The Rise and Fall of Moshi Monsters
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
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Today let's take a nostalgic look back at a staple of the 2010's internet- Moshi Monsters! The beloved online virtual world about caring for goofy Monsters has a lot of history- from it's epic burst onto the gaming scene and it's sudden success, to the various dramas that have plagued it along the way, to the monumental downfall. Let's take a look at the rise and subsequent fall of Moshi Monsters.
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0:00 - Introduction
2:20 - Moshi's Rise to Fame
12:26 - What Went Wrong?
18:02 - Conclusion
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I was so upset by them removing Lady Googoo from the game and replacing her with Baby Rox that I actually sent a complaint email asking where Lady Googoo went and if she could come back. The reply I got was, “she went into the sun and will never come back.”
I'm sorry but that's so funny
Are you sure they said that???
Guess she was too much of a star that she had to go back to where she came from. Blinding us to this day with their baby glam.
If this is true that’s the best “I don’t care that you’re a customer or even a child” email I’ve ever read.
Everyone on the forum was convinced there was some kind of conspiracy because "Lady Gaga would NEVER do something like this to her lil monsters, we are her lil monsters!!! It doesn't add up!!!"
Lady Googoo died on the way to her homeplanet
I remember back in primary school we had a competition where we had to give a speech about something important to us. A girl in reception class did hers about her Moshi Monsters figure collection, and it was so good she was invited to deliver it to the CEO of Moshi Monsters herself. She was Looked upon by everyone with godlike awe. Sorry, that's such a long and random comment, but I suddenly unlocked a memory.
that’s so sweet
@noot noot Pretty sure you never collected anything or had a nice childhood.
Awesome 😮
I remember doing something like that and doing my speech on Warrior Cats, I made it into the school finals but I never advanced past the school 😭😭
@@Pookieluv831 not exactly a hard thing to believe
I remember being kind of relieved when I heard Moshi Monsters shut down because I hadn't been on the site in years at that point and I knew if I logged in my monster would be really sad and sick and I would feel bad. So when I heard it shut down I was like "oh good, abandoned monsters have been put out of their misery"
Lol relateable
That's how I felt about my old tamagotchi. lol It's better they're out of their misery, than suffering, sick and alone.
i would always just make new accounts every time my monster got sad. had to mask the truth somehow
R.I.P. Howard😭💔 (my tamagotchi)
My neopets have been starving for almost 20 years, so I 100% get it.
I actually had my art published in a moshi monsters magazine twice! My friendship tree was the tallest thing ever! I was still getting friend requests till it shut down. I will miss it, my little Gaz is in a better place now. RIP Moshi Monsters 😞
Same with my Rocko The Rocky :( i wonder what hes doing now :) i wish we couldve carried progress over! This game was my childhood :(
If I had known how big a Moshi fan I’d be beforehand (still don’t get why I hesitated over creating an account for as long as I did after first seeing its 2009 TV ad, but I’m glad I did! And at least I didn’t hesitate for very long!), I would’ve launched my own Moshi blog and a separate CZcams channel for Moshi stuff! I might’ve even be invited to Moshi HQ!
i never realised it was an online game until 2015 when I was 11 I always thought it was a card game
OH MY GOD i tried to get into that mfs stupid gallery in the back of the magazine for AGES and never made it in that was such a letdown ! i completely forgot ab that cheers for the reminder haha
Moshi Monster is back in stock, search for it as moshirewritten
your eye makeup NEVER misses
Wow CZcams
so true bestie
What
Hey youtube!
w h a t
I swear, these videos are gonna be considered ethnographic studies of internet culture one day.
I agree!! To be honest they are already achieving that status now, as a post-commentary
No doubt tbh
I'm a young Millennial (1990) and wasn't very 'internet savvy' in my teenage years, so most of the stuff Izzyzz talks about completely passed me by. I love this channel, and I see it as exactly that, almost as first hand artefacts of a long-gone civilization.
@@kieranharpham779 you’re actually closer to the end than the beginning (although pretty in the middle; the 15 years are from 1981-1996)! We’re a lot older than boomers give us credit for, lol
[ETA: Not trying to be a dick but after I posted I realized it sounds a bit dickish, this comment is /gen]
It is for me, I was already too old for this when they launched. I find it fascinating.
I never thought of moshi monsters as a "social media for kids" but that really makes me feel thankful that I was exposed to simple and child friendly sites like this at a young age before more mature sites like twitter and instagram
It's sad that kids nowadays don't have these type of games. Nobody even bothers to develop them.. There isn't a lot of TV shows for children even. Meanwhile we had watched numerous when we were young 😢 Somebody needs to bring some real joy to the new generation of kids because at this point I fell like we are failing them
In primary school we lived and breathed moshi. Thought it was just a UK craze but apparently not 😅 only 18 myself but it's mad how young kids nowadays get into social media without going on virtual worlds beforehand
I'm also 18 😭 I never played Moshi Monsters but MovieStarPlanet was definitely one of my first online experiences snksjssojd
I live in the US and it was literally the same here lol
Omg same here my jaw dropped when I saw the title and I started having flashbacks from like 8 years ago
I got banned from Lioden when I was thirteen for being underaged and asked in an email if I would be unbanned when I turned 15. Should probably email with ID or something, the way the admin that handled my case thought I would forget about the game taunts me to this day
@@TechTchno omg moviestarplanet
When I was 8 years old, in 2010/2011, my class was given the task of writing a letter to a company of our choice. I have no idea why. But anyway, I wrote a letter to the CEO of Moshi Monsters/Mind Candy, Michael Acton Smith. I was the only person that year who got a reply - it was a handwritten greetings card thanking me for playing the game, and the envelope was full of so many stickers that I’m still getting through them today.
