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I'm surprised this username isn't taken yet — Banksy after creating his 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) is a user who first made his presence known in November 2025. Since then he has become one of the most prolific scripters in the site's history, creating multiple scripts daily at the peak of his activity. In particular, he is responsible for making more animated scripts than any other user on OWOT^[3].

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

His text color is #000055 .

Animated scripts

name: how long did it take you to make and/or learn all of this?
Banksy: i have a background in C++ and python so it's just learning the javascript syntax
name: have you made similar projects before this one on owot?

Banksy: No but my papers are in robotics. im burnt out rn so im spending it burnt out in owot LMAO

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 his 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, he began to optimize his 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.

*Note: Some of the later animations have unnaturally high frame rates (for OWOT), which isn't really captured in these gifs.
November 6th, 2025 (Sped up 4x)
November 15th, 2025 (Sped up 20x)
November 22nd, 2025 (Sped up 5x)
Running realtime alongside a platforming script
November 22nd, 2025
December 1st, 2025 (Sped up 10x)^[4]
December 1st, 2025
December 2nd, 2025 (Sped up 10x)
December 10th, 2025
December 17th, 2025
December 17th, 2025
December 17th, 2025
December 17th, 2025
December 17th, 2025
December 17th, 2025
December 17th, 2025
December 17th, 2025
December 17th, 2025
December 18th, 2025
December 18th, 2025
December 18th, 2025
December 19th, 2025 (Sped up 2x)
December 19th, 2025 (Sped up 2x)
December 20th, 2025^[5]
December 20th, 2025
December 20th, 2025
December 20th, 2025^[6]
December 20th, 2025 (Sped up ~100x)
December 21st, 2025 (Sped up ~360x)
December 22nd, 2025^[6]
December 24th, 2025^[7]^[8]^[9]
January 2nd, 2026^[10]
January 2nd, 2026^[11]
January 2nd, 2026
In color^[9]
Heart chains^[12]
January 3rd, 2025^[13]^[9]
January 3rd, 2025^[6]
January 3rd, 2025
In color^[13]^[9]
January 5th, 2026 (Sped up 4x)^[6]
January 6th, 2026 (Sped up 10x)
January 6th, 2026
In color
January 8th, 2026^[14]
"Diddyblobs" (January 13th, 2026)^[9]
Sleeping
...
January 14th, 2026^[9]
January 14th, 2026

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 his stickmen and display his 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.

UI and controls^[15]
The script being used by NextOS
The script being used by NextOS
An "ellipse blast"

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).

He 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.

Black and white tests on the front page
Splash 1
Splash 2
Spawning and despawning
Duplication
Tendril 1
Tendril 2
Moving rapidly around Spawn
Cont.

The second testing script was a colorful program that rendered physics simulations onto Banksy's page. It spawned complex 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.

Colored tests on /Banksy
Sped up 5x
Sped up 2x
Sped up 4x
Sped up 3x
Sped up 6x
Sped up 2x
Sped up 2x
Sped up 5x

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 physics simulations, Banksy could guide its movement by clicking where he 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].

Completed version of the script on January 7th, 2026
Eating the previous day's tests
Gliding locomotion
Gliding across large distances causes it to split apart
Frame rate tends to suffer during most animations
Comments from Banksy
Running at Spawn (Sped up 20x)
Sped up 20x
Carrion vs. qwas
"absolute carrion"

High res stills
From the first day of testing on December 25/6th, 2025
Second day of testing on January 6th, 2026 (All this would end up being devoured by the finished Carrion)

Fast scripts

Vehicles that Banksy could maneuver around the canvas, each with its own mechanism for destroying text.

The assets for these scripts were created in Desmos and coded in Javascript. Like several of his other scripts, the animations are converted to octants using an algorithm that Banksy calls the Geometry Engine.

Banksy wanted the following scripts to run as fast as possible, so all of them exceeded the Frontpage's rate limits.

Banksy showcasing the scripts on his world (January 9th, 2026)
"thsi wrecking ball one is fun bcus i can control the length of the crane thing"
"ok heli time"
"the ufo one is similar to the heli except it shoots orbs"
"airplane time"
"ok now this one's my favorite, spider mf"
"so i just move the body and the legs follow^[17]"
"german engineering"
"I tried running this in front page and it kinda worked, but not the explosion lol"
Tank, deployed at Spawn in December 2025

Other scripts

Image pasters

Banksy has created several unique image pasters.

Image paster with with reversed pasting order (December 19th, 2025)
Massive image paste (December 19th, 2025)^[6]
Using colored emojis to circumvent the 2025 color ban (December 23rd, 2025)
Using SLC slopes
Using card unicode (January 10th, 2026)
$Using fractional SLC blocks (January 14th, 2026)$

Using fractional SLC blocks (January 14th, 2026)

Blobby Paint

A script for doodling on the canvas.

