod Logo], Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twmq7c/145 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#65/145 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: Peter Parker and Miles Morales (Spider-Man group), and Romanian themed Factorio belt.

===2023 Artwork===
[[File:Second Impaled spez drawing.png|thumb|right|200px|The impaled Spez drawing on the second flag]]
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[[Endless Column]] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" in Romanian) text (destroyed on the last day by the bot attack)
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4084/124 Impaled Spez] (deleted by Reddit Admins)

[[File:Ciucaș beer bottle.PNG|thumb|right|100px|The Ciucaș beer bottle replaced by the Spez drawing]]
Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*Ciucaș beer bottle (replaced with the second impaled Spez)
*Second impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#5504 Puck] (Berserk), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1655 Hinagarasu] (Haikyuu), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#3577 Prisoner Bobby] (Dead Cells).

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 The Three Colors of Kessoku Band] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:Among Us Crewmate Sightings]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

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#REDIRECT [[Bran Castle]]

Bran Castle

2023-07-30T15:58:52Z

Alin2808: References

{{Artwork
| name = Bran Castle
| description = The Bran castle small village under it and a vampire behind it
| creator = [[Romania]]
| location = (-324, 123)
| image = Bran Castle on the final canvas.png
| id = 2639
}}
[[File:Castelul Bran - panoramio.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A photo of Bran castle]]
Bran (Slavonic name meaning "gate") is a castle in Bran village, Brașov county, Romania. It was built by the Teutonic knights in the 13th century and later passed to the Saxons of Kronstadt (the modern-day city of Brașov).<ref>https://bran-castle.com/historical/</ref> Historically it was the point where the border with Wallachia was kept.<ref name="wikipedia">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bran_Castle</ref>

The castle became famous for its association with "Dracula's castle" though there is no connection between Bran and Stoker's novel, nor with the Wallachian Voivode Vlad III Dracula.<ref name="wikipedia"/>

==r/place 2023==
[[File:Artwork before the attack.PNG|thumb|left|200px|The castle before the bot attack]]
The idea to draw a castle like last year when the [[Peleș Castle]] was drawn, came from the second day of the event, however, it was not until the 21st of July that a template was created for it. Though not a complete match to the real castle, it was accepted as the flag still lacked artwork (besides the hosted Guardian Tales drawings) at that time. Construction on the castle began the same day. The slow process of construction was further delayed by Bratishkinoff's attack, which destroyed all the progress up to that point. After settling the dispute, construction restarted, picking up pace with the help of an increasing number of people. During the construction, the castle was wrongly extended past the template, as people who did not have the template also worked on it.

Soon after its completion, several crosses began appearing on the castle, in a similar way to Peleș from last year. These were deleted, and re-added several times throughout the event. A small village was also added to the base of the castle, and later a vampire was also drawn behind it.

On the last day of the event, the castle was damaged during the bot attack. It was repaired quickly, however, and it made it to the final canvas.

===Impaled spez===
[[File:First impaled spez drawing.PNG|thumb|200px|The first impaled spez drawing with the crosses already appearing on the castle]]
With the initial construction being completed, the idea to participate in the protests against spez came up. To take a more unique way of protesting, similar to how the French used the guillotine in their protest, it was decided to draw an impaled Snoo head with the text "Spez" written on a sign under it, and place the stake next to the castle. This was in reference to Vlad III Dracula's punishments.

The artwork did not survive for long, as Reddit administrators soon censored it. The stake was replaced with a sign only reading "Fuck Spez", though later replaced with a text above the castle reading "Muie Spez" (Fuck Spez in Romanian). An invitation to the discord server was also added under it. The text however, did not survive on the final canvas as it was destroyed during the bot attack and never reconstructed.

==External Links==
[https://bran-castle.com/ Official site]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Artwork]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]

Romania

2023-07-29T22:33:15Z

Alin2808: Can be spotted on nearly every flag.

{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo = Main Romanian flag 2023.png
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
[[File:First Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The first Romanian flag being destroyed]]
Eventually, it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#29/14 172, 267 coordinates].<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and [[Touhou]]. The flag expanded, however, it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however, the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it was completely covered.

===Final flags===
[[File:First impaled spez drawing.PNG|thumb|left|200px|The first impaled Spez drawing next to "Dracula's castle"]]
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France. This main flag hosted various artwork, both made by the Romanian community and by others. It was also the flag which had the first impaled Spez drawing. The drawing was made as an original idea based on Vlad III Dracula's punishments and placed next to "[[Bran Castle|Dracula's castle]]". It was removed by Reddit administrators and eventually replaced with a text reading "Muie Spez!" above the castle.

On the last day of r/place, the Romanian community focused on defending and fixing the flags and did not make any new artwork, though it helped streamer [https://www.youtube.com/@highman/videos Highman] create [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4610 his shark mascot] on a Vietnamese flag in return for his help on the flag of Mexico which was destroyed by a Lithuanian streamer earlier that day. The attempt to retake the Mexican flag was never finished as r/place ended.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought it was unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artwork, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused some unhappy Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually, all was settled and the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#392/250 Moldovan flag] was relocated.

====Attacks====
The first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#87/250 Stitch's ear] (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped, though it managed to destroy the "Muie Spez" text from the flag which was no longer readded. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

[[File:Second Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The second Romanian flag on the final canvas]]

====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, Romania was permitted to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and made another French flag.

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes he and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on 25 July. A previous impaled Spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
[[File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|iRaphahell's artwork]]
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created a Romanian flag of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a banknote of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag, and the logos of two other Romanian youtubers ([https://www.youtube.com/@zaSami zaSami] and [https://www.youtube.com/@QSanity INSANITY]).

Both of these were destroyed: the banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/210 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietnamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian Reddit community created two main flags, however, these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers on the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half-Life 3 logo, Adventure Time, and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on Discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, who first decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything was taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks was the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half-Life, and Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden Aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire Snoo, which replaced a more human-looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#739 Flagpole with a golden Aquila]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1696 Vampire Snoo]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1499 Friendship heart with Hungary]

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hgy7/145 Romanian Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzby16/145 Moldovan Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc364/145 Dacia 1300]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y2nccj/145 Friendship ribbon with Hungary] - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*Endless Column of Constantin Brâncuși
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sg6r/145 Romanian Penguin] - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hcue/145 Half-Life 3 Logo], [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc0we/145 TNO Mod Logo], Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twmq7c/145 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#65/145 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: Peter Parker and Miles Morales (Spider-Man group), and Romanian themed Factorio belt.

===2023 Artwork===
[[File:Second Impaled spez drawing.png|thumb|right|200px|The impaled Spez drawing on the second flag]]
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[[Endless Column]] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" in Romanian) text (destroyed on the last day by the bot attack)
*Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

[[File:Ciucaș beer bottle.PNG|thumb|right|100px|The Ciucaș beer bottle replaced by the Spez drawing]]
Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*Ciucaș beer bottle (replaced with the second impaled Spez)
*Second impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4389 Puck] (Berserk), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1655 Hinagarasu] (Haikyuu), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#3577 Prisoner Bobby] (Dead Cells).

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 The Three Colors of Kessoku Band] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:Among Us Crewmate Sightings]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

Romania

2023-07-29T22:22:21Z

Alin2808: Expanded. Added image.

{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo = Main Romanian flag 2023.png
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
[[File:First Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The first Romanian flag being destroyed]]
Eventually, it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#29/14 172, 267 coordinates].<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and [[Touhou]]. The flag expanded, however, it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however, the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it was completely covered.

===Final flags===
[[File:First impaled spez drawing.PNG|thumb|left|200px|The first impaled Spez drawing next to "Dracula's castle"]]
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France. This main flag hosted various artwork, both made by the Romanian community and by others. It was also the flag which had the first impaled Spez drawing. The drawing was made as an original idea based on Vlad III Dracula's punishments and placed next to "[[Bran Castle|Dracula's castle]]". It was removed by Reddit administrators and eventually replaced with a text reading "Muie Spez!" above the castle.

On the last day of r/place, the Romanian community focused on defending and fixing the flags and did not make any new artwork, though it helped streamer [https://www.youtube.com/@highman/videos Highman] create [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4610 his shark mascot] on a Vietnamese flag in return for his help on the flag of Mexico which was destroyed by a Lithuanian streamer earlier that day. The attempt to retake the Mexican flag was never finished as r/place ended.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought it was unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artwork, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused some unhappy Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually, all was settled and the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#392/250 Moldovan flag] was relocated.

====Attacks====
The first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#87/250 Stitch's ear] (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped, though it managed to destroy the "Muie Spez" text from the flag which was no longer readded. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

[[File:Second Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The second Romanian flag on the final canvas]]

====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, Romania was permitted to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and made another French flag.

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes he and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on 25 July. A previous impaled Spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
[[File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|iRaphahell's artwork]]
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created a Romanian flag of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a banknote of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag, and the logos of two other Romanian youtubers ([https://www.youtube.com/@zaSami zaSami] and [https://www.youtube.com/@QSanity INSANITY]).

Both of these were destroyed: the banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/210 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietnamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian Reddit community created two main flags, however, these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers on the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half-Life 3 logo, Adventure Time, and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on Discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, who first decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything was taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks was the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half-Life, and Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden Aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire Snoo, which replaced a more human-looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#739 Flagpole with a golden Aquila]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1696 Vampire Snoo]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1499 Friendship heart with Hungary]

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hgy7/145 Romanian Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzby16/145 Moldovan Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc364/145 Dacia 1300]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y2nccj/145 Friendship ribbon with Hungary] - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*Endless Column of Constantin Brâncuși
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sg6r/145 Romanian Penguin] - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hcue/145 Half-Life 3 Logo], [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc0we/145 TNO Mod Logo], Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twmq7c/145 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#65/145 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: Peter Parker and Miles Morales (Spider-Man group), and Romanian themed Factorio belt.

