Animal Jam Thread [v9]

[Gvvdgrief]

I'm looking to trade my Blue HD maybe, I'm looking for other HD's (one must be magenta and green) or a beta blanket and add, I won't accept any spikes I'm very sorry. You can PM me if interested? or send a JAG to Prxncetoasty

[Motivational Lizard]

Pm me if deal:
Fancy beret for short wrist
I'm getting an intro made and I need to get a short wrist for it

[Greta Van Fleet]

Used to used to play Animal Jam. It is not as wonderful as I had dreamed of as a child.

I played this game since the BETA- swapped accounts about a year before my initial banning. As a little kid, I genuinely liked it, but things began to change quickly after 2011.
I could care less about the economy. You know, whatever. Spiked Collars are extremely common and pretty much worthless, but so is the dollar- it's what we determine the object to be worth that gives it it's value. The biggest problem that emerged, however, was the popular community that sparked roots in early 2012. Animal Jam 'YouTubers' ruined the modern game.

Older players may remember the numerous 'hackings' that occurred on the Animal Jam admin website? No, they weren't hacked- players Aparri and either Varallix or Zarfy (don't remember, it was ages ago) guessed a couple passwords and guessed right. Pretty sure it was admin/admin or sfsadmin/sfsadmin. In any case, they got some unreleased items and became extremely popular, falling among the ranks of a few "YouTubers". People forgot soon after. This, however, is the birth of an extremely corrupted system that the Animal Jam staff correlated.

Timeskip- 2016. At this point, a few Animal Jam YouTubers have over 100,000 subscribers. This is a HUGE deal for Animal Jam's marketing team. Aparri can make as many terrible clickbait videos as he'd like, because they get views- and views = publicity = free advertising for Animal Jam. Not only this, but Aparri's upload schedule is EXTREMELY favorable to YT's current alg and pretty much creates a perfect breeding ground for both AdSense revenue and free adverting for WildWorks. They decide to test the waters by creating a new popup when you create an account-

======
Where did you hear about Animal Jam?
[] A friend
[] A google search
[] An internet video
[] Other ()
=====

Big success. Animal Jam cashes in. They award 'videographer' plaques to the highest earners (Snowyclaw, WisteriaMoon, Aparri, Bepper, etc) and invite them all to VidCon for that extra publicity.

So, you may think. What's the big deal?
Quite a lot.
These players are still normal players- on the same status level that the rest of us are. Animal Jam begins to turn a blind eye towards these players because of their status.
Nobody cares that these YouTubers completely fabricated the 'Mighty Squad' happening. It was fake, but it made publicity.
Aparri socialengineered and scammed tons of little kids, but he earns money.
Videos of LilacPetal being horrible to small children litter the internet.
Snowyclaw has broken the Animal Jam rules tons of times behind Animal Jam's back.
I could go on.

The problem emerges now that normal players are denied the rights that the more popular players receive. Animal Jam files DMCA's about the MidWest JamCon being planned, sends the web host emails in the dead of night, getting their hard work removed, and doesn't send a single email to the organizers. Players apologizing profusely are left in the dust by the HQ, even though the more popular players were listened to. There are tons of situations that I don't even know of but would have seriously ruined some player's state of mind.

What did I do? I made a program that 'generated' gems and prepared to give it out for free to the world. No payment. Anybody could enjoy it. No scam, no hack, just a file you can download and run by yourself, for everyone who enjoys the game. Instead of asking me to stop, they monitored my IPs, phoned my mother and repeated the same crap that they told me in automated emails (after I asked!). They literally stalked me across the internet for months. I was seriously so scared and exhausted.
I'm only one of those people. That's only one instance. Had a more popular player done what I did, nothing would have happened.


I'm not telling you to stop playing Animal Jam. It's a fun game. But please don't do what I did and withhold the belief that they are looking out for us. They really aren't. :(

Oh. My. God.
You are a genius for putting all of this in words.
AJHQ hates me tbh, because I pointed out the fact they care so much about their "famous" jammers so much, and dont care about the rest. EVEN THOUGH, half of those "famous jammers" have a bad history, and alot of the other jammers are almost clean slate and get tossed aside like garbage. I've seen bepper, lilacpetal, aparri, etc. scamming so many times. And yet, they still promote them. For why? because AJ only cares about money. And with them advertising, they get more players, with more players, comes more money. They didnt make AJ to help kids learn about animals and nature, they made it for money. Hell, I got hacked a week ago , they said I was attempting to lie to get items. No retards, check the location. Said the log in was from Colorado , I live in Illinois. No way I can get from Illinois to Colorado in 2 hours. Because I was only offline for 2 hours and came back and my headdress and collar was gone. Yet even though they had thatlog in information, I was still lying. But if i was appari or something and i wasnt even hacked and i wanted items im sure they would send some right away. As I see them get gifts from ajhq for no reason all the time. AJHQ , does not care and I dont think they ever will unless, well , youre famous.

