The Webkinz Iceberg Explained

[Music] greetings it's executive ostrich tonight we will be diving into the webkinz iceberg for those who don't know what webkinz is allow me a zoomer to proudly explain webkinz is a game that connects plush animals to flash games the concept was great for kids because it gave their stuffed animal a virtual life it was immensely popular in the early to mid 2000s and reflects that time period in kids entertainment this iceberg was made by reddit user problematic periwinkle plum so let's dive in paw first rare items i'm assuming these are just items you can only buy from the curio shop webb can say this is april 29th and celebrates webkinz.com's anniversary you can get a trophy and other goodies if you log in on this day crown of wonder in the words of my boy artifact if you collect all 30 gems click on your crown to trade in for the legendary crown of wonder exclusive items these are typically the items you receive in the wish factory adopting a pet or through trading you can't purchase them anywhere webkinz killer this was a theory where dr quack killed webkinz at night in his clinic there were also similar theories surrounding the black box glitch miss birdie and other webkinz i personally have a theory that this webkinz trading card image sparked these rumors the title of the card is actually kinsville caper indicating some type of mystery and dr quack holds in a conveniently placed platter also incidentally enough this card was a part of series one guess when that was released 2007 guess when the height of the rumors were also 2007 but i mean if i mistook that thing as a chainsaw then i can't be the only one code shop the code shop is pretty self-explanatory it's a place where you redeem zum maze and hamster community codes and other codes that aren't pet codes e-store the gantz e-store is a place where players can buy the best items and virtual pets you can only get e-store points through buying them and special promos the gantt e-store is located within the w shop and on the gans e-store website books i'm assuming this is referring to the book sold within the w shop some of these classics include does the caged singles sing an air of mystery and the best of plumpy little kins lolkins are the smaller versions of regular pets curio shop the curio shop is where you can hunt for gems and where you can find rare items not sold at the w shop somewhere somewhere is gans's attempt at the fairly oddparents and allows you to take care of your zoms you adopted and to take pictures of zoms to get prizes kinschat plus the rooms in the clubhouse and the park that have kids chat plus allow players to type chat rather than having pre-written responses and phrases deluxe membership deluxe membership was introduced around the 2009-2010 era and is the premium subscription service for webkinz going deluxe unlocks games activities and many extras floaty clicky events this is exactly what it sounds like these events consist of an item or a character floating across your screen and you click on it to get a prize these tend to be medallion events and map collection events webkinz app the webkinz classic app launched around 2017. the app is similar to the desktop version with the exclusion of the clubhouse and most daily activities gans also has separate apps for webkinz necks xingo's pop cash cow and goober's lab the game only apps range from 99 cents to 299. kinsville kinsville is the fictional city where webkinz takes place kids tunes i'm assuming this is referring to the pet of the month song scans made around 2009-2011 these can be found in the music stars section of webkinz or youtube for some legit bops clinic i'm pretty sure this is dr quack's clinic were talking about the clinic was started in 2005 and it retired around 2015. this is where you used to bring webkinz when they got sick it eventually came back in 2021 as a room in the clubhouse mayor of kinsville the mayor role was introduced around 2015 and it was meant to teach kids about voting gans gans is a company that owns webkinz magical forest the magical forest is where you can collect charms keys stars and figurines digital only pets you can get digital only pets through e-store points medallions and special promotions pre-accounts slash account expiration your account full membership expires one year after you adopted your last pet this will make your account a free account on a free account what you can do on webkinz is very limited webkinz x oh boy what a doozy let me get into this webkinz x is an update that occurred on the website in 2015 that is often cited as the update that broke webkinz this is because many items that had worked previously don't work anymore this is the update where the w shop and the things to do design had changed quizzes question corner is a place where players can answer trivia questions on various subjects webkinz next webkinz next is a sequel to the original webkinz that no one asked for it's another 3d type game and uses beanie baby back offs as pets miss birdie miss birdie runs the adoption clinic in webkinz she is also apparently in a relationship with dr quack webkin's social media accounts gans has several social media accounts to promote the e-store and