If you use a general search engine to simply look for WigglyPaint, you’ll see your answer. Right at the top of the results are wigglypaint.com, wigglypaint.art, wigglypaint.org, wigglypaint.net,…
If you use a general search engine to simply look for WigglyPaint, you’ll see your answer. Right at the top of the results are wigglypaint.com, wigglypaint.art, wigglypaint.org, wigglypaint.net, wiggly-paint.com, and half a dozen more variations. Most offer WigglyPaint, front-and-center, usually an unmodified copy of v1.3, sometimes with some minor “premium features” glued onto the side or my bylines peeled off. If you dig around on these sites, you can read about all sorts of fantastic WigglyPaint features, some of which even actually do exist. Some sites claim to be made by “fans of WigglyPaint”, and some even claim to be made by me, with love. Many have a donation box to shake, asking users to kindly donate to help “the creators”. Perhaps if you sign up for a subscription you can unlock premium features like a different color-picker or a dedicated wiggly-art posting zone?
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By furyofantares 2026-03-0817:051 reply I have no doubt LLMs are involved in this these days and make the problem worse, but this problem extends back in time too. During the Wordle craze there were tons of people making variations on Wordle. Anyone who's game got at all popular would find search results covered in sites that either just iframe embed their game, or copied the game and took out the credits.
I always register a TLD for my games and I think that might be why my games have always managed to stay at the top of the results, but they are followed by loads of people embedding the game, look at the search results for xordle for example. Many other authors would share their game on github pages or replit or whatever and were not so lucky.
By cl0ckt0wer 2026-03-0817:311 reply Yeah, I have a few domains that I keep around for these type of projects. If it doesn't go anywhere I just reuse it.
By cl0ckt0wer 2026-03-0817:32 (it's never gone anywhere )
By badsectoracula 2026-03-0818:49 Interestingly enough, i had a kind of similar "problem" (not that i see it as a problem, just a bit unfortunate).
About ~16 years ago i wrote a scripting language i called LIL[0] (which, like the author, i also hooked up in a HyperCard-like program[1][2]), meaning Little Interpreted Language, but whenever i search for it on Google or DDG, my site never shows up - instead, both show a GitHub repository[3] that someone made and hasn't been updated in 15 years (and has outdated links) and sometimes the Tcl wiki page about it[4] (which at least points to the correct homepage) or even Rosetta code[5] since sometime added LIL to it some time ago.
Amusingly DDG's AI summary does describe my LIL but it links to the outdated GitHub repo and the Tcl wiki page. Then if you click the "More" button it describes Beyond Loom's Lil. The "Explore more" links however do a mix of both (one even mixes both languages in the same response :-P).
[0] http://runtimeterror.com/tech/lil/
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8CYosAIIJw
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rshZHDDruAE
[3] https://github.com/wsxiaoys/lil
By NeutralForest 2026-03-0815:54 Full support to the author, I hope they'll be able to keep making things that are interesting and outside the box like Decker and WigglyPaint. I hope they'll find solace in keeping at creative things.
I also wish LLM copies were not crowding out actual artists.
