[neostruggz]

[nimmo-tube-cheese]

He killed me

[neostruggz]

brb crying over this shit post on neopets dot com

[jellys-toy-collection]

HAPPY 22ND BIRTHDAY NEOPETS!!

I can't believe I have spent over 18 whole years on this website! I can't put into words how much neo means to me ❤

Can you tell what my favorite pet is??

[its3oe]

kicking off my awful little neocities site i made today for petz 4 hexes with a big breed file of aisha neopets. yeah baby. its got animals. check it out https://armadillont.neocities.org/ i’ll probably put other stuff there in the future but yes if you are one of four people on the planet into this here you go :)

[failfemme]

now listen to me young man, i am talking directly into your ear now. i need you to do me a favor. you will do this for me. i need you to go to gamestop, and i need you to ask the bastard working the counter if they have bambi on the ps2. if you come back empty handed youll be in big trouble mister. you will never see the light of day.

[korbatslabs]

hello tnt. for over three years, you were warned that flash would be shut down. despite the cries of your playerbase, you did not begin converting your website into html until a month before shutdown, instead funneling your funds into doomed side projects. before you is the key to your freedom: a laptop loaded with neopets assets and editing programs. you have 60 seconds to convert kiko pop into html. failure to do so will result in me converting your body into ash

[wumblr]

have you ever just like seen two trains slowly heading towards each other on the same track? would you like to?

[rivetgoth]

To anybody not in the Neopets community y’all are missing the craziest hobby drama™️ right now. Basically tl;dr is that Neopets’ parent company announced that Neopets would be releasing THOUSANDS of NFTs without even telling the actual staff team responsible for the Neopets site. They literally initially state that they think the NFT announcement is a scam. Once it comes into light that it’s not a scam, Neopets users very very loudly protest this and vocally express that they are against this decision, which goes completely ignored. More details pop up and the whole thing starts to look really suspicious: The NFTs are going to be produced and managed via a third party company that just popped up about a month ago. They are affiliated with Neopets’ parent company in nebulous ways that suggests money laundering. They run an official Neopets Metaverse Discord where the word “gay” is autobanned by a bot but the word “faggot” gets thrown around (as well as alleged racism and transphobia going unmoderated). When people in the server complain about this one of the mods starts spewing insane NFTbro accusations that the people complaining are just trying to spread anti-NFT propaganda or something. Later, it’s revealed that the NFTs themselves are made using stolen/uncredited assets from a Neopets fan site. This is revealed because they don’t even bother to fix a visual glitch that is unique to that site. They refuse to address this or give credit when it’s pointed out, so they aren‘t just taking assets without acknowledgment but this means they cannot even produce their own damn art for the thing. NFTbros start joining Neopets and hacking/buying old accounts to act like long time players in “support” of NFTs. Actual users start protesting with log-off days, unsubscribing from premium membership, sending anti-NFT art to the art gallery, etc. Sketchy Neopets Metaverse Twitter starts promoing NSFW/18+ NFT projects and posting 4chan-tier NFTbro wojak memes (think “virgin X chad Y” type stuff), totally obliterating the whole “Neopets is a family friendly all-ages game where even writing that your Neopets are married to each other or saying the word cuCUMber can get you banned” thing. Finally, most recently, Neopets‘ Metaverse announces their end goal plans for the Neopets NFT project: An entirely pay-to-play version of the site, where everything you do is powered by cryptocurrency microtransactions. To make matters worse, this announcement reveals that the third party does not know a SINGLE THING about Neopets, and describes “pay to play” features that literally are not a thing on the site, while not mentioning a single aspect of the site that is actually possible. This is alongside the fact that the actual, FREE to play Neopets website is currently almost completely unplayable since they have not converted it since Flash died. This makes it look like Neopets is slowly being switched over to entirely pay-to-play via cryptocurrency microtransactions.

Here are the real kickers:

1. Neopets actually did a cryptocurrency project a few years ago. The project died with a whimper and never saw any end results, leaving a ton of people having sunk their money into something completely worthless.

2. The “NFTs” are literally just randomly generated stock Neopets. With thousands and thousands of pet/color/clothing combinations to choose from, they all inevitably look like absolute shit. You cannot dress them up, change their color or species or outfit, or even name or care for them or pick their gender. And given the nature of NFTs, your “ownership” of them at all is nebulous at best. Functionally, you have significantly more ownership of your Neopet by just making a damn account on the website and creating it there for free, where you have full customization abilities and it is attached directly to your account information.

[annnoel-art]

this just keeps getting worse and worse

[crtter]

The Neopets NFT team tweeted a soyjak to mock the players protesting them making NFTs

[vicholas]

They deleted it but it’s archived. You truly can’t make this up

[meangirlnurse]

they have an active community of dedicated adult players who are often putting money into the website and they are going to manage to chase away.....everyone.........

[slaboumnyy-deactivated20190727]

My wish for everyone is to love and enjoy something as much as this ER doc loves and enjoys Neopets.

[princeofmayonnaise]

I use neopets to cope and I'm angry

[korbatslabs]

i think I mentioned this to someone when the nfts first got announced but like. aside from the obvs stuff the way they're doing it is sooooo stupid. they're just using shitty ai generated combinations of colors and clothes. but there's an entire website's worth of images they could've used instead. like imagine a world where crypto isn't bad for the environment and doesn't have such a heavy association with alt right culture and isn't stock market gambling etc etc etc. wouldn't you at least be a little compelled to own DeadChia.jpeg

[falselyprofound]

The Neopets NFT Debacle: A Summary Somehow Not The First Time This Has Happened!

So. Neopets recently announced its latest merchandising venture: Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Without getting into the nitty-gritty technical details, these tokens are a digital collector’s item - a randomly-generated string of letters and numbers (’token’), with a unique picture of a customized Neopet that represents it. Kind of like a digital trading card.

No, you don’t get to choose what species of pet. No, you don’t get to choose what it’s wearing. No, you don’t get the pet on the main website. And no, you don’t even really own the artwork. Just the token.

Given that Neopets has continued to advertise itself as a children’s petsite, players have understandably been confused by the very non-kiddy merch move. And - more importantly - pissed.

It’s been a mess of a few days so here’s a quick recap of both the details and drama.

Keep reading

[ghosthierophant]

how relevant…