IoanBG

IoanBG
Name	ioanBG
Joined	Jan 24, 2020, canvas 31
Pixels Placed	200k+

ioanBG is a pxls.space user who made a page about himself in response to positive comeback from pxls-related discords.

Canvas 31

Ioan joined quite late on Canvas 31, after seeing a comment on an r/place video. His first actions involved enlarging a bulgarian flag, resulting in a success, and changing a 69 to 68.9, which resulted in a mild success in getting attention from chat. The canvas reset shortly after.

Canvas 32

Canvas 32 was the first canvas ioanBG made art on, starting by making a tiny tardis at the rear leg of the cat. Right after that, a user suggested making the giant Slovenian flag into a Bulgarian one. Ioan, being a massive patriot, of course accepted. They were quickly stopped by the slovenian faction under the leadership of TheIncredibleHulk21 and decided to make a bulgarian flag elsewhere. The location chosen was near the head of the cat. Each stripe of the flag was made 6 pixels tall. After that, the same user suggested griefing the slovenian flag yet again, this time by making it into a russian. Progress was made until the faction responded and later on griefed the small flag. Ioan then suggested making a brand-new flag, this time with each stripe being 7 pixels tall. This worked on fairly well until ioan's only friend left. His final suggestion was to expand the flag from one end to another. Ioan thought that would be a good propaganda move and so he started the long, hard task all by himself. Around that time he introduced one of his friends to pxls.

At the same time as the flag, he also created some arts, such as 3 star destroyers, a text saying ,,anus" with an arrow pointing at the rectum of the cat that was the canvas, and a dalek with text saying ,,Exterminate!" underneath. All these side projects meant that, despite introducing 2 of his IRL friends at the last day, the flag did not reach the end of the canvas. This however paved the way for canvas 33

On c32 ioan joined actual factions for the first time, starting with France Pxls (which he eventually got ownership of in canvas 38), and even created one, Bulgaria Pxls. In recent canvases, he has used the faction title more symbollically, as it is basically in a state of coma.

Canvas 33

The reset came when both ioan and his 2 friends were online, which meant that a lot of things could be made. Although the decisions between the friends were made "democratically" ioan was the leader, since he had been on the site for more than a month and already had 10k pixels. Before his friends joined he made the same small star destroyer as he had previously. After that the group decided to make a flag with each stripe being 8 pixels tall. Ioan's original idea was for it to be around the middle of the canvas, but border conflicts with KB meant he had to move lower. The boys, filled with patriotism, decided to run it through the canvas from one end to another. The task was hard and was filled with assimilating other small arts. There was conflict at the swedish flag that appeared to the left, which was attacked by denmark and then attacked Bulgaria. This led to intervention which reduced the size of the swedish/danish flag and made the bulgarian one go around it.

In the final week the flag was raided by KagamiiX who replaced large portions of it. At the end, most of the damage was reversed for the exception of a single pixel.

Canvas 34

Canvas 34 started with Ioan joining in late. He quickly tried making a bulgarian flag map, although attacks by KagamiiX stopped him. After that he started making a small pixel art of a star destroyer from Star Wars. It was quickly discovered he was making it over an art piece, however the owner of it allowed it to stay. After making other things he decided to create the infamous Flag Area, a project he became widely hated for. It was an empty box with the text FLAG AREA written on that users could make flags in. The problem of it was that there weren't any set boundaries to it and users just expanded borders however they pleased. This quickly took the attention of other users, who later organised an attack. Ioan, Youj, Unraged and Watermelonely (the main defenders of FA) soon created a discord server. The group was divided after Unraged tried to conduct diplomacy (even though ioanBG was responsible for that) while Youj attacked the taken lands. The arguments soon turned violent and Unraged and Watermelonely soon left the server, leaving only Ioan and Youj. After the defeat of FA the bulgarian map was soon covered by Pink Gang, although it was later rebuilt. The rest of the canvas was spent by helping Youj against griefs and de-fiddling his art. At the end a larger bulgarian map was made over a QR code.

