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| At the start of r/place 2022, there was no resemblance of the start menu. The bottom left corner was originally planned to be the starting point, but the swarm of Among Us characters prevented them from forming it. | | At the start of r/place 2022, there was no resemblance of the start menu. The bottom left corner was originally planned to be the starting point, but the swarm of Among Us characters prevented them from forming it. |
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| At around 5:00pm on the 2nd April GMT, following [[Canvas Expansions#The First Expansion|The First Expansion]], the Windows 98 Logo began to form and the beginning of the start button was formed. The logo and text were finished, albeit not perfect, and the [[Code Lyoko Eye of X.A.N.A]] was added to the right as a button. | | At around 5:00pm on the 2nd April, following [[Canvas Expansions#The First Expansion|The First Expansion]], the Windows 98 Logo began to form and the beginning of the start button was formed. The logo and text were finished, albeit not perfect, and the [[Code Lyoko Eye of X.A.N.A]] was added to the right as a button. |
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| [[File:r-place screenshot at 1648968463 uniz.png|alt=A screenshot of the r/place canvas, showing the start button, text, and Code Lyoko Eye of X.A.N.A.|thumb|Preview of the button and [[Code Lyoko Eye of X.A.N.A|The Eye]]]] | | [[File:r-place screenshot at 1648968463 uniz.png|alt=A screenshot of the r/place canvas, showing the start button, text, and Code Lyoko Eye of X.A.N.A.|thumb|Preview of the button and [[Code Lyoko Eye of X.A.N.A|The Eye]]]] |
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| === Among Us Characters === | | === Among Us Characters === |
| As with many art pieces on r/place 2022, the Windows Taskbar was a victim of the placement of pixel-art [[Among Us]] characters. The characters were repeatedly placed within the 4 sectors of the Windows logo and within the green section of the start button. Due to the large number of people involved with placing the characters, successfully combatting their presence was impossible, hence many Among Us characters are visible in the final result.
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| === French and Swiss Flags === | | === Swiss Flags === |
| Due to the Taskbar's proximity to the large French flag co-ordinated by French streamer [[Kameto]], a small group of French Twitch viewers began attempting to expand the flag's border into the Taskbar's territory. This resulted in small 3x3 pixel French flags being placed in the blue border of the Taskbar. This action was quickly replicated by a small subset of the maintainers of the adjacent Swiss flag, resulting in much of the border around the start button and r/PlaceStart and r/OsuPlace tabs being replaced with French and Swiss flags.
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| The r/PlaceStart community briefly entered discussions with the the Swiss flag's maintainers to continue the expansion of the small Swiss flags around the border, overwriting the French flags to act as a deterrent to those placing them. Shortly after these talks, updated agreements with r/Switzerland, r/OsuPlace and r/PlaceNL lead to the blue border being restored.
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| === Honduras and Armenia === | | === Honduras and Armenia === |
| As the construction of the Taskbar progressed, many other communities contacted the r/PlaceStart members asking to collaborate and create taskbar tabs of their own. The r/PlaceStart community attempted to negotiate size and placements with these communities to avoid conflict and prevent as much damage as possible to existing artworks.
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| One such negotiation occurred with a group wanting to place an Armenian flag on the taskbar. This group was allocated a position that was being taken up by the text of an existing tab maintained by [[r/NordicUnion]] and their allies. A miscommunication with the NordicUnion tab maintainers meant that they continued to heavily defend the text on their tab, despite the tab being modified in official templates to allow room for the Armenian flag. The r/PlaceStart community mistakenly assumed that the Armenian group had abandoned their allocated space and upon negotiation with members of r/Honduras, the space was reallocated to become a Honduran design instead - featuring the Honduras Flag, a red macaw and the Honduras international telephone code 504.
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| After the miscommunication with r/NordicUnion had been resolved, r/Honduras began construction of their flag. This angered the Armenian group who had also been promised the space beforehand, leading to the Windows Taskbar's largest conflict. Early negotiations seemed promising, with agreements suggested to split the space diagonally to create a combined Honduras-Armenian flag, however, the two groups quickly fell out. Despite efforts from the r/PlaceStart community to aid negotiations, the Armenian group's greater numbers overwhelmed the members of r/Honduras, leading to the space being completely taken by the Armenian flag.
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| The members of r/Honduras found some success in creating the Honduras flag at the end of the taskbar instead, in a hotly contested area that was eventually left unmaintained by the members of r/PlaceStart.
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| == Alliances ==
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| == Final Result == | | == Final Result == |
| == References == | | == References == |
| {{reflist}} | | {{reflist}} |
| [[Category:Among Us Crewmate Sightings]] | | [[Category:Artwork]] |