Welcome to “Chicken Smoothie History!”
Here you’ll find a list of some interesting or obscure history throughout the years, 2008 through now, of CS, Feel free to discuss some CS history on this thread, and ones I haven’t posted already! Please correct me if you’ve noticed I’ve gotten anything wrong as well,
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This thread was made on mobile so apologies for any coding or grammar mistakes, feel free to correct me in a PM! Super sorry for the ugly & unorganized look of this thread, I put it together fast and I have only a basic knowledge at CS coding lol
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If you have some information or CS history that you’d like to see added here, feel free to comment on this thread or send me a private message! I check CS daily so I will get back to you as soon as possible and let you know what I think!:)
Edit: thank you for all the support and help<3 you’re all too kind! This thread is super fun to work on:) - 6/10/23
Edit2: How does this page already have 17 pages? Everyone’s support over this thread makes me super happy to work on it! - 8/11/23
! This thread is semi-image heavy!
Silent Wolf Kennelz :
For a little while, Chicken smoothie was named Silent Wolf Kennelz!
Tess wrote:
I think CS started around April 2008, but it was called Silent Wolf Kennelz (SWK) for the first month or two because it was a different website back then (a fan site for the Ubi Soft/P.F. Magic 'Petz' game series).”
Silent wolf kennelz is still archived to this day, although it is not updated.
http://www.petz-archive.com/
Custom items:
Certain members of the CS staff team have one of a kind moose plush items. these customs were given out as a reward for staff members work on CS, and are often based off various of the moderators characters. No idea why they are all a moose:)
Examples here:
(Shima Luans Custom pet & plushie)
(Moonflights custom pet & plushie)
Custom items are given out to one or a very few amount of users.
Renna(Custom Pet):
Staff Custom Gallery wrote:
Taylor is a friend of Tess. She made her Renna as a gift. Taylor is not a registered member on CS, and so Renna has Taylor’s name written on her. She is best known fro her rainbow coloring. Don't think you can pretend to be Taylor and claim Renna. She will not be placed into an account!
Custom Sunjewel
This pet looks identical to the Sunjewel pet, but has some noticeable differences. These include the fact it’s from December 6th 2008. Other 2008 Sunjewels were released in July. This pet also has a rarity tag that reads “rarity unknown”, and will never gain a rarity. There is only one custom Sunjewel on the site.
It's not a "custom" Sunjewel as much as just a system issue.
This particular Sunjewel was given to the original owner as a giftbox, not a sunjewel puppy. As such, the system doesn't recognize it as the same pet, unlike, for example, re-released sun dogs.
It is a special pet in a way, yes, because it was given to someone as a gift rather than being an original adopt from July 2008 or a re-release. But it's not truly a custom because it looks exactly like any other sunjewel, whereas the whole point of a custom pet is that it's unique.
(Custom Sunjewel ID: 688368)
CS Mall:
The CS Mall was an area on CS where users could buy CS themed merch, this included stickers, badges, keychains and I believe a sunback plushie(?)
(Sadly, the banana really wasn’t included. 🍌 banana for scale, not sale.)
The Cake Contest
The concept of the CS cake contest was for users to submit photos of CS themed cakes that were baked & designed by each user. The contest had first, second, third place and runner ups! The contest received over 575 entries! Prizes for the winners included CS pins, magnet buttons, C$, DIY cake set items, and the first place winner got a custom pet as well! Nowadays, the DIY cake set can go for a good amount together or separately:)
Halloween Raffle (2012)
During October 2012, CS users could enter into a raffle for various different prizes. This raffle included several different winners as well.
PRIZES
10 lucky members will win a goodie bag of candy and a handful of exclusive Chicken Smoothie merchandise which may include stickers, buttons, magnets, keychains and cellphone charms like those in the picture above. (Note: bags will be filled randomly, so each selection will be different and may not include all item types)
10 lucky members will win 300 Chicken Dollars
25 lucky members will win 150 Chicken Dollars
We also have plenty of pet prizes to give away!
Rainbow Smoothie:
This item was given out to a few users who were active on a discussion forum back in 09. The idea of rainbow smoothies was brought up by someone, and then the rainbow smoothie item was given out to users who were in that discussion. I believe there is ten on site.
