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== Halloween == | == Halloween == | ||
=== 2022 === | |||
[[File:Halloween console 2022.png|center|thumb|From [https://ourworldoftext.com/center_console_history /Center_Console_History]]] | |||
=== 2023 === | === 2023 === | ||
Created in collaboration with [[Poopman]] for a Halloween event. | Created in collaboration with [[Poopman]] for a Halloween event. | ||
[https://ourworldoftext.com/halloween23 /Halloween23] | [https://ourworldoftext.com/halloween23 /Halloween23] uses pixel art by Poopman as its [[Background images|image background]], which is stored in the site's code as [https://ourworldoftext.com/static/files/grave.webp /static/files/grave.webp]. There is also a script that displayed a wobbling, Halloween-themed emoji over your cursor. The emoji shows up at your location for everyone using the world, though this feature can be toggled off using a menu at the top left corner. | ||
In addition to the background, Poopman has filled the world with several pieces of high quality pixel art. These were meant to accompany an art contest that was taking place on the world. The contest was won by [[Bzuki]] (''to much controversy due to the questionable quality of his drawing''), who received membership on the page as a prize. | |||
Poopman would create similar worlds (''and art contests'') for [https://ourworldoftext.com/thanksgiving23 Thanksgiving 2023] and [https://ourworldoftext.com/christmasworld Christmas 2025 - 2030].<gallery mode="packed" heights="150" caption="Poopman pixel art from [https://ourworldoftext.com/Halloween23 /Halloween23]"> | |||
File:Holloween23 pumpkin.jpg|alt=From /Halloween23 | |||
File:Halloween23 monsters.jpg|From | File:Halloween23 monsters.jpg|alt=From /Halloween23 | ||
File:Pixel art bgcolor enabled.jpg | File:Pixel art bgcolor enabled.jpg | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
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Frontpage [[chat]] was also brought back, temporarily at first, though it ended up staying for good due to requests from the community. | Frontpage [[chat]] was also brought back, temporarily at first, though it ended up staying for good due to requests from the community. | ||
On November 6th, the pumpkin started to decay like in the previous year. Afterwards FP made the choice to not restore the Center Console until the following day.<gallery mode="packed" heights="200"> | On November 6th, the pumpkin started to decay like in the previous year. Afterwards FP made the choice to not restore the Center Console until the following day. | ||
''*The pumpkin design was reused from Halloween 2023.''<gallery mode="packed" heights="200"> | |||
File:Thank you poopman.png|A note link thanking Poopman for creating [https://ourworldoftext.com/Halloween23 /Halloween23] | File:Thank you poopman.png|A note link thanking Poopman for creating [https://ourworldoftext.com/Halloween23 /Halloween23] | ||
File:Pumpkin death 2025.gif|Timelapse of the pumpkin disappearing | File:Pumpkin death 2025.gif|Timelapse of the pumpkin disappearing | ||
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=== /thanksgiving_dinner === | === /thanksgiving_dinner === | ||
[[File:Thanksgiving_table.jpg|center|thumb| | Linked on the Center Console during Thanksgiving. At the end of the holiday, all art/text left on the world are placed under member protection. | ||
The world was created in 2022.[[File:Thanksgiving_table.jpg|center|thumb|476x476px|[https://ourworldoftext.com/thanksgiving_dinner /thanksgiving_dinner] as of 2025]] | |||
=== 2023 === | === 2023 === | ||
[[File:Turkey of publicity.png|thumb|306x306px|Turkey of Publicity by [[Poopman]]|center]] | [[File:Turkey of publicity.png|thumb|306x306px|Turkey of Publicity by [[Poopman]]|center]]Poopman created a detailed pixel art turkey for 2023's Thanksgiving Center Console. | ||
<gallery mode="packed" heights=" | |||
File:Thanksgiving world.jpg | He also made [https://ourworldoftext.com/thanksgiving23 /thanksgiving23], a world similar to [https://ourworldoftext.com/halloween23 /Halloween23] with an [https://ourworldoftext.com/static/files/thanksgiving23.jpg image background] made by Poopman. The emoji cursor feature also made a return, alongside a new effect where leaves fall down from the top right corner of the screen. | ||
Like its predecessor, this world was host to an art contest which was won by [[Scar32]], who became a member of the world as a prize.<gallery mode="packed" heights="150" caption="[https://ourworldoftext.com/thanksgiving23 /thanksgiving23]"> | |||
File:Thanksgiving world.jpg|Poopman's art for the world | |||
File:Thanksgiving drawing contest.jpg | File:Thanksgiving drawing contest.jpg | ||
File:Pilgrims and indians.jpg | File:Pilgrims and indians.jpg | ||
File:Scar32 turkey.jpg | File:Scar32 turkey.jpg|Scar32's (winning) submission | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
== Christmas == | == Christmas == | ||
