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    Webkinz was an incredibly successful and innovative Flash Game created by GANZ in 2005. There were plush animals and an interactive web service to play with them! It still exists in 2020, let's check it out!
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  • @whoknows9501
    @whoknows9501 4 года назад +1942

    I'm so old when webkinz first started they didn't have a free pet option.

    • @jayzeljomy6786
      @jayzeljomy6786 4 года назад +161

      I remember as child before getting on randomly putting in numbers and letters to get a code (ofc didnt work)

    • @ajzeg01
      @ajzeg01 4 года назад +86

      Or Deluxe Membership! Fuck that!

    • @yumi9626
      @yumi9626 4 года назад +67

      ajzeg01 lmao same before that deluxe spread all over webkinz I remember you could go to vacation island for just $500

    • @whoknows9501
      @whoknows9501 4 года назад +23

      @@jayzeljomy6786 Yess!! Or using "giveaway" codes that probably worked for absolutely no one. Lmao.

    • @townfool4682
      @townfool4682 4 года назад +32

      JAISOUL once i took a code i had and just changed a few numbers at the end and it worked and I felt so guilty i immediately exited out

  • @KingKuron_
    @KingKuron_ 4 года назад +1267

    i laughed way harder than i should've when i saw the joe exotic ad on the side of the webkinz site

    • @ZakJordan98
      @ZakJordan98 4 года назад +94

      You know who the Webkinz killer was? CAROLE F****** BASKIN!

    • @alishaanttila3528
      @alishaanttila3528 4 года назад +50

      I thought it was a meme at first

    • @shrtkbm
      @shrtkbm 4 года назад +6

      Haha I thought that was funny too, I didn’t know who else realized. It was a good subtle move 😂

    • @BobbiRakus
      @BobbiRakus 4 года назад

      Same LOL! 😂😂😂

    • @braxbro7602
      @braxbro7602 3 года назад +1

      They’re going to put all your Webkinz you aren’t taking care of down with a shotgun and burying them in their zoos lmao

  • @Bowblax2
    @Bowblax2 3 года назад +463

    WTF THEY PUT MY PETS UP FOR ADOPTION?????

    • @peliukun8164
      @peliukun8164 3 года назад +61

      its about the equivalent of tellin ur kids 'dont worry ur pets just sleepin' becuz theres no way to get the pets 'back' when theyre 'up for adoption' u can't even use the same code to get em back
      theyre dead son

    • @justsomedude5307
      @justsomedude5307 3 года назад +4

      OOF

    • @drdafaq1
      @drdafaq1 3 года назад +2

      ???

    • @swaggy_d2584
      @swaggy_d2584 3 года назад +2

      Rip same

    • @toolazyforthis3164
      @toolazyforthis3164 3 года назад +7

      WHAT MY CHILDREN

  • @solierafromtheultrareconsquad
    @solierafromtheultrareconsquad 4 года назад +107

    Just a pro tip from a player, your pet sleeping doesn't stop you from playing the game at all, you can still do everything you could before as if they were awake; whether they are or not doesn't make a difference, it just halts their occasional requests and it bugs out the energy meter and stops it from going down. And considering the energy and hunger meters deplete like crazy if you do ANYTHING, it's best to _keep_ your pet in bed, as well. Either that or they look depressed the entire time. The older stat system was much more manageable since they only depleted periodically.

  • @re0294
    @re0294 4 года назад +784

    Webkinz didn’t have all these pay to play and premium shit back in the day, and I don’t entirely blame them for implementing them. I’m sure it keeps them from going under. But, as one of those kids who had over 30 ‘Kinz as a kid, I’m both proud and ashamed to say that I did start paying for the premium when I logged back on as an adult. 😅

    • @definitelynotashark1799
      @definitelynotashark1799 4 года назад +19

      Sounds my like experience with neopets. I went on a neopets binge about once a yesr after becoming an adult™️, and especially the two weeks after operating out all 4 wisdoom teeth were filled with neopets. Good times.

    • @liz_merr1003
      @liz_merr1003 4 года назад +7

      Same. Some of the deluxe perks were actually pretty good

    • @beefy74
      @beefy74 4 года назад +7

      same, also i may or may not have sunk a couple of bucks today just to get the deluxe membership and a new pet...

    • @mimikyu4640
      @mimikyu4640 4 года назад +5

      Back in my day the Deluxe option wasn't really that bad! In my opinion it was mostly out of site for normal players and legit felt like a really cool exclusive club you can join at any time for a pretty penny. But now it feels like a solid 1/3 of Webkinz is exclusively for deluxe and feels like the site goes out of its way to point it out to you :c
      BTW I got 45 webkinz and growing lol, I friggin loved the plushies as a kid and died when I learned the online site

    • @maireelizabeth8255
      @maireelizabeth8255 4 года назад +3

      I'm not the only adult who still plays! I'm not alone!

  • @thunderlina3237
    @thunderlina3237 4 года назад +736

    The forced downtime is definitely new. I played this game for hours on end as I kid and I never remember having to stop playing because my pets were sleeping.
    Either that, or I just had enough pets that it was never a problem.

