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| Canada | |
| Name | PlaceCanada |
| Description | A community devoted to creating Canada-related art. |
| Subreddit | placecanada |
| Discord | https://discord.gg/aVTTSqYMUZ |
| Artwork | First Flag of Canada, Second Flag of Canada, Third Flag of Canada, Canadian Provincial & Territorial Flags, Canadian Wildlife, Star Wars Geese |
Canada is a country in North America. With a total land area of 9.98 square kilometres (3.85 square miles), Canada is the second-largest country in the world. Its ten provinces and three territories all border the United States, forming the longest land border in the world, spanning 8,891 kilometres (5,525 miles). The capital of Canada is Ottawa, and its three largest cities are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
r/placecanada was the largest Canada-related community operating on r/place, both in 2017 and 2022.
r/place 2022
Artwork
First Canadian Flag
Main article: First Flag of Canada
PlaceCanada started work quickly on adding a Canadian flag to the canvas, with evidence of the flag's emergence going as far back as 00:37. However, hastiness, coupled with a lack of coordination resulted in a poorly-proportioned maple leaf that would remain as such for the next eight hours. This struggle was noticeable by other r/place users to the point where memes were made; this exacerbated the issues PlaceCanada had with fixing the maple leaf, as random users would intentionally grief it for fun. By the end of r/place, heatmaps would reveal that the pixels making up the maple leaf of the flag saw some the highest traffic out of any pixels on the canvas.
A commonly-recurring griefing attempt was to try and make the maple leaf green, likely as a reference to Canada having legalized recreational marijuana federally in June 2017. None of these attempts would ever successfully turn the maple leaf green, however; instead, replacing the leaf with an amorphous green blob. A successful griefing attempt starting at 43:17 would see the "CANADA" text turned into "BANANAS", followed by the maple leaf being replaced by a banana, which was in turn followed by the outer fields and background for the header being turned yellow. When TagPro was forced out of its position above the Canadian and Chilean flags, the Canadian flag expanded upward to temporarily create a duplicate Canadian flag; this duplicate flag was, too, temporarily turned into a banana flag. A raid would see this duplicate flag temporarily replaced by Pickle Rick and Graham, before the space was reclaimed and made into the Canadian Provincial & Territorial Flags.
While it continued to face frequent griefing attempts for the rest of r/place 2022, the first Canadian flag was able to stay mostly intact by the Great Whiteout, with only a few misplaced pixels by the end.
Second Canadian Flag
Main article: Second Flag of Canada
The pixels of the second Canadian flag were first laid at (1645,1074), at 55:47. This flag would see a flag with a normal maple leaf created, but at 61:16, it was raided, and turned into a Peruvian flag. This new flag of Peru would then invade its neighbours, including the German Flag directly underneath it. This raid would be short-lived, however; and the Peruvian flag was destroyed as quickly as it had been formed. As the space was reclaimed, PlaceCanada attempted to bring back the maple leaf to establish their territory, but the leaf was once again getting griefed--it was at this point when r/placeDE made its own maple leaf with the German tricolour, as a joke. With the sides of the flag missing and the maple leaf being a blob, the second Canadian flag was ultimately overrun by 72:48. In response to this, the maple leaf on the German flag had its colours changed to those of the Canadian flag, with a red heart in the centre.