Like the animated Carrion scripts, it creates 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.

Monochrome doodles on the color banned frontpage
December 31st, 2025
December 31st, 2025
December 31st, 2025
January 1st, 2025
January 1st, 2025
January 1st, 2025
January 1st, 2025

Colored tests on /Banksy/a and /Banksy/b
January 6th, 2026
January 6th, 2026
January 7th, 2026
January 9th, 2026

Miscellaneous

Various scripts in /test (Unknown date)
The carrion/blob script, the worm script from January 2nd, Banksy's image paster, along with scripts by other users.
Dark mode.

Art

Most of the following art is archived on /Banksy or /Banksy/b.

Unicode art

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

November 13th, 2025
December 2nd, 2025
For /ChristmasWorld (December 31st, 2025)

Image paste traces

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

November 13th, 2025
January 4th, 2026
January 4th, 2026

SLC art

Banksy also makes entirely original SLC art.

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.

2025-12-20
2025-12-20
December 20th, 2025
December 20th, 2025
Slime effect by Rscr(2025-12-20)
2025-12-21
2025-12-22
2025-12-22
December 22nd, 2025
December 22nd, 2025

Notes

↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ That we know of.
↑ Turn up brightness to see all details.
↑ Original colors were various shades of red.
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 ^6.4 See full color version on /Banksy.
↑ This script originally used a dynamite stick emoji instead of a bomb emoji.
↑ FP and PinkiePie (among others) have created similar scripts in the past.
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 ^9.2 ^9.3 ^9.4 ^9.5 Animations spawn from wherever Banksy clicks.
↑ 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
↑ The worms/snakes/amoebas were made from octants, and were yellow in their full-colored states. Banksy also created thinner, longer worms.
↑ From generating too many hearts in one place. The glitchy effect is created whenever two hearts touch.
↑ ^13.0 ^13.1 The butterflies were initially orange, but got changed to teal in order to match the colors of Banksy's page.
↑ Accessible at /flipnote. This is the Flipnote logo.
↑ 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.
↑ 512 characters per second for most users.
↑ Based off of https://oscarliang.com/inverse-kinematics-implementation-hexapod-robots/.

[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] Original colors were various shades of red.

[:0-6] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 ^6.4 See full color version on /Banksy.

[7] This script originally used a dynamite stick emoji instead of a bomb emoji.

[8] FP and PinkiePie (among others) have created similar scripts in the past.

[:2-9] 9.0 ^9.1 ^9.2 ^9.3 ^9.4 ^9.5 Animations spawn from wherever Banksy clicks.

[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.

[:1-13] 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] 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.

[17] Based off of https://oscarliang.com/inverse-kinematics-implementation-hexapod-robots/.