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Around this time, an anonymous scripter also deployed several [[Animated scripts|animations]] at Spawn, some of which were Christmas-themed. | Around this time, an anonymous scripter also deployed several [[Animated scripts|animations]] at Spawn, some of which were Christmas-themed. | ||
On December 19th, Poopman and FP released [https://ourworldoftext.com/ChristmasWorld /ChristmasWorld], which contained an [ | On December 19th, Poopman and FP released [https://ourworldoftext.com/ChristmasWorld /ChristmasWorld], which contained an [https://ourworldoftext.com/other/backgrounds/snow.png image background] just like [https://ourworldoftext.com/Halloween23 /Halloween23] and [https://ourworldoftext.com/thanksgiving23 /thanksgiving23]. And like in those worlds an art contest was announced, with the winner(s) being given a (🎄) [[Tags|tag]] for one month. Unlike its predecessors, however, /ChristmasWorld is set to make a return every year until 2030. | ||
On a more unfortunate note, an influx of NSFW [[Image pasters|image pastes]] caused FP to [[2025 color ban|temporarily disable colors]] on the [[/|Mainpage]]. The color ban persisted through Christmas and would not end until ?????, when FP implemented a way to hide image pastes from the canvas. <gallery mode="packed" heights=" | On a more unfortunate note, an influx of NSFW [[Image pasters|image pastes]] caused FP to [[2025 color ban|temporarily disable colors]] on the [[/|Mainpage]]. The color ban persisted through Christmas and would not end until ?????, when FP implemented a way to hide image pastes from the canvas. <gallery mode="packed" heights="150" caption="Center Console"> | ||
File:Christmas sop 2025.png|Old Christmas Console from December 17th, 2025 | File:Christmas sop 2025.png|Old Christmas Console from December 17th, 2025 | ||
File:Sock of publicity.png|Poopman's Sock of Publicity (''December 18th, 2025'') | File:Sock of publicity.png|Poopman's Sock of Publicity (''December 18th, 2025'') | ||
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File:Sans candle.png|Additions by [[Banksy]] | File:Sans candle.png|Additions by [[Banksy]] | ||
File:Banksy stink.png|Cont. | File:Banksy stink.png|Cont. | ||
File:Cat sock sing.png|Christmas day | |||
</gallery><gallery mode="packed" widths="200" heights="200" caption="Animations by [[Animated scripts#Animations by Banksy|Banksy]]"> | </gallery><gallery mode="packed" widths="200" heights="200" caption="Animations by [[Animated scripts#Animations by Banksy|Banksy]]"> | ||
File:Center console christmas tree animation.gif|December 10th, 2025 | File:Center console christmas tree animation.gif|December 10th, 2025 | ||
Latest revision as of 20:26, 25 December 2025
FP will do something on OWOT for most major (American) holidays, this can range from redesigning the Center Console to staging more elaborate events.
Some of the largest holiday events in OWOT's history were created by veteran user Poopman.
Valentine's Day
2023
Pi Day
2023
*An identical design was used for Pi Day 2025.
St. Patrick's Day
2023
2024
April Fools
2020
The Center Console was replaced by a background image of four grey circles.
2021
The Center Console was replaced by a variety of shapes throughout the day. These were rendered, like last time, using background images.
2024
For April Fools 2024, FP temporarily enabled cell background colors on the Mainpage, allowing users to run high resolution image pasters at Spawn. This feature would be permanently enabled later that year.
FP also put a background image of Elon Musk at Spawn.
2025
For April Fools 2025, FP changed the names of every channel in the OWOT Discord.
- #screenshot -> #shotscreen
- #trash -> treasure
- tbd
- tbd
- tbd
Easter
2023
2025
Earth Day
2025
Independence Day
2024
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"the US has temporarily colonized the OWOT spawn to bring you the Flag of Publicity" -
"the American occupation of the OWOT spawn has proven too costly. we have reverted to the status quo."
2025
Anniversary of OWOT's creation
The modern OWOT was created by FP on October 8th, 2017. It inherited the URL of a YWOT instance created by Andrew Badr in 2010, which was shut down in 2015.
2023
Our World of Text turned 6 years old today!
Six years ago, @FP has released his clone of Your World of Text to the public. To celebrate its 6th anniversary, the community has come together to make and paste various OWOT logo artwork around spawn, some even protected! To add, the trademark on the center console is back after FP noticed the amount of artworks still keeping it. @> ✨ᗩＩ ⟨ 𝓐ndrei𝓧𝓨𝓩 🌌 ⟩ ◭⟁◮ has also started a nickname party, which even had FP and Mr.Guy joining the train. Thank you for always supporting us throughout our journey. This news project would not have been possible without OWOT existing. We will forever keep this website in a special place in our hearts, and we will cherish all the memories together.
