What Happened To Club Penguin? The End Of A Childhood Gem | TRO (ft. Internet Historian)
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- What Happened To Club Penguin? The End Of A Childhood Gem | TRO (ft. Internet Historian)
0:00 - Intro
8:56 - Disney
15:46 - Cast Away
23:19 - Rewritten
31:17 - Online
41:10 - End Of Days
51:42 - The Fall Of Club Penguin
Today, we are going back to the gaming corner of UA-cam, because as I have proven time and time again, I am a gamer, and today we are looking at an online MMO which some would argue is unrivalled in the gamer spirit that it has fostered.
Now, you may have suspected an undertone of irony there, but don’t be fooled my friends, because back in the golden days when The Right Opinion was a young lad, full of zest and zeal, there were three games which shaped his online experience: those being, Runescape, Neopets, and the topic of interest today: Club Penguin.
I can’t remember which order I played them in exactly, though I could take an educated guess, but I still remember them fondly for being able to capture sentiments of wide-eyed wonder and imagination that seem far beyond my grasp these days, and I know this wasn’t just a personal experience, I’m sure many of you similarly reminisce to a time where such avenues felt like a genuine escape to a different world.
However, as time has progressed, so have we, and such memories fade into the background of a distant past. Nonetheless, I find some consolation in the thought that if I ever wanted to attempt to emulate that escapism again, those sites are, as of right now, ready and waiting to welcome me home… well, all except Club Penguin.
Yes, Club Penguin, an abandoned abode. Their tragic demise seemed intangible to many, for a site which had once boasted over 200 million registered accounts, and 30 million active users, however, its last few years have been plagued by drama and conflict, eventually culminating in a rather cataclysmic fashion.
For those who are unfamiliar, Club Penguin was an online game in which your character could take the form of a penguin, and participate in various activities all over this online world, full of many other colourful fluffy characters controlled by very real people. As a child it taught you the ropes of online safety, and interpersonal friendship. It had some pretty fun games too, and for the young mind, Club Penguin helped prepare individuals for what the internet was going to throw at us, which is an ever more important learning curve in today’s society. Yet, in spite of its relevance, it no longer plays this part in the online sphere, and today, we’ll be finding out how that happened.
However, to understand its end, we need to go back to the beginning, and maybe provide a little background for anyone who never had the privilege to roleplay online as a virtual bird, unless you’re one of those avians, of course. However, I think it’s time to bring in a friend. Now, if you’re familiar with today’s guest you may have recently seen me pull off a legendary voice performance on one of his newest videos.
Little change of pace, hope you all enjoy :)
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Love your content
Hello!
second :)
Most ambitious crossover in history
Love this already :)))
also CP is just a TERRIBLE acronym for a children's game in retrospect
Ok so maybe I wasn’t the only one who kept on thinking he was talking about ch**d p**n .-.
Big oof, I didn't even realise lmao
OH MY GODD THIS CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD
OH SHI-
I thought it was foreshadowing lmao
"Disney buys CP..."
Hell of a headline.
And still just as accurate.
I'm sure they're laughing at the gullible morons who didn't realize the reality of that headline. Disney is shady as fuck lol.
“...and creates CP Island”
They must’ve known they’d attract the wrong audience
@@SquoangleProductions lol. That's good. I didn't think of that.
😲
Fk now my comments using CP to say club penguin feel gross ty 😧
Everyone talking about Disney, but jesus christ, that story about the private server mafia blew me away. What is this world we live in? That shit was insane.
jesus would say the apocalypse, the end of days, has come.
@@michaelrichardson3834 Then would majora's mask predicted the future and then god send the sun down to earth.
Same with my old minecaraft server. There were pirates who, on release of the server, were paid to ddos my server by my competition. If that failed, tgey would join and just hack ans give themselves admin vommands and ban everyone etc. What dicks
@@AverageUsernames ben drowned
@@UtopiaBettaThanAstro Ben drowned actually in the game, but it doesn't haunt you anything like that, it can be summoned by playing song elegy of emptiness.
