Immediately, two unauthorized remakes filled the void: Club Penguin Online and Club Penguin Rewritten. But while Neopets, The Sims and Animal Crossing centered on completing ( capitalist) tasks, Club Penguin was a social-first alternate reality for tweens too young for Facebook, Myspace or Tumblr.ĭisney closed Club Penguin on March 30, 2017, after several years of the game’s declining popularity. Stuck at home with little to do, college students are hitting the frozen tundra for hot gossip and cool games.Ĭlub Penguin launched in 2005 and became a successor to Neopets and Habbo Hotel for a new generation growing up entirely online. Just as Animal Crossing for Nintendo Switch has become a social-distancing solace for adults who graduated during the late-aughts recession, Club Penguin offers childhood nostalgia for Gen Z post-grads and college kids like Morgan, who now face their first economic and global crisis all while isolated in quarantine.
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Or at least the mods are more forgiving: She was stunned when some penguin around her said “Justin Trudeau ate me out” and didn’t get banned. Back then, when Disney owned the game, you couldn’t so much as type “oh my god.” Now, Morgan says, the game seems to have embraced its adult audience.
Now, of course, Club Penguin has changed. In the late 2000s, Morgan would socialize and start drama on Club Penguin before shitposting on Twitter was a thing. In Club Penguin‘s Ski Village, I had my first and only straight relationship - for all of five minutes. When I played, in the game’s heyday, around 2007, Club Penguin was for the troublemakers and gossip-loving girls (and gays). Another flightless bird responded, “I am so high.”įor the uninitiated, Club Penguin is an online multiplayer chat room and virtual reality game in which players waddle around, collect coins to purchase puffles (giant pet furballs) and attend igloo parties, all while testing the limits of what words will get them banned. “If you’re packing a fat bowl, come dance over here,” one announced.
She and other penguins talked about recreational drug use, the coronavirus and Netflix’s docu-series Tiger King. Now that she was an adult, Morgan noticed the conversations had grown far more mature. Once again, the internet’s hottest club is Club Penguin. It had been more than a decade since she was last there, but when she arrived at her old stomping grounds at 2 a.m., she felt at home. During the coronavirus outbreak, while most of the country practiced social distancing, Morgan, 23, was looking for other queer people at Boston’s hottest club in the wee hours of the morning.
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