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


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


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.
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.
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File:Spaghetti_spam_1.png
File:Spaghetti_spam_1.png
File:Spaghetti_spam_2.png
File:Spaghetti_spam_2.png
</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Stickman spam a.k.a. &quot;Shortlanders&quot;(''by bengobeklitava'')">
</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Stickman spam a.k.a. &amp;quot;Shortlanders&amp;quot;(''by bengobeklitava'')">
File:Mobile_stickmen.gif|Mobile stickmen spam from earlier that day
File:Mobile_stickmen.gif|Mobile stickmen spam from earlier that day
File:Stickmen_diamond_small.gif|Precursor to the massive star-shaped spam that would occur later that day
File:Stickmen_diamond_small.gif|Precursor to the massive diamond-shaped spam that would occur later that day
File:Banksy_paste.gif|Banksy's image paster can also be seen
File:Banksy_paste.gif|Banksy's image paster can also be seen
</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="&amp;#x22;Black [[The Carrion|Carrion]]&amp;#x22; by [[UntitledOWOT]]">
</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="&amp;#x22;Black [[The Carrion|Carrion]]&amp;#x22; by [[UntitledOWOT]]">
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== Wave 2 ==
== Wave 2 ==
Went on from around 3:00 P.M. EST to 4:00 P.M. 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. UntitledOWOT's black circle script also made a return.
[[File:Shape_spam_3.png|center|thumb|Final state]]
[[File:Shape_spam_3.png|center|thumb|Final state]]
<gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Timelapses">
<gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Timelapses">
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File:Shape_spam_2.gif
File:Shape_spam_2.gif
</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Overview">
</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Overview">
File:Shape war 1.png
File:Shape war 1.png|3:09 PM EST
File:Shape war 2.png
File:Shape war 2.png|3:19 PM EST
File:Shape war 3.png
File:Shape war 3.png|3:27 PM EST
File:Shape war 4.png
File:Shape war 4.png|3:40 PM EST
File:Shape war 5.png
File:Shape war 5.png|3:52 PM EST
File:Shape war 6.png
File:Shape war 6.png|3:58 PM EST
File:Shape war 7.png
File:Shape war 7.png|4 PM EST
File:Shape war 8.png
File:Shape war 8.png|4:05 PM EST
File:Shape war 9.png
File:Shape war 9.png|4:07 PM EST
File:Shape war 10.png
File:Shape war 10.png|4:00 PM EST
</gallery>
</gallery>


== Wave 3 ==
== Wave 3 ==
Started at 1:24 A.M. EST on December 21st, 2025. Bengo is back once again, with [[Schjessu]] counterattacking using her lightning script.<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
The third wave started on at 1:24 AM EST on December 21st, 2025Bengo 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.
File:Octagon timelapse.gif|Octagons(''Timelapse'')
 
File:Schjessu spammy.png|Script by [[Schjessu]] that replaces all text with "'''''spammy'''''"
Several other spammers joined in at around 1:51 AM, including one who spammed links to furry porn.
 
Activity died down around 4:09 AM. Like with the first wave, wave 3 ended with Bengo pasting a massive diamond on top of all the spam that had accumulated.
<gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="New shapes from Bengo">
File:Octagon timelapse.gif|Timelapse
File:Green stars spreading.gif|Timelapse
</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Script by [[Schjessu]] that replaces all text with &quot;spammy&quot;">
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">
File:Sweep.gif|Timelapse
</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="300" 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
File:Screenshot 2025-12-21 at 12.44.40 AM.png
</gallery>
</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.
[[File:Spinning line thing.gif|center|thumb|Thing that appeared alongside the spam, possibly by [[Banksy]](''Real time'')]]
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Latest revision as of 06:13, 21 December 2025

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.

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

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.

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.

Spam clearing scripts

Circular problems demand circular solutions.

Raywiper, likely different than the one used by lime and NextOS due to its different erasing pattern(Sped up 5x)

Other scripts

Banksy was prolific in churning out small, animated scripts throughout November and December 2025. In the past three days alone they had deployed 11+ of their creations at Spawn.

The scripts that they used on December 19th/20th were supposed to have color, leading them to curse FP for the color ban.

All of these scripts appeared in between major spam waves, with the exception of the bomb/tank script which can be seen in the previous section.

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.

Final state

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.

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

Activity died down around 4:09 AM. Like with the first wave, wave 3 ended with Bengo pasting a massive diamond on top of all the spam that had accumulated.

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.

Thing that appeared alongside the spam, possibly by Banksy(Real time)