A Deep Dive Into Animal Jam

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Today let's take a deep dive into the world of Animal Jam! From the hackers and scammers, to the insane trading ecosystem (and beloved rares) to the Animal Jam e-celebrities and all the drama that surrounds them. Like many virtual worlds for kids, Animal Jam devolved into a mess of scamming, drama, and controversy, so let's discuss it all today!
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0:00 Introduction
2:48 History Of Animal Jam
10:51 Just Animal jam Things
13:02 Trading And Rares and The Bizarre Economy
16:49 Just Animal Jam Things Part 2
20:49 Scamming and Hacking
28:14 Inappropriate Behaviour
32:35 Rumours And Urban Legends
40:27 Jambassador Drama
52:02 Animal Jam KZbin Community
56:43 Conclusion
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All credit goes to the musicians and composers! This video is not meant to target or harass any person. This video does not condone or encourage anyone to harass or contact any person or persons discussed in this video. This video is purely for entertainment and informational purposes.

[@Izzzyzzz]

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[@Nutteh07]

ngl i was like "o shit do they finally ship to nz" when i saw you had a sponsorship, but alas

[@yoniquericketts4162]

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[@23dollarsmoothie]

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

[@Pinkwolfman]

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]

ME TOO???

[@Mystami]

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]

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

[@wolftric]

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

[@Stereo6400]

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

[@Kyrusisgone]

Wait nft means smt else?-

[@cass8167]

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

[@Kyrusisgone]

@@cass8167 same..

[@occultCapra]

and now its Non-fungible token for trading jpgs lol

[@vipenova]

Also “scaled”

[@charlottemay7256]

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.

[@mintydrops2033]

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

[@crayonzii]

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

[@ADHD_PLAYZgames]

I hate the pillow room... :l

[@curlyq616]

That is EXACTLY what it was like

[@kaiserhundkek2531]

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

[@reharp2037]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@jasperjazzie]

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)

[@dulcae]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@gordonramslay9955]

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]

@@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. ✨

[@felixsfriendthatgavehimthe2108]

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]

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

[@chromacattiosv2]

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]

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

[@dari2409]

@@shartcy the background music is so nostalgic

[@lilylaframboise9113]

I love your username LMAO

[@elizabethsayeau8305]

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]

Sounds better than getting my 2 friends banned on accident

[@sparrow5394]

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

[@smileyfroggyz]

@@jlizard8500 explain please.

[@Kensuke22]

​@@jlizard8500 explain explain explain

[@platypusparasol9825]

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

[@edwardnygma.]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@jlizard8500]

Same!

[@PorkSzoda]

I forgot about plushy trading omgggg

[@shadowsightliker]

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]

Smh be HapPy wItH wHaT yOu HaVe YoU iDiOt

[@goldegreen]

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

[@Rosekatz]

I USED TO START RALLIES IN JAMAA TOWNSHIP CHANTING THAT LMAOO

[@Mystami]

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]

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

[@Leahbee]

danggg u got the rare spikes on irl haha :D

[@elijah1437]

Hi Leah!!!!!!!

[@jnelson4611]

Leah :D

[@SavvyFaerie]

Leah!! :D

[@strawberryrnilk]

omg 😳😳

[@juneaus5626]

Leah!!❤

[@catzgaming1857]

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]

Hope ur doing ok now ❤️❤️

[@maishishikusa1856]

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]

Love this 👏🏼

[@KK-hd1jw]

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]

Yessssssssss. Arctic wolf is life.

[@CoolattasLab]

"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]

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

[@aIchemizedlemniscate]

Same x)

[@jaalahhale2905]

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]

My favorite facts are the sea creature ones

[@three_crows_all_day]

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!

[@stattvesque]

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

[@michelletran8242]

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

[@oraora8504]

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

[@leeluueilis]

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

[@katana322]

Omg same

[@Viva_Cynefin]

same

[@aurikp]

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

[@wayne_._]

SAME LMAO

[@frostflaggermus]

that part was my favorite

[@monkeymayEH]

Where did you go

[@boxxylegoplaymobil8906]

sent you where?

[@gabrielnalom4930]

*Gets marked fragile and gets sent to Alaska*

[@Julian2AJ]

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

[@maia5888]

you were literally my childhood thanks for everything man❤️

[@bl00dyplushiez]

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

[@Emryssy]

I miss your ‘hey beans!’ line 😭

[@Acetronomy]

Thank you for making my childhood Julian.

