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== Community reception ==

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[[File:1052 art.png|thumb|165x165px|By [[Guest-1052]]]]Image paste abuse is one of the most obtrusive forms of spam on OWOT and also one of the most common. By late 2024/early 2025, images have begun to regularly outnumber other forms of text at [[Spawn]], prompting several users to jokingly call the site "Our World of Image Pastes."

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Furthermore, image pasters are frequently used to display offensive and/or graphic content. Pornographic spam has always been a recurring problem on OWOT and the lack of measures against it have led to fierce criticism against the site's [[moderation]]. This issue was only made worse in November 2024, when image pastes achieved significantly higher resolutions with the addition of customizable cell colors to the front page. A breaking point was reached in December 2025, when [[FP]] made the decision to [[The Great Color Ban of 2025/2026|disable color]] on the front page in order to limit the clarity of NSFW image pastes. The color ban will stay in place until he is able to implement a feature that automatically hides images from the canvas.

Despite all these issues, image pasters are not outright despised by the community. Many scripters still enjoy finding new ways to render images on the canvas, and the creation of new image pasters is usually received positively so long as it doesn't result in more spam. Nevertheless, there is an informal ban on the distribution of such scripts which [[Lemuria]] refers to as the "OWOT Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Image Pasters."

At the same time, there are many users who tolerate image pasters even when they are used for spam, seeing it as an example of spammers exercising their freedom on the canvas.

== Types of image pasters ==

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=== Octant ===

Using [[Octant|octant characters]], it is possible to divide each text cell into eight pixels, though only two colors can be present in any given cell. Octants allow for higher resolution images than half blocks, though the two color limitation means that some amount of distortion will be visible at smaller scales.<gallery mode="packed" heights="300">

Using [[Octant|octant characters]], it is possible to divide each text cell into eight pixels, though only two colors can be present in any given cell. Octants allow for higher resolution images than half blocks, though the two color limitation means that some amount of distortion will be visible at smaller scales.

Octant pasters were rare at first, but have become the most common type of image pasters by mid 2025.<gallery mode="packed" heights="300">

File:Octant paste 1.png

File:Octant paste 2.png

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=== SLC ===

Images can also be rendered using [[Symbols for Legacy Computing]], giving them a blurry but stylistic appearance.[[File:Slc goat paste.png|center|thumb|325x325px]]

=== Horizontal fractional blocks ===

An extremely rare form of image pasters.

The images they produce look similar to full/half block pastes at large scales, but turning off color will reveal distinct horizontal patterns.

Unlike half and full block pastes, these images are fully discernible even without color.<gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="By [[Banksy]]">

File:Banksy image paster january 14 2026 2.png

File:Banksy image paster january 14 2026 3.png

</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Test">

File:Banksy image paster january 14 2026 4.png

File:Banksy image paster january 14 2026 5.png

</gallery>

=== Vertical fractional blocks ===

Also extremely rare.<gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="By Banksy">

File:Banksy image paster january 15 2026 1.png

File:Banksy image paster january 15 2026 2.png

</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Mixed fractional blocks (also by Banksy)">

File:Banksy image paster january 15 2026 3.png

File:Banksy image paster january 15 2026 4.png

</gallery>

=== Emoji ===

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</gallery>

=== ~~Horizontal fractional blocks~~ ===

=== More unorthodox characters ===

These kinds of image pastes look similar to full/half block pastes at large scales, but turning off color will reveal very unique patterns.<gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="By Banksy on January 14th, 2026">

~~File:Banksy image paster january 14 2026 2.png~~

~~File:Banksy image paster january 14 2026 3.png~~

~~</gallery>~~

~~=== More unorthodox characters ===~~

Many unicode sets contain characters with varying amounts of negative space, allowing them to create different shades for image pastes. Most of these are incredibly fuzzy and stylistic.[[File:Weird thing made out of unicode.png|center|thumb|405x405px|Using various unicode and SLC, by [[Haster]]]]<gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Using card unicode, by [[Banksy]]">