    • @barumph
      @barumph 4 года назад +50

      Dr Quack always told me my pets needed more sleep, so
      I think I just neglected them

    • @BlackLabsLikeRuleDog
      @BlackLabsLikeRuleDog 4 года назад +70

      Back in the early years, the "sleep" meter was rather a "Health" meter. You filled it with vitamins, exercise items in the room, and taking it to Dr. Quack. They re-vamped the game for the 10th anniversary ("Webkinz X" update), replacing the need for Heath and Dr. Quack with sleeping and "Family Score Points" where your pet asks you to do certain site activities for points.

    • @thunderlina3237
      @thunderlina3237 4 года назад +40

      @@BlackLabsLikeRuleDog Yeah! The health meter! I remember freaking out when my pets had low health because I thought they were gonna die lol. That explains that, then.

    • @expendableindigo9639
      @expendableindigo9639 4 года назад +16

      There was no deluxe paywall when I played either. Does anyone remember the dice rpg game?

    • @literalfandomtrashnoseriou1992
      @literalfandomtrashnoseriou1992 4 года назад +4

      Expendable Indigo Omg yes Dicekins!!!

  • @samanthahutteman6453
    @samanthahutteman6453 4 года назад +141

    I remember when you didn’t have to have a deluxe membership for complete access to the site. Oh the nostalgia. Cash Cow was my favorite game

    • @nerdy_evy
      @nerdy_evy 3 года назад +5

      I was SO GOOD at cash cow

    • @roeital5504
      @roeital5504 Год назад

      In the pie throwing game i held the world record with like 4 hours of constant playing, in one game i even got a trophy

    • @corneliastreet2491
      @corneliastreet2491 Год назад

      Polar plunge was my favorite

  • @JackedThor-so
    @JackedThor-so 4 года назад +217

    I freaking LOVED these things when I was a kid. I was in early elementary school right during the boom. I had a bunch. They were expensive at the time so having a bunch was a big time deal. You have NO Idea how many little mean girls we had running around due to rich parents and "the biggest collection in the world."

    • @willhowardlokoartyui
      @willhowardlokoartyui 4 года назад +8

      My sister, my cousin, and I, all got separate one's for Christmas one year. It was great. I got a monkey and I remember naming him Coconut cause I thought oh he's brown and white like a coconut.

    • @hawktalon7890
      @hawktalon7890 4 года назад +4

      For what they were, they were WAY too expensive. That and Shining Starz/Stars[spelling?], if anyone remembers those.

    • @sierraa.bryant9322
      @sierraa.bryant9322 3 года назад

      I literally had 25-30. And I bought every single one with my allowance.

  • @Vailskibum
    @Vailskibum 4 года назад +275

    webkinz was the goat

    • @meredith6050
      @meredith6050 3 года назад +1

      @@picachugirl2036 theyre bringing back the toys? Or just the weird looking webkinz next ones

    • @amiserablewreck8786
      @amiserablewreck8786 3 года назад +2

      @@meredith6050 no, the old ones i don't think are coming back. You can still find them in eBay, Mercari, ect.
      Thank goodness i got my webkinz before they closed it.
      And yes, I still like webkinz.

    • @meredith6050
      @meredith6050 3 года назад

      @@amiserablewreck8786 rip 🥲

    • @amiserablewreck8786
      @amiserablewreck8786 3 года назад

      @@meredith6050 y E a H.

  • @lizardlord4k
    @lizardlord4k 4 года назад +708

    "You were either into Webkins, Gaia Online, or Club Penguin"
    *Cries in Maple Story*.

    • @daredrogers3884
      @daredrogers3884 4 года назад +43

      *cries in that one LPS mmorpg I played for a short period of time*

    • @DyslexicGamer
      @DyslexicGamer 4 года назад +47

      Whimpers in Neopets

    • @craniifer
      @craniifer 4 года назад +12

      I played Neopets till mid high school.

    • @manser7749
      @manser7749 4 года назад +25

      Cries in RuneScape

    • @HandmadeGoose97
      @HandmadeGoose97 4 года назад +3

      Cries in Sploder (or whatever it was called)

  • @shoople
    @shoople 4 года назад +285

    i remember before the whole "starter pet" thing where you had to get a webkinz stuffed animal before u could play at all, and before the estore and deluxe account exclusive things literally made it impossible to play unless you've bought both a webkinz and had a deluxe subscription and bought in-game money. i've seen the horrors of capitalism with my own eyes.
    also the corona topaz was the only gem in the gem mining game that i never found (if you got them all youd get a crown, it was random chance, my brother had one), and i played that game literally every day from 4-8 years old so i'd like to consider that a prophecy about my disease resilience

    • @hawktalon7890
      @hawktalon7890 4 года назад +7

      I'm surprised they have starter pets now, honestly.

    • @weirdbunmi
      @weirdbunmi 4 года назад +7

      I vividly recall getting a Moose as a gift from a friend so we could play together. I still have that moose, even though I lost access a year later. Our houses were super rad though.

  • @brainimpediment
    @brainimpediment 4 года назад +51

    "Just months before the release of the Simpson's Movie"
    I am unsure of how this knowledge is relevant to the story, yet somehow it is

  • @KappaKiller108
    @KappaKiller108 4 года назад +348

    Billiam: "Turtle good.... *GASP*.... T-rEx VeRy GoOd!!!"

    • @Grim_Sister
      @Grim_Sister 4 года назад +8

      Can you blame him?
      We all want a T-Rex as a pet

  • @GuyThatLikesYohane
    @GuyThatLikesYohane 4 года назад +383

    I remember one time I got a Webkinz but it didn't come with a code.
    That was the worst day of 5 year old me's life.

