
Chinese: 
R-Slash-Place，或“我们的地方”
是一个Reddit社交实验
始于2017年4月1日
它由1000×1,000像素的网格组成
任何Reddit用户都可以在此画布上绘制
但有一个限制
每五分钟只能绘制一个像素
任何人都可以随时绘制自己的像素
所以如果你想创造一些东西
你最好还要准备好保卫它
这使得无数的社区聚集在一起
在这个互联网的历史画布上留下他们的印记
领土之争
召开世界大会
内战风云
许多政治元素变成了日常
从r / Place诞生起即是这样
一些派系的组织性很强
“五，四”
“装填！”
“.....二，一”
“吃我一炮！”
但一些派系并不像这样
今天我们将关注...还有什么
小马教
该教主要由r / MyLittlePony的用户组成。

English: 
R-Slash-Place, or Our Place,
was a Reddit social experiment
taking place April 1st of 2017.
It consisted of a 1,000 by 1,000 grid of pixels.
Any Reddit user could draw on this canvas,
but there was a catch.
Only one pixel could be drawn every five or so minutes.
Anyone could draw over your pixels at any time,
so if you wanted to create something
you had better also been prepared to defend it.
This resulted in countless communities coming together
to leave their mark on this historic canvas of the internet.
Battles for territory,
faction delegates partaking in world congress,
civil wars,
and many other political elements became regular
during the couple days r/Place existed.
Some factions were highly organized.
"Five, four-"
"Refilling!"
"...Two, one,"
"Go!"
Some factions were not-so-organized.
Today we’ll be focusing on, what else,
the Brony Faction.
The brony faction consisted primarily of r/MyLittlePony subscribers.

Chinese: 
他们的沟通方式多种多样
遍布全球多个subreddits和Discord服务器
很多dalao和小马军团
在Manechat Discord服务器上建立了自己的家
预先存在的“游戏和活动”频道
被重新用于r / Place的讨论
这是r /Place被最早记录的时刻
当画布第一次公开亮相时
随着人们疯狂点击以留下他们的标记
它很快成为了一个免费的
迅速扩大的线条和块状文字
但组织出现并不需要很长时间
小马教先发制人
在右下角附近创建了一个萍淇派
但很不幸
正是这个位置导致了萍淇的死亡
因为“蓝角”是r / Place最早的派系之一
而且它迅速传播
最终，“蓝角”消灭掉了我们可怜的粉红色小马
这可能是画布上的小马的结局吗？
是否每一次尝试都会以失败告终？
不可能的
事实上，在萍淇去世前的一段时间
北部正在进行一个新项目

English: 
Their means of communication was spread across
multiple subreddits and Discord servers.
Much of the leadership and soldiers
made their home on the Manechat Discord server,
where a preexisting ‘games and activities’ channel
was repurposed for r/Place discussion.
This is r/Place in the earliest recorded hours.
When the canvas first went public
it quickly became a free-for-all of
rapidly expanding lines and blocky text
as people frantically clicked to leave their mark.
But it didn't take long for organization to appear.
The Brony Faction first got involved with
the creation of a Pinkie Pie near the lower right hand corner.
Unfortunately,
it was this placement which would lead to Pinkie’s demise
as the Blue Corner was one of r/Place’s earliest factions
and it spread rapidly.
Eventually, Blue Corner consumed our poor pink pony.
Could that be the end for ponies on the canvas?
Would every attempt to ponify it end in failure?
Far from it.
In fact, some time before Pinkie’s demise
a new project was already underway to the north.

Chinese: 
黛西的前身正在施工
也许正是因为这个特殊的设计
虽然起初看起来并不像小马，
或许只是祝你好运，
但不管怎样，黛西很快就完成了
为了进一步纪念他们的伟大作品
小马教开始在黑色边框上加工
以此让黛西脱颖而出
大约在这个时候，教徒数量达到了历史新高
而且这些教徒的努力变得更加有组织
也许在教徒之中存在希望
只是也许
我们确实可以在画布上留下我们的印记
可惜
我们可能会听到一股来自远方的邪恶力量的咆哮声
为了保护自我和维系联盟
大多数派系都乐于合作
但有一个团体没有兴趣交朋友
“虚空”
虚空有一个小目标
那就是不断净化画布
并用空黑色代替它
一些人试图抵御虚空的入侵
作为清除弱者的必要手段
并为其他派系创造空间
但任何试图保护自己创作的人

