History YMMV / Neopets

** Neopets will refuse to eat foods, read books, or accept Petpets that have the same amount of characters in their names as their own. While changing the site language so that the length of these items' names change is a potential workaround, it doesn't work for any items introduced after early 2015. This makes getting records for gourmet food and books a nightmare and is a nuisance if you spend a lot of money on a Petpet without checking to see if your Neopet will object beforehand.

** i hope you live forever in poverty[[labelnote:Explanation]]Adam went on the [[Website/{{reddit}} r/Neopets]] Website/{{Discord}} server and had a CreatorBreakdown of [[https://www.jellyneo.net/?comments=14373&comment_added=true epic proportions]] which finished with him posting a selfie of him FlippingTheBird with the eponymous caption. Soon after his ban from the server, both the subreddit and the Discord server proceeded to have a field day with this image.[[/labelnote]]

** The Pebble, a Petpetpet given out during Advent Calendar 2023, quickly became beloved for its cute design and for being the first (and currently, only) Petpetpet not based on an insect. During the 2024 Neopies, it won Best Advent Prize with ''62%'' of the vote.

** The Pebble, a Petpetpet given out during Advent Calendar 2023, quickly became beloved for its cute design. During the 2024 Neopies, it won Best Advent Prize with ''62%'' of the vote.

** The return of unconverted pets was a huge talking point for returning players and new players alike, causing DemandOverload to the site when they launched in 2024.

* TaintedByThePreview: With the announcement of all then-preexisting unconverted pets being converted into the post-customization poses to make way for the Neocash version of unconverted pets in 2024, lots of players that still owned them were not happy with this decision, as they felt that it would force them to buy the Neocash version with real money. Some players were also not a huge fan of the [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks old unconverted art being redrawn with black lineart]] (Most notably with the Faerie Ixi) instead of the [[NarmCharm wonky yet nostalgic look]] that most of them had, and wished they were kept untouched.

** "Wow, this place is a freakshow. I don't respect literally any of you people." [[labelnote:Explanation]][[https://66.media.tumblr.com/63db00dc9b260213349bc5b117e258f5/tumblr_oqh7vqgCLV1wpjd0oo1_1280.png A rather infamous neoboard post]]. The context behind it is unknown.[[/labelnote]]

* TaintedByThePreview: With the announcement of all then-preexisting unconverted pets being converted into the post-customization poses to make way for the Neocash version of unconverted pets in 2024, lots of players currently owning them were not happy with this decision, as they felt that it would force them to buy the Neocash version with real money. Some players were also not a huge fan of the [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks old unconverted art being redrawn with black lineart]] (Most notably with the Faerie Ixi) instead of the [[NarmCharm wonky yet nostalgic look]] that most of them had, and wished they were kept untouched.

** "Lost Desert": [[SorcerousOverlord Emperor Razul of Qasala]] is a power-hungry and [[ImmortalitySeeker eternal life seeking]] sorcerer who trapped his own city in a nightmarish {{curse}} before banished by the people of Sakhmet. Seeking his resurrection and revenge, Razul [[ManipulativeBastard tricked his son Jazan]] into following a prophecy to save his people, which led to the prince desperately attempting to marry a Sakhmet princess at any cost and to the ensuing invasion of the neighboring city. Razul was resurrected once his son married Nabile, revealing that it was all just a ploy to gain immortality, and attempted to destroy not only Sakhmet with his magic, but the rest of Neopia as well. Cruel even to his own son and city, Razul [[ItsAllAboutMe cared for nothing except his own power and domination]].

* GameBreaker: Air and Fire attacks in the Battledome. Most other attack types have plenty of defensive items to counter them at all levels of play. These two only have a few specialized items, such as the ''extremely'' rare and expensive Claw Shield and the otherwise useless Tornado Ring. As a result, a lot of the competitive Battledome metagame is very air-centric and fire-centric. Before the battledome got a rehaul, Pteris as a pet species became a HighTierScrappy due to their natural resistance to Air.

** The site underwent a major revamp in Year 9 (2007). Some users quit the site as a result.
** At one point this was easily expressed as "Viacom bought it, now it sucks".

** [[spoiler:Xandra]] is the DILP in The Faerie's Ruin, mainly because of her points about Faeries even though the story largely disproves them.

