The Mysterious Club Penguin Iceberg - Explained

[@keats3431]

when i clicked on this i thought it meant like the iceberg in the game that was always rumored to be flippable and i was so ready for a 45 minute deep dive into the history of that specific lore. this is really great too though

[@Porder]

Tbh i probably could have made a video this length about the lore surrounding the iceberg, so many theories & developer hints about the flippening

[@loli_cvnt5622]

They actually let you tip it during the last event that took place before they shut it down between january and march

[@nyom6378]

Yoooo I thought the same thing lmao

[@GeminiClair]

The PSA code looks almost identical to the code I learned when I was in the scouts as a kid (learned it when I was like 6-7, I remember the scout-leader saying that this was a way for us to send secret messages to each other). 😂 Damn was I surprised to see that. We used the squares, but the letters were in a different order and we didn’t use x and o’s, we used dots with the number of dots signifying what letter it was.

[@GeminiClair]

Added comment further into the vid: did not expect that our code writing had its origin in the free masons

[@surfsupshinji-kun]

I remember the last day before club penguin shut down, my friend and I were at lunch on our chromebooks trying so hard to get the iceberg to flip before lunch ended. It was such a melancholic feeling when we finally flipped it

[@cokeunity5652]

@Will there were other players, duh

[@KristxnGaming]

Every person we met on Club Penguin are now adults with entire functioning lives. Can’t believe it. For years I have thought about all of this, and the fact that you’ve now immortalized it in such an amazing video, is so fuckin sick.

[@ea6600]

Crazy how time flies. I just hope all the friends I ever made and the club penguin community as a whole is doing well in their respective lives

[@lunamp3]

They definitely don't all have functioning lives lol but for sure it's weird to think that people I will always think of as kids because that's the only time I knew them are adults now

[@Hyperfoxeye]

Some may already be long gone in the ground. Never being able to expierence how it is not to be a miner digging for gold

[@buddysally886]

Yea aye good times

[@TheReZisTLust]

Except for those who are now evern older adults lmao 💀😔

[@ykbko]

I remember that my parents bought me 3 month membership, but it lasted for 2 whole years, so yes, ghost memberships were a thing. Even my best friend at the time bought a membership for a month but lasted for about 6 months. I wish I could go back and explore the amazing events for the first time again, life was easier back then.

[@tamo1110]

exact same happened with me, with the 3 month membership as well. maybe that was the reason only a few people had it, bc not everyone would buy the 3 month

[@g0th1cgutz]

same except that happened to me over on animal jam

[@ephemeralistic469]

the 3 month membership was a subscription, so you were charged x amount every 3 months

[@tamo1110]

@@ephemeralistic469 no you could buy a 3 month gift card and it would 'expire' after the 3 months. in this case it didn't

[@lunabtxt]

same,, i really want to go back to that time

[@callmepoki]

I loved how the devs played into the rumours and sometimes even made them come true

[@Porder]

I think club penguin is the only game where the developers created more of these floating fan theories than the fans themselves lmao

[@_ysai]

As a former Club Penguin player, I did get into the whole pookie thing. At the time (I was 7-9 years old), I obviously just thought of it as playing house. Now looking back, some things that happened during those times were just plain creepy. Quite a strange community in Club Penguin

[@Yourapplefriend]

Same here!

[@Daphne70]

"As a"

[@HannahYoTV]

Same or like having a babydoll to take care of. But then I got older and I’d play as a pookie or “adopt” them to just be a troll for laughs hahaha

[@peppersbodega2966]

I would abuse mine Lmao

[@miguelpadeiro762]

I can't believe I went with this shit as a kid as well, it was even more prominent in the mmo Habbo Hotel Looking back it was definetely a haven for pedos and creeps oh my god

[@MxShadow8]

I wish I was able to play the OG club penguin, I was able to play rewritten in 2020, but I lost my account after half a year. I hope that Disney brings the OG game back cause they got rid of rewritten!

[@Porder]

Agreed, Disney seems to shut down the private servers every few months so I feel like they’re not worth building a character on, but Disney refuses to just fund an official version of old club penguin

[@sickeningpain]

new club penguin in a server that’s still up and running

[@MxShadow8]

@@sickeningpain it will probably not be around for long though 😢

[@sickeningpain]

@@MxShadow8 from what i’ve seen and heard they’ve had no issues with disney and have a thing on their page that states they’re no connected and removed all signs of disney from the game but also recognize that disney created the game and it’s just a fan server

[@MxShadow8]

@@sickeningpain ooh interesting, I will have to look into that!

[@dominikfulop7188]

with the renaissance of chat rooms and metaverses, I hope Club Penguin will return someday. The original art style was so charming yet mysterious. I spent hours in single rooms as a kid just admiring. One of the best worlds built, with so much secrets and lore.