    • @agr0nianTV
      @agr0nianTV 4 года назад +3

      Rough :/

    • @kirbysuperstaruhh3769
      @kirbysuperstaruhh3769 4 года назад +20

      I remember getting my very first Webkinz (it was a golden retriever) and it did come with a code but the code for whatever reason didn't work, i recall clearly that i was typing everything in properly it's just that the code for some reason didn't work

    • @re0294
      @re0294 4 года назад +41

      They were INCREDIBLY easy to steal and basically everyone did it back in the day. If you could push the pamphlet open enough to see the code you could write it down and steal the code without ever buying the stuffed animal, or you could just RIP the tag off when no one was looking and stuff them in your pants like a real little shoplifter. I didn’t do it because I was TERRIFIED of getting in trouble but I definitely wanted to. 😔

    • @tahlia5932
      @tahlia5932 4 года назад +18

      Ray i remember stores would remove the tags from plushie and give them when to you when you payed so they wouldn’t be stolen.

    • @re0294
      @re0294 4 года назад +9

      Tahlia damn!! I never saw that before, that’s crazy! I always bought them from Target and they did not give a shit.

  • @SpagEddie8113
    @SpagEddie8113 4 года назад +212

    When you didn’t mention Poptropica in the “Pillars of Broswer Games” 😔

    • @lupinsredjacket3191
      @lupinsredjacket3191 4 года назад +3

      SpagEddie8113
      Or Toon Town-

    • @asapling
      @asapling 4 года назад +4

      @@lupinsredjacket3191 toon town isn't a browser game tho you had to download it to play

    • @thatguy8370
      @thatguy8370 4 года назад

      Yea cause its a browser game my g

    • @lupinsredjacket3191
      @lupinsredjacket3191 4 года назад +2

      a Tree
      True...but still. 😢
      RIP Toon Town.

    • @wishingstar8924
      @wishingstar8924 3 года назад

      Anyone remember Fantage?

  • @LisaMarieParadee
    @LisaMarieParadee 4 года назад +185

    I remember my local Cracker Barrel has a section full of Webkins and sometimes the section changed with seasonal Webkins. I got my black cat one when it was close to Halloween that I named Binx (after the cat from Hocus Pocus and my own cat Binx I)

    • @jodipearson567
      @jodipearson567 4 года назад +2

      Wtf is cracker barrel? We don't have it in the UK but it sounds like a pop culture shop hybridised with a restaurant

    • @corncrackerkid5092
      @corncrackerkid5092 4 года назад +7

      Jodi Pearson it’s a gift shop/Southern comfort restaurant, there’s actually one in London

    • @corncrackerkid5092
      @corncrackerkid5092 4 года назад +3

      Same, I was so distraught when I found out they were retiring the Samoyed and you can believe how happy I was when I found one in CB! I got my Signature Spot Bunny at CB too

    • @KingOfGaymes
      @KingOfGaymes 3 года назад +6

      @@jodipearson567 Cracker Barrel and pop culture in a sentence together is something I never thought I’d hear

    • @KaylaKasel
      @KaylaKasel 3 года назад +1

      My black cat webkinz was a present from a friend for my 13th birthday (I think) that I named after my real life black cat. Ah, memories.

  • @melskunk
    @melskunk 4 года назад +177

    "Gaia online * shows Hot Topic*"
    Me: I'm feeling personally attacked here

    • @thisaccountisntreal107
      @thisaccountisntreal107 4 года назад +5

      Jesus Christ the super inflation in that game. You want a cute outfit? Better be a quadrillionaire

    • @melskunk
      @melskunk 4 года назад +6

      @@thisaccountisntreal107 yeah I had a shock when I went back in the mid teens out of curiosity, it's a weimar republic

    • @AuxCart
      @AuxCart 4 года назад

      Oh please. Subeta beat Gaia in Hot Topicness by miles.

    • @RemagArojam
      @RemagArojam 4 года назад

      Well, did you shop at hot topic?

    • @thisaccountisntreal107
      @thisaccountisntreal107 4 года назад

      @@AuxCart I just found subeta for the first time and it while it looked edgy Gaia had a special anime & Emo edge to it that made it very hot topic

  • @Kyotosomo
    @Kyotosomo 4 года назад +124

    8:52 you thought we wouldn't notice you there huh joe

  • @Shadowonwater
    @Shadowonwater 4 года назад +148

    Anyone else remember those music videos they used to do for the Webkinz of the month?

    • @Scootch
      @Scootch 4 года назад +23

      Heck yes I do
      Where Did You Get Those Stripes, It's Good to be the King, I Love Being a Spotted Frog, Hug a Pug, I Wanna Run, etc. They were all straight fire.

    • @sparklesakalilo2828
      @sparklesakalilo2828 4 года назад +7

      They're saved on Spotify and I listen to them and they make me nostalgic and sad :(

    • @jazminecarroll1197
      @jazminecarroll1197 4 года назад

      @@Scootch WHERE DID YOU GET THOSE STRIPES WAS MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE

    • @grenbaygrl1
      @grenbaygrl1 4 года назад +12

      I want "Nine Lives" played at my wedding

    • @symphony-of-the-mint2008
      @symphony-of-the-mint2008 3 года назад +6

      IF I HAD NINE LIVES I WOULD LIVE THEM ALL WITH YOU 😭

  • @CJMoody
    @CJMoody 4 года назад +14

    There's something hilarious about seeing Joe Exotic's mug popping up on the Webkinz website.

