Animal Jam is an Unprofessional Company 

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I know this has nothing to do with Animal Jam itself, but I still can't believe Wildworks, who made AJ for kids to teach them about the environment and seemed so close to their community in the past, sacrificed their older fans by making a blockchain NFT game. If "environment awareness mostly free kids virtual world" to "NFTs priced at thousands of dollars just to play in a glorified chatroom" doesn't scream fall from grace I don't know what does

AJ has definitely gone down hill over the past few years… honestly it’s sad to see the company become money hungry and the continuous trash updates. I’m not sure how much longer I wanna stick to this game, it’s been my whole childhood but honestly I think I might leave sooner or later. It’s just not exciting like how it used to be, AJ just keeps reusing ideas and/or making horrible new ideas.

Aj is treating their game like a discord server honestly, some people get banned for no reason and others get away with everything under the sun, people getting scammed while trying to get a colorful dinosaur, if you say something slightly critical of them you get chat restricted, and if you don't pay money you're treated worse by the community itself. Some days i really wonder if ajhq is just a bunch of discord mods trying to run a kids game

animal jam is definitely unprofessional, they have scammed me out of 30 dollars and i never got a refund or what i bought. my friend was scammed out of 50 dollars and whenever they contact AJHQ, the say something like animal's jams privacy policies yet it's not really about privacy, it's about money. The message i got when sending an email was sorry to hear that jammer! stay safe and i got suspended for 7 days. So, they basically were silencing me speaking out.

I honestly feel like Animal Jam is on life support at this point

Yep. They are really getting money hungry. The poor kids that don't have money to buy the new stuff :(

I lost all respect and trust for Wildworks after what happened with Feral…

My dad actually threatened to sue the company a few years back, he complained afterwards that the company was one of the most unprofessional companies he’s ever talked to.

Honestly, this is kind of why I stopped playing animal jam a ton. I didn’t want to spend my money on membership, and getting sapphires was always super tedious. And do I even have to mention how money hungry wild works is? So I pretty much have stopped playing it altogether.

I remember a few months ago begging them to add a feature of having double pets, i said for them to charge 15 to 50 sapphs for an extra pet slot and make it for *NON MEMBERS* smh i hate how they twisted it to make the update for mainly members

11:55 This has been a huge problem for my family, where Animal jam just kept taking money from my Dad's account. We tried to contact them, cancel the subscription, and even delete the account tied to it but it didn't work. It eventually worked after calling the company, but even then our money was lost since they were so greedy.

AJ's slowly lost its magic for me ever since Feral kicked the bucket, I miss the idea of a fantasy RPG so much I made a fox dressed like a witch and traded alot of random stuff for that look. It took forever but it looked nice at least. Though i just- dont play it as much as I used to.

It is a shame that a game that we played as kids is getting money hungry and becoming a field of педоs and has lost care for its player base. I remember a different Wildworks.

I do wanna note again! The autumn coyote and spring bunny ALREADY exist in Classic from ages back. Lazy

That data breach really screwed me over and I've hated Animal Jam and the company ever since. I had taken a break from the game and the community when it happened and had only heard about it a few months later when getting back into the game, but I was already too late. I had been hacked and all my good items and all my pets were taken. I'm still extremely upset even after all this time because I had really loved those items and the characters I've made but now I can't think or even look at the game the same way again. I hope whoever has my stuff is happy now (/s).

I must admit, the "free" box thing bothers me a bit! The worst thing about it is that I keep accidentally clicking on it, as it keeps flashing and popping up. It's like AJ has ads now 😭

I agree its turing into pay-to-play Their community is also bad and toxic and they to fix it by blocking and suspending people but in the end it suspends the wrong ppl- i was talking to my friend 5 mins ago and said i needed her help on a vid- AJ SUSPENDED ME FOR INAPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR WHAT THE- They don't even know how to run their game anymore- No wonder ppl are quitting! Tysm for bringing awareness Leamon!

I have quit Animal jam in 2020 but I still come here from time to time. It's so sad to see how the game that I once couldn't get enough of has turned into this.

Dude, I’m literally so tired of the fact that they are selling so many things for real money, it’s so annoying especially since some of the real money bought items seem so unnecessary.

