The planning for Bad Apple began in late April 2022 as primarily a collaboration between r/touhou and r/osuplace. After pixelating all the frames of Bad Apple, a test run on streamer Ludwig Ahren's canvas event, and securing an alliance network, the two factions were ready to go.

The project was done through the use of an overlay. The overlay displays what pixels should be placed on the canvas, but ALL pixel placing had to be done manually. In other words, no botting was involved. The overlay switched Bad Apple frames about every 39 seconds for 72 hours.

Besides Bad Apple, Touhou built a few other works on the canvas. The center area featured Reimu, Marisa, Wakasagihime (added as a collaboration with the JetPunk fish), and a few small Touhou artworks such as mini-Cirno and mini-Daiyousei and the mini-Yakumo family.

A few Touhous ended up on flags. Colombian Reimu, Trans Miko, the classic Romanian Alice, and Polish Rumia were built. Colombia and Poland built their Touhous out of sheer good will!

This year's Hijack Mural had Clownpiece, Suika, Kasen, Elly, Yuuka, Chimata, Seija, a Rin Satsuki-Rin Kagamine collab with r/hatsune, and allied art with Jill (VA-11 Hall-A), Cherry Miku (r/hatsune) Ryo (Bocchi the Rock!), UMP45 (Girls' Frontline), and Marine (VTubers place).

The "Tiniest Team", a subfaction of Touhou r/place, built a ton of small Touhou characters in the main Touhou regions. They also made a few solo stakeouts such as Sekibanki and Mini-Mima on the Thai flag and three Mini-Hecatias across the canvas.

A Touhou Yuri group spawned out of the wake of the end of Bad Apple built Bad Apple-themed ReiMari art. Text reading "Good Apple?!" parodying the initial Bad Apple!! text was built upwards. The group later built RenMerry and MariAli art, with Tiniest Team contributing a Nitori.

Next to the Good Apple?! territory was a collaboration artwork between Touhou, Hatsune, Star Wars, Vietnam, Indonesia, Canada, and Madoka Magica - an unlikely combination brought together by xQc's destruction of their individual artworks in the fifth expansion.

While not under the Touhou r/place server, two of the Cookie☆ place server's artworks may be recognizable to Touhou fans - the iconic NYN and Fake HSI. A Wriggle Nightbug from Touhou r/place was built below NYN.

The Sword of Hisou was built at the Berserk Hill of Swords collab. A Minecraft Reimu and a fumo Reimu also appeared, with no clear builder responsible. Finally, Fortress Izakaya stood with Mini-Mystia and Kasen's rose in the ruins of xQc's raid after the Hijack Mural moved.

This year, the Windows Taskbar was themed after Windows Vista, so the icon for Subterranean Animism, released on Windows Vista, was built on it. The final new project made was a long-fought-for art of ZUN, later joined by Shion.

This is merely a summary of the surviving artworks. As with last year, the report on this hijack has only just begun! The public in-progress timeline is available here, to be later converted into a documentary.

@TouhouHijackLOL Are you gonna do another documentary for this year r/place?

@Billion69254044 Yup! Not sure how long it'll take this year but it'll come eventually!

@TouhouHijackLOL

@MyosotisFL Yes! This was made by the Cookie place server. Unfortunately, I believe she did not survive.

@TouhouHijackLOL If only it wasn't botted

@TouhouHijackLOL That battle for Canada was intense

@TouhouHijackLOL the strongest morocan bot vs the weakest touhou fan

@TouhouHijackLOL I hate the ones that just made their flag (death to Canada)