webkinz this could also be referring to kinstagram where people have instagram accounts dedicated to webkinz and webkinz news webkinz news is the companion site to webkinz classic and provides news and fun events surrounding webkinz [Music] webkinz studio when you buy the movie studio pack in the w shop you can access webkinz studio where you can make movies of actors scenes and music of your choice here's a film that i made trying to be edgy [Music] build your own kinfill update this update occurred around 2015 and replaces the old map function you were able to move around buildings to make your own map kins clips kins clips were the tiny pets that you could clip onto a backpack they had a code that would unlock somewhere webkinz charms webkinz charms were literally just jewelry charms of webkinz they also came with a feature code milk cat the milk cat is an orange and white cat that gets its nickname from this infamous twitter meme i'll let the memes speak for itself webkinz mini golf this was a game in the arcade where you could play online mini golf the game retired in 2019 and the reasons for retirement are unknown miss birdie's makeover ironically enough i actually pointed this out in another webkinz video i did have a look for yourself miss birdie probably got a nip and a tuck host's full names ones that are less known include plumpy e hippo uber hausen pfeffer and miss emily birdy woodland wonders figurines in the woodland wonders section of the magical forest you can collect figurines and they can be displayed on your pet wacky zingos plush have a look for yourself whipkins stadium this is the place where webkinz can compete and win prizes in beauty cooking and running recipes recipes are when you combine three or five food items in a blender stove or sandwich maker and it produces something other than gunk there are also clothing recipes when you combine three pieces of clothing in the clothing machine at the kin style outlet webkinz close back in the day gans would sell the irl version of online clothing for plush pets these would come with a feature code to unlock a kin style shop piece of clothing in the game webkinz trading cards these were games as whack no pun intended at the trading cards frenzy according to the webkinz wiki the cards fall under a few categories these include webkinz deck cards challenge cards karaoshop curiosities and webkinz doodles series 2 added w tales snapshots and at paul level you could also get trading card theme prizes and even pet codes hamsters hamsters were initially pets linked to the game mazen hamsters since mason hamster's retirement it is just a regular pet to adopt through the code shop and will not count as a pet to make a free account have full account privileges kin style shop the kin style shop is run by persephone the same one who appears in the supermodels game her deluxe only shop supposedly has couture pieces for a lot more kins cash although her shop hasn't been updated in a while kin style outlet the kin style outlet is where regular folk web can go shopping for clothing it is run by pj collie and is home to the clothing machine today is activities this is a place in webkinz where there are extra daily activities going on some favorite events include balloon darts the big button of kin's cash the jelly bean challenge webkinz quick draw and the coupon machine kinsville academy diploma when you complete all six of the core classes you receive a diploma for miscaline badges badges are awarded when certain tasks are completed these can include getting five moonberries in jumbleberry fields and adopting a horse tournament arena this is the place where webkinz can compete in game tournaments to win extra pins cash you can also play two player games to compete against friends or random people rockers this is a line of webkinz that are rockstar themes according to webkinz wiki you can also get an exclusive challenge stadium rock items and a rockers themed outfit podkins hodkins is the podcast started by webkinz staff members to show new features of the game and talk about webkinz related news 2011 commercial in 2011 webkinz made a commercial that asked the question what is the coolest thing about webkinz wish factory the webkinz wish factory is a place where you deposit your wish tokens and you can get prizes once you get up to 10 wish tokens webkinz theme song the webkinz theme song was created in 2005 and plays in various areas of webkinz i will sing it in the d major variety [Music] da dr quack's twitter account dr quincy quack does indeed have a twitter account here's my favorite tweet from his account unsolved recipes webkinz releases a certain number of recipes meant to be solved and some go unsolved the most recent one that kinskorn is attempting to solve is the whirlow whisk which is a mega stove recipe webkinz jr webkinz jr is the first failed spinoff of webkinz geared towards three to six year olds based on some footage i found of the game it seems to be more of a fun educational tool than a game webkin's mouse pads webkinz mouse pads are exactly what they sound like and they came with the feature code mason hamsters as i mentioned earlier when you adopted a hamster you would get access to mazen hamsters