@@An_Entire_Limeit's more just how you infer it through context. Like "I hope they get the game they deserve 🥰" As opposed to, " I hope they get the game they deserve 😈" Just depends how you read it 😂
@@AshChiCupcak I guess that makes sense but I think its pretty heavily implied its meant as a positive thing, as in the Neopets community deserves a good game
@@An_Entire_Lime oh I agree, I just thought it was funny they took it the OTHER way. I'm sure that's how the old owners feel since their little scam failed.
as someone who has literally been on neopets since i was like 6, and is now.. a grown 19 year old ? nothing made me happier than seeing the “under new management” announcement. i’ve been in the r/neopets discord since like 2018 or 2019 i think ?? and it’s been so refreshing seeing so many announcements and posts from actual TNT staff there with such enthusiasm. like it’s genuinely clear that actual neopets staff is so happy to have the reins back in their hands. also, the borovan “i f//ing hate neopets i wish i never made it because of this chat” incident after everyone clowned on him for trying to use the server to shill his nft propaganda lives in my brain 24/7 and i still can’t believe i was there to witness that convo in real time
It says a lot about the NFT space when *neopets* of all things can't manage an NFT launch without having to admit it was a failure. Neopets are literally digital collectibles! If anyone can make 'JPEGs but they have value' it's neopets, and even they failed.There are no good NFT projects, not a single one.
@@estherstreet4582 Neopets was good a long long time ago but their site started failing when there were no new updates and when pets were vanishing from player's accounts.
@@estherstreet4582Nah, Neopets can barely run a outdated flash website and their brand is only really known by millennials. If a company like pokemon or apple made a nft project it would sell out in minutes.
What actually happened between you and him? I need to know. I know the "not invited inside" thing has to be a joke, I want a serious answer, pls ,im begging
Apparently his wife (Chrissy Teigen) is a known fan/player of Neopets! So when he says the game has "always been a favourite at our house" that might be what he is referencing
While it's sad that part of the FAQ is "why should we believe that this will get better", it means that at least the team knows how they feel and might actually do something about it
@@DeterminationInspiration-pj2oi We've educated ourselves. The NFTscape is a desiccated, dusty corpse. By design it is used for scams and people get *mad* when the scam does not work the way the system intended it to. Keep acting deluded though, you're sure to convince the actually smart people that you're not an idiot.
@@DeterminationInspiration-pj2oi NFTs were created for money laundering schemes this is why many that were bought by higher prices to push them into public media were literal stunts to attract the naive, was quite coincidental that they started being pushed hard in the same time when the police started cracking down money laudering schemes in the art world
@@DeterminationInspiration-pj2oi .... most nfts / crypto have been used for scams or otherwise fraudulent pump.and dump schemes. any person legitimately trying to make any crypto/nft project KNOWS their reputation will be tainted by the 97 failed nft scams that came before them. any person who is okay with the two facts listed above is shady.
You gotta talk about how adam (creator of neopets) went into the neocord and posted a pic of himself flipping everyone off and saying he wished he never created neopets bc we all hated nfts
I left when they converted all the pets. They took some very expressive designs with a lot of good art for body language, and turned them into paper doll puppets for the sake of dress-up with expressions slapped on like stickers, and I just didn't find that as interesting. Still. I'd like to see how they plan on revitalizing it
I was never a fan of the idea of pet customization. It was a cool idea in theory, but it just enabled people to act like snobs because they could afford cooler items.
I definitely like most of the unconverted versions better, but I know a lot of people really enjoy customizing. Like many players, I want them to finally get around to releasing an item to unconvert our pets so we can have the best of both worlds
yeah, honestly i don't think there is a single thing they can do to make the site meaningfully good again. as far as i'm concerned, the site died in 2007 and there is just no point to it anymore. unless they want to fully revamp all pet art to be charming and expressive once more, but i know they won't because the site's income hinges on selling those damn pet clothes -_-
Goatlings has been here since 2012 i think and they never had pet dress up and have never changed the pet designs and yet the old goat designs flow just as much as the old ones. Its hard to mess up when its just goats. Like.
Cryptobros coming in pretending to be lifelong fans just to gas the Neopet Metaverse up to inflate its value only to be rugpulled immediately afterwards has got to be some of the most karmic shit I've ever seen.
Today I went to a bookstore and there was a Neopets cookbook. The recipes were 90% terrible or “no human would make this” but aesthetically it was 10/10, gorgeous full page color and art and clearly whoever made those food abominations tried real hard to make things visually right. The Haunted Hummus was sculpted to have an irl spooky face in it. I would like to thank the Neopets cookbook for making me (a 28 year old adult) look like a freak as my dad stood behind me wondering why someone would have a recipe for a Plain Omelette and why it looked SO terrible
“if there’s a dead horse I’ll be there with boxing gloves on” is a fantastic quote and I’m definitely using it from now on. I love your vids and sometimes I sit down and rewatch all of them from the beginning and I love to see another banger!
as a neopets fan, i can't wait to see what they do independently. the NFTs were a terrible idea when they couldve done something with physical pieces of art of merch. one thing i wish they would do is re-release or release new neopet plushes.
