Declining Entropy on Online Forums - A Contrarian Case Study

Online forums with multiple users and groups are generally known for the lack of coherent patterns in their content. They have hundreds of thousands of members, most of them anonymous. The content that is posted on a regular basis are also fairly random. This is especially true for mega forums like Reddit where each of the sub Reddits (subs) themselves often have millions of members. While the subs individually would function as chat groups or niche forums, at a platform level, that is at the level of Reddit itself, it is almost impossible to foresee any pattern coming out of the interactions of millions of users of the thousands of subs. Yet, on a sub called \textbf{r/place}, we are witnessing a steady decline of randomness. Patterns are emerging and even without the use of mathematical formulae, even with the lay eye it is feasible to understand how the patterns are being formed. In fact, that actual patterns are coming up is itself nothing short of a miracle, or an exception.