English: 
The beginnings of Dashie were being created.
Perhaps it's because this particular design
didn’t look too much like a pony at first,
or maybe it was just good luck,
but one way or another Dashie was soon completed.
To further memorialize their efforts
the brony faction began work on a black border
to help Dashie stand out.
It was around this time that recruitment reached an all-time high
and the brony efforts became more organized.
There was hope amongst the bronies that maybe,
just maybe,
we could indeed leave our mark on the canvas.
But alas,
an evil force could be heard growling in the distance.
Most factions were happy to work together
in the interest of self-preservation and the bond of alliance,
but there was one group that had no interest in making friends.
The Void.
The Void had one goal,
and that was to continuously cleanse the canvas
and replace it with empty blackness.
Some tried to defend the efforts of The Void
as a necessary evil to purge the weak
and create room for other factions
but anyone trying to protect creations of their own

Chinese: 
都很快对这种想法失去信心
他们的组织强而有力
轻而易举地碾压大多数其他派系
黛西是一个非常脆弱的目标
一些敌对分子可能只是为了向马迷发送信息
但最糟糕的是她的黑色边框
虚空决定发动一场毁灭世界的“圣战”
并首先选择了一个核心位置
核心成为一个起点
黑色卷须从这里开始向四处扩散
一旦他们的部队系统地安排他们的可用像素
虚空会展开大规模袭击
这是一种毁灭性的策略
无数的派系和艺术作品
永远沦为了虚空
黛西的黑色边框是个大问题
它已经比虚空先前的入侵点的大部分都要大
尽管一些人认干掉为黛西易如反掌
但黛西其实坚不可摧
黛西的守军有一些妙计
首先，假设我们是许多派系中的一名雇用机器人
这些机器人通常是Python脚本
代替用户进行点击
机器人仍然必须遵循所有的相同的规则

English: 
quickly lost faith in that thinking.
They were well-organized
and easily outnumbered most other factions.
Dashie was an extremely vulnerable target.
Some enemy factions may target her just to send a message to bronies,
but worst of all is her black border.
When The Void begins a campaign of destruction
they start by picking a Core location.
Their Core becomes a starting point
for their black tendrils to spread from.
Once their forces had systematically queued up their available pixels,
The Void would strike with a massive attack.
It was a devastating tactic.
Countless factions and works of art
were forever lost to The Void.
Dashie’s black border was the problem.
It was already larger than most of The Void’s previous Cores.
Although Dashie was viewed as an easy target to some,
she was far from undefended.
The defenders of Dashie had a few tricks up their sleeve.
For one, we were one of many factions to employ bots.
Bots were usually Python scripts
that performed clicks on behalf of a user.
Bots still had to follow all of the same rules

Chinese: 
尽管一夜之间没有任何明显的优势
他们并不完全气馁
总体上
在高峰期大约有50个机器人在保护黛西
而且这还不包括人类部队
事实上保护黛西的人类比机器人多得多
尽管敌人并不这么认为
即使如此
与较大的派系相比，这些数字仍然是小巫见大巫
特别是与虚空可能吹嘘的数字相比
一些派系，包括虚空
使用付费机器人来扩大其领土
然而，还有另一个意想不到的挑战
黛西在她的马生历程中经历了多次微小的变化
包括边界
文字的添加
可爱标记
和几个像素的完美改进
使用旧模板的人发现自己与较新的版本发生冲突。
这意味着我们不仅要防守随机破坏
和外部侵略者
而且也包括我们自己的旧版机器人
这些防御机器人的主要开发者努力工作
生成脚本和模板
并自动更新服务器
同时需要防止机器人伤害友军

English: 
and didn’t have any distinct advantages aside from running overnight,
so they weren’t exactly discouraged.
On the whole,
Dashie probably had about 50 bots protecting her at the peak
in addition to the human soldiers.
It’s not at all a stretch to assume Dashie had far more humans than bots
despite her enemies thinking the opposite.
Even so,
those numbers paled in comparison to the larger factions
especially the numbers The Void could boast at any given time.
Some factions, including The Void,
used paid-for bots to expand their territory.
There was another unexpected challenge to overcome however.
Dashie had undergone multiple small changes over the course of her life
including the border,
the addition of text,
cutie marks,
and a few pixel-perfect improvements.
Soldiers using old templates found themselves at war with newer updates.
This meant we had to not only defend against
random vandalism and foreign invaders,
but also our own outdated bots.
The primary maintainer of the brony bots worked hard
to produce the scripts, templates,
and automatically updating web server
needed to keep the bots from destroying each other.

