Kubex300
Kubex300 appeared on April 14th, 2022 and would conduct two massive mainpage griefs in the months following their arrival.
The first of these griefs erased more of the mainpage than any attack since the 2015 Wipe. The second grief, a similarly massive onslaught of black blocks(referred to by many as The Void), would be notorious for its month-long presence over Spam Central.
With both instances, the damage done by Kubex was restored by /~fp/. This does not, however, diminish Kubex300's status as the most notorious griefer to have appeared since the chaotic days of pre-Wipe YWOT(when the site had far less protection against scripts and spammers banded together into factions).
Initial Waves(April 14th-April 16th)[edit | edit source]
Kubex first began griefing spawn in response to another user, going by hazel#1111, who spammed a large area around spawn with the message "hazel#1111 knows how to write python." Shortly after this Kubex began spamming, covering a even larger area around spawn with the message "[kubex300 knows how to write nodejs:)] [sorry for the spam ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]". Remnants of the attack, possibly forged, exist throughout the northeast.
(Later changed to "kubex300 knows how to write javascript." An invite link was included in this iteration of the spam, leading to a discord server where Kubex would talk about the situation at spawn and take requests.)
This alone destroyed more text than any previous griefs in the current mainpage, with Kubex supposedly using five separate servers to paste his messages. However the scale of this initial wave would be dwarfed by what would soon follow.
On April 16th, 2022, due to a request from a member of their server, Kubex began spamming ascii art of characters from Among Us(popular game from 2020) at spawn. This lasted for roughly an hour, after which a bot cleared away some of the spam and spawn briefly returned to normal.
Kubex's Bible(April 17th-April 18th)[edit | edit source]
On April 17th, 2022 Kubex got to work pasting the entire bible in YWOT. It began to the right of the spawn box and stretched downwards for roughly 3000 coordinates, causing a great amount of damage due to its proximity relative to the south road.
The Bee Movie script was also pasted due to another request from Kubex's server.
The above texts took up a large amount of space at spawn, and as a result became targets of griefers. However it was impossible to do any meaningful damage against them, as both were maintained by scripts. This further angered the griefers, who shortly after began spamming messages containing rhetoric against Kubex.
On April 18th, Kubex got tired of the current status quo and started clearing away the area around spawn. Prior to this they supposedly claimed that everything within 1000 coordinates of (0,0) was going to be wiped. This plan would not be fulfilled, though the damage that ensued would be massive nonetheless.
Kubex's server was also deleted on this date. The reason for which is unknown, but it's possible that Kubex wanted to grief spawn in privacy.
After Kubex's mass griefing of spawn has concluded, both the bible and the Bee Movie script were completely erased, with all text covered by them being restored.
Mass Erasure(April 18th - April 22)[edit | edit source]
Fairly self explanatory.
Starting on April 18th, 2022 Kubex began erasing all text in a growing rectangle around (0,0).
This would be done in a strange method, in which an area would be erased in a pattern before being erased completely. The reason for this is unknown.
Over the next few days this rectangle of nothingness would grow rapidly, ending around X:(-)121 and Y:(-)242 at it's peak.
At spawn text and art would still appear, however they would not last long before being erased by Kubex's script.
There was little that could be done to slow down the erasure, however an admin assured that a backup of spawn does exist, and can be used if things got too out of hand.
Spawn Restoration[edit | edit source]
On April 22nd, 2022 the area affected by Kubex was restored by /~fp/. This was done using a backup of spawn archived in 2021, so some text could not be brought back.
Following this Kubex disappeared from YWOT, seemingly due to the knowledge that any attempt to grief mainpage on a large scale would be futile. It's also likely due to the fact that they had to pay for server time in order to execute a mass grief.
And so spawn returns to normal, with another mass grief not happening for roughly one week.
Return of Kubex[edit | edit source]
On June 18th, 2023 Kubex returned and bought back their Bible. They also hinted at bringing back the void, though no attempt has been made so far.