Unfortunately Animal Jam is getting more money hungry. I'm afraid that in the future they're going to add "exclusive animals" that you can be but it will cost real money. Also there for sure are still predators roaming around the game. Just the other day I encountered one. I checked the account and it's still up! 😠

Honestly this entire situation is just so bad that I'm sitting here just laughing at the company and myself for playing the game as a child. Ain't even sad anymore, just laughing at the miserable failure they've become.

AJ has changed so much. there company and the game is going down a big down fall. they barely cover any issues when they need to be fixed

Animal Jam keeps 'accidentally' robbing people of their money when it is inevitable that they should have been able to prevent it. Now I am not saying they are purposely scamming but more or less being lazy and disorganised with financial and security aspects of the game if that makes sense? It hard to describe but 12:15 has happened to me too. When I purchased a membership with the money I got a membership only for it to say I bought ANOTHER membership the next day when I hadn't then around a week later it repeated and I had yet another membership. As fun as this 'triple membership' may seem I only wanted one and therefore lost around 12 euros because of this? I contacted ajhq about this but they never really replied? Instead, they just put one membership onto my account and called it a day.

NGL another thing thats pretty unprofessional was the person who made the floppy bunny ears hat didn't get credited until maybe a week later-... i also met them and they told us they never even got a rare tagged variant like all the other jammers did who made items. They did end up getting a rare tagged golden egg though.. They just wish they had gotten rare tag for the memory of it, but they do also appreciate that its in the game and people love it! I just feel bad for them ❤☹️

4:00 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING THIS UP!!! i’m usually very excited for when there’s a new animal, but there’s been all these reskins lately and it’s bugging me a lot. it feels a bit like a scam because it’s just the same thing but just with a representation of that season. i swear, december is gonna be an arctic fox reskin.

im so glad i grew up with the old aj and ajpw. it was so good back then. i played for hours. now, it's dissapointing

My original reason for my official swap to play wild from ajc was bc of the lack of memebership system. It was nice to feel equal to other players and to gets nice features in the game without paying money, however as time went on the membership aspect grew and I was constantly buying it even with real money. However now I barley play anymore so don’t bother to buy it. But also I feel demotivated to every play when I get on due to the vast amount of features u lack without membership

fr, i bought 200 sapphires once and they scammed me. i never go the 200 and i contacted them, they never gave it but this was a year ago so idk if this happened to anyone else or not. i hope it hasn’t tho! love the videos as always leamon❤

Why is no one talking about the absolutely ADORABLE mlp g5 art Leamon made in this video???

I have been playing animal jam since I was 10, so about 6 years, and I still play regularly. I had come across an issue while submitting a masterpiece and emailed ajhq for help. They asked for me to go to a sketchy website and screenshot my ip address and send it to them before they answered my question. I work as an ethical hacker and know all the things that can be done with an ip address, so I refused to send it. But it worries me that ajhq is asking kids to go to sketchy websites to send their ip address to them, it is very unprofessional and ngl, scary to think this is where the game is going.

I quit like a year ago, got rid of rarer items within the same month. I'll always remember the AJ I started played in 2014/2015 and all the friends and adventures I had. Both the game and community actually helped and inspired me to draw more than just mlp, legit don't think I'd be here without it XD I was the last of my IRL friend group to quit (not counting my younger sister who randomly plays PW), I really hoped something would come up, new updates, new anything but no AJ was just left in the shadow of play wild.. I really miss having fun with random ppl and going on adventures to get rares, hosting fashion shows and pet sales, decorating my den and making a map out of it, adding to my collection of +200 animal characters, hosting art cons with aj prizes... can only hope another game like it gets made cuz I am not going back anymore. Anyone can make a game or a game studio, doesn't take much other than money and hiring people. I wouldn't say AJ is unprofessional, but it's far from respected and transparent. The amount of bad things that happened in the last 2-3 years really just keeps getting bigger and worse. Basically people, pack your bags, invest your items into something worth more like art and lock your accounts. I myself got sick of the neglect and direction WW was heading.. I would love for the games to become alive and popular again, get better and have as much new updates and content as they used to when I started playing, really I hope that happens but nobody knows how this will go, seems pretty negative but guess we'll have to see. I've considered before quitting to open a new account and play from scratch, which is a fun idea to try if you still didn't give up on the game. But hey if you still log on to the original AJ, visit TheSpinnyVillage. I made it when Tiki Trouble came out which became my fav seasonal adventure.. +Julian2 fans loved to play in it.. I swear if I ever get to a point to be able to afford to make a multiplayer game I'll do one similar to AJ

When I saw the autumn coyote for the first time it was the second pattern animal came in a row. If animal jam did another pattern animal in December I’m sick of having pattern animals. Today on animal jams instagram I saw the next animal isn’t a pattern animal which I’m happy about it.