  • @heyitsevan758
    @heyitsevan758 4 года назад +84

    I remember being obsessed with Webkinz from 2007-2009, and I was one of those people who had over 50 pets. Also, I totally remember the Webkinz killer rumor. If I remember correctly, you could visit your friends’ houses, and my friends would always call me and tell me that one of my pets had died.

    • @cajadiri
      @cajadiri 3 года назад +2

      ahhh haha that killer rumour!! when i go to my watch later list and choose "date added - oldest" option, i have a video regarding starving a webkinz to death on the list

  • @BugsyFoga
    @BugsyFoga 4 года назад +322

    Nobody:
    Someone on the internet:"Let's make this child friendly product and make dumb creepypastas "

    • @collinmclaren6608
      @collinmclaren6608 4 года назад +10

      That same someone: "What an original idea! I bet no one has thought of this before!!"

    • @__VQ__
      @__VQ__ 4 года назад

      Why the fuck are you in literally every comment section I look at?

    • @kronemerj
      @kronemerj 4 года назад

      Aren't you the guy who gave caddicarus George of the jungle?

  • @kimberlylongshore1802
    @kimberlylongshore1802 4 года назад +16

    I remember these things being so expensive but that didn't stop me from loving them. Cut to several years later and I've been able to find webkinz in dollar tree and Ollie's for a dollar. They used to be all over the place, especially at Cracker Barrel! Still love 'em, so nostalgic!

  • @porkling4105
    @porkling4105 4 года назад +20

    I remember going into justice when I was 11 and my mom letting me pick out a webkinz from the giant wall of plushies

  • @NoScopeNizzle95
    @NoScopeNizzle95 4 года назад +81

    5:55 lmao the ad on the bottom right

    • @potomax
      @potomax 4 года назад +2

      Seriously wth 😂

    • @isick357
      @isick357 4 года назад +3

      Gotta love that mullet

    • @otaking3582
      @otaking3582 4 года назад +9

      "Hey kids, if you like Webkinz, then you'll love this show about tigers mutilating people!"

    • @QuarterMuncher93
      @QuarterMuncher93 4 года назад

      Ironic

  • @pika23
    @pika23 4 года назад +47

    I belonged to Webkinz insider...it was a bunch of 20 something's and up karens and Karen in trainings. (I didn't know what Karen's were 11 years ago). We all mapped out malls where to buy the new releases and stuff

  • @fallonfish190
    @fallonfish190 3 года назад +15

    Real ones remember when you literally couldn't play without buying a plush, and deluxe memberships didn't exist

  • @josiebianchi3481
    @josiebianchi3481 4 года назад +7

    "The peak of gaming, we should just stop trying, 625 Sandwich Stacker"
    aah,,, a fellow man of culture

  • @bumbum2324
    @bumbum2324 4 года назад +53

    I was obsessed with Webkinz in 5 and 6th grade. My aunt got me some, and because I was too poor for Club Penguin or Neopets, Webkinz was the first amazing thing ever to me at the time.

    • @offbeatkiki
      @offbeatkiki 4 года назад +12

      Too poor for Neopets? I played Neopets for free for years...?

    • @bumbum2324
      @bumbum2324 4 года назад +15

      @@offbeatkiki I wasn't able to afford a computer. I had to go to the library or visit my cousins to play. My time was limited since it was their computer so it was only the Webkinz they gave me I had to use.

  • @Coolkc456
    @Coolkc456 4 года назад +18

    Me: Mom, can I PLEASE have a Webkinz?!
    Mom: You already have too many stuffed animals that collect dust.
    Me: But these ones are different! They come to LIFE.
    Mom: *My daughter is officially nuts.*

  • @SlimJimGames
    @SlimJimGames 4 года назад +24

    Y'all remember the Magical Retriever you could get from the trading cards? Got that FIRST PACK as a kid

  • @Ash-hx1jz
    @Ash-hx1jz 4 года назад +8

    I remember loving the Curio Shop and making smoothies for my pets! My sisters and I got our firsts from our gramma for Xmas 2006. I remember during recess a classmate was bidding off his Crown of Wonder lol

  • @crumbbbbbb
    @crumbbbbbb 4 года назад +26

    8:52 made me choke on my drink

  • @ScorpionsFatality
    @ScorpionsFatality 4 года назад +14

    Back in the day, you got full site access with a pet's code. I still remember that. I think it lasted a year or even a few months before it pestered you to get more pets.
    But what you see now is nothing how it used to be. I still remember being in school and playing webkinz on school computers when the teacher wasnt looking.
    Also to add on. When webkinz launched, you didn't get a free pet. That started only a few years back i think. But you had to buy them.

  • @jaywalker9357
    @jaywalker9357 3 года назад +6

    Okay but I’m pissed bc I had to buy a plushie one order to become a member and now kids can literally pick a pet😭

  • @ShanellPetersonOfficial
    @ShanellPetersonOfficial 3 года назад +53

    Omg that platypus needed some serious redesign. 😂🤣😂🤣

    • @Lizrose03
      @Lizrose03 3 года назад +4

      I loved him
      I still do

    • @Lpkiwi
      @Lpkiwi 3 года назад +3

      Nothing is better thant the platypus

    • @heavenlyclouds1.0
      @heavenlyclouds1.0 3 года назад +3

      Just got one of them from a surplus ans god...their one of my comfort plushies🥺🥺

    • @dreammech_test1
      @dreammech_test1 3 года назад +2

      Yes... the googles. What a glorious creature. I only wish I had one.

