What started out as an April Fools’ day prank has ended in a rather interesting, viral art project.

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Last week Reddit unveiled ‘Reddit Place’ – a huge collaborative canvas that allowed every Reddit user the opportunity to paint one tile on it every five minutes. The time limit meant users had to collaborate in order to create something more visually stimulating than a random scribble.

Amazingly, over one million onliners painted more than sixteen million tiles on the canvas, creating this incredible, virtual kaleidoscope. The time lapse video shows you its development:

This takes team work to a whole new level – it’s like watching the internet happen in real time.

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