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The Last Days of Club Penguin (theoutline.com)
Club Penguin, a decade-old tween-focused social network by Disney is shutting down. From a report on The Outline: Club Penguin, which launched in 2005, will shutter on March 29, ending an 11-year run that at its peak drew 200 million users to the site. While the traffic has reportedly been in decline over the past few years -- the OG Club Penguin kids have mostly aged out (most of the site's user are 8-13), and there's growing competition from other social networking games, like the new LEGO Life -- fans both young and old are reacting to the news with emotions that run the Kubler-Ross gamut. Some have been reduced to shell-like human embodiments of the Loudly Crying Face emoji. James Charles, the beauty-obsessed 17-year-old Instagram star who was recently announced as the first male face of CoverGirl, tweeted, "my entire childhood is going down the drain wow I'm gonna cry RIP greendude50." Others are lashing out, attempting speedruns or willfully disobeying chat rules in the hopes of getting booted in an act of you-can't-fire-me-I-quit defiance. And of course, plenty are soaking up the last days, taking part in the community-wide "Waddle On" celebration that's essentially a G-rated version of an end-of-days rager.
It was a good environment for my kids to explore, lots of fun activities and the chat was *strictly* controlled, with only approved words and phrases available for use. May not suit an older kid, but for the 6 yro who's just learning the ropes, it was one place I could let him explore without fear.
Obligatory shout out to my nephew... who cut his artistic and video creativity with Club Penguin...
One of his classics here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZx2zYk0JsU/
slashdot: CIA spy scandal documents are being released!
internet: meh.
slashdot: club penguin is closing
internet: this is harambe and 9/11 rolled into one.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Fine!
I'll build my own Club Penguin, with blackjack and hookers!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Is a business pandering to sexual acceptance really among the most disruptive and imposing societal affects you can think of? Can you really even compare this to stereotypically socially-right behaviors like voting against abortion clinics and literally deciding that entire countries of people aren't allowed in the US, even if they're a US citizen and visiting their family?
It's really mind boggling. Left-wing bullshit is really played out, but it's hard to find a victim other than tortured souls like you that have to read words on their computer screen.
When a Slashdot summary, of all places, contains an absurd sentence like this
then I really start to think that we're finally seeing the peak of the rampant leftism that has infected the Internet for the past 8 to 10 years.
I think that average people have finally had enough of this sort of leftism. They just don't want to deal with it any longer. They're tired of the gender confusion imposed by leftists. They're tired of the constant false accusations of racism/sexism/intolerance/etc./etc. coming from leftists. They're tired of petty criminals being portrayed as "martyrs" by leftists. They're tired of "peaceful protests" led by leftists that involve property damage and violence.
Average folks have had enough of it. They want society to return to a state of normalcy and civility. They've had enough of leftism.
How is this at all a "leftist" thing? Bad/trivial entertainment is bad/trivial entertainment. This is no different than what now pollutes prime time on Discovery + History channel ... ice road truckers ... all that crap
He's a boy who likes make-up. BFD. Sure it's not normal but normal is overrated.
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My first tought was that it's some obscure linux distro. Such a thing would be at least somewhat sad.
Ditto. Then I came for the perv comments.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
Is a business pandering to sexual acceptance really among the most disruptive and imposing societal affects you can think of?
More like a symptom of a fatal disease. Coughing up blood because of stomach cancer perhaps. The blood isn't going to kill you but it sure ain't good.
A society that cannot tell the difference between up and down, boys and girls, sickness and health will not survive.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.