My first submission got denied with the niantic’s automated process and the second one got denied by the team. The city had already couple of submissions of pixel art with tiles (mosaic) and it really bothers me that they said the pixel art is not considered artistic. What are your thoughts? [100…

My first thought is that these are very cute, but look like something that could easily be stuck there temporarily. Do you have links that prove this is a public art installation? I think the “doesn’t look artistic” is probably meant to convey that this does not look like the typical kind of work th…

If you have information on who made this, it will have more chance to be approved. We have seen people trying to create wayspot (not saying you do this) , so if this is not true, you need to provide more information about it (preferably web link)

Yeah it’s a famous instalation.. I hope some admin actually takes a look and changes the outcome as I feel sad for being denied by automated process. I feel like I would at least deserve another chance to explain, but I didn’t know they’d really think of it as ‘‘not artistic’’ as I mentioned above i…

Following This post someone suggested to post with a different category as it would get more attention. My first rejection was automatic which kind of makes it unfair, meaning you don’t know why it got rejected and I’m a bit upset that my submission got rejected by the wayfarer team for the reason ‘…

It does not look like you provided any substantive evidence in your appeal, such as the URL you have posted here. “There are other wayspots like this” is never good evidence, as existing wayspots are not a guide to what is eligible. You may get another look from Niantic now that you have enclosed …

Each wayspot will be judge by its own merit. Street view also not helping since the object is not visible from streetview. The problem with your nomination is you need to prove that this particular nomination is part of the published art and not something someone imitate to create wayspot. I have …

If you meant my comment, I meant to edit the old title, not to start a new topic. [image] An Appeal Decision about Pixel Art General Discussion Perhaps change the title to reflect that this was an appeal decision. Staff do read posts on the forum, but that migh…

I change the title as per new post and combine them.

Thank you for puting my post in the right category and sorry for the mess. I totaly agree with you that I shoud’ve been more specific about this art and provide the link in the appeal notes, but in my defense, I did not know what I am appealing against as the first messege was ‘‘this submission was…

An Appeal Decision about Pixel Art

General Discussion

cyndiepooh July 12, 2026, 2:51am 5

Perhaps change the title to reflect that this was an appeal decision. Staff do read posts on the forum, but that might make it clearer why you posted.

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An Appeal Decision about Pixel Art

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