The two games that taught me how to type fast: *Club Penguin and Roblox.*
You gotta type like there’s no tomorrow
@@shimio1780 yeah I’ll type like there is no tommrpwb ok then I don’t know what else to type I am typing th in the speed nof light ok
Catch me in fally Park selling lobs 142 gp ea then we can talk about typing
it’s club penguin and animal jam for me. i was predisposed to being a furry lmaoo
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I’m technically still in a relationship with my club penguin boyfriend.
Same, we never broke up
Lol
same, i’ve been dating him since 2007 technically. his username was gradysize. hope he’s doing well
Kingglassrat1 true I mean his username was cheenis
That's legally binding don't you know? In all courts of law, even kangaroo ones
Does this mean I had the original right opinion?
E
Tamago more like E G G
F
👋
Tamago is the Club Penguin Historian
the internet historian shilling for raid shadow legends in every appearance is fucking hilarious
"It is for my sheer love of the game!"
Jesus Christ, I just wanted to find out what happened to Club Penguin and I found frickin Crimes scenes and Child exploitation instead
Yeah same
Welcome to the dark side of the web
Looks like those private severs could’ve use Nord VPN.
And less pedophiles
you mean the only widespread vpn that has confirmed itself as gotten hacked? youre a joke
@@Zyzarda You're a joke, apparently you don't understand what happend.
Ad time
You mean the online private network that allows you to access content from all over the globe?
The way us TRO fans consider this a short video
👀
@Donkey Donk ikr that was crazy but now we are back to normal videos
@@kendraduli6806 I want another 4 hour or longer video. I love having his longer videos in the background when I'm doing stuff
100% true. When I saw the time, I was disappointed it wasn't longer.
What can we say, we love a good movie😁
First 30 minutes: oh that’s neat
last 30 minutes: Jesus Christ what the fuck
TRULY AHSJJSKSJS
2:53 a childs game should NEVER be shortened to "CP".....
thats just wrong on so many levels....
@xx vv Idk how to watch videos either
Is it because of Cerebral Palsy?
@@sonictennyson2201 yea it’s cheese pizza....
Umm, Cyberpunk 2077? Anyone?
@@sonictennyson2201 go to 39:54 and look at the last two words of the article title
It's so sad and ironic how the original Club Penguin's intensions were to make a fun and interactive experience for kids whilst teaching them about online safety, yet what it ended up becoming under one evil man's actions was an online platform to manipulate, harass and abuse these same kids instead.
It doesn't matter where you go, if a group of people gather around a idea long enough, someone is going to eventually take advantage of it.
@@Jordan_Dossou We humans exist on a violent, chaotic planet, born from the bloody carnage. This planet carved from a brutal and uncaring universe. We are a species just as violent, just as chaotic, just as brutal.
But that's okay.
Our inability to be satisfied with our present state, to dream of things beyond and rip apart the world to force it to be true, is how we got to our present world, and its how we will surpass our present selves.
Utopia will never come, but as time passes we humans will create something far beyond any utopia modern man can dream of.
There's a lesson in there somewhere.
Wow, that's deep bro.
@@FastForwardPlans That started real damn depressing, but then it got all nice. I mean, kinda, Itd be nice if we could do all that but also not set the rainforest on fire again maybe.
TRO is now legally obligated to make a Neopets video.
and Runescape!
Neopets, runescape, anyone remember zwinky 🥴 or weeworld? Do they even exist still?
Neopets is simply trapped in time, that's the best way to put it, sure there's the mobile version but that's not much of a successor to boot.
Infected Candies the neopets story is relatively interesting tho. they were unknowingly sold to and owned by scientologists for a number of years, they still have an active user base of around 100 000 players (a small fraction of their hay day, but impressive all things considered) and have a pretty insane after-market for pets and rare items that people pay real money for ‘unconverted’ pets or painted pets/pets with high battle dome stats/pets with desirable names (4-6 letters, no numbers, pronounceable, etc). Ive also heard of a lot of account hacking and pet stealing in order to sell these pets to after-market buyers. The neopets economy is also pretty complicated/interesting and can be cited as an example of what happens when inflation is not controlled. Tbh I would love a 1-2 TRO deep dive bc i’ve run dry with Neopets vids and I still feel like there’s so much I don’t know
Gaiaonline
The club penguin anime:
Season one: The introduction and three original creators arc. Disney purchase arc.