===2023 Artwork===
[[File:Second Impaled spez drawing.png|thumb|right|200px|The impaled Spez drawing on the second flag]]
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[[Endless Column]] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" in Romanian) text (destroyed on the last day by the bot attack)
*Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

[[File:Ciucaș beer bottle.PNG|thumb|right|100px|The Ciucaș beer bottle replaced by the Spez drawing]]
Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*Ciucaș beer bottle (replaced with the second impaled Spez)
*Second impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4389 Puck] (Berserk), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1655 Hinagarasu] (Haikyuu), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#3577 Prisoner Bobby] (Dead Cells).

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 The Three Colors of Kessoku Band] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

Bran Castle

2023-07-29T22:12:53Z

Alin2808: New page!

{{Artwork
| name = Bran Castle
| description = The Bran castle small village under it and a vampire behind it
| creator = [[Romania]]
| location = (-324, 123)
| image = Bran Castle on the final canvas.png
| id = 2639
}}
[[File:Castelul Bran - panoramio.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A photo of Bran castle]]
Bran (Slavonic name meaning "gate") is a castle in Bran village, Brașov county, Romania. It was built by the Teutonic knights in the 13th century and later passed to the Saxons of Kronstadt (the modern-day city of Brașov). Historically it was the point where the border with Wallachia was kept.

The castle became famous for its association with "Dracula's castle" though there is no connection between Bran and Stoker's novel, nor with the Wallachian Voivode Vlad III Dracula.

==r/place 2023==
[[File:Artwork before the attack.PNG|thumb|left|200px|The castle before the bot attack]]
The idea to draw a castle like last year when the [[Peleș Castle]] was drawn, came from the second day of the event, however, it was not until the 21st of July that a template was created for it. Though not a complete match to the real castle, it was accepted as the flag still lacked artwork (besides the hosted Guardian Tales drawings) at that time. Construction on the castle began the same day. The slow process of construction was further delayed by Bratishkinoff's attack, which destroyed all the progress up to that point. After settling the dispute, construction restarted, picking up pace with the help of an increasing number of people. During the construction, the castle was wrongly extended past the template, as people who did not have the template also worked on it.

Soon after its completion, several crosses began appearing on the castle, in a similar way to Peleș from last year. These were deleted, and re-added several times throughout the event. A small village was also added to the base of the castle, and later a vampire was also drawn behind it.

On the last day of the event, the castle was damaged during the bot attack. It was repaired quickly, however, and it made it to the final canvas.

===Impaled spez===
[[File:First impaled spez drawing.PNG|thumb|200px|The first impaled spez drawing with the crosses already appearing on the castle]]
With the initial construction being completed, the idea to participate in the protests against spez came up. To take a more unique way of protesting, similar to how the French used the guillotine in their protest, it was decided to draw an impaled Snoo head with the text "Spez" written on a sign under it, and place the stake next to the castle. This was in reference to Vlad III Dracula's punishments.

The artwork did not survive for long, as Reddit administrators soon censored it. The stake was replaced with a sign only reading "Fuck Spez", though later replaced with a text above the castle reading "Muie Spez" (Fuck Spez in Romanian). An invitation to the discord server was also added under it. The text however, did not survive on the final canvas as it was destroyed during the bot attack and never reconstructed.

==External Links==
[https://bran-castle.com/ Official site]

[[Category:Artwork]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]

File:Artwork before the attack.PNG

2023-07-29T22:03:37Z

Alin2808: Bran castle and the nearby artwork before the bot attack on the final day. The "Muie Spez!" text did not make it to the final canvas.

== Summary ==
Bran castle and the nearby artwork before the bot attack on the final day. The "Muie Spez!" text did not make it to the final canvas.

File:First impaled spez drawing.PNG

2023-07-29T22:02:36Z

Alin2808: The drawing of the first impaled Snoo next to the Bran castle on the Romanian flag. Notice the wrongly added crosses on the castle.

== Summary ==
The drawing of the first impaled Snoo next to the Bran castle on the Romanian flag. Notice the wrongly added crosses on the castle.

File:Bran Castle on the final canvas.png

2023-07-29T22:00:37Z

Alin2808: The Bran Castle along with the village, the vampire, and the Endless Column on the final canvas.

== Summary ==
The Bran Castle along with the village, the vampire, and the Endless Column on the final canvas.

Komi

2023-07-29T11:43:50Z

Alin2808: Remove "introduction section" keep as lead section (MOS:LEAD); fix image in infobox; article no longer a stub.

{{Artwork
| name = Komi
| description = Komi Shouko (with cat ears) from "Komi Can't Communicate"
| location = (725,665)
| id = twpkn4
| Discord = [[https://discord.gg/komiplace]]
| Reddit = https://www.reddit.com/r/Komi_san/
| image = Komi2022.png.jpg
}}

Komi Shouko is a character from “Komi Can't Communicate” She was first built in the UK flag on day one of r/place (April 1 2022), but was consumed shortly after. Her second placement was next to their first ally (Denmark) but then was later destroyed by [http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/The_Void the void]. Her third and final build started from around 10PM PST the same day on top of the [https://www.reddit.com/r/osuplace/ osu!] logo. Originally, after a post on [https://www.reddit.com/r/Komi_san/ r/komi_san], they organized the build under the gaming channel in the Komi-san fan discord server (later moving to a thread under said channel). Proceeding the creation of a [https://www.reddit.com/r/Komi_San_Place/ dedicated subreddit] and [https://discord.gg/komiplace discord server], their numbers grew. They lost the Tadano Hitohito (main character of "Komi Can't Communicate) they had built due to an attack by twitch streamer "xQc". However, they were able to reconstruct him on top of the Senko loaf next to Osana Najimi (another character) after the second expansion due to their alliances. On April 4, with the whiteout and end of r/place (2022), Komi and her friends (alongside allies) were cemented in internet history.

The following year, on July 20 (2023), r/place made its controversial return, and members of the original project, as well as new ones, joined forces in creating her (and her friends). This time around, besides one major void attack and minor sabotage from Uruguay, Morocco, and the pride flag, Komi and friends were not met with nearly as much contention, and the community was able to construct her, popular side character Osana Najimi, and main character Tadano Hitohito (in that order). The end of the 2023 event came on July 25th making her part of internet history again, with a now staggering 600+ members in the discord server.
==Notable Events==
===2022===
====The Void====
[[File:Komi At the End of r-place 2022.png|alt=After undergoing a re-shading, Komi is immortalized in r/place 2022|thumb|Komi at the end of r/place 2022|link=http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/File:Komi_At_the_End_of_r-place_2022.png]]
The constant threat of destruction on r/place. In this particular case it materialized near Komi and her ally Denmark. Despite the small community's best efforts, Komi was consumed. Many noticed this occurence, resulting in the beginning of the rapid growth of the community. ''See Komi Shouko''
====Failed Collab Between osu! and Star Wars====
On day 2 of place, there was an attempted Collab between the Osu! Logo, and the Star wars poster in which the death star would slowly fire a the the logo in order to look good on the inevitable timelapse of r/place. However only closely related communities were informed, leading to misinterpretations of the situation. Some saw this as Star Wars' attack on Osu! and many anti-osu oppurtunists joined the fray, attempting the destruction of the log. Komi having been built directly on top of it with her hands on the logo, would naturally be caught in the crossfire. This brief attack was successfully defended against.
====The xQc Attacks====
Notable Canadian Streamer xQc was known for his large-scale attacks on certain communities, which would ultimately lead to the distruction of nearby small artworks along the way, therefore giving him notoriety among the r/place community for being a nuisance. He made multiple attacks on ally [[osu!]], and due to Komi's integration into the logo, recieved waves of harrassment particularly in the use of purple pixels.

====The Jakes====
====The Final Minutes====
==Builds==
===Komi Shouko===
====2022====
The spot of the very first Komi-san is somewhat unconfirmed, but she most likely had her first form near the flag of the United Kingdom.[[File:Komi-is-consumed.jpg|thumb|Komi-san is consumed as the Void prepares to invade Poland.|link=http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/File:Komi-is-consumed.jpg]]Some time later, the first recorded Komi-san was coordinated and built by a small group of people on the r/Komi-san Discord Server. The location for this Komi-san was the corner of a rectangle that had used to be a hub for the Void, but by now was a colony of Denmark to the right. Denmark became Komi's first ally, and Komi-san was even built to the left of two Danish cartoon characters. Her other immediate neighbors were Turkey to the left and Poland to the south. Some time during the first night, the Void struck back again, invading Turkey. The Komi-san Discord dispatched a plea for help, but they were quickly overwhelmed, and as the Void prepared to invade Poland and Denmark, Komi-san was consumed.[[File:Northern-alliance(highlighted).jpg|thumb|The coaltion unofficially dubbed the Northern Alliance (highlighted)|link=http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/File:Northern-alliance(highlighted).jpg]]The next Komi-san was coordinated by a larger group of people on the Official Komi-san r/place Discord sever. Her chosen location was just above the Osu logo, where a deteriorating troll face had existed to the right of Australia. After forming alliances with the locals, Komi-san once again made her appearance on the canvas. Subsequent design changes included the addition of a crown (with unknown origin), and hands grabbing onto the Osu logo, which the people of the Osu community were more than happy to help with. Twitch streamer BTMC, who is regarded as the de facto faction leader of the Osu logo, even made remarks on the little Komi to the north. Along with Osu, Komi-san had forged alliances with Australia, Senko-san, Baby Metal, and Hong Kong. This northern alliance (because it was north of Osu) came to create a strong mutual defense bond against all the factions.[[File:Consumption-again(2).jpg|thumb|200x200px|Komi-san rising up out of XQC's purple tendril invasion|link=http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/File:Consumption-again(2).jpg]]But it was not enought to save everyone. On the second night, Komi-san and the rest of the alliance along with Osu, were prematurely attacked by a troll Twitch streamer named XQC. XQC's purple tendrils steamrolled through Senko, Australia, and Komi, before hitting its intended target of Hatsune Miku and Reimu Hakurei to the southeast. Later on, negotiations between BTMC and XQC broke down, and XQC launched two consecutive invasions of Osu (this became the part of a larger war between the two Twitch streamers.) In spite of all this, Komi was able to hold her ground steady, and not long after Senko-san and Australia were rebuilt, so was Komi-san. XQC's hub to the southeast eventually died out, allowing Miku and Reimu to make a return. Other factions joined in to fill the vacuum just above Miku and Reimu, and just below the Legend of Zelda Triforce. It was planned to add an "r/Komi" text to the right, but the plans never got implemented.[[File:Purge.jpg|thumb|The end of Komi|link=http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/File:Purge.jpg]]Komi-san would go through a few more design changes to her skin, hair, and crown, before the ultimate end came on day 4. When the whitening began, Osu was immediately enveloped. The beam of white then swiftly rose to the north like a beacon, obliterating Komi-san.[[File:Tadano-safe.jpg|thumb|Despite another rogue Void invasion in Bulgaria, the first Tadano was safe...until XQC.|link=http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/File:Tadano-safe.jpg]]
===Tadano Hitohito===
====2022====
The first Tadano appeared to the left of Luffy (the "renowned creator of Osu"), to the south of Senko-bread, and to the right of Bulgaria. A rouge Void invasion subsequently invaded Bulgaria, which sparked fear for the builders of Tadano. However, the Void never damaged Tadano as they were simply going through Bulgaria in order to get to Megumin much farther north. Later, when XQC first launched his unprecented attack on his idea of the "weeb" community, he targeted Luffy, and in effect Tadano as well. When XQC's logo was plastered over Luffy, the first Tadano was erased.[[File:Tadano-proposal(2).jpg|thumb|A PROPOSED image of Tadano next to Komi-san. It was never built.|link=http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/File:Tadano-proposal(2).jpg]]After the first fall of XQC on night 2, several factions flocked to Komi-san east to fill the vacuum just above Miku and Reimu, and just below the Legend of Zelda Triforce. One of those factions were the April Knights. A plan was made for a Tadano Hitohito to be built to the right of Komi, also peering over the Osu logo. But by the time the blueprints had been finished, the April Knights had already taken that territory and even formed an alliance with Komi-san.

No attempt was made to build another Tadano until the second doubling of the canvas. The Komi-san community hastily upheld their alliance with Senko-san, and were permitted to build a Tadano, and also Najimi just above a newly formed Senko-bread (the first one had also been destroyed by XQC). Tadano was built first, just south of the slow construction of Twitch streamer JakeS. He had no trouble growing out his hair, but at the time, the blueprints gave him an Jousuke-esque haircut, contrary to Tadano's real haircut in the anime/manga. But even that was fixed as construction on JakeS gradually grew.[[File:Tadano-finished.jpg|thumb|Tadano and Najimi finished|link=http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/File:Tadano-finished.jpg]]A war nearly broke out between Tadano and JakeS, as the conflict over the border became increasingly difficult to ignore. It's reported that JakeS refused to concede in negotiations, which lead to a quasi-war between the two factions, during which Tadano's hair popped up more, and JakeS was almost enveloped by a sea of blue. The war took a turning point though, and JakeS began to push back against Tadano's forehead with stunning progress. A second round of negotiations saw Tadano move down one pixel (which Senko-san was fine with), and JakeS moving up one pixel. The two sides remained at relative peace until the whiteneing, when JakeS ordered the irreversible nuking of Tadano. Komi-san responded by throwing their full weight at JakeS, nuking his icon with white as well, and ensuring that Tadano did not die in vain.
===Najimi Osana===
====2022====
Najimi had a bit of a more troubled adolescence, as they were built south of an joint-territory between Australia and New Zealand. Recall that Komi-san was allied with Australia, and so by transivity they were also allied with New Zealand. A treaty gave the joint territory to New Zealand so they could build their kiwi and bluebird, while everything south of the rectangle all the way to Senko-loaf was allowed to be kept by Najimi. Najimi's ultimate uncompleted face actually fits in quite well with their character. It was made so that Tadano would look over concerned at his friend, whose smile would continue to appear despite an incomplete drawing. Other Najimis included plans for one on the transgender flag (which never was implemented), and a Najimi head on the flag of Argentina (which was never finished). Another plan ws proposed between Komi-san and New Zealand to have New Zealand's blue bird pirch on Najimi's hair. But mere minutes after the agreement had been made, the end of the 2022 event had begun.[[File:You-good.png|thumb|You good?|link=http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/File:You-good.png]]Amongus (very cool)
==Verified Alliances==
===2022===
*Pringle
*OSU! - [https://www.reddit.com/r/osuplace/ r/osuplace]
*Kenshi - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Kenshi/ r/Kenshi]
*Place Australia- [https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/ r/australia] [https://www.reddit.com/r/straya/ r/straya]
*"Senko-san" - [https://www.reddit.com/r/place/]https://www.reddit.com/r/SewayakiKitsune & https://discord.gg/yZCKF99Z
*United Factions of r/place - Discord coordinated
*Hong Kong - discord coordinated
*April Knights - [https://www.reddit.com/r/aprilknights/ r/aprilknights] & [https://discord.gg/aprilknights discord.gg/aprilknights]
*Korea Place - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Korea_Place/ r/Korea_Place/] & https://discord.gg/zEkUHPYs
*MaiPlace - [https://www.reddit.com/r/SeishunButaYarou r/SeishunButaYarou https://discord.gg/uyR5b3bE] - [https://discord.gg/uyR5b3bE https://discord.gg/bunnygirlsenpai]
*New Zealand - https://discord.gg/nz (Reddit sub unconfirmed)
*Touhou - [https://www.reddit.com/r/touhou/ r/touhou] & https://discord.gg/ZSAtbhEzJ2
===2023===
*"Senko-san" - [https://www.reddit.com/r/SewayakiKitsune ttps://www.reddit.com/r/SewayakiKitsune] & https://discord.gg/yZCKF99Z
*The Quintessential Quintuplets - https://discord.gg/gpE2cGWY
*Vivy Fluorite's Eye - https://disboard.org/server/799635577854492702
*TugaPlaceOG - https://discord.gg/UDf7B4yD
[[Category:Artworks]]
[[Category:Anime and Manga]]
[[Category:Anime and Manga Communities]]
__INDEX__

Placetris

2023-07-28T13:40:26Z

Alin2808: Subreddit

{{Community stub}}
{{Community
| name = r/Tetris
| aka = Placetris
| description = A Discord server created to coordinate efforts to put up a Tetris themed artwork on the canvas of Reddit's r/Place event.
| subreddit = Tetris
| website = https://discord.gg/Jg3zzWd8Nf
| artwork = [[TKI Tetris!]], [[Tetris Perfect Clear Opener]]
}}

Placetris was a Discord server created by QuickAndSmart to coordinate efforts of the Tetris community to put up a Tetris themed artwork on the canvas of Reddit's r/Place event. The now archived community saw the participation of over 200 members during the course of the event. Placetris managed to put up 2 artworks, a TKI shape and a Perfect Clear Opener shape.
==place 2022==
===Artwork===
{{SeeAlso|TKI Tetris!}}
[https://four.lol/openers/tki TKI] is a popular opener in modern Tetris that gives a T-Spin double in the first bag. The Flat-Top variation was voted for by the community. The first location chosen was overpowered by r/EvilDeathPlace and r/PaymoneyWubby. A second location at (900, 100) was chosen next but was again quickly overpowered by r/furry_irl. The final location of the build was (932, 114) and remained till the end. The "TETRIS!" lettering, gloss and 3D block shading were added over the next few days.
====Perfect Clear Opener (PCO)====
{{SeeAlso|Tetris Perfect Clear Opener}}
[https://four.lol/perfect-clears/opener Perfect Clear Opener (PCO)] is a popular modern Tetris opener that provides a high chance to perform a Perfect Clear. The original designs for the build came as a result of collaboration with streamer BTMC and members of the osu! community. An ambitious design with 8x8 stylised minos was created and (1919, 450) was chosen as the build location. Unfortunately, work on this build never started due to lack of sufficient members as osu! members were focused on problems affecting their builds. A smaller design with 4x4 minos was created instead. After a partial takeover of r/plural's build, getting eaten by a void and being overpowered by placeNL, the final location of PCO was (1514, 1760). PCO was integrated with Jenny from MLaaTR with the character placing one hand on top of the build.{{H2|Alliances}}As listed in the server:
* [[Arknights]]
*VR Chat
*TransPlace
*[[Gacha Alliance|United Gacha Alliance]]
*SMG4
*MLaaTR Fanbase
{{H2|History}}Created: 1 April 2022

Archived: 5 April 2022 (24 hours after the close of r/Place)

Placetris

2023-07-28T13:36:52Z

Alin2808: Proper section heading (as per WP:SECT) and see also links.

{{Community stub}}
{{Community
| name = r/Tetris
| aka = Placetris
| description = A Discord server created to coordinate efforts to put up a Tetris themed artwork on the canvas of Reddit's r/Place event.
| subreddit = https://reddit.com/r/Tetris
| website = https://discord.gg/Jg3zzWd8Nf
| artwork = [[TKI Tetris!]], [[Tetris Perfect Clear Opener]]
}}

Placetris was a Discord server created by QuickAndSmart to coordinate efforts of the Tetris community to put up a Tetris themed artwork on the canvas of Reddit's r/Place event. The now archived community saw the participation of over 200 members during the course of the event. Placetris managed to put up 2 artworks, a TKI shape and a Perfect Clear Opener shape.
==place 2022==
===Artwork===
{{SeeAlso|TKI Tetris!}}
[https://four.lol/openers/tki TKI] is a popular opener in modern Tetris that gives a T-Spin double in the first bag. The Flat-Top variation was voted for by the community. The first location chosen was overpowered by r/EvilDeathPlace and r/PaymoneyWubby. A second location at (900, 100) was chosen next but was again quickly overpowered by r/furry_irl. The final location of the build was (932, 114) and remained till the end. The "TETRIS!" lettering, gloss and 3D block shading were added over the next few days.
====Perfect Clear Opener (PCO)====
{{SeeAlso|Tetris Perfect Clear Opener}}
[https://four.lol/perfect-clears/opener Perfect Clear Opener (PCO)] is a popular modern Tetris opener that provides a high chance to perform a Perfect Clear. The original designs for the build came as a result of collaboration with streamer BTMC and members of the osu! community. An ambitious design with 8x8 stylised minos was created and (1919, 450) was chosen as the build location. Unfortunately, work on this build never started due to lack of sufficient members as osu! members were focused on problems affecting their builds. A smaller design with 4x4 minos was created instead. After a partial takeover of r/plural's build, getting eaten by a void and being overpowered by placeNL, the final location of PCO was (1514, 1760). PCO was integrated with Jenny from MLaaTR with the character placing one hand on top of the build.{{H2|Alliances}}As listed in the server:
* [[Arknights]]
*VR Chat
*TransPlace
*[[Gacha Alliance|United Gacha Alliance]]
*SMG4
*MLaaTR Fanbase
{{H2|History}}Created: 1 April 2022

Archived: 5 April 2022 (24 hours after the close of r/Place)

Romania

2023-07-28T13:27:57Z

Alin2808: /* 2023 Artwork */ Add the replaced drawing

{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo = Main Romanian flag 2023.png
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
[[File:First Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The first Romanian flag being destroyed]]
Eventually, it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#29/14 172, 267 coordinates].<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and [[Touhou]]. The flag expanded, however, it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however, the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it was completely covered.

===Final flags===
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France.

On the last day of r/place, the Romanian community focused on defending and fixing the flags and did not make any new artwork, though it helped streamer [https://www.youtube.com/@highman/videos Highman] create [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4610 his shark mascot] on a Vietnamese flag in return for his help on the flag of Mexico which was destroyed by a Lithuanian streamer earlier that day. The attempt to retake the Mexican flag was never finished as r/place ended.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought it was unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artwork, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused some unhappy Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually, all was settled and the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#392/250 Moldovan flag] was relocated.

====Attacks====
The first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#87/250 Stitch's ear] (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped, though it managed to destroy the "Muie Spez" text from the flag which was no longer readded. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

[[File:Second Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The second Romanian flag on the final canvas]]

====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, Romania was permitted to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and made another French flag.

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes he and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on 25 July. A previous impaled spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
[[File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|iRaphahell's artwork]]
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created a Romanian flag of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a banknote of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag, and the logos of two other Romanian youtubers ([https://www.youtube.com/@zaSami zaSami] and [https://www.youtube.com/@QSanity INSANITY]).

Both of these were destroyed: the banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/210 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietnamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian Reddit community created two main flags, however, these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers on the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half-Life 3 logo, Adventure Time, and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on Discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, who first decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything was taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks was the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half-Life, and Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden Aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire Snoo, which replaced a more human-looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#739 Flagpole with a golden Aquila]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1696 Vampire Snoo]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1499 Friendship heart with Hungary]

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hgy7/145 Romanian Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzby16/145 Moldovan Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc364/145 Dacia 1300]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y2nccj/145 Friendship ribbon with Hungary] - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*Endless Column of Constantin Brâncuși
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sg6r/145 Romanian Penguin] - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hcue/145 Half-Life 3 Logo], [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc0we/145 TNO Mod Logo], Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twmq7c/145 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#65/145 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: Peter Parker and Miles Morales (Spider-Man group), and Romanian themed Factorio belt.

===2023 Artwork===
[[File:Second Impaled spez drawing.png|thumb|right|200px|The impaled spez drawing on the second flag]]
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[[Endless Column]] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" in Romanian) text (destroyed on the last day by the bot attack)
*Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

[[File:Ciucaș beer bottle.PNG|thumb|right|100px|The Ciucaș beer bottle replaced by the Spez drawing]]
Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*Ciucaș beer bottle (replaced with the second impaled spez)
*Second impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4389 Puck] (Berserk), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1655 Hinagarasu] (Haikyuu), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#3577 Prisoner Bobby] (Dead Cells).

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 The Three Colors of Kessoku Band] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

File:Ciucaș beer bottle.PNG

2023-07-28T13:25:15Z

Alin2808: The Ciucaș beer bottle drawn on the second Romanian flag during the 2023 event. It was replaced by the second impaled spez which was later removed by administrators.

== Summary ==
The Ciucaș beer bottle drawn on the second Romanian flag during the 2023 event. It was replaced by the second impaled spez which was later removed by administrators.

Romania

2023-07-27T22:11:35Z

Alin2808: /* Expanding and second flag */

{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo = Main Romanian flag 2023.png
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
[[File:First Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The first Romanian flag being destroyed]]
Eventually, it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#29/14 172, 267 coordinates].<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and [[Touhou]]. The flag expanded, however, it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however, the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it was completely covered.

===Final flags===
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France.

On the last day of r/place, the Romanian community focused on defending and fixing the flags and did not make any new artwork, though it helped streamer [https://www.youtube.com/@highman/videos Highman] create [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4610 his shark mascot] on a Vietnamese flag in return for his help on the flag of Mexico which was destroyed by a Lithuanian streamer earlier that day. The attempt to retake the Mexican flag was never finished as r/place ended.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought it was unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artwork, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused some unhappy Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually, all was settled and the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#392/250 Moldovan flag] was relocated.

====Attacks====
The first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#87/250 Stitch's ear] (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped, though it managed to destroy the "Muie Spez" text from the flag which was no longer readded. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

[[File:Second Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The second Romanian flag on the final canvas]]

====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, Romania was permitted to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and made another French flag.

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes he and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on 25 July. A previous impaled spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
[[File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|iRaphahell's artwork]]
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created a Romanian flag of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a banknote of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag, and the logos of two other Romanian youtubers ([https://www.youtube.com/@zaSami zaSami] and [https://www.youtube.com/@QSanity INSANITY]).

Both of these were destroyed: the banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/210 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietnamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian Reddit community created two main flags, however, these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers on the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half-Life 3 logo, Adventure Time, and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on Discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, who first decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything was taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks was the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half-Life, and Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden Aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire Snoo, which replaced a more human-looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#739 Flagpole with a golden Aquila]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1696 Vampire Snoo]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1499 Friendship heart with Hungary]

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hgy7/145 Romanian Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzby16/145 Moldovan Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc364/145 Dacia 1300]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y2nccj/145 Friendship ribbon with Hungary] - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*Endless Column of Constantin Brâncuși
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sg6r/145 Romanian Penguin] - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hcue/145 Half-Life 3 Logo], [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc0we/145 TNO Mod Logo], Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twmq7c/145 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#65/145 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: Peter Parker and Miles Morales (Spider-Man group), and Romanian themed Factorio belt.

===2023 Artwork===
[[File:Second Impaled spez drawing.png|thumb|right|200px|The impaled spez drawing on the second flag]]
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[[Endless Column]] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" in Romanian) text (destroyed on the last day by the bot attack)
*Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*Ciucaș beer bottle (replaced with the second impaled spez)
*Second impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4389 Puck] (Berserk), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1655 Hinagarasu] (Haikyuu), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#3577 Prisoner Bobby] (Dead Cells).

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 The Three Colors of Kessoku Band] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

Romania

2023-07-26T15:58:53Z

Alin2808: /* Greek and Moldovan controversies */ Link

{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo = Main Romanian flag 2023.png
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
[[File:First Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The first Romanian flag being destroyed]]
Eventually, it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#29/14 172, 267 coordinates].<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and [[Touhou]]. The flag expanded, however, it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however, the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it was completely covered.

===Final flags===
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France.

On the last day of r/place, the Romanian community focused on defending and fixing the flags and did not make any new artwork, though it helped streamer [https://www.youtube.com/@highman/videos Highman] create [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4610 his shark mascot] on a Vietnamese flag in return for his help on the flag of Mexico which was destroyed by a Lithuanian streamer earlier that day. The attempt to retake the Mexican flag was never finished as r/place ended.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought it was unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artwork, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused some unhappy Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually, all was settled and the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#392/250 Moldovan flag] was relocated.

====Attacks====
The first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#87/250 Stitch's ear] (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped, though it managed to destroy the "Muie Spez" text from the flag which was no longer readded. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

[[File:Second Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The second Romanian flag on the final canvas]]

====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, Romania was permitted to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and made another French flag.

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes he and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on the 25th. A previous impaled spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
[[File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|iRaphahell's artwork]]
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created a Romanian flag of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a banknote of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag, and the logos of two other Romanian youtubers ([https://www.youtube.com/@zaSami zaSami] and [https://www.youtube.com/@QSanity INSANITY]).

Both of these were destroyed: the banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/210 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietnamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian Reddit community created two main flags, however, these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers on the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half-Life 3 logo, Adventure Time, and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on Discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, who first decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything was taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks was the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half-Life, and Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden Aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire Snoo, which replaced a more human-looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#739 Flagpole with a golden Aquila]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1696 Vampire Snoo]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1499 Friendship heart with Hungary]

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hgy7/145 Romanian Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzby16/145 Moldovan Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc364/145 Dacia 1300]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y2nccj/145 Friendship ribbon with Hungary] - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*Endless Column of Constantin Brâncuși
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sg6r/145 Romanian Penguin] - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hcue/145 Half-Life 3 Logo], [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc0we/145 TNO Mod Logo], Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twmq7c/145 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#65/145 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: Peter Parker and Miles Morales (Spider-Man group), and Romanian themed Factorio belt.

===2023 Artwork===
[[File:Second Impaled spez drawing.png|thumb|right|200px|The impaled spez drawing on the second flag]]
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[[Endless Column]] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" in Romanian) text (destroyed on the last day by the bot attack)
*Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*Ciucaș beer bottle (replaced with the second impaled spez)
*Second impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4389 Puck] (Berserk), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1655 Hinagarasu] (Haikyuu), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#3577 Prisoner Bobby] (Dead Cells).

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 The Three Colors of Kessoku Band] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

Romania

2023-07-26T15:57:31Z

Alin2808: /* Attacks */ Link

{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo = Main Romanian flag 2023.png
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
[[File:First Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The first Romanian flag being destroyed]]
Eventually, it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#29/14 172, 267 coordinates].<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and [[Touhou]]. The flag expanded, however, it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however, the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it was completely covered.

===Final flags===
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France.

On the last day of r/place, the Romanian community focused on defending and fixing the flags and did not make any new artwork, though it helped streamer [https://www.youtube.com/@highman/videos Highman] create [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4610 his shark mascot] on a Vietnamese flag in return for his help on the flag of Mexico which was destroyed by a Lithuanian streamer earlier that day. The attempt to retake the Mexican flag was never finished as r/place ended.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought it was unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artwork, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused some Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually, all was settled and the Moldovan flag was relocated.

====Attacks====
The first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#87/250 Stitch's ear] (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped, though it managed to destroy the "Muie Spez" text from the flag which was no longer readded. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

[[File:Second Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The second Romanian flag on the final canvas]]

====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, Romania was permitted to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and made another French flag.

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes he and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on the 25th. A previous impaled spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
[[File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|iRaphahell's artwork]]
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created a Romanian flag of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a banknote of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag, and the logos of two other Romanian youtubers ([https://www.youtube.com/@zaSami zaSami] and [https://www.youtube.com/@QSanity INSANITY]).

Both of these were destroyed: the banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/210 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietnamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian Reddit community created two main flags, however, these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers on the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half-Life 3 logo, Adventure Time, and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on Discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, who first decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything was taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks was the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half-Life, and Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden Aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire Snoo, which replaced a more human-looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#739 Flagpole with a golden Aquila]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1696 Vampire Snoo]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1499 Friendship heart with Hungary]

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hgy7/145 Romanian Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzby16/145 Moldovan Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc364/145 Dacia 1300]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y2nccj/145 Friendship ribbon with Hungary] - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*Endless Column of Constantin Brâncuși
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sg6r/145 Romanian Penguin] - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hcue/145 Half-Life 3 Logo], [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc0we/145 TNO Mod Logo], Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twmq7c/145 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#65/145 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: Peter Parker and Miles Morales (Spider-Man group), and Romanian themed Factorio belt.

===2023 Artwork===
[[File:Second Impaled spez drawing.png|thumb|right|200px|The impaled spez drawing on the second flag]]
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[[Endless Column]] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" in Romanian) text (destroyed on the last day by the bot attack)
*Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*Ciucaș beer bottle (replaced with the second impaled spez)
*Second impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4389 Puck] (Berserk), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1655 Hinagarasu] (Haikyuu), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#3577 Prisoner Bobby] (Dead Cells).

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 The Three Colors of Kessoku Band] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

Romania

2023-07-26T15:56:11Z

Alin2808: Links and various edits.

{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo = Main Romanian flag 2023.png
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
[[File:First Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The first Romanian flag being destroyed]]
Eventually, it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#29/14 172, 267 coordinates].<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and [[Touhou]]. The flag expanded, however, it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however, the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it was completely covered.

===Final flags===
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France.

On the last day of r/place, the Romanian community focused on defending and fixing the flags and did not make any new artwork, though it helped streamer [https://www.youtube.com/@highman/videos Highman] create [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4610 his shark mascot] on a Vietnamese flag in return for his help on the flag of Mexico which was destroyed by a Lithuanian streamer earlier that day. The attempt to retake the Mexican flag was never finished as r/place ended.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought it was unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artwork, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused some Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually, all was settled and the Moldovan flag was relocated.

====Attacks====
The first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as Stitch's ear (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped, though it managed to destroy the "Muie Spez" text from the flag which was no longer readded. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

[[File:Second Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The second Romanian flag on the final canvas]]
====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, Romania was permitted to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and made another French flag.

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes he and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on the 25th. A previous impaled spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
[[File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|iRaphahell's artwork]]
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created a Romanian flag of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a banknote of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag, and the logos of two other Romanian youtubers ([https://www.youtube.com/@zaSami zaSami] and [https://www.youtube.com/@QSanity INSANITY]).

Both of these were destroyed: the banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/210 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietnamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian Reddit community created two main flags, however, these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers on the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half-Life 3 logo, Adventure Time, and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on Discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, who first decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything was taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks was the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half-Life, and Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden Aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire Snoo, which replaced a more human-looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#739 Flagpole with a golden Aquila]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1696 Vampire Snoo]
*[https://2017.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1499 Friendship heart with Hungary]

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hgy7/145 Romanian Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzby16/145 Moldovan Coat of Arms]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc364/145 Dacia 1300]
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y2nccj/145 Friendship ribbon with Hungary] - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*Endless Column of Constantin Brâncuși
*[https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#116sg6r/145 Romanian Penguin] - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#y3hcue/145 Half-Life 3 Logo], [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tzc0we/145 TNO Mod Logo], Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#twmq7c/145 Little Princess] (Guardian Tales), [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#65/145 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: Peter Parker and Miles Morales (Spider-Man group), and Romanian themed Factorio belt.

===2023 Artwork===
[[File:Second Impaled spez drawing.png|thumb|right|200px|The impaled spez drawing on the second flag]]
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[[Endless Column]] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" in Romanian) text (destroyed on the last day by the bot attack)
*Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*Ciucaș beer bottle (replaced with the second impaled spez)
*Second impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#4389 Puck] (Berserk), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1655 Hinagarasu] (Haikyuu), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#3577 Prisoner Bobby] (Dead Cells).

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 The Three Colors of Kessoku Band] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png

2023-07-26T13:48:40Z

Alin2808: /* Summary */

== Summary ==
The flag created by Romanian streamer iRaphahell, together with the 1 Lei banknote and the logos of youtubers zaSami and INSANITY.

Romania

2023-07-26T00:49:06Z

Alin2808: /* 2023 Artwork */ Links

{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo = Main Romanian flag 2023.png
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
[[File:First Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The first Romanian flag being destroyed]]
Eventually, it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the 172, 267 coordinates.<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and Bad Apple. The flag expanded, however, it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however, the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it was completely covered.

===Final flags===
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France.

On the last day of r/place, the Romanian community focused on defending and fixing the flags and did not make any new artwork, though it helped streamer [https://www.youtube.com/@highman/videos Highman] create his shark mascot on a Vietnamese flag in return for his help on the flag of Mexico which was destroyed by a Lithuanian streamer earlier that day. The attempt to retake the Mexican flag was never finished as r/place ended.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought it was unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artwork, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused some Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually, all was settled and the Moldovan flag was relocated.

====Attacks====
The first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as Stitch's ear (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

[[File:Second Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The second Romanian flag on the final canvas]]
====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, Romania was permitted to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and made another French flag.

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes he and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on the 25th. A previous impaled spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
[[File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|iRaphahell's artwork]]
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created a Romanian flag of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a banknote of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag.

Both of these were destroyed: the banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/210 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietnamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian Reddit community created two main flags, however, these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers on the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half-Life 3 logo, Adventure Time, and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on Discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, who first decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything was taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks was the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half-Life, and Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden Aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire Snoo, which replaced a more human-looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*Flagpole with a golden aquila
* Vampire snoo
*Friendship heart with Hungary

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*Romanian Coat of Arms
*Moldovan Coat of Arms
*Dacia 1300
*Friendship ribbon with Hungary - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*Endless Column of Constantin Brâncuși
*Romanian Penguin - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: Half-Life 3 Logo, TNO Mod Logo, Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), Mayreel (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: Peter Parker and Miles Morales (Spider-Man group), and Romanian themed Factorio belt.

===2023 Artwork===
[[File:Second Impaled spez drawing.png|thumb|right|200px|The impaled spez drawing on the second flag]]
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[[Endless Column]] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" equivalent in Romanian) text (destroyed on the last day by the bot attack)
*Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*Ciucaș beer bottle (replaced with the second impaled spez)
*Second Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), Puck (Berserk), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1655 Hinagarasu] (Haikyuu), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#3577 Prisoner Bobby] (Dead Cells).

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 The Three Colors of Kessoku Band] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

Romania

2023-07-26T00:12:03Z

Alin2808: Minor edits

{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo = Main Romanian flag 2023.png
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
[[File:First Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The first Romanian flag being destroyed]]
Eventually, it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the 172, 267 coordinates.<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and Bad Apple. The flag expanded, however, it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however, the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it was completely covered.

===Final flags===
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France.

On the last day of r/place, the Romanian community focused on defending and fixing the flags and did not make any new artwork, though it helped streamer [https://www.youtube.com/@highman/videos Highman] create his shark mascot on a Vietnamese flag in return for his help on the flag of Mexico which was destroyed by a Lithuanian streamer earlier that day. The attempt to retake the Mexican flag was never finished as r/place ended.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought it was unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artwork, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused some Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually, all was settled and the Moldovan flag was relocated.

====Attacks====
The first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as Stitch's ear (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

[[File:Second Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The second Romanian flag on the final canvas]]
====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, Romania was permitted to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and made another French flag.

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes he and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on the 25th. A previous impaled spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
[[File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|iRaphahell's artwork]]
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created a Romanian flag of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a banknote of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag.

Both of these were destroyed: the banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/210 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietnamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian Reddit community created two main flags, however, these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers on the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half-Life 3 logo, Adventure Time, and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on Discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, who first decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything was taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks was the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half-Life, and Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden Aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire Snoo, which replaced a more human-looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*Flagpole with a golden aquila
* Vampire snoo
*Friendship heart with Hungary

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*Romanian Coat of Arms
*Moldovan Coat of Arms
*Dacia 1300
*Friendship ribbon with Hungary - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*Endless Column of Constantin Brâncuși
*Romanian Penguin - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: Half-Life 3 Logo, TNO Mod Logo, Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), Mayreel (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: Peter Parker and Miles Morales (Spider-Man group), and Romanian themed Factorio belt.

===2023 Artwork===
[[File:Second Impaled spez drawing.png|thumb|right|200px|The impaled spez drawing on the second flag]]
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[[Endless Column]] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" equivalent in Romanian) text (destroyed on the last day by the bot attack)
*Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*Ciucaș beer bottle (replaced with the second impaled spez)
*Second Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), Puck (Berserk), Hinagarasu (Haikyuu), Dead Cells community artwork.

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 The Three Colors of Kessoku Band] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

Romania

2023-07-25T23:47:21Z

Alin2808: Final day updates and added images

{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo = Main Romanian flag 2023.png
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
[[File:First Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The first Romanian flag being destroyed]]
Eventually it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the 172, 267 coordinates.<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and Bad Apple. The flag expanded, however it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it were completely covered.

===Final flags===
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France.

On the last day of r/place, the Romanian community focused on defending and fixing the flags, and did not make any new artwork, though it helped streamer [https://www.youtube.com/@highman/videos Highman] create his shark mascot on a Vietnamese flag in return for his help on the flag of Mexico which was destroyed by a Lithuanian streamer earlier that day. The attempt to retake the Mexican flag was never finished as r/place ended.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought of it as unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artworks, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused the some Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually all was settled, and the Moldovan flag was relocated.

====Attacks====
A first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as Stitch's ear (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

[[File:Second Romanian flag 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|The second Romanian flag on the final canvas]]
====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, Romania was given permission to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and made another French flag.

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes him and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on the 25th. A previous impaled spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
[[File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png|thumb|right|200px|iRaphahell's artwork]]
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created a Romanian flag of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a banknote of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag.

Both of these were destroyed. The banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/210 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian reddit community created two main flags, however these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers in the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half Life 3 logo, Adventure Time and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, first being decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything being taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks were the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as: Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half Life, Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire snoo, which replaced a more human looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*Flagpole with a golden aquila
* Vampire snoo
*Friendship heart with Hungary

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*Romanian Coat of Arms
* Moldovan Coat of Arms
*Dacia 1300
*Friendship ribbon with Hungary - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*Endless Column of Constantin Brâncuși
*Romanian Penguin - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: Half-Life 3 Logo, TNO Mod Logo, Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), Mayreel (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: Peter Parker and Miles Morales (Spider-Man group), and Romanian themed Factorio belt.

===2023 Artwork===
[[File:Second Impaled spez drawing.png|thumb|right|200px|The impaled spez drawing on the second flag]]
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[[Endless Column]] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" equivalent in Romanian) text (destroyed on the last day by the bot attack)
*Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*Ciucaș beer bottle (replaced with the second impaled spez)
*Second Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), Puck (Berserk), Hinagarasu (Haikyuu), Dead Cells community artwork.

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 The Three Colors of Kessoku Band] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

File:iRaphahell's flag on place 2023.png

2023-07-25T23:21:51Z

Alin2808: The flag created by Romanian streamer iRaphahell, together with the 1 Lei banknote.

== Summary ==
The flag created by Romanian streamer iRaphahell, together with the 1 Lei banknote.

File:First Romanian flag 2023.png

2023-07-25T23:21:07Z

Alin2808: The first Romanian flag being destroyed by the advancing "fuck spez" text and the Brazilian flag.

== Summary ==
The first Romanian flag being destroyed by the advancing "fuck spez" text and the Brazilian flag.

File:Second Impaled spez drawing.png

2023-07-25T23:21:01Z

Alin2808: The second impaled spez drawing before its removal by the Reddit admins.

== Summary ==
The second impaled spez drawing before its removal by the Reddit admins.

File:Second Romanian flag 2023.png

2023-07-25T23:20:51Z

Alin2808: The second Romanian flag on the final canvas 2023.

== Summary ==
The second Romanian flag on the final canvas 2023.

File:Main Romanian flag 2023.png

2023-07-25T23:20:41Z

Alin2808: Main Romanian flag on the final canvas in 2023.

== Summary ==
Main Romanian flag on the final canvas in 2023.

Romania

2023-07-25T22:24:21Z

Alin2808: /* 2023 Artwork */ Update

{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo =
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
Eventually it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the 172, 267 coordinates.<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and Bad Apple. The flag expanded, however it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it were completely covered.

===Final flags===
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought of it as unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artworks, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused the some Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually all was settled, and the Moldovan flag was relocated.

====Attacks====
A first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as Stitch's ear (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, Romania was given permission to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and made another French flag.

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes him and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on the 25th. A previous impaled spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created a Romanian flag of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a banknote of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag.

Both of these were destroyed. The banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/210 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian reddit community created two main flags, however these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers in the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half Life 3 logo, Adventure Time and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, first being decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything being taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks were the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as: Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half Life, Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200x200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire snoo, which replaced a more human looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*Flagpole with a golden aquila
* Vampire snoo
*Friendship heart with Hungary

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*Romanian Coat of Arms
* Moldovan Coat of Arms
*Dacia 1300
*Friendship ribbon with Hungary - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*Endless Column of Constantin Brâncuși
*Romanian Penguin - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: Half-Life 3 Logo, TNO Mod Logo, Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), Mayreel (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: Peter Parker and Miles Morales (Spider-Man group), and Romanian themed Factorio belt.

===2023 Artwork===
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[[Endless Column]] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" equivalent in Romanian) text (destroyed on the last day by the bot attack)
*Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*Ciucaș beer bottle (replaced with the second impaled spez)
*Second Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), Puck (Berserk), Hinagarasu (Haikyuu), Dead Cells community artwork.

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 The Three Colors of Kessoku Band] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

Romania

2023-07-25T17:22:33Z

Alin2808: /* 2023 Artwork */ Links

{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo =
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
Eventually it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the 172, 267 coordinates.<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and Bad Apple. The flag expanded, however it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it were completely covered.

===Final flags===
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought of it as unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artworks, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused the some Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually all was settled, and the Moldovan flag was relocated.

====Attacks====
A first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as Stitch's ear (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, Romania was given permission to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and made another French flag.

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes him and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on the 25th. A previous impaled spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created a Romanian flag of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a banknote of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag.

Both of these were destroyed. The banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/210 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian reddit community created two main flags, however these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers in the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half Life 3 logo, Adventure Time and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, first being decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything being taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks were the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as: Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half Life, Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200x200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire snoo, which replaced a more human looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*Flagpole with a golden aquila
* Vampire snoo
*Friendship heart with Hungary

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*Romanian Coat of Arms
* Moldovan Coat of Arms
*Dacia 1300
*Friendship ribbon with Hungary - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*Endless Column of Constantin Brâncuși
*Romanian Penguin - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: Half-Life 3 Logo, TNO Mod Logo, Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), Mayreel (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: Peter Parker and Miles Morales (Spider-Man group), and Romanian themed Factorio belt.

===2023 Artwork===
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[[Endless Column]] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2593 okptr troll face]
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" equivalent in Romanian) text
*Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2615 ROM chocolate bar]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2609 MiG-21 LanceR]
*Ciucaș beer bottle (replaced with the second impaled spez)
*Second Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), Puck (Berserk), Hinagarasu (Haikyuu), Dead Cells community artwork.

On the Second Flag: [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2599 Pikachu] (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 The Three Colors of Kessoku Band] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

Romania

2023-07-25T17:04:09Z

Alin2808: /* r/place 2023 */ Expanded with updates

{{Community
| name = Romania
| description = The Romanian community
| subreddit =
| discord = [https://discord.gg/placero discord.gg/placero]
| artwork = See [[#Artwork]]
| logo =
}}

'''Romania''' is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.<ref name="general info">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania</ref>

The country was formed in 1859 through a personal union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. In the aftermath of the First World War, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Transylvania, and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and northern Bukovina were lost after World War II.<ref name="general info" />

For [[r/place 2017]] and [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian community on r/place was coordinated by the [https://reddit.com/r/Romania/ r/Romania] subreddit, while for [[r/place 2023]] coordination was handled by the newly created PlaceRO discord server which incorporated several Romanian communities. The PlaceRO discord was formed as a cooperation between members of [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] and r/Romania.

