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== Animated scripts ==
== Animated scripts ==
{{main|Animated scripts}}Banksy was inspired to create animated scripts after seeing [[Mr. Black]]'s animations in late 2024.
{{main|Animated scripts}}Banksy's scripts range from simple, looping graphics to fully playable games, to more complex mechanisms such as full on physics simulations that run on the canvas. Some of their earlier creations (most notably the [[Center Console]] animations) were reminiscent of [[Mr. Black]]'s animations from late 2024, which Banksy had witnessed and was a fan of.
 
Banksy's initial works from November 2025 were extremely slow and struggled under the frontpage's ratelimit of 512 edits per second. But starting from December 17th, 2025, they began to optimize their scripts by making it so that only the necessary cells are updated with each frame. This allowed later animations to run significantly smoother and achieve higher levels of sophistication.


All scripts from December 19th, 2025 to ????, 2026 were rendered monochrome due to [[2025 color ban|a color ban on the frontpage]]. See [https://ourworldoftext.com/banksy Banksy's world] for the colored versions, as well as some scripts that are not captured here.
All scripts from December 19th, 2025 to ????, 2026 were rendered monochrome due to [[2025 color ban|a color ban on the frontpage]]. See [https://ourworldoftext.com/banksy Banksy's world] for the colored versions, as well as some scripts that are not captured here.
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File:Bomb throwing tank small.gif|December 19th, 2025 (Sped up 2x)
File:Bomb throwing tank small.gif|December 19th, 2025 (Sped up 2x)
File:Bomb throwing small.gif|December 19th, 2025 (Sped up 2x)
File:Bomb throwing small.gif|December 19th, 2025 (Sped up 2x)
File:Banksy tank.gif|Same script on December 26th
File:Banksy tank.gif|Same script on December 26th<ref>Model was drawn in Flipnote.</ref>
File:Fuck you fp im not getting hypnotized.gif|December 20th, 2025<ref name=":0" />
File:Fuck you fp im not getting hypnotized.gif|December 20th, 2025<ref>Original colors were various shades of red.</ref>
File:Owot physics.gif|December 20th, 2025
File:Owot physics.gif|December 20th, 2025
File:Spinning pentagon.gif|December 20th, 2025
File:Spinning pentagon.gif|December 20th, 2025
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File:Banksy bubbles.gif|January 6th, 2026
File:Banksy bubbles.gif|January 6th, 2026
File:Banksy bubbles 2.gif|In color
File:Banksy bubbles 2.gif|In color
File:Banksy frog.gif|January 8th, 2026<ref>(Formerly) accessible at [https://ourworldoftext.com/flipnote /flipnote]. This is the Flipnote logo.</ref>
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</gallery>The script was completed on January 7th, 2026.  
</gallery>The script was completed on January 7th, 2026.  


The final product was a medium sized, meat colored blob that would automatically attack nearby text using thin tendrils. Like the 3D physics simulations, Banksy could guide its movement by clicking where they wanted it to go, upon which the blob would rapidly glide to the desired location using a special animation. There was also a mode where the blob would slowly travel towards Banksy's cursor, with Banksy using the space bar being to toggle between the two types of locomotion.
The final product was a medium sized, meat colored blob that would automatically attack nearby text using thin tendrils. Like the 3D physics simulations, Banksy could guide its movement by clicking where they wanted it to go, upon which the blob would rapidly glide to the desired location using a special animation. There was also a mode where the blob would slowly travel towards Banksy's cursor, with Banksy using the space bar to toggle between the two types of locomotion.


