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paint and glass

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To anybody not in the Neopets community y’all are missing the craziest hobby drama™️ right now. Basically tl;dr is that Neopets’ parent company announced that Neopets would be releasing THOUSANDS of NFTs without even telling the actual staff team responsible for the Neopets site. They literally initially state that they think the NFT announcement is a scam. Once it comes into light that it’s not a scam, Neopets users very very loudly protest this and vocally state that they are against this decision, which goes completely ignored. More details pop up and the whole thing starts to look really suspicious: The NFTs are going to be produced and managed via a third party company that just popped up about a month ago. They are affiliated with Neopets’ parent company in nebulous ways that suggests money laundering. They run an official Neopets Metaverse Discord where the word “gay” is autobanned by a bot but the word “faggot” gets thrown around (as well as alleged racism and transphobia going unmoderated). When people in the server complain about this one of the mods starts spewing insane NFTbro accusations that the people complaining are just trying to spread anti-NFT propaganda or something. Later, it’s revealed that the NFTs themselves are made using stolen/uncredited assets from a Neopets fan site. This is revealed because they don’t even bother to fix a visual glitch that is unique to that site. They refuse to address this or give credit when it’s pointed out, so they aren‘t just taking assets without acknowledgment but this means they cannot even produce their own damn art for the thing. NFTbros start joining Neopets and hacking/buying old accounts to act like long time players in “support” of NFTs. Actual users start protesting with log-off days, unsubscribing from premium membership, sending anti-NFT art to the art gallery, etc. Sketchy Neopets Metaverse Twitter starts promoing NSFW/18+ NFT projects and posting 4chan-tier NFTbro wojak memes (think “virgin X chad Y” type stuff), totally obliterating the whole “Neopets is a family friendly all-ages game where even writing that your Neopets are married to each other or saying the word cuCUMber can get you banned” thing. Finally, most recently, Neopets‘ Metaverse announces their end goal plans for the Neopets NFT project: An entirely pay-to-play version of the site, where everything you do is powered by cryptocurrency microtransactions. To make matters worse, this announcement reveals that the third party does not know a SINGLE THING about Neopets, and describes “pay to play” features that literally are not a thing on the site, while not mentioning a single aspect of the site that is actually possible. This is alongside the fact that the actual, FREE to play Neopets website is currently almost completely unplayable since they have not converted it since Flash died. This makes it look like Neopets is slowly being switched over to entirely pay-to-play via cryptocurrency microtransactions.

Here are the real kickers:

1. Neopets actually did a cryptocurrency project a few years ago. The project died with a whimper and never saw any end results, leaving a ton of people having sunk their money into something completely worthless.

2. The “NFTs” are literally just randomly generated stock Neopets. With thousands and thousands of pet/color/clothing combinations to choose from, they all inevitably look like absolute shit. You cannot dress them up, change their color or species or outfit, or even name or care for them or pick their gender. And given the nature of NFTs, your “ownership” of them at all is nebulous at best. Functionally, you have significantly more ownership of your Neopet by just making a damn account on the website and creating it there for free, where you have full customization abilities and it is attached directly to your account information.

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the scariest thing about some of these spooky petpets… is the price tag

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Suspiro is on BC this week!!!

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give us the aisha wheelchair give us the aisha wheelchair give us the a this is art of my oc saku as a custard aisha!!… he is disabled so i had to take matters into my own hands…

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Guess who still plays Neopets? Me shut up. Anyway, my striped bori, Libruz, who lives in Altador and has strong opinions on the very important topics of “rocks” and “dirt”

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for someone who doesnt really play neopets anymore but still wants in on this juicy drama, could you explain all the hullabaloo thats going on with the cc event?

Since this CC is such a mess I have decided the best way to explain is with a timeline type list. So here we go:

0. People spend all year prepping for charity corner by hoarding sticky snowballs.

(If you don’t know, sticky snowballs are a big deal. They are marked as ultra rare and worth 8 points in CC but you can buy one every half an hour for only 25 neopoints. People hoard thousands and have alarms set to go off every 30 minutes. Even at work or while sleeping)

1. TNT delays charity corner for months because they “want it to be perfect” so people already had high expectations.

2. Charity corner finally starts and people realize they’re only getting 1 single point for sticky snowballs specifically instead of 8. Every other item value is untouched.

