Mr. Black

From /archivetests.

Mr. Black is a scripter who started off on Your World of Text, but migrated to OWOT because it places less restrictions on scripting.

He created an assortment of animated scripts throughout September 2024, after which he disappeared completely. He returned to YWOT in November 2025 and explained that the reason for his inactivity was that he lost computer access as a result of moving house. He made a formal return to OWOT scripting in January 2026.

Mr. Black's animated creations served as a source of inspiration for another scripter named Banksy, who would create a truly prodigious amount of similar scripts in late 2025 and early 2026.

In 2024, Mr. Black used various shades of blue for his text color and would occasionally type in all bold.

From /archivetests.

On YWOT

YWOT Homer. Yosicat would later make an ASCII version of this art.

Mr. Black was active on Your World of Text back in 2010, then left the site and was not regularly active until late 2024. He had a far edgier personality on YWOT and was known for pasting softcore porn at Spawn. On a brighter note, he also dabbled in unicode art and would create beautiful structures using 3D cubes.

Mr. Black's YWOT scripts ranged from a moving moth to a video player that played Bad Apple. All of these were rendered in braille, but upon moving to OWOT he quickly learned to use octants instead. Mr. Black's animated scripts suffered greatly from YWOT's strict ratelimit, with most of them running 20 to 30 times slower than their OWOT counterparts.

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  Sped up
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  Sped up (August 31st, 2024)
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  Sped up (August 31st, 2024)
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  Sped up (September 17th, 2024)
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  August 13th, 2024
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  August 15th, 2024

2024 scripts

Car

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  Mr. Black's car in motion (Footage by Fox).
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  The car leaving behind afterimages due to lag.
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  Updated car made from octants.

A car that moved around Spawn at a relatively fast speed. It was surprisingly life-like, having a different model for each direction it travels in.

Mr. Black had made another car in YWOT prior to this, but it was much slower due to the site's lower rate limit.

The car was running alongside as and would often pass over MCL's OWOT-YWOT Bridge, causing it to appear on the YWOT end of the portal.

The OWOT car was initially made out of braille but Mr. Black soon updated it to an unicode model.

Bad Apple

On September 4th, 2024, Mr. Black was able to animated Bad Apple in the centerconsole. He experimented with both braille and unicode animation.

Later that day he repeated this feat on YWOT, albeit at a much slower frame right given the lower rate limit on the site.

OWOT livestreaming

Sped up

On September 5th, 2024, Mr. Black came up with a way to broadcast their monitor to the Center Console.

Black first tested this by playing Street Fighters gameplay using unicodes, but the frame rate was so slow that a few users mistook it for a simulation of Conway's Game of Life.

By September 8th Mr. Black had figured out a way to livestream their monitor at real time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo_P0XQ64rk

Pacman

"That's probably one of the most interesting things I've seen in a very long time, for how simple it is." - FP on Mr. Black's Pacman Simulator

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  A full game of OWOT Pacman. Characters move randomly and the ghosts always win. (Sped up)
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  Pacmen duplicating after eating cherries. Mr. Black deploys big Pacmen at the end out of exasperation. (Sped up)

On September 23rd, 2024, Mr. Black began running a simulated game of Pacman in the Center Console.

Unicode Pacmen would move randomly across the page, eating normal text while avoiding any instance of the "█" character. "█" (U+219) was used to constrain the Pacmen to the Center Console, though they had the capacity to escape if the barrier was deleted.

Ghosts (👻) moved in roughly the same manner and would delete any Pacmen they ran into. And as in the original game, ghosts turned blue (🥶) whenever a Pacman eats a power pellet.

There was no specialized ending screen for this game and the level would simply reset upon completion. Due to the random movement of the characters, there was not a single instance where the Pacmen were able to devour all the dots within the level.

At one point there was a feature where the Pacmen would duplicate whenever they ate a cherry (🍒). Users soon found a way to exploit this by pasting large amounts of cherries onto the level, generating an ungodly swarm of hungry Pacmen which could then be unleashed onto the rest of the Mainpage. Logically, it wasn't long before Mr. Black disabled this feature, worrying that having large numbers of Pacmen running at once would strain the OWOT server.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi2K0ZhXctc&t=2s

Water simulator

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  Sped up

On September 24th, Mr. Black began running a water simulator within the Center Console. The water was composed of unicodes blocks whose movement was controlled by Black.

The fluid was initially monochrome, but was then given color and shading as Black improved the script. A variety of colors were used throughout the simulation, ranging from blue to green to a dark, bloody red.