[@societalhazard]

i am begging you to reword that i saw “chat rooms” and “hope CP will return” and did NOT think about Club Penguin LMAO

[@lauryn.online]

@@societalhazard 💀💀💀

[@forestings]

the only old art style club penguin atm (that will remain with the old theme) is club penguin legacy ! i like newclubpenguin but the new art just doesn't do it for me

[@dominikfulop7188]

@@forestings 100% agreed

[@jagwarrior166]

DONT ABBREVIATE CLUB PENGUIN

[@cadmunn]

This game was a gem. Especially once they started adding missions, and more “role play” kinda task. I spent HOURS ON this game grinding the black pearl on the game by the iceberg for coins.

[@tacticalmattress]

The highlight of Club Penguin for me were the holiday based parties. Obviously besides friends, but those times added to the holiday vibe. Especially Christmas. Spent so many hours every year from 2006-2011 redecorating my igloo. I remember they added limits and what not, which kind of killed igloo building.

[@colossaltitan3546]

The holiday parties were really good, but operation blackout will forever hold a special place in my heart

[@tacticalmattress]

@@colossaltitan3546 I had already moved on from the game by 2010-2011. I only logged on around the holidays in those years. My main years were 2006-2009 where I played almost everyday. Probably a bit older than ya.

[@pokemonrules321]

Same here. My very first pin was the Wreath Pin from the 2007 holiday party. Hearing the Christmas music play still fills me with a warmth and nostalgia I never want to let go of. I'm 24 now, and I would give anything to go back and experience it again through the lens of my child self.

[@treasurewingo4856]

I remember when players would crowd their igloo with the most expensive items to flex. Tvs, speakers, and dance mats just lined up in rows simply to flex 😂

[@empty6004]

I didn’t know of the term Pookie, but I know of the whole “adoption roleplay” thing. Then again, that shit happens in EVERY MMO, so…

[@Porder]

I have such vivid memories of in in Roblox specifically lol

[@petalleaf2808]

That brings me back to Animal Jam when the Pillow Room was used as the adoption room. Everyone wanted to be adopted by those rich arctic wolves.

[@killerkitten7534]

@@Porder I did it so much in roblox and as an adult it makes me shiver thinking about who was probably on the other side of the screen

[@rithmas4000]

@@petalleaf2808 I used to do that as a kid! Man how naive it was, but back then I was genuinely just enjoying myself. I'm glad nothing bad happened but man was I at so much risk. I played a ton of these old MMO chat RP style games. It's probably why I'm so into worldbuilding and storytelling now that I'm older, it essentially felt like I was acting a stage play but on the internet.

[@widgeons]

@@petalleaf2808 the Pillow Room was also used for… other stuff 😅

[@sploshjnr]

Loved the video. There's a lot of misinformation that is spread about Club Penguin but I felt that this video was very well researched and executed, all of the mysteries being genuine secrets/events that I recall from the game's run. Thank you for putting the time and effort in to share this with us!

[@Porder]

Thank you! I’m glad you thought so. The script in itself took me a lot longer than I’d like to share 😭😭

[@mashthebanana]

I joined club penguin in 2006 as a 6 year old. Even when I was a teenager I would periodically hop on to see how things were, collect some new items and badges. I remember when the red puffles were first introduced, I remember the old HQ and feeling annoyed when it got destroyed and they made a much fancier HQ (before that it felt kind of secretive and after it didn't feel as special lol). I remember being so excited when the dojo turned from a boring old room into somewhere with purpose and collecting card jitsu packs in real life! When they introduced the thin ice arcade game! And the recycling centre! Also there was once a promotional thing where with every box of innocent smoothies you could unlock an item in club penguin and I drank sooooo many smoothies and collected so many items :D Even the smaller things like seeing more books appear in the library and reading the jokes in the newspaper... I literally grew up on club penguin so I miss it sometimes. I know about the bootlegs but they aren't the same. They're like an old photo album where all my photos have been removed.

[@mitch.mac01]

I can attest to the 'ghost membership' bit. I had that happen to me as well. My parents would occasionally buy me gift cards for 1 month gift cards and sometimes for Christmas I would get a 6 month card. I was never allowed to put in their credit card because back then in CP's prime adults didn't really believe in online shopping yet. One year my parents got me a 6 month membership gift card for Christmas and I remember I was extremely happy about it but boy oh boy I only got happier as time went on because when the 6th month came and went... My membership remained and I was ecstatic but I figured it wouldn't be for long... To sum it up I ended up having a membership for the next 3 years on top of the original 6 months I paid for. ~Mitch (A Club Penguin fanatic)

[@NattyStar77]

I feel a bit ashamed to say, but I was a pookie in Club Penguin, and sometimes even a pet ☠️ cuz I dunno, it was fun to create those histories, I was between 9 and 11 years old and thankfully no stranger did mess with me. This video game me so many bad flashbacks 😂😭 I remember that some people (including me ☠️) would dress up as a mummy or just use a naked white penguin and sit forward to make it look like a egg so we would simulate a penguin born 😭 I feel so ashamed now, but back then I was just stupid 😂

[@banana_]

a white penguin sitting to simulate an egg sounds hilarious af

[@AikoSilver]

😂 this is the funniest thing i ever heard. don't feel ashamed 😂You made good memories

[@summerbalaz6983]

Omg I used to do the same thing! Back then I don’t think I ran into any pedos because all my RP’s were basically playing house. I’d get adopted by a mom and we’d go “shopping” and I’d be a “bad baby” by running away a lot and making them find me 😂 I had good memories from my adoption RP’s at least.