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I hope Izzy always knows one of the best things about this channel is their decision to dive into any odd internet topic that is specifically relevant to a younger millennial/older Gen Z audience that grew up on the internet.
@@amoureux6502 I'm a younger Gen Z (like 3-5 years from gen alpha) and I still appreciate all of these. I may have been a toddler when mlp season 1-3 was happening but I still really appreciate the coverage on it. I've never even played NeoPets and yet I'm genuinely curious about this random adventure it's going into
The most fun part about the abject failure of the NFT project was how genuinely and personally offended the team got that the actual playerbase didn’t buy into their cultish attitude.
@@leetri and considering the guy who came up with the idea of neopets NFTs is now the CEO, prepare for things to get MUCH more slimy and underhanded. The fact that more people aren't worried that the guy who spearheaded the NFT con is now in charge of neopets as a whole, is honestly concerning. People are going to be taken advantage of. I just hope the damage will be minimal.
Nostalgia means free marketing and hype, the two things every NFT project needs to successfully scam its audie-I mean, connect with potential investors and form a community.
A brand like neopets is honestly so lucky to have lasted this long, niche as it was. It's a remnant of the "old" internet, so much of its current publicity hinged on hinged on nostalgia, and yet there's still an active fanbase and userbase.
This seems to be missing the recent annoucments from the con party. The 3D NFT game is not scrapped. It's being reworked with out the NFTs. "World of Neopets"
I always forget NFTs exist and every time I hear about them it’s news to me. That’s how bad of an idea NFTs are. If people forget they exist within a day of hearing about them there’s no hope for success with that idea Edit: I agree with the Twitter thing. Never calling it “X”
yeah i already refuse to call hbo max “max” so twitter turning into “x” is way too far for me 💀 it’s also not very practical since “twitter” is recognizable in conversation whereas…well, “x” is a letter. if you said it in front of normal people, you’d probably have to explain wtf you’re talking about, which is inefficient and also pretty bad business imo
As someone who played the alpha of the game they were working on (I'm surprised they let people who didn't financially support the Metaverse get their hands on it) it seemed like the foundation of something that could be really cool if it wasn't steeped so heavily in normalizing cryptocurrency. It seems like they're repurposing the assets for their new game World of Neopets which I'm tentatively excited to play as someone who still regularly logs into the site. I really do hope they can pull it back from its abysmal state and give us the quality of life updates we've been begging for, including maybe better implementing UCs though I'm not sure they ever will.
I would bet real money, that this is just an attempt to still wring cash out of the userbase, but they've seen that using the word NFT will get them slaughtered by the community. Mark my words, this project - if it even comes out - will be yet another cash grab. The guy responsible for the NFTs in the first place, now has even MORE control over neopets. I guarantee, this will only continue down the same path, this time with a new coat of paint, with the flaws more carefully hidden from the public eye. People will be taken advantage of. I just hope they aren't hurt too badly when this inevitably crashes and burns.
I haven't played Neopets for about a decade now. But I'm still so happy that something from my childhood has been saved. It always puts a smile on my face when an NFT project fails.
As a Neopian of ~20 years, I'm excited to see where things go! For the moment, I'm mainly playing my Neoclone sites that emulate oldschool Neo. I'm Xenon on both Grundo's Cafe and Moderneopets
I played Neopets for 17 years and quit when they introduced the NFTs. I'm still waiting to get back on to see if they fumble things again, but I desperately hope they get their act together, because it was always such a big part of my life.
as someone who was a frequent writer/comic artist in the neopian times... I would LOVE to see this positive direction really take off and revive the site! I was heartbroken the last time (pretty sure it was early this year) I tried revisiting the site just to find that 90% of it is still broken due to the death of flash. I'm (tentatively) looking forward to the future of neopets!
im sad that the animation team had to waste their talents on this nft project. those animations look stellar when those neopets get sent into battle. wish they could put the animation behind making a new neopet game. a non nft video game. with that being said, i am glad this tanked hard. we dont need no stupid nft bullcrap.
@@dragonarcher89 By the looks of things will be the Metaverse but remade to be a mobile app game from what I understood, because they are using the same models and screenshots from the metaverse on it
@@dragonarcher89yes, exactly that! I know I'm not the original person you were responding to, but I'm a veteran neoplayer and read the announcement when it dropped
Whether I'm washing the dishes or writing from my PDF textbooks to my notebooks, Izzy's videos comfort me I sorta live alone, my family is never home because they work long hours, and I work and study from home, so her videos sorta keep me company Sorry for the long comment lol
Ironically, that "Will TNT ever release unconverted pets? What else are they hiding from users?" banner was their own April Fools prank! (stop teasing us and release them already!!! :p) But seriously, new management has made a ton of much needed changes in the past month. (Integrating Ruffle so flash games are playable again, bug fixes, page fixes, etc.) Hopefully they keep listening to the userbase :)
As a 10 year old boy in a big city. Neopets, runescape, furcadia. Were my escapes. So cool we still have ppl talking on these pioneer games that led the way to so many games we know and love today! Edit: remember having a neopets collection card set 😭
john legend saying the sentence “i am the new neopets brand ambassador” feels so viscerally funny in a way i can’t explain and the way he says it he knows it too
I was an extremely dedicated player of School of Dragons, which shut down with Jumpstart. If you ever decide to do a video on that, I'd love to contribute some of my experiences from the game.