The blob had to be shrunk down from its planned size due to technical constraints. Even in its minimized state it would make up to 3000 edits per seconds, well over the Frontpage's ratelimit<ref>512 characters per second for most users.</ref>.<gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Completed version of the script on January 7th, 2026">
The blob had to be shrunk down from its planned size due to technical constraints. Even in its minimized state it would make up to 3000 edits per seconds, well over the Frontpage's ratelimit<ref>512 characters per second for most users.</ref>.<gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Completed version of the script on January 7th, 2026">
File:Banksy carrion test 13.gif|Eating the previous day's tests
File:Banksy carrion test 13.gif|Eating the previous day's tests
File:Banksy carrion test 14.gif|Fast travel animation
File:Banksy carrion test 17.gif|Gliding locomotion
File:Banksy carrion test 14.gif|Gliding across large distances causes it to split apart
File:Banksy carrion test 15.gif|Frame rate tends to suffer during most animations
File:Banksy carrion test 15.gif|Frame rate tends to suffer during most animations
File:Banksy carrion test 16.gif|Attacking multiple objects at once
File:Banksy carrion comments.png|Comments from Banksy
File:Banksy carrion comments.png|Comments from Banksy
File:Banksy carrion spawn 1.gif|Running at Spawn (Sped up 20x)
File:Banksy carrion spawn 1.gif|Running at Spawn (Sped up 20x)
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=== Blobby Paint ===
=== Blobby Paint ===
{{main|Art#Brush scripts}}
{{main|Drawing scripts}}


A script for doodling on the canvas.
A script for doodling on the canvas.
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=== Miscellaneous ===
=== Miscellaneous ===
[[File:Big grid.png|center|thumb|316x316px|Grid generator(''December 22nd, 2025'')]]<gallery mode="slideshow" heights="300" caption="Various scripts in /test (Unknown date)">
[[File:Big grid.png|center|thumb|316x316px|Grid generator(''December 22nd, 2025'')]]<gallery mode="slideshow" heights="300" caption="Various scripts in [[/test]] (Unknown date)">
File:Test january 6 2026.png|The carrion/blob script, the worm script from January 2nd, Banksy's image paster, along with scripts by other users.
File:Test january 6 2026.png|The carrion/blob script, the worm script from January 2nd, Banksy's image paster, along with scripts by other users.
File:Test january 6 2026 2.png|Dark mode.
File:Test january 6 2026 2.png|Dark mode.
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=== Image paste traces ===
=== Image paste traces ===
Created by tracing off of image pastes using [[Symbols for Legacy Computing]].<gallery mode="packed" heights="150">
Created by tracing over image pastes using [[Symbols for Legacy Computing]].<gallery mode="packed" heights="150">
File:Banksy sus.png
File:Banksy sus.png
File:Banksy goldship.png|November 13th, 2025
File:Banksy goldship.png|November 13th, 2025

Latest revision as of 17:16, 9 January 2026

/Banksy redesign on January 5th, 2026[1][2]

I'm surprised this username isn't taken yet — Banksy after creating their account on December 20th, 2025

this implies banksy retired from graffiti and started to make owot scripts instead Katiserie

Banksy (named after the pseudonymous street artist of the same name) is a user who first made their presence known in November 2025. Since then they have become one of the most prolific scripters in the site's history, introducing multiple new scripts daily at the peak of their activity. In particular, they have created more animated scripts than any other user on OWOT[3].

Banksy had another username in 2018 but has since forgotten it. They were active as an anon up until December 2025, when they took the name "Banksy" after creating an image paster in order to paste their namesake's grafitti at Spawn.

Their text color is #000055 .

Old /Banksy

Animated scripts

Banksy's scripts range from simple, looping graphics to fully playable games, to more complex mechanisms such as full on physics simulations that run on the canvas. Some of their earlier creations (most notably the Center Console animations) were reminiscent of Mr. Black's animations from late 2024, which Banksy had witnessed and was a fan of.

Banksy's initial works from November 2025 were extremely slow and struggled under the frontpage's ratelimit of 512 edits per second. But starting from December 17th, 2025, they began to optimize their scripts by making it so that only the necessary cells are updated with each frame. This allowed later animations to run significantly smoother and achieve higher levels of sophistication.

All scripts from December 19th, 2025 to ????, 2026 were rendered monochrome due to a color ban on the frontpage. See Banksy's world for the colored versions, as well as some scripts that are not captured here.

Unless stated otherwise, all gifs on this page are playing at real time.

Platformer stickman

A user-controlled stickman that runs around the canvas, climbing over text and destroying them by firing projectiles. Users with this script can customize the colors of their stickmen and display their usernames over them.

This is a recreation of a stickman platformer script by lime, which contains many of the same animations but lacks the ability to fire projectiles. You can see that script in action here.

