The Rise and Fall Of Club Penguin
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
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Today let's dive into the world of Club Penguin- from the history of the game to all of the warm, fuzzy nostalgia, to the site's dramatic fall from grace and all of the drama that ensued. The site has a rather dark history, so let's take a look at the rise and fall of our beloved ol' Club Penguin.
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0:00 Introduction
3:07 The History of Club Penguin
9:57 Club Penguin Nostalgia
20:45 The Downfall of Club Penguin
27:12 The Flop of Club Penguin Island
32:58 The Rise of Private Servers
42:06 The Nightmare of Club Penguin Online
53:56 Club Penguin Sunset
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PLEASE do a video on Gaia online. Might be a little unknown to some but all of my preteen life was on that website. role-playing cringey anime OCS in the forums, people prepositioning each other in the MMO style towns and rallies, all of the terrible movie promotional merch they did, the MTV celebrity inserts, premium currency scams and loopholes, the theaters, and last but probably most famous of all the stunning crash of the Gaia economy.
I Wounder if you know whirled, I spent pretty much 80% of my life there, there even a revive called whirled club
I'm broke
no
would love to see a Habbo Hotel history video. i was obsessed as a tween lol
i remember desperately trying to date people in the pizzeria and being so utterly distraught with the fact that 4 people broke up with me within 3 minutes that i sobbed and wrote a rap about it
drop the club penguin breakup mixtape
@@stellar1526 💀
@@crowbarhandler no, no, he's got a point
WHERE IS IT
im so sorry to say this but i checked and i don’t have the diary anymore// i wrote the rap in because i was scared of my mum finding my self insert club penguin character ship art i am so terribly sorry everyone 😭
I remember one of the last times I was on Club Penguin and went to the pizza parlor, I witnessed two penguins on a “date” when the guy’s “wife” barged in and we witnessed a penguin divorce. Perfection.
ah, the extra marital affairs of virtual penguins
@@peachtea7269 Really educational.
@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 teaches em young
did she get custody of the puffles
@@hershelroswell "CAROL IM SORRY I WANNA SEE THE PUFFELS"
I remember I was "dating" everybody on my friends list and they'd frequently walk in on me in my igloo with my penguin side hoes. I would watch them fight and then they'd leave me and I'd go straight back to the pizza parlour to put some new penguins in the rotation 😭
😭😭
The fact that I might’ve been one of those penguins in your rotation LMFAO wow
Bro was pushing Penguins
YES I DID THIS TOO. i would pick up penguins at the pizza parlour and id invite them to my igloo and I'd invite one of the penguins I was already dating to my igloo just so they would see eachother just so there would be chaos like i liked watching the arguments between my two side hoes. i was like, 8. or 9.
the andrew tate of club penguin
"Frosty how old are you"
"Old enough to disown you"
What an amazing interaction
Glad I wasn't the only one that read that 🤣
@Jamie Lauren 10:43 bottom right hand corner
oh my
Still scarred by my first experience of classism when my club penguin boyfriend left me for another penguin because she was member and was totally dripped out 😕
damn that’s rough
Your boyfriend didn’t deserve you
yeaaaaa members are dripped the hell out
You didn't need his gold-digging ass anyway.
same for me but with animal jam
club penguin is so nostalgic for me, i know this sounds very "and everyone clapped", but someone talked about club penguin shutting down in class and half the class was legitimately distraught.
No that's believeable, it's a childhood memory for many of us
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I remember playing it for hours in our family computer but when I heared it was going to shut down I didn't even get a chance to play for one last time 😭😭 how I wish to go back in time to be a kid again and play club penguin
honestly i believe this, people i knew were v upset when it got announced
Nah that's believable, usually the "and everyone clapped" is when you're talking about something "astonishing" u did.
Going this whole video without mentioning the secret agent missions feels like a shot to the heart
yes!!! there are no other comments talking about this im so sad
i was YEARNING bro i remember spending ages w that
I remember I begged my brother to do it for me so I could have all the gear lmao
I thought I imagined it for a second
That was late club penguin, alotta the original members were growing up by then so a lot of us don’t remember it as fondly. I stopped playing right around the secret agent stuff
Back in like 2007 a lot of brazilian players would go to some place in Club Penguin, changing the penguin's color to one of the brazilian flag's colors (blue, green and yellow), sit down there and try to form the Brazilian flag with the penguins. Then we'd start saying "WE WANT A BRAZILIAN SERVER" (because back then the game was divided in region servers like Australia, Canada etc.) Good times. So sad that moments like these will be lost in time, like tears in the rain...
"Please come to Brazil" before it was a meme lol I love it.
And that’s exactly what they got.
EU LEMBRO DISSO VSFD eu amo os br
IT WAS THE ICE BERG I REMEMBER SEEING THAT LMAO
That was so powerful it spawned a full Portuguese version of the game.
the fact the developers actually let the players tip the iceberg and reveal the secret in Club Penguin's last moments touches me.
I didn't even play the game, and it made me tear up just a bit, lol
what was the secret??
@@sohamdambalkar1602 did u not watch the video? lmaoo
i never even played the game but tell me why that almost made me cry
@@mattmurphy7030 who wouldn't??
I remember the “pookie” adoption thing always being super violent. When they first entered the pet shop, a lot of pookies would do something like *gets thrown into the shop from a moving car, rolls down the steps* and stuff like that. If you had a tragic backstory, like being kept in a cage and starved and everything, more people would be “sympathetic “ and adopt you, apparently
Sheesh, don't remember pookies, probably for the best.
this is exactly what i did
rolls down the steps anddd
breaks their neck, the end-
Omg I remember this
This seems to be a common thing; tragic, edgy backstories to attract people. The sadder, the better.
My 7-year-old aspiring filmmaker self was absolutely the “really intense director barking orders”. I really didn’t understand why nobody followed my instructions, I was wearing the directors cap AND holding a megaphone!
