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Staff members at The Daily Neopets stand in solidarity with the Neopets community against the implementation of NFTs and the Neopets Metaverse NFT project. A community boycott has begun this weekend, lead by JellyNeo, which we are in full support of. Speak with your wallets. Spread the word on social media. Let your voice be heard. Quick information about NFTs/Neopets Metaverse and why the community is against it: NFTs are essentially a crypto-currency scam that gives you a "unique" Neopets picture that you "own". It is currently believed the Neopets Metaverse are allegedly taking images from Dress to Impress and selling them as their NFTs. There are plans to make the game pay-to-win, all having to do with the purchase of NTFs. This threatens the heart of the game at its core. We urge all players to read through JellyNeo's article for an in-depth and clear understanding of how NFTs work and how it affects the Neopets we know and love. #NoNeoNFTs

i mean it's not so much a timeline as a collection of links to other people's timelines and evidence, but i appreciate the shoutout i'm doing the boycott too. ideally the nfts will be scrapped outright, but at the moment i'm more concerned about this "neopets metaverse" which is going to fork the site onto the blockchain. forking properties into parallel projects like this can sometimes work (it's worked out okay for runescape) but it's far more likely that this "neopets metaverse" is intended to replace our site. and even if they are intended to run parallel, there's still the issue of the behaviour from the nft community. i know people can gripe about neopet's family-friendly image, given how the majority of the site's users are adults, and i've certainly grumbled about it plenty of times myself, but there are still kids on the site, and exposing them to the kinds of things in the nft community (such as the retweeting of NSFW project by the NeopetsMeta twitter) is just not okay! and no one, child or adult, deserves to be exposed to slurs or misgendering.

Hey, the Background is my favorite color! And here's another just for fun.

Here's Disorder__36, one of my Kacheeks. I traded for Deep Red Hair with Feathers and Spooky Green Contacts earlier this year and they look great together in my opinion. Edit to show the items she's wearing

If you happen to view this once the boycott has ended but still wish to read up on the situation, @berriganify has created a clear and concise timeline summary topic.

I got this sparkly pink-haired harpist Island Chomby out of JN's Free NFT thing:

mine was pretty cute, actually! jelly catgoatwoman also ha! mine is worth more than yours!

so JN is offering us a chance to "mint" our own NFT and I bet the results are hilarious http://www.jellyneo.net/nfts/ Here's mine (WTF is that?) Now let's see yours

You are not paying to play. The entire website is free and accessible to you without having to pay a cent in order to access the content. You chose to pay for Premium because it offers nice QoL to maintain your shop but you can still do all the same things without Premium. The Neopets Metaverse is changing that by having gameplay be locked behind a pay wall, meaning you won't be able to access it at all without purchasing NFTs, which are hundreds of dollars each. This can be anything from new Neopets worlds, new plots, new pets, new items, new events - won't be accessible to you in any way unless you purchase NFTs. Imagine you couldn't play the Altador Cup or participate in the Advent Calendar without having to buy an NFT...

My family has four accounts between us and we've all logged out after emptying our shops and will stay dark until Monday. I'm the most active player, but the kids are home for Canadian Thanksgiving and they were as disgusted as me by this situation and very willing to keep away from the site in protest. I cancelled Premium after the recent Charity Corner cheating mess (guess we know now why they didn't bother to punish the cheaters) but I get Premium as a birthday present, so it doesn't expire for months. It will be hard losing it, but I manged without for years. And who knows if Neopets will still be around when it expires? Not looking good..

The ray is fired at darkinvention... ... and she changes colour to Desert!!

I was hoping the SKEI would be the limit , but nope SKEI (profile) 39 42 +3

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here's mine: