K-Pop Alliance

K-Pop Alliance
Name	K-Pop Alliance
AKA	K-Poppers
Description	A coalition of K-Pop fandoms in r/place 2022
Subcommunities	See members list
Subreddit	r /KPOPplace
Discord	https://discord.gg/x8BjaBz5
Artwork	Some Art

The first K-Pop Alliance formed out of necessity directly after the first expansion of r/place 2022. Competition for space in the first quarter of the canvas was extreme and most representation of the K-Pop communities was erased, requiring most fandoms to either coordinate their efforts and maintain a combined presence, or risk losing their projects to larger, non-K-Pop communities.

A post Whiteout count of pixels directly controlled by K-Pop groups was estimated to be 32.8k pixels

r/place 2022

Beginnings

Only a handful of K-Pop fandoms managed to attain representation for their favorite groups prior to the First Expansion of the Canvas, and fewer would manage to remain.

TWICE, Kep1er, IZ*One, and Enhypen would be erased for building onto the Belgium and German flags, and a small block of groups would be erased approximately 40 hours into r/place. Only Blackpink, BTS, and LOONA would continue standing.

1st Expansion

Immediately after the First Expansion, the TWICERS (the r/place division of TWICE) would develop and create a new TWICE logo underneath the German Flag (1558, 852) and develop an alliance with r/MFDOOM due to being neighbors, the latter eventually becoming an honorary K-Pop group. These two would found the largest group of K-Pop fandoms called Girl Group (GG) Alley. A region dedicated to all female K-Pop groups.

Many fandoms would have multiple locations of representation.

Three other regions would begin developing simultaneously as GG Alley:

• Boy Group (BG) Valley

The male counterpart to GG Alley was founded by TXT (1573, 227) around Scott the Woz and to the direct left of r/mylittlepony. BG Valley would end r/place with 12 members and 15 builds, even after taking collateral damage from multiple voids and The Meteor.

• Central Territory

Founded by LOONA (Hyunjin Face) (1315, 598) around Rocket League. Central Territory would end r/place with 4 K-Pop members, an ally's (VUT) Pepe, and a total of 7 builds.

• The Outlying Regions

Founded by BTS Balloon (1971, 217), the Outlying Regions is the combined representation of any non-organized K-Pop related builds across the entire canvas (mostly composed of BTS and LOONA). The Outlying Regions ended r/place with over a dozen builds.

2nd Expansion

Two sub-regions to GG Alley would develop as space would allow

• South Block

Located to the Southwest of GG Alley and part of the greater GG Valley area, this sub-region contained representation from 24 individual K-Pop groups, and 10 to 12 allied communities separating GG Valley and South Block. It would receive irreparable damage during the Spanish Streamer Raids, erasing 65% of the K-Pop groups in South Block.

• Lower East Side

After reclaiming East GG Alley after the Kobe Void, additional land was claimed for unrepresented groups. Several unaffiliated communities are also located here due to non-aggression pacts.

• North Block

While not counted as a region by the K-Pop Alliance, the inability to recapture the entirety of South Block led Alliance members to seek new locations to relocate destroyed builds. An agreement with Good Mythical Morning ceded a significant amount of unused territory (1271, 362) for Alliance use. An agreement with Lovejoy to split the area between the two parties resulted in a joint effort to push an aggressive Ottawa out of the area. r/place would end before a resolution to the conflict, resulting in the Unfinished War for North Block.

Conflicts

The K-Pop Alliance managed to maintain vast swaths of their territory during r/place, with many close calls. The Alliance was not immune to attack however.

• Purple Streamer Void (Mizkif)

Due to an active void actively targeting purple builds (according to Alliance intel), Kep1er, (G)-Idle, and IU in East GG Alley changed their backgrounds from purple to yellow or red in attempts to evade targeting. The backgrounds were changed back to purple several hours later.

• GFLClan N-Word Crisis

West GG Alley ally, GFLClan was a common target for griefing during r/place. These griefings eventually sent several Alliance members on high alert when they discovered attackers were attempting to convert GLFClan to the N-word (hard R).

The attackers were only successful for several minutes before an Allied cleanup could be started.

• Pinocchio Nose

Roughly an hour after the N-word crisis, a small group of individuals started trolling nearby communities by extending the nose on a portrait as far as possible, eventually cutting through Moonmoon territory and making its way up to East GG Alley.

An Allied counter op diverted the nose away and ended the issue.

• Gold Border Conflict and K-Pop/Myth joint operation.

Due to a quiet agreement between GG Alley and the streamer Myth, a non-aggression pact was formed and a gold colored border was to be maintained by both groups.

An unknown group of individuals began disrupting the border by changing its color, moving lines, or removing them entirely. Myth would start his stream to find this conflict occurring and nearly sent his chat to attack GG Alley.

Several members of the Alliance would inform Myth of the situation, leading to a quick and effective fixing of the issue and an K-Pop/Myth joint operation to reclaim territory he had lost overnight.

Myth affectionately calls the K-Pop Alliance, "K-Poppers".

• Vaush Border Skirmish

A brief neighbor to GG Alley, a plot representing the controversial streamer Vaush repeatedly encroached into K-Pop territory. A representative of the K-Pop Alliance was sent to negotiate with the Vaush community, ending in a truce.

The truce would not last as the Vaush plot would taken and held by, another controversial streamer, Destiny. No issues would occur between Destiny and the Alliance.

• War for South Block

Immediately after the 2nd Expansion, GG Alley found themselves in a position to expand without facing stiff resistance due to extreme proximity to the new space.

Agreements and alliances formed with new and old neighbors allowed for rapid acquisition (baring non-associated or un-established communities) of the South Block sub-region while releasing minimal claims.

• First Slime Strike

An unknown entity attacked the Red Velvet logo in GG Alley with a rapid and organized placement of green pixels in a circular pattern. The attack was quickly repelled and cleaned up.

• Kobe Void

A combined effort between Mizkif and xQc to create a Kobe Bryant tribute was initialized with a large, defined black void to form a blank canvas. Dozens of builds were erased, including several in East GG Alley. The damage could have been much more severe, but was mitigated due to the K-Pop Alliance's association to Myth and Zoil; both friends of Mizkif and xQc.

After the completion of the Kobe Memorial, communities quickly staked new claims, including the Alliance.

East GG Alley was reclaimed and expanded and a small sub-region called the Lower East Side was created, housing several K-Pop groups and third parties with non-aggression pacts.

r/place 2022

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