TheEmpireStrikesDak

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I had two neopets homepages which I still can’t access, because everytime I try to get my account unfrozen, I end up talking to a bot named Blake who tells me that my original freaking sign up email with the exact date and time I created the account isn’t proof. Unfortunately, “can you put me through to a real human?” doesn’t work :(

    Neopets was just plain html, but you weren’t allowed to say damn or hell and I think there may have been some tags you couldn’t use. A lot of pages had a GeoCities vibe, there were custom usermade templates that were very 2000s sparkly. You could customise your shop and put profiles as well I believe. Very garish.

    They even had a Neodrive online storage in the early days, I don’t think I ever used it though.



  • Tripod was where I used to host my webpages after GeoCities died. They quietly died sometime in the last few years too.

    I later upgraded (downgraded) from the blink and marquee tags and animated gifs. I used to use wordart to make my page header graphics and was using PNG to make the backgrounds transparent before png became fashionable (it was all jpg and gif in 2000). And no one seems to remember that PNG was pronounced ping back then and not the individual letters. Either that or Deitel and Nieto lied to me.


  • I can see it working on kids. Maybe because I only watch YouTube on browser not logged in, so it’s a default thing to not like and subscribe. I really only tend to login to the app if there’s a smaller creator I’d like to give a boost to.

    When a channel aimed at a grown up audience does it, especially when they do the stupid ringing bell animation, I just find it tacky and it makes me NOT want to subscribe. Smaller channels getting started I can give a pass to, but bigger channels? It’s kinda sad.

    Moriah Elizabeth has 10M subscribers and I don’t remember her ever asking for likes and subscribes (and a lot of her fanbase IS kids).