English: 
Many helped out,
but a leading individual was Hithroc.
While the brony faction had no formal leader
he easily qualifies as this history lesson’s most notable figure.
Dashie’s secret weapon was actually the text above her.
"They had a really uncoordinated attack trying to change 'ponies'"
"Were as if they had all said 'everyone attack the pony'"
"They would have easily destroyed it."
Most acts of random vandalism were attempts to change the text
as evident in this heatmap.
This meant unorganized vandalism was not a major threat.
Virtually every bordering faction was either indifferent or allied with Dashie.
Among the most active were
Halo, Parahumans, Sans, and Tiny TARDIS.
All of these factions had regular back-and-forth
with both sides occasionally sending representatives
to call for assistance or to communicate plans.
There was a period of time were war almost broke out with Halo
when it was proposed to expand Master Chief into our territory,
but this was also around the time an alliance was being formed
so the invasion never formally took place.

Chinese: 
这得到了许多帮助
但最主要的是Hithroc
小马教并没有正式的领导人
所以他很容易成为这一历史阶段最显着的人物
黛西的秘密武器实际上是她身上的文字
“他们尝试改变'ponies'的方式非常不协调。”
“好像他们都说'每个人都攻击小马'”
“他们很容易将它摧毁。”
大多数随意破坏行为都是企图改变文本
这在这个热图中很明显
这意味着无组织的破坏行为不是主要威胁
事实上，每个边界派系要么漠不关心，要么与黛西结盟
其中最活跃的
当属Halo，Parahumans，Sans和Tiny TARDIS
所有这些派系都有规律的互动
双方偶尔互派代表
寻求帮助或传达计划
有一段时间，战争几乎在小马与Halo之间爆发
因为有人提议将“Master Chief ”扩展到我们的领土
但是这也是在联盟正在形成的时候发生的
所以入侵从未正式发生

English: 
The Brony Faction took part in a small-scale civil war
when Halo’s text was changed into “Fix MCC”
referring to the Master Chief Collection
which a lot of Halo fans were unhappy about.
Tiny TARDIS was a close ally most of the time,
but there was one incident worth mentioning.
They were partially damaged by the addition of a blue shield
and later invaded by Portugal’s color.
At this time,
The Brony Faction decided to use this as an opportunity to expand.
We started adding a Sunset Shimmer cutie mark
but it wasn’t long before Tiny TARDIS sent a representative
to explain that they hadn’t given up on the territory yet.
The bronies had to choose
between declaring war on the Doctor Who Fandom,
or giving up our expansion plans
in favor of assisting Tiny TARDIS.
It didn’t take long to settle on the latter
and Tiny TARDIS was quickly restored.
Ultimately, the bronies remained a friendly faction
with many unspoken and formal alliances.
At one point there was a small-scale enemy campaign
to falsely implicate the Brony Faction
in an invasion of our neighbors,
but this scheme never came to fruition.

Chinese: 
小马教参加了一场小规模的内战
因为Halo的文本被改为“Fix MCC”
意思是“Master Chief的收藏品“”
但很多Halo迷表示不满
大部分时间Tiny TARDIS都是一个亲密盟友
但有一件事值得一提
他们因添加博士的电话亭而部分受损
后来被“葡萄牙”的颜色所侵袭
与此同时
小马教决定将此作为拓张领土的机会
我们开始添加大师姐的可爱标记
但不久Tiny TARDIS派出了一名代表
解释说他们并没有放弃该领域的所有权
马迷必须做出选择
要么向神秘博士宣战
要么放弃我们的扩张计划
并赞成协助Tiny TARDIS
后者并不需要很长时间
Tiny TARDIS很快重建
最终，小马教仍然是一个有着许多
或无声或正式的联盟的友好的派系
有一次有一个小规模的敌方行动
在对其邻居的入侵中
错误地牵连了小马教
但是这个计划从来没有实现

English: 
Around mid-way through the event brony spirits were high.
We had claimed a reasonably large area,
proved our defenses as a force to be reckoned with,
and were on good terms with all but the most unfriendly factions.
Dedicated soldiers spent hours diplomatizing
and managing our pixel resources to defend Dashie.
Some skipped meals and obligations
with the hope we could keep Dashie’s presence strong
to the very end.
This was an inspiration to the brony community
and an engaging activity which brought people together.
But there was a growing concern on everyone’s minds:
how long could we hold out?
Every participant of r/Place was keen to know
when the final hours of the event would be.
Having this information would be the ultimate weapon
allowing for a “final push,”
whether intending to attack or defend.
When asked about the event’s end
one moderator replied with this ASCII image of a rabbit
heavily implying Easter to be the final day of r/Place.
This news came as a shock to many
but especially the Brony Faction.

