[treesknees]

Apparently the cat being overwritten here has been in use as a mascot by a group of folks who were banned from Reddit. So I'm not sure it's as simple as stating that admins wanted to control the board, there could have been some abuse going on that we don't know about.

>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...

[Marsey]

Full details are here, and it's just an orange cat: https://twitter.com/MarseyCat/status/1510733817937547272

Reddit even tweeted a screenshot of it: https://twitter.com/Reddit/status/1509990348378058755

[treesknees]

Sorry, you are misunderstanding me. I realize it's just an orange cat, but who placed the pixels on /r/place to create the cat image? That's what I'm referring to.

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.

https://rdrama.net

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.