- AndreiXYZ in OWOT Today
- Screenshots from OWOT Today
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Halloween
2022
2023
Created in collaboration with Poopman for a Halloween event.
/Halloween23 uses pixel art by Poopman as its image background, which is stored in the site's code as /static/files/grave.webp. There is also a script that displayed a wobbling, Halloween-themed emoji over your cursor. The emoji shows up at your location for everyone using the world, though this feature can be toggled off using a menu at the top left corner.
In addition to the background, Poopman has filled the world with several pieces of high quality pixel art. These were meant to accompany an art contest that was taking place on the world. The contest was won by Bzuki (to much controversy due to the questionable quality of his drawing), who received membership on the page as a prize.
Poopman would create similar worlds (and art contests) for Thanksgiving 2023 and Christmas 2025 - 2030.
- Poopman pixel art from /Halloween23
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2024
As part of Halloween, cell colors were enabled and the chat was temporarily enabled starting on October 30 and ending the next morning.
The center console was replaced with a pumpkin, which proceeded to rot over the course of a few days. Once it had disintegrated completely, some users expressed relief with one anonymous user stating, "i hated the pumpkin."
Following calls to keep cell colors enabled, it's being held longer to gauge how it's being handled by the community.
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Jack-O-Lantern -
Infra's redesign -
"Uh-oh I don't feel so good" -
It caught fire, but was put out quickly -
It's all gone -
Sped up recording of the final moments
2025
For Halloween 2025, the Center Console once again turned into a pumpkin.
Frontpage chat was also brought back, temporarily at first, though it ended up staying for good due to requests from the community.
On November 6th, the pumpkin started to decay like in the previous year. Afterwards FP made the choice to not restore the Center Console until the following day.
*The pumpkin design was reused from Halloween 2023.
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A note link thanking Poopman for creating /Halloween23 -
Timelapse of the pumpkin disappearing
Thanksgiving
/thanksgiving_dinner
Linked on the Center Console during Thanksgiving. At the end of the holiday, all art/text left on the world are placed under member protection.
The world was created in 2022.
2023
Poopman created a detailed pixel art turkey for 2023's Thanksgiving Center Console.
He also made /thanksgiving23, a world similar to /Halloween23 with an image background made by Poopman. The emoji cursor feature also made a return, alongside a new effect where leaves fall down from the top right corner of the screen.
Like its predecessor, this world was host to an art contest which was won by Scar32, who became a member of the world as a prize.
- /thanksgiving23
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Poopman's art for the world -
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Scar32's (winning) submission
Christmas
Countdown worlds
Linked on the Center Console.
An identical world appears every Christmas with countdowns for each timezone, see a recording here. After Christmas is over the world is permanently privated.
The first Christmas countdown was /owot/christmas2023.
2021
2022
This was the first Center Console to use Symbols for Legacy Computing, a feature that was added earlier that year.
*A mostly identical design was used for Christmas 2024.
2024
2025
On December 17th, 2025, FP created a green Center Console for Christmas 2025. It received some amount of backlash for its uninspired design, and was replaced by a Poopman drawing on the following day. This marked one of Poopman's first major actions in OWOT after being inactive for most of 2025.
*Poopman later deleted the drawing by accident and had to rebuild it from scratch. At the end of this he forgot to protect the lowest row of characters, leading them to be deleted for the rest of the holiday season.
Around this time, an anonymous scripter also deployed several animations at Spawn, some of which were Christmas-themed.
On December 19th, Poopman and FP released /ChristmasWorld, which contained an image background just like /Halloween23 and /thanksgiving23. And like in those worlds an art contest was announced, with the winner(s) being given a (🎄) tag for one month. Unlike its predecessors, however, /ChristmasWorld is set to make a return every year until 2030.
On a more unfortunate note, an influx of NSFW image pastes caused FP to temporarily disable colors on the Mainpage. The color ban persisted through Christmas and would not end until ?????, when FP implemented a way to hide image pastes from the canvas.
- Center Console
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Old Christmas Console from December 17th, 2025 -
Poopman's Sock of Publicity (December 18th, 2025) -
December 19th, 2025 -
Additions by Banksy -
Cont. -
Christmas day
- Animations by Banksy
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December 10th, 2025 -
December 17th, 2025 -
December 18th, 2025
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Link art Christmas tree to get around the color ban (December 25th, 2025)
New Year
Countdown worlds
Linked on the Center Console.
A (mostly[1]) identical world appears every New Year's Eve with countdowns for each timezone, see a recording here.
The first New Year's countdown was /owot/2023countdown
New Year worlds
A new world is created every January 1st, featuring a unique design each year.
Like the countdown, this tradition started in 2023.
2025
Notes
- ↑ With differences in background colors.