the 3d adventure game surrounding hamsters the game was retired in 2015 most likely due to glitches amazing world the amazing world seems to be a 3d type game similar to maze and hamsters except without the hamsters the gameplay seems to fit the superhero adventure type game webkinz body spritz these were glittery scented bodies spray similar to the ones sold at claire's only these ones came with webkinz feature codes broken items broken items typically refer to the items that were either not fully animated or stop functioning properly webkinz ornaments back in the day webkinz actually used to sell christmas ornaments that came with a secret code adventure park the adventure park is where you go to complete quests you need to adopt an adventure pet for one long quest or you need a deluxe membership for small daily quests code reselling culture this tends to be the most common on discord or facebook people will buy pet codes in bulk during sales and resell them when it becomes more valuable to make a profit the majority i've seen in the groups that i'm in seem to be reliable sellers however there are also a fair share of scammers webkinz gift bags gans actually still sells webkinz gift bags on amazon webkinz school essentials kit gans also still sells this on amazon if you want to take notes in a webkinz notebook site tour the webkinz youtube channel has the 2005 site tour video and the webkinz x site tour video i'm not exactly sure which site tour this is referring to community managers these are gans employees whose role is to interact with fans notable ones include mandy webkinz michael webkins steve webkins and sally webkinz w shop game the w shop sold items where many games could be accessed these include pool air hockey jigsaw puzzles and many more webkinz cares webkinz keras was a program set up by gans where one dollar of pet sales would go towards their non-profit the webkinz foundation you could also get five tries to play the webkinz cares game similar to the big button of kin's cash where you can win prizes by pushing a button travel agency when the vacation island first opened you had to visit debbie dragon at the travel agency to purchase a ticket to the vacation island this was removed a few years back when the vacation island was made deluxe only webkin's friends webkin's friends was essentially the webkinz version of farming frenzy it was a facebook game extension to the webkinz site it was targeted more towards teens and adults however in 2014 the game shut down after not getting as much attention as the other games first generation webkinz it was difficult pinpointing how many webkinz are considered the first generation however i found this post that shows the original first eight pets offered on webkinz monkey monkey show the monkey and monkey show is a channel on the webkinz tvs it is basically a kid-friendly comedy show the secret chef this is the cooking channel on the webkinz tv chef gazpacho hosts it and shares secret recipes winner shows this is the third channel on the webkinz tv i think it's supposed to showcase user created movies made at webkinz studio however the only one that seems to play is a show called root beer by dav with vanilla factory error plushes these are webkinz plushes that have manufacturing errors on them some of these errors include more than one magic w disoriented pause and tag errors nefarious star challenge nefarious star challenge is where the bad fairy nefaria appears on your screen and offers surprises for your stars you found at alyssa's star challenge she has also been known to scam players out of their stars the w tails the w tails is the name of a book series that retells the backstories of webkin's hosts you can also check out w tales in the newspaper mill fairies the only male fairies and webkinz are the fairies you click on in woodland wonders you can also get morgan fairy if you get a certain family score loader lounger the loader lounger is a chair that shows up on the loading screen for rooms that same chair is also sold at the curio shop building kits building kits are the boxes you drag into your room to build a certain item you need to ask friends to send your materials almost like a mini challenge dice skins dice kins was a dice based strategy game in webkinz i personally remember jossl being yelled a lot in the game it ended in 2012 however according to webkinz wiki there was still a link to dyskins through the big button of kinscash bamboo break bamboo brick was essentially a bamboo version of tetris the game was removed in 2010 and is speculated to be because of copyright issues speak to pet this was an old feature where you could actually speak to your pet by a kid's chat old gardening mechanics back in the day when you grew some seeds you would actually have to interact with your garden for them to grow you could inspect rake water dig and harvest plants would actually die if not taken care of properly webkin's ex actually removed this so you didn't have to interact at all with the plants to get harvest caring valley the caring valley was an extension of webkinz cares if you planted four saplings on the caring valley map you can get an enchanted tree the caring valley was retired in 2013 however