[@ecosan2655]

I find this SOOOOO wholesome, funny, silly and adorable at the same time. No judging, though. Sounds really fun.

[@NattyStar77]

@@banana_ it surely is 😂😂

[@johnk.9172]

Man, watching this video was such a blast from the past. I remember the pookies and the armies (which I had forgotten about entirely until I watched this!) all too well. Club Penguin was an enormous part of my life and it still holds a truly special place in my heart. Glad to see the community that remembers it fondly is still out here.

[@lolgun1]

I doubt anybody will see this but.. I was a member of Club Penguin for a long time, I remember when I got my parents to sign me up and everything. After a while I stopped playing because I got older and lost interest. One day when I herd that it was shutting down I tried to login to my account with no luck, so I emailed the staff. Somehow I got emailed back by the creator saying "We see your account here named "X" sadly we can't restore your account but we seen that you had membership for quite some time so what we can do is give you an account with pretty much everything you had and with the same name too! But because we're shutting down this will only last about 1-2 months at the most! We hope that this resolves your issues and thank you so much for coming back. Waddle on.. Lance" Something hit me so hard that day that I'll never forget. I think after it shut down I kind of avoided everything else, just to preserve the fond memories I had. Since this video surfaced I thought I'd just share one happy memory I had with the game. Loved the community so much growing up and made some friends too.

[@Tea-gh8cu]

31:05 BEFORE DISCORD I SWEAR MOST OF THE ARMIES USED XAT, I remember it pretty well that xat was actually pretty common on vlogs and websites and their iconic notification sounds. I'm glad a real deep iceberg exist it makes me so happy all this being revealed, thank you

[@mr.whimsic6902]

FINALLY someone else who knows about Xat!!

[@bird2112]

you unearthed hellish sounds and memories from the very depths of my mind

[@rosaferricpa1804]

yeah xat was used chiefly up until 2017 when armies started to talk abt using discord. many of the emotes became a mainstay despite the shift, including the wary emote

[@WestsideCat]

discord.gg/dv dude theres still armies

[@buzzrose9373]

Yeah we all use Discord now for army stuff lol!

[@TripleC_Arts]

I was an og club penguin member and watching this video brought back so many memories. I was always into the secret agency and card jitsu. It’s crazy to think at some point I just stopped playing and before I knew it was gone forever. Thank you for letting me go back and “ play” this game one last time :)

[@trashdan1661]

The membership ghost perk was real, my sister had bought a 3 month membership during 6th grade and it lasted all the way till the game shut down right after she graduated high school. We made sure that our parent's card wasn't auto renewing it and they confirmed that they never received any additional charges

[@Androiski]

@15:00 gosh, you are the first person to have ever mentioned this. I remember it pretty distinctly as a kid cause I thought it was just silly roleplaying. But a couple years ago the memory of it came back, and I am very very certain there were some creepy folks on the other side of some of those duhduhs and mumus. It scares me to think about how Club Penguin chat filters and moderation probably saved me from being some sort of victim.

[@sonic7270]

Oh the nostalgia. I miss this game so much, i wish I could revisit it. Great video mate. I do felt you missed the opportunity to talk about the smaller rumors and such that added flair to the club Penguin community, like the rainbow and gold puffles.

[@dentedcarrot7464]

you just unlocked my memories of drawing countless rainbow puffles 😭😭i thought that was the coolest thing ever omfg

[@shadevixen217]

It meant a lot to me too. It made up so much of my childhood, and I used to play it with my late grandma, and it went offline mere weeks after she passed away which made it going offline twice as devastating. I honestly never understood why they took it offline, I wish Disney would bring it back, and just update the original stuff, and add in some new things, cause I'm sure there are a lot of people who would still play, and a lot of new ones too.

[@LamarINH]

I played the OG Club Penguin and CP Island, while I'm not nostalgic I really enjoyed this video along with your Pokémon iceberg (and I don't even play Pokémon). Your videos are always a great viewing experience and the quality and always evident.

[@Porder]

I can’t lie I have the nostalgia goggles for club penguin 😭😭 but I’m glad you enjoyed the video regardless!! I appreciate you watching 👆

[@Benjamin_ireland]

Yeah, I also liked CP island, shame what happened to Epstein…

[@TatoSFM]

what the fuck is cp island, sounds illegal

[@teddyborgaard5787]

New Club puinguin is up and Running still

[@zachh.9065]

bro just type it out you can't be typing things like this

[@KarveTV]

The editing style on your vids really makes you standout from the other iceberg creators, keep it up!

[@MonsterTaming420]

I remember partaking in Club Penguin armies as a teen on rewritten, it was just so much fun.