When I was a kid I not only had a Club Penguin subscription, I had a subscription to the official magazine. The owner of my local corner shop made sure that a copy of the magazine would be at her shop every month for me to buy; she was a really sweet Indian lady but she unfortunately faced racial abuse from staff over the phone when she called about an issue that she hadn't received. I always felt really bad about that. I'll always be grateful for her though and I still have some items that came with the magazine (puffle badges and a key chain).
She sounds so sweet, oh my gosh
Yo they had a magazine?!
rip to all the puffles that haven't been fed in 10 years
Same here
Raised those bitches with my blood sweat and tears up until i forgot club penguin existed
I remember having almost all puffles 😭😭 everytime a new puffle would launch I woudls buy it. I also had a lot of golden puffles
I remember distinctly when you didn’t take care of them, they’d leave a postcard and run away so the puffles are prob just vibing in the wild
Wait you were supposed to feed them
“He was into a different type of CP” The way I had audibly gasped
Yeah same here!! 😧
me: oh god please don't be the kind i'm thinking of *5 minutes later* GODDAMMIT EVERY F**K1NG TIME!
“The underground swimming pool was the best hidden room” THAT IS SO TRUE! I’ve played on Club Penguin since 2009 and the most people I saw in there were three. And that was because the Halloween party turned the water into slime
I guess I do remember a lot of times where nobody else was in that room, but I thought it was pretty well known. Especially later on, once more people knew about the boiler room (which had a door connecting to the pool) and The Mine was also connected to it too.
the swimming pool and boiler room always felt so weird to me
I loved hanging in the underground swimming pool omg
@@SnrubSourceit was my favorite place to chill out for that reason
When I was little I wrote a whole essay about the Club Penguin Ninjas and sent it to the customer service email. Someone responded and they were so excited and amazed at my dedicated and said they would show it to all their coworkers.
The essay detailed all the "proof" and legends that had become popular on the internet (this was when the dojo was only a dojo - no official ninjas anywhere).
I've tried to track down the essay, but the email I used to have is long deleted and who knows what computer I used to write it. It lives on in my memory. I hope I made someone's day by sending it along to the employees.
Looking back it's not super surprising that I did this. My parents and I had a deal where if I wrote a little research paper they would buy me a 6 month membership to CP.
Oh my god I love your dedication!!😭 I bet those cp staff are super fascinated by a child's essay on penguin ninjas and became a historical relic for them
@@mustachiomarshmallow they were so sweet when they responded to my email, I wish I had a copy of it ❤
Ha ha, I think I remember this E-mail! I wasn’t the one that responded to it, but once a week we had a presentation of some of the best fan mail we had received and I remember something like this coming up. Would have been between 2006 and 2008 if I’m thinking of yours.
@johnyliltoe oh my gosh, that's amazing!! That timeframe is definitely around when this would've happened. That made me so happy hahaha thank you for telling me 😁😁
I remember my penguin used to "work" at the coffee shop. I was really disappointed when an update for some disney themed party turned the coffee shop into a smoothie shop and they never fixed it. Needless to say my penguin was out of a job.
This is why the penguins needed to unionize
@@EZOnTheEyes oh trust me buddy, we will...
Disney gentrification
Disney is taking the daily bread out of these penguins' flippers
Fun story, during the peak of covid 19 my girlfriend at the time and I couldn't get together to celebrate our one year anniversary (she was high risk) so our anniversary date was on club penguin rewritten at the pizza cafe, it ended with us both being banned for life and laughing our asses off together on the phone
?? you're joking because i literally did the exact same thing w my girlfriend ??? the pizza place and everything ???
@@emiliajosephine3616 No way!! Finally someone else who appreciates the romance that club penguin pizza place provides
back when i believed i was bi (am now a lesbian), i did the same thing with my (now ex) boyfriend-- it wasn't our anniversary, but we went on penguin pizza dates and also went on dates in animal crossing new horizons. it was nice. :']
that was oddly wholesome
Thats fucking awesome XD
Haven't seen one comment shouting out the man himself: Rockhopper. Looking through the telescope and seeing his ship get closer each day, to when he would port and me and my friends would be on the phone going onto different servers to find him and get the special background. Those were amazing times.
God- when he brought back those red puffles with him for the first time...
Yarr har har, you be right there ain’t enough about Rockhopper in these comments! Greatest Penguin that ever did live, though I admit a few of them landlubbers on the island came close. Why it feels like just yesteryear me an’ Yarr were sailin’ the high seas when we came ‘cross all them friendly faces. ‘‘Twas a great place to make friends… and coins!
@@johnyliltoe Nice. I legit read that in a generic pirate voice. You nailed it.
I would always miss him, I either came in too soon or too late 😢
I had a friend who's mom paid for my membership so my friend would have a friend to play with, and we played for years, long past when most of our friends had stopped. It was honestly a comforting and safe place for my friend and I to hang out and play, and I'll always appreciate it.
Side note I can't believe that you didn't mention the pirate ship that would come in because iirc that was one big way for non members to get clothing, like a pirate hat or belt
Ah, the true sign of fandom. "You didn't mention this one extremely specific thing that is otherwise inconsequential".
No matter how many times I hear it, "why not build our empire by conquering weaker cpps first" never ceases to make me laugh.
GAGAGAGAGA I just disliked my own face because I am unpretty. HOWEVER: I always like my GOOD videos however. No dislikes allowed where I come from. Don't be mean, dear a
what a guy
it is so hilarious and genuinely tracks with my experience with the sheer drama of World of Warcraft private servers. like people will come into power in the most niche ways online and unlease full mania immediately
@@feykingjulian exactly lol. it's less likely you'll face consequences for acting like that online
@@AxxLAfriku Are you ok?
