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{{Controversial|header=This wiki page is about a controversial topic/person.|body=Please proceed with caution.}}Since the start of the 2020s, many users have started to believe that OWOT is on a decline. | |||
Some popular reasons cited for the site's downfall include an access of [[spam]] and a shortage of [[moderation]], which has made [[Spawn]] a rather inhospitable place in recent years. | Some popular reasons cited for the site's downfall include an access of [[spam]] and a shortage of [[moderation]], which has made [[Spawn]] a rather inhospitable place in recent years. | ||
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— '''A response left on a [[OWOT alignment charts#ChromicQuanta's OWOT Alignment Survey|community survey]] by [[ChromicQuanta]] in June of 2025'''</blockquote>Anons(''usually those who have been on the site for a significantly long time'') can frequently be seen voicing their opinions about the downfall of OWOT in [[Chat|Global Chat]]. | — '''A response left on a [[OWOT alignment charts#ChromicQuanta's OWOT Alignment Survey|community survey]] by [[ChromicQuanta]] in June of 2025'''</blockquote>Anons(''usually those who have been on the site for a significantly long time'') can frequently be seen voicing their opinions about the downfall of OWOT in [[Chat|Global Chat]]. | ||
(Among other things) they tend to express a hatred for underage, transgender and/or furry users, blaming them for what they believe is an increase in censorship across all parts of the site. They describe these users as being part of a "clique" which | (Among other things) they tend to express a hatred for underage, transgender and/or furry users, blaming them for what they believe is an increase in censorship across all parts of the site. They describe these users as being part of a "clique," which the site's moderators protect by banning offensive speech. | ||
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[https://ourworldoftext.com/owotd /OWOTD] is filled with criticisms towards OWOT and its community, mainly coming from MHZ members and other anons. The page expresses hatred towards site admins and registered users in general. | [https://ourworldoftext.com/owotd /OWOTD] is filled with criticisms towards OWOT and its community, mainly coming from MHZ members and other anons. The page expresses hatred towards site admins and registered users in general. | ||
[[File:Owotd has fulfilled its purpose.png|center|thumb|Presumably written sometime around 2022]] | |||
=== Criticism of the OWOT Discord === | === Criticism of the OWOT Discord === | ||
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=== Criticism of the wiki === | |||
== Discord sentiment == | == Discord sentiment == | ||
Members of the [[OWOT Discord]](''which includes a large portion of [[Uvias|registered]] users'') generally attribute the site's decline to a lack of [[moderation]]. There is a strong push to appoint more moderators on all areas of the community, and to enforce stricter rules on trolling and hate speech. | |||
=== Anti-TextWaller sentiment === | |||
{{main|TextWaller migration}}Ever since 2021 there has been a sentiment that the presence of (predominantly underage) users from [[TextWall]] is corrupting the OWOT userbase. | |||
[[File:Know_a_textwaller.png|center|thumb|533x533px|Graphic created by [[Lemuria]] on February 21st, 2024]] | |||
<blockquote>"''OWOT has gone downhill. Slowly, one by one, it was filling with peasants from Textwall and Trollbox. With clones of Bzuki that burst in tears when you insult them. With mentally deranged "clicking yes"-obsessed users. It just doesn't feel the same as how I know OWOT. And for that reason, I will be (somewhat) quitting OWOT. I will quit being on the frontpage. I cannot stand any more of these fuckers. These ruiners. They ruined OWOT. I will still be making worlds and shit, but I'm DONE with the main page.'' | |||
''I will only go on the main page and chat if there is a really important event. But until OWOT goes back to normal, don't expect me to come back to chatting there. Meanwhile on here, I'll mostly just lurk. I'll just drop a few messages occasionally.'' | |||
''To the Textwall/Trollbox users: Have fun ruining the OWOT experience even more than this. Just note that you have made a few users quit.'' " | |||
