Non-English speaking communities on OWOT: Difference between revisions
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{{main|Russian image board worlds}}Russian image board users are responsible for making several of the largest and most active pages on Our World of Text, the biggest of which was created in 2018 and is still receiving updates as of 2026. | {{main|Russian image board worlds}}Russian image board users are responsible for making several of the largest and most active pages on Our World of Text, the biggest of which was created in 2018 and is still receiving updates as of 2026. | ||
It is theorized that Russian internet users flock to OWOT and its sister website [[Your World of Text|YWOT]] in order to escape internet censorship, since these sites store text in a format that can't be read by spyware. | It is theorized that Russian internet users flock to OWOT and its sister website [[Your World of Text|YWOT]] in order to escape internet censorship, since these sites store text in a format that can't be read by spyware.<gallery> | ||
File:Blossom.jpg|A ~600 coordinate wide world populated by Russians | |||
File:Blossom art.png|Art from the world | |||
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== Portuguese == | == Portuguese == | ||
Revision as of 03:40, 5 January 2026
Subcommunities on OWOT, usually cut off from the wider userbase, that use languages other than English as their primary means of communication.
Russian
Russian image board users are responsible for making several of the largest and most active pages on Our World of Text, the biggest of which was created in 2018 and is still receiving updates as of 2026. It is theorized that Russian internet users flock to OWOT and its sister website YWOT in order to escape internet censorship, since these sites store text in a format that can't be read by spyware.
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A ~600 coordinate wide world populated by Russians -
Art from the world
Portuguese
Brazilian/Portuguese-speaking users have always been present on OWOT (albeit in small numbers) but became more widespread in August 2020, when popular Brazilian Youtuber Goularte mentioned Your World of Text in a video. The ensuing influx of Brazilian users primarily affected YWOT, where it triggered enough drama, lag, and racist backlash for Andrew Badr to lock down the YWOT Mainpage until 2021. Some of the migration spilled over to OWOT, however, and it was OWOT user Happyworld392 who coined the term "Brazilpocalypse," which would be used to describe the event in both communities.
Portuguese speaking users remained on YWOT (and presumably OWOT) in small numbers following the Brazilpocalypse. But five years later they seem to have disappeared completely.
Chinese
As far as we know, no (exclusively) Chinese speaking users are regularly active on OWOT, largely because CJK characters break the site's formatting. There's also the fact that users in China aren't able to pass the captcha required to create an account, since the service for that isn't available there.
See below for OWOT discussions on a Chinese internet forum in January 2025.
Larger threads:
- https://www.nodeloc.com/t/topic/34412
- https://www.nodeloc.com/t/topic/34577
- https://www.nodeloc.com/t/topic/34630
- https://www.nodeloc.com/t/topic/34664/9
Smaller threads:
French
An influx of French users came to YWOT/OWOT in December 2024, when French tech Youtuber Aywen released a video documenting the development of his YWOT clone Textboard.fr.
Most of them have since left, but as of early 2026 you'd still see one or two French messages every now and then.
One Textboard migrant, Jujublob, has since became a semi-active member of the "main" OWOT community. They are friends with JanTechPL, a Polish user.