[Icey29]

@ Kaneki Ken
I'm so, so sorry that this happened to you. Honestly. I'd send you over some items if I still had game access. Your story isn't exactly unique, but it is yet more evidence of the nonsense they have been spreading.
Animal Jam started out as a fine game- lots of nature facts. It was definitely created to be fun but that isn't held up by the staff anymore.
If you don't mind, I'd like to add your post to a Google document I'm compiling.

I have never hacked another person on Animal Jam. I have never scammed. I have never, ever attempted to hurt somebody on this game. It does not matter, because I do not make Animal Jam a profit. The 60$ I paid a year was NOT ENOUGH for their staff to treat me as a human being.

> feelsbadman

[Greta Van Fleet]

@ Kaneki Ken
I'm so, so sorry that this happened to you. :( Honestly. I'd send you over some items if I still had game access. Your story isn't exactly unique, but it is yet more evidence of the nonsense they have been spreading.
Animal Jam started out as a fine game- lots of nature facts. It was definitely created to be fun but that isn't held up by the staff anymore.
If you don't mind, I'd like to add your post to a Google document I'm compiling.

I have never hacked another person on Animal Jam. I have never scammed. I have never, ever attempted to hurt somebody on this game. It does not matter, because I do not make Animal Jam a profit. The 60$ I paid a year was NOT ENOUGH for their staff to treat me as a human being.

> feelsbadman

Yea i dont mind.
The hack doesnt both me much tbh, just pixels, but the fact they accused me of lying and they even had the proof, kinda pissed me off lol.

Naw idm, document whatever you need. :)

So youre like completely banned from the site ? Cant use a dif email or anything? Thats extremely uncool if thats the case. I get it tbh, free gems for player, its nice. I commend you. Not many people do that without trying to hack/scam people. Its really rare to see good people. I myself have never hacked or scammed as well, though i most likely have the capability hack if I tried as im a tech geek and in tech school, i'd never ever do something like that. Its cheating tbh. Its stealing, its wrong. If you didnt do anything seriously wrong, then I dont see how they could permanently ban you and stalk you and your family. That's like, wrong.

[monaca]

I don't usually post on the Animal Jam thread, but i've already signed up. My username is Mossyproductions for people who don't know, and I just want to trade with some people. If you would like to trade with me on animal jam, shoot me a message on here and we can exchange usernames ^u^

[Icey29]

@ Kaneki Ken

Yes, I am 100% completely locked down. They monitor every single VPN and IP I've signed in on and probably use Flash to peer through the fishbowl... I was told that they made spreadsheets of each and every one of my social media accounts and emails.
As for the compliment, thank you so much. That means a lot to me.
Hacking is a hobby of mine, but hacking little kids on an MMO website is hardly a reason to break the law... Animal Jam accounts themselves are fairly secure now with the CAPTCHA but the administrative website is STILL unprotected.

[ufoparty]

Used to used to play Animal Jam. It is not as wonderful as I had dreamed of as a child.

I played this game since the BETA- swapped accounts about a year before my initial banning. As a little kid, I genuinely liked it, but things began to change quickly after 2011.
I could care less about the economy. You know, whatever. Spiked Collars are extremely common and pretty much worthless, but so is the dollar- it's what we determine the object to be worth that gives it it's value. The biggest problem that emerged, however, was the popular community that sparked roots in early 2012. Animal Jam 'YouTubers' ruined the modern game.

Older players may remember the numerous 'hackings' that occurred on the Animal Jam admin website? No, they weren't hacked- players Aparri and either Varallix or Zarfy (don't remember, it was ages ago) guessed a couple passwords and guessed right. Pretty sure it was admin/admin or sfsadmin/sfsadmin. In any case, they got some unreleased items and became extremely popular, falling among the ranks of a few "YouTubers". People forgot soon after. This, however, is the birth of an extremely corrupted system that the Animal Jam staff correlated.