I used to adopt so many puffles you couldn't see the floor to my igloo and since afaik there was no way to just shuffle through each puffles (you had to individually click them, and they kept moving so I couldn't click them all) a lot of my puffles went neglected. I used to get legitimately upset I got the puffles running away notes and one time I was so distressed that I emailed club penguin support and asked if they were ok on my school email address. They replied saying something like yes they're fine but they always signed off the email with a question. I remember it was like "why do you think the sky is orange? (it was the lead up to some dojo event) and my stupid kid brain was like omg they wanna hear my opinions!! So I replied with my theory, and a different employee answered and signed off with another question (they were definitely required to do it) and I thought they wanted to be my friend and started just casually talking to them. Anyways shout out to the club penguin support employees who I traumadumped on about how I got bullied at school or something when I was 8.
Came for club penguin, stayed for the support
thats amazing ! haha
i left my puffles in the house and pretended to not have an puffle
this literally the funniest comment ive ever read lmfao
Aww, that is so sweet. It's good that you could just vent.
this is sooo fucking cute. i love it omg.
I was the over zealous director. No one was willing to help me recognise my Penguin of the Opera dreams
WHY DOES THE TIPPED ICEBERG MAKE ME EMOTIONAL 😭 i can't believe they finally did it
I got a little scared when someone said "CP FOREVER" then realized that was the game's initials lol
Same LOL
It's even more tragic when you hear the end of the video
Concerning your mind went there first 🚩🚩🚩 get these people on a watchlist
Lmao I did the same reaction
@@peps1943 maybe they have trauma or intrusive thoughts who tf knows
i used to rp as a pookie and then when i went to someones igloo, if they were mean to the other pookies, i'd put on my penguin csi outfit (whatever thats called) and "arrest" them for child neglect
A true hero
💀
So you were an undercover cop?
Plot twist
*Oh my God, pop off*
That whole "people roleplaying as orphaned babies on browser MMOs and trying to get adopted" thing is surprisingly popular in other online games I've heard about, including those that come from non-English speaking countries. It's like children online trying to play house in their own way... Either that or yet another weird fetish.
Man I used to do exactly that for hours on animal jam in elementary school 😭😭 I hope there wasn't people doing that for a fetish LMAO
I would always play “house” in acnl and I was so passionate about it and I would have multiple outfits for school, sleeping, and regular outfit and I would get annoyed when other people would have only one outfit and I’d order everyone around to go into their lockers and get their different outfits that I decided was needed to play lmao 😭 mind you I was like 8 💀
Uh what, fetish?
It disturbs me that you think a game with its main audience being very young children would do something because it's a "kink". Would you mind telling me what exactly that kink would be, cause it's pretty baseless to just go around claiming that anything you think is a little odd is a kink.
It's just a way to play "house" or "family" online. If you really wanna go deep it could be a coping mechanism for kids who live in an abusive environment. But a KINK of all things? Like yikes dudes most players are prepubescent, and you're coming off pretty weird.
@@mx.menacing trust me, plenty of adults play those games, too, and a lot of them roleplay sex-related content on them, usually getting banned in the process. I don't think I have to explain what DDLG is, but in short, it's a power dynamic play when one participant pretends to be way younger than they actually are, and the other takes on a role of their caretaker. It can be both sexual and non-sexual in nature, and I can see people using a virtual space to practice that. I don't think actual children participated in that, obviously, but adults could have, it's not like you have to show your ID to register on Club Penguin. If people on Animal Jam went around humping each other in the pillow room, anything's possible. It's hard to keep a multiplayer game absolutely family-friendly, there will always be adults on there doing their things.
omg deeper into the pookie part of club penguin, there used to be competitions that the “moms” set up and it would have like 50 different pookies and they’d have to dress up in different themes that the mom would pick and theyd eliminate ppl by throwing snowballs at them 😭😭 it was like who had the rarest/most items
omigosh! i remember that!
Omg i remember these😭😭 i participated in them even when i knew i was gonna lose
I remember that, they were called Pookie Contests and the whole craze around rare items caused most of the playerbase to resort to going on websites like Penguin Lodge and CpAdder to hack the items into their accounts 😭😭😭 eventually everyone involved got 72 hour bans and their hacked clothes removed but eventually they started adding old items again towards the end of the game's lifespan
At the pizza parlor, I saw super Mario get deported. A French chef got into a funny argument with a super Mario role player, called him a dirty Italian and called ICE to get him deported. Mario was hiding under tables and begging people in broken English to hide him. Was officially my last Club Penguin memory before it shut down.
Lmaoooo
That sounds fun
omg I feel terrible for laughing at this lmao
a story better than Shakespearean stuff
I'm getting a tattoo rn and I'm trying not to laugh hysterically
Update: Club Penguin rewritten is now gone too. Disney officially got police involved and they closed it down. Club Penguin is dead again. :(
I thought this was one of those hoax comments so I looked it up to debunk...
Rip :'(
@Deanna Korzun hope it’s just not got that drama like some of the others mentioned
NOOOOOO i was just about to check it out
@@sodakuwun0707 I was aswell, sad it’s gone now
it still works for me... what?
I was at the goodbye party thing, I remember violently sobbing in front of my computer while my parents looked at me like “What the hell is happening” it felt like the end of my life, I might have been a tad dramatic HOWEVER I had so much fun on that game
I'm so surprised no one is reminiscing the secret agent stuff! I only vaguely remember it, but I know I enjoyed it a lot as a kid. I wish I could remember more about it
God I remember taking the club penguin 'secret agent' thing VERY seriously hahaha. I was so dedicated to solving all of the missions and yes the jet pack and mine cart games were supreme. I miss this game so much. Good times.
Oh my god same
I loved it so much and I actually hated when the special agent thing was reworked a second time because it felt less secret lmao
Genuinely!! In my little head I was Gary's best agent haha. I remember the survival mission was my favourite; I felt like such a boss being able to keep myself awake with those supplies.
@@georgia5026 omg did you ever play the club penguin nintendo secret agent game? It was my fav!!
we used to do a meetup every thursday n friday at the dojo n act like it was a secret hideout
Club Penguin rewritten exists they used to be better then the og but something happened and everything got lost so they had to start over but it’s getting there
I went to an arts high school for creative writing. When Club Penguin shut down, a friend of mine wrote a eulogy for his puffle for that week's writing assignment. Just thought I'd share that :)
I hope they got top grades for that
Have you stayed in touch with this person? Do they still have the eulogy?
I NEED MORE DETAILS
Iconic 😭
I’m a disabled student. Could some kind soul help me with my bills? Thanks $astralharmony cash app
I’ll pay it forward
Club Penguin is a large part of why I love Halloween and Christmas. The seasonal events were always so freaking fun for me
I played Club Penguin for years and my yearly Christmas gift for a long time was a membership. It actually got me heavily into drawing and clothing design which is still something I do for fun pretty much daily. I have a bunch of Disney Club Penguin pins and recently took them to Disney to show them off. The employees were always so excited to see them and talk about Club Penguin with me, it was great. It was my safe place for a super long time and I miss it a lot.
i've still got a bunch on mine too but i stopped bringing them because people would always try to trade for them and i never wanted to get rid of them lol
The phrase "waddle on" still triggers bad memories for me, when Pixie Hollow closed (and they outright stated they were closing it to focus on Club Penguin) they just told us to "waddle on to club penguin" as if it would fill the void Pixie Hollow left.
Dang, virtual collateral damage by Disney
no literally though -- Pixie Hollow was the best online game. The whole Disney fairies franchise was done so dirty by the company in the end.
@@nataliep856 I never followed it, what happened??
Same
@@papastummyfuzz9281 nothing that horrible (for Disney anyway lol) but like op said, Pixie Hollow was abandoned for club penguin, to my understanding bc PH was mostly used by girls and had a smaller market. The movies I feel pretty strongly about and am similarly bummed that the last few didn’t make enough money to keep going (also that particular animation studio at Disney died I’m pretty sure). It’s just a shame that they essentially completely gave up on the IP because it was by far the most feminist franchise they owned, and the quality of the original books and movies were exceptional. I’m glad there’s better representation for little girls in general now, but that whole series was remarkable for the way it wrote women & respected their goals and feelings. It’s just kind of a shame how Disney tends to jump ship so quickly for the sake of profit when they can afford to support a few things creatively, but that’s kinda what they did to Club Penguin in the end too anyway.
I remember getting banned for starting "riots" on club penguin in protest of the inequality between members and non members. That was 10 years ago, pretty sure that's why I'm a socialist now.
Damn, I wish I was that cool as a kid
Honestly? That’s based as fuck
That was you?!?! Im in the presence of an icon.
You got silenced
Lmao same. I used to stand at the door of the pizza parlor and if someone came in wearing clothes I said "This is non-members only" And because they were kids who didn't know any better they actually did what I told them to and assumed I was a mod or something
my main move in the pizza parlor was to hide under the tables (usually of two people on a "date") and spam the fart sound over and over again... good times (:
or being a "spoooooky talking table"!
any time i see the “and even tip an iceberg” quote i immediately start tearing up
SAME
I remember emailing a staff member as a kid saying I had a dream that puffles got clothing items and that they should implement that into the game. I wonder if that staff member thought it was cute/endearing or if they were concerned that a child had their own email.
I emailed the club penguin staff all the time and eventually asked them if i could interview them about their job for a class assignment. The Club Penguin staff were actually some of the best people ever. I was a weird kid...
@@thomasbitler8798 AWW I bet the staff found it you absolutely adorable that you wanted to interview them haha
OMG Okay, I sent A LOT of those emails. I used to asked them if the leaks of parties were real or what, then it was more like “I heard a rumor of a Golden puffle, is it real?”. Theeen, was more like “okay, hear me, all the community KNOWS about the rainbow puffle, JUST TELL US” and things related with anything about the puffles (yeaaars later they became true!), the ninja thing (the ice version), the white color, Herbert, the real director of that agency; even at maybe 2010/2011 I used to give them ideas for parties like dinosaurs or the end of the world for 2012. IM NOT LYING saying I used to fight for a day every year when everyone could have the “membership” (when I already had the membership until the last day, like Marx would be so proud). When I was older enough to understand more things, once I wrote them asking for a job opportunity for my sister or to me giving them ideas 😭😭😭
I still thinking some of those ideas or things I asked were in fact considered to be real. Don’t know. But they always were so kind with every answer 💖 miss the innocence and simple years
@@thomasbitler8798 did they let you tho?
@@unibunnii5520 yup. I don't remember much of what i asked, but i do remember i asked something about their salary, and they said that they couldn't tell me, but i could tell the class they got paid with club penguin coins.
Clup Penguin Online is one of the most horrific, fucked up, and outright *disgusting* stories on the internet, and I can't believe that it even happened at all. May Riley burn in hell.
I REALLY hope that along with the cease and desist, the authorities went after him. If Disney managed to take him down, it would surely give people more confidence to combine their forces and go against him.
I actually played CP online...
Luckily I never got harrased and shit
I’ve seen worse, it’s really not as bad as that and it’s definitely not one of the most fucked up things on the internet. But yeah, it’s bad
@@krustygureum it's not a competition.
