History Trivia / Neopets

* DearNegativeReader: The Neopets Metaverse Twitter account called people criticizing the use of [=NFTs=] as "Hateoooors." An ambassador for the Neopets Metaverse also said that Neopets fans were "worse than COVID."

* AuthorsSavingThrow: For most of the site's life, discussion of LGBT topics resulted in warnings and bannings due to, [[ValuesDissonance at the time]], being considered [[FlameBait too closely intertwined with religion and politics for the users to have civil discussions]]. In 2021, however, the site publicly acknowledged [[UsefulNotes/PrideParade Pride Month]], and made pride-themed merchandise available year-round. It wasn't so much the items and merchandise itself that was the saving throw, however -- it was what their existence represented, in that it was now absolutely clear that outdated policy was history. Some users worried that the support showed was [[{{Hypocrite}} non-genuine]], and that they would still get in trouble for talking about any related subjects, but the staff has made it clear when people asked that would not be the case. And indeed, since then no user has gotten in trouble for what before would have given at least an automated warning. If that wasn't clear enough, they doubled down on their support for marginalized groups in subsequent years, releasing a large amount of items for Neopets to express other orientations, identities, and disabilities.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: For most of the site's life, discussion of LGBT topics resulted in warnings and bannings due to, [[ValuesDissonance at the time]], being considered [[FlameBait too closely intertwined with religion and politics for the users to have civil discussions]]. In 2021, however, the site publicly acknowledged [[UsefulNotes/PrideParade Pride Month]], added a pride flag handheld wearable, and made pride-themed merchandise available year-round. It wasn't so much the items and merchandise itself that was the saving throw, however -- it was what their existence represented, in that it was now absolutely clear that outdated policy was history.

** The Shoyru was also designed by a player by the name of Mewmew.

** [[http://www.neopets.com/comingsoon.phtml This page]] once listed several features that where "coming soon", including what appears to be three new plots, a new flash game, and a make-over of preexisting games. They've where coming soon for several years, though they've sine been replaced with other features.
** The Battledome was apparently in the works since the site was created, although it wasn't implemented until several years later. Also, pets could have stats prior to the Battledome giving them a use for them. Likewise, clothing and accessory items existed long before pets could actually be dressed up.

* AscendedFanon: The "Rooligans" are a chatgroup for the Roo Island team during the Altador Cup. Eventually, TNT decided to use the term as an all-purpose nickname for RI fans.

* FanworkBan: To a point. In the Nickelodeon Kids & Family Virtual Worlds Group games terms of service (which includes Neopets, Website/PetpetPark, Website/Nicktropolis, and VideoGame/MonkeyQuest), all rights to making derivative works under Fair Use are given up. However, Neopets at the least still allows people to submit original fanwork to the various contests and the Neopian Times, all of which have rules that all submissions must follow in order to be accepted. Though considering the site is no longer owned by Nickelodeon, this may no longer be the case, and even if it is, it seems to be hardly enforced anyway, as many off-site fanworks continue to flourish.

** Ever wondered why the classic pet images have "baby" in their URL? (e.g. "lupe_red_baby.gif") This is because pets were originally intended to [[EvolutionPowerUp evolve]], but this idea was scrapped early on, so pets stayed in their "baby" stage.
* WordOfGay: Mirsha Grelinek, the captain of Shenkuu's Yooyuball team, was revealed to be a lesbian in 2022 when she said what she was most looking forward to post-season was seeing her girlfriend.

* OfficialFanSubmittedContent: A fan, Chanii1234, drew the original Zafara design, which was the winner of a contest to create a new Neopet.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: It's implied that this is the reason behind Bruce changing from a Creator/BruceForsyth caricature to a penguin, and Kau changing from a caricature of singer Macy Gray. Similarly, it was implied that Fuzio became Kyrii due to the former having more than a passing resemblance to VideoGame/{{Rayman}}.

* WordOfGay: Mirsha Grelink, the captain of Shenkuu's Yooyuball team, was revealed to be a lesbian in 2022 when she said what she was most looking forward to post-season was seeing her girlfriend.

** Ever wondered why the classic pet images have "baby" in their URL? (e.g. "lupe_red_baby.gif") This is because pets were originally intended to [[EvolutionPowerUp evolve]], but this idea was scrapped early on, so pets stayed in their "baby" stage.

* FanworkBan: To a point. In the Nickelodeon Kids & Family Virtual Worlds Group games terms of service (which includes Neopets, Website/PetpetPark, {{Nicktropolis}}, and VideoGame/MonkeyQuest), all rights to making derivative works under Fair Use are given up. However, Neopets at the least still allows people to submit original fanwork to the various contests and the Neopian Times, all of which have rules that all submissions must follow in order to be accepted. Though considering the site is no longer owned by Nickelodeon, this may no longer be the case, and even if it is, it seems to be hardly enforced anyway, as many off-site fanworks continue to flourish.

