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Fen Spinner is an English-speaking pen spinning community created on July 30th, 2020 by Varoza. After frequent disagreements with staff from The Workshop leading up to September that year, Fen Spinner became public and the membership greatly increased, claiming to be a new community separate from those typically associated with UPSB. The community hub is primarily a public Discord server with a secondary website, Fen Spinner Wiki. The community participated in SpinFest 2021 and 2023, as well as the Pen Spinning World Cup 2022, which it won.

History

Fen Spinner was established as a Discord server on 30 July 2020 to serve as a social hub for several members of the private team OPSD to interact with non-members. Initially characterized by minimal moderation and informal structure, the server functioned primarily as a casual hangout space.

Prior to 11 September 2020, a series of long-standing tensions began to reshape the server’s direction. Prior disagreements had emerged between members of Fen Spinner and the administration of The Workshop, with criticisms directed at the latter’s approach to moderation. Concerns included perceived heavy-handed enforcement, lack of responsiveness to community feedback, and inconsistent application of rules. Although these critiques were largely dismissed at the time, they contributed to the eventual dissolution of The Workshop.

The name "Fen Spinner" comes from the Fennec Fox^[1], the mascot animal of the community. The animal is sometimes referred to as a "Fen" and sounded similar to "Pen", so the community name was chosen as a pun.

Split from The Workshop

The September 11th 2020 call and the infamous "Fentember 11th" message

On 11 September 2020, members of Fen Spinner initiated what became the largest voice call on The Workshop server, reaching the channel’s maximum capacity of 25 simultaneous users. Moderators declined invitations to participate. During the event, the #voice-text channel saw a surge in activity, with posts ranging from pen spinning discussions to unrelated content. Although memes and off-topic messages had appeared previously, the volume during this call was unprecedented.

The administrator Coffeelucky requested that participants leave the channel and instead use a group chat call, which was limited to 10 users—less than half of those present. This suggestion was met with criticism, and the proposal later shifted to creating a new server entirely. During the call, concerns were raised about moderation practices, particularly the perception that enforcement disproportionately targeted specific individuals rather than applying consistent rules. A meme referencing the September 11 attacks was posted in relation to the event.

The call continued into the early hours of 12 September. No immediate disciplinary actions were taken, but overnight, the administration issued bans, mutes, and warnings citing the generic reason of "Spam." Notably, Varoza was banned for seven days, and Zxntle was muted for 14 days. It took approximately two weeks for the community to uncover the specific reasons behind these actions. Many users criticized the vague and delayed explanations, which remained unclear until Varoza was unbanned.

The administration later clarified that Zxntle had been muted for replying "bruh" to Coffeelucky, and that Varoza had been warned—not banned—for posting the offensive meme. The exact reason for Varoza’s ban remains unknown. Following the incident, moderator abc resigned. The administration alleged that abc had been harassed, though screenshots circulated showing abc engaging in personal attacks against other users. In the aftermath, several active members left The Workshop in protest. Some moderators, including DarKT, described the departing users as "troublemakers," despite one of them having previously been offered a moderator position.

As a result of these events, a significant portion of the active English-speaking community migrated to Fen Spinner, which grew from approximately 10 members to several hundred.

SpinFest 2021

In November 2020^[2], sign-ups for SpinFest 2021 opened. Fen Spinner submitted to the draft and, after India's community applied late, made it into the lineup^[3]. Initial plans for a parody as the first video from Fen Spinner were quickly scrapped, with plans being drawn for a show of the community's ability. On April 12th 2021, after months of editing and filming, "Fen Spinner 1st" was released^[4] as the SpinFest submission, a surprise to detractors who claimed a troll CV would be submitted. Edited by Varoza, it featured extensive 3D graphics and special effects, and featured 11 spinners.

Further CVs and World Tournament 2021

A collaboration video was planned for a crossover with LSPSC, but the project was suspended after LSPSC closed in July 2021.

On July 30th 2021 a minicombo collaboration video "1 Year of Fen Spinner"^[5] was released, with videos from many of the active Fen Spinner members.

Fen Spinner expressed interest in joining the Pen Spinning World Tournament 2021, but a decision by the Pen Spinning Board of Directors was made to lump the community in with The Workshop and those still identifying as UPSB, with Padrace as manager and the community named as the English Speaking Pen-spinning Collective (ESPC). The rule itself currently only applies to Fen Spinner, and previous World Tournaments allowed new boards and boards split from other boards to sign up, famously Korean and German boards. Ultimately, a deal was made that allowed the combined English speaking community to enter more participants than defined in the rule book, with the following spinners entering A side from Fen Spinner:^[6]

Varoza
Pall
Allwars

Pall came top 32, Allwars top 16 and Varoza top 8.