Many unicode sets contain characters with varying amounts of negative space, allowing them to create different shades for image pastes. Most of these are incredibly fuzzy and stylistic.~~[[File:Banksy card paste.png|center|thumb|Using card unicode, by [[Banksy]]]]~~

File:Banksy card paste 2.png

[[File:Weird thing made out of unicode.png|center|thumb|405x405px|Using various unicode and SLC, by [[Haster]]]]

File:Banksy card paste.png

</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Using horizontal blocks, also by Banksy">

File:Banksy image paster january 16th 2026 1.png

File:Banksy image paster january 16th 2026 2.png

=== Hybrid pasters ===

Using multiple types of characters.<gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Black and white full block pastes that also use other symbols">

File:W image paste.png

File:This man paste.png

File:Rubiks cube paste.png|From YWOT

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Comes with the ability to rotate images.

The creator of this ~~image paster was~~ also ~~responsible for~~ a series of [[Spam#SLC spam|SLC-based spam scripts]].<gallery mode="packed" heights="300">

The creator of this script, an anon who would later be known as [[Banksy]], also made a series of [[Spam#SLC spam|SLC-based spam scripts]] at around the same time.<gallery mode="packed" heights="300">

File:Slc paste blue coral.png

File:Slc paste blue coral no color.png

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File:Image paste december 23 2025 3.png

</gallery>

=== [[JustAnOWOTUser|JustAnOWOTUser's]] 1SPaster ===

An image paster made by JustAnOWOTUser in 2023. Originally, it only supported full-block pastes, although half-block and link pasting were added to it in 2025.

The main feature that makes it stand out from other pasters is its ease of use and simplicity, as its controlled by only one button and invisibly guides you through the pasting process in stages.

[[File:1SPaster being used.gif|center|thumb|420x420px|1SPaster in action]]

=== Link paster from December 2025/January 2026 ===

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File:Image paste january 5 2026.png|The creator of the script talking with Banksy on January 5th, 2026

File:What this actually is.png|January 8th, 2026

~~</gallery>~~

~~=== Banksy's card paster ===~~

Created using the playing cards unicode set. The paster was first seen publicly on January 10th, 2026, but Banksy had been working on it for a few days before hand, as evident by the card unicode lying around their worlds.<gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="From [https://ourworldoftext.com/Banksy/b /Banksy/b]">

~~File:Banksy card paste 2.png~~

~~File:Banksy card paste 3.png~~

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File:The father.png|July 25th, 2025

File:Image paste eyes october 29 2025.png|October 29th, 2025

File:Sitting on owot.png|By [[Guest-1052]](''October 29th, 2025'')

File:Sitting on owot.png|By [[Guest-1052]] (October 29th, 2025)

File:Trump.png|By [[Rscr]](''November 2nd, 2025'')

File:Trump.png|By [[Rscr]] (November 2nd, 2025)

File:Trump shrine.png|Cont.

File:This cooler is for 2 things.png|By Rscr(''November 10th, 2025'')

File:This cooler is for 2 things.png|By Rscr (November 10th, 2025)

File:Orange teeth.webp|By Rscr(''November 16th, 2025'')

File:Orange teeth.webp|By Rscr (November 16th, 2025)

File:Orange eat earth.png|By Rscr(''November 17th, 2025'')

File:Orange eat earth.png|By Rscr (November 17th, 2025)

File:Screenshot 2025-11-22 at 9.16.09 PM.png|By Rscr(''November 22nd, 2025'')

File:Screenshot 2025-11-22 at 9.16.09 PM.png|By Rscr (November 22nd, 2025)

File:Fp plane.png|December 3rd, 2025

File:Three overpowered kings.png|December 7th, 2025

File:Owot manga.png|December 17th, 2025

File:Long legs.png|By Rscr (January 14th, 2026)

</gallery>

[[File:Nalani proctor evolution.png|center|thumb|358x358px|[https://ourworldoftext.com/archivetests#x:87987988,y:87987978799 /archivetests#x:87987988,y:87987978799], by Guest-1052]]