Taiwan

This article is for about the community for Taiwan, not to be confused with the community for the Republic Of China.

Taiwan
Name	Taiwan
AKA	r/placeTW
Description	A community for creating Taiwan-related art on r/place
Subreddit	Taiwan
Discord	https://discord.gg/8xSQKCHSnT
Website	https://placetw.com
Artwork	First flag of Taiwan (flags of ROC), Taiwan independence flag, Former flag of Taiwan at Asian Trio, Taipei 101 attempt, Hearts of Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. It sits at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, neighboring the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. The territories controlled by the ROC consists of 168 islands with a combined area of 36,193 square kilometres (13,974 sq mi). The main island of Taiwan, formerly known as Formosa, has an area of 35,808 square kilometres (13,826 sq mi), with mountain ranges dominating the eastern two-thirds and plains in the western third, where its highly urbanised population is concentrated. The capital is Taipei, which, along with New Taipei City and Keelung, forms the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Other major cities include Kaohsiung, Taichung, Tainan, and Taoyuan. With 23.45 million inhabitants, Taiwan is among the most densely populated countries in the world.

Taiwan's r/place community (coordinated through r/Taiwan in 2017 and 2022, r/placeTW established after r/place 2022) was the largest Taiwan-related community operating on r/place in 2022. This community is mostly aligned with the Pan-Green Coalition in Taiwan.

History

r/place 2022

Taiwan began its r/place journey in 2022 following a post by u/gsdeman on r/Taiwan. A subsequent "red blob" was initialized by u/skyblocker804 at (942, 568), and an initial design of a flag of Taiwan (ROC) was created shortly after. Shortly after, u/wusterdam_www (wusterdam) created a Discord server to coordinate Taiwan's efforts on r/place, with u/howardt12345 (ht12345) being the second person to join. AvocadosConstant joined shortly after, establishing a Google Sheets with the proposed design for better coordination.

Artwork

r/place 2022

First flag of Taiwan (flags of ROC)

Taiwan's first flag was established shortly after the beginning of r/place 2022 following a post on r/Taiwan from r/gsdeman.

Taiwan Independence Flag

The final iteration of the Taiwan Independence flag.

The "Taiwan independence flag" is a flag made by the World Taiwanese Congress, and is the most common flag used by Taiwan independence supporters. The original design was informally proposed by ht12345 as an attempt to swap the design of the ROC flag with it mere minutes before the first canvas expansion. It was established to be the design Taiwan would make in the first canvas expansion shortly after.

After failing to secure a location beside the XjPooh and Brazil, Taiwan decided to establish the flag to the left of the flag of Ireland and above the Czech flag. This led to an establishment of an alliance with Ireland and strengthening the existing alliance with the Czech.

Defense Efforts for Allies

Throughout r/place, Taiwan was often called upon by its allies for help. Through providing such aid, Taiwan was able to earn the trust of many allies.

The first such instance of this was when the Czech community reached out for help in their conflict with TF2 and Sweden on the first day.

Coordination Techniques Used

An example of a Google Sheets table used by Taiwan's r/place community to show coordinates of a given design.

Taiwan's r/place community decided early on to forego overlays and bots and instead used Google Sheets as the primary method of design and coordination. Cells on the table were made to be square, and colored in manually. The first row and column of a table were used to show the y and x axis coordinates of a given pixel. Every time a new design was finalized, it was sent in a dedicated announcements channel in the Discord. This method proved to be effective enough that it was used by Taiwan until the very end.

This method was flawed in that it took time for word of the latest plans to get out. This led to miscommunication with members outside of the discord, who remained diligent in defending the existing plans and inadvertently blocking members of the Discord from accomplishing the latest plan.

While some members of the community were known to use bots, it was not officially endorsed by representatives of the community until 2 hours before r/place ended, when Taiwan accepted an invitation to join Hong Kong's bot network.

Ideas for several automation tools, including a Discord bot to automatically generate various types of images given pixel art input as well as an online portal to display all necessary information, were proposed as suggestions for the next r/place. The domain placetw.com is currently held by ht12345 for future use.

Alliances

• r/Brazil
• r/CalgaryFlames
• r/cambodia
• r/civbattleroyale
• r/czech
• r/Denmark
• r/france
• r/fuckcars
• Green Lattice
• r/HermitCraft
• r/HongKong
• r/IndianPlace
• r/IndieAlliance
• r/indonesia
• r/ireland
• r/Kindelia
• r/Korea_Place
• r/mexico
• r/newzealand
• r/Nigeria
• r/NordicUnion
• r/OriAndTheBlindForest
• r/outerwilds
• r/Palau
• r/PracticalGuideToEvil
• r/reddevils
• Republic Of China
• r/SFU
• r/SIGONO
• r/Slovakia
• r/Tennesseetitans
• r/Thailand, r/thaithai
• r/ween
• r/yumenikki