you can still redeem carrying value codes for prizes blank feature codes there isn't much info on this however they seem to refer to the rare instance that a feature code would not be printed on the code paper i did find a webkinz insider photo with a faulty webkinz cares code and a facebook post confirming this sponsored event items webkinz once in a blue moon no pun intended would have events and items connecting to real-life tv shows and movies some examples i can think of are hop and the smurf promotions quizzes wizkins this was an old two-player tournament arena game where players would answer trivia questions it was mainly retired due to bugs from what i can find party packs party packs would allow you to throw parties and webkinz with your friends this consists of games loot bags and food party packs were retired in 2020 due to technical glitches my page the my page was a way of creating a bio for yourself you could show your favorite badges games and rooms the best of kinstune cd this was a cd released in 2010 and includes the most popular pet of the month songs and a feature code combo packs varying in sizes webkinz combo packs typically combines multiple webkinz pets clothing and even kids clips bald plumpy when the host plumpy was originally designed she looked more like the plush hippo webkinz was selling thus she didn't have any hair she has since had a makeover and has hair you can style at the kinsville academy kiwibird medallion incident this actually happens fairly recently on midnight of webkinz day 2021 players received a webkinz state gift box and the medallion portion of the gif would open but not leave your doc many people assume that it wasn't working and opened it several more times before realizing it would actually give you unlimited kiwi bird medallions reactions range from panic to oh boy let's make an army of kiwis the aftermath of the incident mainly included some accounts who clearly took advantage of the glitch on reddit being permanently banned some of these users were unbanned but given a stern warning and gans as a company has never officially released a statement plumpy's hairdresser this is an arcade game you can only play if you complete level 10 of the hair styling course at the kinsville academy the arcade game is exactly like the hairstyling course except you earn king's cash riddling gourmet speaking of the kinsville academy let's talk gridling gourmet this was the arcade game you can unlock at level 10 of the cooking class it's similar to its kinsville academy counterpart except you can also earn kim's cash this is your first warning it's not known what exactly triggers this pop-up but it's nightmare fuel to say the least vacation island volcano on the vacation island map there's a volcano that you can't visit or learn more about it's not known why this was in place or if it was planned to be a tourist site it also used to be animated before webkinz x and we all know what happened with webkinz x luck dragon the luck dragon was an unreleased pet from 2010. it was teased in the newspaper but ultimately repurposed into the current golden deluxe dragon wacky log out carnival the wacky log out carnival is something i have very fond memories of it is a set of wacky themed carnival games you can play when you log out once a day sponsor games sometimes when webkinz world would partner with a sponsor they would make spoofs of already existing games to theme it with the sponsor some examples include hot before dark and jesse mixup original zombuddy clips interestingly enough problematic periwinkle plum uploaded these to their youtube channel [Music] some seem to be of repurposed as other sounds voice actor identities according to this tweet the creative director of webkinz carl boris does the voice of artie sheldon and many others confirmed on an episode of podkins sally webkinz was revealed to voice miss caroline and blanche from smoothie moves the code generators back in the day there were a ton of kids who wanted free webkinz codes and went to these websites to essentially guest codes unsurprisingly these websites rarely worked scammers there are a few different types of scammers the most notable ones are the ones who sell codes and send a used code or don't send one at all a recent example of this type of scammer is love atlantic and they're many alts another type of scammer is the trade scammer these people would kids post trade and not send items they promised to send or in the trading room they would take back the good item and quickly place cheap food items in its place fans webkinz bands are strange and sometimes happen randomly most recently people were banned for exploiting a glitch specifically the kiwi medallion one gans has unclear criteria for bands and there's a large gray area errors this term is quite broad but i'm assuming errors are referring to the coding glitches that don't get fixed for years or webkinz crashing due to connection issues artist identities doing some digging on webkinz news i found some videos of the lead artist named maurizio doing drawing tutorials for webkinz pets i also found a podcan's episode description where they reveal artists named mike and eric i don't want to reveal too much about them to