[@Sailor-Khione]

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

[@BasicallyBerry]

I remember trading with someone and then getting scammed. They sent me buddy request after and gave me back my scammed items. Turns out they had felt bad and apologized, they were actually really nice

[@nylada]

This couldve been me 💀

[@2xilor]

@@nylada or me 💀

[@dogfishthedogfish]

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]

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

[@lanaenjoyer]

I was a hardcore trader, damn the memories

[@somethingwithbungalows]

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]

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

[@breeannaglover3942]

LMAO ME TOO

[@lazycookies]

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]

Out of the frying pan and into the fire lmao

[@catfood8568]

Same

[@SHinierthennyourforehead]

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

[@Delihlah]

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

[@moxthegremlin]

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

[@nixien1496]

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]

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

[@SnackPacks10]

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

[@lexicrawford8726]

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]

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

[@Wince_Media]

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]

yeah same ive been watching him since 2018 and its surreal

[@Wince_Media]

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

[@hobqueer]

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

[@iloveyungsherman]

seeing leafy mentioned here made me exhilarated ahah

[@derago7205]

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?"

[@cjstarz3569]

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

[@lex-je8yk]

yep 😩

[@iwakeupandboomimarat]

either that or trust trading 😭😭

[@harley5.7bviews5secondsago6]

That's really Nostalgic omg 😂

[@AIbaedo]

SAME HAHA

[@SHinierthennyourforehead]

@@iwakeupandboomimarat trust trading lmfao i remember getting scammed from an trust trade good times

[@EstellaCordero]

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

[@Kindnese]

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]

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

[@andream1636]

seeing that really cracked me up

[@inkedoutsans]

"My dad is undertale" god, true

[@clownfern]

😭

[@kittyk86]

you've summoned them....

[@mlptv4u397]

timestamp?

[@mikchimin]

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]

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 KZbin. 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]

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]

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

[@mimimi-]

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

[@mikchimin]

@@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

[@steamdragon8550]

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.

[@IcarustyBones]

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]

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]

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

[@gh.stb12rd]

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]

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

[@gh.stb12rd]

@@IcarustyBones it is!! Tysm!

[@WisteriaMoonAJ]

This feels like a summary of my life omg

[@VenusAsAFormerBoy]

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.]

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

[@platinumdescent2001]

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]

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

[@folklore-of-the-sun]

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

[@gayforitzy14]

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]

The love story we didn't know we needed

[@KittyFAN13]

Holy shit, that is so cute!

[@Moony1568]

Beautiful. True love right there

[@evelyn7220]

the og enemies to lovers

[@fatlittlekittens7297]

@@SAM-BVCK that pfp is nostalgic

[@Darling_Decay]

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

[@brunettebi4111]

In 2013, I joined Animal Jam after seeing a KZbinr 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.)

[@AliceLps]

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

[@emirui]

bro i used to watch you so much growing up

[@HiddenTsuchinoko]

Omg I watched you during my AJ phase what a coincidence

[@marlbororeds7377]

PLEASE I FORGOT YOU EXISTED WHT

[@annamariafunes3725]

Ikr😭

[@javierolmedo2225]

@@emirui same

[@thecatingrey]

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]

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]

This but Runescape

[@un.ava.ilable]

I related to that on a personal level omg

[@mae.glitter]

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]

@@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

[@melancholyeyeballz]

Woah this was a trip down memory lane for sure. I used to be avid animal jammer when I was young, and I never imagined it would get the hour long youtube analysis it deserves, but clearly someone responded to my dreams and created this masterpiece. Thanks for that! God, I remember all the awesome roleplays and trading I did with my brother and past best friend. Certainly shaped me into the person I am today, for better or for worse. Probably a combination of both. Anyway, yeah, thanks for making this video! Currently binging your entire youtube channel. i'm two days in and it's looking good and getting better. i love your channel so much, it's great and now im just ranting. logging off before i say anything random! byeeee!

[@ratherande]

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.

[@breadcrumbs3530]

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]

that’s awesome!

[@vaporean_boylove.0w083]

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]

That’s amazing :D

[@michelleobamafootcream9292]

There were so many young talented artists in Animal Jam.

[@bagelbyte27]

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

[@scorpiiiondude3327]

this. THIS!

[@reichr]

THISSSS

[@SpicyApplePie]

I remember just sitting in the theatre watching marine videos

[@tidepodpadthai2633]

Same, I'm planning to go to school for biology!