==r/place 2023==
===Organization===
With the start of the 2023 event, the Romanian community was poorly organized as the r/Romania subreddit no longer offered to coordinate the r/place efforts. This led to the Romanian users making a flag around the r/OKPR trollface, who already finished their artwork by that point. Soon after, the trollface was destroyed by the disorganized users.<ref name="ironyWiki">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref> To combat this, a dedicated discord was created in order to coordinate both the users coming from r/Romania and r/OKPR.

===First flag===
Eventually it was decided to abandon the trollface and focus only on the flag which remained around the 172, 267 coordinates.<ref name="ironyWiki"/> During this time, alliances were formed with nearby communities such as [[osu!]] and Bad Apple. The flag expanded, however it did not feature any artwork yet as organization still posed a problem with the newly created discord server.

The flag was expanded when Romanian streamer iRaphahell joined in, though his actions caused more trouble with the already created alliances.<ref group="note">He was asked several times to join the discord server and coordinate with other community members, however, he refused</ref> By that point, the discord server was somewhat better organized and managed to hold back the streamer's actions.<ref name="ironyWiki"/>

After he ended the stream, the situation was stabilized, however the flag did not survive for long as the Brazilian flag and the Fuck Spez community with their text attacked it. On the morning of 21 July, the flag along with other community artworks surrounding it were completely covered.

===Final flags===
The flag was eventually moved to a new position under the already established Hungarian flag. In order to have better chances at survival, an alliance was built with Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia and a dedicated server for this alliance was created under the name "BSRG Union". Other alliances were also made with Turkey and France.

====Greek and Moldovan controversies====
Within the BSRG Union, it was also decided the split the gained territory evenly between its members. While Serbia never managed to get territory near the other Union members, Greece's territory remained much smaller than its allies. An agreement was made with Romania, which at that point had the largest territory, to give away a portion of its territory to Greece. Both the Greek and Romanian communities tried to follow the decision, however, many members of the Romanian community thought of it as unfair to give up Romanian territory. For this reason, as well as the several raids on Greece which were stopped with the assistance from the Union members, put an end to the Greek territory claim. Greece would several times more get raided throughout the event, which prevented it to gain more territory.

Since a small Moldovan flag was placed right on the Romanian flag and the Romanian flag needed space to create its artworks, it was decided to move the Moldovan flag to a different place with the help of the Romanian community. However, due to the making of the Bran castle taking a long time and the delays caused by the streamer Bratishkinoff's attack, work on the Moldovan flag was postponed which caused the some Moldovan users to grief the Romanian flag. Eventually all was settled, and the Moldovan flag was relocated.

====Attacks====
A first attack on the main Romanian flag came from the Russian streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/bratishkinoff Bratishkinoff] which destroyed the entire castle and the hosted artwork. The attack was stopped with the help of Romania's allies and an agreement was reached with the streamer that he will no longer attack the flag as long as Stitch's ear (a part of which passed a bit over the flag) was kept intact.

Another attack came from multiple bot accounts on the 25th of July which was also quickly stopped. This attack also targeted the flags of Greece, Bulgaria, and France.

====Expanding and second flag====
With the canvas expansion on the 23rd, Romania was given permission to add another flag next to its own. This however did not work out, as a different French community resisted and made another French flag.

A second Romanian flag was created on the 24th following another canvas expansion. Located under the Charizard card, the flag had several artworks done on it. When the streamer iRaphahell went live again, he was persuaded to help in making two artworks on this flag: the Muștar, and the MiG. Once he had finished, the PlaceRO community had to go back to the flag and fix all the mistakes him and his viewers made with the MiG.

This flag also hosted the second drawing of the impaled u/spez head. This drawing was placed on a previous drawing of a Ciucaș beer bottle made near the supposed 2 AM mark ending of r/place on the 25th. A previous impaled spez was drawn on the main flag. Both these drawings were censored by Reddit admins.

===iRaphahell's flag===
Once the artwork was finished, the streamer turn his attention to the newly expanded canvas, where he created a Romanian flag of his own. This flag featured his channel logo. He also drew a banknote of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_leu one leu] above this flag.

Both of these were destroyed. The banknote by streamer Papaplatte, who drew [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2035/210 a dragon] on it, while the flag itself was destroyed by Vietamese bots.

== r/place 2022==
[[File:Romania flag1.png|thumb|right|200px|Main flag just before it was destroyed]]
During [[r/place 2022]], the Romanian reddit community created two main flags, however these flags were destroyed by Polish streamers in the last day. Only several smaller flags survived until [[The Great Whiteout|the Great Whiteout]].

During the first day, while the Romanian flag was being expanded, [[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|"The Hive Mind" of the Ukrainian flag]] took over a good portion of it. On the same day, the Romanian and Hungarian flags were expanded over the [[r/furry_irl]] logo.

After the Ukrainian flag had stopped, the Romanian flag was also expanded over its territory, while preserving the artwork of several communities such as the Half Life 3 logo, Adventure Time and the TNO Mod logo.
[[File:Romania flag2.png|thumb|right|200px|Second flag]]

===Void attack===
On the second day, after the canvas expansion, a second smaller flag was made. This flag was attacked by the void but it survived with the help of the streamer [https://www.twitch.tv/rubius Rubius].

===First streamer attack===
On the third day, a Polish streamer attacked the main flag and destroyed it, replacing it with a Polish flag. After the attack started, a post was made on the main subreddit requesting help to stop the streamer and rebuild the Romanian flag and the communities it hosted, gathering a lot of support.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv9sur/a_plish_streamer_tries_to_conquer_romania_please/</ref>

For retaking the flag, the Anti Void Alliances organized an event on discord, and together with the help of several other communities, the Romanian flag was restored and reconstruction began.

===Reconstruction===
[[File:Reconstruction.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The flag under reconstruction, while also expanding ]]
The reconstruction took the rest of the day. During this time, the flag was also expanded over the place taken by the streamer which had been destroyed.

=== Last day===
====Conflict with Guatemala====
While most of the Romanian community was asleep, the Guatemalan flag expanded over the territory taken the previous day from the Poles. This territory was taken back by the Romanians, first being decided to leave the Guatemalan artwork intact but soon everything being taken over. An agreement was reached with the Guatemalans to help them relocate after the Dacia car artwork, which was to be built on the taken back spot, was completed.

However, the Dacia was never completed as another Polish streamer, [https://www.twitch.tv/popo Popo], attacked the flag and destroyed it yet again.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tw7b4j/polish_streamer_popo_who_griefed_numerous/</ref><ref group="note">None of these Polish streamers were affiliated with the Polish community, their actions being condemned by the community, so please do not send hate to the Polish community</ref> While the attack was happening, the [[Nordic Union]] took the opportunity and invaded the Hungarian flag, while Azerbaijan took a portion of the Romanian flag.<ref group="note">This portion was soon taken by the Polish streamer as well</ref>

====Trying to retake the flags====
In the evening of the last day, [https://www.youtube.com/@iRaphahell iRaphahell], a Romanian streamer, tried to help retake the flags. However, as he did not know of the Romanian community's alliances he expanded the Second flag over some of them. Soon, a representative from the Romanian community managed to get in touch with him for better coordination.

All this effort was however not enough to take back the flags. The biggest achievement of the attacks were the destruction of the crude Winged Hussar artwork made by Polish streamers who had also joined in. Relocations of the flag were also tried, but each flag was destroyed by the Poles.

===Aftermath of 2022===
Before the end of the event, only a few smaller Romanian flags scattered throughout the canvas survived:
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx0c9f Romanian Community of Risk Universalis III flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tz92ro tiny Romanian flag]
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#ty826y Romanian heart] - made by the Bulgarian/Polish alliance
*[https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok okptr troll face] - made by [[r/OkPrietenRetardat]] in collaboration with r/pMegu

===2022 Alliances===
[[File:HU-RO Friendship Ribbon.png|thumb|right|200x200px|The Friendship Ribbon of r/hungary and r/Romania]]
The longest lasting alliance of the Romanian community was that with Hungary. The two made a friendship ribbon together and helped each other build and defend.

Alliances with other communities also existed, such as: Moldova, Guardian Tales, Italy, [[Touhou]], Adventure Time, The New Order Mod, Half Life, Factorio. The community was also part of the Megaman Accords founded by r/Israel and r/Megaman.

== r/place 2017==
[[File:Romanian flag 2017.png|thumb|200x200px|right|The Romanian flag and artwork on r/place 2017]]
In the [[r/place 2017|2017 event]], the Romanian flag featured a flagpole with a golden aquila on top, which was added before the upward expansion of the flag; a vampire snoo, which replaced a more human looking vampire just before the end; a banner with the text "Romania", and a friendship heart with Hungary.

==Artwork==
===2017 Artwork===
*Flagpole with a golden aquila
* Vampire snoo
*Friendship heart with Hungary

===2022 Artwork ===
Main Flag artwork:
*[[Peleș Castle]]
*Romanian Coat of Arms
* Moldovan Coat of Arms
*Dacia 1300
*Friendship ribbon with Hungary - collaboration with r/hungary

Second Flag artwork:
*Endless Column of Constantin Brâncuși
*Romanian Penguin - collaboration with r/penguin

The flags hosed several other communities as well:

On the Main Flag: Half-Life 3 Logo, TNO Mod Logo, Adventure Time characters, [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), Mayreel (Guardian Tales), "BURO" text (r/Buro. The text was eventually modified to write "EURO"), and Little houses (r/LilHousePlace).

