Mr. Black

From /archivetests

*For Mr. Black's page on the YWOT Wiki, see here.

Mr. Black was a scripter who migrated from Your World of Text after learning that OWOT has a higher rate limit, and thus places less restrictions on scripting.

He created an assortment of animated scripts throughout September 2024, after which he disappeared completely. He returned to YWOT in November 2025 and explained that the reason for his inactivity was that he lost computer access as a result of moving house.

Though his time active on OWOT was brief, Mr. Black's animated creations served as a source of inspiration for another scripter named Banksy, who would create a truly prodigious amount of similar scripts in late 2025 and early 2026.

Mr. Black used various shades of blue for his text color and would occasionally type in all bold.

From /archivetests

2024 scripts

Car

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  Mr. Black's car in motion (Footage by Fox).
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  The car leaving behind afterimages due to lag.
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  Updated car made from octants.

A car that moved around Spawn at a relatively fast speed. It was surprisingly life-like, having a different model for each direction it travels in.

Mr. Black had made another car in YWOT prior to this, but it was much slower due to the site's lower rate limit.

The car was running alongside as and would often pass over MCL's OWOT-YWOT Bridge, causing it to appear on the YWOT end of the portal.

The OWOT car was initially made out of braille but Mr. Black soon updated it to an unicode model.

Bad Apple

~2 fps

On September 4th, 2024, Mr. Black was able to animated Bad Apple in the centerconsole. He experimented with both braille and unicode animation.

Later that day he repeated this feat on YWOT, albeit at a much slower frame right given the lower rate limit on the site.

OWOT livestreaming

Sped up

On September 5th, 2024, Mr. Black came up with a way to broadcast their monitor to the Center Console.

Black first tested this by playing ''Street Fighters'' gameplay using unicodes, but the frame rate was so slow that a few users mistook it for a simulation of Conway's Game of Life.

By September 8th Mr. Black had figured out a way to livestream their monitor at real time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo_P0XQ64rk

Pac Man

"That's probably one of the most interesting things I've seen in a very long time, for how simple it is." - FP on Mr. Black's Pac Man Simulator

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  A full game of OWOT Pac Man. Characters move randomly and the ghosts always win (Sped up)
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  Pacmen duplicating after eating cherries. Mr. Black deploys big Pac Men at the end out of exasperation (Sped up)

On September 23rd, 2024, Mr. Black began running a simulated game of Pac Man in the Center Console.

Unicode Pac Men would move randomly across the page, eating normal text while avoiding any instance of the "█" character. "█" (U+219) was used to constrain the Pac Men to the Center Console, though they had the capacity to escape if the barrier was deleted.

Ghosts (👻) moved in roughly the same manner and would delete any Pac Men they ran into. And as in the original game, ghosts turned blue (🥶) whenever a Pac Man eats a power pellet.

There was no specialized ending screen for this game and the level would simply reset upon completion. Due to the random movement of the characters, there was not a single instance where the Pac Men were able to devour all the dots within the level.

At one point there was a feature where the Pac Men would duplicate whenever they ate a cherry (🍒). Users soon found a way to exploit this by pasting large amounts of cherries onto the level, generating an ungodly swarm of hungry Pac Men which could then be unleashed onto the rest of the Mainpage. Logically, it wasn't long before Mr. Black disabled this feature, worrying that having large numbers of Pac Men running at once would strain the OWOT server.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi2K0ZhXctc&t=2s

Water simulator

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  Sped up

On September 24th, Mr. Black began running a water simulator within the Center Console. The water was composed of unicodes blocks whose movement was controlled by Black.

The fluid was initially monochrome, but was then given color and shading as Black improved the script. A variety of colors were used throughout the simulation, ranging from blue to green to a dark, bloody red.

After a while Mr. Black started to experiment with having a surfer (🏄) float along the water's surface, bouncing up and down with the fluid's movement. Initially the surfer would move left and right in a fixed pattern, but by September 25th it was able to dynamically move around the Center Console.

On at least a few occasions the surfer would be catapulted above the Console, at which point it would leave behind a trail of afterimages as the script did not delete characters past a certain range.

Mr. Black would use a number of other emojis in place of the surfer, such as a duck (🦆), a whale (🐳) and a boat (🛥️).

The water simulator, which eventually received the name Mr Black's WaterPark, was enjoyed fondly by the OWOT community. One user even made a music video by syncing the water's movement to Brazilian Phonk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGUipZQPTb0

2026 scripts

Mr. Black's big Pacman along with Poopman's Super Mario script, Banksy's clock script, and a black orb creature by ??? (January 21st, 2026)

Digital clock

*Apparently not by Mr. Black, though it's staying on this page for the time being.

A digital clock which told time in UTC appeared on YWOT on January 21st, 2026, and showed up on OWOT not too long after. Over the next few days, these clocks would run on both sites almost constantly, receiving cosmetic updates every now and then. On YWOT, the clock received backlash for lagging the site, while on OWOT people wanted it removed for taking up over half of the Square of Publicity.

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  The clock not too long after appearing on YWOT (January 21st, 2026)
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  Oval text paster protesting the clock on OWOT (January 21st, 2026)
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  The clock being targeted by Catha'Vi's text scrambler (January 22nd, 2026)
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  Script protesting the clock on January 23rd, 2026.

Analog clock

*Confirmed to have been made by Mr. Black on January 25th, 2026, in the same message where he disowned the digital clock.

An animated analog clock would sporadically spawn on both OWOT and YWOT starting from January 21st, 2026.

The script ran smoothly on YWOT but suffered from repeated glitches on OWOT, where it was only able to run for a few minutes at a time before destabilizing.

Banksy created his own clock script and deployed it alongside Mr. Black's. This was his first time interacting with the user who inspired him to make animated scripts.

On both OWOT and YWOT there were many jokes substituting "cock" for "clock."

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  Analog clock on YWOT (Sped up 30x)
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  Reception to the clock on YWOT.
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  Problems with the clock on OWOT.
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  Sped up 30x. The clock was shut down after it started to glitch.
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  Glitching
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  Talking with Banksy about optimizing the script. Archived on /Banksy/b.
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  Glitching pt. 2
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  Bigger clock running alongside Banksy's portal script (along with a smaller clock by Banksy)

Scrolling text

Appeared on January 25th, 2026. The scrolling text script took up all the remaining SOP space left over by the digital clock (which had been running for four days by that point). Mr. Black removed the script in response to community outrage.

The scrolling text returned later that day and was updated to display whatever text was written directly beneath the Center Console. It briefly ran alongside several other animated scripts, such as a falling text script by Banksy, a moving duck by Rad and a user controlled JTPL critter.

See here for a recording from that day.

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  Sped up 2x
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  Additional text (Sped up 2x)
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  Protest against the clock and the scrolling text.
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  The scrolling text briefly returned as a second SOP clock.
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  UQ protesting against the clock.

Mr. Black clarifying that he didn't make the clock, only the scrolling text.

Scrolling text updated to display text written beneath the Center Console (Sped up 4x)