Damn, I used to play this game a ton up until mid 2018. I seriously considered looking back, but... yeesh. This almost perfectly fits the saying "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

Animal Jam used to be such a fun game to play. Now the company has gotten so greedy by being money hungry, I don't blame people for quitting. It's clear to see Wildworks doesn't care about their players anymore, especially if they're STILL allowing predators like hyenine1 or straycat2 in the game, but suspend/silence victims. I still play Aj from time to time (mostly to play TFD, I have a system where I do a chore in real life, then play a couple rounds of TFD, etc. I know it's dumb, but ehhh.) but I'm no longer invested in it. Don't get me started on the so called 'updates' they release, only to be the same thing every year, it's gotten to be boring. Not only that, I feel as though I've gotten too old to play it nowadays. :') Great video as always, Leamon!

Not to mention them declining my masterpieces because I mentioned I have autism!! Yet there is many other pieces saying the same thing!

I stopped playing this game, after I could not recover my account because I found out they deleted accounts that have not been touched for even a year. Which sucked because I did spend money on this game, and wanted to play it more often but due to life reasons, I couldn't play it everyday and ended up dying from it (I don't know if it is true or not that they do delete accounts that have been inactive for a year). Though after this, I'm kind of glad I stopped at this point.

Man, remember when AJ stuff was big on youtube? Memories.

When I played Animal Jam, I tried cancelling my membership, it said it was cancelled, but continued to charge for it monthly. I did still get the membership perks but it took calling AJHQ for them to actually cancel it. (I tried cancelling it MANY times before, it always said that it was already cancelled) I’m not sure if this is helpful or not but this was just my experience 😅

Always a good day when leamonpuppy posts.

“a they’re just adding reskins of the animals that are already in the game” AJ Classic:

Sadly this was me in the video. Still no money unfortunately, I am the one who sent the info in on the situation to Leamon, props to Leamon for making people more aware 👏

To add onto that note: the infamous straycat2x2

Yesss, perfect, Leamon vid while I’m waiting for a bday party

lesser known fact. issues from the data breach are still occurring, usernames and passwords are still being leaked and there's a weird "black market" around getting and selling them. there's entire communities dedicated to it and it's highly disturbing as they empty recent accounts of all their items, pets, and saphs source- accidentally joined a disc server for it when hunting for a normal ajpw one. it had roughly 400 members and while I was there I got screenshots n such of their activities. I did report them but I never got any reply from ajhq

Rewatching this, when you mention re- skins I immediately remember that the Light side and Dark side Arctic Wolves that came out THIS October ( 2023 obviously) 😮 at first I didn’t care for them, then I saw many other people with them and then I bought them, my brother bought the Darkside one only I bought both! Also I love your content! Keep it up!

4:19 they’ve been doing this for years in classic aj.

Aj is honestly greedy for money- aj classic was pain

And, if you want more saps, all you have to do to purchase them is to do a Touch ID on a phone! That makes it way too easy for a kid to accidentally, or intensionally take advantage of their parent's money for sapphires.

And the fact that they made the sapphire membership higher just makes me mad. I have to take days to get sapphires just to be able to sell my stuff for the price I need and wear items I like.

Wow. I have no words really. You slayed this discussion and I agree with everything you say.

I was done with this company the moment they scammed my money technically with Feral. I also invested into Animal Jam classic until they decided to make Play Wild and update it more. I was tired of putting my money down a hole, so I quit.