I loved playing Moshi Monsters as a kid, and it was very dear to my heart for this reason. I don’t know much about Michael as a person, but I would say he certainly understands how to make kids smile. The topic of the game’s decline is actually a pretty sad one for me, as a result!
That’s so unbelievably sweet, it’s wonderful that you had that experience! I hope you’re able to carry the happiness it gives you for so many more years to come
My parents also wrote to him, praising him for the safe space he'd provided for kids curious about the online world, (especially autistic kids like me- my special interest was in moshi monsters and I'm pretty sure my parents mentioned that) and he sent me back a massive goody bag with free membership for 30 days, an iggy plush and loads of stickers along with a code that got me some rare ingame item (think it was the rox wallpaper, not 100 percent sure) and a crystal pricilla moshling figure! most of these are lost to time but i still have a few sticker packs and maybe the iggy somewhere if i looked! i'm pretty sure this was like in 2011-12. i've always felt really affectionate for this towards moshi monsters.
i used to go down to the local shop a kilometer from my house every week and buy a pack of the top trumps and the magazine from the minute i was allowed. good times :) Michael Smith from what i've heard and seen is such a lovely guy!
@@emilyjwatchesstuff Woah, that’s a cool! I’ve never heard of a CEO doing that :0 What a humble guy, I can imagine he was very thankful for the support and had appreciation for the kids who where playing it
I’m sorry but his name being Michael Acton made me laugh
@@AkitaSyn So close lmao
I was OBSESSED with moshi monsters, to the point I could recognise each individual moshling purely from the noise it made. It had such a grip on me it was insane
@@elise6970 same
@@elise6970 you can play a rewritten one
@@claudia-uy5gk true, but it doesnt have updates, and its not the same as when we were little kids
@@claudia-uy5gk true, but it doesnt have updates, and its not the same as when we were little kids
Same here! That was a fun time, to say the least. I kept all my moshi monster stuff, because it's a pretty good memory for me. I have plushies, a 3ds game of all the really cute baby moshi monsters, a booklet on them and stickers. xD
Fun fact:
I was OBSESSED with Ecto the Moshling as a kid. I would draw him constantly and I even made my own Ecto OCs I even made my own felt plush because they never sold an Ecto plush. I bought so many of the blind bags just to get the little figure of him. I still have it to this day. And honestly I have no idea why I hyper fixated on it like that lol
Same but with Mr Snoodle. He’s just so skrunkly
I’m so surprised she didn’t mention Poptropica. That was an insane part of my childhood
I hope to see a video of that sometime! As well as IMVU and oh my god.... VampireFreaks. I stayed till the end.
That game was made by the same one who created diary of a wimpy kid
I SAID Stop
Poptropica was my JAM. I never knew how to make an account so every time I played I had to start over again which meant I had to keep starting from the beginning of shark tooth island which I never ended up finishing (I remember getting pretty far once). I l also remember playing the diving game on the Olympic island for hours just trying to get a perfect score.
@@CraigWuzHere Wait, what???
Hey! We are the the owners of the Moshi Wiki and of a project called Moshi Community, thanks for mentioning the part about the Rewritten owner. It took a toll on us mentally, so we branched out and made our own version to protect Moshi’s legacy. I am glad to see the darkness come to light and rest assured that Moshi is in safe hands now and we will do all we can to keep it archived.
thank you for all ur hard work ^^!
@@STICKY_ archiving and general preventing of things from becoming lost media is actually _really_ important; I’m an art historian working on my museum studies masters and preserving things like this ensures proper documentation and helps us look back on aspects of society and culture just as any other art would.
I have massive respect for wiki communities, you lot are incredibly bunches of people that make current and future people like me (art historians and other similar academic fields) not have to worry so much about the vast quantities of media that’s being documented and saved. Keep up the greet work!!
@@STICKY_ says the dude on her animal jam video constantly screaming his age and wanting people to play with him…dosnt matter what the project is if you put a lot of work and time into something and then some dude with an ego keeps threatening to take it down for attention then it’s a shitty thing…kids game or not
@@thelonleyUchiha1 LOLLL ARE YOU SERIOUS?? HELP THATS HILARIOUS
Oh gosh... i loved moshi monsters back in 2012. It was the first place i went to vent about losing my first dog. I'm still devastated about losing all those pinboard messages 😭 I'll definitely be playing the rewritten asap, no other game has come close to that fucking ice cream minigame
ICE CREAM GAME WAS FUCKING LIT
Hi I haven't seen you in a while! I use to watch your videos :D. Anyways sorry for your loss I lost my 12 years old cat 2 weeks ago and it hurts but I remembered all the things she got to eat and do so it made me happy. I'm sure your dog loved you and got to experience so many great stuff being with you and I'm sure its in a better place.
Anyways I freaking love that ice cream game
Ummm are we the same person? Lmao i went straight to mm too when my dog passed away in 2010 and that’s when the obsession grew
There's a rewritten coming about?