[@ohgodohnothebees]

I watched all the theater videos

[@arsenichansen7877]

I met my best friend of all time on animal jam :) we have been friends for 8 years now and have even met irl on several occasions, it is absolutely insane how this game brought kids together and how ive gotten to watch this person grow and mature

[@arandombrony955]

This is one of my comfort videos.. aj was a huge part of my childhood, I love the way it's formatted, Izzy's voice, just.. all of it. I've watched it about 10 times now, very amazing

[@V1RF1]

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]

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]

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]

This is so cute awwww

[@Bronythepony]

Sounds like 7 year old you had dope friends.

[@kevinbumgardner3553]

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.

[@freakyfunkyflux]

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

[@clownfern]

*dies*

[@freakyfunkyflux]

@@clownfern the only mood for this situation

[@akarun45]

I NEED CONTEXT FOR THAT MOMENT

[@esotericpince]

animal jam homestuck based hate crime :pensive:

[@freakyfunkyflux]

@@esotericpince gndhdhbc 🥺

[@marialmao3353]

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

[@leonewashere]

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

[@vaughn2277]

Animal Jam had/has such a fascinating culture around rare items and trading. At my AJ peak the worn blanket item was /THE/ rare item to own and everyone was desperate to have one. And I remember thinking it was so weird that a torn-up, rotten-looking blanket was seen as this epitome of rarity and wealth on AJ. I mean don't get me wrong, I wanted one too, but it really shows that an item's status as "rare" was the thing people cared about most of all.

[@PocketRowlette]

Players want shit like torn up blankets and spiked collars for that edge factor, simple as that. It's a thing with middle school kids trying to look like a hardass.

[@vaughn2277]

@@PocketRowlette You know what, that makes a lot of sense lol

[@M00m00chi3]

@pretty girl lol i loved the nerd glasses

[@Clown-Boy]

It was the cupcake hat for me, I constantly had people asking to trade me for it whenever I wore it out

[@M00m00chi3]

@@Clown-Boy omg, same. i wore that all the time with my character

[@asteralium]

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]

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

[@asteralium]

@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]

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

[@HonestMagpie]

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]

@@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.

[@vann.E]

I remember the nostalgia of breaking the ice. Whole servers of people would talk about how they had broken the ice while jumping. Animal jam has come so far.

[@shark_gaming_0]

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

[@StoneBasilisk]

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]

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]

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

[@drifterastralis]

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

[@marlbororeds7377]

I watched quackity back when he did stuff like that xjbchc

[@kalkory]

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

[@moxthegremlin]

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

[@arsenicArtificer]

chaotic evil

[@cathacks_exe]

SAME

[@canyonbear21]

i loved hosting roleplays and watching drama go down

[@bunnywavyxx9524]

@@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

[@tuxedomask3483]

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 :)

[@Eggsolotl]

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.

[@mayapanini]

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]

that’s so wholesome jesus

[@VannahL]

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

[@Gentvein]

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

[@Weirdanimalboy]

Wait a fucking second, this is wholesome content

[@isabellasanchez4803]

I was the 666th like 😎😩

[@valentine4865]

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]

That’s such a weird coincidence lol

[@luigi7834]

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

[@meowmreowmeow]

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

[@pessoaa8860]

Wow

[@bellaredlon2229]

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!

[@AgentPeebles]

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.

[@LynxGriffin]

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!

[@Ooffoop]

*old*

[@azarberries3991]

Holy crap thats really interesting!

[@SHinierthennyourforehead]

woah thats actually really cool

[@cattegoggles]

that's actually pretty cool :0

[@kagamine-rin]

That's super neat!

[@BingBongFairy]

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]

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]

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

[@susiepilled]

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]

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

[@whatteamwildcats4033]

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

[@mochizou823]

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).

[@nebulaoz]

izzy: spikes are weird! also izzy: literally wearing one irl

[@SuperSimputer]

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]

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]

WHORPHENAGE

[@rubyredraccoon7580]

@@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]

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]

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

[@PigBoy99]

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

[@uwuifyingransomware]

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

[@jaylynn0x048]

excuse me the WHAT

[@MultiNaruto900]

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

[@rickpervez322]

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

[@MinePlanet84]

I WAS ONE OF THE DUCKS

[@papaelf420]

I remember being on AJ during the early days, seeing Crystal Sands without the water slides ignited a spark in my memory. My animal of choice was a seal and when the oceanic update dropped and I could swim with my seal?!?! Of all the virtual world games I actively looked for and played, including stuff like Chatlands, this one got the most playtime out of me.