I left the Neopets community after the NFTs were announced. I don’t think I’ll be going back since leaving had given me so much time and I started exercising and drawing again… but I’m so happy the community I love is finally getting what it deserves.
Hi Izzy, really loved the video. I have a request, I think it would be awesome if you started including subtitles in your videos. If you have a written script especially, it is not that difficult to include subtitles. I am a person with processing difficulties, but subtitles can be useful to many demographics of people, whether they have processing issues, have hearing loss, are Deaf, or are just in a noisy environment. They really do help a lot and it's disappointing to see it's not a standard that a lot of RUclipsrs strive for. That aside, I love you content a lot, you are a wonderfully unique creator. I adore your fashion and the makeup that you do, as well as your sense of humor. Thank you for your videos! 💙
No need to apologize for taking a break! It's completely understandable to change things up, have itherthings going on, or to simply need a rest from creating content. I'm glad you are uploading videos again, and I saw a few comments from others on a video you made explaining about the vreak, and that you mentioned it on another social media account.
As an older millenial I did not grow up with these games you talk about but I watch all of your videos. I love learning about these niche little communities and really got into your channel after watching videos about the chaotic drama that was worlds like club peguin and others. Keep it up but also feel free to take breaks. There is a lot of content on youtube to keep people happy while you rest
Younger gen-Xer here...or as young as we get, anyway. Good to know other adults appreciate these deep dives into the kind of online communities that we could only imagine during the 80's. This is ultimately sociology with a hard evidence chain, and it has a lot to say about how some grew and adapted to the information age, while others still struggle with our worst instincts.
i’ve recently gotten back into neopets and i can definitely see improvement. a lot (not all, but a lot) of the games have been converted to html5 and work on desktop and mobile, a lot of the pages have been made mobile friendly, and it overall still feels like i’ve come home. there are ads now but i don’t find them to be intrusive and they don’t make sound which is nice. there’s a paid option to remove them but im it’s not worth doing so cause they can be adblocked worth going back to
Man, tumblr's dev team could learn a thing or two from this situation. They're really shitting the bed right now, scaring off their old users and failing to attract new users.
Lmao oh my god. 6:39 that's me! I spent the whole week advertising my ass off (punintended) to get that in the news. I wasn't sure they'd do it because of the censorship they'd pulled weeks prior, but it was so worth it in the end.
Izz the makeup this time around did NOT have to slay as hard as it did this video!!! (REALLY, liked this look 0:59 You looked REALLY andro and I- I just strive
Hi, you weren't sponsored by them in this video, but I just wanna say thanks because you are the reason I have a castify case. I just fucking faceplanted in a parking lot. Scraped myself up and cut the hell out of my wrist, but my phone is fine!
I was always more of a Toontown Online and Build A Bearville kid but ngl Izzy has made me want to start playing Animal Jam and Webkins and all that stuff
Did anyone else see the thumbnail/title at a glance and miss the "NFT" bit and have a momentary spike of anxiety? I need to put down the coffee until I recover XD
As one of those devoted players, this announcement made me really happy. I was a kid playing on the site the first time TNT was bought out, and Neopets being independently owned for the first time in a decade is really special to me.
I remember a couple of years ago, someone from the staff appeared in a Polygon video about the Neopets dark market and even back them they were talking about accepting that the loyal adult fandom were the core audience by now, since they couldn't really compete with games like Roblox. I suppose it's an idea that has been going around on the team for a while even despite the recent flops
im so distraught over the shutdown of jumpstart. i know that this community doesnt have the kindest of views on the company, but mathblasters and jumpstart were staple parts of my childhood and their shutdown impacts me so much
i played neopets back in the early 00s and i wish theyd just put out an app that's just the original site, before petpets, put the weird human pngs back, too, the kids would love it i bet
I lovelovelove your style of videos and your style in general lol like I love clicking on a video and seeing what kind of cute artsy outfit+makeup you decide to wear. Keep up the good work!
In 2021 i wrote to Neopets for help getting my old account back, and to my absolute shock, a full year later they did it! Over the course of 2022-2023 i've watched it go from a broken down ghost town of a site to taking tiny baby steps, little by little, in the right direction. A lot of the broken maps and links are fixed now, and thanks to Ruffle most of the old games work again! I just played Pterattack for the first time in 15 years. I even managed to get one of my old high school friends to play with me again. Maybe the community can actually rebound a bit.
elon musk doesn't believe in transition, social or otherwise, so i will not be respecting his website's name change. she was born twitter, she will always be twitter, i've known her as twitter too long to possibly start calling her something else.
X is also a dumb name for a social website. It ain't quirky or memorable or anything that sounds like a social media platform. It's just X. Boring and hard to trademark properly because it's literally just a single letter. Elon's thought process is really interesting, huh...
Your videos are the best to just put on, and listen to as I clean and do my house work. Your voice reminds me of all the good mates I met when I lived in Tauranga New Zealand. Truly an enchanting, tolkienesque place.