@@CrowCoded There's at least two rewritten servers, Moshi Rewritten and Moshi Community. I use Community because the devs are a lot more active on that one, the rewritten team has been known to just ghost for weeks or months at a time
It's kind of sad that virtual worlds are being phased out. I'm definitely part of the group that thinks kids shouldn't be on sites like Twitter or Instagram where they could easily come across adult content. Kids should have their spaces and adults should have theirs, and neither should have to worry about overstepping boundaries.
Oh yeah the developers/mods said that because Moshi Monsters was meant to be for kids, having a discord server made it dangerous for them when it came to interacting with strangers and therefore had to be shutdown. However, the server was very friendly and active with many events and fun quizzes being uploaded by the staff from my experience! I understand their concerns for sure though
Okay, between how this game was created because the creator noticed how much children like nurturing things and how they persist now as a mindfulness and sleep app... This may be one of the most genuinely wholesome and not evil video game corporations out there!
Seriously. When hearing about how the creator noticed how kids like nurturing things, I couldn't help but let out an audible 'Awwww!' Because you know something? They're right! A lot of people see kids as these hellish, uncaring creatures, but honestly kids are inclined first and foremost to caring about things, and so creating a game geared towards that caring nature is a really nice thing to do! It's very good that this game was created on the foundation of having kids nurturing things over any other kind of gameplay loop or philosophy they could have founded it off of.
And the designs were weird and colorful and delightfully ugly sometimes!! Moshi monsters made me the artist i am today tbh.
agreed. when i was younger, and honestly still even now, i took the best care i could of my pokémon, when things like amie and the little thing in xy where you could feed them treats
i just treated them like real pets i could have, hated seeing them sad, etc
All of your video topics feel like they were hand picked for me, you’re amazing
for real though- i loved moshi monsters growing up
Same Moshi Monsters was a childhood favourite game for me like Club Penguin:)
Almost every single topic she’s covered is a game/franchise I’ve had interest in, wanted to see covered or even played as a kid! They’re so good
Lol I feel the opposite all these topics feel way past my time and I still love them
Bro I cannot express how happy I am with this video. I LOVED moshi monsters, my mom even subscribed to a moshi monsters magazine. I also bought like two plushies, a megablox set, and I still have some of the moshling toys i bought.
having moshi monsters as a uk based game was insane here, moshi monsters were everywhere at the time, theyre was even corner shops with off brand moshis to get into the craze and make money lol.
I stil lcan't get over the Megamind plush. The way it doesn't mesh with the artstyle at all, how it's description spoils the movie and how it's the last thing I would expect to see on the site as I left before it was introducted i think.
This is my moment to shine. Not only was I OBSESSED with this game, I spent all my pocket money on the playing cards and figurines. And the DS game! I still own all of these including the literal rarest one (our school called the holographic ones 'rainbow shiny' because well... they were rainbow and shiny) -- I got the rainbow shiny iggy (after convincing my dad to buy it off ebay)
I used to show my dad my house and my moshlings. I even managed to get a 1 month membership at one point. After my dad passed away, some of my fondest memories are playing the DS game with him, trying to get him to play the ice-cream game, and showing him my card collection (which I still have!)
I also once got a note which said "u are cute" and I remember I started shaking because I also shared my account with my crush at the time and was also terrified because how did they know what I looked like?
Ahhh memories...
This feels so warm
Hearing about other people's positive memories brings me so much joy. I'm glad you have such things to look back on :)
bro me and my siblings spent YEARS trying to find the 'rare iggy' (the holographic iggy or whatever' bc some older girls had one. Hundreds if not thousands of cards later and we never got the rare iggy.
we only found out about the game because for one of his birthday he got a one month (or year idk) membership on Club Penguin and moshi mosnters
@@JesusGonzalez-kg2fe it was shut down bc it was dying and the move wasn't worth all the money and work
I still have my DSi w the Moshi Monster case and my DSi is still covered in stickers from it! We also used to play a game as kids where we would hide all the figurines around the school vegetable patch and one day someone hid it so well we lost it and I remember crying because it was one of the ones I didn't have doubles for 😭😭😭
Man, Moshi monsters was a repressed memory of my childhood. I liked it, but stopped playing bc so many things were locked behind membership
Same. I even remember that there was a Harrods in the moshi monsters game. That’s how I knew that shopping at Harrods meant you were ‘rich’ rich lmao
Ikr? I remember story was even locked behind a pay wall. I spent all my time on that cupcake making game lmao
Same but it was Herotopia for me. There was nothing else to do due to the dumb paywall
You should totally revisit it and play Moshi Communuty then, since membership is free.
Even if you don't get into it because you out grew these kinds of games, the nostalgia is still wonderful
**I'm Kazawie on MMR and pidge on MC if anyone wants to add me ;]
@@marielcarey4288 i played that first story chapter a million times 💀
I applied for a job with Mind Candy in 2017 and had to animate a "yet to be released" Moshling as a test, so I assumed business was booming and it's a surprise to hear how much they were struggling at that time and were actually cutting staff. Maybe they were looking for a single person to the the job of several, since I think the reason I didn't get the job was because I didn't have game-making experience (even though it was an artist role.)
