Spam

Spam is unwanted repetitive content intended to render a medium of communication useless for a period of time, or to cause annoyance to users.

Chat Spam

Rigged Poll

"Rigged Poll" is in reference to the World of the Day Poll, which was known for its lack of security and its tendency to have illegitimate votes favor one particular World of the Day candidate. Prior to the events leading to the poll's replacement with an automated ratings system, it was very easy for a single user or a small group of individuals to launch a Sybil attack on the poll by placing an "x" character next to the world name over the course of a few days. It was one of the duties of a front page member to protect each vote that gets added to the poll, as long as it's not obvious that somebody is trying to rig the votes. A frequent occurrence was also the removal of legitimate votes from the poll by users who did not originally vote for that world. This eventually leads to unpopular worlds receiving the World of the Day status. For most of the poll's history, the front page members did not regard the votes on the poll, hence the meaning of Rigged Poll.

The W Chat Spam

Spammers use these to clear the chat since it's a long character and can sometimes be more annoying if they spam each time with a different ID.

Canvas spam

There are multiple types of spam on the canvas, most of which are usually done with scripts.

Road spam

Last remnant of the road spam in 2025(the curve at the top was added by JRT)

In 2020, multiple different colored roads were pasted on the canvas that appear to lead to nowhere in particular. They would wind around randomly and go over each other, extending for hundreds of coordinates.

The damage done by the road spam was incredibly difficult to rollback due to its sheer scale, but FP was able to accomplish this in 2022 using a newly introduced time machine feature.

Before they were cleared, multicolored roads extended for hundreds of coordinates, forming a massive tangled mass around spawn.This image is a large snapshot of the mainpage from that era.

Replicator spam

Links that replicate themselves when clicked.

Replicator spam was a big issue during the early days of OWOT, being responsible for damaging thousands of coordinates of text.

A notable example of replicator spam from recent times is the Chess Pieces spam from 2023.

Replicator spam
Replicator spam (links only)

Particle spam

CJK tile spam (very sparse)
Dense Unicode cluster spam
Sparse Unicode spam

Image paste spam

PKK

Emoji Spam

Emoji spam covering Pika City on August 19th, 2025
Emoji spam with a peculiar spreading pattern(Sped up ~40x)

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous script experimentation
Firework spam by a anon called ourworldoftest
Circular spam by StormXXBoy(Sped up 16x)

Large-scale spam

Black and white snapshot of the 2020 road spam

Large amounts of spam over Spawn on August 28th, 2025
Soyjak.party spam, extends ~80 coordinates up and down(September 22nd, 2025)(Actually orchestrated by crystal.cafe)

Only Gays Here spam on Spawn from April 26th, 2025