Criticism against OWOT: Difference between revisions

(5 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)

Line 12:

== Anon/chat sentiment ==

<blockquote>"''OWOT's community largely consists of faggots who behave as one large circlejerk. If you do not like one of their actions, opinions or ideologies, they'll group together to remove you and paint you as this "EVIL PAECE OF SHEET". The OWOT community is only becoming an echo chamber, where the circlejerk's opinions are the loudest.''

<blockquote>''OWOT's community largely consists of faggots who behave as one large circlejerk. If you do not like one of their actions, opinions or ideologies, they'll group together to remove you and paint you as this "EVIL PAECE OF SHEET". The OWOT community is only becoming an echo chamber, where the circlejerk's opinions are the loudest.''

''OWOT is already destined to fall as the circlejerk faggots find less faggots like them, while they indirectly fend off any normal people off the site, thinking that the site was made for them and ONLY for them, and due to this lack of userbase begin to quit to other faggot sites. Due to this, OWOT will eventually shut down, and because of their crippling addictions to the site, they will cry and feel grief over such a fucking tiny event.. These "feelings" however, are natural due to their brains being 24/7/365 addicted to OWOT, and eventually they will simply forget about OWOT like as if it never existed.''

Line 20:

''OWOT is going to die, and it will take down all the faggots with it. Any braindead jokes you make of this text are not funny at all and prove how fucking stupid all of you are, just like how almost all of humanity is subdued, illusioned, deceived, tricked and brainwashed by the government to make sure that those who are in power and in control remain as such, without giving a shit about the ethics (because to them, ethics is just a synonym for deception).''

''This will probably never go anywhere though, and I will only be dismissed as a crazy faggot, just like how people who know the lies and tricks of those up in the hierarchy are dismissed as conspiracy theorists (because that's what they want society to believe). Fuck all of you.''"

''This will probably never go anywhere though, and I will only be dismissed as a crazy faggot, just like how people who know the lies and tricks of those up in the hierarchy are dismissed as conspiracy theorists (because that's what they want society to believe). Fuck all of you.''

— '''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]].

Line 42:

== 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.

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.<blockquote>''atp with how much porn that gets pasted on the front page, fp can't just say he can't do anything about it. it's got to count as willingly exposing minors to porn, especially how he gives them wiper perms to get them to do his job for him.''

''I guarantee he knows all this by now, and by not shutting down the canvas entirely or removing colors it definitely falls under being intentional''

'''— [[Catha'Vi|Catha'vi]] on December 18th, 2025'''</blockquote><blockquote>''this is a functionable owot that FP bought, and supposedly i'll get a new one once it broke, you see at first it was just a simple extension of chat and uvias, but as time goes on the owot start showing problems, at first it was a simple spamming, still functionable, so a mute script underneath, soon after starianna joined, still functionable, as all we need is constant muting, and then the image paster script got leaked, still functionable, using ray wiper script, and you know what, even when soyjak raided owot, it still functionable, as i use a secondary owot as primary, because long live the functionable owot, even if it's lost identity as owot, imma pass this down as the curse of SLC worth next generation''

— '''[[Bzuki]]''' '''in December 18th, 2025'''</blockquote>

=== 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]]

[[File:Know_a_textwaller.png|center|thumb|329x329px|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.''

<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.'' "

''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!''

— '''[[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.''

Line 58:

Line 64:

''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''"

''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|304x304px|"''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]]

[[File:JRT spectators of a dying canvas.png|thumb|306x306px|[[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.''

The contents of /lime.owot/i_hate_owot are as follows:<blockquote>''hi, it's been a while.''

''and i'm kinda tired.''

Line 99:

Line 105:

''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.

''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]] would give his response soon after, offering hopeful words for the community and receiving 15 :fire: reactions.<blockquote>"''10 years ago, I would've said the same exact thing about [[Your World of Text|YWOT]].''

[[FP]] would give his response soon after, offering hopeful words for the community and receiving 15 :fire: reactions.<blockquote>''10 years ago, I would've said the same exact thing about [[Your World of Text|YWOT]].''

''When I first discovered the site, I saw all those things you mentioned. I had some funny conversations with strangers and came across creative arts as I traversed across the front page. That all went away by 2015 once spam got out of control. By summer time, it felt like I was the last man standing after hundreds of worlds got destroyed by a notorious spammer. The site felt like a ghost town. I was reminiscing the times of 2009 when it felt things were much simpler.''

Line 110:

Line 116:

''Our site has had many ups and downs over the years which is a testament to our ability to recover from destruction and adapt to new threats. By late 2021, I myself felt hopeless as OWOT's front page was completely destroyed and the threat of [[PinkiePie]] kept me on my toes. In 2022, we developed countermeasures and I additionally developed the [[Moderation#Time Machine|time machine]] system for the first time which allowed me to revert the extremely big road spam from 2020.''

''As new threats emerge, me and our security team work to develop new countermeasures to make sure OWOT resists any roadbump that we encounter. These events are nothing but a temporary storm.''"

''As new threats emerge, me and our security team work to develop new countermeasures to make sure OWOT resists any roadbump that we encounter. These events are nothing but a temporary storm.''

— '''FP's response on August 23rd, 2025'''</blockquote>