Timeskip- 2016. At this point, a few Animal Jam YouTubers have over 100,000 subscribers. This is a HUGE deal for Animal Jam's marketing team. Aparri can make as many terrible clickbait videos as he'd like, because they get views- and views = publicity = free advertising for Animal Jam. Not only this, but Aparri's upload schedule is EXTREMELY favorable to YT's current alg and pretty much creates a perfect breeding ground for both AdSense revenue and free adverting for WildWorks. They decide to test the waters by creating a new popup when you create an account-

======
Where did you hear about Animal Jam?
[] A friend
[] A google search
[] An internet video
[] Other ()
=====

Big success. Animal Jam cashes in. They award 'videographer' plaques to the highest earners (Snowyclaw, WisteriaMoon, Aparri, Bepper, etc) and invite them all to VidCon for that extra publicity.

So, you may think. What's the big deal?
Quite a lot.
These players are still normal players- on the same status level that the rest of us are. Animal Jam begins to turn a blind eye towards these players because of their status.
Nobody cares that these YouTubers completely fabricated the 'Mighty Squad' happening. It was fake, but it made publicity.
Aparri socialengineered and scammed tons of little kids, but he earns money.
Videos of LilacPetal being horrible to small children litter the internet.
Snowyclaw has broken the Animal Jam rules tons of times behind Animal Jam's back.
I could go on.

The problem emerges now that normal players are denied the rights that the more popular players receive. Animal Jam files DMCA's about the MidWest JamCon being planned, sends the web host emails in the dead of night, getting their hard work removed, and doesn't send a single email to the organizers. Players apologizing profusely are left in the dust by the HQ, even though the more popular players were listened to. There are tons of situations that I don't even know of but would have seriously ruined some player's state of mind.

What did I do? I made a program that 'generated' gems and prepared to give it out for free to the world. No payment. Anybody could enjoy it. No scam, no hack, just a file you can download and run by yourself, for everyone who enjoys the game. Instead of asking me to stop, they monitored my IPs, phoned my mother and repeated the same crap that they told me in automated emails (after I asked!). They literally stalked me across the internet for months. I was seriously so scared and exhausted.
I'm only one of those people. That's only one instance. Had a more popular player done what I did, nothing would have happened.


I'm not telling you to stop playing Animal Jam. It's a fun game. But please don't do what I did and withhold the belief that they are looking out for us. They really aren't.

Oh. My. God.
You are a genius for putting all of this in words.
AJHQ hates me tbh, because I pointed out the fact they care so much about their "famous" jammers so much, and dont care about the rest. EVEN THOUGH, half of those "famous jammers" have a bad history, and alot of the other jammers are almost clean slate and get tossed aside like garbage. I've seen bepper, lilacpetal, aparri, etc. scamming so many times. And yet, they still promote them. For why? because AJ only cares about money. And with them advertising, they get more players, with more players, comes more money. They didnt make AJ to help kids learn about animals and nature, they made it for money. Hell, I got hacked a week ago , they said I was attempting to lie to get items. No retards, check the location. Said the log in was from Colorado , I live in Illinois. No way I can get from Illinois to Colorado in 2 hours. Because I was only offline for 2 hours and came back and my headdress and collar was gone. Yet even though they had thatlog in information, I was still lying. But if i was appari or something and i wasnt even hacked and i wanted items im sure they would send some right away. As I see them get gifts from ajhq for no reason all the time. AJHQ , does not care and I dont think they ever will unless, well , youre famous.

I've been on the Animal Jam Spirit blog for quite awhile but still had no idea about Snowclaw doing that. I've actually had a few discussions with her, she's quite a nice person and I could never imagine her doing that.

As for Aparri and LilacPetal people seem to forget what Lilac did to Julian, saying it was just a mistake. How is deleting someone's very large YouTube account a mistake I may ask? For Aparri him and Bruizer are probably the biggest jerks I've seen, they hacked a young girl taking what I believe was a pink eyeball hat from her. Even thought they have "changed" they still have it and haven't returned it.

Glad someone pointed these things out.

[Motivational Lizard]

Pm me if deal:
Fancy beret for short wrist
I'm getting an intro made and I need to get a short wrist for it

[♡ foxes in socks ♡]

Used to used to play Animal Jam. It is not as wonderful as I had dreamed of as a child.

I played this game since the BETA- swapped accounts about a year before my initial banning. As a little kid, I genuinely liked it, but things began to change quickly after 2011.
I could care less about the economy. You know, whatever. Spiked Collars are extremely common and pretty much worthless, but so is the dollar- it's what we determine the object to be worth that gives it it's value. The biggest problem that emerged, however, was the popular community that sparked roots in early 2012. Animal Jam 'YouTubers' ruined the modern game.