When paintbrushes weren't enough is when I knew Neopets was heading downhill. Finding an island acara at the pound with its lei and rings taken off was a real low for me. That and no matter how hard I tried TNT never believed that my old account was mine so my draik and shoyru are just lost to time. When the NFT news dropped it was not surprise to me.
I like your hair this vid! Always a treat to see the looks you pick every time you drop one. I am EXTREMELY pleased to hear that Neopets is independent once more, as all pet sites should be. I'm going to stay in my Flight Rising hole, but it's good to see the granddaddy of the genre back on its feet.
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get that bag
GET THAT BAG!
Bro i thought this said "love and piss" scrolling by
Get that bag + W game
i bought 58 neopet nfts pls buy im broke 3 dollars each
Every time an NFT project fails, an angel gets its wings.
So many angels, so many wings
a mary su gets a new power up
I giggled at this cuz im named Zuzu after this movie 💀
At that point I should of become a biblically accurate angel bro
Too bad every time an NFT project launches; 100,000 angels fall from grace.
Never played Neopets but happy when any NFT project fails.
Ditto 🙏
Its was a charming part of my teenage years. The early internet was so much fun
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preach brotha🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Hopeful that NeoPets community finally gets the game they deserve
this is very cryptically worded
@@doggyspeakIs it? Idk whats cryptical about it
@@An_Entire_Limeit's more just how you infer it through context.
Like "I hope they get the game they deserve 🥰" As opposed to, " I hope they get the game they deserve 😈" Just depends how you read it 😂
@@AshChiCupcak I guess that makes sense but I think its pretty heavily implied its meant as a positive thing, as in the Neopets community deserves a good game
@@An_Entire_Lime oh I agree, I just thought it was funny they took it the OTHER way. I'm sure that's how the old owners feel since their little scam failed.
Seeing the fall of nfts makes me so happy!
Same!
they're just beginning
@@Noryy-they fell off before they even had a proper start lmfao
Same
@@blurzssadly true. I wanted to see crypto take off but bad actors and scammers have ruined it
as someone who has literally been on neopets since i was like 6, and is now.. a grown 19 year old ? nothing made me happier than seeing the “under new management” announcement. i’ve been in the r/neopets discord since like 2018 or 2019 i think ?? and it’s been so refreshing seeing so many announcements and posts from actual TNT staff there with such enthusiasm. like it’s genuinely clear that actual neopets staff is so happy to have the reins back in their hands.
also, the borovan “i f//ing hate neopets i wish i never made it because of this chat” incident after everyone clowned on him for trying to use the server to shill his nft propaganda lives in my brain 24/7 and i still can’t believe i was there to witness that convo in real time
That must've been an unreal experience lol
yes!!
Both him and his wife are so bitter it’s wild seeing their Reddit ama then that…..
Used to play but it looked like it was dying, I plan on playing again when I have a PC again if it does well still 😊
@@sayest Noooo, did Donna do something too?? I knew about Borovan’s meltdown but I heard from people who were there that she was nothing but sweet 😭
Only a few things makes me unabiously smile and be happy without any moral doubt, like NFTs failing, epscially of beloved franchises
It says a lot about the NFT space when *neopets* of all things can't manage an NFT launch without having to admit it was a failure. Neopets are literally digital collectibles! If anyone can make 'JPEGs but they have value' it's neopets, and even they failed.There are no good NFT projects, not a single one.
@@estherstreet4582 Neopets was good a long long time ago but their site started failing when there were no new updates and when pets were vanishing from player's accounts.
Yeah, it’s one less scam. Dying before it grows more and drags more people in
@@estherstreet4582Nah, Neopets can barely run a outdated flash website and their brand is only really known by millennials. If a company like pokemon or apple made a nft project it would sell out in minutes.
@DeterminationInspiration-pj2oii did yo mama
My dad bought me an NFT for Christmas last year. He is no longer invited inside of the house for the foreseeable future.
probably for the best
@jerme974 Yes, my father wasted his retirement funds on funko pops, ntfs, dogecoin and a counterfeit Charizard card. Our family is in ruins.
Thats horrible... i am so sorry for you
@@runnerupoftheoldworld thank you.
What actually happened between you and him? I need to know. I know the "not invited inside" thing has to be a joke, I want a serious answer, pls ,im begging
I am FASCINATED by the choice of John Legend, but also I'm not complaining! The Neopian community has suffered more than anyone and they deserve a W
I legit sat in my bed laughing when the vertical phone video popped up, it was so strange and funny idk why 😂
Apparently his wife (Chrissy Teigen) is a known fan/player of Neopets! So when he says the game has "always been a favourite at our house" that might be what he is referencing
when i saw him in the li speaks vid i was v confused
I thought it was a joke at first 😅
it's so random that it almost feels ai generated 😂
While it's sad that part of the FAQ is "why should we believe that this will get better", it means that at least the team knows how they feel and might actually do something about it
NFTS are a great way to tell who is shady and not trustworthy, glad these NFTS failed
Oh my god
@@DeterminationInspiration-pj2oidon’t care nft defender
@@DeterminationInspiration-pj2oi We've educated ourselves. The NFTscape is a desiccated, dusty corpse. By design it is used for scams and people get *mad* when the scam does not work the way the system intended it to. Keep acting deluded though, you're sure to convince the actually smart people that you're not an idiot.