give them privacy however they all seem to be based in canada [Music] cracker barrel exclusives gans had certain webkinz that they would only debut at cracker barrel an example of this was the tropical island puppy webkinz zazzle store zazzle is an online store similar to redbubble where it sells customizable designs onto merchandise webkinz opened a zazzle store around 2015 that is still around to this day where they sell webkinz themed merch w shop owner it's claimed that jerry the frog owns the w shop however i do have a theory that tabby von meow owns or at least manages to w shop because of the grocery clerk job i'm actually working on that theory focusing on her labor practices in psychology so stay tuned concept art webkin's art goes through many stages before making the final cut concept art is basically art at its beginning stages wishing well one wishing well 2 is very well known however have you ever wondered what happened to wishing 101 well look no further than webkinz wiki which shows screen graphs of the original it bears a striking resemblance to slot machines and it is thought to be the reason that the game got redesigned although gans claimed it was redesigned to look more like a wishing well i'll let you guys be the judge tulip trouble one unlike wishing well one tulip trouble one was updated to fix glitches and most likely for the catchier name leaf leaf leaf leaf was an original game from 2005 and was the predecessor to goober's lab it was a match 3 puzzle game with a leaf theme humans in the leaf leaf game mentioned there is an interesting human hand it is not known whether gans intended to implement humans or break the fourth wall more with the trainer pet relationship other than that humans don't show up in webkinz zoll zola is a tricky type zom you may be asking why is zol so far down well zola is unusual in the fact that the zom made so many appearances outside of somewhere despite not actually having a plush or virtual release it's speculated that zoll was intended to be part of the first series of zombs but was scrapped in favor of zelo good luck dragon the good luck dragon is an unreleased pet from 2010 it is similar to the luck dragon except it has a red and gray color scheme unreleased figures similar to unreleased pets unreleased figures are wepkins figures that didn't make the final cut rocker's backstage pass this was included when you adopted a rocker's pet when opened you could pick from a pool of prizes account data breach account data breaches occur when someone packs into a secure area of the website and gets access information not meant for the public the most recent breach happened in 2020 where they had access to the login info of 23 million accounts cloud corral this was a zom-themed mobile game that retired around the 2014-2015 era there was not much known about why the game retired scrap somebody's species essentially this refers to the concept art of zums in the zomware patent document there's a group of sums called hidden zoms this sum was speculated to be a part of the scrap sum species however this was later debunked by leo crevares the artist behind zomes it was revealed to be a generic reference sum with no name magical forest music from what i've gathered this is a glitch where all the magical forest music combines would play [Music] it is similar to the audio glitches i've been experiencing on the mobile app mix and max trading card game this was an old tournament arena game that featured trading cards it is a simpler version of the trading card game also once located in the tournament arena the main difference is the mix and match element of the game this seems to refer to the sets of cards built the first player to collect four sets would win character families doing some digging on webkinz wiki i found that miss birdie and dr quack are married pj collie has an older sister plumpy and nimble are sisters how about cowline is miss cowling's daughter wacky zingos and zaki zingos are cousins and amanda panda has two sisters and two brothers trading card prototype plushes the third series of webkinz trading cards would sometimes feature holographic cards with pictures of prototype pets holly hopper negative reactions holly hopper is a character in webkinz next that made some appearances in webkinz classic the negative reaction comes from her strangely human-like appearance account purge in 2019 gans announced that they were deleting inactive archived accounts this meant if you haven't played for several years and you didn't try to retrieve your account your account would be permanently deleted i personally had a 2008 error account that was confirmed to be deleted despite knowing the username and password inappropriate pet names where do i start with this basically webkinz filters are very strange i heard users complaining about trying to name their pet virginia but the sensor not allowing them because it sounded like a certain female body part there have been dozens of screenshots of these pet names that somehow make the filters i've also heard of some users having gans chains or offensive pet named something more vanilla such as fluffy it's like knowing a mic iro if you don't know or have some variety of fluffy you