Chicken-o items
Vampiric ran a contest in 2009, the winners of this contest could win various prizes including Chicken-Os items listed below. This contest ran from Aug 24, 09 through Sept 7, 09.
Borked items
houndoom wrote:"borked" items are basically the same item, but with different ids. as far as i am aware there are two items we know of that have "borked" versions, the blonde lolita wig and the fairy headband.
back in the day, items were not "adjustable" to different linearts - if you wanted a wig for floppy eared dogs and one for pointy eared dogs you had to basically buy two versions of the same item. when "adjustable" items were implemeted, the pointy eared version got taken down from the store, but some still exist. you can only differentiate them by looking at the item ID, and in the case of the headband it shows up in different item categories. they dont show up on wishlists either, since they are not in the archive!
they are. INCREDIBLY rare. no way to put a value on them. for instance i have only ever seen TWO borked lolita wigs in my 10 years on the website.
CS Server Outage:
Back in 2012, a storm caused Chicken Smoothies server to shut down, causing an outage. Because of this CS lost a days worth of data.
Nick wrote:
Unfortunately, that caused our database to be corrupted. We were forced to restore from a backup that was taken on Friday morning. This means that absolutely everything that happened on the site on Friday, adoptions, trades, pms, forum posts, pound adoptions, etc, has been lost and we cannot get it back.
2019 Rarity Update:
The 2019 rarity updated included a more accurate representation for Pet's rarities. This gave the general rarity segments a much larger scale and placed pets into a more suitable position on the scale.
Many pets rarities changed, some went down, and some went up. It was a major update on CS at the time and is pretty interesting to look back at.
(Thank you Audreypotter for helping with this entry!)
2023 Rarity Update:
Similar to the 2019 update, the 2023 rarity update redistributed pets more evenly between categories, which included 4 new categories. Users were allowed to vote on if new rarities should be implemented. A majority of users voted for four new rarities to be added.
Nick wrote: Based on your feedback, we've now added 4 new rarity categories (in bold):
- OMG so common
- Extremely common
- Very common
- Common
- Uncommon
- Very uncommon
- Extremely uncommon
- Rare
- Very rare
- Extremely rare
- OMG so rare
Nick wrote:some pets will appear to get rarer and some pets appear to get less rare due to this change, as we have moved them away from the middle in order to fill the new categories. But their actual rarity hasn't changed, we just have more precise rarity labels now so we can see finer distinctions between pets.
Deerskin Outfit:
Tess wrote:
We would also like to address an issue regarding an item we released in Halloween 2010. This was named “Native American Costume” and was intended to be a representation of traditional Native American clothing. However, members have pointed out that features of the outfit are culturally inaccurate, and feel that it was an inappropriate theme for a costume. We have many cultural themes in our pets and items on CS, and make an effort to be culturally accurate and respectful, as the intention is to celebrate these cultures rather than to dismiss their significance. Our views have grown and changed over the years, and we acknowledge that this release is offensive to some users today. However, we are also aware that the item has trade value on CS, so deleting or changing it would have an impact on the users who have owned or traded it. We have renamed this item to “Deerskin Outfit” to reduce the racial connotation.
Cs allowed users to trade in their deerskin costumes for other costumes on this link (it still works if you’d like to swap items!) The heading is titled “Exchange your deerskin outfit for a different set”
handin.php
Equine Lineart Change:
In the earlier days of CS, the horse & zebra lineart images, including growing and full grown stages were different than they are today. Due to the fact that the old linearts images were believed(?) to be traced, CS decided to redo the lineart over time.
Malk Lineart Changes:
During Malks time as an artist, some of their pets changed lineart to be more updated with the artists style.
Fennec Fox lineart change:
The fennec foxes lineart used to look different in their growing & full grown stages as well. The fennec fox linearts were found to be traced and changed to a different, non traced lineart.
Current lineart:
Old Pound Message / rules :
Don't give them to anyone else once they're in your care.
These poor pups are here because they've had a hard life already, so please only adopt them if you're going to take good care of them! If for whatever reason you no longer want your pet, send him back to username "Pound".