@@DeterminationInspiration-pj2oi NFTs were created for money laundering schemes this is why many that were bought by higher prices to push them into public media were literal stunts to attract the naive, was quite coincidental that they started being pushed hard in the same time when the police started cracking down money laudering schemes in the art world
@@DeterminationInspiration-pj2oi
.... most nfts / crypto have been used for scams or otherwise fraudulent pump.and dump schemes.
any person legitimately trying to make any crypto/nft project KNOWS their reputation will be tainted by the 97 failed nft scams that came before them.
any person who is okay with the two facts listed above is shady.
You gotta talk about how adam (creator of neopets) went into the neocord and posted a pic of himself flipping everyone off and saying he wished he never created neopets bc we all hated nfts
‘Die a hero or live long enough to become the villain’ meme IRL.
I left when they converted all the pets. They took some very expressive designs with a lot of good art for body language, and turned them into paper doll puppets for the sake of dress-up with expressions slapped on like stickers, and I just didn't find that as interesting. Still. I'd like to see how they plan on revitalizing it
I was never a fan of the idea of pet customization. It was a cool idea in theory, but it just enabled people to act like snobs because they could afford cooler items.
I prefer the previous versions too but I get why they did it the game needed to grow and to innovate
I definitely like most of the unconverted versions better, but I know a lot of people really enjoy customizing. Like many players, I want them to finally get around to releasing an item to unconvert our pets so we can have the best of both worlds
yeah, honestly i don't think there is a single thing they can do to make the site meaningfully good again. as far as i'm concerned, the site died in 2007 and there is just no point to it anymore. unless they want to fully revamp all pet art to be charming and expressive once more, but i know they won't because the site's income hinges on selling those damn pet clothes -_-
Goatlings has been here since 2012 i think and they never had pet dress up and have never changed the pet designs and yet the old goat designs flow just as much as the old ones. Its hard to mess up when its just goats. Like.
Cryptobros coming in pretending to be lifelong fans just to gas the Neopet Metaverse up to inflate its value only to be rugpulled immediately afterwards has got to be some of the most karmic shit I've ever seen.
Today I went to a bookstore and there was a Neopets cookbook. The recipes were 90% terrible or “no human would make this” but aesthetically it was 10/10, gorgeous full page color and art and clearly whoever made those food abominations tried real hard to make things visually right. The Haunted Hummus was sculpted to have an irl spooky face in it. I would like to thank the Neopets cookbook for making me (a 28 year old adult) look like a freak as my dad stood behind me wondering why someone would have a recipe for a Plain Omelette and why it looked SO terrible
Gotta love the "never abandon your community" fella. We all know how loyal Neopets has been to its community in the past years
“if there’s a dead horse I’ll be there with boxing gloves on” is a fantastic quote and I’m definitely using it from now on.
I love your vids and sometimes I sit down and rewatch all of them from the beginning and I love to see another banger!
as a neopets fan, i can't wait to see what they do independently. the NFTs were a terrible idea when they couldve done something with physical pieces of art of merch. one thing i wish they would do is re-release or release new neopet plushes.
I have zero interest in NFTs, but I would lose my mind if they rereleased the collectible card games. They would make so much ACTUAL money off me
I wish they had more actually good merch!! I bought some of the enamel pins but that's it
I want more of the small hard plastic figures they used to sell, if they rereleased those I would buy every single one.
I want a remake (or even just a port) of The Darkest Faerie that I can play on my Switch 🥺
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I hope Izzy always knows one of the best things about this channel is their decision to dive into any odd internet topic that is specifically relevant to a younger millennial/older Gen Z audience that grew up on the internet.
@@amoureux6502 I'm a younger Gen Z (like 3-5 years from gen alpha) and I still appreciate all of these. I may have been a toddler when mlp season 1-3 was happening but I still really appreciate the coverage on it. I've never even played NeoPets and yet I'm genuinely curious about this random adventure it's going into
The most fun part about the abject failure of the NFT project was how genuinely and personally offended the team got that the actual playerbase didn’t buy into their cultish attitude.
"the jubjubs have been inbreeding" is an incredible sentence
Then...does that make them royalty?
Imagine making NFTs for a *children's game.* to begin with. What the hell were they thinking?
🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑, that's what
@@leetri and considering the guy who came up with the idea of neopets NFTs is now the CEO, prepare for things to get MUCH more slimy and underhanded.
The fact that more people aren't worried that the guy who spearheaded the NFT con is now in charge of neopets as a whole, is honestly concerning.
People are going to be taken advantage of. I just hope the damage will be minimal.
Animal Jam, probably
Also My Little Pony
Nostalgia means free marketing and hype, the two things every NFT project needs to successfully scam its audie-I mean, connect with potential investors and form a community.
I'm willing to bet that most active Neopets users in recent years are adults who played as kids. Still, it presents itself as a kid's game.
A brand like neopets is honestly so lucky to have lasted this long, niche as it was. It's a remnant of the "old" internet, so much of its current publicity hinged on hinged on nostalgia, and yet there's still an active fanbase and userbase.
Never apologize for having to take a break! Hope you’re doing well Izzy, thanks for a great video!!