Moshi monsters was the reason I was never bought anything in online games. I had been playing it for a while when I was probably 8-9 and I finally worked up the courage to ask my parents to buy me membership and they did but as soon as they bought it for me I couldn't log onto my account. My mom got super pissed at me and sometimes out of the blue would be like "you know i'm still paying for that membership you better be using it" and i'm like "mom i've told you so many times i can't log in )':"
Anyways I never asked my parents for online currency or membership after that
I Remember that they had those membership cards inside of the store and i always bought one with my own money before you have to use the debit/credit card in order to buy the membership on the website
Dude if that happened to me as a kid I'd be devastated oh my god 😭
It’s so weird that your parents didn’t help you or cancel the membership after the site stopped working…. Like it’s weird how disconnected they seem to have been from you. I’m sorry you had to deal with that
I loved the aesthetic and art style of this game as a kid. I was so mad when the overworld models changed to match the designs of the movie that I would spend hours refusing to leave my house just to keep looking at the old designs
that "The Super Moshis need YOU!" line was what got me to beg my dad for a membership lmao, I even had magazine subscription too!
edit: I forgot to mention I have almost every DS game as well too lol, this game really did a lot
i loved the magazine- i have no idea where my copies went, but i used to put covers on my wall
you know, given how all these virtual world stories tend to end, i'm surprised wizard101 is still chugging along 14 years later
right! just renewed my membership so I could okay with my siblings lol
I saw an ad for it the other day and got absolute WHIPLASH
I completely forgot about wizard 101 and fantage
Great video, but I feel like you didn't really cover how much LORE this game had apart from mentioning missions once. Between the missions, magazines, and books, I remember talking about new missions with my friends and speculating what the next one would be. God, the more I'm thinking about it the more nostalgic I'm getting. I remember when Music Island got introduced and the map got bigger. I moved and left all my toys behind, but I think I might still have some posters somewhere.
I remember once as a kid, my dad bought me a card a GameStop which had a code to become a gold member for one month, and have access to activities otherwise hidden behind a paywall. And let me tell you, I made good use of that one month. I played this game all day and night, so much so, I'd get frequent headaches from staring at a computer screen for so long, but I still didn't stop.
Respect🙏😂
i rember getting my hands on a few 24hr free memberships and was intent on getting the most out of them. ahh good times
Me but with animal Jam.
I remember having 2 accounts for every monster, because I wanted a “girl “ and a “boy” version of each, even with the luvli and poppet which were seen as the feminine girly ones.
They really should've made them gendered, I want a girl Katsuma
I’d like to believe half of the 80 million users were your accounts
@@Sarah-bw3nh 😂lmao maybe, I always forgot passwords too and had to make new accounts so who knows how many monsters I actually made out there
*perfectly balanced, as everything should be*
@@FloorPills for some reason I always assumed that the Katsuma were supposed to be tomboyish girls 💀
I used to be unhealthily obsessed with moshi monsters… I watched the movie so much that my parents banned me from watching it and I’m pretty sure I have an old Ecto glowing keychain from a magazine which still kinda works hanging around somewhere
i was an avid moshi monsters gal. had the figures, made my family spend LOTS of money on memberships back in its prime. such a core memory. i play moshi online or rewritten every night. it’s so nice and nostalgic and i find myself ALWAYS rewatching this vid cuz it’s SO refreshing to hear someone else talk abt moshi!!!! so yeah i rewatch this vid almost every night..probably seen this vud 50 times in the past 6 months. my bf is always like “ur watching that AGAIN?” yes i am.😭😭
I think it would be super interesting to see you cover the controversial “teen” centered virtual worlds; OurWorld, SuperSecret, IMVU, Second Life, etc.
Zwinky too!
Fantage too! It shut down a few years back.
Our worldddddd I haven’t seee. Anyone talk about itttt 😭
Wait, how is IMVU controversial?
anyone else play meez? i was addicted
I'll always be grateful to have been able to grow up with these virtual worlds. Games like these shaped my childhood.
Yeah, I feel bad for 10 yrs old having shit like Twitter, TikTok or Instagram or whatever
My mom was more obsessed with moshi monsters than me, buying the yearly membership for herself. I remember that there was missions and you had to complete certain tasks in order to get fancy house shit lmao. I struggle to remember since I was so young but a volcano definitely comes to mind. When I can steal a laptop tomorrow I’ll definitely have to be playing on one of the rewritten servers because I’m desperate to have fun and bask in that nostalgia once more!
ur MOM played the game? 😭
It’s crazy how popular moshi monsters was in the UK because hardly anyone at my school in the US knew about it. Makes sense as to why the friends I made on there were usually from the UK
I remember one day while shopping with my mom in the toys aisle, there was this super cute plush called "diavlo" from moshi monsters. I begged and cried for my mom to buy it for me, and i got it. I didn't know moshi monsters were such a big brand, i just knew i needed diavlo or else i would probably die.
Diavlo is the superior monster and yes, I make the rules 🤷
a person of true taste.
smol volcano
I was WAY too old for Moshi Monsters, but I still vividly remember it mostly because of the whole Lady Goo-Goo debacle. It was the first big “Corporations are coming to destroy the internet with frivolous copyright suits!!” stories I remember seeing
Ironically I was and still am a massive Lady Gaga stan and never did I even so much as hear about that debacle til Izzyy made a video on it lol.
It's so surreal to hear someone talk in depth about something like Moshi Monsters. I never played the game myself but I remember seeing it advertised all over the place. I was really big on web games during my childhood and early teens, and sites like Newgrounds, Kongregate, and Armor Games used to have advertisements for Moshi Monsters that would play before your game would load. I got so used to seeing them and tuning them out that I sort of forgot they were al real things that actually existed.
Moshi Monsters was such a pinnacle for me, I remember how excited I was for each superhero adventure that came out that you would get to participate on (what were they called??? Super Moshi or something)
I hadn't played since like maybe 2013 because my account suddenly stopped working and I never sent an email about it, so this was the very first time hearing about it's shutdown. It's still a shock for me how a large part of my childhood is just gone now, it's crazy that all those years ago was unknowingly the last time I ever would have played the game. RIP Moshi Monsters, you were absolutely incredible
I distinctly remember playing moshi monsters before the paid membership even existed. They announced that it was coming in an email to all players and being a naive nine year old, I emailed back BEGGING them not to charge money and just use ads instead, and I actually got a reply saying that this was the way they were moving forward but thanking me for my support and suggestions lol.
As someone who’s a great advocate for game preservation, it’s really cool that so many online games are being preserved and archived by fans
Does anyone else remember how people would make "text art" on the pinboard?
I remember people being surprisingly talented at it. I tried it myself and spent a lot of time making horses out of text for my friends. They must've looked like crap because nobody ever bothered to save or pin them, lmao. Good times
I miss the magazine so much :( I remember my dad coming home from work and picking up the latest copy for me. The posters were probably my favourite part and the "Toastie" presser which I used for so many years after. The memories are endless!
I remember having literally everything moshi monsters- pyjamas, a bed spread, plushies, collectable moshlings. I remember always entering the competitions as well. I joined rewritten recently for the nostalgia and saw there was a design a moshling competition, I entered, and finally won a moshi competition. Made my 10 year old heart happy, lol
good job on winning that competition !
Awww congratulations!
oh my god i was like 90% sure this game was just a fever dream... i played it so much as a kid but i literally never saw anyone else talk about it so i was CONVINCED that i made it up entirely. good to know that its actually not just a weird webkinz ripoff that i hallucinated playing in the fifth grade
honestly, I thought it was super popular based on how much I liked it, I remember actually convincing my mom to plan a trip to the uk just so I could see the more popular conventions surrounding it
@@youi3916 oh yeah it totally was, but by the time i was allowed to be on the internet unrestricted it had outgrown its glory days so nobody was like. actively talking about it online anymore. and nobody i knew irl had ever played it so anytime i brought it up they all had no idea what i was talking about. i eventually came to the conclusion that i must've just imagined it but apparently not!!! I had no idea it was that popular though, pretty crazy to think about honestly
about the separate fan recreation of moshi monsters, moshi community just recently came out of beta! the devs of moshi community add new stuff to the game all the time and do frequent events/giveaways on their official server. one dev on the discord even said they'd be involved with moshi monsters for as long as they're around, which is a pretty serious commitment if you ask me
edit: moshi community got shut down :( the moshi community team said they can't disclose much information about it except that it was a legal issue
I was absolutely obsessed with this game, and was so sad that it quietly shut down like it did. Everyone in my school had the figures and cards and traded them with each other. I had six accounts, and I even managed to convince my parents to pay for the membership for my main monster. My room was full of Moshi merchandise, I still have most of it to this day. I remember buying some of the merch just because it came with a secret code for a rare Moshling or item. They even had a Moshi Monsters event at this theme park I went to, they were giving out a rare Moshling to everyone there. I felt so cool when I got the rare Moshling, until they made it available to everyone a few months later. There was someone dressed as a Katsuma monster that you could take photos with, and I stalked them throughout the whole park. Eventually I lost interest and moved onto games like Stardoll, but I still checked my monster at least once every year until the site closed.
You know it's refreshing to see a kids flash game that didn't have any major drama (at least, not any that was their fault) or shady connections. Childrens media seems to be such a magnet for trouble these days.
This game was literally my life blood for a good few years. I managed to get a Moshi Monster gift card in my halloween bag one year because the neighbors accidentally had slipped it in there with the bowl of candy they carelessly left out, which was obviously meant for their kid. I was one of the kids that got the Moshi magazine subscription, I swear to god doing the daily puzzles ended up giving me at least ten additional IQ points. I even once got a thank you letter from Mind Candy for just being a loyal customer. I swear to god I'm not trying to sound like I'm bragging but when their album came out I really felt like I helped to contribute to it, in however small way that me and my family did. Visual stimming to The Missy Kix by replaying the music video several times in a row may have helped in some way too, who knows lol. Now if you did Poptropica my childhood trifecta will be complete, since you've already done Monster High
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Wait, u stole some kid's gift??
@@sisseholm4869 Not intentionally! It was by complete random cause the bowl of candy had the card mixed in there. It was dark as hell outside and the neighborhood we were in was my aunts, so we didn't know it well at all. Because of all of that we didn't know which house specifically I got it from, since a lot of them that year just left giant bowls of candy on their doorsteps. We considered it evil luck and I used it lmao, but I promise I never intended to actually steal it it was just dumb luck that I got it
I remember playing this game all the time in elementary and was so addicted to the game. It's sad knowing that it has fallen and shut down, but at least there is a remade version of it. I have so many fun memories of this game. Thanks for giving us your time Moshi Monster's!
