While I am not involved in this mess, the pro-CCP camp, led by 像素互助群, notorious for its explicit usage of bots/automation tools has resurfaced and somehow bypassed the new wplace captchas, most noticeably botting monochrome artwork to circumvent griefing rules before filling the background, making it much more difficult for mods to differentiate between players and bots (including the multiaccounting players using automation cheats).
My concern is that if not tackled, the showcase of their sheer firepower and aggression implies that other regions such as Hong Kong or Taiwan are in danger of being attacked by these bots as they have done so before and have recently stated that they will do so again starting with the Ukranian solidarity flags here.
If that happens, the Hongkongese and Taiwanese community will be completely helpless against a bot invasion ten times the size of the local community itself, and may even leave wplace entirely, given how there is basically nothing we can do about it if mods cannot do so.