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The pink/blue pattern struck me as more of a depressing display of capitulation to runaway groupthink and mob rule.

• ekianjo 9y ago
  Yup same feeling here. Lets make everything the same! is a really boring mindset.
• petercooper 9y ago
  What I find intriguing is that the pattern merely acts as a background.. yet the plain wall at the start was already a background and did not discourage chaos. Why does a plain background encourage chaos where a patterned background does not? My imagination may be in overdrive, but I think there are some interesting metaphors for why society works hidden in there.. :)
  • rescripting 9y ago
    I wouldn't say one encourages chaos over another. The background is a simple pattern that emerges early on while the social dynamics of the "place" are being discovered by the participants. It's literally the simplest coherent thing you can create and requires virtually no communication between participants. As time goes on coalitions form, cooperation becomes explicit and you end up with more complex patterns (the rainbow) and art (the minion). You saw this same thing play out in /r/place too.
• aynsof 9y ago
  I had that same thought initially. When the Minion appeared, though, I was struck by the power of cooperation in achieving great things. We can achieve far more when we band together.