Season two: The death of club penguin arc. Club penguin island arc.
Season three: Club penguin clones arc. Club penguin rewritten arc.
Season four: Virtual penguin (Riley's introduction). Rise of club penguin online arc.
Season five: Disney's return. The death of major club penguin servers (Thanos snap finale).
The real club penguin was the friends we made along the way.
😭🖐
Timestamps?
That sounds like a cool idea
Club penguin shutdown
"...When in actuality, the real Club Penguin was inside us all along."
I can hear it in your voice, you're on the verge of cracking up weren't you?
I feel bad that the people behind club penguin island really did care for the game but it was just Disney that made to game to money hungry :(
You don't need to. In the end, the creators got millions from it. Honestly, I'd be sorry for them if they didn't sell it because the game was getting obsolete by the day anyway.
Ding Ding The UA-cam Buddy yeah but that’s the problem when that happens it usually isn’t seen as a problem on Disney’s part or the game devs part it’s seen as “oh I guess they don’t want club penguin anymore” and they not only scrap the current game but the entirety of the idea instead of just making one the fans would actually want
Can someone give me a summary of the video
@@omnimenge did they? Op said club penguin island, not club penguin.
@@madisonc5643 that after the cancellation of club penguin after years of being own by Disney, some people started a new server for the game but not limits to evade the bad stuff people can do in internet, ruinig the honor of the game and creating a sort of info fight to get the person who was leaking personal information as his way of blackmailing the others into no showing the bad parts of inside a makes troubles for the children, the bad person is send to prison and the club penguin server is still active but is not is not feel completely safe due to the bad care the game had before, also is clear a Disney has no intention of trowing the rights so people believe it this inevitable that Disney is gonna close all servers for the game.
That is the more important information about the case.
*2013: Toontown Online closes*
Disney: We will be shifting our focus on Club Penguin...
*2017: Club Penguin closes*
Disney: Psych lmao
*sike
ttown was so much fun and i started crying really hard when it closed and ive never forgiven club penguin
God, Toon town hit a nerve
@@whiteglovian Actually, a copy of Toontown is still playable. It's called Toontown Rewritten if you ever want to play again :)
@@IoanaZER0 ^^^^ def had a fun winter break playing that shit last year
Riley is literally all of Persona 5's antagonists rolled up into one distorted monster
I always assumed Club Penguin fell because it was kinda predatory. Like, you could play the game for free, but anything that was fun required money. It was micro-transactions before those got popular. That, and you could get banned for the flimsiest excuses. I distinctly remember having to contact customer service to unblock my account numerous times.
CP didn't have microtransactions, it was basically a RP based MMO with a subscription
Yes there was a "free to play" but there were so many restrictions that it was more of a demo
It was (at least in my opinion) pretty cheap for a subscription based game
@@MrPF How unfortunate that you used CP & RP in the same comment.
nope if you had membership you could do anything if you were good at the games
When I was starting out in composing music for media (like.... fresh out of high school) my GRANDPARENTS of all people got me connected with the guy who wrote all the music for Club Penguin and, at the time, Club Penguin Island. I flew out to Kelowna and went to the Club Penguin building there; the staff were so nice to me. I was given a grand tour and was able to sit in the studio and watch how the music stuff was done. I was not really a fan of Club Penguin Island, as I really really enjoyed the original Club Penguin, but the staff who were working on CPI really did care about their jobs and their fans. They had fan art plastering the walls in the hallways. It's a shame the game never had a chance to continue growing and evolving. They had a great team working on it.
“As I really enjoyed the original CP” bad choice of words there
@@IdrinkSoup-phrog- Only if you take it out of context
699 like
This makes everything even more sadder :’(
@@IdrinkSoup-phrog- it got edited out lmao
Whoa Club Penguin was deleted over 3 years ago? It still feels like yesterday when people were freaking out over the shutting down of Club Penguin. Time really does fly.
Member cardjitsu and hunting for the free weekly badges
Somehow I can really vividly remember the day the game shut down and I was really upset. It was 3 years ago somehow...
@@SpinningTurtle66 WTF IT WAS 3 YEAR AGO
"Where were you when club penguin died?"