    • @kimberlyramsey4201
      @kimberlyramsey4201 3 года назад

      He's beautiful....

  • @kraftsingles6901
    @kraftsingles6901 4 года назад +27

    I remember Webkinz. I use to play it when I was like 7

  • @Mitsuna
    @Mitsuna 4 года назад +95

    I played webkinz since 2006 and I still have my account login to this day XD very nostalgic

    • @agr0nianTV
      @agr0nianTV 4 года назад +1

      Nice I stopped played around 2010/11 cause my subscription ran out and I got addicted to Roblox 😅

    • @RAT-ui8ow
      @RAT-ui8ow 4 года назад +1

      I'm pretty sure webkins deleted all accounts that weren't active in the past 12 months back in 2019
      pretty sure mine is gone them lmao

    • @agr0nianTV
      @agr0nianTV 4 года назад +1

      @@RAT-ui8ow That they did. In my case I don't even fully remember my username - it was something like Reapermon### (maybe my birth year?) - it was before I figured out my go-to username XD

    • @Mitsuna
      @Mitsuna 4 года назад +1

      @@RAT-ui8ow Yeah they did which is why I occasionally log in to mine just so it stays XD

    • @pinkghost2515
      @pinkghost2515 4 года назад

      @@RAT-ui8ow Yeah mine is most likely gone which is kinda sad because I had a bunch of animals lol. I kind of remember my username and password but I don't remember all of it

  • @tahlia5932
    @tahlia5932 4 года назад +8

    I was absolutely Obsessed with Webkinz growing up, and i actually check in on my account once a year. Ganz has really done a nice job continually updating the sight.
    Ps. The googles was based on a platypus but it is Ganz own design, the google existed before Webkinz. you can find old plushies of it from before webkinz.

  • @myshreksbox
    @myshreksbox 4 года назад +6

    That explains why i couldn’t log in last year. I hadn’t played it since I was like 7 and I’m now 22

  • @liz_merr1003
    @liz_merr1003 4 года назад +19

    The forced downtime thing isn't entirely accurate, you can actually keep playing/shopping/decorating while your pet is sleeping

    • @peliukun8164
      @peliukun8164 4 года назад +3

      yeah thats pretty lame, u can even get it out of bedplus you can raise energy with other exercise things. a treadmill only costs 100 kinzcash and theres no limit and u can get right back to playin
      another video with misinformation™

  • @rhinosaur9636
    @rhinosaur9636 3 года назад +3

    Oh dear lord, I remember 10 year old me was so concerned about the webkinz killer that I was convinced I needed to write to the mayor to get his help

  • @mastercrazyyyd7699
    @mastercrazyyyd7699 4 года назад +11

    I haven't realized until now that the frog plush I've had since I was 5, which was a good 9 years ago, that a friend gave me for my birthday was a webkinz until I watched this video and saw the exact same frog

  • @nephylullaby
    @nephylullaby 4 года назад +6

    Anyone here remember Littlest Pet Shop VIP? It was quite similar concept wise. I never had a webkinz or neopets but I remember having two LPS VIP plushies.

  • @winterbreezesrule9583
    @winterbreezesrule9583 4 года назад +36

    I've been waiting for this! I've actually been on the down-low working towards figuring out how to back up Webkinz assets, and I'm slowly, but surely, getting places.
    EDIT: Wait, you actually found a store selling Webkinz? Damn. The only ways I've found any in the past year or so are Goodwill or the Internet.

    • @wigglerwednesday
      @wigglerwednesday 4 года назад +4

      you hero ,,,, there's like NO archives of this stuff it's scary

    • @jina6760
      @jina6760 3 года назад +1

      Webkinz are sold at the dollar store where I live

    • @wwewomendevotee8508
      @wwewomendevotee8508 3 года назад +1

      i went to so many stores a couple months ago looking for some and i couldn’t find any!! does anyone know any stores that still carry them?

    • @roeital5504
      @roeital5504 Год назад

      @@wwewomendevotee8508 they were stopped being created at 2019

  • @joshravenway6875
    @joshravenway6875 4 года назад +29

    Oh gosh I had over 20 webkinz,,, I still have all of them actually :,) Nothing is more nostalgic then the intro to the curio shop! Stopped playing once they started pushing all that premium membership bull shit,, the free pets and membership weren't always a part of the game btw!
    Edit: They retired minigolf?!? That was one of my favorite games ;_;

    • @Shadowonwater
      @Shadowonwater 4 года назад +2

      Yeah, I used to play a lot to until they pushed that premium membership stuff. Although I only have, like, 10. Or more like 11, I guess? 1 of my Webkniz was only virtual and 1 of my Webkinz didn't come with a code.

    • @a_bun7981
      @a_bun7981 4 года назад +2

      I have 48 Webkinz currently, but I think I had only 30 or something in the game cuz I also stopped playing when they added Premium. Then I just collected Webkinz with my other stuffed animals

    • @TheSkyline77
      @TheSkyline77 4 года назад +1

      Tristan Melody my parents made me donate mine when I turned 10. Been like 9 years. Still mad about it. I love my plushies lol. That’s how I made friends when I was a kid

    • @ArtisticCeleste
      @ArtisticCeleste 4 года назад +2

      Same, like when they started pushing the premium and games/items that I was once able to play/buy with a normal account were suddenly locked away I kinda stopped playing. It just lost all the fun since it felt like it was trying to force me to pay.

