Noble War
The Noble War is an ongoing conflict between multiple parties in regards to ownership of r/place. The conflict started in July of 2023.
Origins
Lapis and Embed were promoted to website administration in July of 2022, despite being negatively looked at by many. Neither of the two did much to contribute to the game; EnixBR helped fix the game far more than these two people ever did. Lapis is a moderator from Our World of Pixels, effectively making him an insider for r/place. Zekiah claims that he would have immediately demoted both if he was the administrator.
Lapis got on the nerves of many when he introduced his automatic translator bot in August of 2023.
Conflicts
Invasions
Turkey, Visahizm, Apod, etc.
Soyjak.party invasion of OWOP
There was a thread published on /soy/ by a teen to raid Your World of Text boards, a common activity on the sharty. The thread got derailed by another teen once those raids were unsuccessful due to protection bots. Teens then fully switched to raiding Our World of Pixels and spammed tnd in the chat, which angered Lapis, causing xhamone to reveal xhamoneself in the chat. One of the teens raiding happened to be Fowlware, so he began confronting Lapis in #general to figure out why Lapis was banning teens including Fowlware himself. Lapis quickly denied any responsibility despite proof saying otherwise.
Suggestive material drawn on canvas
Throughout the course of this entire conflict, more relaxed moderation on the canvas resulted in numerous pornographic drawings being constructed on the canvas. SelamSS removed most of them. Some users managed to spam the server with these drawings using a strange method: they somehow got the r/place discord bot to output that exact area of the canvas multiple times in various channels.
Zekiah's break
In August 2022, Zekiah left the server due to a conflict with BlobKat.
Scams in the server
Fake gift card/Discord Nitro advertisements were frequently spammed from September to October 2023.
Fowlware made a "@PAJEET DONT NEED REDEEM DA KARD" role to assign to all scammers, since some of the scammers were likely normal players who got hacked.
CSAM spam in server
In November 2023, multiple users have been joining the server to advertise CP servers and just straight-up spamming CSAM in chat.
Etta confronted Yaref on this topic, but couldn't provide any form of evidence. This led to Taafy, a close friend of Yaref, asking Yaref if she was responsible for the CP spam, which she obviously denied, proving Etta completely wrong once again.
Turkey VIP Key Leak
One Turk paid the website to acquire a VIP key, and then shared his VIP key with a few friends. The newly-formed group then began to construct the largest Turkey flag yet, covering a fourth of the entire canvas.