A Deep Dive Into Animal Jam

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  • Опубліковано 22 гру 2024

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  • @Izzzyzzz
    @Izzzyzzz  3 роки тому +1959

    Use code IZZZY to get 30% off your first month at Scentbird sbird.co/3hhKqO7

  • @Stereo6400
    @Stereo6400 3 роки тому +10258

    *_back in my days “NFT” meant not for trade and “slamming” meant you tricked someone out of their parents money!_*

    • @Kyrusisgone
      @Kyrusisgone 3 роки тому +134

      Wait nft means smt else?-

    • @cass8167
      @cass8167 3 роки тому +534

      Whenever I see nft all I think it is is not for trade

    • @Kyrusisgone
      @Kyrusisgone 3 роки тому +38

      @@cass8167 same..

    • @occultCapra
      @occultCapra 3 роки тому +287

      and now its Non-fungible token
      for trading jpgs lol

    • @vipenova
      @vipenova 3 роки тому +60

      Also “scaled”

  • @Leahbee
    @Leahbee 3 роки тому +10377

    danggg u got the rare spikes on irl haha :D

  • @felix_a_fiend
    @felix_a_fiend 3 роки тому +2958

    The stakes in animal jam felt so high as a kid. “If I don’t win this game, I won’t own that clothing item, and I will die because of it.”

    • @dari2409
      @dari2409 3 роки тому +70

      Please I remember spending so many hours trying to get the new items

    • @chromacattiosv2
      @chromacattiosv2 3 роки тому +90

      yeah. i remember one day i played the forgotten desert for 7+ hours only stopping to eat and use the bathroom to try and farm items.

    • @shartcy
      @shartcy 3 роки тому +53

      @@chromacattiosv2 tfd grinding felt like a fever dream
      i still remember the background music by heart

    • @dari2409
      @dari2409 3 роки тому +14

      @@shartcy the background music is so nostalgic

    • @lilylaframboise9113
      @lilylaframboise9113 3 роки тому +5

      I love your username LMAO

  • @charlottemay7256
    @charlottemay7256 Рік тому +1773

    i've never played animal jam in my life but the pillow room had me in hysterics. the fact that it doubled at a love den and adoption centre is absolutely unhinged. imagine you're trying to find a new mom and you see two wolves across the room doing the jump emote on each other.

    • @mintydropz
      @mintydropz Рік тому +191

      I mean it saves them a trip to the adoption center after all is said and done...

    • @crayonzii
      @crayonzii Рік тому +40

      The pillow room is still alive on a russian server that i’m playing on. It’s always funny

    • @ADHD_PLAYZgames
      @ADHD_PLAYZgames Рік тому +13

      I hate the pillow room... :l

    • @curlyq616
      @curlyq616 Рік тому +17

      That is EXACTLY what it was like

    • @kaiserhundkek2531
      @kaiserhundkek2531 Рік тому +12

      There has gotta be some RP gold spawning form that somewhere. I gotta see it now.

  • @dulcae
    @dulcae 3 роки тому +5917

    I was actually a very well known “trader” on Animal Jam for a couple years or so. I had accumulated every single rare nonmember/member item in the game at one point, and so a lot of people would come to me in hopes I could get them their “dream item”. I also had a big “clan” full of friends and we would all wear matching fox hats every time we were together. I still think of it fondly as a really fun internet time, but it’s also funny because one day my AJ girlfriend of 6 years (only person that knew my pswrd!) decided to get on and take everything I ever had LOL. she never even confessed to it in the end! bloody teenagers.

    • @missmoomoo6360
      @missmoomoo6360 3 роки тому +358

      Back at 12 yrs old my aj bf of, a week. Convinced me to trust trade him, and me being the kind and caring “gf” I was I declined every trade! I lost a neon bow and a spike that day, he came back like 3 years later on an alt, apologized and told me he got banned- I remember checking his acc a few days after the incident and his user was not going through fhendndn 💀

    • @_zeroXD
      @_zeroXD 3 роки тому +306

      NO WAYYYYY i think i remember seeing y’all with the matching fox hats back in the day… or maybe it was a group of role players 😭😭😭

    • @emmajewelcat
      @emmajewelcat 3 роки тому +82

      I didn’t even share my password with anyone and my animal jam account got hacked.

    • @gordonramslay9955
      @gordonramslay9955 3 роки тому +96

      REALLY?!? Istg I’ve only play aj twice and the first time I played it (ages ago) I saw a bunch of animals in little fox hats (like the ones with buttons as eyes) running about. There was only like 5-7 of them when I was there so it might not of been you but it’s still wild to think that it could’ve been

    • @dulcae
      @dulcae 3 роки тому +144

      @@gordonramslay9955 oh my god no honestly that might’ve been us LOL. there were only about 5-7 of us that were super active all at the same time so we would run around somewhere with our little hats and chat. absolutely insane to think that anybody would remember that. ✨

  • @lazycookies
    @lazycookies 3 роки тому +1208

    I remember crying SO HARD when I was scammed on animal jam when I was like 11. I legit stayed up all night crying and sobbing 💀 after that day I quit and ironically enough started my warrior cats phase a week later

    • @PrincessYaura
      @PrincessYaura 3 роки тому +173

      Out of the frying pan and into the fire lmao

    • @catfood8568
      @catfood8568 3 роки тому +3

      Same

    • @SHinierthennyourforehead
      @SHinierthennyourforehead 3 роки тому +21

      lmfao i can relate. warrior cats good time . i got scammed out of my purple short collar once

    • @Delihlah
      @Delihlah 3 роки тому +20

      Please, I got scammed over so many items because I either didn't know the value or I was tricked lol

    • @Jaythetransgremlin
      @Jaythetransgremlin 3 роки тому +8

      6 year old me got scammed on roblox
      it was one of the stupid roblox “give us ur password u will get robux!!!!”

  • @stattvesque
    @stattvesque 3 роки тому +4845

    as someone who’s played since the beta days this feels like a veteran volunteering to oversee a honorary event

    • @michelletran8242
      @michelletran8242 3 роки тому +132

      I was a beta tester too! Went crazy over the membership reward lmao

    • @oraora8504
      @oraora8504 3 роки тому +91

      I wasn't beta but I've been around for a... long long long time so same

    • @leeluueilis
      @leeluueilis 3 роки тому +18

      I was also there in the beta playing for so long was an experience

    • @katana322
      @katana322 3 роки тому +1

      Omg same

    • @Viva_Cynefin
      @Viva_Cynefin 3 роки тому +1

      same

  • @Pavelscribbles
    @Pavelscribbles 2 роки тому +891

    I used to play the claw machine for like hours, then put all the plushies down in my den, advertise a plushy shop at my den in the busy areas, and then trade the plushies for things that were actually valuable, and then if I didn't like the way the valuable thing looked I'd just sell it. Made hella gems.

    • @eleanoralbertson4605
      @eleanoralbertson4605 2 роки тому +49

      Me tooooo! I was an AVID plushie trader. I would literally spend hours upon hours just going between advertising in the town area and back to my den to go see who showed up to 'shop'. The amount of rare mini plushies that I got from trading some just semi rare ones was crazy. Man.... I was a ruthless trading mogul lol.

    • @JojoMinecraftProductions
      @JojoMinecraftProductions 2 роки тому +19

      omg me tooo!!!!!! I eventually went from trading just random plushies all the way up to eventually getting the rare claw after literal YEARS of running that damn shop lol

    • @sabbiss
      @sabbiss Рік тому +8

      yesss!1 me tooo, cos everyone would like the plushies who had clothes and etc and id be so happy to get them

    • @jlizard8500
      @jlizard8500 Рік тому +2

      Same!

    • @PorkSzoda
      @PorkSzoda Рік тому +2

      I forgot about plushy trading omgggg

  • @thecatingrey
    @thecatingrey 3 роки тому +2654

    I could never get my parents to pay for a membership when I was young. My best friend, who introduced me to the game, had a membership and the difference between what we had access to is what made me ultimately stop playing. He could do literally whatever the game allowed, while I couldn't even play the majority of the story or buy more than two animals. It felt bad to see other people playing with their members-only animals, wearing members-only clothes and being followed by members-only pets into members-only adventures while I was basically stuck looking longingly at a cat in the pet shop.

    • @brendan6555
      @brendan6555 3 роки тому +194

      Lol me, my sister, and our friend played it when we were little and NONE of us had memberships. We were too embarrassed to ask for memberships lol.

    • @AceAttorny
      @AceAttorny 3 роки тому +38

      This but Runescape

    • @un.ava.ilable
      @un.ava.ilable 3 роки тому +82

      I related to that on a personal level omg

    • @mae.glitter
      @mae.glitter 3 роки тому +71

      man, that sucks :/ Fortunately, I don't think it's exactly the same anymore! I played AJ when i was younger and definitely had a similar experience to you, but my little sister is a current (and extremely avid-) player and luckily it seems a lot more accessible these days! She has a membership right now, but before she got her membership, she had loads of animals, pets, and rare items that she racked up from trading chains. And it seems like the member items and functions are a lot less restrictive to non-members, but that's just my outsider view as a nonplaying big sister lol. I don't know how much of the game changed exactly, but the AJ climate I see from watching my sister play is a lot better than the one I played. (Also, not related, but I feel the need to brag that she has the black spike collar)

    • @clev7989
      @clev7989 3 роки тому +32

      @@mae.glitter I'm very glad to hear that they improved, also as a quick side note I think it's really cool that you both have this shared experience playing animal jam. I know that may seem weird, but most of my family is not really into the same stuff I like, so it's cool to me when people can bond over media

  • @solseclipse
    @solseclipse 3 роки тому +2280

    I'll recite a little poem that may bring back some memory for all of us:
    *"Lions roar, eagles soar, non-members deserve more!"*
    Edit: hOLY- AT 38:27 YOU CAN SEE MY STORY- I WAS THE ONE WHO MADE "A- The Creepy Wolf". WHO KNEW 3RD GRADE ME DRAFTING UP A STUPID CLICHE 'CREEPYPASTA' ON A SCHOOL COMPUTER AND REWRITING IT AT HOME WOULD MAKE IT THIS FAR??

    • @Benutzername474
      @Benutzername474 3 роки тому +89

      Smh be HapPy wItH wHaT yOu HaVe YoU iDiOt

    • @goldegreen
      @goldegreen 3 роки тому +135

      Omg I was such an activist, I remember spamming that all the time

    • @Rosekatz
      @Rosekatz 3 роки тому +92

      I USED TO START RALLIES IN JAMAA TOWNSHIP CHANTING THAT LMAOO

    • @MystamiSalami
      @MystamiSalami 3 роки тому +48

      I was always the spoiled little kid who had my poor mother spend so much money on memberships- however I never understood the "members only" den parties.
      Alot of my closest friends that I ended up growing up with after we all moved off the platform were all non mems.

    • @saltybskut3654
      @saltybskut3654 3 роки тому +101

      @@MystamiSalami Stuff like members only den parties and “adopt me members only”
      This game taught us about discrimination at the age of 8 😭

  • @aurikp
    @aurikp 3 роки тому +2000

    "homestuck?"
    "for godness sake no"
    THIS SENT ME LMAO

  • @catzgaming1857
    @catzgaming1857 2 роки тому +2326

    Stumbled across this after making a new account and getting the membership I wasn't allowed to have as a child.
    I grew up with verbally abusive parents. It was screaming whenever I was home from school. Animal Jam was my safe place and I'll play it as long as it exists. It really seemed to soothe my inner child to finally have the coveted arctic wolf.