Figured this was interesting enough to add! According to pound rules, it wasn’t allowed / discouraged to send your pound catches to other players for trading. If a pound catch was unwanted at any point in time, you were supposed to sent it back to the pound for someone else to catch.
Old Cs Chat
I personally don’t have much information about this one, so here’s some quotes from users!
Wolfos wrote:in the very early days, the site used to have a chatroom!
if i'm remembering correctly, it was an xat chat - though i faintly recall it being what seemed like some sort of self-hosted chat, at one point? or at least not any chat service i was used to at the time.
i kind of feel like i remember the chat getting swapped around a lot, but i can't say that part with certainty
Wolfos wrote:i can't actually seem to find evidence of the seemingly self-hosted chat i'm remembering - but the wayback machine has the old chat pages archived here, and a much more short-lived rp chat here
while the xats themselves aren't archived {as is the case with the entire site layout from the time}, the "Get your own Chat Box! Go Large!" links that lead to xat are still there
Lost and found:
The lost and found was created in 2018 by Nick. Before the lost and found was created, it was a heavily suggested and supported idea.
Why isn't there an item pound too?
Since the dawn of the pound in 2008, an item pound has been thought of and is "in the works".
This new feature works just like the Pound, but the Lost and Found gives away items instead of pets! These are items that have been donated to the pound over the years, or confiscated from banned accounts.
User made name generator
Users were allowed to submit name suggestions for a new name generator feature. Some found today are still suggested by old users!
(18th February 2014)
“Thanks for all your suggestions for pet names over the last couple of days! We've now added a pet name generator that you can use to name your pets, you'll find it on the "rename pet" page and on the "adopt a pet" page.
You can now rename a whole page of your pets at once, click on the "rename pets mode" button in your pet group to begin editing! There's a random name generator in that mode too.”
99k pound rush (April 2017):
This was the first time CS did the pound event for their CS birthday, allowing users to adopt a pet every 20 minutes. This ended when 99,999 pets were adopted, but it another 100,000 pets were added due to how quickly the 99k pets were adopted.
(Thank you Bark for this entry!)
December 18th / 24th, 2011
There was a miscalculation on December 18th in 2011, so a second box was available on the 24th to make sure the proper amount of pets were released. Users who adopted the first box could still take form the second one.
December 18th store pets
kivr & fireflii wrote:The first two years (2009 and 2010), you could get store pets from the Dec 18th box.
(For ref, orange cerb was available Oct/Nov 2009.)
It's also impossible to say how many users adopted from both boxes, but CS was incredibly active back then, so I would assume there are a lot. Whether those users are still active today, who knows.
Animal egg hour:
Back in 2014, Tess ran a poll to see if users wanted an Animal Egg Hour during the Easter banner event. This allowed users to choose one hour to banner hunt; during this hour, they’d only find animal eggs. The majority of users voted that they would like an animal egg hour, so Tess went ahead with it. This hasn’t happened again since 2014, and was most likely a one time thing.
How Animal Egg Hour will work:
Animal egg hour is now ready! You can start your "animal egg hour" by clicking the button on the event page.
You don't have to be on at release time, you can start it at any time.
Once you have begun your animal hour, the timer will start counting and you'll only have 60 minutes to collect animal egg banners, so don't start it if you're about to leave the computer!
The animal egg hunt works the same way as the normal Easter hunt, but it just means that you are guaranteed to get an animal egg instead of a normal token egg when you find something. It runs slightly faster than the regular banner, so you only have to wait 15 minutes between hunts (instead of the usual 20 minutes).
You can only do this one time, so use it wisely!
Chicken Smoothie's 10th Anniversary(April 2018)
CS turned 10 in April 2018, so a big celebration was a must. This update brought plenty of new things, including the new dress-up scenes board and even a pound event. The Pound would just keep filling itself up, and you could adopt a pound pet every 20 minutes! The event went on until 200,000 were adopted. This was the second year in a row for CS to do a pound event for their birthday.
(Thank you Bark for this entry!)
Sunback Plush
A sunback plushie was in the works of being designed & produced by Tess. These sunback plushies were meant to be sold during an anthrocon event that Tess was attending, however they for delayed due to the team running into a number of issues. The Sunback plushies were never released for CS users to buy.