Moshi monsters was my whole childhood man. I had t shirts, plushies, the secret poppet pillow, the moshling tree house, the ds game, my nan got me the magazine every month, pretty much everything you listed off in this video. i’m an adult now and i miss moshi monsters so much lmao
The Asuka make up KILLING IT
I thought it was Nick slime
i think the slime is supposed to fit with the video's topic
EMPRESS OF TOMORROW
True
I love the "my body is my canvas" art we get with every episode.
I remember way back when in one of my old schools where the teachers would keep track of student attendance by using Moshi Monsters as a base. Everybody was represented by a little Moshi Monster avatar up on the smartboard and whenever we actually showed up to school we'd all have to tap our avatars up on the board to tick them to show that we arrived that day. My avatar was that goofy bigfoot ass looking one. Y'know, that one.
Omg that's so cute!
I think that one was legitimately called a furry. Might've been spelled differently like a "furrie" but yeah.
@@freshcupofangst It was Furri, yeah.
@@thesunwillneverset pretty sure it was Furi, but we're nitpicking now lmao
This is one of the few games my parents actually spent money on and im so glad they did. For 3 accts as well. I feel so spoiled lol. I could not believe my eyes when they shut it down. Iloved doing the quests even though somethies they were very hard. I had a diablo and Katsuma and lovely. I loved the music videos bought the merch moshi monsters was my life.
I was obsessed with Moshi Monsters as a kid. The way I heard about it was after a book fair at school I found a moshi monsters book in my little mail box slot. I don’t remember buying it but it was there and that’s how I heard of it.
I used to play this CONSTANTLY. I only realized they’d closed down the site a couple months ago when I remembered the ice cream mini game, it was my favorite lol
The exact same thing happened to me!
SAME
oh lord my biggest experience of this community was the forums. the moshi monsters forums could get a video of their own. the culture. the wars. the cliques. the guy with the mud kink who traumatised like everyone.
i need to hear this mud kink story because what the actual fuck 👹
The RP forums were a minefield
The guy with the what now
res gang wyaaaa
The huh!? with da whu?!?!?
Well, one of the new servers, Moshi Community, just got shut down an hour ago for legal reasons and I don't imagine MMR is too far behind. Oh boy...
I had totally forgotten about so many aspects of this game until I watched this video, I only played moshi monsters for the summer after elementary school but this game was an iconic part of my childhood
Hey Izzzyzzz! About that last segment, MMR is no longer being watched over or updated. The staff of it have made a new project called Moshi Community. I was there when the whole debacle went down, I'm a creator of a fanmade moshling that got added into the game! The drama was happening while they were still trying to get him into the game, so they just went ahead and added him to Moshi Community. It's honestly a much better fan revival. They're always adding new items and moshlings and new features.
I think those games where you had to make food within a certain timeframe that shrunk as the game progressed were really enabling to a certain group of kids diagnosed with both ADHD and anxiety
You didn't have to put us all on blast, dude-
True. I remember in some of the later levels I would get SO stressed to the point where I would just exit the game completely. I didn't wan't to feel the dissapointment from the monsters that didn't get their ice cream :(
that food game was what kept me up at night sweating as a child
I usually avoided those games because i knew i would feel so stressed. Now i play them but i quit at level 2
i never even played the ice-scream parlour because it stressed me so bad
I just giggled seeing them lovely Garfield pals in your background, while I'm having a super tiny, round Garfield sticker on my monitor. Also, I absolutely LOVE the fact that you're giving a special attention to your make-up for each video, so creative ✨ Keep up the good work!
I was OBSESSED with Moshi monsters as a kid. Shi Shi was always always my favourite. I used to religiously collect all the Moshling figurines and the Moshi Monster cards too, I even got the advent calendars and special edition sets 💀😭😭 I was hyperfixated on it for years and honestly I have so many good memories related to it.
Wait there was definitely another moshi mobile game. It was called something like “find moshlings” and it was horrible. There was no music and all the characters made eye contact with you the whole time with their horrible stares. The game over screen for the time challenge made me cry (i think it was all the moshis you didn’t find getting turned into goo by a machine) actually traumatic. If it’s still on the app store I’ll link it
this sounds like a lost media creepy pasta story r u sure they didnt have hyper realistic ray-traced moshi goo coming of their eyes? lmao
I recall a game just like that! Are you thinking of “Buster’s Lost Moshlings”? The ending screen I recall being creepy because the moshlings you didn’t find turned into gumps or something. And the game itself had no music, just bird sounds and the occasional sound effect when you tap something.
@@horse00626 YES! exactly that! Thanks for verifying I’m not crazy
jfc i never interacted with any moshi monsters media despite being a kid in the uk during this era BUT i played that game at a friend’s house and holy shit it scared the crap out of me so thank you for reminding me of that
I'm an old man, I've been heavy into MMOs since the mid 90s, all the big names, nearly none of the games you go over are anything I would've found let alone been interested in, and yet here I am, very interested in hearing all about the wild nonsense that went on in all these communities. Great videos, thank you.
Does anyone else remember the Christmas calendar they would do on their website for Christmas, that would let you unlock something every day for the month of December.. the nostalgia😭
I was such a massive moshi monsters fan as a child. Interesting to see it was just as big elsewhere, but where I’m from in Scotland it was insanely popular. It was that, LPS and Pokemon. Did anyone else get to see the Moshi Bus? It stopped outside of Silverburn Shopping Centre iirc. We got to walk around it and honestly it was such a cool idea? A tour bus for kids to see a physical manifestation of their online obsession, it was the most exciting thing at the time.
