Non-English speaking communities on OWOT: Difference between revisions
Created page with "Subcommunities on OWOT, usually cut off from the wider userbase, that use languages other than English as their primary means of communication. == Russian == {{main|Russian image board worlds}}Russian image board users are responsible for making several of the largest and most active pages on Our World of Text, the biggest of which was created in 2018 and is still receiving updates as of 2026. It is theorized that Russian internet users flock to OWOT and its sister web..." |
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{{main|Russian image board worlds}}Russian image board users are responsible for making several of the largest and most active pages on Our World of Text, the biggest of which was created in 2018 and is still receiving updates as of 2026. | {{main|Russian image board worlds}}Russian image board users are responsible for making several of the largest and most active pages on Our World of Text, the biggest of which was created in 2018 and is still receiving updates as of 2026. | ||
It is theorized that Russian internet users flock to OWOT and its sister website [[Your World of Text|YWOT]] in order to escape internet censorship, since these sites store text in a format that can't be read by spyware. | It is theorized that Russian internet users flock to OWOT and its sister website [[Your World of Text|YWOT]] in order to escape internet censorship, since these sites store text in a format that can't be read by spyware.<gallery> | ||
File:Blossom.jpg|A ~600 coordinate wide world populated by Russians | |||
File:Blossom art.png|Art from the world | |||
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== Portuguese == | == Portuguese == | ||
'''''<small>*See [https://web.archive.org/web/20250619102306/https://yourworldoftext.wiki/Brazilpocalypse Brazilpocalypse] on the YWOT wiki</small>''''' | |||
Portuguese-speaking/Brazilian users have always been present on OWOT, albeit in small numbers. | |||
They became more widespread in August 2020, when popular Brazilian Youtuber Goularte [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDu-h-Oy7Rg mentioned YWOT in a video]. The ensuing influx of Brazilian users primarily affected YWOT, where it triggered enough drama, lag, and racist backlash for [[Andrew Badr]] to lock down the YWOT Mainpage until 2021. Some of the migration spilled over to OWOT, however, and it was OWOT user [[Happyworld392]] who coined the term "Brazilpocalypse," which would be used to describe the event in both communities. | |||
Portuguese speaking users remained on YWOT (and presumably OWOT) in small numbers following the Brazilpocalypse. But five years later they seem to have disappeared completely. | Portuguese speaking users remained on YWOT (and presumably OWOT) in small numbers following the Brazilpocalypse. But five years later they seem to have disappeared completely. | ||
== French == | |||
{{main|Aywen Migration/Textboard.fr}} | |||
An influx of French users came to YWOT/OWOT in December 2024, when French tech Youtuber Aywen released [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izfTmV-ufl0 a video] documenting the development of his YWOT clone [https://textboard.fr Textboard.fr]. | |||
Most of them have since left, but as of early 2026 you'd still see one or two French messages every now and then. | |||
One Textboard migrant, [[Jujublob]], has since became a semi-active member of the "main" OWOT community. They are friends with [[JanTechPL]], a Polish user. | |||
== Chinese == | == Chinese == | ||
<blockquote>'''''<u>hɛccor:</u>''' damn, OWOT is available in mainland China?'' | |||
See below for OWOT discussions on a Chinese internet forum in January 2025. | '''<u>''StrShell:''</u>''' ''yeap'' | ||
'''<u>''StrShell:''</u>''' ''becs proxy with cloudflare'' | |||
'''<u>''StrShell:''</u>''' ''Because Cloudflare CDN is being used'' | |||
[...] | |||
'''''<u>StrShell:</u>''' OWOT is sometimes inaccessible within China and requires a VPN. I hope Cloudflare will deploy more nodes soon''</blockquote>As far as we know, no (exclusively) Chinese speaking users are regularly active on OWOT, though they'd have an inconvenient time if they do exist. For one, [[wikipedia:CJK_characters|CJK]] characters break the canvas' formatting. And there's also the fact that the captcha required to create an account doesn't work in China, so a VPN is required to register. | |||
See below for OWOT discussions on a [https://www.nodeloc.com Chinese internet forum] in January 2025. The following threads were started by a user named [https://ourworldoftext.com/strshell StrShell] on OWOT. | |||
<u>'''Larger threads:'''</u> | <u>'''Larger threads:'''</u> | ||
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* https://www.nodeloc.com/t/topic/34781/2 | * https://www.nodeloc.com/t/topic/34781/2 | ||
* https://www.nodeloc.com/t/topic/34748 | * https://www.nodeloc.com/t/topic/34748 | ||
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File:Owot chinese 1.png|Explanation of OWOT | |||
File:Owot chinese 8.png|Talking in chat | |||
File:Owot chinese 2.png|Chinese users being unable to register | |||
File:Owot chinese 3.png|Learning to [[Image pasters|image paste]] | |||
File:Owot chinese 4.png|Cont. | |||
File:Owot chinese 9.png|Talking about toxicity in OWOT | |||
File:Owot chinese 5.png|OWOT [[chat]]<nowiki/>log translated to Chinese | |||
File:Owot chinese 6.png|Translated back to English | |||
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[[Category:Subcommunities]] | [[Category:Subcommunities]] | ||
[[Category:Compilation pages]] | |||