When we present a historical rivalry between two nations, we have to pull all the strings. That’s to say ? That is to say, writing an article on the Pixel War on September 17, 2022, on the eve of the EuroBasket final, is now an integral part of the daily life of a TrashTalk editor. Decline of journalism or on the contrary, exaltation of creativity? Everyone is free to judge.
What is Pixel War? A blank card, all white, on which each Internet user can place a colored pixel every five minutes. Here, the number of supporters exceeds the strength of their convictions since the more numerous a community is, the more it will be able to draw quietly without its representation being covered up by another community. Here, a little jumble of the most beautiful works created in connection with basketball, just HERE.
the river is to the pixel what Rudy Fernandez is with the orange ball: a man obsessed with the colors of his flag, ready to defend the interests of Spain by crossing sometimes – often – the limit of the « play nice ». At the beginning of April, this Twitch streamer was the commander of the Iberian army during the Pixel War. It was he who gave directions to Spanish Internet users on where to put their pixel, and for what purpose. He challenged the French streamers with great difficulty and too few men to clear the tricolor zone. Brave but in bad faith, he gradually lost his soul over the course of the event, to the point of accusing France of using « bots » to place its pixels. He finally fell into the use of bots himself, upset by a French domination that he never knew how to recognize. Short sequence just below to introduce the character: a funny but deceitful guy, to the point of ordering an attack in full negotiation with Kameto.
I’M ATTACKING I’M ATTACKING BYE BYE music video by ibai is the best music video in pixel war #pixelwar #Kameto #river pic.twitter.com/ATt0Xs2p3g
— Walgash (@Walgash1) April 4, 2022
Basically, the Pixel War is just a game supposed to bring together all the communities around a creative project. From that, we went to: « If you don’t have a big spanish place, it’s your faute because you are doing bad, you are only attacking France ». We must also hear the tone with which Kameto makes this statement. No longer a question of a game, but rather of a rivalry between two countries which, when they face each other on any competition ground, do not like each other. In the aftermath, Ibai even proposed a boxing match to Kameto. This is to say the turn taken by this Pixel War. Of course, we do not balance all the sequences during which certain terms come out of certain mouths. The ambient animosity gives the impression of a blow of the virtual clothesline from Ibai to Inoxtag. If the Pixel War parenthesis closes, the handshake between French and Spanish streamers will remain complicated. That’s a real rivalry. A repulsion that goes beyond the competition while keeping certain limits, sometimes crossed, but quickly recalled. Tomorrow, it is not impossible that these limits will once again be crossed. They already have been. To the Blues now, not to fall into provocation.
Succeeding in scratching 500 words on the Pixel War five months after it took place, on the eve of the biggest French basketball event since the Tokyo Games, deserves a minima a Pulitzer nomination.
