"Wplace Grass Wonder" is a pixel art memorial created on the Wplace online collaborative pixel art platform to commemorate a racehorse named Grass Wonder.
Grass Wonder: This is a very famous Japanese Thoroughbred horse that passed away on August 8, 2025, at the age of 30. It was renowned for its outstanding achievements in its racing career, especially winning multiple top-tier races in Japan.
Uma Musume Pretty Derby: This is a Japanese cross-media franchise whose character designs are based on real-world racehorses. Grass Wonder is also a very popular character in this series. Due to the passing of this real-world racehorse, many fans of the game and anime spontaneously organized memorial activities.
Wplace: This is an online platform similar to the r/place event that Reddit once hosted. Users can place individual pixels on a massive canvas, collaborating or competing with other users from around the world to create a huge pixel art piece together.
To pay tribute to Grass Wonder, fans collaborated on Wplace to create a massive pixel art depicting the Grass Wonder character from Uma Musume, accompanied by various memorial messages. This memorial became a symbol for fans to express their grief and respect.
However, the creation process of this memorial was also accompanied by some controversies:
AI Art Controversy: Initially, the reference image for this memorial was discovered to be AI-generated, which caused dissatisfaction among some people. Subsequently, the organizers quickly collaborated with a real artist and readjusted the artwork based on Grass Wonder's actual appearance.
Vandalism and Restoration: Wplace is an open platform where anyone can place pixels. Therefore, some malicious individuals attempted to vandalize this memorial by covering it with other colors or patterns. This led to fans continuously working on restoration to protect this commemorative artwork.
To protect the commemorative artwork from vandalism, please upload your artwork!