Spam

Spam is unwanted repetitive content intended to render a medium of communication useless for a period of time, or to cause annoyance to users. Users throughout OWOT's history have complained about the overabundance of spam, which has almost always drowned out original content at Spawn.

While spam is generally seen as inevitable, FP (the only active admin) is known to moderate it on a regular basis, undertaking actions such as:

• ratelimiting, color banning, or IP banning spammers
• performing rollbacks to restore destroyed content
• updating the site's code in order to brick specific spam scripts

Despite this, dedicated spammers have generally been able to circumvent these measures and attack the site for prolonged periods of time.

On their part, regular users can fight spam by clearing it manually. They can also use a wiper script, though these are subject to abuse and tend not to be handed out freely. And while FP is the only admin on the OWOT Frontpage, several trusted users have been given the ability to perform rollbacks on /main using a tool known as the time machine.

While spam is frowned upon in the Mainpage, FP has actively encouraged users to spam on test.ourworldoftext.com, which is a test server intended to weed out the site's flaws.

Chat Spam

Chat spam filter by gimmickCellar (January 11th, 2026)

Rigged Poll

Main article: Rigged poll spammer

"Rigged Poll" is in reference to the World of the Day Poll, which was known for its lack of security and its tendency to have illegitimate votes favor one particular World of the Day candidate. Prior to the events leading to the poll's replacement with an automated ratings system, it was very easy for a single user or a small group of individuals to launch a Sybil attack on the poll by placing an "x" character next to the world name over the course of a few days. It was one of the duties of a front page member to protect each vote that gets added to the poll, as long as it's not obvious that somebody is trying to rig the votes. A frequent occurrence was also the removal of legitimate votes from the poll by users who did not originally vote for that world. This eventually leads to unpopular worlds receiving the World of the Day status. For most of the poll's history, the front page members did not regard the votes on the poll, hence the meaning of Rigged Poll.

The W Chat Spam

Spammers use these to clear the chat since it's a long character and can sometimes be more annoying if they spam each time with a different ID.

Canvas spam

This section contains documentation for common types of spam on the OWOT canvas, and also for notable spammers/instances of spam.

Road spam

Road spam

Last remnant of the road spam in 2025 (the curve at the top was added by JRT)

In 2020, multiple different colored roads were pasted on the canvas that appear to lead to nowhere in particular. They would wind around randomly and go over each other, extending for hundreds of coordinates.

The damage done by the road spam was incredibly difficult to rollback due to its sheer scale, but FP was able to accomplish this in 2022 using a newly introduced time machine feature.

Black and white snapshot of the 2020 road spam

Before they were cleared, multicolored roads extended for hundreds of coordinates, forming a massive tangled mass around spawn.This image is a large snapshot of the mainpage from that era.

Replicator spam

Links that replicate themselves when clicked.

Replicator spam was a big issue during the early days of OWOT, being responsible for damaging thousands of coordinates of text.

A notable example of replicator spam from recent times is the Chess Pieces spam from 2023.

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  Replicator spam
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  Replicator spam (links only)

CJK spam

Using Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters.

CJK spam is particularly widespread because these characters break the canvas' formatting, and cause the site to lag whenever they're on screen.

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  CJK tile spam (very sparse)

Particle spam

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  Dense Unicode cluster spam
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  Sparse Unicode spam

Image paste spam

Main article: Image Pasters

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Fireworks spam

Main article: Animated scripts § Fireworks script

Unicode fireworks that slowly explode on the canvas. The script was originally created by FP for less destructive purposes, but has since been exploited for spam. You can see it in action here at 1:00.

Like many other spam scripts, the firework script has also been ported to Your World of Text in black and white form.

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  Firework spam by an anon called ourworldoftest
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  Firework spam in YWOT on March 14th, 2023
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  By Ա on November 28th, 2025

PKK

Main article: PKK

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  Flag spam pt. 1
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  Flag spam pt. 2
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  Scribble spam
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  Flag spam pt. 3

Scribble spam

Main article: Drawing scripts

Several types of scribble spam on August 24th, 2025, most likely from PKK

Emoji Spam

Most of the ones below are from the PKK spammer.

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  Emoji spam covering Pika City on August 19th, 2025
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  Emoji spam with a peculiar spreading pattern (Sped up ~40x)
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  Emoji spam with note links

StormXXBoy

Known for advertising his website using rainbow colored spam.

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  Circular spam (Sped up 16x)
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  Script that replaces text with links to StormXXBoy's website

"Only Gays Here" spam

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  April 26th, 2025
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SLC/glitch spam

Spam consisting of SLC slopes which would spread in strange patterns.

A prolific creator of this type of spam appeared in November 2025 and remained active well into December. They also created an image paster that utilized SLC slopes.

Spreading in real time

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  "Glitch script"
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  "Fungus script"
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Blobfish spam

An onslaught of vaporeon image pastes that began appearing on November 11th, 2025. It spread rapidly over the following months, eventually covering over a hundred coordinates on all sides. FP took an active role in fighting this spam wave and dubbed it the "blobfish spam."