I mean honestly her upload schedule is not that bad for the quality of content
This seems to be missing the recent annoucments from the con party. The 3D NFT game is not scrapped. It's being reworked with out the NFTs. "World of Neopets"
If so, they'd better do something to make the gameplay loop interesting.
Sounds fun
izzy mentioned that they were going to be reusing the assets in a different game
I always forget NFTs exist and every time I hear about them it’s news to me. That’s how bad of an idea NFTs are. If people forget they exist within a day of hearing about them there’s no hope for success with that idea
Edit: I agree with the Twitter thing. Never calling it “X”
yeah i already refuse to call hbo max “max” so twitter turning into “x” is way too far for me 💀 it’s also not very practical since “twitter” is recognizable in conversation whereas…well, “x” is a letter. if you said it in front of normal people, you’d probably have to explain wtf you’re talking about, which is inefficient and also pretty bad business imo
Ever since I saw someone point out that X is pronounced as "sh" in some languages I've been a fan of calling it Xitter
As someone who played the alpha of the game they were working on (I'm surprised they let people who didn't financially support the Metaverse get their hands on it) it seemed like the foundation of something that could be really cool if it wasn't steeped so heavily in normalizing cryptocurrency. It seems like they're repurposing the assets for their new game World of Neopets which I'm tentatively excited to play as someone who still regularly logs into the site. I really do hope they can pull it back from its abysmal state and give us the quality of life updates we've been begging for, including maybe better implementing UCs though I'm not sure they ever will.
I would bet real money, that this is just an attempt to still wring cash out of the userbase, but they've seen that using the word NFT will get them slaughtered by the community. Mark my words, this project - if it even comes out - will be yet another cash grab.
The guy responsible for the NFTs in the first place, now has even MORE control over neopets.
I guarantee, this will only continue down the same path, this time with a new coat of paint, with the flaws more carefully hidden from the public eye.
People will be taken advantage of. I just hope they aren't hurt too badly when this inevitably crashes and burns.
I’m just glad they didn’t wasted they’re time and effort making the assets into the garbage and instead reusing them for a much better project
I haven't played Neopets for about a decade now. But I'm still so happy that something from my childhood has been saved.
It always puts a smile on my face when an NFT project fails.
Always a good day when Nft’s fail.
An even better day when Izzyzz posts
Edit: Yall making me proud in the replies
@DeterminationInspiration-pj2oi
Nah. NFT’s were always a scam.
@DeterminationInspiration-pj2oibigot???! LMFAOOOOOO
@DeterminationInspiration-pj2oi"bigot" girl it's technology
@DeterminationInspiration-pj2oiwomp womp
@DeterminationInspiration-pj2oi "bigot" this is why people think nftbros are fucking stupid
As a Neopian of ~20 years, I'm excited to see where things go! For the moment, I'm mainly playing my Neoclone sites that emulate oldschool Neo. I'm Xenon on both Grundo's Cafe and Moderneopets
I heard of those but can't find them.....
@@DrawciaGleam02 Dunno about Monderneopets but Grundo's Cafe is currently invite-only as they're working on the site still.
3:54 “if there’s a dead horse I’ll be there with boxing gloves on” this made me laugh so hard I started choking 😭
I played Neopets for 17 years and quit when they introduced the NFTs. I'm still waiting to get back on to see if they fumble things again, but I desperately hope they get their act together, because it was always such a big part of my life.
HOLY CRAPP YOUR PFP IS SOO ADORABLE
@@boy_st4rr WAH thank you!
*calling out from work again* : yeah izzzyzzz posted. No I can’t wait, it’s important. Their makeup looks great and it’s a fandom from my childhood
as someone who was a frequent writer/comic artist in the neopian times... I would LOVE to see this positive direction really take off and revive the site! I was heartbroken the last time (pretty sure it was early this year) I tried revisiting the site just to find that 90% of it is still broken due to the death of flash. I'm (tentatively) looking forward to the future of neopets!
im sad that the animation team had to waste their talents on this nft project. those animations look stellar when those neopets get sent into battle. wish they could put the animation behind making a new neopet game. a non nft video game. with that being said, i am glad this tanked hard. we dont need no stupid nft bullcrap.
pretty sure it's actually getting reworked as "world of neopets", a game without NFTs or any form of crypto, so don't worry
@@PakieVSRG
That actually sounds reassuring:3
Though wat is this world of neopets thing ur talking about?
@@dragonarcher89 By the looks of things will be the Metaverse but remade to be a mobile app game from what I understood, because they are using the same models and screenshots from the metaverse on it
@@CoolMagmar so it’s the same project but non nft?
@@dragonarcher89yes, exactly that! I know I'm not the original person you were responding to, but I'm a veteran neoplayer and read the announcement when it dropped
Literally nothing makes me feel more comfortable than doing something while having one of Izzy's videos in the background.
Love your videos Izzy!
