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== Community reception ==

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[[File:1052 art.png|thumb|165x165px|By [[Guest-1052]]]]Image paste abuse is one of the most obtrusive forms of spam on OWOT and also one of the most common. By late 2024/early 2025, images have begun to regularly outnumber other forms of text at [[Spawn]], prompting several users to jokingly call the site "Our World of Image Pastes."

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Furthermore, image pasters are frequently used to display offensive and/or graphic content. Pornographic spam has always been a recurring problem on OWOT and the lack of measures against it have led to fierce criticism against the site's [[moderation]]. This problem was only made worse in November 2024, when image pastes achieved significantly higher resolutions with the implementation of customizable cell colors on the front page. A breaking point was reached in December 2025, when [[FP]] made the decision to [[The Great Color Ban of 2025/2026|disable color]] on the front page until he is able to implement a feature that can automatically hide image pastes from the canvas.

Despite all these issues, image pastes are not outright despised by the community. Many scripters still enjoy finding new ways to render images on the canvas, and the creation of new image pasters is usually received positively so long as it doesn't result in more spam. Nevertheless, there is an informal ban on the distribution of such scripts which [[Lemuria]] refers to as the "OWOT Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Image Pasters."

At the same time, there are many users who tolerate image pasters even when they are used for spam, seeing it as an example of spammers exercising their freedom on the canvas.

== Types of image pasters ==