Editing r/BABYMETAL

'''r/BABYMETAL''' is a subreddit dedicated to the popular japanese kawaii metal band ''BABYMETAL''. During the event, the community organized their actions from their Discord server. At [[r/place 2023|2023 r/place]] the community managed to secure one artwork on the canvas, in a spot provided on the german flag from r/placeDE. At [[r/place 2022|2022 r/place]] the community managed to secure two artworks on the canvas, and lost a third artwork on the last day. At [[r/place 2017|2017 r/place]] the community managed to secure one artwork on the canvas.

Babymetal (Japanese: ベビーメタル) (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese kawaii metal band. The band consists of Suzuka Nakamoto as "Su-metal", Moa Kikuchi as "Moametal" and Momoko Okazaki as "Momometal". The band is produced by Kobametal from the Amuse talent agency. Their vocals are backed by heavy metal instrumentation, performed by a group of session musicians known as the "Kami Band" at performances.

Drawing started late on the final moments day 1 below the artwork from the Foxhole allied community, after waiting and debating where to build and helping Foxhole with their first build once the site was decided. After the completion of Foxhole's artwork, Babymetal's artwork finally starts to be built under Foxhole, but soon after Twitch streamer ohnePixel begins to draw again in the zone (he did it before, indirectly helping Foxhole to gain territory over the US flag) and prevents Babymetal from making progress. A few moments after, Portugal's flag expanded and erases Foxhole leaving the zone empty. Babymetal stops working on the zone as their ally was expeled.

===Second Attempt===

After Foxhole tried in vain to recover its place where Portugal expanded, they secured a deal to use some space from Black Company to relocate. Babymetal again waited and helped Foxhole until their Artwork was done, and then its own artwork was placed below as the first time, thanks to a deal with Costa Rica for the space that they had left over. Artwork is completed late on day 2 with some help this time from OSU's main streamer, BTMC.

After the second attempt was successful, a few hours later on the beginning of day 3 Babymetal and Foxhole would again be hit by an attack that would completely erase them, this time coming from a Peruvian Twitch streamer, ElZeein. But only a few hours later, when the streamer finally closes his stream, the retake operation of both Foxhole and Babymetal begins in parallel. A few hours later, both designs would be fully restored.

Since day 3 skirmishes began to emerge in the Babymetal art, which were soon identified from Lithuanian accounts. On day 4 these incursions intensified and soon a message was discovered on Lturepublic (former enemy from r/place 2022) social networks that he had prepared an attack that day from his stream in the afternoon. Lturepublic has a patent resentment over its last-minute defeat last year and was seeking revenge. As soon as the stream starts, he launch the attack and soon vanishes the art, and in place he makes a Lithuanian flag to try to bring in external supporters. Babymetal starts fighting together with their Foxhole allies, and later they receive help from other communities, mainly from OSU's main streamer, BTMC. No progress was possible and soon after half of Foxhole art is also invaded. The situation would stagnate while Lturepublic stream was live, but at the beginning of day 5 his stream ends and the operation to retake the art is quickly completed.

Lturepublic have a personal vendetta and instead of doing what ElZeein did, try another location, he decides to return as early as possible to re-invade the same place, and this time teams up with another lithuanian streamer, Elosanta. Together with almost 3k active viewers take over Babymetal and Foxhole art to replace it with a lithuanian flag. Soon after Lturepublic begins to draw an image of lithuanian King Vytautas. During the drawing of the king, many users witnessed the use of automated bot accounts placing pixels in a sequential orderly fashion. The evidence was recorded, but the streamer Lturepublic denied having used them. The situation stalls with foxhole preventing completion of the design while Babymetal attempts to remake Su-metal within the king's design.

===Backup Art on Germany===

===Operation Clown Car===

Although the streamer Lturepublic finally seemed to complete the king's design, the Foxhole and Babymetal communities were determined to make a clown nose on the king to prevent the design from being completed. The so-called Clown Car operation was a last resort to maintain pressure on Lturepublic and to show courage in the face of the impossibility of recovering the territory while his audience remained online.

Rumors suggested that the event would end on the fifth day. Lturepublic keeps his stream open as much as possible until the early morning to cross the finish line, but the moment does not come. While Babymetal and Foxhole held up Operation Clown Car, it was surprisingly decided to go for a final push as r/place would supposedly end and this was the final chance to get the Foxhole on the canvas. It is at this moment that Foxhole and Babymetal regain their territories for the last time, while Lturepublic followed the action with his stream. But just hours later, the streamer would come back online, again with the same goal in mind, to wipe both arts. The situation is identical to the previous day, with operation clown car in progress, and while invasions of neighboring Peru and Mexico by other Lithuanian streamers were taking place.  

 

Rajono Kunigas, was the other streamer using bots (seen by several witnesses) that previously attacked Peru and Mexico. As some Lturepublic followers begins to flood his chat with requests to attack Babymetal backup art, he decides to do it using his bots and replaces with a lithuanian flag. Luckily, the backup artwork was repaired shortly before the event ended, thanks to the people of r/placeDE. Although the capture shown by reddit as the last moment shows the area as a prominent lithuanian flag, the reality is that the capture does not correspond to the last moments of the event, namely the gray phase (only black, grey and white pixels).