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answer: "Marsey the Cat" is the mascot of malicious trolling subreddit r/drama's own website which they created after Reddit was forced to introduce stricter and stricter restrictions on the subreddit due to bad behaviour.
r/drama's website/forum was trying to co-ordinate the drawing of the "Marsey", an innocent-looking cute cat, with the hope to advertise their url and encourage people to visit. Their url is banned from Reddit so any comment including it will be deleted.
The controversy here was that they succeeded in creating the "Marsey", but Reddit admin accounts stepped in and began targeting the Marsey and overwriting the pixels. There's a video that shows one of Reddit's admins overiding the timer and changing a new pixel every second.
Not only that, but a bunch of the accounts that simply contributed to drawing the cat have been banned/shadowbanned and had their passwords changed so can no longer even be logged into.
Is it right or wrong that Reddit used mod powers to influence/direct r/place by erasing the logo of a troll site?
Big question. It was co-ordinate off-site, but so have many other of the graphics.
Comment by HChowky2 at 03/04/2022 at 18:33 UTC
48 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Thanks, this was the only comment on this thread I found helpful. Was looking for background on the whole issue since some time.
Comment by ObligationGlad at 03/04/2022 at 18:37 UTC
38 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Ahhh context. Something usually lacking from outrages on Reddit
Comment by ih8meandu at 03/04/2022 at 21:43 UTC
12 upvotes, 1 direct replies
When you go to their website (hosted off reddit), it says they are the official site for /r/subredditdrama. So, uh, is that a troll or are we the baddies
Comment by QueenArwenEvenstar at 04/04/2022 at 01:08 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
No matter what the appropriate way is to blank out tiles instead of building another logo and *not* deleting posts pointing this out.