    • @Ourxz
      @Ourxz 2 роки тому +134

      Hope ur doing ok now ❤️❤️

    • @maishishikusa1856
      @maishishikusa1856 2 роки тому +141

      Hey! I also play childrens web games as a coping mechanism for trauma, for me its chicken smoothie though. Hope your doing alright, and have fun with your arctic wolf and membership.

    • @michellesaxton2039
      @michellesaxton2039 2 роки тому +15

      Love this 👏🏼

    • @KK-hd1jw
      @KK-hd1jw Рік тому +24

      I’m so glad you could find comfort in this game through all of that, and I hope everything is going better now, and if not, then soon.

    • @veronicafoxx8590
      @veronicafoxx8590 Рік тому +7

      Yessssssssss. Arctic wolf is life.

  • @mikchimin
    @mikchimin 2 роки тому +2689

    I'm so glad I was a young child with absolutely no idea none of this was happening on Animal Jam lmao. I just played fashion shows and claw machines, and decorated my home with all the stuffed animals I won. I had no idea people looked down on non-members. I was always jealous of the nice homes and cool pets, but I was content with my base houses, hamsters, and seahorses lmao

    • @vrinkee
      @vrinkee 2 роки тому +81

      Yeah, I could usually get around my jealousy by just playing for hours. I'd do the games that gives out semi rare items and would trade them for cool looking non member items. I'd also follow Snowyclaw's blog for updates and would participate in any promos that would give limited features or items such as bubble bee and kangaroo pets. I personally never felt like non members were looked down upon, but that may just have been because I'd been playing since close to the official release, so I had items that made me "rare." Also, coolest trick I discovered were the shared member accounts that people would post on UA-cam. Sure, you'd get kicked out whenever someone else tried to log in, but sometimes I'd have enough time to complete and adventure only accessible to members and get the non member usable items to decorate my den with after trading with myself. Lol, I remember lining up two laptops for that. Eventually realized I could just use a different browser.

    • @leonineKelter
      @leonineKelter 2 роки тому +27

      Same. I was always so sad I couldn't have a pet cat, and would customize the entire cat and go to buy them even though I knew it would just tell me I couldn't lol. I wasn't involved with the trading or anything but the warriors role play, but I I do vaguely remember the ""adopt me!!"" People qnd defenitely feeling the effects of the rampant monetization to the point where I stopped playing after a few years of having the bare minimum ://

    • @hamburger7243
      @hamburger7243 2 роки тому +4

      Dude I think I bought a membership once? I never knew that either

    • @mimimi-
      @mimimi- 2 роки тому +14

      i thought i was the only one who collected stuffed animals and put them all over the floor of my home omg

    • @mikchimin
      @mikchimin 2 роки тому +10

      @@mimimi- I thought I was too!! Lol decorating my home was just making cool patterns with the different stuffed animals. I remember I had a /huge/ satisfying row of wolves. Super fun lol

  • @breadcrumbs3530
    @breadcrumbs3530 3 роки тому +721

    I remember on one of Aparri’s streams someone had traded one of my masterpieces (an in-game artwork you paint yourself) for one of his spikes. He and his streamers were fawning over it and people were typing that it was worth a black long spike. The next day I woke up with a ton of fan mail and my masterpiece was on display in his den. It was the best moment of my 14 year old life.

    • @sunnivamhagatun
      @sunnivamhagatun 3 роки тому +54

      that’s awesome!

    • @vaporean_boylove.0w083
      @vaporean_boylove.0w083 3 роки тому +77

      Honestly, that had to be the best thing to feel probably just have someone say that the art is worth a very desired item! I would feel like im on cloud 9

    • @gordonramslay9955
      @gordonramslay9955 3 роки тому +12

      That’s amazing :D

    • @michelleobamafootcream9292
      @michelleobamafootcream9292 2 роки тому +16

      There were so many young talented artists in Animal Jam.

  • @23dollarsmoothie
    @23dollarsmoothie 3 роки тому +10433

    I used to “date” girls by dressing up as a boy Arctic wolf and saying “I share this account with my sister”

    • @Pinkwolfman
      @Pinkwolfman 3 роки тому +1314

      Holy shit i did the same lmfao i wanted to mess around since in the french severs, girls looking for boyfriends were all over the place

    • @tafferine388
      @tafferine388 3 роки тому +319

      ME TOO???

    • @MystamiSalami
      @MystamiSalami 3 роки тому +1164

      I, while knowing they were probably girls, went along with this because I really didnt care-
      Then came out as pansexual later in life

    • @kamakeii
      @kamakeii 3 роки тому +1722

      “I share this account with my sister” is a universally used quote by gay kids on online games

    • @wolftric
      @wolftric 3 роки тому +698

      This is why you just gotta commit and give all your animals "boy eyes"

  • @elizabethsayeau8305
    @elizabethsayeau8305 2 роки тому +1704

    i’m no longer ashamed to admit that at the age of 9, for probably 3 months straight i would log onto my bestfriends animal jam account and change the colour/facial features of all her animals because i was severely jealous her mom would buy her the premium gift cards so she had artic wolfs and shit.. we’re still bestfriends to this day, we actually live together and i just told her the truth about this a month ago💀 we had a good laugh

    • @jlizard8500
      @jlizard8500 Рік тому +63

      Sounds better than getting my 2 friends banned on accident

    • @sparrow5394
      @sparrow5394 Рік тому +90

      @@jlizard8500 you can't just say this without telling the story

    • @smileyfroggyz
      @smileyfroggyz Рік тому +14

      @@jlizard8500 explain please.

    • @Kensuke22
      @Kensuke22 Рік тому +11

      ​@@jlizard8500 explain explain explain

    • @platypusparasol9825
      @platypusparasol9825 Рік тому +30

      ​@@jlizard8500 you cant just drop a nuke and leave like that youtube commenter J Lizard

  • @reharp2037
    @reharp2037 2 роки тому +2673

    Yesterday I came to the realization that probably one of the biggest reasons I am going to college for wildlife and conservation, is playing Animal Jam so much as a child. I would read every animal factoid that popped up or that I could click on. I would go into deep dives off of certain facts and look things up, etc etc. I’m addicted to the subject of environmental science because of this game.

    • @sockyyyyyyy
      @sockyyyyyyy 2 роки тому +88

      I just started college for Wildlife Ecology and Management, and I just came to that same realization moments ago! It was such an influential part of my life, and reinforced my love for animals so much, despite its flaws!

    • @Vicky-fi3yr
      @Vicky-fi3yr 2 роки тому +59

      I’m glad I’m not the only one who really enjoyed the biology aspect of animal jam!! I would sit and watch Brady’s q&a’s about animals! I’m not going into an environmental career, (going into neurology) but having animal jam as a way to fuel my love for sciences really was wonderful.

    • @dovahdog0
      @dovahdog0 2 роки тому +21

      Me too!!! I've always had a fascination and passion about animals ever since I was a kid, but now I'm thinking of going into zoology, partly because of amimal jam ^^

    • @michellesaxton2039
      @michellesaxton2039 2 роки тому +9

      I would watch Barry Barr or whatever his name was in the theatre for hours while eating hot pockets😩😂

    • @jasperjazzie
      @jasperjazzie Рік тому +4

      same! am interested in anthropology and zoology as well as wildlife and environmental conservation,,and i can def thank aj for the latter two
      (also if any of yall remember bein friends with someone called catlover583...that was me lmao)

  • @V1RF1
    @V1RF1 3 роки тому +1530

    Back in the day, I was an avid Animal Jam player. I had an online “Boyfriend” who I had a relationship with for a week. I always used a wolf (imagine that, i was a furry) and so did he. One day I changed my animal to a koala, and we “broke up” because of it. My 7-year-old self was heartbroken, of course. I went to school and started telling my friends and they comforted me like it was an actual relationship I had lol. Man, one day I should go back and see how much it’s changed.

    • @elizabethh.9556
      @elizabethh.9556 2 роки тому +65

      I had a similar thing happen, but a bit more intense. We both used wolves and was an online friend with one of my IRL friends. He slowly became super attached to me and would follow me from place to place. I soon switched main accounts to avoid him. Fun times.

    • @NuniiPlays
      @NuniiPlays 2 роки тому +52

      Nah this is so crazy I’m 90% sure everyone used the wolf when having a relationship lol how I miss the simpler times 😂

    • @emilystewart6175
      @emilystewart6175 2 роки тому +9

      This is so cute awwww

    • @Bronythepony
      @Bronythepony 2 роки тому +18

      Sounds like 7 year old you had dope friends.

    • @kevinbumgardner3553
      @kevinbumgardner3553 2 роки тому +12

      My friend had a "crush" on Animal Jam and broke up when the girl started hanging out with rich people and then when he got really rare she tried to come back to him smh.

  • @dogfishthedogfish
    @dogfishthedogfish 3 роки тому +2694

    holy shit i remember being so against the animal jam economy because i was a silly loser roleplayer only to fall into trade chains because i really missed having the cami's frog

    • @ryleeosborne1758
      @ryleeosborne1758 3 роки тому +38

      Oml same i hated traders for some reason but then i became addicted

    • @lanaenjoyer
      @lanaenjoyer 3 роки тому +34

      I was a hardcore trader, damn the memories

    • @somethingwithbungalows
      @somethingwithbungalows 3 роки тому +24

      I kept getting scammed so being very very fed up with it all and loosing items- I became one 🤦🏽‍♀️.. for awhile anyways
      I give away good items to make up for it now. I feel so bad for the peeps I took advantage of but at least I never bullied anyone like others did to me

    • @MPREGCOOKING
      @MPREGCOOKING 3 роки тому

      GOD I FEEL but i ended up selling my transformice account for a beta tiara and then started getting a ton of shit 😭

    • @breeannaglover3942
      @breeannaglover3942 3 роки тому

      LMAO ME TOO

  • @Julian2AJ
    @Julian2AJ Рік тому +952

    Clicked this over breakfast and ended up sitting through the whole thing. Brings back some great memories. Thanks for putting this all together :)

    • @maia5888
      @maia5888 Рік тому +71

      you were literally my childhood thanks for everything man❤️

    • @bl00dyplushiez
      @bl00dyplushiez Рік тому +48

      We love you, Julian! So happy you were a part of my childhood and so many other’s💕

    • @Emryssy
      @Emryssy Рік тому +29

      I miss your ‘hey beans!’ line 😭

    • @Acetronomy
      @Acetronomy Рік тому +22

      Thank you for making my childhood Julian.

    • @Sailor-Khione
      @Sailor-Khione Рік тому +16

      I'm sorry to hear what happened to you back then.

  • @cjstarz3569
    @cjstarz3569 3 роки тому +670

    Dancing in Jamaa township and screaming "RARES FOR TRADE!" while many others did the same thing, one of my best memories as a kid!

  • @asteralium
    @asteralium 3 роки тому +3009

    Hey, I'm a staff member of the Animal Jam Archives. I just wanted to say that, as someone who's been in this community since 2012, you did an amazing job with this video. It made me nostalgic and happy, but also a sad that the good old days are gone. This game means a lot to me and I'm glad we finally got a decent (and even better than decent!) Animal Jam retrospective.

