Reddit administrators have the ability to place as many pixels as they want and can use this ability to remove offensive content from r/place in order to create a safe space for Redditors and comply with legislation, as well as maintaining a good image on the wider Internet. Guidelines have outlined this content as nudity, hate speech, targeted harassment, or otherwise objectionable content.

The 2023 event had a prominent use of this power, with a drawing of a guillotine being removed by administrators. Likewise, on the Romanian flag, a drawing of an impaled Snoo with "spez" written under it, referencing Vlad Dracula's punishments, was removed.