@@panicatthefallout7710 lmao I never said it was? I’m just saying this person is blowing it out of proportion and I think it’s funny that that’s the worst thing they’ve seen on the internet
Suprised you didn't go over how ninjas were a GIANT myth in Club Penguin before Card Jitsu was released. Even bigger than the iceberg myth in my opinion. They had little easter eggs and secrets suggesting the existence of ninjas for YEARS. Until finally, and I remember it oh so well, the club penguin halloween party of 2008. They finally had the big reveal at the end of it! Great memories
I remember seeing one of the Easter eggs in the lighthouse! It was a silhouette of one of the ninjas behind some barrels I believe
One time I roleplayed that my penguin was drunk and when he went to the plaza area I saw a penguin dressed up as a reindeer so I said "Rudolph you are so sexy" and got banned for 24 hours on the spot. Funniest shit ever
Holy shit my SIDES-
I remember the “celebrity” penguins - Rockhopper, Gary, Candace, Aunt Arctic, Sensei, etc. If you got lucky, you could run into them if they were ever logged on. I remember checking “Trackers” that would tell you if they were online and on what server. Without even trying one time though, I got lucky enough to wander into the Cove when Rockhopper himself was there, and I got his special profile background.
i met the bassist for the penguin band and was disappointed at the time as i really would've rather met rockhopper or literally anyone else. ironic that i am now a bassist myself. maybe he subconsciously inspired me.
I usually used the trackers but accidentally meeting sensei with only one or two other people in a server is my claim to fame 😂
omg yessss i met gary by complete coincidence too
i remember hysterically sobbing in my living room in like 2010 because our internet messed up right as i was about to meet dj candace so i never actually got to get the special background
I ran into Rockhopper in the main area in front of the Night Club, but I wasn't fast enough to click on him before he waddled offscreen, and I was unable to find him after that, so I never got the background. The image of that red penguin moving to the right is embedded deep in my brain and associated with intense sadness to this day. Weird how dumb stuff like that can stick with you for decades.
I remember being irrationally convinced when Disney bought club penguin that they were going to make the game photorealistic and it made me so mad, I have NO idea why I thought that though, lmao
Considering Disney's current track record, it's not that farfetched.
Damn you predicted the live action remakes
@@der_metzgermeister hahaha!
"Guys, in 2020, Club Penguin might actually look like this in the animations."
I had a Club Penguin paid membership for a while until my mum realised she was still paying it and cancelled it. In that time I bought myself a white puffle so once my membership ended I actually had 3 puffles and I felt like I'd found some sort of sweet loophole. Less fun was that I'd bought a lot of clothes and when you stop a membership you can no longer wear them but Disney would still keep them in your inventory reminding you of what you lost access to when you stopped paying them.
You discussing Pookies wrenched open a memory of waddling into the pet shop to just, you know, get a new puffle and seeing a wild cluster of penguins doing the pookie thing and child me was like “what are they Doing” and then I left with my new puffle and never participated lol. Thanks for explaining what all That was about!
When I was little, my older sister went on my account and said “Let’s discuss our current economic crisis” and got kicked from the server. I was upset with her at the time, but the older I get, the more disappointed I am by Disney not stanning free speech smh
they are not based smh.
(you have been banned for promoting a proletariat uprising)
Lmao I didn’t have a pc since later on so I barely played when it died
Well no, it's just the game is for kids. Nothing adult or political was allowed.
@@bnsyphotography2104 I mean they didn't really say anything about politics because they got banned for asking to discuss the economy 😭
i was absolutely OBSESSED with club penguin as a kid, and once during halloween season i was in the town promoting my haunted house igloo i painstakingly designed and i still remember how hurt i was by someone telling me "your igloo isn't scary enough". i was maybe 10 years old and it's not like club penguin sold blood splatter decor or something😭 what did they expect
your igloo was scary enough, always has been
rest easy now soldier, you can pass on to the next realm.
may you go in peace.
aww 😥
I bet your haunted house perfectly scary, they were simply jealous
i bet your igloo was amazingly scary
Dude, your igloo gave me chills! It was the epitome of horror.
Absolutely horrified to know that there was a word for those people being uwu in the pet shop
Also. Maybe dating myself but I remember well before the dojo and underground pool existed.
ok but does anyone else remember when you could be a secret agent and there was that evil polar bear. she didn't mention that part of the game so now i'm wondering if I just imagined it lol
No I remember this too! You just bought back so many memories omg
That happened in one of the club penguin DS games!
Herbert! I remember that one mission where you would catch his crab companion in a trap and kidnap him lol
My absolute *favorite* Club Penguin memories were the secret missions. I'm neurodiv and as a kid this ultimately meant I was pretty antisocial, or at the very least, never saw the social appeal that these games had to offer (I was on Neopets during the Golden Era and managed to never set foot in the neoboards lol) so I spent most of my time getting the "single player" experience on Club Penguin. That mostly meant just playing the minigames over and over, but when missions became a thing I lost my *mind*. These little story-based single player Club Penguin experiences were just god-tier to young me. It felt like I was finally getting something major without having to socialize with other players. My favorite one was the one where you befriend a little black puffle while you survived the wilderness. Good times. Thank god flashpoint has all the missions archived.
Yea that was my experience as well!! And that was my favorite mission too! Having to survive the wilderness and eventually stumbling into Herbert's lair and discovering his Evil Plans felt so high stakes at the time lmao
Oh I loved that mission. Also loved making that spicy puffle O so that the black puffle would ignite and melt the snow so you could escape.
I feel like genuine effort was put into the missions and they'll always be memorable. The events based around real world holidays were also great parts of the single player experience. Collecting things and finding secret little things to click on that made you feel like you'd found something really special.
You mean you can still play the missions?? I LOVED this part of Club Penguin, the missions were my favourite, that's what I'm missing the most now that the game is gone...I'd love to be able to play them again!