[@WhiskeredNightfall]

Honestly I think the whole pookie thing might also just be because a lot of girls enjoyed playing family house / dolls at that age so they replicated it online. I was never apart of that group as a kid because I was never interested in baby dolls or parent/family role play to begin with 😅 I hosted a heck ton of parties in my igloo back in the day 😎

[@natanaelvicenteferreira590]

I remember activating the membership, the payment not going through and STILL getting full VIP for as long as I had the one account. Of course, before getting inevitably banned xD Great video as always!

[@Porder]

😭😭 seems like no matter what you did the ban found a way to get everyone lol. & thank you I’m glad you liked it!!

[@Shadamyfan-rs8xc]

@@Porder I never got banned :)

[@mitskiluvr]

@@Shadamyfan-rs8xc i don't think i ever did either

[@stinky9675]

Dude. I remember over half of these things just from playing the game itself. Club Penguin stood as the obelisk of my childhood, I spent probably thousands of hours scouring the island for things to do. Ghost Memberships were definitely a thing, as I once found a fabled one year membership that ended up lasting for like three years before getting beamed. Pookies were something that just seemed like a virtual house roleplay as a kid, not too different from the kind of house games at the school playground, but in retrospect, they were a really dodgy aspect of the game. I joined an army once as well, Rebel Penguin Federation I believe, and it really made the game more fun to play. The hours spent scouring the island for clues to Shadow Ninjas, finding people who had that portal to the Box Dimension in their igloos, exploring with friends, and other countless features and quirks of Club Penguin and its community have defined my entire childhood. Videos like these really take me back to my childhood when this game was my entire world. Thanks for making this, dude. Amazing video.

[@SomeUsernameSomeoneElseTookIt]

Don't worry, I remember pookies vividly. It is weird that I haven't seen many other people talking about pookies though. I remember those "fashion contests" to see who'd have the best outfit in certain categories to be the one that gets "adopted" I remember this cause I actually did roleplay as a pookie back then. Bad memories. I also remember how there were "pookie eggs" where they'd dress up in a ghost costume and face away from the camera to be a "pookie egg" I also have no idea why pookies were all just yellow back then. Pookies were just all yellow because of some unwritten rule I guess. You would never be able to walk into the pet shop without seeing pookies everywhere begging to be adopted. So I have no idea how most people don't remember them. Edit just for a few extra things: I never remembered anything about the parents being called "Duh duhs" that surely wasn't the norm. Mainly what I did as a pookie is that my pookie would age up through an entire lifespan super quickly. I guess it's a good thing I don't ever remember what happened during those days. It's been so long that my memories are pretty much non existent about anything that happened. And now that I just turned 18 today, it's just really mind boggling having remembered all that stuff. That stuff was all back when I was like 8 or something.

[@delinquent6241]

You had probably a better experience as a pookie that what it later devolved into. later on mostly it was just child abuse or you had to fill in a 20 question form where you were expected to give cute, responsive answers in a cute font, answers had to be paragraphs and it became hella toxic.

[@delinquent6241]

Both Mumu and duh duh were norm it was just unusual to see a male penguin adopt so MuMu was normally used as it would normally be a female penguin

[@waranka8376]

Hi, I just have to comment about how well is this video edited. I usually watch videos more like a podcasts but you got me hooked. An amazing job!

[@Porder]

I’m glad you enjoyed it!!

[@japansace]

I totally had one of those "ghost memberships"... but I sort of know why? I have a distinct memory of logging in one day and getting a notification along the lines of "congrats, you've been granted a lifetime membership!" I don't know why this happened--probably in error--but as a kid, I didn't question it. I was just happy I didn't have to beg my parents for money.

[@pinguenlan23]

One thing I can contribute is on the Army part. For communication we used online chat room called xat. These xat rooms were used for army meetups and depending on the room used to track down the famous people in club penguin during events.

[@connosu_]

Herbert being a fed really wouldn't surprise me in the slightest tbh. If he was shown to be behind the secret forces 10yr old me would've lost it

[@rhianbread]

This is an amazing video. Club Penguin in the “CPPS era” is still going strong, with a community closer than ever! Now the main client we use for cp is NewCP, super easy to download and basically picks up right where disney left off. i didn’t think armies would come up in the video either, because they never do, but you really did your research! CPAC is rebranded to Club Penguin Army Times, and the community is still (somehow) living to this day. in OGCP armies used skype and xat to host events, but it was honestly more common for them to happen solely on club penguin. i actually just opened up my own army and i realize how much of a cult it can come off as. maybe we are, idk. and while a lot of people don’t want to admit it it’s definitely an interactive role play, not just some “rahhh battle” stuff but it really dives deep into politics, warfare, climbing up ranks and proving your worth in the sub community. thanks for making this video! i’ll promote it every way i can. Waddle on!