3. People become very angry and claim this was done out of spite and TNT hates their userbase. 

4. The site is already lagging due to CC. To be petty people start donating thousands and thousands of sticky snowballs to the money tree instead which makes the lag even worse.

5. People finally click on the button to view prizes and realize there are absolutely no perks to buy this year and instead a tiny prize shop of soon to be worthless items. There are also 3 mystery boxes.

6. The mystery boxes? People began opening them.. it turns out there was actually less than a 1% chance of getting a rare item. The items you get could be as low in rarity as r1.

7. There is no mass donation button. You have to manually check off 15 items and you cannot leave the tab as the slow unskippable animation goes on between each donation

8. It was taking hours to donate due to lag and the slow method of doing so

which leads us to...

9. People were spending well over 3 hours to donate enough for one mystery capsule (originally 4500 points) 

10. Since sticky snowballs are only worth one point nobody was prepared. They were forced to donate much more expensive items

11. People were wasting hours and extra thousands and thousands of neopoints on new items to donate only to open a mystery capsule and receive one item worth even less than 1000np in return 

12. People lose it and begin attacking TNT as well as anyone who defends them

13. Everyone starts cancelling their premium membership and encouraging others to do so too.

14. TNT posts an update on an unofficial discord server well before the actual website.

15. TNT finally posts onsite saying they want to have “open ended dialog” with users then proceed to ignore everyone and punish the people who were criticizing them.

16. As part of the update they decrease the prize shop prices massively and apparently add 1 extra percent to the chance of getting a rare item (no one has yet btw) They also promise to refund points already spent and give everyone an extra 500 points to save their skin.

17. Everyone still spends all night bashing TNT (Especially Tony P.) and  throwing every complaint at them at once. Including multiple other issues such as how they handle the LGBT community and some of the questionable content on the site. A lot of people were frozen and permasilenced.

18. The next day no one has been refunded yet but TNT thought releasing a mobile update on youtube was a bigger priority. People immediately harassed the video until they privated it. 

19. More people rage quit, cancelled premium and swore to never buy NC or merch again because TNT was handling things so poorly.

20. TNT finally came out with another statement and refunded points

21. The points refunded disappear as soon as you donate again. Some people didn’t get refunded at all. The extra 500 they promised only showed up for some people and also disappeared for others. People with thousands of points now somehow have negative points. 

22. TNT closes the general store, making points much harder to get, especially since no one was prepared this year due to the snowball nerf. (This would have been fine other years, but this year it feels like it was out of spite since it was only closed after users acted out)

23. A few hours later charity corner is semi closed. You can no longer donate the “easy” way. Instead you must click on a single item, have a window pop up, click a button, have the page refresh, close window, refresh again. Repeat for every item.

24. Since TNT can’t communicate properly people are unsure if it’s closed due to a whole new glitch or purposeful closed while they fix the already existing issues. Regardless people are still very angry.

and finally……

25. It’s only been 2 and a half days. CC is supposed to last until the 24th

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Pink Totems by ~Tibby-Kitty

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While im still suffering from mild artblock and having to study for my finals, here have more backlogs featuring mutant tentacle snake cow

Was trying to make a mutant kau character but bleh

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Finally got around to doing some art for my pet lookups! Boisterous bard, Likero, and lil old mage lady, Roone :^D

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I used to be VERY much into Neopets but never really publicized it much. I finally got around to archiving all their petpages for nostalgia purposes and figured at least a few people might be interested in seeing my childhood characters and how they grew up with me. Check them out here! 

Note: to see larger versions of the images, drag them to your address bar. The page was set up this way because Neo didn’t allow hyperlinks to offsite stuff.

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My two new pet ideas - still no names, yet, though I’ll see what I can do!

The Ixi is part of a magical family, and was even given the family familiar to continue the line of work they’ve done.

They sadly prefer birds and raising them to any kind of magic, but they try to make it overlap to please the family.

(the chias ofc the familiar <:3)

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art trade on neo for a fabulous aisha hoarder~ the alien aisha love on art chat is too strong. i’m almost tempted to get one. almost xp

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playing neopets? in 2020?

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art fight revenge 4 @butchfirefaerie​ ! i’m so pleased you like it bc I am IN LOVE with Orei 😭🙏💕

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lil gnorbu lil gnorbu lil gnorbu!!!