I'm knitting a scarf 🧣
Whether I'm washing the dishes or writing from my PDF textbooks to my notebooks, Izzy's videos comfort me
I sorta live alone, my family is never home because they work long hours, and I work and study from home, so her videos sorta keep me company
Sorry for the long comment lol
Ironically, that "Will TNT ever release unconverted pets? What else are they hiding from users?" banner was their own April Fools prank! (stop teasing us and release them already!!! :p)
But seriously, new management has made a ton of much needed changes in the past month. (Integrating Ruffle so flash games are playable again, bug fixes, page fixes, etc.) Hopefully they keep listening to the userbase :)
i still can’t believe how many things have tried to make nft projects and failed. it’s very funny
As a 10 year old boy in a big city. Neopets, runescape, furcadia. Were my escapes. So cool we still have ppl talking on these pioneer games that led the way to so many games we know and love today!
Edit: remember having a neopets collection card set 😭
idk if its just me, but it seems like there are more jokes woven into recent izzyzz videos alongside the information and commentary. i love it!
The neopets unconverted pets vid Izzy made a few years ago is literally my favorite video on RUclips.
john legend saying the sentence “i am the new neopets brand ambassador” feels so viscerally funny in a way i can’t explain and the way he says it he knows it too
Don't apologize for taking time for your mental health- Your videos are a blessing at all, regardless of how regularly they drop!
I was an extremely dedicated player of School of Dragons, which shut down with Jumpstart. If you ever decide to do a video on that, I'd love to contribute some of my experiences from the game.
I loved SoD and I was quite sad to see it shut, I'll miss my dragons :(
this video came at the right time. my cat's going in for emergency surgery so thanks for helping me distract myself 🙏💙
Hope all goes well! Sending positive thoughts to you and your cat :)
Hope everything goes ok! Sending well wishes ^_^
@@thew0rm105 i appreciate it so much. anything helps 🥺💕
@@Hotbox420_ thank you ❤️
i hope the surgery goes well for your kitty!
Shout out Izzzy always giving me updates on early 2000s games drama
I left the Neopets community after the NFTs were announced. I don’t think I’ll be going back since leaving had given me so much time and I started exercising and drawing again… but I’m so happy the community I love is finally getting what it deserves.
the sound of joy I made when I read the title wasn't human
Seeing this NFT project literally combust into flames Just added 10 years to my lifespan.
Hi Izzy, really loved the video. I have a request, I think it would be awesome if you started including subtitles in your videos. If you have a written script especially, it is not that difficult to include subtitles. I am a person with processing difficulties, but subtitles can be useful to many demographics of people, whether they have processing issues, have hearing loss, are Deaf, or are just in a noisy environment. They really do help a lot and it's disappointing to see it's not a standard that a lot of RUclipsrs strive for.
That aside, I love you content a lot, you are a wonderfully unique creator. I adore your fashion and the makeup that you do, as well as your sense of humor. Thank you for your videos! 💙
I find it ironically hilarious that people who bought the NFTs were upset about being scammed. Glad to see you back!
Honestly it should be okay to be busy. Your videos are 100% worth the wait. You could literally talk about grass growing and still be interesting lol
No need to apologize for taking a break! It's completely understandable to change things up, have itherthings going on, or to simply need a rest from creating content.
I'm glad you are uploading videos again, and I saw a few comments from others on a video you made explaining about the vreak, and that you mentioned it on another social media account.
As an older millenial I did not grow up with these games you talk about but I watch all of your videos. I love learning about these niche little communities and really got into your channel after watching videos about the chaotic drama that was worlds like club peguin and others. Keep it up but also feel free to take breaks. There is a lot of content on youtube to keep people happy while you rest
Younger gen-Xer here...or as young as we get, anyway. Good to know other adults appreciate these deep dives into the kind of online communities that we could only imagine during the 80's.
This is ultimately sociology with a hard evidence chain, and it has a lot to say about how some grew and adapted to the information age, while others still struggle with our worst instincts.
i’ve recently gotten back into neopets and i can definitely see improvement. a lot (not all, but a lot) of the games have been converted to html5 and work on desktop and mobile, a lot of the pages have been made mobile friendly, and it overall still feels like i’ve come home.
there are ads now but i don’t find them to be intrusive and they don’t make sound which is nice. there’s a paid option to remove them but im it’s not worth doing so cause they can be adblocked
worth going back to
everytime a NFT project fails my heart heals ❤️
Man, tumblr's dev team could learn a thing or two from this situation. They're really shitting the bed right now, scaring off their old users and failing to attract new users.
There’s only so much you can do when you have no money to hire quality devs
Wow a just rewatched your 2021 Neopets video this week. Glad to see a "sequel" so soon after!
Lmao oh my god. 6:39 that's me! I spent the whole week advertising my ass off (punintended) to get that in the news. I wasn't sure they'd do it because of the censorship they'd pulled weeks prior, but it was so worth it in the end.
Izz the makeup this time around did NOT have to slay as hard as it did this video!!! (REALLY, liked this look 0:59 You looked REALLY andro
and I- I just strive
So happy everytime you upload Izzy! I hope you're doing well 😊💕
Ps I love your bridge piercing ❤️
I will not explain further, but this channel saved my life. Top tier content. Thank you lil kiwi.
Hi, you weren't sponsored by them in this video, but I just wanna say thanks because you are the reason I have a castify case.
I just fucking faceplanted in a parking lot. Scraped myself up and cut the hell out of my wrist, but my phone is fine!
"Never abandon your community."