    • @kt-dq4vh
      @kt-dq4vh 3 роки тому

      I'm not trying to be that person, but how can we know that you are trustworthy?

    • @asteralium
      @asteralium 3 роки тому +48

      @bababooey Nope, we’re not dead! Sadly the original game is sort of on its last legs with updates being mostly rereleased or recolors. But the mobile game is going strong now.

    • @asteralium
      @asteralium 3 роки тому +31

      @@kt-dq4vh I mean, I can verify myself if you like? Not sure what you’d want me to do tho.

    • @HonestMagpie
      @HonestMagpie 3 роки тому +13

      As a game designer myself, can you confirm or deny a hypothesis- is the Staff coral basically just a staff credits page, maybe with some extra feature for just the staff that wouldn’t really do anything for non-staff members, or testing room usage? That was my hypothesis just looking at this video.

    • @asteralium
      @asteralium 3 роки тому +68

      @@HonestMagpie The staff coral was supposed to only ever be seen by Wildwork's staff members. By clicking on and walking over to one of the names, you would get teleported to the staff member's private testing room, if one existed. For example, Andrew's was called "Andrew's Room of Doom" which had portals to various empty houses (dens) that were to be released.
      I would imagine it's just called the staff coral because, well, this is an animal game.

  • @CoolattasLab
    @CoolattasLab 2 роки тому +952

    "Though lets be honest, none of us really payed attention to it as kids" SPEAK FOR URSELF!!! I spent hours finding all the animals and reading all the little biographies and absorbing all the animal info the game had. Still a shock I wasn't diagnosed as a kid. I think loving being able to be a funny little animal is what really made me not fall prey to the membership shit, funnily enough. The bit about WildWorks still doing well for themselves and Feral being successful really didn't age well LOL. I hadn't heard of the rock bridge one before but I remember participating in the ice jumping, fire dances, and drum jumping in the bunny parties.

    • @scoot-scoot51341
      @scoot-scoot51341 Рік тому +22

      Omg SAME!!! I would search the entire game for those info cards!

    • @alchemlemnis
      @alchemlemnis Рік тому +2

      Same x)

    • @jaalahhale2905
      @jaalahhale2905 Рік тому +9

      Omg I loved reading about the facts scattered in the game. It was like the only thing I was excited about in AJ. The only time I really got a membership was with the Arctic wolf toy that gave me a 2 week membership.

    • @aerofish0
      @aerofish0 Рік тому +5

      My favorite facts are the sea creature ones

    • @three_crows_all_day
      @three_crows_all_day Рік тому +6

      I remember reading all the facts and spending hours in the Chamber of Knowledge with that soothing music. When I first started, I think I did nothing but play Temple of Trivia; the information was the reason I played!

  • @LynxGriffin
    @LynxGriffin 3 роки тому +1839

    I was almost hired as an artist for this game, so I got to play a really early beta of it to get a feel for it, and it looked so charming! The job fell through and I pretty much forgot about the game until now, so seeing this deep dive and how it all ended up turning out was so fascinating!

  • @bagelbyte27
    @bagelbyte27 2 роки тому +3169

    I LOVED the educational aspect of the game as a kid. it was honestly one of my favorite parts, especially with how easy to digest it was. I'm now one year away from getting a degree in Zoology so my love for animal facts (and this game) has never died

  • @LeBongFairy
    @LeBongFairy 3 роки тому +908

    I remember hating that people used foxes or wolves when there were literal big cats for the warriors, including the nonmember tiger.. I was a biology dork even back then, and hated nonrelated animals being used to represent another

    • @ZimLikesPastaAnimation
      @ZimLikesPastaAnimation 3 роки тому +123

      I remember getting SO upset at people using arctic wolves for warriorcats roleplays when I had saved up my money for so long to get a snow leopard SPECIFICALLY for roleplay purposes

    • @nopenope4502
      @nopenope4502 3 роки тому +33

      OH MY GOD YES. I had a snow leopard specifically for Warriors rps.

    • @susiepilled
      @susiepilled 3 роки тому +51

      aj tigers are ugly tbf
      but yeah if you have access to the snow leopard or cheetah or whatever you've got no excuse

    • @un.ava.ilable
      @un.ava.ilable 3 роки тому +28

      *old man voice* Back in my day we only had wolves, bunnies, and monkeys for free

    • @whatteamwildcats4033
      @whatteamwildcats4033 3 роки тому +12

      It's like saying you're role playing as eren jeager and popping up with a profile pic of ichigo kurosaki like they aren't interchangeable

  • @lexicrawford8726
    @lexicrawford8726 2 роки тому +200

    I am by no means an AJ expert, I was more of a Toontown girl as a kid. However the Employee Corral is a relatively common thing in development, Whilst it may seem to serve no purpose, it could act as a way to permanently enshrine those who have helped make the game possible. The best example I can give is in the game Hollow Knight. There's a secret area in the game called the Shrine of Believers, which has quotes from all of the 200+ kickstarter backers. It could very well be the same principle here

    • @janjanbinks1710
      @janjanbinks1710 Рік тому +9

      The Spirit Glade's ghosts and Dream Warriors in HK are designed by backers also which is really cool

  • @mayapanini
    @mayapanini 3 роки тому +1842

    Animal jam brought my dad and I closer. I remember always having to ask him for help with the really tough adventures, and showing him all of my different den decor. Him being a video game nerd loved to see me being so interested in something of the sort, and we bonded over it a lot.
    The dens feature was probably my gateway drug into being an avid Sims 4 player, and once again like with AJ I find myself in the shackles of a game company I'm willing to spend all my money on😭

    • @butteredcornfr
      @butteredcornfr 3 роки тому +65

      that’s so wholesome jesus

    • @VannahL
      @VannahL 3 роки тому +27

      Literally the exact same situation for me. Omfg. Me and my dad always bonded through animal jam and I honestly miss it 🥲

    • @Gentvein
      @Gentvein 3 роки тому +20

      That’s unbelievably sweet :] I love when games bring family members together

    • @Weirdanimalboy
      @Weirdanimalboy 2 роки тому +10

      Wait a fucking second, this is wholesome content

    • @isabellasanchez4803
      @isabellasanchez4803 2 роки тому +4

      I was the 666th like 😎😩

  • @WisteriaMoonAJ
    @WisteriaMoonAJ 3 роки тому +2343

    This feels like a summary of my life omg

    • @VenusAsAFormerBoy
      @VenusAsAFormerBoy 3 роки тому +120

      I had never heard of animal jam before this video but I still feel mildly star-struck seeing you, a jambassador, in the comments lol

    • @literally.
      @literally. 3 роки тому +45

      me when i realize ive known animal jam for half my life at the moment

    • @platinumdescent2001
      @platinumdescent2001 3 роки тому +45

      Seeing you here is a surprise, but a welcome one :0 I used to watch your videos for hours upon hours after school kekw

    • @sothesalamilidwontfit
      @sothesalamilidwontfit 3 роки тому +20

      samee. i'm pretty sure animal jam formed at least 60% of my brain matter

    • @folklore-of-the-sun
      @folklore-of-the-sun 3 роки тому +18

      The legend herself! can't believe that I've found the youtuber that I grew up watching in the comment section of this video :))

  • @StoneBasilisk
    @StoneBasilisk 3 роки тому +762

    I never realized that raid was Quackity lmao. It was annoying at the time, but funny af like, five seconds after. Gotta miss staying up all night having 'sleepovers' with my friends in our dens.

    • @julia-pw8fz
      @julia-pw8fz 3 роки тому +51

      LOL i actually searched it up on that day, i was in middle school and super confused by the yellow penguins. I found quackity's yt and was like "bruh this guy's kinda annoying he reminds me of my older brother" never ended up putting 2-and-2 together when i watched dream smp last year and then i stumbled upon the animal jam raid vid like "wait that was quackity lmfaooo???"

    • @kirbyblade2238
      @kirbyblade2238 3 роки тому +5

      WAITTT ik i had seen quackity b4 !!! this is probably where i recognized him from

    • @drifterastralis
      @drifterastralis 3 роки тому +1

      @@julia-pw8fz SAME I watch the dream smp and when I clicked on this video I was like damn wait that was him?? lmao

    • @GodisKing201
      @GodisKing201 3 роки тому

      I watched quackity back when he did stuff like that xjbchc

  • @Kindnese
    @Kindnese Рік тому +102

    When I was 10 or 11 on Animal Jam, someone had scammed me out of my short blue spike collar, and so I had told the player that I was recording the whole interaction and that I would post them. I then had my friends send the person a jam-a-gram pretending to have watched my video and were scolding them, and the player who scammed me then quickly gifted me my collar back out of fear.

  • @__-be1gk
    @__-be1gk 3 роки тому +810

    "Homestuck?"
    "For goodness sake no"
    The more things change the more they stay the same

  • @SuperSimputer
    @SuperSimputer 2 роки тому +1014

    The idea of a silly little animal game having a dedicated adoption center that moonlights as a red-light district is beyond wild to me.

    • @gh.stb12rd
      @gh.stb12rd Рік тому

      As someone who played a lot of mmos (and i still do. My ass on ponytown daily), let me tell you. Humans are creative, competitive, and horny. We will find out new creative ways to engage in horny shit, we will make it a competition in some sort of way, and perfect it. In case you dont know ponytown, its a pixel browser game based off mlp. Full in depth character customization is open to everyone, AND you can have your own map you can invite people to, besides the main map. the only thing thats paywalled is the amount of items you can put in the house and a few speech bubble colors. So the place you go to to go into someones elses map is this dock with a boat, you get on the boat and you go to your map (or the map of the party leader if you get invited to one). So bc of this the dock is one of the most crowded areas. So people advertise party games, roleplays, and such. So people spend more time on their map, so the devs kept adding more and more objects to put on your map. Theres a huuuge selection now and you can genuinely make really gorgeous stuff, and, of course, as i said before, people are horny. So now a common thing is stripclub maps, usually include poles ppl emote on, a bar and private rooms. But the shits kept getting more and more elaborate, the maps bigger and more complex. There is no official 'stairs' objects, but i found out a way to makr stairs out of other objects, same with liquor bottles, and well, the poles. Stripclubs are like a competitive market its insane, abd because of this, entire stripclub communities started forming. It was honestly like ?? Gangs??? They would open a discord server to annoubce when they were going to host the stripclub roleplay, then, because we are all terminally online, drama ensues. The point is that these groups would have massive fights with each other and the drama was inmense and i love explaining this to people bc they are already (understandably so) bewildered by the concept of ponytown stripclub and i am always so excited to say that that is the basic understanding of the shit im ab to discuss. I rambled so hard. I just find this so much fun i let go of my point but going back to it- whatever it is, as long as people are free to interact with each other in any terms, we will create, we will argue, and we will somehow fuck in some sort of way

    • @atomicrenegade8194
      @atomicrenegade8194 Рік тому +93

      WHORPHENAGE

    • @rubyredraccoon7580
      @rubyredraccoon7580 Рік тому +31

      @@atomicrenegade8194 oh my god this reply genuinely made me do a double take, if i was sipping a drink at the time i would have spat it out laughing 100%

    • @yeet1066
      @yeet1066 11 місяців тому +8

      I play warrior cats ultimate edition on Roblox and this is also what twolegplace in that game is like, at least three times I've walked in on someone doing the sit animation over and over on a cat doing the front sit animation. Then downstairs there's 300 kits Spamming "ABC FOR KIT"

    • @8stormy5
      @8stormy5 9 місяців тому +4

      Well the results of so much hanky panky have to go somewhere now don't they

  • @wrenhall1024
    @wrenhall1024 3 роки тому +563

    I’m 18 now and I’ll still log on and buy a membership then play nonstop for like a week or two sometimes. Definitely can never recreate how magical it felt to play this game when I was younger but it’s a good nostalgia boost.

