This article is about the Genshin Impact r/place community. For information on the game's app icon, see Gacha Alliance app icons.
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| Genshin Impact | |
| Name | Genshin Impact |
| AKA | Genshin, GI |
| Description | A community for a open-world adventure game created by miHoYo/Hoyoverse |
| Subreddit | Genshin_Impact |
| Discord | https://discord.com/genshinimpact |
| Website | https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/ |
| @GenshinImpact | |
| Artwork | Genshin logo, App Icon |
Introductory Statement
GenshinPlace was one such community which participated in 2022’s r/place. Centred around the video game Genshin Impact, users from the community gathered together to build large-scale pixel arts inspired by and dedicated to their game. With over 1.3M users in the r/Genshin_Impact subreddit, their community had a considerable presence on 2022’s r/place.
Artwork
Genshin Impact’s Chinese Logo
The community’s first major success (disregarding the chibi Paimon) after the invasion and subsequent takeover of the English Genshin Impact logo, the Chinese Genshin Impact logo was one of the most notable contributions made to the final canvas by the community.
Learning from their previous mistakes, the community chose the Chinese logo on the reasoning that it would be less likely to be identified as Genshin, and would be harder to alter due to the non-english characters.
Initial construction was supported by streamer Tectone, and the community favoured diplomacy over aggression while building. The majority of existing communities in the area such as r/polandball, r/umamusume, and r/NotITG were either relocated or negotiated with, and can be seen surrounding the logo. Notably, the r/NotITG community was allowed to rebuild their arrows onto the Chinese logo on the basis of a project where they would periodically rotate their arrows to show on the replay.
However, 2 communities- r/Halo and r/Nagzz- were invaded and built over. r/genshinplace was never contacted for negotiations, and as such, the moderators never realised the communities were being built over.
The Chinese logo was coloured indigo on a white field initially, but underwent a colour change to blue with yellow highlights on a white field later.
Chibi Paimon
Following the failure in defending the English Logo, the Chibi Paimon was built during the early hours of the first canvas expansion. Bordering it to the left is a pixel art piece made by r/hatsune, a community that formed a close alliance with r/genshinplace. The alliance between the two communities is a notable detail in this art piece.
Both communities lent mutual aid and assistance to the neighbouring artwork, with an turquoise heart detailed with gold created later on to symbolise the friendship between the two.
Genshin App Icon
Built as part of the United Gacha Mural, the Genshin App Icon depicts Genshin Impact’s mascot, Paimon. Plans for the United Gacha Mural were suggested early during Day 2 of r/place 2022, though construction only began on Day 3 during the Third Canvas Expansion.
During initial construction, Paimon’s skin tone was planned to be white/grey on the basis of dithering, a pixel art technique which helps pixel art pieces look better when viewed zoomed-out. However, users who were not in the Discord and not filled in on the plans mistakenly coloured it pink. This led to a civil war of sorts with the community unable to decide on the colour of their mascot’s face. Eventually, a compromise was made with Paimon’s face coloured in beige. Paimon’s face is visible on the heatmap as a bright red, a result of this event along with a streamer invasion.
Later on, Russian Streamer 5okpa invaded the Genshin Icon along with their neighbour Honkai Impact. He directed his community to colour it blue with the intent of framing neighbouring Argentina for the attack. Streamer BTMC who was playing Genshin Impact at the time defended the icon, alongside Genshin streamer Enviosity. With the help of the United Gacha Alliance, the attack was held off.
Polandball X Hu-Tao Crossover
A product of the close alliance formed between r/polandball and r/genshinplace, Polandball-Hu Tao was built as part of the United Gacha Alliance mural. The main motivations behind the project were to thank the r/polandball community for the strong alliance, as well as to represent the WFP (Wangsheng Funeral Parlour) community, who were a Genshin Impact community that contributed greatly to r/genshinplace’s success.
The construction of the art piece was fraught with conflict with other communities, namely r/Maryland. Due to confusion and miscommunication, United Gacha Alliance members believed they had an alliance with r/Maryland, which the moderators from both r/genshinplace and United Gacha Alliance were unaware of.
During the invasion, rumours were spread that r/genshinplace had betrayed the United Gacha Alliance and gone rogue, attacking an ally. Eventually, the invasion was halted, and negotiations were made between r/Maryland, the United Gacha Alliance, and r/genshinplace.
A peaceful resolution was reached, where Polandball-Hu Tao was built behind r/Maryland’s crab.
Boo Tao
Built below the Chinese Genshin logo is Boo Tao, a character in Genshin Impact. Part of the agreement made during the alliance between WFP (Wangsheng Funeral Parlour) and r/genshinplace, a pride flag was added to its hand nearing the end of r/place.
Chibi Venti
Chibi Venti was originally built on the G of the English Genshin Impact logo. Due to constant damage from raids, it was later relocated above the Chinese Genshin Impact logo. Eventually, his hat was replaced with a traditional Dutch hat as a symbol of alliance with r/placeNL.
(Destroyed) Genshin Impact’s English Logo
The community’s infamous original project, the English logo was the first art piece built by r/genshinplace. It was complete for a short duration before being attacked by users who changed the N in Genshin to a T. It is speculated that many of these users were in fact Genshin Impact players who found the altered logo humorous.
The logo was altered many times after that despite attempts from r/genshinplace to revert it to its original form. It finally settled on GenShrek, which lasted for the majority of Day 2.
Eventually, the e in Genshrek was changed to Genshin Streamer Tectone’s icon. The logo was abandoned by the r/genshinplace community not long after to focus on the newly-built Chinese logo, and it was built over by other communities.
Territories
Owned/Heavily Allianced Territories