I agree on the “free” advertising is bad, especially that animal jam is market towards children. I don’t play it anymore, but a lot of kids might think it’s free and accidentally spend money on it. It’s not too good. :/

I quit this game years ago, but I enjoyed it. The unprofessionalism of the company is one of the reasons.

petition to make a videogame inspired by aj but everything is free, you just need to work for some things

“Animal Jam is an Unprofessional Company” Yup, nothing new here

It is technically a FREE super box because the other past 2 super boxes didn't give out a FREE super box for members who bought membership. they didn't have to give a FREE super box to people who support their game by buying membership, but they did anyway and that is that

I love your art! And yeah, Animal Jam is money hungry and running out of new animals. This might be a reason why it’s been going downhill. They also haven’t been giving the best to classic. It’s really been a bad era for Animal Jam, the 2020s have other than the good features they added without sapphires like packs for everyone. Also, this is kinda off topic, but Roblox had problems like this like being said that it’s been getting hacked so many times this month. It’s either me being confused, or it’s been getting hacked so much after even being said that they will be having a hacker check thingy soon. By the way I have fanart for you! -Aristocatkitten

10:00 OMG I WAS NOT READY FOR THE KIRBY ICE LEVEL MUSIC I AM IN LOVE WITH YOU

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I agree Animal jam is very unprofessional just last week i was hanging out with my buddies in the pillow room and some new jammers started hitting on us, and 2 weeks before that i was getting hacked consistently after getting new items and they took my acc from my email and i couldn't do anything about it, then yesterday my gold flaming jack-o'-latern tail from an outfit i was wearing got hacked. I believe they indeed need to rank up their security.

apparently, the wildworks cashgrab attitude is the reason why I left animal jam.... forever.

Also Leamon pup, i really like you, you inform us of every single update on aj and i really appreciate it, not only me all your subscribers does.🍋🐶⚪️

Your drawing's great. I love how friendly peck looks

The Autumn coyote made me mad. I always wanted the coyote character and not a coyote covered in leaves 🙄

Love your content girl!

Dang. With tbat last one, now I'm hesitant to ever attach a credit card to my account. Also regarding Hyenine, I'm surprised they also approve the artworks from him that seem like borderline fetish art, yet innocent artworks and one I made for a "Pan-duh" pun get denied.

my account got hacked during that whole data breach thing, i lost all the rares i spent collecting througout my childhood all the way to high school. since im an adult and never really played besides logging on every once in awhile for nostalgia, it wasnt a huge deal for me. but it was still upsetting to see that their company let that happen and gave little to no sympathy or compensation to those effected by what happened. i cant even imagine how i would react if this happened to me when i was younger and still religiously played this game.

i can't believe i used to play this game my entire childhood

With the reskinned animals I wish they had brought the spooky snow leopard instead of the arctic wolf. If you can’t tell my favorite reskinned animal in ajc is the spooky snow leopard :3.

I think that some of the employees are bad people (like groomers) and that's why wildworks ignores players grooming others.

immediately thought of the dinos in ajpw. like it’s literally a gacha, and it’s so expensive.

Sounds like a low-staff issue. Not enough people to keep up with the myriad of bugs and breaches that can go wrong.

I haven’t played animal jam play wild in such a long time but fr ajhq isn’t helping anyone like hackers scammers and groomers or something they aren’t doing anything! Ty for making these videos to inform everyone 👍✨

I'm a 2012 AJ veteran and I stopped playing the game regularly in 2016. It's sad to see the game going down this road, at this point the game is on its deathbed and has been for years

4:33 true, If they bring another one his month it’s gonna be VERY disappointed, they are just releasing re skins from aj classic, if they wanna bring any aj classic animal I just hope it’s the pig, they should release a pig tbh. About membership problem, I just hope ajpw doesn’t turn into a pay to win game like classic, literally u can’t do anything if ur a non member on aj classic lmao

I agree with everything you said. It has also gotten worse since they banned Twistedwolf19870. Empyrea quit with that and many of their fans did. That was a lot of of the animal jam community that just left. I have have been playing this game for almost 7 years now and I have never seen anything this bad. But I can't wait to watch wildcraft grow, it looks like a lot of these jammers went to wildcraft. I'm even moving away from animal jam after almost 7 years. They can't seem to do the right things to the right people anymore. This ownership change has made a huge difference and it is not one I like. I can't believe the glitches and mistakes. I have never seen any this bad. They need to work harder are sell animal jam to someone who is more deserving and will put more work into these types of things.