[@Porder]

Thank you I’m glad you enjoyed it! One day in the future I’d honestly love to create an entire video on the insane depths of armies. I think it’s sort of a world that most people don’t truly understand how deep it goes

[@leonmladosic5774]

would be glad to help for that

[@buzzrose9373]

ACP > SWAT

[@lunabtxt]

I appreciate you making this video. I would like to believe Club penguin never dies and all the memories from it will always stay in my heart. Right now I'm playing 'New Club Penguin' once in a while, it's basically as safe as CP was from what I've seen so far and works pretty well! It's a nice escape from adulthood

[@Cosmicfallsr]

Finally someone did an actually good video on this iceberg.

[@4arms4life]

The expired domain thing just solved a decade long mystery! I remember getting the golfer page and seriously thought there was just a problem on my end the entire time and didn't even question it again by the time it was fixed. Also remember being annoyed because I had a long day at school and just wanted to go home and play Club Penguin only to be greeted by that.

[@hirskyiTikych]

Im pretty sad that I didn’t get to experience Club Penguin for myself, I was like a month old at the games release. But god damn, it seems to have been a blast being a part of community at that time. I have been watching a lot of Club Penguin retrospects recently, so thank you for making another video for me to enjoy :D

[@Purplecow27]

I used to play this so much as kid! It was one of the best experiences ever and eventually moved onto to the private servers before the end of club penguin as a whole, what an amazing video too man:)

[@polar6946]

YES I HAD THE GHOST MEMBERSHIP!!! I had a theory as a kid that it was the allotted time of a month that the membership lasted. So you would actually have to have the play time of a whole month for the membership to expire. Now I'm thinking it was just a lucky glitch.

[@skylanderking7645]

I used to watch pookie roleplay videos on KZbin when I was a kid. If I'm being honest, I think most pookie roleplays really were just kids having fun, even if there were definitely a few creeps trying to sneak into it.

[@m4rt_]

0:30 , I just realized, I can say "you had to be there" to everyone who asks why I loved Club Penguin as a kid, and why I still miss it. I have been waiting for this opportunity.

[@HaydenCrispy]

20:03 that strange moment when you’re watching an enjoying a random KZbin video and you causal see you’re own footage and be credited in it. Thanks for the shout out man 🤣

[@Wallis_2001]

27:39 Omg I remember this!! My friend and I used to play CP nearly every day. I remember calling her on the phone so we could play together as usual, but we were met with this exact screen. We started freaking out, thinking that maybe the site was gone forever. My mom intervened and told me that they had probably just neglected to renew the domain, but I had no idea that was *actually* what happened; not until now, over a decade later.

[@Caddeus]

I stumbled upon this channel today and I decided to take a look at your videos. I was very happy I did. You have some VERY well made videos. The editing is great, the scripting is unique (especially compared to normal iceberg videos), there was a lot of research and time put in, and even your voice is very clear and understandable. I subscribed (of course) and can't wait to see more videos. I would highly recommend this channel.

[@yoshinyz]

I used to pookie roleplay all the time back when I was little. I really didn't have any negative experiences but because at the time, most of the people roleplaying were still kids but it wasn't hard to find the occasional creepy old dude. Pookie contests were fun tho. i would have so much fun trying to dress up my little penguin.

[@Mamafakerr]

The editing is soooo good and clean 👌 Great job porder

[@Porder]

Thank you!! I’m glad you liked it

[@dianaa.4035]

@@Porder What editing software do you use?? :D

[@Porder]

@@dianaa.4035 Premiere Pro & a little after effects but i'd say its 98% PP

[@3twibles4sweetrevenge]

i literally never knew what pookies were until rewritten. all the roleplaying ive had was eating pizzas and dating penguin girlfriends

[@Porder]

I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT PENGUIN DATES 😭😭😭

[@3twibles4sweetrevenge]

@@Porder I could never forget bc I got married 3 times at the age of 9 😂

[@3twibles4sweetrevenge]

@AzureWolf168 exactly 💯

[@Budgie_Films]

So on the topic of ghost memberships, my mom used to play Club Penguin with me and I would occasionally be gifted membership and use it on my own account. However, one day when we were playing she was just a member without ever making a purchase, and the membership stuck around for a long time. I don't ever remember it ending. Also I remember pookies, they were terrible...

[@overlordchemm3705]

I'll never forget the Card JItsu TCG, it was mind-blowing as a kid back in the early 2010's to see toys at based on browser games like Club Penguin. I don't think my brother and I ever learned how to play it, but we had a good number of cards.

[@ShorK]

Amazing video

[@deepyson2690]

This was a great video! I would love to see a video diving deep into Club Penguin Armies and some of the feuds within the army community. I've been a part of the Club Penguin Army community for years now and it still has a fairly large player base.

[@TheMusicGuy-Cymru]

⚽️

[@buzzrose9373]

Same

[@M0ssSauce]

This was probably one of the best trips down memory lane I didn’t know I needed. This video truly put a smile on my face. :,) Thank you

[@chickenmilk120]

Youve managed to become one of my fav channels with only a few videos! Wishing the best for you always💖

[@Porder]

Aw that’s so cool to hear 🥲 thank you very much I appreciate you watching & im wishing the same for you!!