YES HOLY SHIT YES
I think CP Rewritten is allowed to stay up because it’s technically branded and treated as an “educational archive”, which it probably manages to get away with since it features relatively minimal custom content compared to other private servers
They clearly just did it to "protect copyright laws" we need to remember that, for some stupid reason, if you don't act on your copyright laws then you "set up a precedent" for you not caring about said laws. Wich while unlikely, it has won a few cases on the side of the bootlegers. Enough at least for companies to take this shit seriously.
Probably also because it kept the old ruleset (from the original, and Disney era) too, which made it family friendly, unlike other private servers.
@@franktheprank7336 Might be confusing copyright with trademarks, which you do have to aggressively protect if you don't want to lose them.
@@kaymarrand9970 could be 😅 that's just what I heard. Im no law student or anything soooo 😗
Oof lol not anymore. Apparently, whatever “protections” they had were not enough to stop Disney from shutting them down. You can’t just run ads on a site that features a Disney IP and expect the mouse to be okay with that.
Club penguin was part of my childhood in a peripheral way, I knew of it, I knew kids who played it, but never played it myself. I'm only halfway through the video but the staff adding an easter egg for the iceberg being tipped just warmed my heart, the fact these devs were so in touch with their audience and rewarded them like that- I wish more of these kind of games had that kind of appreciation for their audiences.
Right it was magic!
core club penguin memory of mine was that there was this group of guys (who i later found out had no idea who each other were) and the only thing linking them was their guitars and having the same purple - or likewise - skin colour. i also had a guitar and purple skin. we played for a solid 20 minutes in the fishing hut, lining up in neat rows and playing on those damn guitars. i hope they're all doing well now.
sort of exactly like the yellow group at 16:30
I pretended to be a chef in the parlor once. In the middle of a normal rp with like 5 other people, I said "drops dead penguin on the floor* oops". My comedy has not changed one bit since then.
So true
PLEASE 💀💀
wait..I remember someone doing that on cp
being a pookie was HILARIOUS to me. id have my fun being babied and when i got bored id be like "i have a supwise", hide, then dress like an old lady. rinse and repeat
Hahahahahahhaa
😂😂
I used to “fall” into the fireplace as a pookie then I would change my penguins skin color from yellow to red. I would write, “BURNS” and then start screaming until my “mom” helped me. Then I got bored of being a pookie so sometimes I’d write in all caps, “THROWS TEMPER TANTRUM” or “ROLLS ON FLOOR”, “MAKES STINKY IN DIPPY” or “THROWS RATTLE” and id be loud past my “bedtime” until my parents kicked me out of their igloo. I wouldn’t leave so they went to someone else’s igloo and I followed them there and would continue to troll them. I totally understand why I got perma banned from club penguin. I don’t regret the trolling though it was fun
This. Universal experience right here because SAMEE.
@@cookiesarelikecream LMAO IM KINDA SCARED
I know a couple people who worked for Club Penguin. One before Disney and one who started after. I visited the "Disney Canada" office. It was really neat and really depressing to hear them talk about it at the end. I never actually played Club Penguin but they were heartbroken by it all.
I spent so much time on that pizza making game haha. No time for romance. I was completely devoted to the pizzas.
as someone who was one of the first members in 2005, this was a true nostalgia trip. i remember when the dojo and stage came out, Rockhopper walking around, when they only had the red puffle, and when the spy headquarters blew up. i asked for a membership every christmas and roleplayed wolf packs in the forest with other players. eventually, i stopped playing around 2011, because i started disliking the changes. more and more stuff was exclusive to paying members and it lost a lot of the coziness of its early era.
That's the time I stopped playing too, I hated the disney advertisement and I missed when things were about Club Penguin not Disney :/ really annoying the way things went but I don't blame roguesnail for selling it, I probably would have too and I hate Disney!
Yeah I remember being on the site pre-Disney. It was truly something special. I couldn’t type for shit back in 2006 but I still had a ton of fun
strongly relate, i started playing in like 2008 i think but i got my 6 month membership every time i went to my 6 month dentist appointment as a reward for doing good-
Me too! My best friend showed it to be in 05-06 I think. I remember dojo coming out and the OG agent missions. I have the DS games too
yes i loved rockhopper so much!! i always got so excited when i went up to the lighthouse and could see his boat in the distance. and everybody just harassing him constantly when he would arrive. good times
I remember the day the Dojo opened. I hadn't been that hyped in AGES. But nothing, NOTHING compared to the days when a new secret mission dropped. (Honestly, the spy thing and all the lore and fanon it spawned could fill its own video.) Real ones remember "AA is the Director."
YES club penguin lore was actually very interesting!! i was so obsessed with how they fleshed out the characters and the storylines in the missions
I rember the spy themes and loved to find clues in the rooms lol
the spy missions were my favorite part of the whole game, i would spend HOURS doing them over and over again lol
fr my favorite part of club penguin and i was so unbelievably sad when they removed it from the game :///
Yes I can't believe she didn't mention that!!! The spy missions were my favorite part of the game, I remember being heartbroken when they redesigned HQ and stopped making new missions 😭
Just realized I watched almost a full hour of Club Penguin lore. I have never played Club Penguin lol. Props for making this so interesting Izzy.
Never forget when I finally beat the dojo master and ran out to tell my dad immediately as if it was my biggest accomplishment ever 😂😂
As a non native English speaker, I can say that about 60% of my English literacy came from Club Penguin (Additional 30% came from The Sims, and the rest from school and other video games)
I learned English mostly from cartoons but video games later on helped a LOT.
OMG same
SAME!
woah same
i play games 24 / 7 and i got like 15% of my english there and the rest from school, other games and parents
i distinctly remember as a child never knowing what pookies were and just going into the pet shop saying "free pookie" out of curiosity until an ACTUAL pookie came up to me and stopped talking in the uwu baby voice to tell me that i wasn't a pookie because "pookies are yellow". i then just straight up went "i don't understand this this seems weird" and left and oh my god the bullet i dodged that day
Im confused pls explain lol
@@alexa-jb1gk 14:38
Pookies had cult vibes, lol.
