Trash:Starianna
Starianna is a controversial OWOT user. In late January 2024, she spammed OWOT's chats with bots counting numbers. One of her alts, Sabrina, was uncovered on January 29, 2024 and swiftly banned by FP.
History
Counting bot
On January 20, 2024, a counting bot began to spam the root world's chat with numbers. FP swiftly muted the bot. It returned two hours later, being unnoticed for slightly longer but still being muted. Afterwards, the bot began to send the name "Starianna" before starting its counting.[1]
On January 22, FP expressed concern that someone was spamming JavaScript links, which when clicked, would run code in the user's browser, such as Starianna's counting bot, after having muted the fourth bot that day. Tomorrow FP would mute the bot for the longest time possible, hoping it would stop. More bots had to be muted as the spam counting continued.
On January 24, FP stated he would work to address the phenomenon, believing that the bots were not run in the browser, but from numerous non-proxy residential IP addresses. The WOTD at the time, /name_tree, became the target of Starianna's counting. FP attempted to reach out to Starianna on January 25, but only received automated counting in response. Starianna continued to change her IP address to a fresh non-proxy legitimate-looking one every time she was muted.
Uncovering of Sabrina as an alt
On January 28, 2024, amidst the conflict with Starianna, lime.owot found that Sabrina's YouTube channel was named "Starianna". Sabrina then admitted to to being Starianna, starting a conflict between her and other members of the Our World of Text Discord server. During the conflict, she spam-pinged every online member and used racial slurs. Eventually, at 4:09 PM UTC, FP banned Sabrina after other members requested her ban.
On February 2, OWOT Today posted an article about Starianna in the Discord.[1]
In the wake of the ban, efforts began across OWOT to clean up the counting bots. By early February they were beginning to subside. The "Starianna News Organization" published a series of headlines regarding Starianna at the main world on February 10, 2024.