You didn't mention the very weird change that they made to the characters when you where in town. I don't remember very many details, but I remember logging in one day and going into town and having to look at the horrid anime looking moshi monsters everywhere. I actually remember thinking that it looked awful and hoping they would change it back, but I stopped playing it for a good long while after that.
yeah! and it was also super annoying, that not all clothing was altered to fit the new models. after this change i didnt even open the game once in a while anymore, i hated how it looked.
Is there any screenshots of the difference?
@@VantaDraws I honestly have no idea, if I can dig some up I'll try and link them or something.
@@urdarkruler2223 Tysm! When was the change made?
I think I vaguely remember that
I love your "The Rise and Fall of..." videos!! I would love to see things like Pixie Hollow, Disney Create, Millsberry, Supersecret, Weeworld, etc as well!
omg same
weeworld!! i thought i was the only one!
I’d love to watch the one on Pixie hollow. I miss that game so much. If she hasn’t done it yet I’d love a Bella Sarah video. I still have all my cards and a few toys.
@@xxmidnight12xx18 omg I forgot all about bella sarah! The memories you just unlocked :O
@@Kawaiivideos it was such a fun website! My childhood.
I'd literally die to see you cover the mobile game 'Zombie Café'. That game was a huge part of my childhood, and I got so sad to hear that they deleted it from the app store. I remember I spent a whole day looking online for APKs or something, but got absolutely nothing without putting a virus on my phone. I still get bittersweet memories from when my older sister would play it and refuse to let me watch 😭
I still remember when my friend in primary school who played Moshi Monsters stayed with us! My birth grandmother said we had to do our homework before we could play anything and my friend managed to convince her that Moshi Monsters was a math game. She got to play Moshi Monsters while I had to do homework, I was so mad lmaooo
I used to play this game with my friends everyday after I got home from school, Moshi Monsters is a Classic :)
moshi monsters shut down 6 days before my 18th birthday, my childhood and moshi monsters died alongside each other. I have the song that played in the ice cream game looping through my brain every single day of my life.
Moshi Monster is back in stock, search for it as moshirewritten
that first sentence went hard as hell
This was my childhood, I’m not even sure how I found it! But when my mom went to work she’d let me use her old clunky laptop to play. To this day I still listen to the songs bc they kinda bop. I miss the game so much. Back then I had no idea how to keep accounts/log in (I was like 9) so I constantly made new monsters lol. Dr. Strangeglove is still the best villain ever imo, my sister and I still reference him a lot!
I remember having a membership just because my mum loved playing their version of bejewelled. Also used to collect all the cards and moshling cards. I got a moshling seed guide for Christmas and I was obsessed with going through and trying to get every moshling
Moshi Monster reminds me of the time when that one Facebook game called "Pet Society" was active back then and it was a blast to play. Too bad that it got shut down.
This comment unlocked so many memories, oh god
Yesss I loved that game! I remember it used to be called Pet Party
I remember being scared shitless when I found out my pet is in the pound
Good times
i loved that game so much it was the reason i even created a facebook account when i was too young to have one in the first place
yess this! my lil Pet Society pet was named ‘Jr’ :’D he was the cutest tho the pay wall is wht killed 7 yr old me lmao
moshi monsters was my special interest back in the day, i brought some plushies off of ebay recently and the nostalgia was amazing. i even named my cat (he's 10 years old now) after a moshling- Waldo
i still have a moshi monsters special interest!
@@knoddysresort mines coming back currently, i've brought so much off of ebay lol
@@mimiqmayday that's pretty cool. i wish i had moshi monster plushies
my cats are called gingersnap and pooky after moshlings too!!!
They have PLUSHIES *runs to get a Mr Snoodle, Jeepers, Angel, Woolly, Big Bad Bill and Scamp immediately*
i literally binge watch your videos while making art. love everything you put out. thanks for bringing knowledge to an era I forgot in my childhood
i love watching these internet archive videos from you izzzyzzz! they always take me back to those early years in my childhood, and i grew up not necessarily playing every one of those virtual worlds but i was certainly exposed to it! i don't suppose you'd ever make a video on Nickolodeon's MMO Monkey Quest? MAN, i have so many nostalgic memories of that game. :')
the absolute dead pan expression and tone for “What can I say, it’s a great song. A banger if you will” was priceless
I mean,she ain’t wrong
GOD I MISS MOSHI MONSTERS SO MUCH
There's a rewritten version! I still play it.
3:31 Weirdly enough, I remember Ourworld the most. Used to think it was “Overworld” but I managed to rediscover it and played it one final time on my mom’s MacBook in 2019.
I had a lot of trouble with math problems in elementary, so my mom was very strict with how long I spent playing video games. (She did so that I can study more)
Idk if you guys remember, but do you remember how there was an option to play mini games ? And there were math ones? She used to be open to me playing Moshi Monsters more because I would often playing those mini games in front of her.