Canvas 34a

Canvas 34a only lasted 24 hours, but in that time ioanBG made a fairly large Austro-Hungarian flag. He also helped with the destruction of the void that formed in the top left of the canvas. Right before the reset the flag was griefed with magenta pixels

Canvas 35

On canvas 35 a version of the bulgarian coat of arms was planned to be built, however, due to the small size of the space available he wasn't able to do it. Instead, he made a small bulgarian flag on the bottom of the cloud part. Some unsuccesfull attempts at making art later he started making Bulgaria Lattice - a lattice made up of white, green and red arranged in a hexagonal manner. He also got quite high up in the leaderboards. After around 5 days a conflict started with ERROR Gang, back then known as Missing Texture Lattice (MTG). Ioan was soon overwhelmed and was forced to surrender. MTG soon covered a giant portion of the lattice and blocked it from expanding further. After lenghtly negotiations a deal was made - Ioan would give MTG all but 1 line of lattice below the main flag, while MTG would return a portion they had occupied. Ioan was happy that the new borders looked good and didn't care that he got less than what he lost. The rest of the canvas was sppent on defense and losing the bulgarian colonies

Canvas 36

Canvas 36 started with the art planned for the previous one being started. Claiming the land was easy and so the work started without troubles. Midway through he and Youj started working on Flag Zone, a continuation to Flag Area. Its main difference was the addition of borders in an attempt to stop the chaos that happened before. A discord invite was also put there for users to join. At the beginning there were 2 rows of flags but 2 more were added later. A fight broke out when new users started expanding the dutch flag, but they were quickly stopped.

Flag Incursion started when tam sought to remove all flags from the canvas. He started voiding FZ with help from ERROR Gang. The fight looked like it would result in a win for tam & company, as FZ had only 4 main helpers and the community wasn't pro-flag. However, as time passed, tam eventually stopped and the damage was reversed.

Other than FZ and the bulgarian art Ioan also made some smaller arts, such as a building and a waving flag.

Canvas 37

At the start of c37 the doorknob of the door of the sandcastle that was the canvas was claimed, with a text saying ŒŵØ and ioanBG. The area was quickly abandoned because of border conflicts with Skely Gang. He then moved to a large area next to the panda girl that was made on a YouTube livestream. Later other arts were made, most from an online game ioan played. ERROR Gang later covered some of them. As time passed by, Flag Zone had to be built, and the location chosen was very near the panda girl. ERROR Gang soon expanded north, but agreements and borders were made, and an agreement was made - ERROR would not attack FZ as long as an english/british flag was in.

Other than FZ ioan helped protect his friend Youj's arts from griefs, helped with Rice Feilds' lattice and restarted a dead faction (White and Blue Lattice)

During canvas 37 arguments with tam continued, however there were no battles. Ioan got muted in the Pxls News Press server (back then owned by tam) several times, after which he used his permissions in Proggity Prog OwO's discord and deleted some emotes earning himself a ban.

Canvas 38

Canvas 38 started with ioan not being active at all since he was on vacation for the first 5 days, meaning that he only placed around 50 pixels per day. His project this time was WBL's revival, starting with a flag, then changing the pattern type to a grid instead of a checkerboard. Due to his inactivity and focus on WBL, Flag Zone was not started in time, and as such was a bit smaller than the previous 2 ones. The lattice started around the flag, right underneath the "I can't place" artwork that was later nuked. The latticing continued well, with a large colony being made near the bottom of the canvas. Around the middle of the canvas Chinpachi, the leader of France Pxls decided to quit pxls because of the time it wasted. The transfer of France from him to ioan was known from before, but noone expected it to be this early. The France template was halfway finished by that time, but noone except Chinpachi had worked on it, so ioan had to finish it. During the Vaktovian Campaign the template was subjected to griefing, however, with the help of Antde, themann and others, the damage was reversed and the art was soon finished. In the meantime, the WBL colony was invaded by Woke Cells. Ioan, now having more time, decided to expand WBL around France. He made it so that the blue part of it was paired with the blue part of a blue lattice in the same area, which he planned to assimilate. The plan worked great, with almost all of the niches around the art being filled and the blue lattice was completely assimilated. At the reset some griefs on FZ were made, but they were fixed, making c38 the first canvas on which Flag Zone remained intact after the reset.

Canvas 39

C39 was a memorial to Spurdot_Tulille, and as such had his exact pixel count - 1,076,498. This meant that it was a lot smaller than usual. Other than that, ioan hadn't planned an art for France Pxls. The issue was quickly fixed when he copied a pixel art of the Notre Dame de Paris straight from google images into pxlsfiddle, which apparently worked. This was quite a large art for such a small faction, being over 8000 pixels large. Despite that, he managed to mark down the spot fairly easy, with only one border conflict. With the help of unraged65 and shadow_z_az, whose factions either didn't exist yet or couldn't find a place, which meant that it was finished quicker than expected. Ioan also started getting up on the leaderboard again after 3 canvases of being lower than 30th. This quickly stopped however, as he went on a trip on which he fell down a lot of places. At the last day he tried making a better WBL yet again, this time using the cerulean blue.