"I was at home eating dorito when phone ring"
"club penguin is kil"
"no"
no
**hot chip
otherwise SLAY queen, keep on doin' u boo
And now the dakooters Dub
I played Club Penguin Online. I didn't know anything about the toxicity of the staff until I saw all of the bitterness upon shut-down. They seemed pretty passionate and engaging before that. I steered clear of Club Penguin Rewritten because I heard about the data breaches. I thought CPR was the shady one. CPO did have "unrestricted" servers, which I opposed, but the main servers had pretty strict censorship; you never knew when a word might be to harsh or too close to somethin else and get blocked. Sure, some terms escaped the filter, but that's to be expected. When there were more "edgy" conversations, one could usually gather two things: 1) parents need to better monitor their children's online activity, or 2) a large percentage of CPO users were older teens or adults who played the original game in their childhood.
Club Penguin will be dearly missed, long remembered, never replaced, and maybe that's the right thing.
Same here. There’s a part of me that still wants to join CPR but I can’t put my trust in a game that’s had two massive data breaches. CPO seemed good until it became clear that Riley was up to no good!
join cpr its basically owned by disney now and ots basically old school cp
If anyone deserves an upbeat nostalgia trip it’s the right opinion
"Roleplay online as a virtual bird"
Roblox: write that down WRITE THAT DOWN!
XD ROBLOX MEMES XD
Feather Family, haha
I have done that on roblox before when I was younger I think it was called bird simulator
I was unnecessarily happy to see Call Me Kevin footage in this, even if for only a few seconds
Turg good Turg smart
“When should one, truly waddle along?”
Someone please use this as their senior quote.
"...Club Penguin, sometimes abbreviated to CP..."
Oh, Lord, please don't let it be a foreshadowing
...kinda, but not exactly,
Damn, it really was
@@elrichjr301 not really . You see . I was there along the way . I was one of the amst people in the now lost servers. The orivate servers are not club penguin . They are a mere imitation . As for cp, that has been the acronym of club penguin for years
unfortunately
As someone who knows almost nothing about Club Penguin... I did NOT expect this story to take the turns it did.
Yah its lit
We love Riku
I hardly ever know anything about the topics when I start watching but the videos are so well done I don't care
Same
same
Used to be one of the mods in CPO for a short time, and tbh I just find the whole situation at the time quite amusing. I did not participate in Rilley's shenanigans (he didn't trust me enough to give me more stuff to do), just monitor the server activity to make sure none were exploiting or crashing the server. I had a feeling something's off with new staff rapidly popping up and many of them weren't suited with mod's work (I guess some just wanted the title to brag with friends).
Now watching this video it's like reliving my old days again.
I miss toon town too. And pixie hallow. Those three games (along with dizzywood) were a huge part of my massively isolated homeschool life. They were literally my only socialization- I wish they had never ended them. Someone should make an adult version. Not with adult situations- same exact games but only adults. Adults need wholesome fun too- especially with the damn pandemic.
What a blast to the past 😢
"Disney probably didn't ban these servers because of the bad press they would get"
Disney: *threatens to sue family of dead child for trying to put Spiderman on his gravestone*
Spiderman belongs to marvel tho?
PlatinumBladeStudios And Disney owns Marvel.
@@user-10021 Disney owns Marvel studios and have for a few years now. That includes the comic publishing, not just the movies. So Disney did in fact try to sue the family of a six year old boy who'd died who wanted to put spiderman on his headstone because that was his favorite superhero.
Disgusting
Pretty sure this is an urban legend right? Heard the same thing about a disney princess on a girl’s gravestone
'CP' is a rather unfortunate abbreviation, especially given the circumstances...
shit, you re right
🤔?
You mean Communist Party?
@@lloydthehedgehogirving6049 Jesus, today I learned that the communist party has probably the most unfortunate acronym as well
Communism has killed more people than anything else. Mao=80 million stalin 50-60 mil
@User search up how many people have died because of communism
The Right Opinion and The Internet Historian. A match made in heaven.
All this does is make me want to develop a game even more lol.
So do it then.
Ew league player
Are you trying to tell me that Disney's unrelenting greed killed something popular that everyone loved? Impossible!
