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r/Place users are leaving one final message.

The collective project is ending soon, and users can only write in white, but they’re working on one last piece of protest art to send r/Place off. (Smaller versions of the message have been dropped in throughout the multi-day event.)

We’ve captured the final moments of r/Place in the gallery below.

A GIF zooming out on the r/Place canvas. At the end, it pauses on a large message written on the canvas that says “FUCK SPEZ.”
A screenshot of r/Place with a growing amount of white. In the middle, there is a large message that says “FUCK SPEZ.”
A screenshot of r/Place with a growing amount of white. In the middle, there is a large message that says “FUCK SPEZ.”
A screenshot of the end of r/Place. It’s all white.
A screenshot of r/Place with a growing amount of white. In the middle, there are the final remnants of a large message that says “FUCK SPEZ.”
1/6GIF by Umar Shakir / The Verge
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