haven't been playing long enough broken clothing i'm assuming this is referring to clothing that doesn't fit correctly on certain pets my personal favorite is putting on a tank top on a hamster and putting a dress on a kiwi bird [Music] webkinz foundation the webkinz foundation is the place where donation money from webkinz cares went according to this article on webkinz news the webkinz foundation donated to save a child's heart make a wish foundation free the children and many more swf directory swf files or shockwave files are smaller files that hold animations webkinz like many other flash games utilize these some of these files include sound effects and graphics unfiltered webkinz studio movies these are exactly like webkinz studio movies except without the filter i remember hearing a while back that when webkinz studio first came out there was apparently no chat filter i think you can imagine why there's chatfielder now cancelled flamingo the flamingo was a pet that was designed and made into prototypes but ultimately never made it to the final cut interestingly enough sally webkins apparently owned a prototype flamingo i'm actually surprised they never implemented this into the game as i probably would have gotten one miss birdie reverse aging i think this is referring to miss birdie's makeover and how she looks younger than her original model however i just think she had plastic surgery provided by her hubby dr quack cancelled lobster the cancelled lobster is another prototype pet that never officially made it into the game again it's not known why they didn't go with the lobster now that i say that it does sound like i ordered something from a restaurant webkinz t-shirt creator this was a part of the website where you could customize a webkinz themed t-shirt to order the irl version looking back this seems to be the predecessor to their zazzle store mr cowline there is no documentation on who cowbell's father is and who mr calaline is skull cap this is just an unreleased clothing item saint short attention span skirt well that was a mouthful this was apparently a glitch that occurred at the kin style shop and costed 99 999 kids cash but hey it was 10 off early patent documents there are so many patent documents out there for webkinz however i think this one in particular refers to the one filed in 2004 the photos show the beta version of webkinz world and has some interesting diagrams to say the least arty's sister on webkinz wiki it is said that artie has an unnamed sister some believe that her son is sparky fact but if that were the case that means she kept her maiden name and then he somehow took on her name other than that there's not much known about this unnamed sister separating pets from hosts honestly thinking about it hosts and pets are animals the only real difference seems to be age and height the hosts are more human-like in nature where the pets are more animal-like inventing trophy according to webkinz news the inventing challenge was initially supposed to be a competition in the webkinz stadium however it was deemed too similar to the cooking competition and ultimately scrapped character npcs are actually just items think about it what happens when you click on a host character in a room you receive an item what happens when you mail them they send you the same letter or items early arty design artie was initially designed to be an archaeologist version of miss caline however the team wanted ardy to be more adventurous and rugged thus current already goober and wacky share the same voice actor it was revealed in goobers doodles card that he and wacky have the same voice actor loblors blobwors refers to a dupe game of zingo's switcheroos it is apparently listed in the webkinz swf directory google's did not originate from webkinz on webkinz wiki there is mention that google's were actually introduced as part of a plush series by gans in the 1980s mastercare trophy this is an unreleased trophy that features miss birdie it's not known what the trophy is given out for and supposedly only one person was awarded it us patent numbers 7425 169 742 108 7465 212 five thirty 7534 one fifty seven these patent numbers are listed on the somebody tags interestingly enough the patent numbers for the documents relating to somewhere does not match any of these numbers looking at these patent numbers through google patents these documents seem to mostly relate to adoption codes canceled dolphin this is yet another webkinz that was made into prototypes but did not make the final cut honestly this isn't the most aesthetically pleasing looking plush sir reinhold is a self-insert of carl borst basically sir reinhold is plumpy's husband in game as it turns out fact is the exact same as fiction i found a tweet on carl bource twitter account confirming this honestly this is both mind-blowing and adorable at the same time january to march 2009 kingston music videos we all know the kinston music videos that arrived from april 2009 to december 2011. however are you wondering about the january to march 2009 music videos well apparently in the swf directory for the music videos it starts at the number four rather than one two or three this most likely correlates with the months