2025 color ban

The start of the ban coincided with the announcement of a Christmas art contest at /ChristmasWorld.

(OP) fp: owot lost its Technicolor™ license

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(OP) fp: colors are off because it's a really good pressure to get me to deploy the hide-images feature within a day or two rather than MONTHS

On December 19th, 2025, FP temporarily disabled color on the Mainpage after a video script was used to broadcast NSFW footage at Spawn. This decision was a part of a long running effort to combat image pasters in OWOT, with FP saying during the ban that he was working on a menu option that would allow users to hide all images on the canvas.

The color ban sparked backlash from large portions of the userbase, though a few users found the monochrome canvas to be more aesthetically pleasing. A variety of methods were used to work around a lack of text colors, such as using emojis and URL/coordinate links to render colored images. On the other hand, several scripters simply opted for black and white image pasters.

In many ways, OWOT's Mainpage was made visually similar to that of Your World of Text, a text canvas which has never supported more than one text color on any given page. Though there were still some differences stemming from OWOT-exclusive features like Symbols for Legacy Computing and text decorations. Colored landmarks on the Mainpage also retained their color after the ban, and when damaged FP would continue to restore them in their original states.

The ban was lifted on ??????.

Lead up to the color ban

i've said this several times before but octant pastes are genuinely beautiful with colors disabled

for an event, fp should disable all colors at spawn for a week or so

— Rscr on December 14th, 2025

The week leading up to the ban was marked by several NSFW pastes from a single user. After the ban, Sylveon came up with a successful way to brick that specific image paster.

atp with how much porn that gets pasted on the front page, fp can't just say he can't do anything about it. it's got to count as willingly exposing minors to porn, especially how he gives them wiper perms to get them to do his job for him.

I guarantee he knows all this by now, and by not shutting down the canvas entirely or removing colors it definitely falls under being intentional

— Catha'vi on December 18th, 2025

User reactions

💗GoldShip🤍: owot without colors is just glorified ywot

💗GoldShip🤍: like

💗GoldShip🤍: literally the same shit but with worse people

💗GoldShip🤍: 0/10 won't try again

🖥️Fun.com💚: meh

🖥️Fun.com💚: OWOT has much more new features than colours

💗GoldShip🤍: man god FORBID someone uses the site for what it was intended for

💗GoldShip🤍: (programming)

💗GoldShip🤍: like ngga you made this shit you should know what it'd cause

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ℓ≻ marie: when do we get the colors and image pasters back front page

💗GoldShip🤍: when fp stops being a pussy

ℓ≻ marie: i wanna paste uma yuri again front page

rscr: i want the color ban to go on for a while

💗GoldShip🤍: YES

📱(Ꙥ) JanTechPL: i

rscr: it's interesting to see how people work around a lack of colors

💗GoldShip🤍: lil ngga thinks he's white diamond removing them colours

📱 (Ꙥ) JanTechPL: wanna know

💗GoldShip🤍: and individuality

[8185]: imagine an owop color ban

💗GoldShip🤍: and being hot

≺ℓ≻ marie: The color ban is dumb asf💔

rscr: like using emojis and links for color

💗GoldShip🤍: oh i have one

💗GoldShip🤍: grayscale hentai

📱 (Ꙥ) JanTechPL: when the sock of publicity will have a public space

[8185]: and then they make all emojis grayscale and max contrast

Color replacements

Using emojis

Emoji pasters have always existed in OWOT, but are rarely seen due to their inability to accurately represent images.

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Using links

During the ban, two text colors were still available using links: blue(url links) and green(coordinate links).

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  December 20th, 2025
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  YWOT link art from 2010

Spam war

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.

Due to the color ban, this is an unprecedented instance of spammers fighting exclusively using black text(and emojis).

Spam

Most scripted circles in OWOT are created using rays, which tend to miss certain text and leave behind intricate patterns.

• Colored spam using spaghetti emojis a.k.a. "Pasta Railgun"(by bengobeklitava)
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• Stickman spam a.k.a. "Shortlanders"(by bengobeklitava)
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  Mobile stickmen spam from earlier that day
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  Precursor to the massive star-shaped spam that would occur later that day
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  Banksy's image paster can also be seen

• "Black Carrion" by UntitledOWOT
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  Running earlier that day(Sped up ~48x)

• Overview of the event
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  1:22 AM EST
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  1:59 AM EST
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  2:30 AM EST
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  3:46 AM EST
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  3:57 AM EST
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  5:28 AM EST
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  5:36 AM EST
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  5:48 AM EST

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)

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  Roomba by an unknown user
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  By Banksy
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  By Banksy

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.

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