#neopets NFTs

[bogleech]

Ok but I have seen you talk about this so many times, even referencing it in your old cartoons, so I gotta ask - when and how did you fall in love with neopets, like that?

Wait, is it that obscure now? I didn't know a single person from its inception to roughly 2010 who didn't have a neopets account. It was the single biggest gaming-esque name on the internet for years. Celebrities casually mentioned playing it, it got mainstream marketing tie-ins, it had plush toys people waited in line to buy up and a TCG made by the same company as Magic the Gathering. It's not that I especially "fell in love with neopets" like it's a niche thing but that there was a time it was almost outselling Pokemon, so it's just another huge cultural phenomenon that was a big part of everyone's lives during my teens to twenties, and hits my special interest in creature design since it has THOUSANDS (beyond the pets alone) ranging in quality from extremely creative to just plain heinous. I personally only got invested in it when they introduced the mutant pets, though, because it started out having almost like a "rule" against making any pets that were "ugly." They'd joke about it as a prank for instance, and originally only featured the mutants as part of a storyline they never intended players to actually adopt. They even had a fake alternate version of the site with fake "adoptions coming soon" and somehow didn't anticipate the userbase genuinely wanting the slime creatures.

The Chia and Aisha were my favorites but mainly the chia because that kind of "scuzzy" creature was already my own design aesthetic, polar opposite of the site's established style and reminded me of if Jeff Goldblum got fused with a tardigrade instead of a fly:

Is that just me? I feel like the tardigrade similarity jumps right out but I think it was an accident and they were possibly actually thinking of the rotting giant from Nausicaa:

The fact that they intended its design to be unlovably ugly and were surprised anyone wanted it only made it more sympathetic. Eventually they made mutants available and I got fully invested into playing, at the time having to spend hours a day on their little flash games until I could afford a mutant after months of labor. But then a couple of years later they just abruptly decided they really didn't feel like having its design around anymore and "updated" it, which back then was automatic for all pets owned by all players with no going back:

It had unfortunately been fairly common that they'd just completely, totally redo a pet like this with no warning and no user poll to make sure it's what anyone wanted. You just had to pray they never did it to your favorites.

All the other mutants in that earlier image would also get completely changed or never released at all. They still kept some of the other "gross" mutants and would make even grosser, so that wasn't even part of the reasoning. Just the random whims of mad gods I guess. I think what killed the game for a lot of people was actually when they did this to basically everyone at once, standardizing almost all the pet artwork so they could wear clothes in their new dressup system. It wasn't as drastic as replacing a sludge guy with some kind of hairy leaf guy but it did eliminate hundreds of technically unique designs from the site, and I found someone else's examples they put together so I thankfully don't have to do it myself:

If anyone's not familiar enough with neopets or didn't figure that out from the last paragraph, the ones on the right are just recolors of the same exact art as all members of their species with added accessories (now wearable items) Players used to work hard to get pets they wanted based on their unique poses and personality, but you could only keep the original art for a small number of these. The customization feature kind of attracted a different new fandom, from what people say, but it never approached a fraction the site's peak, which is probably how the brand wound up getting sold to some NFT bros who aren't even involved in the site itself and supposedly never even spoken to its remaining staff outside some business emails? This is unrelated to the brief period it was bought by scientologists and the siterunners had to fight back against their propaganda leaking into it. I really didn't expect to turn this response into a mini article, I should really just make a thing on bogleech.com about it sometime. Some of my tumblr mutuals to this day are people I met through the neopets fandom and probably have equally lengthy memories/complaints.

#neopets #pokemon #scientology #nft's

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Nepeta: :33 < real life really is just like neopets. every day i get up. f33d my pets. get a fr33 omeowtlette at the giant omeowtlette. go to my job at the ice cream factory where i have to dodge giant scoops of ice cream at increasingly high sp33ds

#homestuck #incorrect homestuck quotes #nepeta leijon #mod terezi #i watched a video on the neopets nft debacle and yikes you guys have fucking suffered

[vehemourn]

today is a good day to post my neopet ocs i think :]c hi

#heheheh #neopets #k #my art #neopets art #neopets fanart #eyrie #neopets eyrie #neopets oc #neotag #neoart #hello neopetsers today! im not back on the site yet because they hurt my feelings too bad with the nft thing #ill come back after the dust has settled #sooner if they actually fixed the entire site layout

[needmemberwolfboi]

so the april fool's joke for neopets this year is… making all the pets sad to go with the upcoming plot that gives everyone depression?

y'know after the linkedin christmas giveaway, I honestly don't know what arrangement of words neopets will give us next

#neopets #neotag #like at this point 'neopet nfts' barely even registers as weird to me #unfortunately no neopets april fools joke will beat last year's

[coulsonlives]

Who was gonna tell me that Adam Powell, the original creator of Neopets, lost his mind and went full-on crypto bro in the neopets discord a few months ago

He totally did the textbook 'us versus them, you're all Poor and Uneducated Bums' thing

And then he literally flipped the bird to everyone

Never meet your heroes, apparently

#at least the memes are good lmaoo #adam powell #neopets #crypto #nfts #fuck nfts #fuck crypto #borovan #drama #apparently donna chipped in w like 'oh he mixed up his meds' or something? which ok. fair #but the whole crypto thing def didn't come out of nowhere nor did all the language he used #it's straight up crypto bro cult speak that's been conditioned into him so yeahhh not giving him a pass on this #the funny thing is tho. given the medication thing.. he might've gotten into the whole crypto thing bc of bad mental health #bc bad mental health makes you more susceptible to wishful thinking and cults and wanting to find an in group to feel enlightened w #in which case i still hate him BUT i can sympathize and hope he gets out of it :/ #donna also said some ummm very puritan things lol. like she called the discord users filthy pervs or something #and mentioned sex toys?? like ok fam