After a while Mr. Black started to experiment with having a surfer (🏄) float along the water's surface, bouncing up and down with the fluid's movement. Initially the surfer would move left and right in a fixed pattern, but by September 25th it was able to dynamically move around the Center Console.

On at least a few occasions the surfer would be catapulted above the Console, at which point it would leave behind a trail of afterimages as the script did not delete characters past a certain range.

Mr. Black would use a number of other emojis in place of the surfer, such as a duck (🦆), a whale (🐳) and a boat (🛥️).

The water simulator, which eventually received the name Mr Black's WaterPark, was enjoyed fondly by the OWOT community. One user even made a music video by syncing the water's movement to Brazilian Phonk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGUipZQPTb0

2026 scripts

Mr. Black's big Pacman along with Poopman's Super Mario script, Banksy's clock script, and a black orb creature by ???. (January 21st, 2026)

Mr. Black returned to OWOT in January 2026, while The Great Color Ban of 2025/2026 was still in place on the front page. He had returned to YWOT a few months earlier, though he was only active there for a short while before disappearing once more. He explained that he was inactive for most of 2025 because he had lost compute access from moving house.

His creations in early 2026 included an advanced image paster and a script that projected rotating 3D models onto the canvas. Several of his 2024 scripts also made a return, such as the car and both types of Pacmen scripts.

Analog clock

Inspired by another clock script.

An animated analog clock would sporadically spawn on both OWOT and YWOT starting from January 21st, 2026.

The script ran smoothly on YWOT but suffered from repeated glitches on OWOT, where it was only able to run for a few minutes at a time before destabilizing.

Banksy created his own clock script and deployed it alongside Mr. Black's. This was his first time interacting with the user who inspired him to make animated scripts.

On both OWOT and YWOT there were many jokes substituting "cock" for "clock."

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  Analog clock on YWOT (Sped up 30x)
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  Reception to the clock on YWOT.
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  Problems with the clock on OWOT.
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  Sped up 30x. The clock was shut down after it started to glitch.
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  Glitching
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  Talking with Banksy about optimizing the script. Archived on /Banksy/b.
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  Glitching pt. 2
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  Bigger clock running alongside Banksy's portal script (along with a smaller clock by Banksy)

Scrolling text

Appeared on January 25th, 2026.

The scrolling text script took up all the remaining SOP space left over by the digital clock (which had been running for four days by that point). Mr. Black removed the script in response to community outrage.

The script returned later that day and was updated to display whatever text was written directly beneath the Center Console. It briefly ran alongside several other animated scripts, such as a falling text script by Banksy, a moving duck by Rad and a user controlled JTPL critter.

See here for a recording from that day.

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  Sped up 2x
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  Additional text (Sped up 2x)
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  Protest against the clock and the scrolling text.
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  The scrolling text briefly returned as a second SOP clock.
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  UQ protesting against the clock.

Mr. Black clarifying that he didn't make the clock, only the scrolling text.

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  Scrolling text updated to display any text written beneath the Center Console. (Sped up 4x)
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  Running alongside Banksy's falling text script.

Spinning 3D cube

Mr. Black: no physics, not animation either

Mr. Black: 3D projection of a wireframe cube

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Mr. Black: Im going to use this as the base for a 3D vehicle

gimmickCellar: ok but what about a 6D vehicle

Mr. Black: I thought about that, but It would smell like shit

First seen on January 26th, 2026. This was one of the first instances of 3D simulations on OWOT.

Mr. Black would use this script for several more sophisticated creations (like a user controlled spaceship) in February 2026.

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  January 26th, 2026
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  January 31st, 2026
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  Briefly running in the SOP after the clock script was removed. (January 31st, 2026)

Image paster

Main article: Image pasters

Mr. Black has an octant paster with a variety of different modes for rendering images.

The script was created during The Great Color Ban of 2025/2026, so links were initially used for color. Individual text colors were incorporated into the paster one by one as they were gradually re-enabled on the front page.

yeah, I implemented probably 7 different error diffusion dithering techniques, some matrix diffusion and a color/matrix diffusion

I have a small utility so I can select the dither, it does a full dither of the image, then it scales the image down and does another dither, then restores the size and reads the colour information and combines

someone else already had the same but with only using 1 type of dither, but rescaling the image to get the colours for each cell

but now someone has implemented atkinson dithering too, so now it's not uniquely mine

WindowToaster by the looks of it

*Not all of these image pastes are confirmed to have been from Mr. Black.

