ICYMI - The Fall of Neopets

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🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Neopets, a kid-friendly site from the early 2000s that let users raise digital pets and play games with them, has fallen far from its peak popularity. The nostalgic luster of it also seems to be fading, following the site’s recent failed attempt at Neopet NFTs—not to mention its years-old, mostly broken user interface. On today’s show, Madison and Allegra look back at the happier times of Neopia past, discussing their early experiences on the site and exactly how it’s grown, or not, with the times. Then they interview concept artist Claire Hummel about her teenage years interning at the site, the creative freedom the staff used to have, and why nobody could ever get enough Neopoints to buy all those cool items.

Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.

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0:00.0	I emailed them, saying that in, I think, nicer words than just saying your art is bad
0:09.0	and I can do better and I'm 14 when you should hire me.
0:12.5	Hi, I'm Madison Malum Kircher and I'm a Lycra Frank sitting in for Rachel Hampton
0:18.3	and you're listening to ICYMI.
0:20.8	In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:25.4	Allegra, hello, welcome.
0:27.0	Hi.
0:28.0	Happy to be here.
0:29.0	Have you ever done an episode just with you, Madison?
0:31.3	I'm always with you.
0:32.3	How?
0:33.3	How?
0:34.3	How, Madison.
0:35.3	Always the, Madison, never the Rachel is the saying goes, so what's the good word on the
0:39.1	internet today, Allegra?
0:40.9	Um, well there's never really any good word on the internet but, uh, one of the, one of
0:46.5	the words that I've heard is, uh, Neopets are NFTs now.
0:55.7	I didn't know Neopets was getting in on the adult content business.
0:59.2	Wait, what do you mean, adult content?
1:01.8	Well, here on ICYMI, NFTs, uh, if you know you know, only stand for one thing and one
1:07.7	thing only and it's very explicit.
1:10.0	Okay, well, I guess that's all we got for, uh, Neopets NFTs then.
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