[@mintyguppy5189]

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

[@TumultuousTiger]

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]

yessss i was waiting for her to mention it lol

[@imyourstepdad1308]

god i miss playing aj so much. it was definitely a huge part of my childhood. this video was incredible

[@TheSilliestSillyBilly]

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!

[@mykenzieforbes5125]

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]

Unfortunately many accounts were deleted awhile back :,P

[@micnik3573]

@@somethingwithbungalows Were they, how?

[@robinsea]

Finding that blue colour was the highlight of my childhood

[@WhenWeAllFallAsleep]

liONS ROAR EAGLES SOAR NON MEMBERS DESERVE MORE

[@somethingwithbungalows]

@@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

[@wrenhall1024]

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]

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

[@kpopgoblin6590]

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

[@PassTheMilk14]

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

[@roul4842]

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]

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.

[@gwenchapman5068]

As an animal jam player the quackity raids were SO FUN (especially since i didn't know it was serious at all). Some jammers (including me) just had a lot of fun and joined in with the yellow penguin stuff.

[@AMirrorCat]

I think a good rabbit hole you could go down is the creepy/horror books sold at scholastic book fairs. I remember being very freaked out by quite a few in 5th grade when we would watch the trailers for the book. I think it’s a theme that fits in with your vibe of content

[@superchick221b5]

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.

[@yasminhernandez4380]

Wait… so do I 😀

[@kristinakristalls4149]

Same One obsession turned in to another 😄

[@SYD.0_o]

Dude i also went from aj rp to D&D 😭

[@keribere244]

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]

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

[@yin9008]

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

[@jen8790]

Izzy doing all childhood...

[@stupidass69420]

HELP SAME

[@pumpkin_cat792]

It's like she's my Kiwi twin its insane

[@Lil_Devil]

SAME HAHA

[@reichr]

Fun facts as someone who played ajpw more than the original: -Warrior cats rps didnt happen in serepia forest. They were exclusive to dens. -Instead of adventures, we had packs and pack runs. -While there werent any magenta items, we did have variations of spikes. Rainbow spike, blackout spike, Epic spike.. Oh, and any normal spike other than black had basically no value. -Instead of diamonds, we had sapphires. -We had no underwater levels or animals. However, we did have a summer fair which gave you tickets and could buy little souvenirs. -Im not too sure if aj classic had this, but we could set up our own shops if we were a member and sell various items... Most shops had pets a little over the value of a normal one since they were limited. -Lastly, the reason i played ajpw more than aj classic: Ajpw was SO much less unfairly paywalled. Yeah, being a member was better, but you could still make sapphires and buy a few animals or items by playing minigames and being rewarded.

[@justsafari8218]

Fun facts about AJPW (More) In AJPW, "secret" animal only lands exist and Warrior Cats roleplays were also in the snow leopards only area. Shops and summer fairs are on the OG Animal Jam too, but on AJPW, non members can buy shops too.

[@ghostpad]

Jambassadors were my biggest inspiration as a kid, and really goes to show how much influence fandom has on people. I never would have gotten into video editing/directing, and never would have had half of the opportunities I've had of not for people like Gellyjones and Bepper.

[@Nat-of3il]

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]

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]

that’s so sweet :(

[@violetrose8779]

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

[@christinawilliams299]

Right 😢😢r😢like drlll l

[@skyvolt2566]

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

[@SirAsdf]

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]

Wait, what's the other one?

[@CloudsAndDays]

@@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]

@@rapterlabs neopets

[@golldshi]

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

[@emanresu3683]

I had a good giggle ngl

[@kfontejon_]

I would literally spend around four hours a day on animal jam in elementary school instead of going outside, it definitely did some irreversible damage to my social skills

[@XxScenequeenzzxX]

That was me but w msp

[@SSeraph_ae]

Idk why but I’ll always see adventures and Kimbara as “new” in my head. I think it’s bc I started Aug 2011 so everything that was added after that was just,, new. It’s crazy how much the game has stayed the same but changed at the same time. Under water lands used to be much more popular and I would always go to the seahorse and turtle pet adoption spots and create purple and blue seahorses/turtles but not actually adopt them because I was a nonmember 😂

[@ameliaweeks5]

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]

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]

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]

SAME

[@akkorosie]

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]

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

[@TheAnimestudio]

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

[@dia_official1]

@@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]

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]

@@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

[@mordi17]

sorry but the conversation at 29:11 absolutely destroyed me. "for goodness sake no."

[@xfirefeather]

There was this one roleplay I was in. I can't remember what it was about, but I do remember it lasted several hours and it drew in a crowd that was watching us play like it was a movie.

