So I just expanded it and posted it on Substack…
But yeah I loved Neopets more than anything as a kid. The plot events, the games, gambling (scratch offs and the wheels were my favorite!), investing, maintaining a store, trading, having stocks, decorating my house, doing dailies and grinding for Neopoints (is this how I built my work ethic?) to paint my Lupe baby, the FORUMS, Neomailing my friends, hunting for rare Neopets in the pound. I adopted a green Jubjub once named Nuggbro (as an adult) who looks like a piece of weed I love him and I think his petpet is a ball of fire.
Also:
* Newgrounds (this is why I’m sick and twisted) two of my favorite games were The Dead Case where you play as a ghost investigating his own murder and Entering Town… all I remember about that is chopping a guy’s head off with a shovel and also fighting a dragon?
* EverythingGirl and probably the other dress up games for girls sites too
* all of the kids’ games that were just advertisements for various TV shows, Mattel products, and processed food companies
* Gaia Online
* Charlie the Unicorn
* Salad Fingers
* a custom vampire role playing forum my friends and I made in middle school
* DeviantART… I would over share on my journal just day to day things about my life and the (evil) boy I had a crush on found it and tormented me over it. but I also would post art and not to brag but my edgy Twilight style retelling of Little Red Riding Hood where she falls in love with the wolf was one of the hottest serialized stories on there LOL 💅 I am trying desperately to get up the strength to overcome my cringe and write that into a novel series because I think it would be a hit with the Booktok girlies
* Omegle (yikes). My mom would never let me do that but I would go on with my friend when I slept over at her house. Dark place
* Tumblr obviously. Unfortunately
* omfg also PETA’s website for teens Peta2. UNFORTUNATELY