Luckily we still have the old version of cp
@@goldstarburst1984 Um, phrasing?
@@goldstarburst1984 please tell me you still mean club penguin
I'll never tell
His avatar gives narcissistic, passive aggressive, and mean vibes, but his writing and humor gives off the exact opposite and I love it.
his voice gives the same vibes the avatar gives or is it just me?
i love all the different versions too, all of them have different yet strangely similar vibes
@Sebastian Devus
It’s not just you. The voice and delivery gives the same vibes as his avatar to me. Not that that’s a bad thing; I love how informative his videos are, I just don’t think his voice and delivery are the *opposite* to the vibes his avatar gives.
@@f_mva ikr, u have the adorable little one and the pissed off angry one.
@@thepandrbr if you've seen his face, it changes to a more laid back dude.
Company: *Just vibing*
Disney: You are mine now.
There he goes everyone, the only youtuber that will make me watch a 1 hour video about a childrens game and actually enjoy every second of it
the only youtuber I can actually just happily sit through and listen to document history
a hour of internet historian and TRO talking about club club penguin, is this a dream?
The duo we need but we don’t deserve.
club club penguin
@@Oniloz
i will club, club penguins
Its a big freaking dream wow!!!!
How much is historian actually in the video?
I couldn't keep a straight face when that little kids UA-cam video said "in 2007 Disney bought Cp for 350 million" I'm sorry I just can't
Please!!! 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mj also bought shares
Soooooo... Disney likes ch**d p**n
I thought this was going to be a silly gamer video.
I was so wrong
Man, I'm *really* glad that I'm always late to parties like these... I was late to the closure, not too bad, and I used CPrewritten a couple of times (quit because I was fed up with the layering soundtracks) - I used a secure password, nothing too bad revealed in the breaches. But BOY did I dodge a bullet with CPO... The stuff that happened there was *disgusting*. I'd rather no CP at all than that.
Club penguin died because god himself decided we weren't ready for club penguin
Kindness Temmie Just like monkey quest.
@@sleepiesalem Still not over monkey quest 😔
This is so true, thank you for sharing your blessed knowledge with us
what
@@sluggishkitten Yup, his right, it's written in the Bible, Humans were not ready for the power of Club Penguin
I can't believe the amount of drama based around this.
Humanity never fails to dissapoint.
I remember playing Club Penguin on Miniclip and sharing my best friends premium account at like 9 years old. We would speak on MSN simultaneously and used to do something similar to trolling before knowing what trolling was. I was addicted for so long and even dipped in and out as a teen. Thank you for this video.
One thing I can continuously praise TRO's videos for is just how well the collaborations work. As soon as whichever creator comes on it immediately feels like you're watching their content and yet it still works in the video. First noticed this with the j aubrey collabs and couldn't help but note it after a ridiculously long binge
Anybody here ever played Poptropica? That one was the shit.
It became shit.
YEOO IS THAT STILL GOING?? I STAN poptropica, loved that shit.
@@Jmolevisuals You could still play it I think. Not all islands are available atm tho, they're doing adjusments cuz the flash player the site runs on would be terminated by the end of 2020.
I sucked so hard at that game but it was so good
True pain is losing your Poptropica account
I’ll be honest, that last few minutes with everyone messaging each other in the main room makes me genuinely sad. Like watching a cartoon penguin Titanic
Who else remembers trying to get the rainbow and gold puffle lol
Been a fan of this channel for awhile you do an incredible job at documenting events while keeping it humorous and the editors do such a incredible job just finished the half life video yesterday.
Also I would like to say thanks for mentioning box critters at the end I have been part of the community since 2019 and making videos documenting the progress and next month it will be box critters 2nd anniversary and the game is very much still in beta and is missing a few features compared to CP but Lance is programming and the twins who drew most events and rooms in cp are doing the artwork for bc and Chris Hendricks other known as Screen Hog who made most the original music for cp is making fresh new music for Box Critters and Jen who was a cp team member is also part of the bc team.
And I can say the team are amazing they are in constant contact with the community listening to feedback and what we would like to see in game and even allowing content creators like myself and fan artists to have a place to show our hard work and love for the game.