    • @glossydrop8107
      @glossydrop8107 3 роки тому +3

      Me too! I'm glad people still play the game

    • @kpopgoblin6590
      @kpopgoblin6590 3 роки тому +14

      I appreciate you commenting this cuz i never played animal jam as kid (I played a lot of Club Penguin and then later in life I played Moviestar Planet) but now watching this video it's peaked my interest and I wanna play it even tho im 18 lol

    • @DreamMakeup-h4k
      @DreamMakeup-h4k 3 роки тому +7

      Yall I'm 19 and I still play lol I'm a collector 👌

    • @roul4842
      @roul4842 3 роки тому +3

      I never played the original AJ but I did play AJPW for a long time. I'm 16 now and like playing Fer.al from time to time... It's Animal Jam but with a bar. lol

    • @Botsusann
      @Botsusann 3 роки тому +5

      God same, I’m 20 and still hop onto my almost ten year old account for nostalgias sake, it’s almost surprising that it’s still addictive to play after all this time.

  • @nixien1496
    @nixien1496 2 роки тому +205

    I'm 35 and I'd obviously never heard of Animal jam, but honestly hearing about how incredibly depraved these teenagers were reminds me alot of my teen years online and is reassuring... I was a Teen in the early 2000's and yeah shit then was wild.

    • @mrpickles-hb6zx
      @mrpickles-hb6zx Рік тому

      Alot of kids these days think suicide is funny, was it any better in ur day?

    • @SnackPacks10
      @SnackPacks10 8 місяців тому +1

      Me too lol I'd never heard of it before but it reminds me a lot of Gaia online and runescape

  • @AliceLps
    @AliceLps 3 роки тому +3078

    Animal Jam... what a time to be alive 🤣🤣🤣

  • @superchick221b5
    @superchick221b5 3 роки тому +846

    I remember those roleplays, they were usually a mess, unless you were there from the start, things were confusing. I also remember that people with bunny skins usually played pups... I was always a pup. I used to get so upset when grown wolves would shove me out of battles or kidnap me. You are so right, things back then were WEIRD. Now I play D&D... so things really have not changed.

    • @Ajhernandez3550
      @Ajhernandez3550 3 роки тому +7

      Wait… so do I 😀

    • @kristinakristalls4149
      @kristinakristalls4149 3 роки тому +3

      Same
      One obsession turned in to another 😄

    • @SYD.0_o
      @SYD.0_o 3 роки тому +7

      Dude i also went from aj rp to D&D 😭

    • @keribere244
      @keribere244 3 роки тому +22

      I always tried so hard to join those member roleplays. I remember trying to get in to one, with like princesses and stuff so this one nice girl let me be a princess even though I was like the 8th while the rest on the princesses were members so then everyone just ignored me lol. I at one point even sacrificed myself for one of my “sisters” because I had to go and everyone just continued the roleplay without acknowledging me :(

    • @blushingrxes-quit7774
      @blushingrxes-quit7774 3 роки тому

      My school has a d and d club lol 😂 I’m not in it tho

  • @ameliaweeks5
    @ameliaweeks5 3 роки тому +454

    the fact that i would spend hours on that game decorating my den, emptying it, and decorating it all over again shocks me but also makes me so happy like i was so wholesome back then decorating my little imaginary house for my little imaginary wolf called shimmersparklebeans or something... i loved this vid made me so nostalgic, thank you.

    • @nopenope4502
      @nopenope4502 3 роки тому +8

      I once got a load of Jammagrams from people saying my den got into Epic Dens but when I checked it I couldn't find it. Still confuses me to this day.

    • @estherfichtenholz4838
      @estherfichtenholz4838 3 роки тому +4

      I had one of my dens always decorated for the holidays, and I'd clean it out every time the season changed or another holiday was coming up, and redecorate with this intense focus. I'd do it in this one room in my Webkinz house, too. Those were the good days

    • @mushi3255
      @mushi3255 3 роки тому +1

      SAME

  • @steamdragon8550
    @steamdragon8550 2 роки тому +71

    One of my favorite memories of this game was when I went into a party and the only other person there was the guy who was hosting the party. They were really grateful for me coming and didn’t try to take advantage of me or anything. Hope they’re doing well now.

  • @PigBoy99
    @PigBoy99 3 роки тому +723

    I remember hiding in a “bunker den” during the Quackity raid
    Ducks would keep trying to sneak in

    • @uwuifyingransomware
      @uwuifyingransomware 3 роки тому +82

      There were bunker dens? I never realised how big that whole raid got. Kinda miss that time, ngl

    • @jaylynn0x048
      @jaylynn0x048 3 роки тому +13

      excuse me the WHAT

    • @MultiNaruto900
      @MultiNaruto900 3 роки тому +19

      *BUNKER DENS?* I know the Quackity raid was big, but _WHAT?_

    • @rickpervez322
      @rickpervez322 3 роки тому +3

      i remember a few yellow penguins before the raid took place but like, i was offline during the raid lol

    • @MinePlanet84
      @MinePlanet84 3 роки тому +5

      I WAS ONE OF THE DUCKS

  • @kalkory
    @kalkory 3 роки тому +414

    I used to mass-purchase supplies for elaborate zoos and “jail cells” in my den, hopped from server to server advertising until my den reached the 30 player limit, then just sat & watched shit go down

    • @Jaythetransgremlin
      @Jaythetransgremlin 3 роки тому +40

      that is beautiful i wish i had that much commitment to be mean to people

    • @arsenicArtificer
      @arsenicArtificer 3 роки тому +20

      chaotic evil

    • @cathacks_exe
      @cathacks_exe 3 роки тому +2

      SAME

    • @canyonbear21
      @canyonbear21 3 роки тому +11

      i loved hosting roleplays and watching drama go down

    • @bunnywavyxx9524
      @bunnywavyxx9524 3 роки тому +5

      @@canyonbear21 samee..!! when I got membership I bought that really big palace with the forest and everything and hosted elaborate roleplays. rp was one of the main reasons I love Animal Jam

  • @gayforitzy14
    @gayforitzy14 3 роки тому +292

    fun story: my sister proposed to her now wife three weeks after discovering that she scammed her on aj when they were fourteen years old and they logged back in after 3 or 4 years after they both left the site so she could trade back the stuff she scammed her out of
    edit: got their ages wrong, they were 14 not 10

    • @SAM-BVCK
      @SAM-BVCK 3 роки тому +62

      The love story we didn't know we needed

    • @KittyFAN13
      @KittyFAN13 3 роки тому +21

      Holy shit, that is so cute!

    • @Moony1568
      @Moony1568 3 роки тому +15

      Beautiful. True love right there

    • @SillySuli03
      @SillySuli03 3 роки тому +44

      the og enemies to lovers

    • @fatlittlekittens7297
      @fatlittlekittens7297 3 роки тому +1

      @@SAM-BVCK that pfp is nostalgic

  • @EstellaCordero
    @EstellaCordero Рік тому +77

    i remember being SO into animal jam. id wake up early on school days to play it before school and would play it as long as i could after school and on the weekends. i recently came back to animal jam classic to relive those days and i forgot just how much i knew about rares/beta items and what was worthy. it’s actually funny to think about how invested i was in a virtual marketplace💀also to be so knowledgeable about the lore of the game

  • @TumultuousTiger
    @TumultuousTiger 3 роки тому +660

    Fun fact: The original beta den actually did return to the game, just not as an actual den you can use. It was re-introduced to the game as the location for the Beta Party in 2014.

    • @tomate6433
      @tomate6433 3 роки тому +3

      yessss i was waiting for her to mention it lol

  • @justabridget
    @justabridget 3 роки тому +368

    Your talk about the weird role plays on AJ reminded me of a time where my friend and I would dress up as a devil and an angel, go to the most popular rp server, then continue to use overpowered moves and huge plot twists against each other to mock the people that did that. We’d always bring so much attention to ourselves and some people even tried to intervene. Those were the good times.

    • @nagitokomaeda6960
      @nagitokomaeda6960 3 роки тому +8

      Ok but why did me and my friend do the same thing 😭😭✋ Good innocent kid times

    • @puppyparfait9014
      @puppyparfait9014 3 роки тому +1

      @@nagitokomaeda6960 omg a danganronpa fan in the wild holy shit /lh

  • @Wince_Media
    @Wince_Media 3 роки тому +1147

    It's so weird that people see quackity as "the dream smp guy" when I knew the guy long before dream smp. Seeing him now is like imagining leafy having a massive fandom

    • @enviisyk
      @enviisyk 3 роки тому +69

      yeah same ive been watching him since 2018 and its surreal

    • @Wince_Media
      @Wince_Media 3 роки тому +21

      @@enviisyk kinda reminds me of hazbi. Hotel in a way

    • @hobqueer
      @hobqueer 3 роки тому +52

      It makes me really sad. Fortunately other people have taken his place though.

    • @iloveyungsherman
      @iloveyungsherman 3 роки тому +25

      seeing leafy mentioned here made me exhilarated ahah

    • @derago7205
      @derago7205 3 роки тому +83

      Lmao yeah i remember when i was getting into dream smp and seeing him and thinking "wait isnt that the guy who raided animal jam?"

  • @marialmao3353
    @marialmao3353 Рік тому +16

    man this is nostalgic. playing animal jam during Christmas was honestly the happiest part of my childhood. And that carnival they had every summer was sick too

  • @mykenzieforbes5125
    @mykenzieforbes5125 3 роки тому +420

    Man who else remembers the township area full of people saying “Loins roar, eagles soar, non members deserve more”
    Edit: I also just remembered the “secret color” that used to have. My arctic wolf was that pale blue color. It might still be like that if my account still exists

    • @somethingwithbungalows
      @somethingwithbungalows 3 роки тому +10

      Unfortunately many accounts were deleted awhile back :,P

    • @micnik3573
      @micnik3573 3 роки тому +1

      @@somethingwithbungalows Were they, how?

    • @robinsea
      @robinsea 3 роки тому +8

      Finding that blue colour was the highlight of my childhood

    • @WhenWeAllFallAsleep
      @WhenWeAllFallAsleep 3 роки тому +14

      liONS ROAR EAGLES SOAR NON MEMBERS DESERVE MORE

    • @somethingwithbungalows
      @somethingwithbungalows 3 роки тому +11

      @@micnik3573 AJ themselves just decided to delete a bunch of old unused accounts (unused for at least 2 years) for some reason. I believe they gave a warning awhile before but idk

  • @HeartShapedCandiedBat
    @HeartShapedCandiedBat 3 роки тому +304

    "Homestuck?" "For goodness sake no" crying i love that

  • @Nat-of3il
    @Nat-of3il 2 роки тому +1202

    After adopting probably well over 30 kids during my time playing Animal Jam, not a single one ever asked me for an item ever(I was a member, and I didn’t care if they were or weren’t). I think that maybe you had a few bad apples if they were asking you for stuff? But from my time they were all really sweet and just wanted to play house essentially.