[@schnozzle3543]

This is one of the most well edited and well paced iceberg videos I've seen in a while 👺👍

[@ratpatterson8953]

One of the devs said that cardjitsu shadow is the base cardjitsu game, thats why you already have the gem

[@readybear64]

After the cpr shutdown, there was also something called club penguin legacy who also got the axe but they actually had proper moderation thats up to standards and only lived on donations and yet Disney still axed it. Although they have stated there in talks, it’s unlikely they will ever come back.

[@victorplayz_]

they did in February

[@bellamuerte4953]

This is so nostalgic, I miss this game!! Great video, keep up the good work ❤️

[@Porder]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@NoHandle44]

This looks like it took A LOT of time to make. So I'm so glad to see it be a very successful video. Good job man!

[@Porder]

It took me alot longer than I care to admit 😭😭 but fr thank you!!

[@prettycheep]

15:18 omg I remember pet shop people! I genuinely thought I dreamt up that community until I found the wiki page abt it haha

[@Porder]

So glad i'm not alone on that one

[@HiHi-lt1cb]

I joined club penguin in 2007. This brought back so many memories. I remember logging on the last day and tipping the ice berg. It was so bittersweet.

[@DragonitaPurple]

I did get a phantom membership once, but not exactly in the way the video describes. One time my membership was about to expire, and on its last day i saw my penguin was returned to default without items, so without thinking twice i put back on all my defining member items. When the membership expired the next day, i was still wearing all of my clothes, but had blocked access to wear any other member item i had. I never took off any of my items since then, cause it meant i couldn't put them back on. I was already falling off CP at that time so it was the last membership i ever bought and didn't matter that much. Years later, i joined the last day of Club Penguin still wearing those clothes the staff forgot to take off me, for one last time.

[@Porder]

That’s so strange, I wonder what in the games codebase let users sort of have leniency with parts of the game like this 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@DragonitaPurple]

@@Porder i can only guess whatever part of the code that takes member items away activated too early, and after i put my items back on and the membership actually expired it didn't bother activating again

[@AntiHan]

the editing is phenomenal omg

[@VideoGameFools]

I remember the pookie thing really well... holy crap. I was 8 years old and started roleplaying because all my club penguin friends did. I was a guy but roleplayed as a girl penguin (my name was sk8trpenguin) as they were the main ones picked by the creepy parents. Suffice to say even at the time I realized progressively as things got creepier. Some "mother" penguin adopted my penguin, we actually had a pretty innocent and heartwarming RP for a while and it made me feel like I had a close friend at a time when I didn't have many super close people outside my sisters and parents. It was honestly a multiplayer Sims kinda thing. That was the appeal, I guess? Eventually "she" proceeded to make various comments about covering herself and my penguin completely in ice cream in the kitchen after a day at the cove and, well, after trying to cope, I got the fuck out. Looking back, shit was so extremely disturbing even my younger self knew exactly what was going on, my sister was pretty disgusted to hear the shit that can happen in Club Penguin when I told her. I played GTA as a kid, shooters, mature games all the time. But that shit with real creeps scared the fuck out of me and got me to quickly x out of the whole browser, causing me to stay offline for a few days. Fun memories as a kid minus that, yet also freaking scary ones when you look back as an adult with more knowledge and the ability to see things as they really are. Hopefully Club Penguin banned a lot of those accounts.

[@savagepanda8458]

I remember being part of the “anti-pookie” crowd. I was only around 10 or 11, so the notion of it being associated with certain “undesirable” interests never really dawned on me, all I thought was that they were either weird or very little kids who I, for whatever reason, considered to be ruining Club Penguin. Obviously, nowadays I realize they were pretty much harmless. I somewhat remember rumors floating around that the staff were going to close down the pet shop to deter the pookies, which as we know, didn’t end up being true. Something myself and other people who hated pookies would do is abuse them. Basically, we would adopt them and roleplay to gain their trust, then turn vindictive and pretend to do things like starve them or lock them in rooms. From what I remember, I think the goal was to scare the pookies away. That was my experience, at least. Also, as for the ghost membership, I remember when I finally convinced my dad to buy me a month of membership, during what were supposed to be the final days, messages kept popping up warning me it was about to expire. I’m not sure if it just kept auto-charging my dad’s credit card, but my membership never actually ended. That makes me wonder though, if it had auto-charged it, then why did it keep warning me it was going to expire? I also never saw those messages again after that first month.

[@fef65b]

Hello, past mumu here, I viewed the pet shop and pookies as playing house but some of the duh duhs and even some pookies made it super creepy. It was such a dangerous part of the club penguin community tbh. It did make me super skilled at making igloos tho so bless that

[@noodle100100]

Past Pookie, lmao. Same deal here, I was just a literal child playing house through a pixel penguin game. Some people would take things in a weird direction, but 9 year old me was smart enough to report them and leave their igloos. I had one guy who adopted me and then roleplayed physically abusing me? Like throwing me into fires and stuff, it was WILD lmaoo. Most of it were all kids playing a game, though. To my knowledge.

