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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 on December 20th and December 21st, 2025. This happened in the midst a temporary [[color ban]] on the Mainpage, so emojis had to be substituted for text color.

[[Trollbox]] migrants named [[bengobeklitava]] and [[UntitledOWOT]] ~~were the primary players in these conflicts. At least some~~ of ~~the scripts used were taken from~~ a ~~scripter named~~ [[gimmickCellar]].

The primary perpetrators of these conflicts were two [[Trollbox]] migrants named [[bengobeklitava]] and [[UntitledOWOT]], who generated massive amounts of spam using a leaked [[Wipers#gimmickCellar's raywiper|raywiper]] by [[gimmickCellar]]. While the raywiper was intended as a tool for erasing spam, it turned out to be an especially powerful spam script when other characters (mainly emojis) were substituted for spaces. The script also enabled users to generate a variety of shapes other than circles, encouraging bengo and Untitled to experiment with it in the most destructive ways possible.

== Wave 1 ==

A large scale [[spam]] war occured from around 1:00 AM to 6:00 AM 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.

A large scale [[spam]] war occured from around 1:00 AM to 6:00 AM EST on December 20th, 2025. GimmickCellar's raywiper was modified 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.<gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Colored spam using spaghetti emojis a.k.a. &quot;Pasta Railgun&quot;(''by bengobeklitava'')">

The wiper uses rays to generate circles, which tend to miss certain text and leave behind intricate patterns.<gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Colored spam using spaghetti emojis a.k.a. &quot;Pasta Railgun&quot;(''by bengobeklitava'')">

File:Spaghetti_spam_1.png

File:Spaghetti_spam_2.png

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=== Spam clearing scripts ===

Circular problems demand circular solutions.

[[File:Raywiper_december_20_2025.gif|center|thumb|346x346px|~~Raywiper, likely different than the one~~ used ~~by [[lime]] and [[NextOS]] due to~~ its ~~different erasing pattern(''Sped up 5x'')~~]]

[[File:Raywiper_december_20_2025.gif|center|thumb|346x346px|gimmickCellar's raywiper being used for its intended purpose]]

File:Roomba_december_19_2025.png|[[Wipers#Roombas|Roomba]] by an unknown user

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== Wave 2 ==

Went on from around 3:00 PM EST to 4:00 PM 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~~.

Went on from around 3:00 PM EST to 4:00 PM EST on December 20th, 2025. The primary perpetrator was likely bengobeliktava, who began experimenting with different colored emojis and shapes other than circles.

[[File:Shape_spam_3.png|center|thumb|Final state]]

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== Wave 3 ==

The third wave started on at 1:24 AM EST on December 21st, 2025, Bengo was back once again to experiment with new shapes, though this time they met a significant obstacle in [[Schjessu]], who would consistently blot out Spawn with her own spam~~, thus making it a true spam war~~.

The third wave started on at 1:24 AM EST on December 21st, 2025. Bengo was back once again to experiment with new shapes, though this time they met a significant obstacle in [[Schjessu]], who would consistently blot out Spawn with her own spam.

Several other spammers joined in at around 1:51 AM, including one who spammed links to furry porn.

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</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Script by [[Schjessu]] that replaces all text with "spammy"">

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~~">

</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="350" caption="The raywiper in spiral mode">

File:Sweep.gif|Timelapse

</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="~~300~~" caption="Cool frames">

</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="250" 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

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File:Spam war december 21 2025 19.png|3:57 AM EST

</gallery>

=== Aftermath ===

Following the end of the third wave, Bengo revealed that he had intended to have UntitledOWOT take the blame for their spam.<gallery mode="packed">

File:Bengo blame 1.png

File:Bengo blame 2.png

File:Bengo blame 3.png

File:Bengo blame 4.png

</gallery>

=== Wave 3.5 ===

After a period of tranquility, a few more bursts of spam occured from 5:31 AM EST to roughly 6:00 AM EST.