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@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 [[File:Banksy january 5 2026.png|thumb|[https://ourworldoftext.com/banksy /Banksy] redesign on January 5th, 2026<ref>The Center Console is a replica of the [[Your World of Text|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.</ref><ref>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.</ref>]]
-<blockquote>''I'm surprised this username isn't taken yet'' '''— Banksy after creating his account on December 20th, 2025'''</blockquote><blockquote>''this implies banksy retired from graffiti and started to make owot scripts instead'' '''— [[Katiserie]]'''</blockquote>'''Banksy''' (named after the pseudonymous street artist [[wikipedia:Banksy|of the same name]]) is a user who first made his presence known in November 2025. Since then he has become one of the most prolific scripters in the site's history, creating multiple new scripts daily at the peak of his activity. In particular, he has created more [[animated scripts]] than any other user on OWOT<ref>That we know of.</ref>.
+<blockquote>''I'm surprised this username isn't taken yet'' '''— Banksy after creating his account on December 20th, 2025'''</blockquote><blockquote>''this implies banksy retired from graffiti and started to make owot scripts instead'' '''— [[Katiserie]]'''</blockquote>'''Banksy''' (named after the [[wikipedia:Banksy|pseudonymous street artist]]) is a user who first made his presence known in November 2025. Since then he has become one of the most prolific scripters in the site's history, creating multiple scripts daily at the peak of his activity. In particular, he is responsible for making more [[animated scripts]] than any other user on OWOT<ref>That we know of.</ref>.
 Banksy had another username in 2018 but has since forgotten it. He was active as an [[Anonymous users|anon]] up until December 2025, when he took the name "Banksy" after creating an [[Image pasters|image paster]] to paste his namesake's grafitti at [[Spawn]].
@@ Line 25: / Line 25: @@
 File:Spawn vacuum.gif|November 22nd, 2025 (Sped up 5x)
 File:Spawn vacuum 2.gif|Running realtime alongside a platforming script
+File:Sop beach animation.gif|November 22nd, 2025
 File:Banksy pagoda animated.gif|December 1st, 2025 (Sped up 10x)<ref>Turn up brightness to see all details.</ref>
-File:Sop beach animation.gif|November 22nd, 2025
 File:Bouncing dvd logo.gif|December 1st, 2025
 File:Sop station.gif|December 2nd, 2025 (Sped up 10x)
@@ Line 51: / Line 51: @@
 File:Banksy clock 2.gif|December 21st, 2025 (Sped up ~360x)
 File:Monochrome lightning script.gif|December 22nd, 2025<ref name=":0">See full color version on [https://ourworldoftext.com/banksy /Banksy].</ref>
-File:Banksy bomb.gif|December 24th, 2025<ref>This script originally used a dynamite stick emoji instead of a bomb emoji.</ref><ref>[[FP]] and [[PinkiePie]] (among others) have created similar scripts in the past.</ref>
+File:Banksy bomb.gif|December 24th, 2025<ref>This script originally used a dynamite stick emoji instead of a bomb emoji.</ref><ref>[[FP]] and [[PinkiePie]] (among others) have created similar scripts in the past.</ref><ref name=":2">Animations spawn from wherever Banksy clicks.</ref>
 File:Black worms.gif|January 2nd, 2026<ref>''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'''</ref>
 File:Many black worms.gif|January 2nd, 2026<ref>The worms/snakes/amoebas were made from octants, and were yellow in their full-colored states. Banksy also created thinner, longer worms.</ref>
 File:Banksy hearts 1.gif|January 2nd, 2026
-File:Banksy hearts 2.gif|In color
+File:Banksy hearts 2.gif|In color<ref name=":2" />
 File:Banksy hearts 3.gif|Heart chains<ref>From generating too many hearts in one place. The glitchy effect is created whenever two hearts touch.</ref>
-File:Banksy butterflies.gif|January 3rd, 2025<ref name=":1">The butterflies were initially orange, but got changed to teal in order to match the colors of Banksy's page.</ref>
+File:Banksy butterflies.gif|January 3rd, 2025<ref name=":1">The butterflies were initially orange, but got changed to teal in order to match the colors of Banksy's page.</ref><ref name=":2" />
 File:Banksy jellyfish.gif|January 3rd, 2025<ref name=":0" />
 File:Banky butterfly.gif|January 3rd, 2025
-File:Banksy butterflies color.gif|In color<ref name=":1" />
+File:Banksy butterflies color.gif|In color<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />
 File:Banksy balloon.gif|January 5th, 2026 (Sped up 4x)<ref name=":0" />
 File:Sop station 2.gif|January 6th, 2026 (Sped up 10x)
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 File:Banksy bubbles 2.gif|In color
 File:Banksy frog.gif|January 8th, 2026<ref>Accessible at [https://ourworldoftext.com/flipnote /flipnote]. This is the Flipnote logo.</ref>
-File:Banksy blobs 1.gif|"''Diddyblobs''" (January 13th, 2026)
+File:Banksy blobs 1.gif|"''Diddyblobs''" (January 13th, 2026)<ref name=":2" />
-File:Banksy blobs 3.gif|January 13th, 2026<ref>Here they can be seen sleeping.</ref>
+File:Banksy blobs 3.gif|Sleeping
-File:Banksy blobs 2.gif|January 13th, 2026
+File:Banksy blobs 2.gif|...
+File:Banksy cat blobs 1.gif|January 14th, 2026<ref name=":2" />
+File:Banksy cat blobs 2.gif|January 14th, 2026
 </gallery>
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 {{main|Image pasters}}
-Banksy created several unique image pasters in December 2025.<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
+Banksy has created several unique image pasters.<gallery mode="packed" heights="150">
 File:Banksy paste.gif|Image paster with with reversed pasting order (December 19th, 2025)
 File:Big gold ship.png|Massive image paste (December 19th, 2025)<ref name=":0" />
 File:Image paste december 23 2025 1.png|Using colored emojis to circumvent the [[2025 color ban]] (December 23rd, 2025)
+File:Banksy slc paster.png|Using [[Symbols for Legacy Computing|SLC]] slopes
 File:Banksy card paste 2.png|Using card unicode (January 10th, 2026)
+File:Banksy image paster january 14 2026.png|Using fractional SLC blocks (January 14th, 2026)
 </gallery>
 === Blobby Paint ===

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