On this canvas Flag Zone only had 12 3x6 flag boxes without text, however it was still official.

This was also the time when the tensions between ioan and Youj started to rise with a lot of arguments on discord, after he advertised france pxls (his 2nd faction)'s project instead of Youj's art, and after he denied that KagamiiX had stopped griefing FZ because of Youj, and after Y. leaked a message sent by ioan on discord.

Canvas 40

C40 started with disagreements in the France Pxls server about what the next art should be. Ioan had jokingly proposed Hapoleon, the symbol of the french site jeuxvideo.com, while he planned to make art that he made himself - Big Chungus holding a baguette and a glass of wine. However, after voting and grief threats made it clear that noone would help on chungus, he gave up and started hapoleon. It was finished in a normal time, as it was only around 4k pixels. Right after that the construction of the c40 Flag Zone started. It was the first one with a 6x12 box size since June. Later the 2ch Incursion started near Hapoleon, and soon after the art got attacked. At first it appeared that 2ch would win, but soon after the battle turned better for France and soon a peace was signed. Other projects were the making of his 100k ego, the outlining of the "Finally, fiddlium" art and the american flag of American PXLS (later kept by 2ch for their plane art), helping HentaiLover's lattice, helping his friends at Rice Feilds.

Arguments with Youj continued after Y. left Flag Zone and Bulgaria Pxls, tried to and subsequently griefed his pixel farm. In response, ioan made 2 lattices right next to Youj's art, then passed him in canvas pixels. However, he still tried keeping good relations with him.

Canvas 41

C41 started with helping Cell Lattice before finding a place for France Pxls's art, which was, again, finished quickly. Right after, a user named toofu started making a knockoff of the blue corner, which ioan hated. He started his own idea called "cum corner", which was then turned into "cum fractals". Later on he got bored and decided to expand the yellow corner that was attacked by toofu, remaking it into Piss Corner by writing the word "Piss" on it. This worked fairly well at first, until toofu had a long 1v1 over the borders, which he lost. The battle continued later, ending with toofu losing yet again. The next day, after a large expansion, toofu came back during the night, doing massive damage and leaving at 6969 pixels for several days. Those days had the largest expansion, covering almost all the fractals except for the ones at the corner. Toofu later came back, getting help from Chalkless in making the blue corner, but, after a long night of constant battling, he gave up. Right after this, ioan started working on a project he had planned since c35 - a fiddled image of Fidel Castro shaped like a violin - fiddled fiddle Fidel. Then he started work on ERROR Gang's project he made for the faction. He got lightly involved in the Troll Face War, both times on the side of the LoF. Due to all of the attacks on Piss corner he was late to make a template for Flag Zone, and, when he did, it got moved 3 times before finally being made. He also started remaking the Navy Blue Grand Monarchy witth the help of Liam (pineApple), and tried fixing some bordergore with Bulgaria Pxls. Along with that, he also helped HentaiLover again, finished tam's art, did some work on YOIB, made an ego for 150k and surrounded it with a new lattice.

Arguments with Youj continued yet again after he attacked Piss corner on multiple occasions and left Flag Zone to ""remake"" a faction called Hall of Flags, basically the same as FZ.

Canvas 42

At the end of C41 ioan had started to get more active and he wanted to spend a full canvas placing as active as he could. He started out by making the France Pxlsart he had planned in about 3 days. He continued by starting work on the revived Navy Blue Grand Monarchy, making a flag and expanding it rapidly. He also got into a few arguments with other users, including UnragedUS (unraged65) and Youj. He joined YOIB and got fairly active there. After some beef with HOF co-leader he decided to build his large Flag Zone template as a symbol of superiority, with the deal that Abyss may cover it later on. Staying neutral in the 2ch Pride Raids meant that he wasn't going to be griefed, although his virginmap art got destroyed by IDidAThing. In response, ioan voided the Sans Fanclub. An ego for 200k was made with the same lattice as the one on c41 right next to HOF. At the end of the canvas he started to slow down due to real life problems, meaning that he couldn't protect Flag Zone from an HOF counter-strike after they incorrectly assumed the raid on them was done by him.

This was the canvas ioanBG was most active on, staying at 4th place until the 13th december when he slowed down and averaging 1,5k pixels/day, getting 2k+ on multiple occasions. This is totally not me flexing on my own wiki page.