would anyone like to hear an absolutely buckwild story about the last month on neopets? yes this is in 2019
a few weeks ago, someone figured out what is commonly referred to as the “Tileset” method of searching for pets, which involves using an excel spreadsheet to generate a series of image URLs of neopets which you can then preview in an HTML file. the result looked like this:
theoretically you could do the same thing much faster with a bot, but that’d get you banned
this was used to find “stuck” pets, which are neopets whose names start with certain characters that make them impossible to see in the pound unless you search for them
but the pets with the most value are the unconverted neopets. basically when neo introduced customization they had to make all of the pets of the same species have the same pose, so they changed all the art. however they allowed some painted pets to stay “unconverted” and use the old artwork. but you can’t make new unconverted pets, so there’s a limited supply
and the art ranges from just having a different pose (unconverted on the left, converted on the right)
to
yeah.
so like, a lot of people were searching of course because hey! who doesn’t want a rare and cool-looking pet that you can’t get through any method other than trading!
but only around 10 unconverted neopets were found, and very few people got lucky
then today around 10 am, someone posted a list of 700 unconverted pets stuck in the pound
there were some really phenomenal names
the trading community went batshit
and of course, op of the list gets banned, not for posting it but for telling someone who adopted a ton of them to “commit sudoku”