Man seeing all these videos you make on kids virtual worlds made me realize we’re never going to have this sort of era ever again. A shame, too, since it’s always been so charming and creative.
i froze when i saw the title nobody talks about moshi monsters anymore but it was my childhood and i still love it so much to this day, hence my name. i was devastated when the site shut down, i actually had to grieve it. my little katsuma gone to the abyss of internet deletion. however there is a rewritten game run by fans which is pretty good! id recommend checking it out. i wish moshi monsters never died, or at least i hope they resurge in popularity one day. i remember seeing the moshling blind bags in build a bear workshop at the mall, id buy one every time i went. to this day i still collect moshlings, i have the ds game, a moshi monsters themed nintendo accessories, and a never ending love for the series.
anyway im gonna finish watching the video now lol. thank you for making this
Moshi Monster is back in stock, search for it as moshirewritten
I adore your channel. You always cover such interesting topics. Topics that I was involved in as a kid but no one really does deep dives on. Super unique content and always a pleasure to tune in!
I was out in my garage one day and actually found a box of moshi monster valentine cards from middle school and got smacked with the nostalgia.
i loved moshi monsters - highkey hope the resurfacing of y2k trends eventually includes virtual worlds
I’m actually sad that I can no longer go back and look at the original website and reminisce over how much I enjoyed the game as a kid and makes me wish I was able to play the game with my child
Videos about these old kids MMOs make me kinda sad I grew up without the Internet. They all look so fun and sweet. On the other hand, my parents' money was safely spent on Goosebumps books, Pokemon merch and Mega Bloks Dragons sets instead of virtual memberships, which is neat since I still have most of these books and toys tucked away somewhere, and the membership would have been gone as soon as the game went down, along will all the digital stuff I got with it. Stll, I'm really happy that so many kids have all these wholesome memories of playing these games.
I can say from experience as a kid I lost interest QUICKLY on the merchandise side of things. As more and more moshlings were made I felt less and less attached and less and less drawn to spending money to collect them. Which is honestly just what I think a lot of kids felt too. Though I still hold my Ecto and a little gold wrestler penguin I got close to my heart despite how obvious it is now they were just getting money from me.
I'm gonna be happy when in the future their worth goes up (I hope) and I can make some mad money off these little things
Now that you mention it I think the same thing happened to me. While I'm sure a lot of the designs for the newer moshlings were really cool they just weren't CLASSIC like series one was so I think I stopped bothering to ask my mum for them
yea there was too many to keep up tbh
I miss virtual worlds!! It made socializing so much easier and I can’t wait until they get popular again when the time comes
YOOOOOOOOO I collected SO. Many. Moshling figures when I was a kid. Still have them too -- even Lady GooGoo, I believe.
And I had so much fun on those message boards as a kid. I used to go through other people's conversations (I was ten, okay?) and distinctly remember stopping my snooping for a while after finding this one girl talking about how when she grew up and had a kid she was going to dye his hair black and quote, "cut a scar on his forehead" -- and I didn't put together that she was talking about turning her kid into harry potter until years later. At the time, I was horrified. Aaaah, the internet... such fond memories lol
i find it really funny that younger me never actually realised that moshi monsters was an online game. despite me collecting some toys, playing the ds game and being obsessed with the magazines/collector books, only around the shutdown did i realise it was an online game.
As a child I was a connoisseur of virtual worlds so I had accounts on ToonTown (my favorite to this day), Club Penguin, Pixie Hollow, Free Realms, etc. But Moshi Monsters was the only one my irl friends actually played. I had a Katsuma and my best friend had either a Furi or a Zommer, I can't really remember. We would leave eachother notes on the pinboard. I remember in the bio it asked what your favorite band was but I didn't recognize any of the options except Owl City because they did the song used in the credits of Wreck-It-Ralph, so I chose that one. I had to have been like, 8 or 9 I think. I still have a Katsuma McDonald's toy as well as a McDonald's toy of one of those purple fluffball things that look like the fuzzies from Mario.
I've long since drifted away from my elementary school friend, not because of any drama we just kinda lost contact due to life circumstances, and we slowly ended up having less and less in common as time went on anyways. I was sad to hear Moshi Monsters closed, because it means I'll never see the conversations we had on the pinboards again.
I would love for Izzy to do a Toontown video! It was my favorite, too. My sister had some personal info stolen from her by playing Toontown House: I think they didn’t use a token system to log in so your email and etc. was just available for people to find if they knew how to get it.
Corporate Clash is a pretty fun change to the original game. I hadn’t heard about Altis trying to get on Steam but I’ll have to look up that drama now.
Hello ralsei!
Yo same animal jam,Poptropica,free realms ,pixie hollow u name it i had it
Did you ever happen to play Pet Pet Park? If not I feel like it would’ve been right up your alley
As a kid from the UK I vividly remember various friends being really into Moshi Monsters and trying to get me to make an account, but personally Stardoll was my go-to kid-friendly world. 12 year old me felt so grown up knowing who designers were and decking out my suite, not to mention the insane high school and fantasy roleplays I dove into on the forums. It certainly felt huge at the time (I think they had an official collab with Mattel for some stardoll barbies?) and I'd LOVE to see an Izzzyzzz video on it
the kids on my estate growing up had a sort of moshi trading hub where we each had checklists of all the moshis we had and then a separate one of the moshis we wanted. trades would be arranged beforehand and i cant remember any distinct scandals so it must have worked fairly well
This video brought back so much nostalgia!! I was a moshi monsters superfan back in the day and it was nice to see the old gameplay throughout the video
Just to let you know Moshi Monsters Rewritten's dev team has moved over to a new game called Moshi Community which I've provided a few contributions to :)
Plus it gets constant updates :)