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== Chat Spam ==
== Chat Spam ==
=== Rigged Poll ===
=== Rigged Poll ===
{{main|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 [[wikipedia:Sybil_attack|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.
"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 [[wikipedia:Sybil_attack|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.


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== Canvas spam ==
== Canvas spam ==
There are multiple types of spam on the canvas, most of which are usually done with scripts. Most of them are done away from the X and Y axes far from spawn.
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 ===
Multiple different colored <!-- [sic] --> roads have been pasted on the canvas that appear to lead to nowhere in particular. They usually wind around and go over each other.
[[File:Road spam.png|thumb|Road spam|221x221px]]
[[File:Road spam remnants.png|thumb|Last remnant of the road spam in 2025(''the curve at the top was added by [[JRT]]'')|225x225px]]
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|FP]] was able to accomplish this in 2022 using a newly introduced [[Moderation#Time Machine|time machine]] feature.
[[File:Mainpage december 14 2021.jpg|thumb|365x365px|Black and white [[Large OWOT screenshots|snapshot]] of the 2020 road spam|none]]
[[File:Fp big mainpage screenshot july 8 2024.jpg|thumb|649x649px|Before they were cleared, multicolored roads extended for hundreds of coordinates, forming a massive tangled mass around spawn.This image is a [[Large OWOT Screenshots|large snapshot]] of the mainpage from that era.|none]]
 
=== 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 [[The Chess Pieces|Chess Pieces]] spam from 2023.
<gallery widths="120" heights="120">
File:Replicator spam.png|Replicator spam
File:Link replicator spam.png|Replicator spam (links only)
</gallery>
 
=== Particle spam ===
<gallery widths="120" heights="120">
File:Cjk tile spam.png|CJK tile spam (very sparse)
File:Dense unicode cluster spam.png|Dense Unicode cluster spam
File:Unicode cluster spam.png|Sparse Unicode spam
</gallery>
 
=== Image paste spam ===
{{main|Image Pasters}}<gallery widths="120" heights="120">
File:Image Spam.jpg
File:Anime face spam.png
</gallery>
 
=== Fireworks spam ===
{{main|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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avAYxAhByzw 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.
 
<gallery widths="120" heights="120">
File:DisIsFuckinInsane.jpeg|Firework spam by an [[Anonymous users|anon]] called ourworldoftest
File:Fireworks spam ywot.png|Firework spam in YWOT on March 14th, 2023
File:Fireworks spam november 28 2025.png|By [[Ա]] on November 28th, 2025
</gallery>
=== PKK ===
{{main|PKK}}<gallery widths="120" heights="120">
File:Pkk 3.png|Flag spam pt. 1
File:Pkk 2.png|Flag spam pt. 2
File:Pkk 1.png|Scribble spam
File:Pkk 4.png|Flag spam pt. 3
File:Pkk note link spam.png|[[Links#Note links|Note links]] spam
</gallery>
 
=== StormXXBoy ===
Known for advertising his website using rainbow colored spam.<gallery widths="120" heights="120">
File:Rainbow circle.gif|Circular spam''Sped up 16x'')
File:Stormxxboy message overwrite.png|Script that replaces text with links to StormXXBoy's website
</gallery>
=== "Only Gays Here" spam ===
<gallery heights="150" widths="350">
File:Onlygaysherespam2.png|April 26th, 2025
File:Onlygaysherespam.png
</gallery>
=== Emoji Spam ===
<gallery widths="120" heights="120">
File:Fp on emoji spam.png
File:Pika city emoji spam.png|Emoji spam covering [[Pika City]] on August 19th, 2025
File:Yellow emoji spam timelapse august 28 2025.gif|Emoji spam with a peculiar spreading pattern(''Sped up ~40x'')
File:Emoji spam stop spamming.png
</gallery>
 
=== SLC spam ===
Spam consisting of [[Symbols for Legacy Computing|SLC]] slopes which would spread in strange patterns.  
 