In addition, Mervo entered World Tournament B side^[7] from Fen Spinner.

Spin Awards 2021

With no members of the Spin Awards committee wishing to step up and run the event, Fen Spinner volunteered and ran Spin Awards 2021, using a complicated multiple choice voting system and a restyling of the event to look more professional. Among other changes, the event was restructured to have an individual representative and individual advisor from each community to handle fair voting, nominations and communicating the event with their own communities.

Past Spin Awards had a limited set of representatives, typically limited to a friend group nature like the Pen Spinning Board of Directors, and the list of award recipients was chosen by the event organizer, Coffeelucky, after some consultation. This made the past Spin Awards controversial as often individual candidates were missed in nominations and voting, with a heavy bias towards popular figures.

The 2021 event also held voting in early 2022 in order to accurately receive combos later in the year from sources like the JapEn CV, which is typically released on Christmas day. Following this, the results compilation and editing process took until February 27th for the release of the awards, with some people such as Coffeelucky who had refused to assist the editing process complaining publicly about the internally communicated delays.

All three award videos were released in February, with modding awards being published as an image result due to the editing workload not being assisted by any other Spin Awards representative:

After the release of the videos, Fen Spinner announced stepping down from running Spin Awards, citing difficulties and political infighting bogging down the process of running the event. With no individuals willing to have Spin Awards handed off to them, the server was given to FPSB's Patchwork, and fell into disuse shortly after with the event no longer being held.

Leadership changes, World Cup 2022 and Pen Spinning Olympics 2022

In late 2021 a key change was Nine from UPSB joining Fen Spinner and soon making his way into the leadership of the community, with Allwars eventually departing the community for the second time. Originally Fen Spinner was to join with members of The Workshop to create a World Cup team, but the alliance was shaky and eventually broken by another Workshop conflict. The decision was made to form a new World Cup team consisting entirely of Fen Spinner members: Final Boss. Soon after these tensions resulted in Nine and Varoza being permanently banned from the workshop shortly after the tournament started.

Final Boss came 3rd in the 1st round of the Pen Spinning World Cup 2022, and defeated in all categories the strongest team from PSH: BlackMagic in round 2. In round 3, they defeated the rival team they originally split away from before the tournament: The Five Fingers of Sublime Pen, captained by Padrace. Eventually, they would defeat JEB's Eastern Reunion in the final round in all categories, winning the World Cup. The team's victories were particularly crushing as Final Boss won 14/15 round points, only losing a single battle in the event. The single lost battle was controversial, as Krogan was suggested to freestyle and troll his opponent on purpose while preparing for the next round, such was the confidence that Final Boss would win regardless.

The Final Boss team members were as follows:

Varoza
Nine
Krogan (pseudonym of Barney)
Vanilla
ZeGentleman
Saltient (substitute)

ZeGentleman, the winner of the PSUK beginner's tournament, was notably only a 1 year prodigy spinner. He was swapped out for Saltient after round 2.

In the Pen Spinning Olympics 2022, Fen Spinner members Reboot and ZeGentleman entered the power category, with Reboot placing 1st and ZeGentleman 3rd. Barney entered the Wipers category as "KyorYuuNa", coming 4th place after not submitting for the final round.

Spinfest 2023, the rise of Spindys and fall of The Workshop

The second official CV of the board, FEN 2ND | Spinfest 2023 was released on June 25th, 2023, with a strong roster comprising almost all of the Final Boss team members and other Fen Spinner members.

On its release the manager of the Spinfest Twitter account, Coffeelucky, shared it with a caption stating that the video had "Excessive bright flashing lights" advising people not to watch it. In fact, the CV had been screened to a member with photosensitive epilepsy beforehand and confirmed not to have any adverse effects before release.

During this period the new community Spindys began to gain traction. Tilt, a Fen Spinner member for several years had started a YouTube channel that attracted many new spinners to the hobby. With the decline in activity in The Workshop, that same activity moved over to Spindys, with Fen Spinner and Spindys cooperating for the English-speaking pen spinning community. The Workshop would later close for good on October 20th, 2024.

World Tournament 2025

Several Fen Spinner members entered the Pen Spinning World Tournament 2025, with their registered communities following their names:

Tilt (Spindys, Fen) - 3rd Place
Barney (Spindys) - Top 8
Levia (Independent) - Top 16
monsoon (PHPS) - Top 16
Apple (VNPS, Fen)

Barney jokingly signed up under PSUKC, then Spindys under a fake name 'LimSeowon'.

Wiki

Fen Spinner Wiki is a MediaWiki site created as a replacement for the long-defunct UPSB Wiki in early 2021. Over time, this grew to become the largest pen spinning wiki project ever made, dwarfing the original UPSB projects and other competitors. In 2025 a new responsive frontend and homepage was added to the wiki as part of a wider rollout of updates to the site.

Notable members

References

[1] Wikipedia article on Fennec Foxes

[2] Tweet announcing sign-ups for SpinFest 2021

[3] Tweet showing Fen Spinner making it into SpinFest 2021

[4] Tweet of Fen Spinner 1st released to SpinFest

[5] 1 Year of Fen Spinner on YouTube

[6] WT21 Participants page on the website

[7] WT21 B side Participants on the website

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-'''Fen Spinner''' is an English-speaking [[pen spinning community]] created on July 30th, 2020 by [[V 0 1 D]]. After frequent disagreements with staff from [[The Workshop]] leading up to September that year, Fen Spinner became public and the membership greatly increased, claiming to be a new community separate from those typically associated with [[UPSB]]. The community hub is primarily a public Discord server with a secondary website, [[Fen Spinner Wiki]]. The community participated in SpinFest 2021.
+'''Fen Spinner''' is an English-speaking [[Pen Spinning Community|pen spinning community]] created on July 30th, 2020 by [[Varoza]]. After frequent disagreements with staff from [[The Workshop]] leading up to September that year, Fen Spinner became public and the membership greatly increased, claiming to be a new community separate from those typically associated with [[UPSB]]. The community hub is primarily a public Discord server with a secondary website, [[Fen Spinner Wiki]]. The community participated in SpinFest 2021 and 2023, as well as the [[Pen Spinning World Cup 2022]], which it won.
 ==History==
-Fen Spinner was originally created on the 30th of July, 2020 to serve as a hangout for several members of the private team OPSD to interact with non-members. It was a social space with little to no rules until September 11th when events leading on for months changed the server's direction. Numerous prior disagreements had taken place between Fen Spinners and the administration of The Workshop, criticizing The Workshop for heavy-handed moderation, ignoring community input and being selective about rules. All complaints were dismissed and critics were labelled negatively.
+Fen Spinner was established as a Discord server on 30 July 2020 to serve as a social hub for several members of the private team OPSD to interact with non-members. Initially characterized by minimal moderation and informal structure, the server functioned primarily as a casual hangout space.
+Prior to 11 September 2020, a series of long-standing tensions began to reshape the server’s direction. Prior disagreements had emerged between members of Fen Spinner and the administration of The Workshop, with criticisms directed at the latter’s approach to moderation. Concerns included perceived heavy-handed enforcement, lack of responsiveness to community feedback, and inconsistent application of rules. Although these critiques were largely dismissed at the time, they contributed to the eventual dissolution of The Workshop.
 The name "Fen Spinner" comes from the Fennec Fox<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_fox Wikipedia article on Fennec Foxes]</ref>, the mascot animal of the community. The animal is sometimes referred to as a "Fen" and sounded similar to "Pen", so the community name was chosen as a pun.
 ===Split from The Workshop===
-[[File:Fentember.jpg|thumb|200px|The September 11th 2020 call and the infamous "Fentember 11th" message]]On September 11th 2020, Fen Spinner members decided to make the largest voice call on The Workshop, peaking at the channel cap of 25 simultaneous users. Moderators were invited to join, but declined. The '#voice-text' channel had a high activity of posts, some pen spinning related and some not. There was no prior precedent for what was allowed in the channel; memes and unrelated content appeared before between users, but not at the same rate.
+[[File:Fentember.jpg|thumb|200px|The September 11th 2020 call and the infamous "Fentember 11th" message]]On 11 September 2020, members of Fen Spinner initiated what became the largest voice call on The Workshop server, reaching the channel’s maximum capacity of 25 simultaneous users. Moderators declined invitations to participate. During the event, the #voice-text channel saw a surge in activity, with posts ranging from pen spinning discussions to unrelated content. Although memes and off-topic messages had appeared previously, the volume during this call was unprecedented.