  • @chromylon6244
    @chromylon6244 3 года назад +7

    Who remembers when the deluxe membership wasn’t a thing and you could do everything freely :(

  • @JamesLawner
    @JamesLawner 4 года назад +2

    5:33 Joe Exotic next to some virtual animals?? OH NO! 😭

  • @YTJackalope
    @YTJackalope 4 года назад +50

    7:48 is a reskin of Whack-A-Kass from Neopets, literally exactly the same game

    • @Namingway248
      @Namingway248 4 года назад +12

      that game style was quite popular in the early 2000's. other games that were pretty much exactly the same include toss the turtle on newgrounds and flight of the hamsters on the cartoon network site. i am curious to know which one actually was the very first, but maybe it really was the neopets version.

    • @MelodieOctavia
      @MelodieOctavia 4 года назад +4

      @@Namingway248 Before Toss the Turtle and Whack-a-Kass there was Nanaca†Crash, which is a parody spinoff game based on the visual novel Cross†Channel. It came out around 2004/2005. And there was a game called Kitten Cannon that came out some time before that, maybe 2000/2001 which seems, at least to my knowledge, to be the origin of launch/toss games.

    • @MelodieOctavia
      @MelodieOctavia 4 года назад +4

      Ummm...ACKTYUALLY It's Kass Basher now. It was changed shortly after Kass was defeated in the Champions of Meridell plot.
      I apologize. I'm not this much of a nerd most of the time, I swear.

    • @abbycollins
      @abbycollins 4 года назад +2

      But what about that Sasquatch Shoot game from USA test prep?

    • @YadonTheCat
      @YadonTheCat 4 года назад +1

      They're all copies of Yetisports

  • @edgelord8337
    @edgelord8337 4 года назад +70

    Toys to life.
    What a novel idea that got destroyed by corporate greed and over flooding.
    Never heard of webkinz but since they were the pioneers of toys to life this should be interesting.

    • @mavintosh
      @mavintosh 4 года назад +1

      Nice to see you here

    • @annaisntcool
      @annaisntcool 4 года назад +2

      NEVER HEARD of webkinz?! you’ve gotta either be very young or like 35

    • @mavintosh
      @mavintosh 4 года назад +1

      YGS I’m pretty sure it wasn’t so popular the whole world knew about it
      I mean some people don’t know Spongebob either

    • @annaisntcool
      @annaisntcool 4 года назад +1

      @@mavintosh damn that's crazy to think about

    • @mavintosh
      @mavintosh 4 года назад +1

      YGS I mean they will always be people like that
      It just part of life

  • @iamsocks
    @iamsocks Год назад +3

    I was a sick kid and I had to have weekly treatments. For being “so brave” every week, my parents bought me a webkinz each treatment. This continued for 4+ years. I still have my stash of like 300+ webkinz. I had no idea at the time how much they were and how impoverished my family was but looking back, it makes me cry thinking my no matter how broke we were my parents ALWAYS got me my weekly webkinz. My favourite was a sheepdog I affectionately named Bozo.

  • @Ook-Ook
    @Ook-Ook 4 года назад +2

    WEBKINZ WAS MY CHILDHOOD MAN! One vacation back in the day I had a very limited budget for a souvenir I chose a Webkinz dog... Instead of something actually relating to the place we we're at... And I don't regret it he's a dog and his name is Harry and he's flipping adorable.

  • @Detaur
    @Detaur 4 года назад +5

    I went insane over webkinz when they first got big. I think it’s why I enjoy hoardin-collecting things now 15ish years later.
    They really improved the website and what you could do in game from what I remember back then

  • @londoncintron680
    @londoncintron680 4 года назад +5

    10:57 I now want a killer penguin, which just makes me think of Zoo Tycoon 2...

    • @rockinrootbeer1795
      @rockinrootbeer1795 4 года назад

      I have Zoo Tycoon 2 and all its expansions, I don't remember any "killer penguins" in it....
      I know ZT1 the animals would attack guests if they got loose, and I think, even kill them. ZT2 animals sorta just.... aggrssivly played with the guests?

  • @JJ-dj9gs
    @JJ-dj9gs 4 года назад +11

    Webkinz used to be so different now it’s changed so much honestly pretty sad. I remember I quit playing after the added the deluxe membership. Like I already bought a webkinz why would I pay every month for a membership now?

  • @UnEv3n
    @UnEv3n 4 года назад +2

    [Remember Joe Exotic?
    Take a deep breath.]
    I laughed way too hard.

  • @Irritated_Ninja
    @Irritated_Ninja 4 года назад +3

    Dude I’m so glad I stayed subscribed to you for a while before you even started making vids on web browser games but now that you make these vids the amount of repressed memories you’ve brought back into my head is hilarious and this webkinz episode is giving me too much childhood nostalgia so thanks man I really enjoy these style video’s so keep up the work man

  • @donathanlinebrink7723
    @donathanlinebrink7723 4 года назад +4

    9:52 I know you didn't just put my mans Key Lime Dino as "virtual exclusives." I have the plush of him and he is a stud, first Webkinz I ever got.

