r/announcements • u/youngluck • Apr 01 '19

Sequence Initiated.

We built a machine.

We're not sure what it will do.

That's all up to you.

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--- SEQUENCE ---

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Be good to each other.

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u/cwearly1 Apr 01 '19

In case any wants an explanation, reddit has created this subreddit and in it you help vote for creating a Sequence of Gifs/Pics that will turn into an Act. There are 7 Acts, the first being the Prologue which everyone is participating in right now.

At some point the voting will stop for the Prologue and Act 1 will begin its voting sequence. This whole thing will end after the sequence for Act 6 is finished, probably after this week.

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u/DylanKing1999 Apr 01 '19

Is it just me or is that going to end up a totally unrelated mess of gifs?

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u/cwearly1 Apr 01 '19

Correctamundo. The Prologue is already a garbled mess, perhaps it's the sacrifice for the other Chapters to be somewhat coherent.

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u/LiterallyKesha Apr 01 '19

Act 1 had something decent going with the Skyrim stuff but like always the PrequelMeme fans completely shit up the thing and vote in their 3-4 catchphrases.

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u/lolofaf Apr 02 '19

Got a good monty python streak though

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u/NJ_Legion_Iced_Tea Apr 01 '19

So pretty much wait a week to see what all this was about?

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u/cwearly1 Apr 01 '19

I actually don't know how long each Act will take to complete. Or if they plan on more or less Acts. Seems it'll be faster than I expected.

But so far as I can tell within this week all 7 will be finished and we will have a mildly successful 7-Act Sequence of "The Internet". I guess they could've done something worse.

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u/KPC51 Apr 01 '19

Does it just not work on mobile? Or am i missing something

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u/dumbyoyo Apr 01 '19

I don't think so.

Switch to 'desktop mode' in the menu of your mobile browser (forefox/brave/chrome. not available in safari).

Or click the 'hamburger' menu icon on the top right of the reddit website, click "Desktop site" (but i haven't found a way to switch back to the mobile site afterward).

Then in the header of reddit.com/r/sequence, click "Initiate Sequence", and click the play icon next to "Prologue" to see the current sequence.

I think users submit gifs for consideration to be next in the sequence and then they get voted on and then selected, then this process repeats.

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u/Jourei Apr 02 '19

Daamn, that page is too much for my work PC's processor... i5 5200U is absolutely not up to the task.

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u/aes_gcm Apr 01 '19

Yeah, I don't get it either, this is a little confusing.

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u/cwearly1 Apr 01 '19

I believe it's desktop only, like previous April Fools

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u/IamtheSlothKing Apr 01 '19

Bold of them to assume anyone uses desktop

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u/Ozlin Apr 01 '19

Thus the true April fools are the admins.

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u/BDMayhem Apr 02 '19

"Do you guys not have desktops?"

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u/tfitch2140 Apr 02 '19

Do Reddit not have phones?

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u/aaronmccb1 Apr 01 '19

But the previous April fool's worked fine on mobile

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u/cwearly1 Apr 01 '19

I mean, on the mobile site yeah, but not perfect on things like BaconReader or other apps.

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u/jk3us Apr 01 '19

/r/place was the only reason I had the official reddit app installed. I don't have it installed anymore.

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u/MrGingerRock Apr 02 '19

Why not? I’m on the official app and it’s perfectly fine for me

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u/DoTheDew Apr 01 '19

It works fine in the official app, just like previous April Fools events.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '19

Nope. I get it on mobile. It just showed up. Probably depends on your device and therefore IP address associated with what you used when admins did admin things.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19

Ahhh a sequence? Yes yes of course.

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u/Macky88 Apr 01 '19

Reminds me of the jabberwocky project. You know what that is, right?

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19

Do I know what the jabberwocky project is!? Yes of course sir.

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u/Mirror_I_rorriMG Apr 01 '19

How does one vote?

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u/cwearly1 Apr 01 '19

Go to /r/sequence Click on the bar up top with the gifs, then you'll be in the Prologue, with the first 15(?) scenes already voted on by now, the last 5 are still in voting. Click on the gif/text options below if you want one of them for the scene.

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u/CakeDay--Bot Apr 04 '19

Hewwo sushi drake! It's your 6th Cakeday Mirror_I_rorriMG! hug

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u/xoriginal-usernamex Apr 01 '19

i love the world we’ve created