[@tidepodpadthai2633]

"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]

That’s cute

[@Wubadubadub1967]

SAME

[@hannahbeanies8855]

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]

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

[@dovahdog0]

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

[@ichinjii]

I just realised you’re wearing a long spiked collar in this video, you’re absolutely iconic

[@owlmage2744]

I played AJ for years of my life, not anymore because obviously, you grow out of things. But it was such a huge part of my life it makes me emotional. I've made plenty of friends there and lost all of them besides one I still talk to on a daily basis. I was never involved much in trading or the jambassitor drama but I just wanted to be a cool Jammer that role-played 24/7 with anyone. I didn't realize it back then but it was my little escape from the world. A huge memory is being a lil kid and had a "crush" on one of my buddies but I couldn't write properly back then so I ended up avoiding her for a while because I got my sister to type for me for a while. Wild times for sure. I thank AJ for being such a huge part of my childhood that I will never forget. I hope all of my past buddies are doing well.

[@aver2326]

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]

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]

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

[@Rizzalert69]

oh my gosh i was the same way 💀💀

[@ssnekky]

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]

@@ssnekky Hell yeah another Danny Gonzalez viewer

[@justabridget]

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]

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

[@puppyparfait9014]

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

[@jordyn7144]

animal jam was so popular at my school (it was a national geographic game so they didn’t block it) that they had to ban it because everyone just played it during class and we had to figure out loopholes to play😭😭😭😭

[@Sulpheria]

I remember sneaking onto my parent’s computer at ungodly hours to play this game for hours when I was little, back in 2011. I remember when the Arctic Wolves were released and when there were new lands added. I made my first close online friend there and was also introduced to Warrior Cats. I played for 4-5 years and it’s weird thinking about how I was actively a part of nearly all of the early history you described

[@peri6954]

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

[@peri6954]

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

[@clowncarradio]

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

[@shadowsightliker]

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

[@peri6954]

@@clowncarradio 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]

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

[@froggo1405]

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]

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]

I remember the nerd glasses! Still wish they had them

[@dhruthi2749]

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]

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]

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

[@nowayjose1870]

as someone who has had an aj account for over 6 years and used to be *obsessed* with animal jam roleplays, allow me to add some types of roleplays that weren't mentioned in the video!! -kingdom/royal roleplays, which are exactly what they sound like. there was much fighting over who would be the king/queen, and so. many. princesses. -good versus evil roleplays, almost exclusively done in the sky kingdom den. they were much like kingdom roleplays, but there was a good faction and an evil faction. people often had powers and beat the poo out of each other. also, there was almost always an imbalance with the amount of players on each side. (usually too many people on the good side.) (either that or all the people on the bad side are just misunderstood, AKA good people with darker color outfits. nobody wanted to be evil) -school roleplays, which were oftentimes just people standing around, not talking, not wanting to initiate conversations. pretty boring most times, but fun occasionally. there was also an entire account dedicated to having a den made for school roleplaying, called "ajschool." (the account ajschool nolonger exists, but a replica called ajjjschool still does!) -airplane roleplays, where the airplane would always crash and everyone would be stuck in a jungle or something. -lab roleplays, which i think became popular after i stopped roleplaying as much, but are basically just when a bunch of people get tested on by scientists. there were always like 8 test subjects for every 1 scientist, so the subjects fought over who would be tested. there was every kind of roleplay you can think of. hospital roleplays? fnaf roleplays? orphanage roleplays? zoo roleplays? prison roleplays? restaurant roleplays? apocalypse roleplays? nature roleplays? elemental roleplays? various random fandom related roleplays??? all of them!!! (and sorry to write an essay. this video just spoke to me a lot)

[@lullabychannel5400]

I used to hide under the tree to the bottom left of the plaza in jamaa township (it hides your name plate when you go under it) and pretend to be two people having an argument for attention

[@delikat6775]

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]

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]

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

[@user-uc6df2kj1g]

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.

[@jellyfssh]

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]

and a stunning makeup on top of that

[@Dantalliumsolarium]

I now get why people were always surprised that I hadn’t played animal jam, cuz I was the kid who pretended to be a wolf during recess. I’ve just lived under a rock for most of my life. This was so sweet to see how happy it made you!!!

[@ReleeSquirrel]

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.

[@rachelmccaughey6239]

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]

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

[@lemonine2712]

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

[@hello-up1fo]

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]

Have u seen the game now? Its chaotic

[@petalleaf2808]

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.