BlobKat

The profile picture used by BlobKat on discord

Like the father who creates a child, and then left to get the milk, BlobKat was the initial founder of rplace, telling zekiahepic about his idea for the project in discord DMs and triggering the creation of the site after he speed ran the initial prototype around April the 4th 2022. He initially created canv.tk, a similar pixel based site featuring an infinite map and reduced cooldown as a proof of concept for rplace, yet it turned out rplace would be much more popular than it's infinite equivalent in the long term.

Blob's initial message to zekiahepic, announcing his idea to replace canv.tk with a more faithful r/place clone. Which would later become rplace.tk.

A video demonstrating basic early rplace functions, including zooming and placing a pixel

The initial build of rplace, sent to zekiah in Discord DMs on 04/04/2022 21:21.

Zekiah later took over in mostly maintaining the project, yet don't get it twisted, blob lurks around... Still.. Silently watching.