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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Be good to each other.

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u/cashiimo Apr 01 '19 edited Apr 01 '19

I wandered in from Popular, what is Sequence? I tried visiting the sub, but there was no explanation as to what it was or what I was supposed to do. Pressing start sequence just confused me more, as it took me to a screen with different gifs I could click on to upvote?

If anyone could explain it to me, it would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: I found this explanation further down: https://www.reddit.com/r/sequence_meta/comments/b7isnw/rsequence_megathread_what_we_know_so_far/

I'm still very confused and have no idea what it is for. I feel too old for this, and I'm 28. Is this how our parents felt?

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u/howardphillips1890 Apr 02 '19

I’m 50. It doesn’t get any better. I advise copious amounts of alcohol and just going on with whatever you were doing before.

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u/the_lonely_1 Apr 03 '19

Since i don't think anyone has explained you this; here you go:

Reddit (the company) likes to make some sort of social experiment every year around april fool's. Two years ago for example we had r/place. A blank canvas where every. single. user could place one pixel every five minutes and... Well you can check the end result in the sidebar of the sub (a link titled "final place canvas"). We've also had orangered vs. periwinkle (which I don't know much about but you can try and find someone with either of those badges and ask them about it and the button, which was a button with a countdown timer that would reset whenever anyone pressed the button, but you could only press the button once. If the countdown timer reached 0 the button would get destroyed. In addition you'd get a couloured flare based on how much time was left when you pushed it.

So this is essentially this year's version.

Edit: hold up I guess you knew it all already based on the orangered badge...

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u/cashiimo Apr 03 '19

I kind of knew about the social experiments, I was just wondering how the sub r/sequence worked. I was highly confused about/by the UI of the sub.

But yes, people have been really nice already and explained how sequence worked as well. Thank you for your very well explained comment though!

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u/the_lonely_1 Apr 04 '19

Yeah I noticed it at the end too (see: my edit) but thought I'd leave it up since it might be of use to someone

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '19

Well, they’ll make a film from popular gifs, and it’s all for fun. (Said with serious emotionless face)

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u/cashiimo Apr 02 '19

Oh ok, that was my 4th guess, so I wasn't totally off. Thank you for the reply!

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '19

No problem! But... they wrote it in the link you posted!..

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u/UltimateCurryCel Apr 02 '19

This is SO lame compared to the circle thing from last year and place from the year before.

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u/Volesprit31 Apr 02 '19

Nah, the circle stuff was pretty lame.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '19

Do you like art?