— '''[[AndreiXYZ]] in December 2021'''</blockquote><blockquote>''"yeah. the textwall immigration wave destroyed the owot userbase and the stain is still there. there's still a bunch of little kids or dumbfucks every once in a while but back then they were fucking everywhere. even if you uttered the word "fuck" once you'd get a handful of kids spiraling telling you that SWEARING BAD!!! U MUST NOT SWEAR!'' | |||
''they tried to... reclaim owot. transform its rules and already built community to fit themselves and what they wanted. selfish and annoying. parasitic, even.'' | |||
''and they are still here.'' | |||
''trollboxers are coming too, there's a few good trollboxers but the rest are the same as the textwall kids from back then''" | |||
— '''[[d9eoead]] in 2025'''</blockquote> | |||
=== /lime.owot/i_hate_owot === | |||
[[File:Spectators of a dying canvas.png|thumb|341x341px|"''Spectators of a Dying Canvas,''" an artwork made in March of 2025]] | [[File:Spectators of a dying canvas.png|thumb|341x341px|"''Spectators of a Dying Canvas,''" an artwork made in March of 2025]] | ||
[[File:JRT spectators of a dying canvas.png|thumb|341x341px|[[JRT]]'s version]] | |||
On August 23rd, 2025, [[lime.owot]] released [https://ourworldoftext.com/lime.owot/i_hate_owot /lime.owot/i_hate_owot] in order to protest the rampancy of spam and griefing on the OWOT [[/|frontpage]]. | |||
This world is the dark reprise of an earlier page named [https://ourworldoftext.com/lime.owot/i_like_owot /lime.owot/i_like_owot], in which Lime expresses all the ways he enjoys the site. | |||
The contents of /lime.owot/i_hate_owot are as follows:<blockquote>"''hi, it's been a while.'' | |||
''and i'm kinda tired.'' | |||
''i've been through a lot this year, and i'm not feeling the best. all i really want to say here is:'' | |||
''i wish things were going better.'' | |||
'' | ''on the 2nd of february 2025, i moved lime.radio out of spawn from lack of motivation to continuously restore its surrounding structures. after that i had little reason to go back to frontpage. my mental state was crippling and having my art destroyed time and time again would have only made it worse. but back then i thought it would end soon.'' | ||
'' | ''i was wrong'' | ||
'' | ''these past few months, you may have noticed the site's main operator, fp, has started to become more and more inactive. and with this, the people who could do harm started doing more harm and more harm. roads started to become unrecognisable until 30 coordinates out. even the railway that used to be restored for nearly a year stopped, and the rest of the art above it was destroyed too.'' | ||
'' | ''some days, landmarks like [[Pika City|pika city]] or [[Polonez#Plotsville|plotsville]] would be targeted and unrestored for days. and after that, it seems like nobody wants to be on the front page anymore.'' | ||
'' | ''it's like it became uninhabitable. because it basically is.'' | ||
'' | ''a year ago, you could log into owot's front page and expect to see some beautiful landscaping every once in a while.'' | ||
'' | ''that's gone now.'' | ||
'' | ''gone were the days, where you could stumble upon someone on frontpage canvas and have a meaningful conversation with them, gone were the days, where you could see stick people fighting with guns and energy beams and sneaking around structures, gone were the days, where you could go north and not stumble upon an area overridden with spam within the first 10 coordinates.'' | ||
'' | ''owot used to be so much more engaging and that's gone now.'' | ||
'' | ''nowadays i feel like i'm a spectator of a dead canvas, helpless and unable to improve the situation. and i tried, and i'm trying, but i can only work for so many days in a row before i become exhausted.'' | ||
'' | ''i don't know how much longer owot will survive, but i don't have much hope. maybe this site's 8th anniversary will be its last before the 9th becomes a memorial instead of a celebration.'' | ||
'' | ''the best i can do is hope that the people that can do something about this start taking action. and i'm worried that won't be soon.''"</blockquote>The world was advertised in the [[OWOT Discord]], where it received 12 :fire: reactions from various users. | ||
==== FP's response ==== | ==== FP's response ==== | ||
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— '''FP's response on August 23rd, 2025'''</blockquote> | — '''FP's response on August 23rd, 2025'''</blockquote> | ||
== Antiswear/AntiOWOT == | |||
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[[Category:Community]] | [[Category:Community]] | ||
[[Category:Drama]] | [[Category:Drama]] | ||
[[Category:History]] | [[Category:History]] | ||