2025 color ban: Difference between revisions

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In many ways, OWOT's Mainpage was made visually similar to that of [[Your World of Text]], a text canvas which has never supported more than one text color on any given page. Though there were still some differences stemming from OWOT-exclusive features like [[Symbols for Legacy Computing]] and text decorations. Colored landmarks on the Mainpage also retained their color after the ban, and when damaged FP would continue to restore them in their original states.

~~The ban was lifted on ??????.~~

== Lead up to the color ban ==

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=== Previous color bans ===

At least one other frontpage color ban had occurred before 2025. On March 7th, 2024, color was very briefly disabled by [[Poopman]] in response to porn being pasted at Spawn.

At least one other frontpage color ban had occurred before 2025. On March 7th, 2024, color was very briefly disabled by [[Poopman]] in response to porn being pasted at Spawn.<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">

[[File:Color ban 2024.png~~|none|thumb~~|2024 color ban]]

File:Color ban 2024.png|2024 color ban

File:Color prophecy.png|2022 messages from the YWOT Discord

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== User reactions ==

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File:Bringcolorsbackfp spam.png|Spam that replaces text with '''''#BRINGCOLORSBACKFP'''''

File:Bringcolorsbackfp spam 2.png|December 21st, 2025

</gallery><blockquote>[[OWOT Discord|'''<big>OWOT Discord</big>''']] '''<big>on December ~~19th~~, 2025</big>'''

</gallery><blockquote>[[OWOT Discord|'''<big>OWOT Discord</big>''']] '''<big>on December 20th, 2025</big>'''

'''Rscr:''' ''this might legitimately be the most fun i've had on this site''

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'''thorium1256:''' ''But it's better than full-color octant porn at least''</blockquote>

[[File:Give our colors back.png|none|thumb|December 22nd, 2025]]

<blockquote>''actually i change my mind abt the whole color thing now,, its more fun without spam 24/7 ,_,''

'''— Schjessu on December 22nd, 2025'''</blockquote>

[[File:Color ban poll.png|none|thumb|Poll by thorium1256(''December 23rd, 2025'')]]

== Color replacements ==

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People on YWOT have been using links to make color all the way back in 2010. However the ability to create links is disabled on the Mainpage, so link art can only be found in [https://www.yourworldoftext.com/~mcdowell/fang select subworlds].<gallery widths="200" mode="packed" heights="150">

File:Link messages.png|''"Demo wave"'' by [[Fun.com|Dupy]], an artwork made to show that coloured (green & blue) pastes are still possible via links (''December 20th, 2025'')

File:Link art christmas tree.png|December 25th, 2025

File:Ywot link art.png|YWOT link art from 2010<ref>https://github.com/ywothistory/ywothistory.github.io/blob/master/_posts/2012-12-31-earlyywot.markdown</ref>

</gallery><gallery widths="200" mode="packed" heights="150" caption="Attempts to create new colors through [[wikipedia:Dither|dithering]]">

File:Url link dithering.png|[[JanTechPL|JTPL]] dithering with URL links(''December 21st, 2025'')

File:~~Ywot link art~~.png|~~YWOT link art from 2010<ref>https~~:~~//github~~.~~com/ywothistory/ywothistory~~.~~github~~.~~io/blob/master/_posts/2012-12-31-earlyywot.markdown</ref>~~

File:Egg dithering.png|Dithering attempt by [[e_g.]], where red emojis are used for the third color(''December 22nd, 2025'')

File:Kesherian skies.png|By [[Catzcute|Catzcute4]](''December 24th, 2025'')

File:Kesherian skies cyan.png|Cyan background

File:Kesherian skies 3.png|December 25th, 2025

</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="150" caption="By [[Banksy]]">

File:Banksy blue 1.png|2025-12-20

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File:Banksy stink.png|2025-12-22

File:Banksy sleep.png|December 22nd, 2025

File:Banksy pig.png|December 22nd, 2025

File:Banksy shell.png|December 24th, 2025

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=== Text density ===

[[File:Sick of no colors.png|thumb|December 20th, 2025]]

[[File:Sick of no colors.png|thumb|By [[Schjessu]](''December 20th, 2025'')]]

Can't produce actual color, but can be effective for shading.

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[[Schjessu]], on the other hand, opted for the simpler option of writing her messages with the '''bold''' and ''italic'' text decorations.

The ban also gave [[Katiserie]] an opportunity to bring out her message tagging script, which attaches note links to her messages so that a popup saying "Written by katiserie" will appear whenever you hover over them. After the script ~~was introduced by Katiserie~~, Dupy, Schjessu, [[Lime.owot|lime]] and [[~~JanTechPL~~]] would all catch on to the message tagging trend within a couple of days. <gallery mode="packed" heights="~~150~~">

The ban also gave [[Katiserie]] an opportunity to bring out her message tagging script, which attaches note links to her messages so that a popup saying "Written by katiserie" will appear whenever you hover over them. After the introduction of this script, Dupy, Schjessu, [[Lime.owot|lime]], [[e_g.]], [[gimmickCellar]], [[JanTechPL]], and [[twinnie]] would all catch on to the message tagging trend within a couple of days. <gallery mode="packed" heights="120">

File:Katiserie message tag.png|Katiserie using note links to tag her messages(''December 20th, 2025)''

File:Katiserie and nnm.png|A user named nmm commenting on Katiserie's script(''December 21st, 2025'')

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File:Dupy text 2.png|New version that includes time

File:Banksy tag.png|Banksy's version(''December 22nd, 2025'')

File:67x8 message tagging 1.png|By [[67x8]](''December 24th, 2025'')

File:67x8 message tagging 2.png|Cont.

File:67x8 message tagging 3.png|Cont.

File:67x8 message tagging 4.png|Cont.

File:Note link censorship 2.png|December 25th, 2025

File:Note link censorship 1.png|December 25th, 2025

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== Spam war ==