r/BABYMETAL

r/BABYMETAL
Name	r/BABYMETAL
Description	Community of fans dedicated to the popular japanese kawaii metal band BABYMETAL
Subreddit	BABYMETAL
Artwork	BABYMETAL trio artwork 2022

Subreddit dedicated to the popular japanese kawaii metal band BABYMETAL. During the event, the community organized their actions from their Discord server. At 2022 r/place the community managed to secure two artworks on the canvas, and lost a third artwork on the last day. At 2017 r/place the community managed to secure one artwork on the canvas.

r/place 2022

1st Artwork

Drawing started on the first day next to the Foxhole community to the right, with a lithuanian flag comming fast from the left to close the gap with Foxhole artwork.

The first objetive for the community was to get a tight rectangle to write "BABYMETAL". To do this they had to push Lithuania out of the zone. At the same time the Wall Street Bets subreddit community was building from below, and according to their design they would intercept part of Lithuania, Foxhole and vanish BABYMETAL.

Later, Lithuania agreed to concede part of its territory and BABYMETAL community completed the rectangle with text.

Triple Alliance vs r/wallstreetbets & Osu

Wall Street Bets (a.k.a WSB) community was trying to push from below and soon after received help from its ally, the Osu community. The result left the BABYMETAL rectangle in shreds, but the attack also hit on the Foxhole community and triggered a three-way alliance with Lithuania to drive WSB out of the area. This would ultimately be achieved after the efforts of the Osu alliance were exhausted. Upon defeating WSB, the BABYMETAL community expands downward to make the canvas for their artwork. The artwork was completed on the early hours of day 2.

Attempted change of location

While the WSB battle happened part of the community tried to draw second logo a few pixels away and below, near Osu's logo. Second logo was almost finished, but then an attack directed towards Osu by a streamer wiped out the zone.

2nd Artwork & BAND-MAID

The community joined with r/BandMaid to build the cover artwork of BAND-MAID album World Domination. When completed r/BABYMETAL builds its own logo above this artwork. Soon after, contacts were established with the local neighbors: r/Astroneer and Twitch streamer Jhay. Both agreed to an alliance.

The upper border was held by Green Lattice which was a partial ally, but mostly neutral.

3rd Artwork Attempt

Uppon the second expansion of the canvas r/BABYMETAL decided to build under the second artwork of its ally Foxhole. Below the space intended was an expanding Lithuanian flag that started take over the build zone. Contacts were made with r/lithuania, which was ally since day 1, but the flag was ultimately being build by twitch streamer Lturepublic.

Diplomatic contacts were made with the streamer, but he responded with a lack of interest in cooperating despite the alliance with r/lithuania. Nevertheless, the area would eventually be taken over by r/BABYMETAL.

Operation Thunderclap

Lturepuplic launched an attack on the 1st artwork but was quickly repelled with a collaboration with Osu.

Artworks

Place 2022

Work in progress

Place 2017

Work in progress

Credits

• Original 2017 art by TAKAPON.
• Updated color scheme for 2017 art by AndreiSch.
• BABYMETAL! banner by _MOAisMetaru.
• Metal Resistance winged logo by u/Brainth
• MetalGalaxy Su & Moa as well as big Su & Moa by u/lilmetaldeath
• Sakura & Mount Fuji background by JekPorkins

Diplomacy

Allies

• r/foxholegame (Foxhole)
• r/lithuania
• r/SewayakiKitsune (Senko)
• r/unturned
• r/Astroneer
• r/BandMaid
• r/Sabaton
• r/osuplace (Osu!)
• Twitch streamer Jhay

Neutral

• Australia
• r/MKD
• r/GreenLattice

Enemies

• r/wallstreetbets
• Twitch streamer Lturepublic