    • @peliukun8164
      @peliukun8164 4 года назад

      none of the pets in that pic are. but a webkinz video without grossly incorrect mistakes that would take a lil bit of googling? lmao send it my way when u find one they're all shit

  • @GreyCartridge
    @GreyCartridge 4 года назад +1

    “Mini golf is my cultural heritage”
    All the Pirates Coves and Congo Jungles came flooding back to me in a brief flash of PTSD. Also that glow in the dark one at Festival Bay/Artegon (RIP)

  • @Hopee667
    @Hopee667 3 года назад +1

    the “platypus” thing was one of my first ones and i remember leaving him at toys r us and panicking and my mom had to drive back and help me find him

  • @supershock5540
    @supershock5540 4 года назад +5

    i remember my sisters had webkinz and were always afraid of them dying. And one time out of a whim they logged in after years and they really were dead

  • @judahosborne8868
    @judahosborne8868 4 года назад +22

    Yayyy, Billiam is back! I was secretly into webkinz but I was "too cool" for it too

  • @kawaii.universe2003
    @kawaii.universe2003 4 года назад +2

    I’ve been collecting Webkinz since late 2007 (when I was 4) and I currently have 130+. I’m still requesting them for birthday/Christmas presents.

  • @goober8925
    @goober8925 4 года назад +2

    5:55 oh this is the perfect website for a advertisement for joe xD

  • @SkyDuskAndHerAmazingCupcakes
    @SkyDuskAndHerAmazingCupcakes 4 года назад +19

    "You were either into Webkinz, Gia Online, or Club Penguin."
    Replace Gia Online with Toontown Online and that was my childhood (minus now closed game like Monkey Quest, Pet Pet Park and Amazing World)

  • @nattdaniel
    @nattdaniel 2 года назад +5

    I used to play Warbears with my sister & I really hope you cover it on your channel because it just seems so obscure nowadays and I like your in-depth explanations and perspectives

  • @DaphnaCzako
    @DaphnaCzako 4 года назад +7

    Omg yes Webkinz glad you're talking about it! I just checked up on my Webkinz that I last saw ten years ago last week and I am super surprised it's still alive XD...the outfits I made them and my house is an utter mess and disappointment tho haha kid me had no fashion sense :,)

    • @dangerxcom
      @dangerxcom 3 года назад

      you should've seen the names i gave to mine lol, i had an orca named Blackie Whitey, and a horse named Horsey runner and those were the best names out of most of them. Then there's waterplies which was the result of child me tried to spell Water Police lol, it was one of those weird not-platypus things

  • @DJGURR
    @DJGURR 4 года назад +14

    You should revisit that Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends MMO. It popped out of the back of my mind the other day

    • @cutiepatoot9697
      @cutiepatoot9697 4 года назад +1

      Omg, you just brought back so many memories

    • @tidepodpadthai2633
      @tidepodpadthai2633 2 года назад

      I've never heard of it and now i'm morbidly curious

  • @winteriris13
    @winteriris13 4 года назад +3

    man, I remember webkinz so fondly. i was like maybe 7 or 8 when I got a calico cat, so very originally named Kitty. Kitty was my favorite, I was lucky enough to have the code still on her since I had found it in a garage sale one summer. I remember begging my mom for more so eventually I had a black cat named Clover and the "googles" named Ducky. I lost Kitty one summer at a camp sight never to be seen again but I still remember my stuffed animal so dearly, I later got the tiny version but it was never the same again..

  • @NesRuA
    @NesRuA 4 года назад +3

    “You were either into Webkins, Gaia Online, or Club Penguin.”
    ¿What about Runscape?

  • @otaking3582
    @otaking3582 4 года назад +1

    My sister had the toys, but she was too young to use a computer, and my thought at the time was just "So it's like Neopets, except boring?"

  • @Diablo98415
    @Diablo98415 4 года назад

    I'm honestly surprised how fast you push these videos out yet keeping the quality great, I love it.

  • @ricochet0928
    @ricochet0928 2 года назад +3

    I remember going to goodwill as a kid and looking through the bags of stuffed animals in the toy section trying to find any webkinz that still had the tags attached. If I found one, I'd make sure nobody was around then rip the bag open just enough to be able to get it out XD

  • @hailey_the_ace_of_hearts4127
    @hailey_the_ace_of_hearts4127 4 года назад +3

    I had like 50 of the stuffed animals, all of them filling my online house to the brim 😅 I loved the game it brings so much nostalgia now

  • @Tj-Someone
    @Tj-Someone 4 года назад

    Dude... I'm so glad I came across your channel! Gonna binge these videos all day

  • @dingdongbells3314
    @dingdongbells3314 4 года назад +2

    9:06 Yes, children obviously need to know about the 21 Spring Breakers who went too far

  • @PlasticKnight
    @PlasticKnight 4 года назад +3

    When I was a kid I got pissed when they introduced paid memberships cus it restricted stuff that was previously open, so I begged my mom for two years til I got a membership

  • @kaeminta5233
    @kaeminta5233 4 года назад +4

    I was literally one of those kids who forgot my password every time I wanted to play

  • @Redzilla26
    @Redzilla26 3 года назад +2

    People ask me why do I still sleep with a stuffed animal and I tell the my english teacher shouldn't have taught me about personification.

