#remember mogobe

[fibey234]

Remember Mogobe 🌱🌵

For anyone who didn't know Mogobe, what it was and how much it was loved by us - Mogobe was more than a virtual world.

It was where we would meet in the afternoon and chat with friends in complete anonymity.

Each user had their own pseudonym, and we were surrounded by good friends and a supportive community from every direction.

I remember I would just wait to get home from school to log on to the Mogobe website and play.

Mogobe was the safest virtual world for kids in my time when I was 14. An educational site with values, friendship, respect for others, experiences and challenges.

In Mogobe everyone could adopt a pet called “Bomug” or Loumin”, participate in any competitions and events, collect in-game money from games and manage their wardrobe, and honestly - that's where I learned to manage finances for real life today.

But in May 2018, the site was shut down for some reason.

As a result, thousands of children were saddened to say goodbye to their virtual friends they had known for years. And honestly, so was I.

Since then, my brother and I decided to commemorate the site by uploading memories to social media.

We called ourselves the Mogobe Siblings, and collected all the screenshots we could find on our computer before the site ended its life.

We will remember Mogobe.🌵🌱

[fibey234]

Item: The Friendship Bracelet Rarity: ⏶ Common

Which game character felt like a genuine childhood friend?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Mogobe. Definitively.🥹😭💚

My in-game character who named after me RUTI, she was a great in-game journalist who documented significant events and took a large part in the virtual world Mogobe community, and was privileged to be part of the in-game management team and organize events with them.

I REALLY miss this game..

[fibey234]

Remember Mogobe // part-2 🌱🌵

Since my brother and I decided to preserve Mogobe’s memory for future generations, we opened a joint, anonymous Instagram page where we post memories from the site, as well as comics I created about the game's characters and drawings that express our longing for Mogobe’s world.

This image designed by Greenit from Mogobe👆🏼.

She gave us a personalized design of my and my brother's game players as a token of gratitude for preserving the site's memory.💖🥺💚

Greenit is one of the highest game managers and moderators of Remogo project. (the recovering version of original Mogobe site)

Here I drew her with a long checklist of Remogo project that was running around two months last year.

Remogo project was the biggest and the rarest first of its kind, which was run by a group of children and teenagers who joined the Gratitude and Memory Project for the Mogobe virtual world.

The project included dozens of volunteers from around the country and the world (Brazil and other countries) who took part in establishing the restored version of the Mogobe website, and restoring the data took months and even years of constant work, day and night.

In the drawings: 👆🏼the main caracters from the Mogobe site cry over their destroyed home and country.

At the drawing: 👆🏼comics about the brothers Mogey and Chakmon, when they get the announcement about the permanent closure of the website.

At the drawing: 👆🏼 Hackmon fights his depression. His brother tries to strengthen him and tells him that one day they’ll return home. He promised.

Years passed, and the volunteers team of the Remogo Project turned the dream into reality.

From a group of teenagers and young people - we became a full-fledged administrative staff.

We contacted the administrators of the original Mogobe website to obtain permission to open and hosting servers, for a trial version.

And to our surprise, it worked!

We ran a two-month crowdfunding campaign to maintain the website's servers, and the website went live!!!

The unbelievable became real.

The main director - Eyal Shemi - the director of the real Mogobe website officially announced that the website would be open for only two months, and during these two months, my brother and I took a large part in operating the website and publishing it.

We were given a special role - the journalists.

I was responsible for documentation, and for the first time I designed Mogobe’s first newspaper with full copyright permission.

The message we all learned together as a team is -

never give up on our dreams. Even with them, it seemed impossible. And in this case, a team was needed.

If we hadn't been a team of volunteers, none of this would have happened.

Thank you, Remogo team, for the privilege of being part of this great thing and making the dreams of thousands of children come true.💚