-Crypto guy who jumped on the NFT train after Neopets abandoned its original community.
I was always more of a Toontown Online and Build A Bearville kid but ngl Izzy has made me want to start playing Animal Jam and Webkins and all that stuff
That shirt is freakin epic! Izzy never fails with the creativity
Literally how did Dominic get promoted to head after he incited such a big mess for the company like what is going on in there 😭
The phenomenon of Failing Upwards
being sick is allowing me to put Izzzyzzz on the big screen omg
Did anyone else see the thumbnail/title at a glance and miss the "NFT" bit and have a momentary spike of anxiety?
I need to put down the coffee until I recover XD
I hope neopets heals after this, just for the sake of not losing another childhood relic.
Maybe someday if I watch enough of Izzzy's videos I'll be able to write essays well
As one of those devoted players, this announcement made me really happy. I was a kid playing on the site the first time TNT was bought out, and Neopets being independently owned for the first time in a decade is really special to me.
"Three scams in a trenchcoat" has been added to my turn of phrase book, thank you! :D
the disneyland sign earring, the mac tonight shirt... izzy is just getting me with the looks
I remember a couple of years ago, someone from the staff appeared in a Polygon video about the Neopets dark market and even back them they were talking about accepting that the loyal adult fandom were the core audience by now, since they couldn't really compete with games like Roblox. I suppose it's an idea that has been going around on the team for a while even despite the recent flops
i LITERALLY just finished watching the other Neopets NFT video and suddenly this drops, glitch in the matrix detected
New piercing??! Looks stellar!!!
im so distraught over the shutdown of jumpstart. i know that this community doesnt have the kindest of views on the company, but mathblasters and jumpstart were staple parts of my childhood and their shutdown impacts me so much
DUDE ME TOO!! I found out about it when I tried to go back to Jumpstart and replay it and it was GONE!! It devastated me :(
i played neopets back in the early 00s and i wish theyd just put out an app that's just the original site, before petpets, put the weird human pngs back, too, the kids would love it i bet
I lovelovelove your style of videos and your style in general lol like I love clicking on a video and seeing what kind of cute artsy outfit+makeup you decide to wear. Keep up the good work!
New Izzzyzzz video lets go! Favorite creator on yt
In 2021 i wrote to Neopets for help getting my old account back, and to my absolute shock, a full year later they did it! Over the course of 2022-2023 i've watched it go from a broken down ghost town of a site to taking tiny baby steps, little by little, in the right direction. A lot of the broken maps and links are fixed now, and thanks to Ruffle most of the old games work again! I just played Pterattack for the first time in 15 years. I even managed to get one of my old high school friends to play with me again. Maybe the community can actually rebound a bit.
elon musk doesn't believe in transition, social or otherwise, so i will not be respecting his website's name change. she was born twitter, she will always be twitter, i've known her as twitter too long to possibly start calling her something else.
Izzzizzz should make a Rise and Fall of Twitter video
X is also a dumb name for a social website. It ain't quirky or memorable or anything that sounds like a social media platform. It's just X. Boring and hard to trademark properly because it's literally just a single letter. Elon's thought process is really interesting, huh...
A few topic ideas :]
-wattpad
-petra's planet
-quotev
-eddsworld
-popjam
PLEASE! do videos on Habbo Hotel, Meez, Swinky, postopia, and Millsberry ❤❤
i watched the 2021 vid while i was bathing today and now im watching this video going back from uni. quite the cycle
Eagerly awaiting part 3: people get really mad at daily quests for making paintbrushes affordable but people are playing again
AHHHH yes, washing my dishes while hearing Izzzyzzz lovely voice talking about games I never played bcs I'm german
the “bye” at the end is too iconic not to have in every single video 😝😀
I love that you got sponsored by “Love & Pies” I like genuinely play it all the time it’s so adorable ❤
izzy you should cover the drama that happened when adam came into the neo discord shit was crazy
Your videos are the best to just put on, and listen to as I clean and do my house work. Your voice reminds me of all the good mates I met when I lived in Tauranga New Zealand. Truly an enchanting, tolkienesque place.
YOUR OUTFIT AND MAKEUP AND EVEYRTHING WAS FIRE IN THIS EPISODE
The preferred nomenclature is The Artist Formerly Known As Twitter
Before I even clicked on the video, I said “oooh I love their outfit” so 👍 you look great. Can’t wait to watch the video
Izzzyzzz giving me miss Frizzle vibes with this episodes ensemble. Always so jealous of how cute and interesting her look is!
I rewatch Izzzyzzz videos all the time their all so good😻
Neopets also got the writer of The Ones We Burn and Mossheart to write books for them. A new direction indeed
When paintbrushes weren't enough is when I knew Neopets was heading downhill. Finding an island acara at the pound with its lei and rings taken off was a real low for me. That and no matter how hard I tried TNT never believed that my old account was mine so my draik and shoyru are just lost to time. When the NFT news dropped it was not surprise to me.
I like your hair this vid! Always a treat to see the looks you pick every time you drop one. I am EXTREMELY pleased to hear that Neopets is independent once more, as all pet sites should be. I'm going to stay in my Flight Rising hole, but it's good to see the granddaddy of the genre back on its feet.