Neo in the olden days: actual kids vs college kids. How was the community like?
I know Neopets started as a site for college aged kids, and I wanna know your experience and what the community was like in the early ages of Neo. I was probably 11 when I first started playing, late 2000s. I remember bragging to one of my Neofriends (probably older than me) about having 20k NP 😭 I earnt all of it playing flash games.
I don’t know how I didn’t get banned for this, but I also added someone on Facebook through Neo. She was older than me, I remember gifting her a cutely named Pirate Xweetok. This was back when Pirate pets were still expensive. She isn’t active anymore but she was really into Inuyasha.
I mostly hung out in the PC boards, I was the really annoying kid who somehow traded up from a VWN cheaply painted pet to a few trades I don’t remember, to a rare BN UC Grey to, finally, a pronouncable 3L unlimited custom!! I asked for a draik (of course) cause I was into customisation. I know I was annoying cause people on PC made threads lightly satirising me when I kept advertising the UC grey lmao.