The exposing of the cheating didn't help.
This -completely- ruined the entire narrative. It's not organic content, it's not even user generated content. It's whatever the employees wanted it to be. Gross.
>The Admins are currently at war with r/drama's offsite forum, who have been brigading Reddit. Last week the Admins banned lots of them permanently. So yesterday those brigaders drew their cat mascot in r/place, and the Admins used their powers to erase it.
https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/tv2lmx/comm...
Reddit even tweeted a screenshot of it: https://twitter.com/Reddit/status/1509990348378058755
Reference to "everyone" on their sub being banned by admins: https://old.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/tty3fn/_/
If you go to their official site, you can clearly see (as of this comment) that they're using this cat as their mascot, and it's posted all over the place.
So yes, it's "just a cat" except it's being used in a specific way.
And no, reddit didn't tweet an image of the cat. They responded to someone else's screenshot of /r/place.