  • @BonBon42
    @BonBon42 4 года назад +2

    😂 That Tiger King Ad Though❣️ 😂

  • @PeterGriffin11
    @PeterGriffin11 4 года назад +12

    I wanna see you talk about Coolmath the website where tons of my classmates would go & play games on in the Computer Lab when we were supposed to be working.

  • @agr0nianTV
    @agr0nianTV 4 года назад +3

    I don't remember the status bars at all :P Maybe they just never got in my way since my brother and sister also had Webkinz and we only had one computer.
    That best game list was pretty accurate my favorites were the monkey game, Ant Mania, the battleship-like game, and pool I actually saved up my hard earned kinz cash to buy the battleship game and pool table 😄
    This is the first time I've heard of the Webkinz killer and I played Webkinz for a few years starting 2007 (I want to say). I stopped played cause my Webkinz subscription ran out and I discovered Roblox which is free. I had an Orange Cat, Raccoon, and Kangaroo ☺
    Great video man! 😄

    • @peliukun8164
      @peliukun8164 4 года назад +1

      they were always there but they never restricted gameplay. the wheel and the school do but not ur meters. u could literally keep it playing for hours if ya wanted

  • @eprushan1289
    @eprushan1289 4 года назад +1

    arthur had an episode about webkinz because so many kids logged onto their siblings accounts and redecorated their houses, causing conflicts

  • @MirandaMilner
    @MirandaMilner 4 года назад +1

    I’ve actually been playing Webkinz and Club Penguin again for the past month. The sound effects never change... I love it.

    • @peliukun8164
      @peliukun8164 4 года назад

      well in the case of the latter its mostly just rewritten stuff so they probably remade em. but yeah no real different

  • @martinlutherclark
    @martinlutherclark 4 года назад +8

    5:57 why is there the tiger king on the right side of the screen?

  • @beaniebean4885
    @beaniebean4885 4 года назад +4

    When I was in class I just downloaded emulators and played Kirby :D

  • @Bakupham
    @Bakupham 3 года назад +1

    Hey there Billiam, that was a really cool video! I remember Webkinz when I was younger, Keep up the good work!

  • @alessandra5842
    @alessandra5842 4 года назад +1

    I can't stop laughing at the Joe Exotic picture on the side of the site

  • @MysterySteve
    @MysterySteve 2 года назад +1

    As someone who spent WAAAAAAAY too much time as a kid playing flash games, sandwich stacker is probably one of the best

  • @mattrose99
    @mattrose99 3 года назад +1

    Webkinz was my jam and Ill say it: membership was the start of it being ruined. It used to be full access with just the purchase of a plush, and then they slowly took away all the best stuff or put it behind a membership pay wall. Then they changed the map. I played it once in 2018 and havent even thought to open it again since

    • @peliukun8164
      @peliukun8164 3 года назад

      exactly cuz they stopped makin features for it after that time n their excuse has been to make a shitty bootleg game in that period of time with the most ass-backwards excuses u could ever imagine. saved yourself the time honestly

  • @madisonwoodard607
    @madisonwoodard607 3 года назад

    I love that random Gossip Girl reference mixed in there, you are obsessed

  • @HollyClementine
    @HollyClementine 3 года назад +1

    Lmao @ 5:33
    Can’t tell if that’s a mullet or a wig.
    Either way; hah that man has a superb mugshot

  • @MaiSakurajoestar
    @MaiSakurajoestar 4 года назад

    Congrats on hitting 300k subs!

  • @packnetadaija
    @packnetadaija 3 года назад +1

    I remember being obsessed with my Webkinz when I was a kid like I used to go on the family computer in the living room for hours just having all sorts of adventures with my webkinz...morbidly enough I wonder how they are doing now...

  • @wendeviant2475
    @wendeviant2475 3 года назад +1

    For those wondering what the quality of the signature line was, as Billiam only mentioned them. They were much softer and added a better filling for a bit of sturdiness compared to the mainline. They didn't do much in the game beyond adding some inclusive items and boost your membership to deluxe. I have the black-footed ferret, and if you never looked at the paw. You would never figure it was a webkin.

    • @jasperjazzie
      @jasperjazzie Год назад

      i remember i had the signature pig, it was so soft
      they're so not webkinz-y but i love them anyway, i wish they weren't so expensive, they go for like 200$ online these days, and that's with no code

  • @marshroanoke
    @marshroanoke 4 года назад +1

    Oh my god the fact that there's a MUGSHOT OF JOE EXOTIC on webkinz has me deceased!

  • @dr.wyverstone8418
    @dr.wyverstone8418 4 года назад +1

    I still have a bunch of my old webkinz from when they first came out. I didn't mind the weird fabric they used as it made them very different from other plushies I had at the time. Couldn't tell you how many I ended up with in the end, I had a lot.

  • @mercedespowers3264
    @mercedespowers3264 2 года назад

    Oh my gosh! You put the turtle webkinz in tbe thumbnail. I used to have it since 2012 but I lost it during a room redisign during 2017 or 2018. It's nice to see it again

  • @streetwavez6849
    @streetwavez6849 4 года назад +1

    Love the joe exotic mugshot ad at 5:54

  • @samanthadonahue1373
    @samanthadonahue1373 4 года назад +1

    I’m so old that webkinz didn’t have a deluxe membership when I played. You bought the plush and you had free reign of the entire site. Also cash cow was my game along with go fish