Banksy released his platformer stickman to the public in November 2025. Prolific users of it included NextOS, Voidi and qwas.

Animated Carrion

On December 25th, 2024, Banksy set about making a script based on the 2020 video game Carrion (which was also the inspiration for a popular blob entity from OWOT).

They created two testing scripts throughout the animated Carrion's development process, the first of which was a circular blob that Banksy could freely maneuver around the canvas. It had several abilities, such as creating a splash effect and attacking text using tendrils. The fully developed Carrion would more or less be a larger version of this script with more features and animations.

The second testing script was a colorful program that rendered physics simulations onto Banksy's page. It spawned complex, 3 dimensional patterns that could grow and pulsate, and that became increasingly lifelike throughout the testing process. Once an animation was started, Banksy could guide its growth by clicking at specific points on the canvas. This was meant to serve as a test for how the completed Carrion would move.

Most of the larger/more extravagant animations from this script did not make it into the final product. Some were cut due to technical restrictions and to prevent the Carrion from being too destructive.

Some of the physics simulations used small blobs (like from the first script) as a base unit for drawing lines. Banksy would later use a similar mechanism to create a dynamic brush tool.

The script was completed on January 7th, 2026.

The final product was a medium sized, meat colored blob that would automatically attack nearby text using thin tendrils. Like the 3D physics simulations, Banksy could guide its movement by clicking where they wanted it to go, upon which the blob would rapidly glide to the desired location using a special animation. There was also a mode where the blob would slowly travel towards Banksy's cursor, with Banksy using the space bar to toggle between the two types of locomotion.

The blob had to be shrunk down from its planned size due to technical constraints. Even in its minimized state it would make up to 3000 edits per seconds, well over the Frontpage's ratelimit[16].

Other scripts

Image pasters

Banksy created several unique image pasters in December 2025.

Blobby Paint

A script for doodling on the canvas.

It shares some effects with the animated Carrion scripts, creating lines by chaining together black dots of various sizes.

On January 6th, Banksy started experimenting with a colored version of the script in his personal testing world. This update also introduced high quality brush styles, making it by far the most complex brush script at the time.

Miscellaneous

Grid generator(December 22nd, 2025)

Art

Most of the following art is archived on /Banksy.

Unicode art

Banksy is somewhat sufficient in making simple unicode art, which is sometimes used in their animations.

Image paste traces

Created by tracing over image pastes using Symbols for Legacy Computing.

Link art

The following images were created by Banksy during the 2025 color ban, when (excluding emojis) only coordinate and URL links could be used for color. With this limited palette in mind, Banksy made purposeful decisions to highlight important parts of these monochrome image pastes, giving them an artistic quality in the process. The relative rarity of color would have also made these additions all the more eye-catching for users active during the color ban.

A couple of these are also entire handmade.

Notes

  1. The Center Console is a replica of the YWOT spawn box. "Is muh bennis" was a running gag from YWOT in the early 2020s (and possibly earlier) where someone would write "is muh bennis" beneath the Spawn box almost every day.
  2. The redesign occurred from January 5th to January 7th. The end result was more intentionally formatted than the previous layout of the world and introduced a teal motif, which was added to some pre-existing scripts.
  3. That we know of.
  4. Turn up brightness to see all details.
  5. Model was drawn in Flipnote.
  6. Original colors were various shades of red.
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 See full color version on /Banksy.
  8. This script originally used a dynamite stick emoji instead of a bomb emoji.
  9. FP and PinkiePie (among others) have created similar scripts in the past.
  10. it was intended to be like giant amoeba but when i coded the cut-off to be late it looked like worms which i thought were cool — Banksy
  11. The worms/snakes/amoebas were made from octants, and were yellow in their full-colored states. Banksy also created thinner, longer worms.
  12. From generating too many hearts in one place. The glitchy effect is created whenever two hearts touch.
  13. 13.0 13.1 The butterflies were initially orange, but got changed to teal in order to match the colors of Banksy's page.
  14. (Formerly) accessible at /flipnote. This is the Flipnote logo.
  15. Grey highlights are from the script exceeding OWOT's ratelimit by pasting too fast. Another side effect of this is that certain animations often leave behind afterimages.
  16. 512 characters per second for most users.