Editing The r/place Romanian Trollface (section)

=== 2023 ===
==== Preparation for r/place 2023 ====
Netflix’s son was the first to announce the OKPR server via Mihailul about the event, thanks to the users from r/pMegu. And again they, along with Edward, encouraged the server to join them and to help recreating the well-known trollface.

==== Early attempt ====
The trio, along with Mihai3, RT and others, were waiting for the subreddit to open its canvas. Immediately as it opened, the users found a good spot for drawing the trollface, the first pixel being placed by Edward at coordinates <code>172;267</code>. RT helped organizing the members to ease the drawing by creating 2 channels for discussions regarding r/place, #place-general and #place-info. Meanwhile, the r/Romania Discord server members were aware about the event, but very unorganized and without a well-elaborated plan for drawing. Eventually they found the trollface and decided to draw a flag close to it.

40 minutes after the canvas opened, the Romanian trollface was griefed by r/Romania members who wanted to create the Romanian flag, and by strangers who just wanted to delay the progress. In order to keep in touch with the Romanian redditors, Edward created an additional Discord server called [[PlaceRO]], in order to unite them with OKPR members and thus to form an alliance, making the previous 2 channels on OKPR obsolete and archiving them. After an hour, it was decided to abandon the drawing of the trollface and focus on expanding and protecting the Romanian flag.<ref>https://new.reddit.com/r/Romania/comments/154tm8f/salut_haide%C8%9Bi_pe_rplace/</ref>

==== PlaceRO ====
Unexpectedly, the server membership count grew at an exponential rate, bringing with it both Romanian and foreign members from tens of different comunities and subreddits involved in r/place. Some of the Romanian communities that helped were r/placeromania, the PixelRO Discord server, the IRaphahell fandom and r/Romania. The server focused on maintaining the Romanian flag and protecting the artworks of the allied communities, without it being easy for them. The server faced many challenges, such as the Brazilian and 'Fuck spez' assault of the first flag or Bratishkinoff griefing the second flag. The server also got much more popularity thanks to Romanian streamers like IRaphahell<ref name="live_rapha_1">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24l5hz5fLT8 </ref> and Highman<ref name="live_highman">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHxwgW8B-K8</ref>, although they weren't helping the PlaceRO's cause.

==== The return of the trollface ====
After many ups and downs, the OKPR's long awaited wish was granted, thanks to Edward and RT. At midnight on June 24, around 1:00 AM local time, it was announced that the Romanian trollface shall be the next artwork drawn on the flag, in order to secure the Romanian piece of canvas with more artworks. After half an hour, the already tired online members managed to recreate the OKPR symbol at the coordinates <code>-287,80</code>, which will stand mostly untouched for the rest of the event.