I deeply regret to say, I was a pookie-
I actually remember using one to get every item, igloo furniture, lots of stuff and thankfully the site didn't gave me a virus or steal my account.
Still kinda sucks that Club Penguin went down the drain because I didn't mind the change in artstyle, but hated the VIP imbalance as well as how many Disney-themed parties that were going on for every. single. new movie or TV show related to Disney.
Wow that Riley guy is truly horrific. Guy should be behind bars for what he did
In 2008 me and my friend named our penguins “MittRomney” and “BarackObama” and pretended to confess our love to eachother on club Penguin. 😂 we thought that was hilarious for some reason.
Weird since Obama ran against McCain in 2008 and didn't run against Romney until 2012.
Sure you don't have your dates or names mixed up?
did anyone else go to the coffee shop upstairs and read the “lore” books like Rockhopper’s journal? i LOVED the NPC lore & secret agent stuff of club penguin as a kid 😭
And play the typing game in the books omg, I was distraught when they removed it
@@gloomcircus I used to love those games! As well as the pizza making one!
I also vaguely remember an area where there was a hidden lake.
SAME! I legit read every book i could find, and got Rockhopper’s key.
I was sad when the polar bear villain destroyed the secret agent hq(for a 2nd time) and the og secret agent games didnt return after the renovation
23:36 I like how it gave no explination just," you are banned forever "
My older brother downloaded some software back in the day and it actually worked. I got something like 999999999 coins in my club penguin account. I was pretty much set for life and had the nicest igloo in town.
A couple years back some friends and I played CPO for a few months. We ran into an actual child groomer who was asking players for their age then inviting young girls to his igloo. We raided his igloo by going undercover and warned the people he added that he was a groomer. We reported him but of course nothing came of that. We stayed in that igloo until he logged off.
It feels good to see a comment like this amongst a sea of horrific things happening to children and innocent people online. Thanks for being a decent person and for sharing about it!
They don't get talked about often as "myths" since they're so overshadowed by the iceberg, but I wanted to give a shout-out to the rainbow puffle and the golden puffle. They got their start as myths but Disney turned them into a real thing once they started running out of ideas for new puffles. I definitely have memories of watching RUclips videos of people having them and thinking it was real.
Ninjas too! 😄
Well, the golden puffle did originally come from a play at The Stage called “Quest For The Golden Puffle”. But, if I remember correctly, it was actually just a yellow puffle with gold paint on it. So then they eventually decided to make it into a real puffle, and made an actual event called “Quest for the Gold Puffle”
I remember playing this game for hours and hours on end. Roleplaying, being a pookie, going to parties, and just having fun interacting with others was the most fun I’d ever had as a kid. I miss Club Penguin
15:40 I remember the multiple times i was a pookie and let me just say, its a very ego crushing and humbling experience to not get chosen
shout out to all the roleplayers on club penguin, whether you were a pookie... or their pet dog, a highschool cheerleader or a football player who hung out at the ice rink, a budding actor over at the stage, a psa or epf agent and even if you made intricate and masterful igloos with fantasy settings for people to play in... you were *truly* the backbone of the game.
I liked to do furry dog rp do I still count
@@danysaurus this literally made me die
The unregistered hypercam really makes the whole Club Penguin experience better
Add in some 009 Sound System music and the experience is complete.
Club Penguin was my first online game addiction. Then came Animal Jam, and then Star Stable. I don’t even want to think about the amount of money I made my parents spend on those games…has to be at least $1000
I remember when I first started playing, i didnt have a membership yet, but i had some of the toys, and the main book. I used the codes/book quiz to redeem puffles and clothing items. I got a one year membership for my birthday that year
club penguin spy missions were the best shit on the internet, lighting that little fire in the wilderness with the wild puffle was truly the peak of my childhood
I played the mission on the DS version and I formed such an emotional bond with the wild black puffle 🖤
Do you know if its possible to play them somewhere online?
As a toddler I played Freddie Fish and Putt Putt and Pajama Sam etc so this point and click adventure style game was perfect for me. After Club Penguin I discovered Ace Attorney for the DS which had a similar collecting evidence point and click stage. Honestly as simple as they are I just can't get enough of clicking nearly static images and feeling smart about it lmao
@@amormurillo7394 new club penguin
I actually recently got a DS from my grandma who was a "gamer" back when the DS released. I played club penguin when I was a kid and was so happy to get the DS as she also gave me the mission game
omfg this game used to be my LIFE as a kid
I love when you use club penguin music and backgrounds in your videos!!
Ayyy!! Love your videos!
AHH HI CASEY!
Wasn't the pizza place or something the background for your videos at one point?
Caseyyyy!!!! Love to see you here
I am a young gen z'er in 2024, I have never played club penguin and didn't really even know anything about it until now, even so, I'm feeling emotional about the downfall of this beloved app. This video is extremely well made. Good job, I love this channel.
I think the worst part about the paywalling imo was when you unsubscribed. You had ALL of the items THERE in your inventory but you were forced to not use them and any cool custom igloo you had was turned into a boring default igloo. Like, I feel like I should be allowed to at least use the things I bought even if I wasn't able to buy any more vip items. Obviously I BEGGED my mother to give me another membership pass after that and thankfully I got it, still traumatic 😅
I was obsessed with penguins as a child, but my parents were afraid of letting me play online games. Anyway one time I burnt my hand by touching the water heater in the basement and my parents felt bad and let me play club penguin
Lmaoo
i bet you stayed away from the boiler room after that
@@friedtoads13 I remained neutral. It hurt, but I did get to play club penguin…
Did you do that on purpose?