And I know bc wont ever come close to the impact CP did but if people want to relive them memories you should give Box Critters a chance despite the little features compared to cp it feels like just the same as there is the original artists and sound designer and developer all behind it also I want to add the community is so awesome and if anyone considers checking bc out the fan server is here The Critter circle. discord.gg/6z5rKKs
Best wishes
I think it's sad Club Penguin never truely got to see it's full potential, there were a lot of interesting ideas and stories the team could have elaborated on before Disney acquired the game. It went from a goofy game with a lot of heart to an empty husk Disney only used for advertising, and that's really disappointing.
*and yet I'm still sad there was never a Soy Luna Takeover*
Disney didn't really start making the game worse until quite a while after they bought it I think. Like how Microsoft owns Minecraft but the Java edition is still like it always has been.
@@coolfred9083 shit?
@@coolfred9083 you are right, when Disney bought CP it was actually really good for the game, their budget went through the roof and they got a lot of advertising and merchandising which helped the game grow a lot, the parties got bigger and better, there were more frequent updates and so on
It really only went downhill when Disney stopped seeing CP as a game but as a billboard they could advertise their shit on
It got so bad that most of the parties were either yearly parties that didn't change or evolve or Disney propaganda parties for their TV shows and movies
@@coolfred9083
Minecraft imo became shit after Microsoft owned it, the fact that the ports are referred to as "Java" and "Bedrock" edition alone shows how bland the game has become. The moment 1.9 hit (1.8 was when I stopped playing, 2014 was when the already unceasingly toxicity became too much) and fucked up the combat system and nerfed things like the echanted golden apple for no real reason, I stopped caring about Minecraft altogether.
Every single thing they've changed since then, whether it be the textures or the soundtrack, has made the game less memorable much like how Disney turned Club Penguin into a bland product with sponsorships and advertising up the ass.
At least Club Penguin ended, compared to 'Minecraft' which still 'thrives' with retarded degenerate fucks like Dream and his disgusting 'community' giving Riley a run for his money.
Bro I lost all my frickin puffs, I will never forgive disney for that.
I hate when they're in the middle of a sentence, or even a word. It's disruptive
They ain't gone, they just returned to the wild :_(
Same. I had many of the puffles. One of each color I believe
My damn cat puffs
I will bring it back if it’s the last thing I do
7:27 The raid shadow legends not-ad brings me such joy i had to time stamp it, I absolutely love your interactions together. Great video as always.
Amazing video as always!! I love these nuanced "deep dive" type of videos and you always do them so well.
"When did club penguin die? A simple question with a simple answer. Yes."
Roll credits
*?
@@warbossgegguz679 (That's the joke)
@@weftin5721 Well then, it's not really funny...it's just kind of lazy and stupid...
Secular Ascetic ok
exactly what i thought lol
THE ICEBERG, HERBERT THE BEAR, THE PIZZA JOINT, THE PUFFLES, THE PROPELLER CAPS, THE SKI LODGE.... :’((((((
😞
The homie Gary!
Ban Jo bro I was young as like 8 but I do be remembering the homie gray though
and the bean game! I miss that game :(
B O X D I M E N S I O N
One of my favorite memories ever is sitting at the dinner table on thanksgiving and my uncle saying "So your mother told me you joined a Penguin Club, what's that like?" to me and my sister lol.
Ah, Club Penguin Mafia.
I n t e r e s t i n g .
“Equivalent, of having a rave at a funeral”
China has funeral stripper so it's not far from real life.
@@asterrose1827 i- where did you get that information??
@@clownsnail6837 Google
@@asterrose1827 what do you google to find this information...?
@@toe5964 Mirriam Webster
People get real serious over child-oriented sites even when there's NOT much money to be made, it's kind of crazy.
My sister helps manage a Harry Potter oriented site and the amount of drama that goes on there could probably be made into a whole video of it's own based on what she's shared with me .
I think it’s because kids are dumb and willing to spend millions for a fluffy pink hat, and some rich people will pay anything to make their kids happy.
You need to get your sis off that site bro
@@nicholasgeere5125 She's my older sister, she's one of the staff members on the site who's actively trying to keep it safe. Although honestly, it seems stressful enough that she'd probably benefit from stepping down...