    • @2verysnowyyy
      @2verysnowyyy 2 роки тому +141

      The only times my roleplay siblings/pets needed things, I essentially just rented it to them and they always gave it back (think a cat collar for a pet) and can confirm we just played like house but with magic and maybe a natural disaster/alien invasion

    • @Rizzalert69
      @Rizzalert69 2 роки тому +83

      that’s so sweet :(

    • @violetrose8779
      @violetrose8779 2 роки тому +51

      Same i miss the old times where everyone had fun roleplaying member or not

    • @christinawilliams299
      @christinawilliams299 2 роки тому

      Right
      😢😢r😢like drlll l

    • @Voltage256
      @Voltage256 2 роки тому +9

      Was the same for me I didn't understand all the bullying just bc ppl didn't have membership. I honestly lost count of how many kids I adopted on that game (Also was a member) and I think maybe just 1 out all of them were asking for items. The good ppl on the game definitely outweighed the bad ones in my experience

  • @Darling_Decay
    @Darling_Decay 2 роки тому +34

    I use to do those adoption roleplays a whole lot and those house parties. I have soo many fond memories, this game made my childhood. As well as all the neon spike colors and one single headdress.
    Adoption memory! I once was adopted and had this “sickness” that turned me into a dragon. Basically a croc with wings. I remember my “mother” crying so hard when I turned and brought a doctor and everything. Oh my god it was sooo bad

  • @rachelmccaughey6239
    @rachelmccaughey6239 3 роки тому +525

    honestly, animal jam did actually teach me a lot about wildlife, and definitely sparked my interest in nature which i still carry today! although it was a bit of a shamble at times with drama and scams and knowing the worth of your items and rares, it did genuinely help me! and i'm so glad i had it in my childhood

    • @finnegan728
      @finnegan728 3 роки тому +6

      same! i watched the brady barr vids on loop, they were great

    • @lemonine2712
      @lemonine2712 3 роки тому +1

      Honestly same. Animal jam is the reason I want to travel the world and explore new environments and such

    • @hello-up1fo
      @hello-up1fo 3 роки тому +3

      same i used to be a role player on that ajcw wiki thing 😭😭 i learned html coding for a bit. i also learned how to draw, and just got really good with typing fast and increased my vocabulary a lot. i’m actually thinking about going into some sort of web design as an adult, because of how much i enjoyed doing the html coding on there. i did a lot of cringey stuff back then, but i actually learned a lot of cool things from it!!

    • @jellygypsyaj5352
      @jellygypsyaj5352 3 роки тому

      Have u seen the game now? Its chaotic

    • @petalleaf2808
      @petalleaf2808 3 роки тому

      Same! I honestly loved going around and completing the journal book- first on my main, and many, many side accounts. The rewards were pretty cool den items most of the time, and they were honestly interesting to have learned. I remember when the Bird of Paradise party came out and I was enamored with learning more about paradise birds cause they were so cool! And back when the community wasn't centered on trading, but more like exploring and making friends around 2013 - 2014, I remember feeling just wandering around and exploring, as well as being immersed in the ambience of Jamaa's wilderness and lands. Like Coral Canyons or Sarepia Forest. Sarepia Forest's music is calming.

  • @kazulcosplay6494
    @kazulcosplay6494 3 роки тому +1299

    I worked at Wildworks as 3D artist and animator on Animal Jam from 2011-2017 and then again for a few months in 2018. This was a very fun video to watch and see Animal Jam from a player perspective. It was definitely a great trip down memory lane :) I could probably answer quite a few of your questions from the dev side.

    • @KazplayVideos
      @KazplayVideos 3 роки тому +327

      Like the magenta items and the special colors by clicking a certain pixels definitely started as a bug, but were preserved because the community reaction to them. An Easter egg that was purposely added was certain animals had a unique color that you couldn't pick on the list. So once you changed colors from the default, you couldn't go back to those colors.
      As far as the aggressive moderation, that was because it's a game for kids. The company had a lot of laws to adhere to to keep kids safe. It was a constant, and expensive, requirement we had to follow. I remember the blood paint splat incident, but didn't realize they kept the white one. I was on the 3D team, 2D assets like that had another team of artists. I had my fair share of items I made that were cut just before going live because of how they could be used inappropriately. It was always something we tried to keep in mind but we made mistakes. This is part of the reason the reason to develop a game like Fer.al, because aging up the audience would not have the same legal/moderation requirements.
      On AJ classic VS AJ play wild. This this was motivated by a couple things: industry trends with mobile games focus but most especially because AJ classic was built in flash(now defunct). At one point we made an effort to convert the game to HTML 5, but it proved too costly and too late. Instead they made a downladable launcher, and kept the game on life support. I spent all my time at the company on Classic.
      Notable things I did: animated the Arctic wolf, eagle, arctic fox, owl, raccoon, sloth, deer, and maybe more. I made hundreds of clothing items, my favorite was the ice armor set.

    • @PocketRowlette
      @PocketRowlette 3 роки тому +57

      Did you get any special "perks" and junk in the game for being part of staff? Just a completely random curiosity.

    • @kazulcosplay6494
      @kazulcosplay6494 3 роки тому +178

      @@PocketRowlette I got a free permanent membership (they did a reset on those every couple years) and they would give us a bunch of codes for free 3 and 6 month memberships to give away to friends and family every year. Those codes included the special animals and premium currency when those were added

    • @PocketRowlette
      @PocketRowlette 3 роки тому +58

      @@kazulcosplay6494 That sounds real fun. The free codes sounds like a great gift to give to relatives' kids for birthdays/Christmas.
      -Also did they pay well? I'm not a person who has the skills for these careers, but I'm pretty curious to hear.-

    • @kazulcosplay6494
      @kazulcosplay6494 3 роки тому +140

      @@PocketRowlette I was happy with my compensation. There was even a period while I worked there that we got big bonuses every quarter because the game was doing so well. But it's a volatile industry and when the company started not doing so well people started to get laid off. I was in the 3rd round of layoffs in 2017. I returned again for about 6 months as a contract worker in 2018 and moral was pretty low and there was another round of layoffs during my contract. From what I know that was the last of it until 35 people laid off again in July this year, so I don't know the status of the company but it doesn't seem good. So as I was saying, it's a rewarding industry, but be prepared to move jobs often.

  • @valentine4865
    @valentine4865 3 роки тому +648

    My biggest AJ memory is that I met a friend on there who I stopped talking to eventually and found out they had recently moved into my neighborhood after we'd stopped talking. It was weird af lol

    • @xeiumi
      @xeiumi 3 роки тому +53

      That’s such a weird coincidence lol

    • @luigi7834
      @luigi7834 3 роки тому +19

      that's insane. i wish one of my online buddies would move in next door

    • @meowmreowmeow
      @meowmreowmeow 3 роки тому +1

      that’s an interesting coincidence
      I really wanna know what had happened next though, just curious

    • @pessoaa8860
      @pessoaa8860 2 роки тому

      Wow

  • @Eggsolotl
    @Eggsolotl 2 роки тому +19

    33:14 This month (Oct of 2022) the ice actually broke. AJHQ decided to give in to the rumors that had run rampant since the introduction of Mt. Shiveer and had the players break it, revealing a phantom infested cavern underneath, with a new minigame, too.

    • @Wolfie54545
      @Wolfie54545 5 місяців тому +4

      Here to tell people it was on the app version.

  • @aver2326
    @aver2326 2 роки тому +1696

    MASSIVE respect for the disclaimer at the beginning, of course its a little silly warning for swearing from an outside perspective, but I remember when I was a little 11 year old hiding under my sheets watching youtube videos on my 3ds late into the night. Coming across different videos and discovering the internet. I remember that the first couple of times I heard swear words I got a weird sickening feeling in my stomach and immediately clicked off. Of course that kind of thing doesn't bother me and it makes me laugh thinking back to how sheltered I really was.

    • @literallyafishhook
      @literallyafishhook 2 роки тому +90

      i was the exact opposite way, when i heard anyone swear i giggled like a maniac because i felt like a rebel... i refused to swear at all until i became 13 or 14, but now i cuss so much it's nothing to me lol

    • @tanhart
      @tanhart 2 роки тому +30

      @Sophie ive seen fully grown adults still get mad that UA-camrs swear, so not that weird for a kid at this point

    • @Rizzalert69
      @Rizzalert69 2 роки тому +7

      oh my gosh i was the same way 💀💀

    • @ssnekky
      @ssnekky 2 роки тому +25

      My mom used to swear so much, and when I was watching Danny Gonzalez and he kept swearing and I was like “I’m gonna get in trouble…”
      Edit: I watched some Danny Gonzalez with my mom. She loves it. She thinks him and Chad Chad are hilarious.

    • @toastarkat
      @toastarkat 2 роки тому +8

      @@ssnekky Hell yeah another Danny Gonzalez viewer

  • @froggo1405
    @froggo1405 3 роки тому +400

    I remember bawling my eyes out for DAYS when I was scammed out of the nerd glasses (they were super rare at the time, maybe 5 years ago?) I told myself that I would never play again after that but I ended up logging back in after a few days because I couldn’t survive without animal jam apparently lol

    • @grackaloni
      @grackaloni 3 роки тому +8

      God me when I lost my rare bow
      I actually have a forbidden old yt where my AJ vids are still up and Im getting scammed lmao

    • @pancakebarista1288
      @pancakebarista1288 3 роки тому

      I remember the nerd glasses! Still wish they had them

    • @dhruthi2749
      @dhruthi2749 3 роки тому +1

      i remeber having the both color enrd classes, (white and yellow) they were litterly my pride and joy. I even got a spiked collar, but it paled in comparassion to the white nerd glasses.

    • @fallenstriker5472
      @fallenstriker5472 3 роки тому

      Ouch, I also remember crying so hard after being scammed for a spike collar or whatever. It hurt a lot because I was just a innocent person who was trying to be nice to a fox player who said they had never gotten a collar thing ever and said they would give it back. But then they took it unfriended me and left to scam another most likely it hurts but you learn and it's just a game in the end.

    • @squittens8337
      @squittens8337 3 роки тому +1

      I got scammed out of a bunch of betas and I sobbed for an hour straight and lost interest in the game after that.

  • @ratherande
    @ratherande Рік тому +46

    This game was my unhealthy obsession. I started playing at the age of 7 and I really haven’t stopped since. I am now 17. There was a time when I was 13 where I would play every single day trying to trade for a spike.

  • @garfieldfan48
    @garfieldfan48 3 роки тому +680

    Dude I remember there being a warrior cat community with a whole website dedicated to making clans in animal jam and advertising it so people will join. It's crazy now that I think about it. Hell, the website is somehow still active
    Edit: I'm actually so happy this was brought up in the video even if it was brief

    • @garfieldfan48
      @garfieldfan48 3 роки тому +33

      Holy shit this is the first time I got spam replies. I feel special

    • @digitalcourtjester
      @digitalcourtjester 3 роки тому +11

      oh my god i remember being obsessed with just making clans to just make the wikis.