** The Aisha species is pronounced "eye-shuh", but it's been mispronounced as "Asia", "ay-shuh", "ay-ee-shuh", "eye-ee-shuh", "ah-yee-shuh", or "ash-ee-uh".

** Dieter's name is sometimes thought to be pronounced "diet-er". Actually, it's a German name, pronounced "deeter".

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Jhudora legitimately evil or is she secretly nice inside?

* EvilIsSexy: Lord Kass, Ylana Skyfire, Captain Scarblade, Jazan (before his HeelFaceTurn), Kanrik (See Jazan), Eithne, and [[spoiler:Xandra]] get this.

** In December 2006, TNT pulled a prank where they pretended the Advent Calendar was giving out the Seasonal Attack Pea, only for the real prize to turn out to be a Seasonal Attack Pea Plushie and Seasonal Attack Pea Playset. Then, in 2023, they put the ''real'' Seasonal Attack Pea in the Advent Calendar's bonus prize pool.

*** Super Attack Pea is one of the hardest, as it requires both a Pea Chia (a rare, expensive pet) and a Super Attack Pea (one of the rarest and most expensive items ''ever'') and you’ll probably have to find two different people willing to lend you both of those at the same time.

** Trying to get a Petpetpet attached to your Petpet is a pain. You have to keep it in your inventory and every time you refresh the site or open a new page, there is a small chance that the Petpetpet will attach to your active pet's Petpet. This could take days, weeks or even months, during which the Petpetpet could be stolen by a random event like the Pant Devil or the Kiko Lake team collecting donations. And even if you're not trying to attach it (for example, if you want to sell it), it could randomly decide to attach itself while it's in your inventory, and is impossible to remove once it's stuck on there.

** Trying to get a Petpetpet attached to your Petpet is a pain. You have to keep it in your inventory and every time you refresh the site or open a new page, there is a small chance that the Petpetpet will attach to your active pet's Petpet. This could take days, weeks or even months, during which the Petpetpet could be stolen by a random event like the Pant Devil or the Kiko Lake team collecting donations. And if you're trying to ''sell'' a Petpetpet, not attach it, it could randomly decide to attach itself to your Petpet while it's in your inventory, and is impossible to remove once it's stuck on there.

** You can't choose to attach a Petpetpet to your Petpet; you have to put it in your inventory and every time you refresh or move to a new page, there is a small chance that the Petpetpet will attach. This could take days, weeks or even months, during which the Petpetpet could be stolen by a random event like the Pant Devil or the Kiko Lake team collecting donations. And if you're trying to ''sell'' a Petpetpet, not attach it, it could randomly decide to attach itself to your Petpet while it's in your inventory, and is impossible to remove once it's stuck on there.

** You can't choose to attach a Petpetpet to your Petpet; you have to put it in your inventory and every time you refresh or move to a new page, there is a small chance that the Petpetpet will attach. This could take days, weeks or even months, during which the Petpetpet could be stolen by a random event like the Pant Devil or the Kiko Lake team collecting donations. And if you're trying to ''sell'' a Petpetpet, not attach it, it could randomly decide to attach itself to your Petpet anyway, and is impossible to remove once it's stuck on there.

** There are several avatars that require certain items to obtain. Some of these items can be wickedly expensive, such as the Bony Grarrl Club, Zafara Double Agent Plushie, Super Attack Pea (Which also requires you to own a Pea Chia, which is also expensive) and Icy Snowflake. If you can't find an extremely generous person willing to lend you their avatar items, better start saving your Neopoints.

* BrokenBase: In the 2020s, TNT has been making it easier to obtain certain rare, valuable and expensive items, such as making the Illusen's Staff obtainable by racking enough points at the 2023 Faerie Festival, making certain Morphing Potions and Paint Brushes available as prizes for the weekly Quest Log, or putting the Seasonal Attack Pea into the bonus prize pool during the 2023 Advent Calendar. Some players are happy with this because they don't have to save hundreds of millions of Neopoints to get those items, but others are upset because it deflates the value of items they feel people should have to work hard to get.

* CreepyAwesome: [[spoiler:Xandra]] is a MagnificentBastard and ''scary'' once her true colors are revealed.