The first one grab everyone by surprise and automation tools took a couple of days to dominate, the second one it just took a couple of hours to update those tools. This time? Pretty sure that tools are going to work from the get go.
Exactly, with bot accounts and so on. The biggest fun was following the communities that competed and how politics erupted. I kept looking to see if anyone wrote an article on the first one focused on the human condition but I never did find one.
Can’t recapture the magic of the first /r/place. That was something else. Move on.
It really was. The second we neat but like you said the magic was gone and people clearly knew how to game it by then.
The first one grab everyone by surprise and automation tools took a couple of days to dominate, the second one it just took a couple of hours to update those tools. This time? Pretty sure that tools are going to work from the get go.
Exactly, with bot accounts and so on. The biggest fun was following the communities that competed and how politics erupted. I kept looking to see if anyone wrote an article on the first one focused on the human condition but I never did find one.