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A series of spam wars that occurred from December 20th, 2025 to ????????. This happened in the midst a temporary [[color ban]] on the Mainpage, so emojis had to be substituted for text color.
A series of spam wars that occurred from December 20th, 2025 to ????????. This happened in the midst a temporary [[color ban]] on the Mainpage, so emojis had to be substituted for text color.
A [[Trollbox]] migrant named [[bengobeklitava]] was the primary actor in most of these conflicts.


== Wave 1 ==
== Wave 1 ==
A large scale [[spam]] war occured from around 1:00 A.M. to 6:00 A.M. EST on December 20th, 2025. Multiple participants<ref>Or it could have been one person behind all this, idk.</ref> used scripts to generate large, circular patterns at Spawn, all while another scripter named [[Banksy]] covered the area with massive image pastes using their newly introduced image paster.
A large scale [[spam]] war occured from around 1:00 A.M. to 6:00 A.M. EST on December 20th, 2025. Multiple participants used scripts to generate large, circular patterns at Spawn, all while another scripter named [[Banksy]] covered the area with massive image pastes using their newly introduced image paster.


Due to the color ban, this is an unprecedented instance of spammers fighting without utilizing text colors. One spammer, [[bengobeklitava]], supplemented for this lack using pasta emojis.
Due to the color ban, this is an unprecedented instance of spammers fighting without utilizing text colors. One spammer, [[bengobeklitava]], supplemented for this lack using pasta emojis.
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</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="&amp;#x22;Black [[The Carrion|Carrion]]&amp;#x22; by [[UntitledOWOT]]">
</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="&amp;#x22;Black [[The Carrion|Carrion]]&amp;#x22; by [[UntitledOWOT]]">
File:Black_carrion.gif|Running earlier that day(''Sped up ~48x'')
File:Black_carrion.gif|Running earlier that day(''Sped up ~48x'')
</gallery><gallery mode="packed" caption="Overview of the event">
</gallery><gallery mode="packed" caption="Overview">
File:Circle_war_1.png|1:22 AM EST
File:Circle_war_1.png|1:22 AM EST
File:Circle_war_2.png|1:59 AM EST
File:Circle_war_2.png|1:59 AM EST
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File:Shape_spam_1.gif
File:Shape_spam_1.gif
File:Shape_spam_2.gif
File:Shape_spam_2.gif
</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Overview">
File:Shape war 1.png
File:Shape war 2.png
File:Shape war 3.png
File:Shape war 4.png
File:Shape war 5.png
File:Shape war 6.png
File:Shape war 7.png
File:Shape war 8.png
File:Shape war 9.png
File:Shape war 10.png
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</gallery>


== Wave 3 ==
== Wave 3 ==
Started at 1:24 A.M. EST on December 21st, 2025. Bengo is back once again, with [[Schjessu]] counterattacking using her lightning script.
Started at 1:24 A.M. EST on December 21st, 2025. Bengo is back once again, with [[Schjessu]] counterattacking using her lightning script.
[[File:Octagon timelapse.gif|center|thumb|Octagons(''Timelapse'')]]


== Notes ==
At ?????, several other spammers joined in, including one who spammed links to furry porn.
<gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="New shapes from Bengo">
File:Octagon timelapse.gif|Timelapse
File:Green stars spreading.gif|Timelapse
</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Script by [[Schjessu]] that replaces all text with &amp;quot;'''''spammy'''''&amp;quot;">
File:Schjessu spammy.png|Used in place of a wiper because Schjessu had been ratelimited for 2+ weeks by that point
</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="350" caption="A wiper">
File:Sweep.gif|Timelapse
</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="300" caption="Cool frames">
File:Screenshot 2025-12-20 at 11.46.27 PM.png
File:Screenshot 2025-12-20 at 11.59.13 PM.png
File:Screenshot 2025-12-21 at 12.44.40 AM.png
</gallery>
[[Category:Events]]
[[Category:Events]]
[[Category:Spam]]
[[Category:Spam]]

Revision as of 04:06, 21 December 2025

A series of spam wars that occurred from December 20th, 2025 to ????????. This happened in the midst a temporary color ban on the Mainpage, so emojis had to be substituted for text color.

A Trollbox migrant named bengobeklitava was the primary actor in most of these conflicts.

Wave 1

A large scale spam war occured from around 1:00 A.M. to 6:00 A.M. EST on December 20th, 2025. Multiple participants used scripts to generate large, circular patterns at Spawn, all while another scripter named Banksy covered the area with massive image pastes using their newly introduced image paster.

Due to the color ban, this is an unprecedented instance of spammers fighting without utilizing text colors. One spammer, bengobeklitava, supplemented for this lack using pasta emojis.

Spam

Most scripted circles in OWOT are created using rays, which tend to miss certain text and leave behind intricate patterns.

Spam clearing scripts

Circular problems demand circular solutions.

Raywiper, likely different than the one used by lime and NextOS due to its different erasing pattern(Sped up 5x)

Other scripts

Banksy was prolific in churning out small, animated scripts throughout November and December 2025. In the past three days alone they had deployed 11+ of their creations at Spawn.

The scripts that they used on December 19th/20th were supposed to have color, leading them to curse FP for the color ban.

All of these scripts appeared in between major spam waves, with the exception of the bomb/tank script which can be seen in the previous section.

Wave 2

Went on from around 3:00 P.M. EST to 4:00 P.M. EST on December 20th, 2025. The primary perpetrator was likely bengobeliktava, who began experimenting with different colored emojis and shapes other than circles. UntitledOWOT's black circle script also made a return.

Final state

Wave 3

Started at 1:24 A.M. EST on December 21st, 2025. Bengo is back once again, with Schjessu counterattacking using her lightning script.

At ?????, several other spammers joined in, including one who spammed links to furry porn.