-The administrator (now retired) [[Coffeelucky]] demanded people leave the channel and into a private group call. This was ridiculed as the group call limit is 10 users, less than half the people present. Then the demand was changed to making and moving everyone to a new server, and the demands were ignored. Complaints about moderation were raised, particularly criticizing how enforcement targeted 'undesirables' rather than maintaining order. An offensive [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks September 11 attacks] meme depicting Fen Spinner about to fly into The Workshop was posted.
+The administrator Coffeelucky requested that participants leave the channel and instead use a group chat call, which was limited to 10 users—less than half of those present. This suggestion was met with criticism, and the proposal later shifted to creating a new server entirely. During the call, concerns were raised about moderation practices, particularly the perception that enforcement disproportionately targeted specific individuals rather than applying consistent rules. A meme referencing the September 11 attacks was posted in relation to the event.
-This continued until the early hours of the 12th, with no punishments appearing until after. It was then discovered The Workshop had given out punishments overnight, providing the generic "Spam" reason to bans, mutes and warnings. Notably V 0 1 D was banned for 7 days and Zxntle muted for 14 days. It took 2 weeks to ascertain the real reasons, with users decrying the punishments and criticizing the vague reasons, which were not explained until V 0 1 D was unbanned.
+The call continued into the early hours of 12 September. No immediate disciplinary actions were taken, but overnight, the administration issued bans, mutes, and warnings citing the generic reason of "Spam." Notably, Varoza was banned for seven days, and Zxntle was muted for 14 days. It took approximately two weeks for the community to uncover the specific reasons behind these actions. Many users criticized the vague and delayed explanations, which remained unclear until Varoza was unbanned.
-It was revealed that Zxntle was muted for replying "bruh" to Coffeelucky and V 0 1 D was warned (not banned) for the offensive meme. The ban reason was never released. The moderator [[abc]] quit and the administration falsely alleged that he had been harassed out. Evidence was provided showing he aggressed others and didn't receive abuse. DanyOn and [[Blizzardous]] left the server in protest of the administration, then moderator [[DarkT]] lied that Blizzardous broke rules himself and was unimportant to the community. Blizzardous had a clean record and had initially been offered the post of moderator instead of abc, but had declined the position.
+The administration later clarified that Zxntle had been muted for replying "bruh" to Coffeelucky, and that Varoza had been warned—not banned—for posting the offensive meme. The exact reason for Varoza’s ban remains unknown. Following the incident, moderator abc resigned. The administration alleged that abc had been harassed, though screenshots circulated showing abc engaging in personal attacks against other users. In the aftermath, several active members left The Workshop in protest. Some moderators, including DarKT, described the departing users as "troublemakers," despite one of them having previously been offered a moderator position.
-With nothing resolved on The Workshop's end, and baseless lies made by the administration, a significant chunk of the active English-speaking community moved to Fen Spinner.
+As a result of these events, a significant portion of the active English-speaking community migrated to Fen Spinner, which grew from approximately 10 members to several hundred.
 ===SpinFest 2021===
-[[File:Fens1st.jpg|thumb|200px|Fen Spinner 1st Title screen]]In November 2020<ref>[https://twitter.com/Spinfest/status/1333090728273121280 Tweet announcing sign-ups for SpinFest 2021]</ref>, sign-ups for [[SpinFest 2021]] opened. Fen Spinner submitted to the draft and, after India's community applied late, made it into the lineup<ref>[https://twitter.com/Spinfest/status/1342137798065852416 Tweet showing Fen Spinner making it into SpinFest 2021]</ref>. Initial plans for a parody as the first video from Fen Spinner were quickly scrapped, with plans being drawn for a show of the community's ability. On April 12th 2021, after months of editing and filming, "Fen Spinner 1st" was released<ref>[https://twitter.com/Spinfest/status/1381843299435167745 Tweet of Fen Spinner 1st released to SpinFest]</ref> as the SpinFest submission, a surprise to detractors who claimed a troll CV would be submitted. Edited by V 0 1 D, it featured extensive 3D graphics and special effects, and featured 11 spinners.
