Member
A member of a world, is a special type of user that can protect squares on the world, use BG colors[1] and write on those squares. Normal users cannot do these things. Members can be added or removed by a world's owner, and users can opt out of membership within a certain world.
Main world members
Admins are known to appoint trustworthy users to be members on the Mainpage.
Main world members have the (Member) tag in chat, which members of other worlds do not have. They can also access other member functionalities on the Mainpage, most notably the abilities to wipe text faster and to protect pieces of text. By scrolling around Spawn, you can find the occasional art or message that's preserved by member protections.
Main world members can also edit the Center Console. For example, Happyworld392 added the 🍖 and 🍬 links to the SOP around 2021.
Criteria for membership
"It depends on how we're feeling the day you asked. Generally, we'd give membership to old or mature members of the community, but even that depends.
The members promoted last year were trial members to see how they'd do."
— FP on January 1st, 2022
Users can get promoted to members by asking FP or InfraRaven, though there's no strict criteria for becoming one other than the fact that you have to be a trusted member of the community.
Unlike with admins and moderators, there are no duties that a main world member must perform, though several members have used their rights to protect art or wipe spam.
FP has been known to demote members for being inactive, though this has not happened in recent times.
List of main world members
This list will not include alt accounts or automation accounts, such as FP's alt Root, which was intended to be a service account for running bots.
InfraRaven is not listed here because he is the owner of the Mainpage.
| Member | Appointed by | Appointed for | Member since | Active in 2025? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP | Himself | Being the creator and lead developer of OWOT | tbd | Yes |
| Dzeni | tbd | Being an OG user, one of the first to express interest in FP's OWOT | tbd | Mysteriously vanished |
| Poopman | tbd | Being an OG user | tbd | No |
| Resurepus(Anon_guy) | tbd | Being an OG user, hosting FP's OWOT before Infra found it | tbd | No |
| RealHappyWorld | InfraRaven | tbd | March 16th, 2019 | Semiregularly |
| Theawesomepikachu20[3] | InfraRaven | Asking for member | March 16th, 2021 | Left the site in 2023 |
| Squinch/Ace Lebron(Promoted twice)[4][5] | FP | Being recommended for member in chat, being on OWOT/YWOT since 2012 | April 10th, 2022 | No |
| Fern(Formerly Yagton)[6] | FP | Being a prolific scripter
Fern received member status alongside her role as Discord admin |
May 15th, 2024 | Only on Discord |
Former main world members
| Member | Appointed by | Appointed for | Appointed | Demoted by | Demoted for | Demoted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ludwig | tbd | tbd | Early 2018 | FP | Spamming NSFW links in the SOP | tbd |
| Artman/Martan | FP | Wanting to redesign the SOP | February 28th, 2020 | tbd | Inactivity | Before 2022 |
| Vixie | FP[7] | Asking to maintain the SOP | March 2nd, 2020 | tbd | Spamming and protecting spam[8] | April 2021 |
| Cv[9][3] | Infraraven | Asking for member | March 16th, 2021 | InfraRaven | Giving AndreiXYZ access to his account[10][11] | March 2021 |
| PinkiePie/Sans | InfraRaven[12] | Befriending Infra on Spooks | January 23rd, 2022 | FP | Being a notorious troll and spamming porn | January 23rd, 2022 |
Trivia
- Tap20 once listed Heey as a main world member, though FP does not remember if this was ever the case.
Notes
- ↑ for main world members in the main world (or background colors is set to "me and members" by the world owner.)
- ↑ https://ourworldoftext.com/center_console_history
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "cv and tap20 were promoted because they asked for membership, and I called them "trial mods" which was inaccurate because members aren't moderators."— FP
- ↑ "I only recall promoting squinch once unless he was added historically by infra then demoted. I recall there being an inactivity purge of some sort but I have no written record of anything." — FP
- ↑ "I was a member of the main page for a while, but then I lost my main-page rights. I think Infra was clearing people off the rolls, had forgotten who I was, said "Who the hell is Pleroma?" and removed me." — Squinch in January 2022
- ↑ "well i can assure you that i would use my abilities to page member to do absolutely fucking nothing since i barely go on the website anymore" — Fern in 2023
- ↑ "for starters, Vixie's membership was an utter failure on my part. when I received a DM in 2020 requesting membership, I thought it was somebody who was genuinely interested in maintaining the member-protected area in the center [...] at the time, I was not aware of Vixie's background or that he was a spammer." — FP
- ↑ Vixie is believed by large parts of the community(ranging from Anons to Fern) to be a pedophile, but the allegations are not 100% proven.
- ↑ "the period of time between "i got member" and "cutievova demote" measured precisely in milliseconds" — Cv
- ↑ "[andrei] said some dumb password challenge thing [and] cutievova actually gave details, and then [andrei] had brief member seizure before i told and he got demoted [...] they started putting a bunch of random shill shit on center console too" — Happyworld
- ↑ "It's a pretty long story. So i was just sending "person below has to tell me their owot password" and cv fell for it, and he actually /told me his password. And then, when he became a member, i, an absolute idiot, wanted to give bzuki (at the time i didnt know he was a complete retard.) Imagine what would've happened if infra didn't demote me. Good thing infra noticed." — Andrei
- ↑ "I nearly stepped down from owot over pinkiepie's membership in early 2022. [there was] massive infighting within the admin team, but we are on good terms now" — FP