[@fef65b]

@@noodle100100 I "married" a duh duh once that then cheated on me with the "big wista" and they left ? Occasionally I would get pookies that would try and do breast feeding and that was super creepy. Some duh duhs would try and fuck while the pookies were "asleep" and that's ??? man -

[@magicalfrill]

Past pookie here!(currently 14) I regret my life choices.

[@twinkledinkle3458]

@@noodle100100 I can confirm when i was 8 i would dress up as a mom/dad and abuse the pookies lol. But id also roleplay as a pookie too. It was just funny at the time, i dont think its as serious as people think. Childs play.

[@noodle100100]

@twinkledinkle That's so funny lmaoo. I think it was entirely kids just finding a way to play house in a digital setting. I had plenty of fun, at least, so I doubt any real harm came out of it. Looking back as an adult, though, it is a pretty strange trend.

[@tonib1999]

this video is very thought out and kept me interested the entire time, love the way you edit your videos dude!! new subscriber!

[@genericfriend2568]

Porder, I don't know how much history you have with Roblox, but I do feel that you could do an honorable service for an iceberg on that. I've been on the platform since 2009 and I'd love to see your take on a video over one. I know it's a real minefield of a topic, but I do feel that you'd do it justice.

[@rubyredraccoon7580]

this is such a well done video!! i absolutely love that you included club penguin armies. unfortunately i never got to be part of one, but my big brother was! i always found them so fascinating and admired the coordination, and they actually inspired me to lead a similar group on animal jam a few years later. (which was very successful!!) armies seem to be mostly forgotten now, but i see some people in the comments remember them and/or are even still a part of their communities, which is great!! :D its got me thinking about the other niche parts of the community and its little cliques. stadium penguins, pizza parlor penguins, igloo advertisers, etc etc... i hope someone else remembers them too. maybe through some whim of fate one day i'll find my stadium bestie again. still miss u, pink

[@mildlycornfield]

I was obsessed with Club Penguin from 2008 to about ~2011ish. I never got into Tipping The Iceberg though, I was more into the secret agent missions

[@mollystringer6273]

I loved all the secret agent missions! they were so much fun and were something other comparable games didn't really have, and if they did, it certainly wasn't to the same extent.

[@nevertoooldfordolls]

the whole pookie thing kinda carried on into animal jam which is the site I went to after club penguin closed. at around 10 years old I participated in it and got adopted and usually, I got bored and left.

[@itsybitsycherry]

Great video! Lots of fun trivia I didn’t know much about. I still hang on to some of my Club Penguin merch; I have some toys of a few characters, as well as a Puffle house and a steel pencil tin I haven’t ever seen mentioned online aside from old listings for the bundle I got it from. Man… I feel nostalgic now.

[@Porder]

That’s so cool, now I wish I had done an entry for club penguin merch! That’s something that widely goes under the radar. Those are some really cool items I’m glad you’ve hung onto them

[@logistrike4012]

bro you mentioning the whole pookie thing bought up SO many repressed memories lmfao

[@kilo.byt3]

Club penguin was so much fun for me and I'm sad that I hopped on the train a little too late. Also yes this video was really really worth the wait. I wish I had more time to play this game as a kid.

[@Porder]

I truly don’t understand why Disney won’t create an “old club penguin” esque server for users. Even webkinz is still alive and profitable. & I’m glad you enjoyed the video I appreciate you watching!!

[@lolciano7954]

I love the editing bro, is really good, great video !

[@texburgh]

Club Penguin selling the company was the worst mistake of all time

[@sikenism]

I’m so happy this video stumbled on my feed!! It’s really interesting and I’m excited to have found a cool new channel :) keep up the good work!!

[@roboticperson]

I wish Disney would be rerelease club penguin so it comes back like how it was and we pick up from where it was left off.

[@Eliz_Creates]

Don’t know about pookie’s but I do know about all the weird romance going on at the pizzeria- all starting off with a penguin sitting at the pizzeria typing “😢”

[@w0rmteeth]

i remember pookies. i would sit in the pet store for a long time asking to be adopted lol. it was nothing weird i was just a kid in like 3rd grade having fun (can't say the same for others though).

[@sebasi6177]

I never even played this in my life, yet I just watched the whole thing. Great video!

[@alolannassie]

every time someone mentions pookies i die a little inside because i was one when i was about 7 or 8. weirdly enough, they weren't called pookies then (at least not in the servers i would play on) and i remember us all calling ourselves "bay bees". i remember i used to get "adopted" by someone and once they went offline i'd go back and get adopted again, and one time i invited one "mom" to my igloo and then another one of my "moms" joined me and i felt so horrible about it back then

[@MikeVonwolkenstein]

Damn and here I thought the only club penguin mystery was the iceberg. Interesting iceberg topic 🔥🔥 love the vid

[@Isa.esthetics]

I remember the pookies 😰I didn’t know they had a name. There were also so many in toontown and Roblox

[@Porder]

I remember the Roblox games specifically for getting adopted by families 😭😭

[@Meela9088]