So for the reskins I’m actually kind of liking it for the moment since I’ve always wanted one, like a royal red panda is one of my dream animals and it’s a reskin but it just looks really cool to me! But once I get the ones I actually want it’ll probably be a different story

Someone in my pack had bought the membership but they actually were not given membership and had lost their money. I know this because they said what happened in pack chat asking what had happened and why they don’t have the membership, I told them it may be a glitch and try to reset but every few days I would check their account to see if they have membership but every time I check they don’t. Honestly I feel very bad for them, I hope they don’t loose their money every month too because they bought it and that this doesn’t happen to anyone else when they buy membership. 😢

Hey! I don’t play animal jam anymore or watch much about it but this video caught my eye so I gave it a watch. Just wanted to say that maybe take a second or two to give a little bit of background on some things that a new viewer might be unfamiliar with. For example you mentioned the eggs and that AJ scammed people but I couldn’t understand how they scammed people because I don’t have the context. You mentioned that people didn’t get the eggs towards the end of that section but I think more background would be nice so new viewers can have better understanding of what’s going on. Great video otherwise, lovely art, keep it up!

I remember playing AJ when I was younger, then I got back into it a few years back during the pandemic. I stopped playing after the breach of October 2020. Info belonging to me and my parents were leaked. (Thankfully nothing happened to us) Not only that, but it began to get pretty boring even before the breach. I didn't know about it until I got the email.

Thx leamonpuppy, we need your realness

I can't wait until someone makes a hacked client for animal jam

I completely agree with this! Sucks that AJ is getting more money hungry and adding more boring stuff. I feel like AJ is becoming like AJ Classic in some way. Also, I love how you use Kirby soundtrack in most of your videos XD I love Kirby haha

12:51 Years ago, when I was like 5 or 6 playing aj classic, it just wouldn’t cancel my membership. My mom had to contact support with visa or something like that in order for them to stop charging her. This was in like 2015~2016~2017 ish. Cant really remember-

if they make a super box with an animal I am gonna lose my mind and be sad. It depend if people like the animal or not. I hope what I say does not happen.

I still remember I got bamboozled by Animal Jam. They said my drawing is going to the hall of masterpieces but I didn't even see it, even if I checked days later it's still not there. Broke my childhood heart >:(

The company used to care about the quality of the game and the happiness of the players. Now all they care about is money. They are careless and unprofessional, which is the reason I have (unofficially) mostly quit the game and uploading videos from the game.

I played this game all the time when I was younger and one thing that happened to me was after I had stopped playing (My mom then canceled the membership) it kept taking money from my mom's account even after she canceled the subscription.

Still upset over feral. I didn't even play the game very long but seeing the passionate community spurned and betrayed so casually was upsetting.

I remember when I used to play it, I loved playing it mainly the beach puzzle mini game. But I remember never making friends because I never payed for anything in it.

Everyone should recreate the Boston tea party in aj :3

Next thing you know the whole games gunna be 20 bucks

leamon puppy is the konekokitten of animal jam

Omg the thumbnail art

Bro this game was my childhood haven’t played in years and I checked out this vid out of morbid curiosity. I knew thing’s probably went down hill so I’m ready to confront the death of my childhood.

Im a bit late and I apologize but I wanted to make a comment anyways. I don’t rlly have much to say. I quit animal jam for all these reasons because while the game was slowly going downhill for a while now it’s just dangerous, money hungry and toxic. Some people in the community are actually nice people and it brings me bittersweet nostalgia scrolling through the comment section to find all my old friends here from when I was a content creator for the platform. The majority of the community though has just been completely ruined by hackers, scammers and (ugh) pr3d@tors-. Idk what ajhq is doing but they need to stop…even though I’m no longer a part of this community and never want to be in it again, this still makes me mad and doesn’t change the fact I believe strongly that something must be done. Thanks if you read this far, here’s a cookie 🍪 -Yours Truly, CashoAJ.

Aj should know it’s bad when I find more enjoyment playing a Alpaca game with no story and you can battle them. No joke

Now animal jam is letting us say bloody hell, pissed off and shoots blood everywhere.. I’m concerned

I love your MLP artwork! :0