Chinese: 
在r/Place发展的中途，马迷精神发扬光大
我们宣称有相当大的面积
证明我们的防御力不可忽视
除了最不友好的派系之外，我们与其他的派系的合作都很好
有专门的人员花几个小时来外交
并管理我们的像素资源来保护黛西
一些人甚至废寝忘食
希望我们能保持黛西永存
直到最后一刻
这是对小马社区的启发
启发了将人们聚集在一起的人人可参与的活动
但每个人心中越来越担忧
我们能坚持多久？
r / Place的每个人都很想知道
这所谓的”最后一刻”究竟是什么时候
无论是打算攻击还是防守
掌握这些信息将是最终的
允许“最后一击”的武器
当被问及所谓的结束时
一位r/Place的管理员用这张兔子的ASCII图像回答
严重暗示复活节是r / Place的最后一天
这一消息令许多人感到震惊
特别是小马教

Chinese: 
还有几周复活节就要到来
黛西已经坚持到了现在
只有虚空的一次协同攻击
才能摧毁我们所有的努力
复活节末日的消息在第二天深夜传播
一些人决定深入其中
并保护黛西到最后
而其他人接受了这个事实
那就是我们无法坚持这么长时间
当晚许多人都去睡觉了
不确定第二天早上黛西是否仍在那里
令很多人感到意外的是
r/Place在第三天早些时候关闭
并不是先前传出的复活节
这是一个苦乐参半的结局
因为尽管看到r/Place关闭令人遗憾
但这对小马教也是一种解脱
因为我们的小黛西不仅幸免于难
而且还在像素大战期间蓬勃发展
最终图像只包含四个破坏性像素
不过整体观看画布时并不明显
在几乎整个过程中
我们不仅成功保护了黛西
而且成功举办了一个将人们聚集在一起并激发灵感的活动

English: 
Easter was weeks away,
and although Dashie held strong thus far
it would only take one coordinated attack from The Void
to put all of our efforts to an end.
The news spread late at night during the second day.
Some soldiers decided to dig-in
and protect Dashie to the very end.
others accepted the fact
that there was no way we could hold out for that long.
Many of the brony soldiers went to bed that night
unsure if Dashie would still be there in the morning.
To the surprise of many
the event ended early on the third day,
not Easter as previously rumored.
It was a bittersweet ending,
because although it was sad to see the event come to a close
it was also a relief for the Brony Faction
to know our little Dashie had not only survived,
but thrived during the great pixel war.
The final image contains only four pixels of vandalism
which easily fade away when viewing the canvas as a whole.
Not only did we succeed in protecting Dashie
for almost the entire duration,
but this was an activity which brought people together and inspired.

Chinese: 
从萍淇派的早逝
到为了黛西的长时间的防守，
到另一个以BerryTube标志的形式
存在的小马
马迷再次在互联网上留下了自己的印记
这段视频是关于r / Place中的小马的历史
但正如你所想象的那样，有数千个团体参与其中
我强烈建议你查看关于整个事件的更多信息
简介中有一个链接
是一个超酷的网页，里面有整个活动的地图集
你喜欢这个视频吗？
在r / Place期间，你是一名小马军团的士兵吗？
在任何情况下
我都很想在下面的评论中听到你的消息
一如既往
一定要看看我的其他视频
订阅更多
并非常感谢你的收看！
再见！
[屏幕上方：传闻一位马迷是虚空管理员之一]

English: 
From the early demise of Pinkie Pie,
to the longstanding defense of Dashie,
to another pony presence entirely
in the form of the BerryTube logo,
bronies have left their mark on internet history yet again.
This video followed the history of ponies in r/Place
but as you can imagine there were thousands of groups involved.
I highly recommend you check out more information about the event as a whole.
There’s a link in the description
to a super cool webpage that serves as an atlas of the whole thing.
Did you like this video?
Were you one of the soldiers during r/Place?
In any event,
I would love to hear from you in the comments below.
As always
be sure to check out my other videos,
subscribe for more,
and thank you so much for watching!
Goodbye!
[On screen: Rumors of one of The Void admins being a brony.]