On the Second Flag: Peter Parker and Miles Morales (Spider-Man group), and Romanian themed Factorio belt.

===2023 Artwork===
Main Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#1175 Romania map (including Moldova)]
*[[Bran Castle]]
*[[Endless Column]] of Constantin Brâncuși
*Vampire
*okptr troll face
*"Muie Spez" ("Fuck Spez" equivalent in Romanian) text
*Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Second Flag artwork:
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2156 Buci Hagi]
*[https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2142 Muștar La Minut]
*ROM chocolate bar
*MiG-21 LanceR
*Second Impaled Spez (deleted by Reddit Admins)

Hosted community artowrk:
On the Main Flag: [[Touhou#Alice|Alice Margatroid]] (Touhou), Little Princess (Guardian Tales), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#740 Mayreel] (Guardian Tales), Puck (Berserk), Hinagarasu (Haikyuu), Dead Cells community artwork.

On the Second Flag: Pikachu (incorporated into the Romanian flag), [https://2023.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#2221 The Three Colors of Kessoku Band] (Ryo, Nijika and Kita - Bocchi the Rock).

==Notes==
<references group="note" />

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Communities]]
[[Category:Geographical Communities]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]
[[Category:r/place 2017]]

r/OkPrietenRetardat

2023-07-25T12:36:48Z

Alin2808: /* r/place 2023 */

{{Community
| name = OkPrietenRetardat
| description = Romanian satirical meme community
| subreddit = okprietenretardat
| discord = [https://discord.gg/u9Vp8d9QVB discord.gg/u9Vp8d9QVB]
| artwork = Romanian Trollface
| logo = Romanian Trollface.png
}}

'''OkPrietenRetardat''' is the Romanian satirical meme community version of [https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddyretard/ r/OkBuddyRetard]. It was founded on 6 August 2020 as a subreddit. In November 2020, the OkPrietenRetardat discord server was created as a form of celebrating the 1000 reddit members milestone. The discord server went through three iterations since its creation, with the third and current variant being founded on 27 August 2022.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/okprietenretardat/</ref><ref>https://irony.wiki/wiki/OkPrietenRetardat</ref>

==History on r/place==
===r/place 2022===
[[File:2022 Romanian trollface destroyed.png|thumb|right|150px|First trollface being destroyed]]
During the 2022 event, the OKPR community decided to draw the mascot of the subreddit, namely the Romanian Trollface. Initially this drawing was made without any help from other communities and was to be located around the 786, 530 coordinates. This first attempt failed as it was destroyed by the expanding Ukrainian flag of the "[[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|The Hive Mind]]". Other attempts to establish the Trollface close to the Ukrainian flag followed. None, however, were successful. Discussions to move the location near the transgender were also held, but these didn't materialize.<ref name="irony">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref>

[[File:pMegu artwork and Romanian trollface.png|thumb|right|150px|Megumin and the Romanian trollface on the final canvas]]
Following the expansion of the canvas, the OKPR community allied itself with [https://www.reddit.com/r/pMegu/ r/pMegu] in order to keep its Trollface artwork alive. With the destruction of the [[Romania|Romanian flag]] by Polish streamers, the [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok Romanian Trollface] was one of the few Romanian artworks remaining on the final canvas.

===r/place 2023===
With the start of r/place 2023, the OKPR community was notified by users from r/pMegu. As in 2022, it was decided to make the Trollface once again. After it was finished, the Trollface was attacked by unorganized members of the r/Romania community and random users trying to create the Romanian flag. As the Romanian subreddit community did not offer any support for the event, a new dedicated discord server with the task of bringing users from both communities together for better coordination, called PlaceRO, was created.<ref name="irony" />

It was eventually decided to abandon the trollface artwork and focus on the [[Romania#First flag|Romanian flag]] instead. The trollface was later added to the [[Romania#Final flags|new flag]].

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Subreddit Communities]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]

r/OkPrietenRetardat

2023-07-25T12:35:53Z

Alin2808: Image

{{Community
| name = OkPrietenRetardat
| description = Romanian satirical meme community
| subreddit = okprietenretardat
| discord = [https://discord.gg/u9Vp8d9QVB discord.gg/u9Vp8d9QVB]
| artwork = Romanian Trollface
| logo = Romanian Trollface.png
}}

'''OkPrietenRetardat''' is the Romanian satirical meme community version of [https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddyretard/ r/OkBuddyRetard]. It was founded on 6 August 2020 as a subreddit. In November 2020, the OkPrietenRetardat discord server was created as a form of celebrating the 1000 reddit members milestone. The discord server went through three iterations since its creation, with the third and current variant being founded on 27 August 2022.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/okprietenretardat/</ref><ref>https://irony.wiki/wiki/OkPrietenRetardat</ref>

==History on r/place==
===r/place 2022===
[[File:2022 Romanian trollface destroyed.png|thumb|right|150px|First trollface being destroyed]]
During the 2022 event, the OKPR community decided to draw the mascot of the subreddit, namely the Romanian Trollface. Initially this drawing was made without any help from other communities and was to be located around the 786, 530 coordinates. This first attempt failed as it was destroyed by the expanding Ukrainian flag of the "[[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|The Hive Mind]]". Other attempts to establish the Trollface close to the Ukrainian flag followed. None, however, were successful. Discussions to move the location near the transgender were also held, but these didn't materialize.<ref name="irony">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref>

[[File:pMegu artwork and Romanian trollface.png|thumb|right|150px|Megumin and the Romanian trollface on the final canvas]]
Following the expansion of the canvas, the OKPR community allied itself with [https://www.reddit.com/r/pMegu/ r/pMegu] in order to keep its Trollface artwork alive. With the destruction of the [[Romania|Romanian flag]] by Polish streamers, the [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok Romanian Trollface] was one of the few Romanian artworks remaining on the final canvas.

===r/place 2023===
With the start of r/place 2023, the OKPR community was notified by users from r/pMegu. As in 2022, it was decided to make the Trollface once again. After it was finished, the Trollface was attacked by unorganized members of the r/Romania community and random users trying to create the Romanian flag. As the Romanian subreddit community did not offer any support for the event, a new dedicated discord server with the task of bringing users from both communities together for better coordination, called PlaceRO, was created.<ref name="irony" />

It was eventually decided to abandon the trollface artwork and focus on the [[Romania#First flag|Romanian flag]] instead. The trollface was later added to the [[Romania#Final flag|new flag]].

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Subreddit Communities]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]

File:Romanian Trollface.png

2023-07-25T12:35:23Z

Alin2808: The Romanian Trollface, symbol of the r/OkPrientenRetardat community on the 2023 canvas.

== Summary ==
The Romanian Trollface, symbol of the r/OkPrientenRetardat community on the 2023 canvas.

Romania

2023-07-25T12:29:40Z

Alin2808: /* Aftermath of 2022 */ Link

Romania

2023-07-25T12:25:29Z

Alin2808: Updates and restructures

r/OkPrietenRetardat

2023-07-24T11:23:22Z

Alin2808: Images

{{Community
| name = OkPrietenRetardat
| description = Romanian satirical meme community
| subreddit = okprietenretardat
| discord = [https://discord.gg/u9Vp8d9QVB discord.gg/u9Vp8d9QVB]
| artwork = Romanian Trollface
| logo =
}}

'''OkPrietenRetardat''' is the Romanian satirical meme community version of [https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddyretard/ r/OkBuddyRetard]. It was founded on 6 August 2020 as a subreddit. In November 2020, the OkPrietenRetardat discord server was created as a form of celebrating the 1000 reddit members milestone. The discord server went through three iterations since its creation, with the third and current variant being founded on 27 August 2022.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/okprietenretardat/</ref><ref>https://irony.wiki/wiki/OkPrietenRetardat</ref>

==History on r/place==
===r/place 2022===
[[File:2022 Romanian trollface destroyed.png|thumb|right|150px|First trollface being destroyed]]
During the 2022 event, the OKPR community decided to draw the mascot of the subreddit, namely the Romanian Trollface. Initially this drawing was made without any help from other communities and was to be located around the 786, 530 coordinates. This first attempt failed as it was destroyed by the expanding Ukrainian flag of the "[[Ukraine#The Hive Mind|The Hive Mind]]". Other attempts to establish the Trollface close to the Ukrainian flag followed. None, however, were successful. Discussions to move the location near the transgender were also held, but these didn't materialize.<ref name="irony">https://irony.wiki/wiki/The_r/place_Romanian_Trollface</ref>

[[File:pMegu artwork and Romanian trollface.png|thumb|right|150px|Megumin and the Romanian trollface on the final canvas]]
Following the expansion of the canvas, the OKPR community allied itself with [https://www.reddit.com/r/pMegu/ r/pMegu] in order to keep its Trollface artwork alive. With the destruction of the [[Romania|Romanian flag]] by Polish streamers, the [https://2022.place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/#tx1nok Romanian Trollface] was one of the few Romanian artworks remaining on the final canvas.

===r/place 2023===
With the start of r/place 2023, the OKPR community was notified by users from r/pMegu. As in 2022, it was decided to make the Trollface once again. After it was finished, the Trollface was attacked by unorganized members of the r/Romania community and random users trying to create the Romanian flag. As the Romanian subreddit community did not offer any support for the event, a new dedicated discord server with the task of bringing users from both communities together for better coordination, called PlaceRO, was created.<ref name="irony" />

It was eventually decided to abandon the trollface artwork and focus on the [[Romania#First flag|Romanian flag]] instead. The trollface was later added to the [[Romania#Final flag|new flag]].

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Subreddit Communities]]
[[Category:r/place 2023]]
[[Category:r/place 2022]]