+[[File:Fens1st.jpg|thumb|200px|Fen Spinner 1st Title screen]]In November 2020<ref>[https://twitter.com/Spinfest/status/1333090728273121280 Tweet announcing sign-ups for SpinFest 2021]</ref>, sign-ups for [[SpinFest 2021]] opened. Fen Spinner submitted to the draft and, after India's community applied late, made it into the lineup<ref>[https://twitter.com/Spinfest/status/1342137798065852416 Tweet showing Fen Spinner making it into SpinFest 2021]</ref>. Initial plans for a parody as the first video from Fen Spinner were quickly scrapped, with plans being drawn for a show of the community's ability. On April 12th 2021, after months of editing and filming, "Fen Spinner 1st" was released<ref>[https://twitter.com/Spinfest/status/1381843299435167745 Tweet of Fen Spinner 1st released to SpinFest]</ref> as the SpinFest submission, a surprise to detractors who claimed a troll CV would be submitted. Edited by Varoza, it featured extensive 3D graphics and special effects, and featured 11 spinners.
 ===Further CVs and World Tournament 2021===
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 Fen Spinner expressed interest in joining the [[Pen Spinning World Tournament 2021]], but a decision by the [[Pen Spinning Board of Directors]] was made to lump the community in with [[The Workshop]] and those still identifying as [[UPSB]], with [[Padrace]] as manager and the community named as the '''English Speaking Pen-spinning Collective''' (ESPC). The rule itself currently only applies to Fen Spinner, and previous World Tournaments allowed new boards and boards split from other boards to sign up, famously Korean and German boards. Ultimately, a deal was made that allowed the combined English speaking community to enter more participants than defined in the rule book, with the following spinners entering A side from Fen Spinner:<ref>[https://wt21.worldps.org/participants/ WT21 Participants page on the website]</ref>
-*[[V 0 1 D]]
+*[[Varoza]]
 *'''Pall'''
 *[[Allwars]]
-Pall came top 32, Allwars top 16 and V 0 1 D top 8.
+Pall came top 32, Allwars top 16 and Varoza top 8.
 In addition, '''Mervo''' entered World Tournament B side<ref>[https://wt21-b.worldps.org/participants/ WT21 B side Participants on the website]</ref> from Fen Spinner.
+===Spin Awards 2021===
+[[File:SpinAwards2021.JPG|thumb|200px|Spin Awards 2021 Branding]]
+With no members of the Spin Awards committee wishing to step up and run the event, Fen Spinner volunteered and ran Spin Awards 2021, using a complicated multiple choice voting system and a restyling of the event to look more professional. Among other changes, the event was restructured to have an individual representative and individual advisor from each community to handle fair voting, nominations and communicating the event with their own communities.
+Past Spin Awards had a limited set of representatives, typically limited to a friend group nature like the [[Pen Spinning Board of Directors]], and the list of award recipients was chosen by the event organizer, Coffeelucky, after some consultation. This made the past Spin Awards controversial as often individual candidates were missed in nominations and voting, with a heavy bias towards popular figures.
+The 2021 event also held voting in early 2022 in order to accurately receive combos later in the year from sources like the JapEn CV, which is typically released on Christmas day. Following this, the results compilation and editing process took until February 27th for the release of the awards, with some people such as Coffeelucky who had refused to assist the editing process complaining publicly about the internally communicated delays.
+All three award videos were released in February, with modding awards being published as an image result due to the editing workload not being assisted by any other Spin Awards representative:
+* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0-lVu_WfGE Spinner of the Year 2021 | Spin Awards]
+* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xA-c4uOTk0 Collab of the Year 2021 | Spin Awards]
+* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ5eC1VWQjg Spin Awards 2021 - Minor Awards]
+After the release of the videos, Fen Spinner announced stepping down from running Spin Awards, citing difficulties and political infighting bogging down the process of running the event. With no individuals willing to have Spin Awards handed off to them, the server was given to FPSB's Patchwork, and fell into disuse shortly after with the event no longer being held.
 ===Leadership changes, World Cup 2022 and Pen Spinning Olympics 2022===
-In late 2021 a key change was [[Nine]] from [[UPSB]] joining Fen Spinner and soon making his way into the leadership of the community, with Allwars eventually departing the community for the second time. Originally Fen Spinner was to join with members of [[The Workshop]] to create a [[World Cup]] team, but the alliance was shaky and eventually broken by another Workshop conflict. The decision was made to form a new World Cup team consisting entirely of Fen Spinner members: '''Final Boss'''.