@@finpin2622 yikes
Was the site hexrpg?
I never played Club Penguin, but I feel for those that did. It's rare to find a community as tightly knit as this one, and it's incredibly hard to see the community you became a part of crumble away, despite everyone's greatest efforts.
When the drama subreddit deletes a thing about club penguin online for too much drama
“Club penguin mafia” wasn’t something I thought I’d ever hear
"Club Penguin Mafia" is something I thought I would never hear in my life.
i cant believe there is an hour of content on this. i cannot wait to watch this.
been frustrated at having watched every bit of ih content twice, rediscover this channel, choose this video and get more ih. im in heaven now though i know it is fleeting i knew i must comment to savor this moment.
It might have been worth pointing out that 'non profit' does *not* mean 'not earning money'. Non profit just means that whatever income there is, is being spent in order to keep the income generator bringing that income in. For example, hosting/server/equipment/staff costs.
that makes sense. cpr especially since the original people running it were literally students we all know the majority of students barely have money, they’re not about to be able to fund this themselves. so using the income for maintenance and such makes a lot of sense
really! interesting. i looked it up and technically that definition only refers to a _not-for-profit_ group - different from a non-profit - but like, no shame, i also thought they were synonyms
A non profit organization is not just a company that doesn’t turn a profit …
Four Horsemen of my life: Poptropica, Pixie Hollow (rip), Club Penguin, and Moshi Monsters.
Oh, the memories😔
Honorable Mention: Wizard 101
I played all of those and i miss pixie hollow and moshi monsters so much but at least you can still play the other two tho
Sky Bean No, unfortunately poptropica got rid off the older islands like spy island and etc and you can only play like 4 islands while the rest you have to pay for membership. Plus they have a lot of ads now.
jazmin rose that makes me unbelievably sad I put hours on hours into poptropica :( greed wins once again
Oh man, throwback. I always played those five and fusionfall. They were so good 😔
animal jam for the inevitable furries
"at one stage I was invited over to someone's igloo, which had been decorated by spelling out the n word in chairs."
Had me dying
You're officially invited to every party I host.
Software engineer here-- I don't care if they're teenagers, there's no excuses to storing password hashes in md5. If you don't know how to store private user data, then don't store it!
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Could you please tell me why? Is it because MD5 is easily bruteforced?
@@brunoarnoni www.google.com/amp/s/www.geeksforgeeks.org/understanding-rainbow-table-attack/amp/
Just salt it. You only live once.
(Don't actually)
@@brunoarnoni To explain in like 3-4 sentences from my understanding, md5 is a function that converts your password to some other encrypted value. It is practically impossible to use the encrypted value to get the original password using maths. However, when u have a table with billions of records where the key is a password and the value is the encryption, it becomes very easy to find the plain text original password - u just compare it with the list of records that exist in the table to find the paired plaintext password and usually it will. That's part of the reason websites recommend using hard passwords so in case their database is hacked, those passwords(encrypted values) won't appear in any tables. It's probably a little more complicated but that should be it
If you don’t die a hero, you’ll live long enough to see yourself become a villain
Homestuck
red flavor it’s everywhere
@@brit6979 years later I still can't fight The Homestuck
red flavor trying only strengthens it
That is VERY Erie after watching this video.
I loved club Penguin and don’t remember why? Not that it’s Bad because I think it’s amazing but I don’t remember what I specifically loved about it to play it everyday for 12 hours
TRO always coming out with the most interesting content. Another great video! Love ur stuff man 🤍
In regards to Rewritten-
Starting last year, they had begun to do more original events instead of reusing the same ones as the original. While the themes have somewhat stayed the same, they have made twists with them to make them their own.
The owners have also been much more active and communitive with the community since the original owner left, and have been much more open in general.
The ads are a thing, which I can confirm from my own experiences. It does look like a lot of the revenue has gone towards making sure the site stays afloat, and security has been turned up quite a bit over the past two years.
They arent perfect, but they've definately learned since they started, and have improved.
It seems Disney isn’t taking further action against them as well, it’s almost like they issued the DMCA to quiet down the media but with no current plans to follow through. With the amount of effort the devs are putting on cpr, it really seems they’re maintaining good intentions.
werent the owners or cpr like child pr3dators tho..