and hints at possible music videos planned for the bulldog the googles and the yorkie zoll was originally planned to release as a part of the series one zombuddies as i mentioned earlier in the summer section of the swf file directory zol is the icon for the tricky type sums rather than zelo which suggests that zol was planned to be a part of the first series cancelled bat this is referring to a prototype pet that was just made into a drawing and a patent document the design is a bit silly looking and was scrapped in favor of the 2008 bat the disappearance of debbie dragon as i mentioned way earlier debbie dragon worked at the travel agency where you could buy vacation island tickets around the time when deluxe members would have unlimited access to the vacation island she was removed as a host and as a buddy gans basically retired her as a host because there was no need for a travel agency however she has made appearances in a webkinz desktop ad and as a webkinz stadium judge miss biscuits human-like design in case you haven't noticed miss biscuits no not that one this one is strangely human-like it's not known if these two are the same hosts or if the name miss biscuits is common deleted swfs in the swf directory there are some files that get deleted or lost gans sometimes will remove files that haven't been used in a while these also seem to be the files of unreleased concept art or animations kinstune's hidden storyboards webkinz news actually reveals several storyboards of music videos such as tiger tiger and it's a beautiful day mini clip mini golf this is a mini clip mini golf game that appears to be the inspiration for webkinz mini golf in case you've been under a rock for the last 20 years miniclip is a site that features mainly flash mini games you might be wondering if there were any copyright issues with this but there actually weren't because electro tank the game's developers actually helped gans develop the webkinz version webkinz mini golf humans i'm assuming this relates to the creators behind miniclip mini golf helping gans create the webkinz version of it the mini clip version does indeed feature humans dr quack was removed because pet sickness was being removed in 2015 dr quack and guber collaborated on a way to eliminate pet sickness if you didn't play prior to webkin's ex pets would actually become sick if not taken care of properly and you'd have to take them to get medicine on dr quacks since they somehow eliminated sickness this begs the question of ethical experimentation early 3d concept models this seems to refer to drawings and patent documents the majority of the pictures in the patent documents are either 2d or a chart here's concept art for an early clubhouse npc an early fairy falls design and webkin's next concept art this horse drawing also seems to show up in a lot of webkinz patent documents so i'm guessing that's worth mentioning 2003 beta on wayback machine the earliest screenshot is from august of 2004 in the patent documents there is a 2004 beta this mostly seems to resemble the 2005 model of webkinz except for the webkinz newspaper being called the webkinz gazette gans worker crunch the only record i found of this is a comment on reddit by a former webkinz developer a user asked what their job was like working for gains prompting this comment the redditer claims that the job entailed long hours low pay and no major holidays off poor customer care this seems to refer to the main issues with games in terms of customer service for starters they don't even have a phone number they have an email but take forever to respond and sometimes don't respond past the automated message they also have been known to ignore major glitches in the game leaving them unfixed some examples of this include magic mire taking too long to function properly tvs not working properly in homes the time machine being unusable and the funky girl lamp webkinz not caring about their own content becoming lost media gans has been known to delete or not back up swf files these swf files preserve webkinz and gans not backing them up or deleting them suggests that they aren't concerned with their content becoming lost media and finally webkinz supports autism speaks webkinz actually does support autism speaks i found a facebook post from autism speaks seemingly confirming this webkinz also follows him on twitter if you're not aware autism speaks has come under fire in recent years for treating autism as a disease providing more for families of autistic people rather than for autistic people themselves and not embracing neural diversity while the caring valley isn't a thing anymore gann still follows autism speaks on twitter suggesting that their stance on the controversial organization hasn't changed alright that's the bottom of the iceberg i hope you enjoyed the extensive research i put into the video i couldn't have done it without my homies in the webkinz research discord server if you want to see me ramble more about webkinz subscribe to this channel and i'll see you guys next time [Music] bye you

Channel: Executive Ostrich

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Length: 40min 11sec (2411 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 07 2021