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  Black and white paste. (January 24th, 2026)
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  Paste altered by Rscr. (January 24th, 2026)
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  February 4th, 2026
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  February 4th, 2026
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  February 4th, 2026
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  Dark mode. (February 4th, 2026)
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  Different modes. (February 5th, 2026)
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  After three shades of grey were re-enabled. (February 5th, 2026)
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  After yellow was re-enabled. (February 8th, 2026)
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  After purple was re-enabled. (February 9th, 2026)
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  After pink was re-enabled. (February 11th, 2026)
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  After sky blue, maroon^???, and orange were enabled. (February 18th, 2026)

Analog clock part 2

The analog clock returned on February 5th, 2026. After a while, Mr. Black was able to get it running smoothly on OWOT.

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  lime's idea for incorporating the analog clock into art. (February 5th, 2026)
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  Clock Tower, after a suggestion by lime. (February 5th, 2026)
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  "OUT OF SERVICE"
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  Alternate clock tower design.

Clock and balls

On February 6th, 2026, Mr. Black added balls to the insides of the analog clock which would be carried about by the clock's hands.

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  February 6th, 2026 (Sped up 2x)
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  With clock tower (Sped up 2x)
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  Test on February 15th, 2026 (Sped up 5x)

Mr. Black talking with kkb about his clock script. (February 9th, 2026)

3D Arwing

A 3D, rotating model based on the spaceship from Starfox. First seen on Feburary 10th, 2026.

The spaceship could alternate between a solid model and several types of wireframes. A later update on February 13th also allowed Mr. Black to change its size mid animation.

The 3D arwing model was the precursor to a mobile, user-controlled spaceship, which Mr. Black started testing around February 17th, 2026.

February 1st, 2026

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  February 10th, 2026
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  February 10th, 2026
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  February 10th, 2026
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  February 10th, 2026
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  February 10th, 2026
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  February 10th, 2026
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  February 10th, 2026
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  February 10th, 2026
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  Changing size (February 13th, 2026)
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  February 14th, 2026
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  Growing to a gigantic scale (February 20th, 2026)
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  February 20th, 2026 (Sped up 10x)

3D Mario

Rendered using the same script as the previous 3D models. Appeared at Spawn on February 13th, 2026.

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  February 13th, 2026
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  February 13th, 2026
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  February 14th, 2026
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  February 20th, 2026 (Sped up 5x)

Mobile Arwing

Commonly referred to as an airplane script.

An updated version of the arwing script that can move around the canvas in addition to spinning in place. Mr. Black can change its size mid animation to create the impression that it is moving closer or farther away from the viewer.

Since it was first deployed at Spawn on February 18th, 2026, Mr. Black has been working to increase the script's frame rate while allowing it to run at larger sizes; currently it experiences a lot of lag from exceeding the front page's ratelimit. Mr. Black also plans to implement "controller support" so that other users can steer the spaceship.

• Running at Spawn on February 18th, 2026
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Running at high speeds. (February 19th, 2026)

Updated to preserve text. (February 19th, 2026) (Sped up 10x)

February 19th, 2026

February 20th, 2026

See original footage here. (February 20th, 2026) (Sped up 10x)

See original footage here. (February 20th, 2026) (Sped up 10x)

See original footage here. (February 20th, 2026) (Sped up 10x)

February 20th, 2026

February 21st, 2026

• Tests on another world (February 18th, 2026)
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  Sped up 4x
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  Sped up 5x
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  Sped up 1.6x
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February 18th, 2026

Bouncing dots

First seen on February 20th, 2026. Periods that move in a straight, diagonal line and bounce off of any text they come into contact with.

On February 21st, Mr. Black replaced the periods with colored octant dots. These new dots can slowly break down full block symbols ("█") by causing them to turn lighter every time they are hit (█ -> ▓ -> ▒ -> ░ -> deleted). Certain full blocks can be set to be indestructible. Characters other than full blocks are instantly deleted upon impact.

The bouncing dots are prone to lag when too many are active at once, causing them to leave behind colorful trails of afterimages.

Upon seeing the dots in action, Neon1246 was inspired to create his own version of the script.

• February 21st, 2026
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  Mr. Black talking with Neon about the script.
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  Neon/thorium's bouncing dot script. Neon types in red text here.
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  Running alongside Neon's dot. A new dot is spawned every time a full block is fully broken. A bouncing line script from /funbox spawns in towards the end.
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  The gravity script from /funbox is activated and pulls down the afterimages created by all three types of bouncing objects.
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  Neon's bouncing dots script with public controls added via comu links. See here for an extended recording of this script on the following day. See here for a timelapse of that recording sped up 30x.

February 22nd, 2026. See here for an extended recording of the script in action. See here for a timelapse of that recording sped up 30x.