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  November 12th, 2025
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  200x200 coordinate screenshot by Realredtext- (November 12th, 2025)
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  November 13th, 2025
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  500x500 coordinate screenshot by e_g. (November 18th, 2025)

Pacman spam

"Whatever, go my pacmen" ― Anonymous message sent before each onslaught

Spam from December 2025 which uses a script by gimmickCellar. Since then the script has been adapted to replace the Pacmen with other symbols.

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  An earlier instance of Pacmen spam from abusing a loophole in Mr. Black's script (September 2024)
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  December 8th, 2025 (Sped up 5x)
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  December 8th, 2025 (Real time)
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  Clown version (December 12th, 2025)
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  Stickmen version (December 19th, 2025)

Lightning Summoner

A script by Schjessu that generates a variety of effects.

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  Sped up 4x
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  In OWOT's test server (December 15th, 2025)
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  Cont. (December 17th, 2025)
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  "STAR" function at maximum size (December 17th, 2025)
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  the pulsing insectoid mass

gimmickCellar's raywiper

Main article: Wipers § gimmickCellar's_raywiper

A tool that was made to erase spam, but that became a potent spamming tool after it was leaked in December 2025. On December 20th and 21st, 2025, two users named bengobeklitava and UntitledOWOT used the script to bombard Spawn with a wide array of shape spam. This was one of the largest spam waves that OWOT has experienced in a few months.

gimmickCellar's raywiper allows users to customize the size, shape, and expansion pattern of the wipe area. It can be very easily retrofitted for spam as there is a feature that lets you swap out any character for spaces.

The wiper is still being used for spam as of February 2026.

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  Raywiper spam during the December 2025 spam wars.
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  Timelapse
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  Timelapse
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  Subsequent uses of the raywiper for spam (January 4th, 2026)
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  January 5th, 2026
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  Large screenshot by RRT (January 25th, 2026)
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  Large screenshot by RRT (February 1st, 2026)
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  February 12th, 2026

"Snake" spam

December 28th, 2025

December 31st, 2025

Squiggly CJK spam that goes on for incredibly long distances.

Goes down 100 coordinates. (December 31st, 2025) (Stitched together by the creator of the spam, see full size image here.)

Diagonal road spam

/infiniteroadsystem by UntitledOWOT. (February 28th, 2026)

tbd

Large screenshot of /infiniteroadsystem by Rscr.

"Frontier Diamond"

February 4th, 2026

Large scale spam from early February 2026.

Nicknamed by Haster.

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  200x200 coord screenshot by Realredtext- (February 4th, 2026)
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  Timelapse (February 5th, 2026)

Yo

Advertisement for "Yoclub2026" by a user named Yoo. See more at /yoclub. Yoclub

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  January 14th, 2026
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  Doodled on by kkb (February 6th, 2026)
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  February 15th, 2026
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  February 15th, 2026
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  Big "yo" with birds in it. (Sped up 30x)

Chladni figures

February 27th, 2026 (Dark mode)

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  February 26th, 2026
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  February 27th, 2026 (Sped up 300x)
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  February 27th, 2026

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  February 27th, 2026
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  February 27th, 2026

Miscellaneous colorful spam

Presumably from the same person who spammed the Chladni figures.

Blanketed Spawn on February 27th, 2026.

See a sped up recording of it here.

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  As seen on RRT's 200x200 coordinate Spawn snapshot.
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Miscellaneous

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  Miscellaneous script experimentation
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  By Ege (June 1st, 2023)
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  Coordinated spamming effort on WTIF's world in 2023
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  Langton's ant script (September 30th, 2024)
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  The Spawn of OWOT's test server (November 24th, 2025)
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  Test server spam by Prohibit (November 24th, 2025)
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  Script that scrambles characters within a large radius (December 17th, 2025)
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  December 19th, 2025
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  By Banksy (December 22nd, 2025)
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  Assorted spam on Juno's page on December 28th, 2025
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  Oval text paster protesting an animated clock.
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  February 6th, 2026

• Miscellaneous large-scale spam
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  Large amounts of spam over Spawn on August 28th, 2025
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  Soyjak.party spam, extends ~80 coordinates up and down (September 22nd, 2025) (Actually orchestrated by crystal.cafe)
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  Large screenshot of OWOT's test server (November 24th, 2025)
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  The test server on December 27th, 2025

Anti-spam scripts

Wipers

Main article: Wipers

The primary scripted tool for combatting spam. Most wipers are able to delete text faster than manual wiping, and these scripts often contain additional features such as the ability to skip over spaces or target specific types of characters. Of course, wipers can also be used to destroy things other than spam.

Text restorer from February 2026

Seems to be created to counteract scribble spam from the PKK Spammer. This script deletes spam characters from bodies of text (Ex. paragraphs, image pastes) and fills in missing spaces by duplicating the characters directly above the spammed area. This results in some amount of vertical distortion where the spam has been filled in.

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  Before spam.
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  After restoration.