+In late 2021 a key change was [[Nine]] from [[UPSB]] joining Fen Spinner and soon making his way into the leadership of the community, with Allwars eventually departing the community for the second time. Originally Fen Spinner was to join with members of [[The Workshop]] to create a [[World Cup]] team, but the alliance was shaky and eventually broken by another Workshop conflict. The decision was made to form a new World Cup team consisting entirely of Fen Spinner members: '''Final Boss'''. Soon after these tensions resulted in Nine and Varoza being permanently banned from the workshop shortly after the tournament started.
-Final Boss came 3rd in the 1st round of the [[Pen Spinning World Cup 2022]], and defeated in all categories the strongest team from [[PSH]]: '''BlackMagic''' in round 2. In round 3, they defeated the rival team they originally split away from before the tournament: '''The Five Fingers of Sublime Pen''', captained by [[Padrace]]. Eventually, they would defeat [[JEB]]'s '''Eastern Reunion''' in the final round in all categories, winning the World Cup. The team's victories were particularly crushing as Final Boss won 14/15 round points, only losing a single battle in the event.
+Final Boss came 3rd in the 1st round of the [[Pen Spinning World Cup 2022]], and defeated in all categories the strongest team from [[PSH]]: '''BlackMagic''' in round 2. In round 3, they defeated the rival team they originally split away from before the tournament: '''The Five Fingers of Sublime Pen''', captained by [[Padrace]]. Eventually, they would defeat [[JEB]]'s '''Eastern Reunion''' in the final round in all categories, winning the World Cup. The team's victories were particularly crushing as Final Boss won 14/15 round points, only losing a single battle in the event. The single lost battle was controversial, as Krogan was suggested to freestyle and troll his opponent on purpose while preparing for the next round, such was the confidence that Final Boss would win regardless.
-The Final boss team members were as follows:
+The Final Boss team members were as follows:
-*[[V 0 1 D]]
+*[[Varoza]]
 *[[Nine]]
 *Krogan (pseudonym of [[Barney]])
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 ZeGentleman, the winner of the [[PSUK]] beginner's tournament, was notably only a 1 year [[prodigy]] spinner. He was swapped out for Saltient after round 2.
-In the [[Pen Spinning Olympics 2022]], Fen Spinner members [[Reboot]] and ZeGentleman entered the power category, with Reboot placing 1st and ZeGentleman 3rd. Barney entered the Wipers category as "
+In the [[Pen Spinning Olympics 2022]], Fen Spinner members [[Reboot]] and ZeGentleman entered the power category, with Reboot placing 1st and ZeGentleman 3rd. Barney entered the Wipers category as "KyorYuuNa", coming 4th place after not submitting for the final round.
-KyorYuuNa", coming 4th place after not submitting for the final round.
+===Spinfest 2023, the rise of Spindys and fall of The Workshop===
+[[File:Fen2nd.JPG|thumb|200px|FEN 2ND Title screen]]
+The second official CV of the board, '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoyGJsclm_k FEN 2ND | Spinfest 2023]''' was released on June 25th, 2023, with a strong roster comprising almost all of the '''Final Boss''' team members and other Fen Spinner members.
+On its release the manager of the Spinfest Twitter account, Coffeelucky, shared it with a caption stating that the video had "Excessive bright flashing lights" advising people not to watch it. In fact, the CV had been screened to a member with photosensitive epilepsy beforehand and confirmed not to have any adverse effects before release.
+During this period the new community [[Spindys]] began to gain traction. Tilt, a Fen Spinner member for several years had started a YouTube channel that attracted many new spinners to the hobby. With the decline in activity in The Workshop, that same activity moved over to Spindys, with Fen Spinner and Spindys cooperating for the English-speaking pen spinning community. The Workshop would later close for good on October 20th, 2024.
+===World Tournament 2025===
+Several Fen Spinner members entered the [[Pen Spinning World Tournament 2025]], with their registered communities following their names:
+* [[Tilt]] (Spindys, Fen) - 3rd Place
+* [[Barney]] (Spindys) - Top 8
+* '''Levia''' (Independent) - Top 16
+* '''monsoon''' (PHPS) - Top 16
+* '''Apple''' (VNPS, Fen)
+Barney jokingly signed up under PSUKC, then Spindys under a fake name 'LimSeowon'.
+==Wiki==
+Fen Spinner Wiki is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] site created as a replacement for the long-defunct [[UPSB Wiki]] in early 2021. Over time, this grew to become the largest pen spinning wiki project ever made, dwarfing the original UPSB projects and other competitors. In 2025 a new responsive frontend and homepage was added to the wiki as part of a wider rollout of updates to the site.
+==Notable members==
+* [[Varoza]]
+* [[Nine]]
+* [[Saltient]]
+* [[Vanilla]]
+* [[Tilt]]
+* [[iMatt]]
+* [[Reboot]]
+* [[ZeGentleman]]
+* [[Barney]]
 ==References==
 <references/>
 [[Category:Pen Spinning Communities]]