    • @solseclipse
      @solseclipse 3 роки тому +18

      I remember joining someone's Clan, then getting bored bc nobody was online to talk to so I joined another random one, then getting attacked and kicked out for "double-clanning". F in the chat for 8 y/o me

    • @garfieldfan48
      @garfieldfan48 3 роки тому +11

      @@digitalcourtjester no shit AJCW is what got me into coding and computers lmaoo. My whole education is built from being a virtual cat on Animal Jam 🥴

    • @sodo_mizer
      @sodo_mizer 3 роки тому +1

      Man yess I used to make so many warrior cats ocs on ajpw

  • @zoeyc5851
    @zoeyc5851 3 роки тому +200

    I remember playing The Forgotten Desert adventure. You could only play as flying animals (so only members) and you could get lots of rare items from the adventure, I had the whole map remembered and knew where all the chests were it was amazing.

    • @starrynight8903
      @starrynight8903 3 роки тому +17

      omg yes and people would lowkey create these mini "forgotten desert" parties where they'd ask who would wanna do it more than once and you would all go to their den and friend them so you could do that adventure for like, hours without having to recruit new people. I loved it lol

    • @Ducky_Lucky
      @Ducky_Lucky 3 роки тому +3

      That game is how I ever got a spike, I remember I was so hyped and whilst everyone else left minus one kid before they reached the end and he just went "ok." and left, I find his deadpan reaction rather funny

    • @ashleyzukas1645
      @ashleyzukas1645 3 роки тому +2

      Omggg the day I got a red long collar in tfd was the best day of my life 😭😭 I love that game I kinda wanna go back and buy membership to just play it

    • @chromacattiosv2
      @chromacattiosv2 3 роки тому +2

      i still remember my routes for the forgotten desert, lucky clovers, and tiki trouble.

    • @nuniyoa
      @nuniyoa 3 роки тому +2

      oh my god same, i spent HOURS on that and ended up with a black long collar

  • @cable_g0re
    @cable_g0re 3 роки тому +765

    "Homestuck?"
    "For goodness sake no"
    "😢"
    My god this is making me hysterical

    • @clownfern
      @clownfern 3 роки тому +10

      *dies*

    • @cable_g0re
      @cable_g0re 3 роки тому +6

      @@clownfern the only mood for this situation

    • @akarun45
      @akarun45 3 роки тому +12

      I NEED CONTEXT FOR THAT MOMENT

    • @esotericpince
      @esotericpince 3 роки тому +19

      animal jam homestuck based hate crime :pensive:

    • @cable_g0re
      @cable_g0re 3 роки тому

      @@esotericpince gndhdhbc 🥺

  • @bellaredlon2229
    @bellaredlon2229 Рік тому +13

    Thank you for putting these deep dive videos together, they make me feel happy remembering the good times of being a child on the internet, rather than being sad that those days are over. It’s also comforting knowing that other people my age were just as weird and stupid as I was, haha!

  • @cleanestmidwestemofan
    @cleanestmidwestemofan 3 роки тому +822

    moviestarplanet would be such a good topic for this series but also it’s like the most boring out of all these games. also tunnel town was AWESOME

    • @scyntheachannel
      @scyntheachannel 3 роки тому +69

      Please not moviestarplanet, God that game scared me so bad as a tween

    • @TheAnimestudio
      @TheAnimestudio 3 роки тому +97

      Moviestarplanet was a ruthless environment I wish I could account for all the drama I went through on there

    • @dia_official1
      @dia_official1 3 роки тому +34

      @@TheAnimestudio omg ik it was literally chaotic lmao i actually spent most of my time in BlockStarPlanet (which is literally a minecraft ripoff but my mom refused to buy me minecraft so BSP was my only option 🥺) but the time i spent in MovieStarPlanet was literally just grinding for coins and levels every day so i could customize my character because i was ftp and i couldnt get vip 😔

    • @olive2609
      @olive2609 3 роки тому +39

      I stopped playing movie star planet bc my parents got mad at me when they saw I had a ‘boyfriend’ on there (aka some random dude I’d never spoken to) 😭

    • @beatricegoodchild6232
      @beatricegoodchild6232 3 роки тому +17

      @@dia_official1 GOSH THIS WAS ME I'd spend hours playing the quiz and best dressed games to earn some star coins all so I couls buy the new unicorn hair

  • @usagiislost
    @usagiislost 3 роки тому +840

    I'm so glad to hear you talking about this. This game was about 100% of what I thought about back in 2016 and 2017. WisteriaMoon and GellyJones were the only youtubers I watched. I remember doing cringey rps in the game, and while I hate that I did it now, it was quite entertaining when I was younger.

    • @sofurryfurrymeow
      @sofurryfurrymeow 3 роки тому +14

      Gelly Jones is so nostalgic for me😭

    • @Benutzername474
      @Benutzername474 3 роки тому +9

      Kinda sad how most of them quit… i actually started playing animal jam after i saw it on a cookieswirlC (not an animal jam youtuber) video

    • @roix5543
      @roix5543 3 роки тому +2

      Same

    • @heelturn2
      @heelturn2 3 роки тому +17

      @@izzz222 he became a soundcloud rapper
      yes, i am serious

    • @sejsuper4660
      @sejsuper4660 3 роки тому +8

      okay but jellyjones was CLASS. like her videos were so good??

  • @Jesterz404
    @Jesterz404 3 роки тому +372

    As a game designer who has worked on online games before, my guess is that the “developer corral” is probably an inside joke for the area the devs would spawn into when they were testing the game. Inside jokes like that are always appreciated especially when testing hehehe

  • @shark_gaming_0
    @shark_gaming_0 2 роки тому +40

    I genuinely loved the educational side of AJ. I wasn't the most active player, but when I was online, I was running around and learning about nature. I'm fairly certain I was either a seal or a penguin

  • @krisdoesart9643
    @krisdoesart9643 3 роки тому +495

    As someone who's been waiting for an AJ retrospective for years, YES

  • @yin9008
    @yin9008 3 роки тому +585

    izzy this is my CHILDHOOD you can't DO THIS TO ME

  • @TsundereOtter
    @TsundereOtter 3 роки тому +473

    quick correction: Lions were actually the first gift card animal! I only know this because lions were a big deal because not many folks had access to them so when you had a lion at the time it was a BIG DEAL. They were later added as a regular animal and lost their whole mysticism, but it’s one of the things I remember very vividly about lions. Thank you for covering my childhood! I built my whole internet life on AJ, even running an animal jam confessions blog on tumblr, so this was amazing!

    • @darealslimshady702
      @darealslimshady702 2 роки тому +1

      i remember when i was rlly into aj i almost didn’t believe lions were in the game until i could buy one myself!

    • @KingPloddy
      @KingPloddy 2 роки тому +4

      I remember wanting a lion so badly lmao my name was lionking46604 so i just had to have one

    • @dovahdog0
      @dovahdog0 2 роки тому +1

      BROOO i remember when i first got a lion, i was in jamaa township using my lion and i was surrounded by jammers calling me rare n shit. They even followed me into jam mart clothing until i had to tell them to stop swarming me lmfao

  • @Lindsi_loveee
    @Lindsi_loveee 2 роки тому +9

    I forgot so much about animal jam until watching this, like the frozen lake we would jump on trying to get it to break. I mainly spent time in the art gallery’s looking at all the cool art, i one time saw a painting i absolutely loved and the creator was there. He friended me and made me a commission for a pound puppies painting which i still have in my den. I also collected a ton of rares (mainly spike collars, cloaks, and other various such things).

  • @corbid5093
    @corbid5093 3 роки тому +184

    29:18 I used to dress my character up super femininely to get an AJ boyfriend, basically cat fishing as a girl to get guys lol. I recall one of them stopped logging on for a month so I believed I was in the all clear to unfriend them and go back to dressing my character like a boy. I should have blocked them because he came back and got angry, and my dumbass 12 year old self didn’t think to lie and say ‘oh I share this account with my brother’ or something

    • @danafah9539
      @danafah9539 3 роки тому +22

      omg ahaha Im the exact opposite! I would pretend to be a guy and get gfs lmao

    • @mari_zz
      @mari_zz 3 роки тому +16

      tbh dressing up "as a girl" and catfishing my bfs on children games was just the beginning of my gender dysphoria lol

    • @GoroAkechi_Real
      @GoroAkechi_Real 3 роки тому +6

      broooo now I remember that time on AJPW I dressed up my arctic wolf as a dude and got an AJ gf, I thankfully had a pretty gender neutral style/username/animal name (I think I named the arctic wolf DJ Kawaiihero?) so it was easy

    • @silverluna8218
      @silverluna8218 3 роки тому +2

      lol i used to have an aj girlfriend cuz my avatar always looked masculine (aka blue and or red arctic wolf with rares equipped on) and i had an edgy name ,,and when she confessed i didnt have the heart to tell her that i was a girl and didnt even like her so i just said yes and played along with it until she broke up with me ahaha

  • @aimeeh2079
    @aimeeh2079 3 роки тому +261

    I feel like another main thing missed was the adventures, and how certain ones like Forgotten Desert were renowned for getting rares. The hours me and my friend dedicated to trying to collect all the purple gems, man I could've cured cancer in that time lmao

    • @somethingwithbungalows
      @somethingwithbungalows 3 роки тому +13

      I can remember the absolute chaos of the times where me and my buddies decided to get the purple gems. Holy shit- I’ve only completed that only once and we got a simple item. We raged sooo hard lmaooooo that shit took hours xD

    • @somethingwithbungalows
      @somethingwithbungalows 3 роки тому +6

      Of screeching at each other to get in line

    • @aimeeh2079
      @aimeeh2079 3 роки тому +7

      @@somethingwithbungalows ahaha I know right! We only completed it like,, 3 times in the totality of it all. At one point I actually got an orange short spike but alas, my game lagged out from the sheer amount of time I had already spent

    • @HiHi-lt1cb
      @HiHi-lt1cb 3 роки тому +6

      OMG I spent hours upon hours in The Forgotten Desert. One time I got a rare purple spike bracelet, and after that I played more and more because I wanted more rares. XD

    • @haleigh6089
      @haleigh6089 3 роки тому +1

      i can even look back fondly on how laggy all of the adventures were now

  • @salemmacrae9472
    @salemmacrae9472 3 роки тому +260

    If it weren’t for my old friend showing me animal jam while having a sleepover I don’t think I would be the person I am today, thank you Anika for introducing to cursed children’s games

    • @moogaboogaa
      @moogaboogaa 3 роки тому +5

      I was introduced to it by a girl named Cami at summer school when I was going into 3rd grade

    • @rosetenko8589
      @rosetenko8589 3 роки тому +1

      I know I'm glad my ex-friend and his sister introduced me to AJ- I would've missed out on so much, smh

    • @clarethecat5199
      @clarethecat5199 3 роки тому

      Totally agree, dude. I wouldn't be the same person without being introduced to it by a friend, either. 5th grade, man.. Thank you, Paris

    • @Bloody.Mushroom
      @Bloody.Mushroom 3 роки тому

      That is my deadname and I almost never see it in public so I nearly jumped out of my skin lol

    • @thiswillnotdo6027
      @thiswillnotdo6027 2 роки тому

      damn my name is anika lmfao

  • @leonewashere
    @leonewashere Рік тому +18

    one of my favourite memories of AJ was the day i was able to fill that one club/party room that no one ever went in to by saying "party in (whatever that place's name was)" in every room lol, i was so proud of myself

  • @tusi1032
    @tusi1032 3 роки тому +307

    My sister was so dedicated to this game and was good at negotiating; convincing members to give her the rarest item(s). She now plays it when she's stressed with high school, lowkey is adorable seeing her gush about the game lol.

