The blue corner

The **blue corner** was a large build in the bottom-right corner of both the 2017 and 2022 canvases. The blue corner was most actively maintained by **/r/TheBlueCorner**, and had major prominence in 2017 and a less stable presence in 2022. It is one of the very few notable features on either canvas to be a wholly original creation /r/place, and also the largest original feature if its peak size is counted, as it was even larger than the Void monster.

## 2017

The blue corner formed very early in 2017's canvas, being one of the very first recognizeable features, and one of the only ones to make it to the end. Its origin was most likely complete happenstance by the early uncoordinated people placing random pixels on the canvas, with a blue line stretching all the way from the bottom-right to the top-left, growing thicker at the bottom-right. Before long, this "blue corner" was growing to massive size and a subreddit was created for it: /r/TheBlueCorner, with users of the subreddit managing to write the subreddit's name against the hivemind, making it more of a defined presence, aiming to cover the *entire canvas* with blue.

The blue corner peaked with its size taking up almost the entire bottom-right quarter of the 2017 canvas, this being the largest feature in the history of either canvas. However, at this point it was clearly getting too big to sustain and had already started going around any pixel art in its path, starting with Bender from *Futurama* (who was quite far from the corner). A coordinated massive attack of purple pixels managed to put an end to the corner's reign, as its faction was worn too thin between expansion and repairing, and new pixel art projects were finally able to replace the blue corner.

For a long time, the older blue pixels still remained in the background as a reminder of the blue corner's past achievements, though it eventually became too crowded for any blue to remain. The blue corner was able to keep itself alive by retreating, and maintained only a small sliver of space at the very bottom-right from this point until the very end of 2017's canvas, when a last-minute expansion covered some art, making the blue corner's size a bit bigger in the final canvas. Had the canvas not ended at this point in time, it is likely that the blue corner would have had to fight the Windows taskbar, but whether the blue corner or the taskbar would've won this fight remains only a "what if?" question for the ages.

## 2022

A new blue corner formed immediately in the bottom-right of the first quadrant once 2022's canvas opened, and the blue corner was thus was able to secure a presence, though nowhere near as big as its 2017 incarnation. Focussing on the corner itself, no attempts were made to go over other art projects this time around, with the blue corner's supporters mostly focusing on a moderately-sized area in the corner.

However, with the expansion of the canvas, the blue corner was forced to relocate to the new bottom-right (the former bottom-right becoming a Quebec flag), and by this point had serious problem maintaining the claimed space blue only; consistently overruned by blue crewmates and multiple target of streamers, though recovered every time keeping the corner their territory. The second expansion went almost exactly the same way, with the corner relocating to the new bottom-right and first being unable to fight off the crewmates. Ultimately, with the help of allied partners, they held a clean presence during the last hours before being whitened out when the Void monster took everyone's colors on the fourth day of the canvas.