Details that I've noticed:

1. Have you guys noticed how comparatively "clean" r/place is, in comparison with older iterations? It's almost like someone is trying to clean the canvas. Even the void is well-contained.
2. "Suddenly" all those "fuck spez" were replaced with random drawings. Did protesters "magically" disengage?
3. People (cough the admins cough cough) seem to be rather opposed to "fuck spez" in English, but curiously leaving "spez ist eine H*rensohn" (in German) alone, even if it's practically the same message (or a bit worse). Perhaps because the admins are a bunch of monolinguals? (For comparison, look at the Russian version of the first article of the BRD - people were damn quick to replace it with an Ukrainian one. Guess how many DE vs. UA speakers there should be in Reddit.)
4. Huge flags of relatively small countries that wouldn't be able to hold control over huge areas of the canvas. Portugal, Ireland, the Balkans countries, Switzerland, Morocco, the Scandinavian countries... even if those had a disproportionally large amount of basement-dwelling nationalists, it's hard to believe that the users from those countries are doing it.

My point is that people are underestimating admin meddling in r/place. It's likely way, waaaay worse than it looks like.