Older players may remember the numerous 'hackings' that occurred on the Animal Jam admin website? No, they weren't hacked- players Aparri and either Varallix or Zarfy (don't remember, it was ages ago) guessed a couple passwords and guessed right. Pretty sure it was admin/admin or sfsadmin/sfsadmin. In any case, they got some unreleased items and became extremely popular, falling among the ranks of a few "YouTubers". People forgot soon after. This, however, is the birth of an extremely corrupted system that the Animal Jam staff correlated.

Timeskip- 2016. At this point, a few Animal Jam YouTubers have over 100,000 subscribers. This is a HUGE deal for Animal Jam's marketing team. Aparri can make as many terrible clickbait videos as he'd like, because they get views- and views = publicity = free advertising for Animal Jam. Not only this, but Aparri's upload schedule is EXTREMELY favorable to YT's current alg and pretty much creates a perfect breeding ground for both AdSense revenue and free adverting for WildWorks. They decide to test the waters by creating a new popup when you create an account-

======
Where did you hear about Animal Jam?
[] A friend
[] A google search
[] An internet video
[] Other ()
=====

Big success. Animal Jam cashes in. They award 'videographer' plaques to the highest earners (Snowyclaw, WisteriaMoon, Aparri, Bepper, etc) and invite them all to VidCon for that extra publicity.

So, you may think. What's the big deal?
Quite a lot.
These players are still normal players- on the same status level that the rest of us are. Animal Jam begins to turn a blind eye towards these players because of their status.
Nobody cares that these YouTubers completely fabricated the 'Mighty Squad' happening. It was fake, but it made publicity.
Aparri socialengineered and scammed tons of little kids, but he earns money.
Videos of LilacPetal being horrible to small children litter the internet.
Snowyclaw has broken the Animal Jam rules tons of times behind Animal Jam's back.
I could go on.

The problem emerges now that normal players are denied the rights that the more popular players receive. Animal Jam files DMCA's about the MidWest JamCon being planned, sends the web host emails in the dead of night, getting their hard work removed, and doesn't send a single email to the organizers. Players apologizing profusely are left in the dust by the HQ, even though the more popular players were listened to. There are tons of situations that I don't even know of but would have seriously ruined some player's state of mind.

What did I do? I made a program that 'generated' gems and prepared to give it out for free to the world. No payment. Anybody could enjoy it. No scam, no hack, just a file you can download and run by yourself, for everyone who enjoys the game. Instead of asking me to stop, they monitored my IPs, phoned my mother and repeated the same crap that they told me in automated emails (after I asked!). They literally stalked me across the internet for months. I was seriously so scared and exhausted.
I'm only one of those people. That's only one instance. Had a more popular player done what I did, nothing would have happened.


I'm not telling you to stop playing Animal Jam. It's a fun game. But please don't do what I did and withhold the belief that they are looking out for us. They really aren't.

Oh. My. God.
You are a genius for putting all of this in words.
AJHQ hates me tbh, because I pointed out the fact they care so much about their "famous" jammers so much, and dont care about the rest. EVEN THOUGH, half of those "famous jammers" have a bad history, and alot of the other jammers are almost clean slate and get tossed aside like garbage. I've seen bepper, lilacpetal, aparri, etc. scamming so many times. And yet, they still promote them. For why? because AJ only cares about money. And with them advertising, they get more players, with more players, comes more money. They didnt make AJ to help kids learn about animals and nature, they made it for money. Hell, I got hacked a week ago , they said I was attempting to lie to get items. No retards, check the location. Said the log in was from Colorado , I live in Illinois. No way I can get from Illinois to Colorado in 2 hours. Because I was only offline for 2 hours and came back and my headdress and collar was gone. Yet even though they had thatlog in information, I was still lying. But if i was appari or something and i wasnt even hacked and i wanted items im sure they would send some right away. As I see them get gifts from ajhq for no reason all the time. AJHQ , does not care and I dont think they ever will unless, well , youre famous.

Thank you! finally someone is speaking up about this. I've recently lost a Purple and yellow long a buddy that quit gave to me and a few days after i got gifted them they were gone. I emailed AJHQ about this and went through this long string of frustrating emails to being eventually told that the items seemed to never be on my account, they said in the email that they "weren't suggesting that i was lying" but tbh if they really thought that they would have no need to bring it up XD.

It pathetic, Animal Jam really needs to become more considerate about their players because trust me, if they dont their gonna lose players, which decreases their income with eventually makes them give up the game. I love the game, dont get me wrong but im very disappointed in the way they treat their "money makers" which we basically are.