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=== Edit the Text(''Pre-OWOT'') ===

Fern discovered OWOT from Edit the Text (ETT), a site operated by the Huang twins. On the site, she made a bot to save a page regularly, reverting any edits made by a certain IP address~~, though Fern's~~ adversary ~~eventually created~~ a bot to spam writes to the page, ~~defeating~~ her~~. Fern prevailed in the arms race against this adversary by reprogramming the~~ bot to post a frequently-changing link to a random page, until 2018, when ETT shut down.

Fern discovered OWOT from Edit the Text (ETT), a site operated by the Huang twins. On the site, she made a bot to save a page regularly, reverting any edits made by a certain IP address. Her adversary responded by creating a bot to spam writes to the page. In turn, Fern reprogrammed her bot to post a frequently-changing link to a random page, until 2018, when ETT shut down.

ETT had no ratelimits or size limits, leading to the strategy of "nuking", where ~~users would simply upload a~~ large ~~amount~~ of text to a page to prevent it ~~from being loaded by users' browsers~~.

ETT had no ratelimits or size limits, leading to the strategy of "nuking", where large amounts of text are uploaded to a page to prevent browsers from loading it.

In March 2018, Fern created her Discord account.

In March 2018, Fern created her Discord account. She discovered OWOT in April 2018 and joined [[OWOT Discord|its Discord server]] in August 2021.

She ~~first~~ discovered OWOT in April 2018~~, later joining the~~ OWOT Discord server in August 2021.

=== Campaign for Discord Admin ===