Tess wrote:
I know a lot of you were hoping for a Sunback Plushie for Christmas, but unfortunately due to production problems we won't be selling plushies until early 2013. We will release more information when they are ready to order, so please be patient.
Tess wrote:
unfortunately we haven't managed to find a solution to our plushie problems and we're not sure if we ever will, so we're not making any further promises about plushie sales at this point. I really hoped we'd get to sell those early this year, but we've just hit road block after road block. I started planning for those plushies in 2011 and we're still not close to offering anything! It's been really stressful and I just don't want to think about it any more.
Some plushies do exist, but they're holed up in storage somewhere. I wasn't particularly pleased with the final design so I feel like people aren't missing much anyways.
^ sunback plush pictured above
I think I’d die for that CS themed mug
(Thank you Shooting Stars for helping with this entry!)
Anthrocon 2012
A Chicken Smoothie booth was set up by Tess and Nick at Anthrocon during 2012, June 14-17th. The con was attended in Pittsburgh, USA. Everything sold by CS was less than 20$, and included mugs, pins, stickers and other things. Chicken smoothie users were able to meet Tess, Nick, Sorren Fey, Vampiric, Tyr, Ricorn, Leurai, Drizzle and Captain Kaycee - and probably several CS members too! The CS sunback plush was meant to be sold at this anthrocon but it didn’t happen due to delays. After the event, CS staff posted photos of the Anthrocon. Somewhere down the line, mods decided to remove the thread containing the Anthrocon images. I’ve only ever been able to find one photo of the Anthrocon online.
kivr & fireflii wrote:Since anthrocon was also mentioned, I think it's worth mentioning that if you brought a hat to Vampiric (who attended), you could get Vampiric's Birthday Hat.
Auction / Trade rant thread
In the early days of CS, two threads for auctions and trade rants were created. Eventually these two merged into one trade rant thread, and around 2015 the thread [V.36] was locked. This was due to users fighting and breaking rules on the thread.
We made the rules easier to avoid further bullying and spam, but the amount of rule breaking and fighting in this thread is too high to keep open. We already said that we would lock the thread if this awful behaviour continued, and so we will. We'll be shutting this thread down.
Rule/site rules overhaul & beginning the scheduled site updates - 2020
A thread/open letter was created by the community, bringing up concerns of lack of consistent updates and more. Because of this, CS had made a complete rehaul on their rules, to make them more clearer. And started to bring out scheduled updates.
(Thank you Bark for this entry!)
Old Site Layout
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Unreleased butterfly wolf
This butterfly wolf was designed by an unknown CS artist back when butterfly wolves were introduced! This butterfly wolf displays different wings then any other pet with the same lineart.
Butterfly wolves were released in 2008.
Unreleased toucan (2022)
The toucan pictured above was created by Anover. It was meant to be released during June 2022. For some reason, this toucan didn’t make it to becoming a CS pet and has remained unreleased.
Nick wrote: Whoops, looks like that Toucan was one that never got released and was only briefly in the archive, revised list coming soon!
Anover wrote: Just something missed on the back-end unfortunately, it should've been released with the others but it wasn't added to the litter and by the time anyone noticed it was already too late, it's a shame but I'm glad it wasn't lost forever at least it can be a little piece of CS history now :>
It's worth adding that nobody is at fault for it either, just an honest mistake with how similar they can all be from a glance
Retired C$ Shopkeeper
This guy used to be the C$ store mascot, they were introduced in 2009 but eventually taken off the page around 2011 for reasons not known. The artist is Lawliet
[Link to view] https://web.archive.org/web/20091229012 ... com/store/
Blue Xmas Husky
This husky featured on a 2009 Xmas banner was never released as a pet, despite having a design on an existing lineart and two similary designed husky’s from the same event (Xmas 09) it is unknown if this dog was ever meant to be released.
These two displayed above were adoptable during Xmas 08
Other Useful Threads
Compilation of CS Historical Fun Facts
This thread has tons of facts I didn’t include, or was too lazy to add in (oops). Thank you NickJr for sending this thread my way, it was super fun to look through!
For all us oldies
Had tons of old information on it, some thing I’ve never heard of before as well.
PART 2 BELOW! V
