Wplace
App & software · 2025 · Notable
Wplace, a shared pixel-art world map, reported 10.6 million users by late August 2025.
Spread Score
How it worksNumbers
- Seed to peak proxy
- 3 weeks
- Jul 21 ’25 to Aug 11 ’25
- Platforms
- 5
- Started on Open web
- Origin
- Seeded
- Gaming
How it spread
Trace the originWplace launched on July 21, 2025 as a shared pixel-art canvas on a world map. In early August posts on X and TikTok drew users, and fandoms claimed places on the map as gaming press and The Verge covered it. Its co-founder told AP it had over 10.6 million users by Aug. 28.
Proxy date; not a directly measured attention peak.
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July 2025
Murilo Matsubara seed · Jul 21 ’25
Wplace launched as a website for collaborative pixel art on a world map.[1]
August 2025
@indigothegogo platform jump · Aug 2025
GamesRadar+ said X user @indigothegogo brought Wplace to many people that week.[3]
@m4ng0ou platform jump · Aug 4 ’25
TikToker @m4ng0ou posted a video zooming into São Paulo on the map.[5]
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How the next thing spread, the week it does.