These appeared throughout the first half of November 2025. Around the same time, the creator also created an [[image paster]] that utilized SLC slopes.<gallery widths="120" heights="120">
File:Spreading slc spam 1.png|"Glitch script"
File:Spreading slc spam 2.png|"Fungus script"
</gallery>
 
=== 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."<gallery widths="120" heights="120">
File:Blobfish november 12.png|November 12th, 2025
File:Blobfish november 12 2.png|200x200 coordinate screenshot by [[Realredtext-]](''November 12th, 2025'')
File:Blobfish november 13.png|November 13th, 2025
File:Blobfish november 18.png|500x500 coordinate screenshot by [[e_g.]](''November 18th, 2025'')
</gallery>
 
=== Miscellaneous ===
<gallery widths="200" heights="120" mode="packed">
File:Script experimentation.png|Miscellaneous script experimentation
File:Langtons ant spam.png|[[wikipedia:Langton's_ant|Langton's ant]] script(''September 30th, 2024'')
File:Test server spawn november 24 2025.webp|The Spawn of OWOT's [https://test.ourworldoftext.com test server](''November 24th, 2025'')
File:Test server spam prohibit.png|Test server spam by Prohibit(''November 24th, 2025'')<ref>"''this caused ~718 unique constraint errors''" -  FP</ref>
</gallery><gallery mode="packed" heights="500" caption="Miscellaneous large-scale spam">
File:Black spam august 28 2025.jpg|Large amounts of spam over Spawn on August 28th, 2025
File:Sharty spam september 22 2025.png|Soyjak.party spam, extends ~80 coordinates up and down(''September 22nd, 2025'')(''Actually orchestrated by crystal.cafe'')
File:Test server spam prohibit 2.png|[[Large OWOT screenshots|Large screenshot]] of OWOT's test server(''November 24th, 2025'')
</gallery>
 
== Spam clearing scripts ==
 
=== lime's raywiper ===
Erases spam in a circular pattern. Used by [[lime.owot]] to maintain Spawn throughout 2025.
 
[[NextOS]] was given a modified version of this script that left behind strange patterns when wiping text. This version was set up in a way that allowed lime to monitor its activities, and to prevent NextOS from using it in case of wipe abuse.<gallery mode="packed" heights="120">
File:Circular spam wiping.png
File:Circular erase pattern.png|Erase pattern for NextOS' version of the script
File:Raywiper december 2 2025 1.png|Dark mode
File:Raywiper december 2 2025 2.png
File:Raywiper timelapse.gif|Sped up 48x
</gallery>


=== Chess piece spam ===
== Notes ==
<small>''See also: [[The chess pieces]]''</small> <!-- there's no see also template and idk how to make one -->
[[Category:Spam]]
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[[Category:Scripts]]
In February 2023, an [[Anon|anonymous user]] created a script on https://owot-countdown.glitch.me/ that would open a WebSocket and spam chess pieces. A link to the site was also spammed. 3 days later, the WebSockets were removed, ending the conflict. Many chess pieces still exist, but [[KKosty4ka]] created a [https://pastebin.com/3WT5cDJE script] to remove them.
[[Category:Compilation pages]]
[[File:Road spam.png|thumb|Road spam]]
[[File:Chess spam.png|thumb|Chess spam]]
[[File:Replicator spam.png|thumb|Replicator spam]]
[[File:Link replicator spam.png|thumb|Replicator spam (links only)]]
[[File:Anime face spam.png|thumb|Anime face spam]]
[[File:Cjk tile spam.png|thumb|CJK tile spam (very sparse)]]
[[File:Dense unicode cluster spam.png|thumb|Dense Unicode cluster spam]]
[[File:Unicode cluster spam.png|thumb|Sparse Unicode spam]]
[[File:Script experimentation.png|thumb|Miscellaneous script experimentation]]
[[File:Image_Spam.jpg|thumb|Image spam]]
[[File:DisIsFuckinInsane.jpeg|thumb|Firework spam by a anon called ourworldoftest]]
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