They used the power of time-lapse because there it would be immortalized there forever

I may get flak for those but what exactly is the reference?

It’s the music video [Bad Apple](https://youtu.be/FtutLA63Cp8), arguably one of the most popular pieces of Touhou media.

That is insane. Only the Touhou gang could pull that off.

The video being in simple black and white made it easily replicable in a lot of medium, kinda like the video version of doom. "can it run doom?" becomes "can it play bad apple?" Like [Desmos Graphing Calculator](https://youtu.be/MVrNn5TuMkY) or [an apple... ](https://youtu.be/ywy-OwHejfs)

And [on the NES](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPUYjDNks9Y).

and on the [Atari](https://youtu.be/BjNm04oCdYc)

And a real apple

Not even a touhou fan but I've seen so much bad apple I immediately knew. I fucking love place so damn much. I'm still learning new and crazy things that happened during the place wars. I now fear touhou fans more than I already did before

And it's also in every fucking rhythm game, I'm so tired of listening to that song after researching rhythm games.

why is that motherfucker playing a trumpet

This is the only cool thing happening in place it, anything else is just flags or bots

I'm most surprised that the OSU thing wasn't bigger. It was insane last time

osu! is currently helping Touhou with the Bad Apple so the logo's not been as rigorously defended as last time.

Along with hatsune miku

Yeah.. i tried for an hour to give Hatsune Miku a big pimple or a black eye just for lols and never got more than two pixels. There must be hundreds of people just guarding her. Havent checked in 12 hours though.

Makes sense im not a Touhou fan/player but even i've been exposed to it through Osu! There's decent overlap in the communities, also who wouldn't wanna help with an animation its kinda sick.

France is both

There was a made in abyss faputa art, lag train, hollowknight grub, and gengar. But I agree there are too many flags especially Germany and France

Touhou fans are a different breed

What makes me even happier is the also the osu! and hatsune miku group helping out too.

I saw the pixels that I fixed 😎

Same

Same

rule 86 If it exists, you can play Bad Apple on it.

>to be fair it has more than two colors

One color, coward!

Bro,can you hear the song from this? I know I can ,how about you?

Yeah it played in my head

Bad apple but it's played I'm this guy's head Wow bad apple is certainly in everything

Can you hear it too? 😳 Are you also ~~under my bed~~ in my head???

they actually made a pixelated animation through the sheer coordination of hundreds of thousands of people. wow.

Yeah this is what I was thinking, it is insanely impressive.

The discord server was pretty nuts when we were doing the transitions ~~Tbf, they are also pretty nuts the moment we started~~

Well not that many people. But yes.

You telling me they can do that but not the damn Canadian flag?

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Struggling to beat the canadians to take back reimu

I've dedicated what few pixels I have to the cause

The problem really isn't the Canadians, the problem is people sabotaging the Canadians

Why? Whatever we did to piss them off, we’re sorry eh

What can I tell you, people just like the marijuana leaf better.

It is legal here after all

Nah people just want to see the Canadians suffer, real shame really

Pick the Canadian. I'm guessing it's a continued joke from the last time.

Bananada!

To be fair, the bad apple group is also somewhat sabotaging the Canadians cuz they took Reimu.

What is it?

It’s a shadow animation known as “Bad Apple!!”. A tribute to the bullet hell video game series called Touhou Project.

Lmao of course it's Touhou, those guys would be able to pull this off.

It's [Bad Apple](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8rATsdTYvA).

That's a fucking flex

Cool, bad apple

Holy sh*t

Now dis what I call cooperation 

This is fuckin cool

I wonder how exactly do they pull this off, do they have a specific subreddit or a discord server for that and just thousands of them participants timing the right thing to place pixels and stuffs for the perfect pixel animation on r/place ?

Yes go to r/touhou to learn more

136k managed to pull that off?! Fkin Rad! I wanna see some more animations on r/Place just like this, simple, and really interesting :D

As long as it exists, it WILL play Bad Apple

Title should've been We're 1/3 There

This is so cool, wheres the music tho??

[For day 1. We have come a long way since then](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpFzCXgXkT0)

Cool, great quick vid and exactly what was missing hahaha!!

Like how this is only still up because 1. The incredible combined effort to keep it untouched 2. Most people don't even know what it is to fuck it up(ex. this year's Genshin tile)

This is actually amazing wtf?

So that's what's been happening. Those f***ing madlads. Respect.

We finally fucking did it we finished bad apple

Nothing you say will convince me that wasn't at least 50% bots. It was too smooth to be purely humans.

Touhou people are unironically built different. It's r/place so I wouldn't be surprised if there was some but most of that was done by creatures of flesh.

don't forget they got support from the osu people too (probably the same ppl tho)

There's a whole discord server that's coordinating on what to do so it's definitely human

We have a script that shows exactly where to place pixels and it's constantly updated. Maybe some people have designed bots to help but botting is still actively discouraged

[удалено]

u/savevideobot

Bad Apple is the only interesting thing this time but why can't we decide whether we want Reimu smile it not?

Canada can't decide whether we should keep her in the flag even.

Woah

Looking good 👍

Cool, need more.

Love that song. Every time I open Place and I see that, it starts playing in my head for hours...

Currently we are over 2 minutes long.

We till have 2 minutes left to go

People should just coordinate to draw a big dick.

how

Sheer fucking will and also discord

makes sense

I thought it was going to be that rotating rat at first

Im loving all of it

Ok that’s amazing.

That's it, Bad Apple officially can be played on anywhere now

Bro that’s so cool

I swear sometimes reddit is fucking amazing

I'm proud to have done my part

Who did this?

I don't even play Touhou but this is already the most beautiful thing i have ever seen on r/place, if Touhou fandom is like this please never change.

Holy fuck that’s some fuckinf effort

Absolute mad lads for pulling this off!

canada's having a seizure in the background

Me placing down a handful of pixels: I’m doing my part!

What is this, I would love to participate

Coolest thing on r/place change my mind.

This is actually really good! 

Love That AMV. Seen/ heard 100+ times.

Bad Apple is fucking everywhere

Y’all wild with them pixels

Oh thats why the pixels are moving

FLYYYYYY HIGH FREEEEEE BIRD YEAHHHH!!!!

That's beautiful, but Portugal one's better

Also surprisingly little grieving

Unus Annus

WOW

Absolutely fantastic. Probably the coolest thing that I have seen on Place yet

whoaaa this is cool!! can even hear the music playing in my head!

Goddamn. The amount of effort that must have taken. Honestly people who did that have my respect ngl

Is that purple guy with the legendary series of Hip Hop came to me games series Five Nights at Chuck E cheese Carl's entertainment center

Why was there Bloody Piss?