    • @annafazecas3909
      @annafazecas3909 2 роки тому

      luckyyy as a high schooler who still plays sometimes i would love to have someone to gush to

    • @Xswhtx
      @Xswhtx 2 роки тому

      @@annafazecas3909 you could gush to me about the game 😅I also play aj in high school

  • @bennesweden6355
    @bennesweden6355 3 роки тому +137

    I was half paying attention and heard "there were also tons of maps" that got me absolutely alerted, very relieved to hear that it stands for Multi Animated Projects.

    • @ley.470
      @ley.470 3 роки тому +37

      might be bursting your bubble but unfortunately there were a lot of MAPs on the site that weren't animation projects 😬

    • @jm1646
      @jm1646 3 роки тому +3

      that did scare me as well.

    • @volkadee6151
      @volkadee6151 3 роки тому +1

      @@ley.470 hyenine1 lmao

  • @gunnysmack3163
    @gunnysmack3163 3 роки тому +396

    I find it so endlessly interesting that almost all Gen z kids had one of these games that they obsessed over endlessly. By the end of my career I had about 30 Webkinz which I felt was decent and a good year or two in on a toontown subscription. Questions about this stuff are great icebreakers because you’ll always get some excitement on the topic as people relive the fun and hilarious memories from childhood.

    • @remyratatouille634
      @remyratatouille634 3 роки тому +5

      I had animal jam and wizard 101 (god i miss wizard 101)

  • @brunettebi4111
    @brunettebi4111 Рік тому +45

    In 2013, I joined Animal Jam after seeing a UA-camr playing it.
    Hard to believe it's been a decade. I play both Classic and Play Wild, but Classic will always have a huge place in my heart. (Wish I got to play Feral since it looked so cool. Dang NFTs.)

  • @tidepodpadthai2633
    @tidepodpadthai2633 3 роки тому +787

    "None of us paid attention to this as kids"
    Me, who wanted to become a biologist because of this game and always spouted off animal facts I'd learned from this game: ;w;

    • @cheesegorditacrunch
      @cheesegorditacrunch 2 роки тому +23

      That’s cute

    • @Wubadubadub1967
      @Wubadubadub1967 2 роки тому +6

      SAME

    • @hannahbeanies8855
      @hannahbeanies8855 2 роки тому +5

      There’s been a few people with similar stories in this comment section. It’s making my whole day because of how wholesome it is. 🥰 thank you for sharing!

    • @grace-od1wf
      @grace-od1wf 2 роки тому +2

      YOU USED THE GAME FOR ITS INTENDED PURPOSE. A TRUELY PURE SOUL YOU ARE!

    • @dovahdog0
      @dovahdog0 2 роки тому +1

      Saaaame😭 im studying a bit of zoology partly because of aj

  • @SirAsdf
    @SirAsdf 3 роки тому +266

    If I had a nickel for every kid targeted website with animal characters that turned into a controversy filled nightmare scape with a shitty economy I'd have 2 nickels.
    Which isn't alot but crazy that it happened twice.

    • @rapterlabs
      @rapterlabs 3 роки тому +1

      Wait, what's the other one?

    • @CloudsAndDays
      @CloudsAndDays 3 роки тому +24

      @@opossumontheinternet9864 The other one is probably neopets. Neopets had an incredibly big economy back in the day before the in game stock market crash that brought it all down.

    • @SirAsdf
      @SirAsdf 3 роки тому +1

      @@rapterlabs neopets

    • @golldshi
      @golldshi 3 роки тому +3

      woah is your pfp from thumb wrestling federation? I loved that show as a kid

    • @emanresu3683
      @emanresu3683 3 роки тому

      I had a good giggle ngl

  • @jellyfssh
    @jellyfssh 3 роки тому +318

    I literally love how you put on a whole outfit just to sit in a room full of garfield plushies and talk about children's MMO's.

    • @ayl9261
      @ayl9261 3 роки тому +15

      and a stunning makeup on top of that

  • @IcarustyBones
    @IcarustyBones 2 роки тому +253

    Animal Jam was my childhood and was my first true trans experience. From day one I always said I was a boy and my tigers name was Sir Happy Sun
    Whenever I got into a "relationship" I was always the boyfriend... all my AJ friends truly thought I was a guy. And it always made me so happy to be a boy. Of course I didn't know I was trans at the time. But I think it really helped my growth

    • @nataliepurvis1131
      @nataliepurvis1131 Рік тому +6

      this is so wholesome 😭 i played this game all through my childhood and i’m glad to hear that other people also had great experiences with the game

    • @IcarustyBones
      @IcarustyBones Рік тому +5

      @@nataliepurvis1131 it really is an amazing game. And they do a great job making it a safe space for kids

    • @gh.stb12rd
      @gh.stb12rd Рік тому +5

      Same kinda but with amino [vine boom]
      I roleplayed as both boy and girl characters and non human characters without gender and i was like hey this is so fun actually i love people not knowing what gender i am. Totally cis tho!. Que hitting puberty. Not so totally after all. 1 yr and a half on hrt rn at 19 :3

    • @IcarustyBones
      @IcarustyBones Рік тому +3

      @lysergidemicha Congrats on your HRT! I hope your transition is going well!

    • @gh.stb12rd
      @gh.stb12rd Рік тому +3

      @@IcarustyBones it is!! Tysm!

  • @delikat6775
    @delikat6775 3 роки тому +145

    I used to be obsessed with fox’s during that time and I remember going to the announcements board every single day and writing a suggestion message to Animal Jam about why they should add fox’s back again. They eventually did add them back and I like to think it was because of me.

    • @ferretguy2457
      @ferretguy2457 3 роки тому +11

      I DID THE SAME WITH FERRETS. everyday id go to the suggestion box and ask for ferrets and sign it under my username and then they released the pet ferrets!!!

    • @somethingwithbungalows
      @somethingwithbungalows 3 роки тому +9

      “This is like the 100th time that this lil shit has asked for this”

    • @Sara-c7y6o
      @Sara-c7y6o 3 роки тому +5

      Same but not really- I remember before they released snow leopards, I donated SO MANY GEMS to the conservation center to "Lions, tigers and cheetahs" everyday for months. After that time frame, I actually remember reading the Jamaa Journal saying something along the lines that they changed the donation... thing to be dedicated to solely lions, tigers and cheetahs. Not long after, they released snow leopards so to this day (I quit a little over a year ago) I believe the AJ snow leopards to be kind of like my babies because of my donations lmao.

  • @ggdynfytugfy6892
    @ggdynfytugfy6892 3 роки тому +477

    Aww yeah. The game that came in clutch for me and the boys and the girls and the NBs between when our school blocked coolmath games and when we developed other workarounds. So excited to hear about the depths I never explored.

    • @treats207
      @treats207 3 роки тому +1

      IKR LOLLLL

    • @leahdavis9434
      @leahdavis9434 3 роки тому +6

      Would've been less clunky to just say "people at my school". Also, as a non-binary person, we are nonbinary PEOPLE and not just non binaries

    • @HarryFrenchRoom24Gaming
      @HarryFrenchRoom24Gaming 3 роки тому

      @@leahdavis9434 yeah the boy people the girl people and the non binary people lol

    • @tuntehund
      @tuntehund 3 роки тому +5

      @@leahdavis9434 FOR REAL THOUGH. i’m a non-binary person as well (although my pronouns are they/he/it) and i absolutely hate it when people refer to us as “they/thems”. like u don’t see them referring to girls as “she/hers” ! but like... they are being supportive ....? they’re trying ig

    • @grilledpook
      @grilledpook 2 роки тому

      your school blocked coolmath? thats so weird to think about

  • @nyananath
    @nyananath 3 роки тому +201

    A few anecdotes bc nostalgia is hitting me rn:
    THE slur
    Whenever someone wanted to curse (
    clarification; Spanish is my main language) they would say "eres un arroz al revés" ("you are a rice backwards"), which translated doesn't really make sense, unless you know that "arroz" backwards is "zorra" ("bitch"), tbh it was a really creative way of insulting someone
    Wedding
    Once I assisted to someone-I-didn't-know's wedding. The girl was like, really but really rich, she was an artic wolf with tons of cool clothes and her "engaged" was also rich but I don't really remember the animal nor color. The house was really big and she threw a big-ass party before the wedding and invited everyone at the plaza (that's how I got there), tho at the moment of the wedding there wasn't a lot of people left, so I had to do the priest's speech lmao, it was lots of fun
    Scam
    A "friend" that I had met just one day ago told me it was their bday, and asked if I could lend them a bit of furniture for their party. Me, as the dumb naive kid I was back then, happily accepted, with the promise that they would return it later, which, well, never happened
    The slur again
    I was playing an event game, I think it was for Saint Patrick's, not sure, I don't even know what that day is about but I remember it had to do with clovers. To get gems you had to dance with three more people on circles so ladders would appear, but literally no one wanted to help me out, so I started saying the rice thing for a moment. After a while I almost completed the event, and started cursing someone in particular who was unwilling to help me at all moments which made me mad (I got easily angry back at the time), I just had to do a last thing to finish and I couldn't help but vent, but then, before being able to finish, the game shut down because someone reported me for swearing, causing me not being to use my account for a whole day. I remember I was really mad and almost like crying lol, I got really salty
    Fnaf roleplaying
    It was common for me to start inviting a bunch of people to my house so we could roleplay as Fnaf characters, I would redecorate my house and make it look like the Fnaf 1 office, I always was Mangle or Bonnie lmao
    Someone called me ugly
    Was messing around at the ocean when someone came at me and told me how ugly my turtle was, like, out of nowhere. I was a little child so I obviously felt sad, but then when that girl left, I inspired my color scheme on hers which, ngl, was nice. The colors were basically purple and black, so I decided to make both my turtle and my bunny those colors (purple skin/fur with black/gray spots from what I remember). I'm happy I did, I kept those colors until I stopped playing and they were nice

    • @N0t-Luciifer
      @N0t-Luciifer 3 роки тому +14

      "You are rice backwards" is the most iconic thing I ever heard

    • @RandomFriedPickles
      @RandomFriedPickles 3 роки тому +5

      The furniture thing happened to me once too

    • @ripplesripley
      @ripplesripley 3 роки тому +5

      OH MY GOD THE FNAF ROLEPLAYS??? THERE WERE ALSO THE SANSCEST ROLEPLAYS TOO DJDKSNDKSJ

    • @rosetenko8589
      @rosetenko8589 3 роки тому +4

      Oh! I remember religiously going to those Fnaf roleplays and being mangle! I also recently found out I met one of my friends at a Fnaf rp, around 3 years before we actually became friends. It was really odd putting those pieces together-

  • @AgentPeebles
    @AgentPeebles 2 роки тому +14

    This game remains in my heart. This only became more important to me due to my old friend. We were super young, so we had no way of talking to each other personally since we had no phone or anything. At some point, she was moving and had no way to talk to me. We decided to try and communicate over AJ instead. She decided to give me her password and username as a final gift and left. She never did log on again, but I do remember that and think about it and her account reminds me of her.

  • @fIorapetals
    @fIorapetals 3 роки тому +160

    Ahhh, Animal Jam. The game where I went through my Warriors phase, got scammed, and started making online friends for the first time. Honestly, I have so many fond memories of Jamaa and seeing you upload this made me want to go play it again, so I'm doing that haha. I'll miss those old AJ UA-camrs... I went through so much growing up while playing that. Warriors phase, creepypasta phase, and... here I am now. The game's changed but at its core, it still feels like home. Glad you felt like talking about it!