@@YoudonknowwhoIam I did not know the reward would be club penguin
It’s crazy how you hit the nail on the head with a lot of the old games you cover. It would be cool to see you cover Toontown Online and its extensive history sometime. It’s insane that Pirates Of The Caribbean Online, Pixie Hollow, and Toontown Online ALL CLOSED on the SAME DAY on 9/19/2013 ALL with the excuse that they wanted to focus on Club Penguin. It was absolutely nuts and extremely frustrating for a lot of people who played those games.
I still play TTR here and there lol I remember i was so bummed when they were closing it down but there always seems to be a group of people who reboot it for free so that's cool
@@superxxamadeus4098 TTR honestly even works on it better than Disney ever did, they did a whole new expansion recently with field offices and it's a VERY fun time. Disney would've never done that for Toontown Online
AYO TOONTOWN ONLINE WAS MY SHIT AS A KID I STILL MISS IT (but luckily some fans made Toontown Online Rewritten so it's all good :) I do miss the characters being able to walk around the different playgrounds tho)
@@lolipoptable damn field offices finally came out?? I feel like they've been teasing them for years
@@daisy-td9qs Came out last month or so, they're completely different than the original ones. It's great!
I remember it was a thing for members to post their log in info on RUclips. Using that was how I got to get the member experience.
I also remember getting so mad at the unfairness of it that I hosted a non-members party in the basement of the night club. We’d throw snowballs at any members who came in.
Back in 2020 I joined CPO and CPR, I was just out of high-school and since I'm Brasilian, I was at that terrible time where I don't know if I'll ever get to college since I had zero will to study for ENEM (our SATs, only harder) and a lot of anxiety. I played for a couple of months and was really happy with it, I even remember seeing some sort of congratulations post on the CPO blog page congratulating Riley and some other staff member for their wedding and thinking how wholesome ir was that they started a project together and fell in love... boy, was I wrong
As someone who never actually played Club Penguin, even I am somewhat nostalgic for it.
I still have a "choose your own adventure" book that is Club Penguin themed, in which you are a clandestine in a pirate's ship.
I've always loved those types of books, but this is the only one that I actually own, so I cherish it a lot.
Same, I never played as a kid (wasn’t a fan of membership games until they all went down) but now I have a sudden urge to spam “waddle on” and “party in my Iggy” somewhere.
I played a club penguin DS game, it was so fun
@@kurapikakurta1997 yes, elaborate
omg I think I had the same book!!! I think there were at least a couple of those club penguin choose your own adventure books and I loved them sm!!
The 2008 medieval party was, and is to this day, the highlight of my entire life.
@@acidrazor66 facts
That's sad
i hope the rest of your life has been going like the 2008 medieval party
SO FUCKING TRUEEEE
I do not mean this negatively
but I honestly hope someday you have an even better experience that outdoes the medieval party (｡•́‿•̀｡)
I witnessed an entire romantic drama one time.
It started off with two penguins meeting
They get along and "went out"
Then one of them was caught with another penguin a few minutes later
And then the partner threaten to jump off the snow mountain (The Sledding game one)
Then they made up
Then they got married
How did i know this?
Because i was playing with the penguin that almost ruined the relationship when they were like "Watch me ruin this relationship"
Baby me was too busy fascinated with my cat puffle to actually pay attention but whoo boy did I pay attention when drama started.
Cat puffle
God darn. Should be a whole penguin movie.
I love that they added the iceberg tipping when it had the shutdown party, it was nice of them.
Just an update: CPR is now officially shutdown as of 8 hours ago due to Disney.
Typical of Disney to ruin the fun lol very “if I can’t have it, no one can” vibes
New club penguin has been pretty good to fill the hole
@@katemangham4305
Well… CPR was profiting off of their IP without permissions. They ran ads on the site and while they say it was to keep the servers up, you just can’t do that. it’s not legal. So it’s not Disney took them down because they’re evil (they are but not about this thing). They took it down because they were operating illegally. If CPR never ran ads on the site, it would still be up I’m sure of it.
@@katemangham4305 Disney DOES own it. Of course they're allowed to prevent other people from having it, especially when those people are profiting off of something they didn't make. Also, anything connected to the Club Penguin brand is connected to Disney, including sociopathic pedophiles who use the game to harm children. I'm sure they wanted CPR gone for a long time since they couldn't guarantee that what happened with CPO wouldn't happen with another server, but they let it stay up I assume because the mods were doing a decent job. The admins putting ads on the site pushed Disney over the edge
@@katemangham4305 they don't even use it so whats the point of em having it? 💀
It's getting to the point where I'm starting to believe that Izzzy has a feed straight from my brain on what I've been thinking about lately. I swear that just last night I was imagining what an Izzzy vid on Club Penguin would be like. Super excited to watch this!
Omg me too!! I had a dream I added her club penguin video to my watch later list the other day haha
Every time you watch one of Izzzy's videos your thoughts are downloaded by her for new video ideas.
I recently just found club penguin legacy! It was so nice to play some of the old games that i missed so much
Izzy's voice makes me feel like everything is alright
"settle down in your igloo and grab your puffle" is possibly the gentlest sentence I've ever lived to hear
The constant use of the acronym "CP" throughout this video always lingered on the back of my mind, little did I know that was clever (and disgusting) foreshadowing
I remember being confused and horrified when I learned CP could mean more than just Club Penguin
@@BrookeAndCoStudios wait what does it mean?
@@Vizcarrasilvana It means child "prawn" (real word rhymes with prawn. Exploitative imagery. It's terrible beyond words)
@@BrookeAndCoStudios No the real word rhymes with corn (Still exploitative imagery. Still terrible beyond words)
@lil werner
wait what??? what happened/ what are you talking about? i didn’t find anything online about it, could you please elaborate
Why did I tear up three times watching this 😢 club penguin was a huge part of my childhood, I remember staying up until five am with my best friend, under the covers on a crappy old laptop with sticky keys. Good times. ❤