Mr. Black

From /archivetests

*For Mr. Black's page on the YWOT Wiki, see here.

Mr. Black was a scripter who migrated from Your World of Text after learning that OWOT has a higher rate limit, and thus places less restrictions on scripting.

He created an assortment of animated scripts throughout September 2024, after which he disappeared completely. He returned to YWOT in November 2025 and explained that the reason for his inactivity was that he lost computer access as a result of moving house.

Mr. Black used various shades of blue for his text color and would occasionally type in all bold.

From /archivetests

Car

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  Mr. Black's car in motion(Footage by Fox).
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  The car leaving behind afterimages due to lag.
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  Updated car made from octants.

A car that moved around Spawn at a relatively fast speed. It was surprisingly life-like, having a different model for each direction it travels in.

Mr. Black had made another car in YWOT prior to this, but it was much slower due to the site's lower rate limit.

The car was running alongside as and would often pass over MCL's OWOT-YWOT Bridge, causing it to appear on the YWOT end of the portal.

The OWOT car was initially made out of braille but Mr. Black soon updated it to an unicode model.

Animation

Bad Apple

~2 fps

On September 4th, 2024, Mr. Black was able to animated Bad Apple in the centerconsole. He experimented with both braille and unicode animation.

Later that day he repeated this feat on YWOT, albeit at a much slower frame right given the lower rate limit on the site.

OWOT Livestreaming

On September 5th, 2024, Mr. Black came up with a way to broadcast their monitor to the Center Console.

Black first tested this by playing ''Street Fighters'' gameplay using unicodes, but the frame rate was so slow that a few users mistook it for a simulation of Conway's Game of Life.

By September 8th Mr. Black had figured out a way to livestream their monitor at real time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo_P0XQ64rk

Pac Man

"That's probably one of the most interesting things I've seen in a very long time, for how simple it is." - FP on Mr. Black's Pac Man Simulator

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  A full game of OWOT Pac Man. Characters move randomly and the ghosts always win.
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  Pacmen duplicating after eating cherries. Mr. Black deploys big Pac Men at the end out of exasperation.

On September 23rd, 2024, Mr. Black began running a simulated game of Pac Man in the Center Console.

Unicode Pac Men would move randomly across the page, eating normal text while avoiding any instance of the "█" character. "█"(U+219) was used to constrain the Pac Men to the Center Console, though they had the capacity to escape if the barrier was deleted.

Ghosts(👻) moved in roughly the same manner and would delete any Pac Men they ran into. And as in the original game, ghosts turned blue(🥶) whenever a Pac Man eats a power pellet.

There was no specialized ending screen for this game and the level would simply reset upon completion. Due to the random movement of the characters, there was not a single instance where the Pac Men were able to devour all the dots within the level.

At one point there was a feature where the Pac Men would duplicate whenever they ate a cherry(🍒). Users soon found a way to exploit this by pasting large amounts of cherries onto the level, generating an ungodly swarm of hungry Pac Men which could then be unleashed onto the rest of the Mainpage. Logically, it wasn't long before Mr. Black disabled this feature, worrying that having large numbers of Pac Men running at once would strain the OWOT server.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi2K0ZhXctc&t=2s

Water Simulator

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On September 24th, Mr. Black began running a water simulator within the Center Console. The water was composed of unicodes blocks whose movement was controlled by Black.

The fluid was initially monochrome, but was then given color and shading as Black improved the script. A variety of colors were used throughout the simulation, ranging from blue to green to a dark, bloody red.

After a while Mr. Black started to experiment with having a surfer(🏄) float along the water's surface, bouncing up and down with the fluid's movement. Initially the surfer would move left and right in a fixed pattern, but by September 25th it was able to dynamically move around the Center Console.

On at least a few occasions the surfer would be catapulted above the Console, at which point it would leave behind a trail of afterimages as the script did not delete characters past a certain range.

Mr. Black would use a number of other emojis in place of the surfer, such as a duck(🦆), a whale(🐳) and a boat(🛥️).

The water simulator, which eventually received the name Mr Black's WaterPark, was enjoyed fondly by the OWOT community. One user even made a music video by syncing the water's movement to Brazilian Phonk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGUipZQPTb0