Our World of Text Unofficial Survey

The Our World of Text Unofficial Survey was a survey held by Crazy Cat Lady in December of 2024.

Final Results

Copied from the OWOT Discord.

Survey Results 🐈 

✨ ** Total number of respondents:** 58 (note that not everyone answered each question)

✨ **Average user-voted site rating:** 5.98

- 8 was the most popular user score, with 1 being second-most popular.

✨ **Median join date:** 10/16/2022

- This likely suggests a user retention issue.

✨  **Median user age:** 16.5

✨  **Percentage of employed respondents:** 13.6%

✨  **User distribution:**

- 47.7% of respondents are from North America, with 70% of those users specifying the United States.

- Europe was the second-most populated continent, and the least populated was Australia/Oceania.

Below are some responses I thought were interesting, funny, or insightful. These are just cherry-picked by me, but i'll post the full response list later! anyone's free to read through it 😁

✨  **What's your favorite thing about this place?**

Many respondents mentioned art or creative potential in some way.

- *"Scripting is easy & I've seen lots of cool art and scripts on here. I get to talk to some very cool people from time to time."*

- *"tech like moving and self-updating stuff. also just conversations in real time"*

- *"The endless void of random text and history"*

✨  **...And what's your least favorite thing?**

Lots of people mentioned the community.

- *"Scripting is also easy for spammers/wipers/griefers/all kinds of things, but that's not exactly avoidable. Also, OWOT is notorious for having some racist, sexist, homophobic, etc kinds of people, which sucks :("*

- *"The chat's gone ahhh!!"*

- *"slur spam, excessive image pasting"*

✨  **If you could change anything here, what would it be?**

- *"a more expansive manual that explains how to make bold text, links, copy shit etc"*

- *"I'd love for slightly more moderation.."*

- *"Make it look more polished (like OWOP), be more mobile accessible, and get rid of the shitty people"*

(1/2)

✨  **Most interesting thing you ever saw on here?**

- *"that thing to the top left of the spawn that scrapes reddit. idk why it exists but it's impressive"*

- *"a working game of dwarf fortress on /main, it got taken offline by the creator though"*

- *"This form actually, or.. uhh, someone did a livestream of their own screen on owot with colored full blocks. bad apple in spawn, chika dance in high fps, and even whole movies were on owot"*

✨ **Any hobbies outside of this site?**

Since these responses felt a bit more personal I didn't want to include any particular quotes, but i'll give some stats:

- 6 people mentioned Coding/software development, making it the most popular hobby.

- 4 people mentioned gaming, making it the second-most popular.

- 4 people couldn't think of a hobby at all

- there were a lot of random hobbies, but the most interesting/unique one i saw was ant-keeping!!

✨ **What's your favorite media? (game, TV show, movie, etc)**

- *"idk i love many things"*

- *"Endless Sky, Space Station 14, Naev, Factorio"*

- *"Anything obscure/creepy (I recommend the OldRoot arg) "*

✨ **If you have any final thoughts to share, write them below!**

- *"I don't go on OWOT a lot (I'm not chronically online i swear). it's pretty fun to go to OWOT once in a while, talk to people (a lot of incels here tbh), do random shit"*

- *"If OWOT wasn't anonymous, there would be way less spammers and griefers. Even then, someone eventually will find a way to remain anonymous. Spam is just a fundamental part of OWOT and will never go away."*

- *"love u ♡"*

- *"play touhou -9029"*

- *"i was never really active on this site unfortunately so i don't have experience on it like others in the server do. it's a very interesting concept and i'm glad i found it from ywot a gazillion years ago...."*

✨  **Are you a cat or dog person?**

This was actually the only question on the survey with a correct answer. I'm glad to see a lot of you chose right 😊