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	The Drew Durnil Incursion/Invasion was a major event in Pixelplace history, in which Pixelplace activity spiked after the somewhat well known youtuber made a video on the platform. People would see that video and then go to Pixelplace, resulting in thousands of accounts being made and many well known users finding the site. This happened on May 15th, 2020.		The Drew Durnil Incursion/Invasion was a major event in Pixelplace history, in which Pixelplace activity spiked after the somewhat well known youtuber made a video on the platform. People would see that video and then go to Pixelplace, resulting in thousands of accounts being made and many well known users finding the site. This happened on May 15th, 2020.

			A result of this was a [[Drew Durnil (Discord Map)\|canvas]] being created for the Drew fans and discord server members so [[Pixels World War\|/7]] wouldn't get clogged.
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	The Drew Durnil Incursion/Invasion was a major event in Pixelplace history, in which Pixelplace activity spiked after the somewhat well known youtuber made a video on the platform. People would see that video and then go to Pixelplace, resulting in thousands of accounts being made and many well known users finding the site. This happened on May 15th, 2020.		The Drew Durnil Incursion/Invasion was a major event in Pixelplace history, in which Pixelplace activity spiked after the somewhat well known youtuber made a video on the platform. People would see that video and then go to Pixelplace, resulting in thousands of accounts being made and many well known users finding the site. This happened on May 15th, 2020.
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	The Drew Durnil Incursion was a major event that started on May 12th 2020 and mainly broke out on the 15th when a YouTuber with 500K subscribers named Drew Durnil uploaded a video about PixelPlace and many of his fans (named "''Drewfags''" by the community) rushed into the website, causing PixelPlace to have a large queue and to crash multiple times, The highest recorded queue number was 4.8K		The Drew Durnil Incursion/Invasion was a major event in Pixelplace history, in which Pixelplace activity spiked after the somewhat well known youtuber made a video on the platform. People would see that video and then go to Pixelplace, resulting in thousands of accounts being made and many well known users finding the site. This happened on May 15th, 2020.

	~~== Temporary actions taken by the Staff Team ==~~
	* Improved queue system
	* Temporary queue added
	* MVP requests no longer being approved
	* Server fixes and upgrades
	* Mods and Premium users are able to skip queue

	~~== Context: ==~~
	~~from the 12th of May to the 15th of May, occurred the main part of the Drew Durnil invasion of pixelplace.io~~, which ~~boosted~~ the ~~player count of the entire site from around 110 to~~ well ~~over 550 people. On the 12th Drew switched his stream~~ on ~~twitch from Age of Civilizations 2 to pixel place, and under~~ the ~~name ''Drewdurnil'', he began to lead the swarm of people~~ that ~~some OGs called "''drewfags''" and "''drew*******''". a few days later on the 15th Drew had uploaded an edited~~ video ~~from his stream that gave all of his 573k subscribers a view onto Pixelplace's main canvas, the infamous [[Pixels World War\|canvas 7 (Pixels World War)]].~~

	~~== Other streamers ==~~
	~~Recently, a bunch of pixelplace users have been going to random Twitch streamers~~ and ~~asking them~~ to ~~play~~ Pixelplace~~. Results:~~

	~~Most people ignored them~~, ~~but 2 tried it out.~~

	~~First: Looked at it, said it was boring, and left~~

	~~Second: Didn't know how to play it, said was gonna figure it out on the weekend~~

	~~== Worries about the future~~ of ~~Pixelplace at the time ==~~
	~~"''After this the future will be unclear at best, with many people likely to leave,~~ and many ~~likely to join~~ the ~~bandwagon, though what will be clear is that this will probably have a lasting impact on the community of pixelplace~~. ~~Some also point out some similarities to when The Spiffing Brit tweeted about pixelplace and got some of his fans~~ on ~~a special canvas~~, so that it wouldn't 100% affect the main part of the community, but Drew decided to fact the community head on and "attacked" canvas 7. Some fans of both pixelplace, Drew, and the nationstates website also point out that Drew made a video on nationstates, and nationstates broke down as a community, so people fear that something similar could happen and that a follow up video could be made showing the damage. Right now this is not likely to happen, considering the subsequent lockdown of most other canvases for the time being.''"

	~~- TheArcher (formerly KyleBowman)~~

	~~This article was made by Kyle Bowman and Aaroniscool, acting as a de-facto Pixelplace News~~.
	~~[[Category:Events]]~~
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ToastbrotJunkie at 10:27, 15 January 2023

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The Drew Durnil Incursion was a major event that started on May 12th 2020 and mainly broke out on the 15th when a YouTuber with 500K subscribers named Drew Durnil uploaded a video about PixelPlace and many of his fans (named "''Drewfags''" by the community) rushed into the website, causing PixelPlace to have a large queue and to crash multiple times, The highest recorded queue number was 4.8K

== Temporary actions taken by the Staff Team ==
* Improved queue system
* Temporary queue added
* MVP requests no longer being approved
* Server fixes and upgrades
* Mods and Premium users are able to skip queue

== Context: ==
from the 12th of May to the 15th of May, occurred the main part of the Drew Durnil invasion of pixelplace.io, which boosted the player count of the entire site from around 110 to well over 550 people. On the 12th Drew switched his stream on twitch from Age of Civilizations 2 to pixel place, and under the name ''Drewdurnil'', he began to lead the swarm of people that some OGs called "''drewfags''" and "''drew*******''". a few days later on the 15th Drew had uploaded an edited video from his stream that gave all of his 573k subscribers a view onto Pixelplace's main canvas, the infamous [[Pixels World War|canvas 7 (Pixels World War)]].

== Other streamers ==
Recently, a bunch of pixelplace users have been going to random Twitch streamers and asking them to play Pixelplace. Results:

Most people ignored them, but 2 tried it out.

First: Looked at it, said it was boring, and left

Second: Didn't know how to play it, said was gonna figure it out on the weekend

== Worries about the future of Pixelplace at the time ==
"''After this the future will be unclear at best, with many people likely to leave, and many likely to join the bandwagon, though what will be clear is that this will probably have a lasting impact on the community of pixelplace. Some also point out some similarities to when The Spiffing Brit tweeted about pixelplace and got some of his fans on a special canvas, so that it wouldn't 100% affect the main part of the community, but Drew decided to fact the community head on and "attacked" canvas 7. Some fans of both pixelplace, Drew, and the nationstates website also point out that Drew made a video on nationstates, and nationstates broke down as a community, so people fear that something similar could happen and that a follow up video could be made showing the damage. Right now this is not likely to happen, considering the subsequent lockdown of most other canvases for the time being.''"

- TheArcher (formerly KyleBowman)

This article was made by Kyle Bowman and Aaroniscool, acting as a de-facto Pixelplace News.
[[Category:Events]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Drew Durnil Incursion }}