Hm I don’t remember any pookies on Toontown lol

[@TetrahedronDash]

I recently started liking CP again and remembered all the times I played it when I was younger. Herbert the Bear is actually my favorite character once again like in the past! I have memories when I had membership of playing the membership levels of System Defender in the remade EPF base like the Herbert mission in System Defender! That game was so fun in CP lmao

[@cozyvrc]

After watching this video I want to try to recreate as much of club penguin in vrchat as I can

[@Porder]

That would be so cool, the iceberg would go crazy

[@hxtheaad]

dude when you said you only paid once and had your membership for longer, same!!! I remember my sister and i only getting it once and having access for the last few idk months or so of playing

[@Fannywikstrom95]

I remember being banned for 24 hours for saying “shit” lmaooo, I was so ashamed

[@racheloshin1266]

I remember the "Pookie" era. I was super young at the time, but you can find it in many other games, such as roblox. It was more of a way to connect with other players than anything but to also act in a certain age/way as there were both adopters and adoptees. It was also really good to seek attention hence why you need to be "adopted" and taken care of. It gave a sense of family as well. My best friend at the time had a membership so we shared his account. Whenever I logged on I put on my girly clothes whereas when he logged on he put on his boy clothes. the best part is that I would have "boyfriends," so when he was on he would have other boys teleport to him and try to flirt.

[@f1ntendo]

wow homie just wow! masterful editing, great research, the whole nine yards! you should be very proud of what you've made here, you've literally inspired me to make a club penguin video of my own! :3 have a most wonderful day whenever you may read this

[@Porder]

Just dropped a sub, looking forward to it! I’m glad you enjoyed the video 😀

[@f1ntendo]

@@Porder awww thanks dude!

[@pilotEJE]

Just wanted to say that your editing is amazing.

[@Porder]

Thank you!! I’m glad you enjoyed it These icebergs usually take me a long time to edit 😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@ki7roy]

why is there just a gross wet fart at 9:52 😭😭😭

[@GlebyGlobster]

Idk

[@shreyamitra7841]

it’s crazy how much time i dedicated to this game. loved the extensive coverage of everything, really took me back lol. would’ve also loved to see coverage on the cpmv/club penguin youtube community

[@Julia-mz6xu]

i got banned from rewritten for saying milf. i also participated in the pookie thing. the whole thing with that was pookies were non-members who dressed in certain ways because they had limited options of clothes and part of it was "getting adopted" meant they were giving you membership (which obv isn't true and no one actually thought it was) but I'm fairly certain most of the people who participated were teenagers making fun of the kids who started it (at least that was my experience with it). Also does anyone else remember sitting in the pizza place looking for someone to date you?

[@VotexRBLX]

Hey Porder! Love ya vids man. The Club Penguin HQ was in the SAME city i'm from in Canada (AKA Kelowna) and one of my friends parents worked there! Spoke to his parents earlier this year about the real reason Club Penguin shut down and it was a pretty simple but interesting answer. I could tell ya if you want on another platform privately! :D

[@Kamexe]

*sob* I miss Club Penguin... i miss the secret mission story quests. I was OBSESSED with the PSA and EPF. They never gave me closure on it. AAAAAA I'm 22 now and it STILL haunts me that I never got an ending.

[@Porder]

There's so many loose ends i wish that Disney would just give us an "old club penguin" and give me my closure

[@nicholaselder5927]

There ARE still Club Penguin fan servers running. For those who still want to play some good old-fashioned Club Penguin, or are parents who want to show your children the fun you used to have, research your options. Choose with safety in the forefront of your mind. You may be surprised. The community I'm a part of, which I won't name in fear of steering others wrong in the off chance I made a mistake (though I doubt it, since I've been in for about a year) recently celebrated 2 million unique penguins. There ARE places to go.

[@joeblack4634]

Some info on “pookies” I remembered them from original Club Penguin (I was around 7-8 when I played as one, I saw it as innocent fun at the time, like playing families) and when rewritten came out, I got really bored over lockdown and out of morbid curiosity, I decided to mess about and pretend to be “one of them” again to see what they got up to nowadays. In the short time I was involved, I saw - Someone pretended to kill themselves in real life because they didn’t get picked. They did this twice - in one game, one pookie kept saying (in character) I looked “hot and sexy”. She was roleplaying a 2 year old girl. I was playing as her 3 YEAR OLD BROTHER - One person revealed they had a piss fetish, and spend a whole game crying about having … a red rash … “down there” - One person confessed to being 35 years old - one user was playing a character who was a grown man who had a head injury and needed to wear diapers - Several occasions where pookies would roleplay dying of cancer I wish I was joking, but the community is absolutely as depraved and weird as you might think

[@Porder]

This is why parents need to monitor their children’s online activity 😭😭 I never got into it as a kid but I’m glad to actually have some concrete evidence as to why this community could be dangerous

[@banana_]

I guess nowadays there must be little to no children playing club penguin

[@mcrufflestuffles7726]

Best edited Iceberg video I've seen

[@Porder]

Appreciate that! Took me forever to edit lol