** Even before the death of Flash, this was a common issue with the site's older games. While the Game Graveyard was created for combating this problem, not every game that was retired was sent there, and even some games that were later got removed.

* FanNickname: "Lab rats" are pets that are adopted or used for testing the Lab Ray or trying to get a good outcome from it.

* CreatorBreakdown: Co-founder Donna revealed in an AMA on Website/{{Reddit}} that the existence of two pet species--the Ogrin and the Xweetok--can be attributed to her having one during the Creator/{{Viacom}} buyout. Though users [[SpringtimeForHitler sure aren't complaining]] considering the Xweetok is [[EnsembleDarkhorse the fifth-most popular pet species on the site]].

* CreatorBreakdown: Co-founder Donna revealed in an AMA on Website/{{Reddit}} that the existence of two pet species--the Ogrin and the Xweetok--can be attributed to her having one during the Creator/{{Viacom}} buyout.

* CreatorBreakdown: Co-founder Donna revealed in an AMA on Reddit that the existence of two pet species can be attributed to this. That is, she greenlit what she considered the [[{{Gonk}} worst design]]--the Ogrin, and the [[UnfortunateNames worst name]]--the Xweetok, as a [[TakingYouWithMe final parting gift]] during the Creator/{{Viacom}} buyout. This was [[SpringtimeForHitler not very successful]], however; Ogrins, while not ''popular'', are considered by their owners to be UglyCute at worst, and Xweetoks rapidly became [[BreakoutCharacter one of the most popular pet species on the site]], now sitting comfortably at fifth place[[note]]They're 500,000 behind fourth place (the Lupe), and over one million above sixth place (the Uni), so barring an unlikely gargantuan surge in activity, this statistic is [[Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotRecent highly stable and not going to change anytime soon]][[/note]].

** [[https://i.imgur.com/FJfseMk.jpg map of Neopia from sometime in 2010[[note]]Moltara was added to the site on November [=12th=], 2009. Faerieland was destroyed on November [=24th=], 2010. Both are present on the map.[[/note]] was found DummiedOut in the game files of ''Legends & Letters'' which gives names to many of the unexplored areas and landmasses of Neopia. It was apparently intended for a project called "Legends of Neopia", which has long since been scrapped -- you might notice the Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} logo is on it, despite ''Legends & Letters'' being entirely developed in the Creator/{{JumpStart|Games}} era.

** At the very beginning of the site's history, nineteen planes of existence were [[https://i.imgur.com/88Zj9W6.png listed under Neopia's first map]][[note]]The banner at the top of the screenshotted page in anachronistic because of the way the page was preserved, which kept the direct link to the since-overwritten image[[/note]] implied that a KarmaMeter was going to be incorporated, but ultimately, nothing was done with them except being referenced in some of the earliest Neopian Times submissions and [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/characters/2693/ one of the old Collectible Cards]] before those were revamped. In addition, a [[https://i.imgur.com/FJfseMk.jpg map of Neopia from sometime between November 2009 and November 2010]][[note]]Moltara was added to the site on November [=12th=], 2009. Faerieland was destroyed on November [=24th=], 2010. Both are present on the map. was found DummiedOut in the game files of ''Legends & Letters'' which gives names to many of the unexplored areas and landmasses of Neopia. It was apparently intended for a project called "Legends of Neopia", which has long since been scrapped -- you might notice the Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} logo is on it, despite ''Legends & Letters'' being entirely developed in the Creator/{{JumpStart|Games}} era.

* TheOtherMarty: In the earliest releases, some Neopets were replaced, much like the Bruce incident. One such change was a species of dragon called the Tatsu that was inexplicably replaced with the Eyries (gryphons). The [[http://www.wacky-packages.org/neopets/Tatsu.htm Tatsus]] apparently rose from an even earlier design called the [[http://www.wacky-packages.org/neopets/Cerpull.htm Cerpull]]

** At the very beginning of the site's history, nineteen planes of existence were [[https://i.imgur.com/88Zj9W6.png listed under Neopia's first map]][[note]]The banner at the top of the screenshotted page in anachronistic because of the way the page was preserved, which kept the direct link to the since-overwritten image[[/note]] implied that a KarmaMeter was going to be incorporated, but ultimately, nothing was done with them except being referenced in some of the earliest Neopian Times submissions and [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/characters/2693/ one of the old Collectible Cards]] before those were revamped. In addition, a [[https://i.imgur.com/FJfseMk.jpg map of Neopia from around 2010-2012]] was found DummiedOut in the game files of ''Legends & Letters'' which gives names to many of the unexplored areas and landmasses of Neopia.