Jessie Romei that was club penguin online
when they got breached they didnt tell anyone for at least 3 days, and they censor the hell out of their discord. considering how many millions were affected, that's really sketchy. theyre definitely NOT more open.
AM Smak yh, for Club penguin online they kicked anyone who spoke out about it out of the discord, they were really sketchy.
It feels like yesterday when i would watch videos of people trying to flip the iceberg with 009 Soundsystem playing in the background
I actually got this one website that would give you coins and items and I got the first party hat item but I was never banned. I never thought one of those websites would work...
@@whaccoon Same! But I got a lame ass sweater, but it was better than nothing.
the way i was on there with my jackhammer
i really like this style of deep dive/internet history over the youtube drama content :) very interesting stuff!
TRO,
I missed out big time. Never played this game. Too busy with Neopets and my Tamagotchis back in ye old days.
This channel is spectacular and teaches me new things about UA-cam. You guys are awesome! I wanna smack that top hat off with a virtual hug!
Sincerely,
D.D
Internet historian sounds like he's being held at gunpoint
he had a poor choice of sponser for his final moments
Death Knights dont wield guns.. so was he held at a swordpoint?
@@pukelius4128 new technology
canepoint
He basically is cause of Riley
TRO trying the stretch to the 10 min mark unacceptable
ikr
what a loser, he stretched it for 52 mins more 😒😒😒
Fucking ludicrous
I thought it was an eight minute mark now?
Not even 10 minutes 8 minutes to stretch 🙄
Ten minutes of video, fifty-two minutes of fluff. Smh.
A very interesting watch :> Thanks TRO
I think I was probably a bit too old to have played Club Penguin, though I remember it being advertised. It's interesting to hear this story from someone so passionate about it!
"And that was the end of the story"
Me: *taps my phone screen*
Time: 15:25 out of 1:02:21
Me: 🤔 HmmmMMMMmmmMmMMm I don't think that's the end of the story
Remember everyone, Quackity’s raid on Club Penguin Island was so bad that it broke the game. And mind you the deletion of CPI was a few days after the raid.
Holy Milk
true
it was fun lol
He killed it lol.
Holy crap I remember participating in that raid we all had to wear yellow piss penguin color while spamming “Disney will not divide us” and then a few days later the shut down was announced and we all celebrated. I miss his raids but at least he gets to play with some big Minecraft bois now.
Hannah Cat
wait you were there too?? oh wow geez, that was one hecc of a raid. Glad you had fun too.
I clicked on this for title alone and didn't look at anything else. Guess I'll make some popcorn before I start this rabbit hole.
It's been four months, was the popcorn burnt?
You mean a penguin hole?
The transition between internet historian and TRO with the raid shadow legends had me rolling 🤣
"Club Penguin, sometimes abbreviated to 'CP' -"
Well, that's an unfortunate and ironic statement considering what the private server folks got up to...
Club Penguin Rewritten is still up because Disney now runs ads on the site and monetizes the site themselves.
In other words, CPR is now kinda Disney's property.
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Remember kids, it is always morally-correct to use AdBlock
sadge
I've never seen a story this wild lol. Good work as always, TRO
binge watching ur videos while playing old school runescape, never leaving the childhood dream babyyyyyyy
so you're telling me that this entire disaster could've been avoided if Disney just made the remake not riddled with microtransactions ?
Maybe the real Club Penguin was the friends we made along the way
You're not even wrong.
I didn't know I needed this information - but it brought me back so far
This is so well done. And crazy!
to all the people who used to play club penguin:
imagine how your puffles are doing now
Now that the game has been destroyed they’re just floating aimlessly through the void
Rotting
@@adamlambboy8332 Lost to the sands of time
Theyre dead, or as disney puts it "returned to the wild"
stop you're hurting my heart
Me: **sees club penguin thumbnail**
"Oh cool, club penguin was basically my childhood. Is this a documentary? I might take a look at it"
**Sees it's TRO**
"Oh boy. Time to grab my popcorn, I ain't moving from this spot for the next hour"
"sometimes abbreviated CP"
careful with that one, dont let the smash community hear
Why?
@Squiddy_101 oh damn