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Users are encouraged to scroll in any cardinal direction, where they can follow one of the site's many roads/lines to a variety of distant landmarks. They may also choose to explore randomly; either way they'll find no shortage of messages and (mostly) hand-made creations. | Users are encouraged to scroll in any cardinal direction, where they can follow one of the site's many roads/lines to a variety of distant landmarks. They may also choose to explore randomly; either way they'll find no shortage of messages and (mostly) hand-made creations. | ||
[[File:2880px-Cojw.jpg|center|thumb|441x441px|YWOT is home to many memorable journeys, some of which have spawned cult-like communities, as covered in an [https://cultorjustweird.libsyn.com/s2e7-the-line 2020 episode] by ''Cult or Just Weird.'']] | |||
The YWOT Mainpage has been wiped multiple times throughout its history, with the last reset happening in July 2015 in response to a massive wave of spam. | The YWOT Mainpage has been wiped multiple times throughout its history, with the last reset happening in July 2015 in response to a massive wave of spam. | ||
The website itself, meanwhile, has been around for 16+ years. A great host of content from before the 2015 Wipe can still be found in the site's numerous subworlds, or within one of the many [https://www.yourworldoftext.com/frontpage/~andrew/3 Mainpage] [https://www.yourworldoftext.com/frontpage/~andrew/5 archives] created by Andrew Badr(''the two archives linked here are all covered by spam within a radius around Spawn, but give way to hand-made content as you scroll out''). | The website itself, meanwhile, has been around for 16+ years. A great host of content from before the 2015 Wipe can still be found in the site's numerous subworlds, or within one of the many [https://www.yourworldoftext.com/frontpage/~andrew/3 Mainpage] [https://www.yourworldoftext.com/frontpage/~andrew/5 archives] created by Andrew Badr(''the two archives linked here are all covered by spam within a radius around Spawn, but give way to hand-made content as you scroll out''). | ||
[[File:1kImageBlack4k.jpg|center|thumb|704x704px|Large screenshot of YWOT's Mainpage in 2022(''taken by Anonymousellama21'')]] | [[File:1kImageBlack4k.jpg|center|thumb|704x704px|Large screenshot of YWOT's Mainpage in 2022(''taken by Anonymousellama21'')]] | ||