[crispyflowerblaze]

ummmmmm i will never stop being obsessed with neopets

so many little games you can play, like absolutely so many, like way more than most other neopets-esque things that are way less complex than neopets and their most complex thing is how many games they have, and like there's so many bangers??? the neopian times, where people submit stories/articles/comics etc, which was one of my first experiences getting my writing out there for other people to read??? so many different lands with so many interesting hilarious quirks to their cultures and histories??? so much amazing-looking food that i will, until the day i die, be devastated aren't real so that i can eat nothing but them for the rest of my life??? so many random little activities you can do, like just absolutely so many and so many shops and features of the website, just so much that i'd never be able to describe it coherently??? and all the neopets themselves??? and all the petpets??? like are you KIDDING me why is neopets so amazing

#first of all fuck nfts #and i think they're done with that anyway? #but anyway with that out of the way #oh and also FUCK scientology cus wasn't there a thing with that? god i fucking hate scientology so much oh man but that's besides the point #anyway with that out of the way #god i love neopets SO MUCH #like i was obsessed with moshi monsters and obsessed with poptropica yeah #but nothing even comes close to neopets oh man #like they have their own version of solitaire. why the fuck would i ever play regular computer solitaire instead of sakhmet solitaire #that would be the fucking stupidest thing ever #go on neopets now and fall in love with it!!! this is an order #talk to me about neopets!!! this is an order #neopets

[math-is-magic]

NFT bros like the Bored Apes Yacht Club WISH they had what Neopets has.

#neopets #crypto #the only valid reason to pay for pixels #not really there's several video games and other similar sites that do this too #but they're all normal #not NFTs

[caramellcast]

Memories of Neopia

#neopets #neopets art #neopets fanart #no neo nfts #neo tag #neopets faerie #faerie cloud racers #hasee bounce #ice cream machine #snow muncher #collage art #mixed media art #journal #neopets games #crayon #procreate #kidcore

[preesistersswallowingadonkeyseye]

maybe it's pretty unilaterally a bad thing for adults to bully children even if the children are doing something stupid. especially online idk just leave the kids alone like it's bad enough to be a real bully at all but just fucking leave the kids alone man. i don't care if they're doing something bad, screaming at them is only gonna make them wanna die

#numbers.txt #i have seen the way some of my peers act on websights and i am not exactly enamored with it #it's actually something i find deeply vile #just don't fucking harass kids dude #i don't care what the context is #i don't care what they're doing #leave them alone #they shouldn't even be on this part of the internet frankly #there should still be specific spaces for teens and kids #everyone's been pushed to the singular platform that adults use #i think it makes people have to grow up faster #like club penguin doesnt exist anymore. be nice #they don't have elsewhere to go #neopets are a bunch of NFT shills now #that'd be like feeding them to the wolves #i believe you have a responsibility as an adult not to hurt children intentionally and to apologize and make better anything you fuck up #so cut the shit #stop bullying kids just because you think they're cringe

[wynns-wonderful-pixel-paradise]

Some redraws of neopets stuff I made to be stickers before redouble made a very poor choice and drove me off the site lol

#My art #Neopets #I miss neopets but after the nft fiasco I won't go back #It's not the same after the death of flash anyway #They had so long to prepare and just poorly managed jt

[giant-omelette-eater]

yes

#neopets #neopets omelette #meme #no neo nfts #vpets #neopetsmeme #2000s nostalgia #nostalgia

[sawkinator]

my god Neopets is once again a shitstorm

#neopets #how do you fuck up THIS BADLY #no it's not NFTs this time #but. wow

[nykloss]

I'm looking into neopets clones right now, does anyone have like a comparison or experience with Grundos Cafe and/or virtu.pets? Those are the top two I see recommended but I have no idea what the differences between the two are or if one is substantially bigger/more active than another. Even if you've only played one I'd like to know your experience!

#neopets #virtu.pet #grundos cafe #neoclone #neoclones #nyklos is typing #I really do just enjoy og neopets and am looking for something thats not too far removed #i just cant stand the current site neglect/revamp/nft shit

[direfang]

hm... kinda wantin to explore “alternative” neopets sites. ive heard about modern neopets & virtu pets so far but im wondering if there are others? and also if they have draiks or other dragon-y pets

#neopets #yknow. w the way viacom is takin the current site i havent looked at it in years at this point #after gettin my draiks on there i jus kinda... lost interest #bc the NFT stuff happened right after #but if there's a new site w new appeal to mess around on #id love to see it i think

[neorattz]

i miss neopets so much... i want to play but i can't stand the layout updates *Cry*

#it is quite silly i know. #i want to make my own neopets...... this has to come to fruition when im in my 40s or somerhing im planning so hard #i also just don't like how the site has been handled in general lately #don't like a lot of the new pet art and there's been so many disasters like #the breech and the nft stuff and whartnot #poast

[viralarcadian]

the best part of the neopets hack is the hacker is trying to sell the accounts for fucking bitcoin, because of course they are

#what are the odds its someone who bought a bunch of those neopet nfts and js pissed that theyre worthless