Another slice of the Very VERY Stale Bread! >8D

[jellysundae]

http://www.neopets.com//~megawonderful

This guy's tongue-in-cheek, but still scathing, reporting was fantastic during the AC, and doesn't disappoint now, either.  The AC stuff's on there too, so you can re-read that drama, if your blood pressure can take it. x'D

 

 

[Angeló]

OMG this is gold stuff

i can't stop laughing

Also WTF is this

 

[jellysundae]

Makes me wonder if TNT's discussing how they can shut him up without massive backlash, this is much more of a direct attack on them than the AC articles were.

39 minutes ago, Angeló The Enabler said:

Also WTF is this

 

HAHAHAHA. Is that gonna be caption contest art?

*rootles on Dr. Sloth*

 

Ah yes, there she is

Oh ho! And this guy's genius shines through, as his bit of clickbait is entirely on point with being utterly misleading, isn't it! I hope he does a job where his very obvious wit and creativity skills get put to good use.

[natvv]

this is so good, I'm currently dying at Techo Superfan's comment

[jellysundae]

New bread delivery!

http://www.neopets.com/~megawonderful

It's a good job this bread comes ready-sliced, because you'd definitely cut yourself on this xD The snark over the wording of TNT's "apology".

I do agree with the people who are feeling now that TNT themselves have no say in what's going on, and are being given things to say to us; that Jumpstart/NetDragon are basically throwing them under the bus here.

[Angeló]

What's the deal with this apology ? I missed it on the Neoboards

[berriganify]

8 hours ago, Angeló The Enabler said:

What's the deal with this apology ? I missed it on the Neoboards

it was one of those "sorry you were offended" apologies, with a helping of "not our fault anyway"

[Angeló]

is it about the NFT's they're releasing or something else ?

[berriganify]

On 10/6/2021 at 11:26 PM, Angeló The Enabler said:

is it about the NFT's they're releasing or something else ?

oh, yeah. from what I understand, the events are this:

- There was an offsite discord channel set up to discuss the neopets nfts.
- One of the mods was posting homophobic slurs in the discord.
- When met with complaints, there was no apology, nor was he removed as a mod.
- The other mods, when asked to add the slur to the chat filter bot, said that it would be too difficult.
- However, there was eventually a chat filter installed, which filtered out the word "gay." Which isn't an offensive word by itself, and so doesn't need to be censored.
- The mod was eventually removed from power after several days.
- TNT posted a vague wishy-washy apology to the neoboards.

there's a more thorough explaination here: http://www.neopets.com/~Scroggs (scroll down to "Controversies") and here: https://www.jellyneo.net/?comments=13863 There was another petpage with screencaps of the actual discord conversations, but last i heard it got taken down.

personally im not really surprised by the non-apology, it was probably either written or dictated by one of the jumpstart people, not tnt themselves, and i do kind of agree that tnt (the devs, not jumpstart) aren't and shouldn't be responsible for moderating offsite communities (the lion's share of the blame lies with the channel owner and the other mods for not removing the mod from power asap).

but it's still kind of telling that these are the people that the neopets brand is willingly associating with. i've also seen allegations that the company handling the nfts has been promoting nsfw projects on their twitter, although i can't confirm this as i don't have twitter. either way, this partner is clearly not a good match for neopets (although personally im of the opinion that nfts in general aren't a good fit for neopets because trying to merge communities two decades removed from each other is just... ludicrously silly, but that's neither here nor there)

 

EDIT: Neopets Metaverse Fork

so, looks like the plan for the nfts is to create a fork of the site "on the blockchain"

https://neopetsmetaverse.medium.com/the-long-game-58d6c0f760c

this from the neopets metaverse twitter (because god forbid they actually announce things on their actual site).

this is just... i really have no words.

 

EDIT#2: discord channel transphobia and leaked conversations

the person with the discord screencaps has put them back up, albeit censored.

http://www.neopets.com/~Swonken

additional discord controversies:

- leaked conversation from the metaverse admins talking about how ucs/pet slots should be released to "distract" the site's userbase away from the nft fiasco and increase PR
- and also how there should be some "metaverse neopoints" with a "low barrier to entry"
- and how there should be "better moderation" on the discord
- on the public channels, accusations of someone intentionally misgendering another user, when brought to the mod's attention they're advised to "just ignore"
- and another user threatening to stalk someone on twitter for the purposes of getting them banned

last two haven't been addressed yet afaik

EDIT#3: TNT discord chatlogs

http://www.neopets.com/~Splorg

some additional comments from gutterfoot on the reason behind the delay, and a response to the leaked chatlogs about releasing uc/pet slots