  • @kabuski
    @kabuski 3 роки тому +342

    I remember I joined animal jam in 2012-2013 and I remember how welcoming everyone was, as I played through the years (I think I officially quit in 2019) it was so depressing seeing the official transition of animal jam only being trading based

    • @bubblelovessans
      @bubblelovessans 3 роки тому +8

      true

    • @gone9820
      @gone9820 2 роки тому +18

      Trading is what makes game rot. Artificial scarcity was the first poison, and yes, it was INTENTIONAL. Which means that Animal Jam was doomed from the start to rot as a trading game.

    • @trombonesarecool1
      @trombonesarecool1 2 роки тому +2

      And rare-based. I joined back onto play wild and “classic” a few days ago, and automatically logged off because of how much people were lying to get “free rares”.

    • @jlizard8500
      @jlizard8500 2 роки тому +2

      Now I'm mostly seeing people have their shops

    • @vrinkee
      @vrinkee 2 роки тому +6

      Yeah, trading took over all aspects of the game for me, and I eventually quit in 2018 once I'd gained everything I wanted as a non member. I still logged in occasionally to see if any interesting changes had happened, but after the data breach in 2020 I saw an unknown login that had occurred on my account between then and the last time I'd logged in. They were only logged in for about 3 minutes, but I'd lost my beta tiara and beta blanket along with other rare den items. I guess that's partly my fault for flaunting them in my trade list with no intention of ever trading. I contacted AJHQ and they said they couldn't return items due to policy, but I'd already researched and learned that they had since changed that policy. But it was about time that I moved on anyways, so I quit for good after that. Still pissed about their response though. Anyhow, it was fun while it lasted. Started playing in February 2011. Originally was really into the mini games and loved the darker art style. Had more personality to me. The Lost Temple of Zios was my favorite area because of it, and it was great learning random facts about animals from Temple Trivia.

  • @viper8925
    @viper8925 3 роки тому +405

    looks like wildworks is so desperate for money that they’re developing an nft game, and the community is in chaos. they outright lied to fer.al players and told them that the game was still in open beta because they were making updates to it, when the reality is that they’ve been working on an nft-based game called cinder. now that the new game has been announced, it’s pretty much been confirmed that fer.al is being officially abandoned and will likely never move on from beta. i’m sure animal jam will be facing the same treatment in the future, probably even in the next year. i grew up on animal jam and even now at 18 i’ll sometimes log back on when i’m feeling nostalgic, but it’s safe to say those days are over and i won’t be giving wildworks another penny. this is pretty disgusting behavior for a company that supposedly makes games to teach kids about the environment. i’d love to see you make a video covering this whole mess.

    • @lrk54ever
      @lrk54ever 2 роки тому +38

      Oh god. I know animal jam isn’t in its prime anymore but it sucks to even think about how one day I might not even r be able to log on for nostalgia. Neopets is also making NFTs, I wish these sites would remember their roots as fun kids mmos. :(

    • @gone9820
      @gone9820 2 роки тому +21

      @@lrk54ever Animal Jam wasnt that fun tho. TLDR: artificial scarcity + trading made AJ toxic with a player made hiearchy. WW (wildworks) was always evil, doing the combo as above to manipulate children into playing their game. I can say this because I played AJ. Its a shame for WW to go for NFTs, but theyre going bankrupt, and I say its well deserved. People shouldnt exploit their audience made of kids and teens

  • @tuxedomask3483
    @tuxedomask3483 Рік тому +44

    Gamedev here! Magenta is often used in game engines when shaders (what programs a material's surface) cant compile/render. Its bright so devs know if their materials arent working. Idk what animal jam was made in but its possible the magenta was either a default color or a missing shader color :)

  • @sydneybowman2760
    @sydneybowman2760 3 роки тому +226

    I'm so glad someone finally talked about this game. I spent so many hours of my childhood on this game.

  • @itsmethebesttabby
    @itsmethebesttabby 3 роки тому +259

    I was obsessed with this game. I absolutely adored the claw game and had a huge collection of the animal plushies. Even a dragon giraffe

    • @laundrysauce354
      @laundrysauce354 3 роки тому +9

      I had a plushie shop, that's how I grinded for good items lmao

    • @mxleo5512
      @mxleo5512 3 роки тому

      @@laundrysauce354 I did that too one time I got a spike for a really rare one I had one of the best things I got with the shop

    • @vaporean_boylove.0w083
      @vaporean_boylove.0w083 3 роки тому +4

      Mine was the sky high game and the fashion show. I can spend HOURS

    • @sunnivamhagatun
      @sunnivamhagatun 3 роки тому +1

      ooo me too! and i loved the minigame where you have to pet different starfish and sea slugs!

    • @laundrysauce354
      @laundrysauce354 3 роки тому

      @@mxleo5512 dude u should try play wild, it runs better than the old aj and has cool events now,everyone has free chat and most stuff is member free. Doesn't have the old adventures but has these things called pack runs instead. Also I think u get stuff automatically from already having an account pre play wild

  • @ps1hagridoufofcharacter
    @ps1hagridoufofcharacter 3 роки тому +316

    Izzy: "There are also plenty of MAPS-"
    Me: oh no is she gonna say-
    Izzy: "-a.k.a. multi animated projects"
    Me: _relieved sigh_

    • @roachsprouts
      @roachsprouts 3 роки тому +19

      -Unfortunately, that’s a genuine problem in the game atm-

    • @nusrarahman7181
      @nusrarahman7181 3 роки тому +1

      @@roachsprouts wait what

    • @roachsprouts
      @roachsprouts 3 роки тому +6

      @@nusrarahman7181
      Yeahhh :/ there’s been a ton of drama in AJ lately about two users named Hynine and Straycat. They’re both p-dophiles and AJHQ literally refuses to ban them?? Hynine also makes really weird art that’s on the brink of being inappropriate.
      The whole situation is the dumbest thing ever- AJHQ genuinely doesn’t care about what happens to AJ Classic.

    • @meowmreowmeow
      @meowmreowmeow 3 роки тому

      @@roachsprouts I agree, and the thing is, it’s also been killing its earlier games (not sure about play wild, but they have DEFINITELY been killing off feral)

  • @matthewlillardsdaughter
    @matthewlillardsdaughter 8 місяців тому +8

    Logged onto animal jam for the first time in years a few months back. First thing I saw was a masterpiece on someones trade list that said "Poor people (nms) dni." Ahh, classic Animal Jam!

  • @thekatinthehat2678
    @thekatinthehat2678 3 роки тому +206

    Hi! I’m a game dev, never worked on this game, but I have a guess as to what the employee corral is. A fashion boutique game I worked on had a rite of passage where every new employee’s name would be added to a list of names that would be randomly assigned to customers who came in the boutique. Compared to the size of the list overall, it’s pretty unlikely for a player to ever see a dev’s name, so it was mostly a cute Easter egg that would only ever be noticed by us. So my guess is that the corral is something like that, an in game Easter egg for employees only

  • @romanvalgo
    @romanvalgo 3 роки тому +242

    I remember finding not one but MULTIPLE PEOPLE either roleplaying or pretending to be fman.
    And the funniest part is that I believed that every one of them was the *real* fman.

    • @shay36
      @shay36 3 роки тому +10

      STOPPPPP I literally remember having nightmares about fman 😭😭🤣

    • @romanvalgo
      @romanvalgo 3 роки тому +2

      @@shay36 pffft same lmao

    • @jellygypsyaj5352
      @jellygypsyaj5352 3 роки тому +1

      There's still so many people pulling the Fman card haha

    • @romanvalgo
      @romanvalgo 3 роки тому

      @@jellygypsyaj5352 lol I’m not surprised

    • @heyguys6526
      @heyguys6526 3 роки тому +2

      OH MY GOD I WAS PRETENDING TO BE FMAN ONCE..

  • @OwlyFisher
    @OwlyFisher 2 роки тому +333

    i played animal jam pretty weirdly as a kid. i barely had any buddies, i did trade a lot but i based it ENTIRELY on what i thought looked cool- i spent lot of time designing aesthetic outfits and stuff, regardless of 'value'. my favourite way to do this was in the modelling show thingy where you got access to loads of items and had to vote on each others based on a theme. i spent most of my time trading for aesthetic den items like plants (i went to that seripia forest plant shop religiously to get my favourites when they switched in and out) and then hours of painstakingly arranging items to fill up huge dens. i had so many dens and every single one was filled to the brim. i would watch den decoration videos for inspiration and then literally spend all evening making my own. i roleplayed a lot but only to show off my dens lmao. i also actually played the minigames a lot too, like i would be the only one in the arcade section playing all of them cheerfully- i remember once getting what felt like hundreds of levels deep into that one sand and water game at the beach where you had to connect them all together, good memories. and the quests!! i loved them, i played through every single one over and over, FULLY invested in the stories lmao. also i actually did that book thing you had to fill in by clicking on hidden animals/nature things and you learned facts about them along the way, i didn't know how to Google so i did it all by looking around painstakingly, and you got some pretty cool items from them. i spent so many gems on the plush machine, i had HUNDREDS of plushies for no reason. one of my best memories is from that adventure that flying animals could do, it had great rewards so i would host it over and over to get some free items, and in one of the chests we all got a blue long spike!! i was so excited cause i was nowhere near valuable enough to get it, and i put it on like every single one of my animals, it felt so great to see everyone delighted, there was a real sense of camraderie on that game. idk i loved this website

    • @Jaded123x
      @Jaded123x 2 роки тому +11

      Haha I did this too sometimes I even turn my dens into rp rooms for like mythical creatures, good v evil or even warrior cats

    • @fxtchmetheirsoulz
      @fxtchmetheirsoulz 2 роки тому

      i aint gon read all that

    • @OwlyFisher
      @OwlyFisher 2 роки тому +10

      @@fxtchmetheirsoulz congratulations! you are under no obligation

    • @BasicallyBerry
      @BasicallyBerry 2 роки тому +3

      The sandcastle game reminds me of when I got my brother into animal jam. He was absolutely hooked on that one game and wouldn't get off the computer because of it. It was fun to play AJ with him, so thank you for reminding me of that 😁

    • @darby_asleep
      @darby_asleep 2 роки тому +1

      I’ve only ever played the play wild version of animal jam -I’m only 13- but I played almost the exact same way, except I only buddied people I knew and never roleplayed. It’s cool to see I wasn’t the only one lol

  • @ReleeSquirrel
    @ReleeSquirrel Рік тому +7

    I really enjoy your videos. I'm an older milennial myself, and at my age I have the bizzare experience of seeing so many adults who are half my age but fully grown, mature and successful, and others a little older, talking about their childhoods growing up.
    I was old enough that even when I interacted with things like these, it was a whole different experience for me, and it's interesting to hear what it was like for people who were kids at the time.

  • @kristaestrada8485
    @kristaestrada8485 3 роки тому +71

    One of my favourite aspects of this channel is seeing every week what her makeup is going to look like, always so different and creative

    • @somedude172
      @somedude172 3 роки тому +3

      omfg same. i often have to rewind because im definitely interested in what she's saying, but i get lost looking at the cool makeup lmfao. today she got the perfect mix between "rainbow throw-up" and "edgy horror movie clown" and i am OBSESSED