How Neopets Was Sold to Scientologists 

@@JaMaMaa1 wow really

I wish there was a way to find out in what list you got yourself on and when it happened.

@@JaMaMaa1 Where did you hear that from?

@@kingchickenwing4887 no clue so im not sure how true it is.

@@kingchickenwing4887 Trackers

Yeah, by like a decade too early.

I'm disappointed that there's no Neopets app. As a nostalgic thirty year old, I'd totally have Neopets on my phone. I'd probably even pay money for it.

@@Bunny-ch2ul I think There is now, but it sucks

theyre working on it now

@@meliaa3437 Yeah but it kind of sucks unfortunately. Some of the mobile games have been good though.

Tamashii Hiroka? *Interesting.*

Some of us still have some questions like, "Who were they exchanging death threats with?" "What happened to the third person who 'just disappeared'?" "Why did the price of the servers skyrocket to be more than you'd pay for a fucking apartment and electricity for your own servers?" "What are the odds Scientology hired a receptionist in the U.K. that is a legal citizen of the U.K.?" "What is the difference between earning an award and buying an award?" "What's the connection between Scientology and Disney and McDonald's?" "What kind of religion owns copyrights?" "Does Nancy Cartwright ever proselytize to her co-stars on The Simpsons?" "Does Nancy Cartwright know what really happened to Isaac Hayes?" "If Scientology is so hyped on its copyrights, why does it plagiarize the Catholic crucifix so blatantly?"

@@terryechoes3192 ok

Actual journalism has become more & more rare every year.

@@terryechoes3192 Most of these questions would be going pretty off topic. And most likely isn't feasible to research based on their funding. But these are interesting questions.

Did you have an auditing session?

@@squirrelsjustwannahavefun3540 after watching this video... seems so.

@John Doe your mother isn't real either

@John Doe it could literally just be character designs for a game, it is a job

What do you do in stress test?

nah,that's just how they scout out new members: the guy you saw was standing on the shoulders of another guy.>;3

WOW LOOK WHO'S HERE YOOO

So be straight with us, do you actually shitpost on 4chans /co/ board?

Whoa, weird seeing you here.

I'm going to regret posting here later because I know my notifications are going to be flooded by a tonne of other comments, but screw it! I'ma do it anyways. Hey, RebelTaxi.

@LEARN 2 DRAW MUHAMMAD his new videos got 400,000

my entire family any time we get a new cat we just say its the other cats petpet XD

omg "petpet".... nostalgia overload...

When World of Warcraft expanded on the companion pets in game, which were different from the pets Hunters could tame, I referred to them as petpets. I still do sometimes when trying to distinguish between the two types of pets.

I FORGOT ABOUT PETPETS!!!!

Where's your petpetpet?

Same!!

Me too! My shop looked *super fly* when I was able to put in a background, falling flowers, change the mouse, add music, change the text, ect.

Me too!! I “sold” custom user profiles to people for items and stuff, even tho it was against the site’s rules.

Yessss! I've managed to build that into an actual web design career, so thanks Neopets for sure!

Hot damn, same here. Had to make my Pet's page look good. And thus, I learned how to use and hate HTML.

HUH???

Back in July, the devs said they wanted to enter the mobile scene and they were apparently working on a mobile game and mobile site. Something tells me that the mobile game will be nothing special mechanics-wise given how mobile games go, but yeah.

I'd imagine it's like candy crush. Not relevant anymore but still gripping the niche fanbase with nothing better to do.

server costs are problably really low nowadays

Is Tom Cruze a neopet?

fuck that: i'm impressed how much they stood their ground in the fact of SCIENTOLOGY. that took a lot of guts (more so since the cult owed a big chunk of the company) and doing so saved a entire GENERATION of kids from being brainwashed and trapped into scientology.

@@JT5555 Stood their ground with professional-seeming assertiveness (but going quote unquote "ape shit" when necessary LMAO), watched their passion project grow and evolve, and waited patiently to sell their shares AFTER the buyout. Not to mention the story about including "the three" as characters, which is kinda hysterical. They're honestly rockstars, and I hope Adam and Donna are doing well these days!

@@hanthonyc agreed. they handled all of it like champs and deserve the credit for it.

To be fair...

I mean officially it's a religion. I feel like that makes it a religion even if it is for tax dodging and profit (like a lot of Christian churches)

Real Cults are defined by the B.I.T.E. model of participant abuse. Information control, thought control, social isolation, these are the things that Mark a cult. That's what makes Scientology so bad, it fits almost every criteria of a cult and it hurts people because of it. Please google "B.I.T.E cult model" to learn more. Some Christian sects are also cults, but few are as bad.

What's the difference

@@jacobgeorge7475 Methods. Typical religions don't force you to shun family, endure abuse, hide from outside information, or name-change. Cults do. These things have a cumulative effect on dehumanizing people and making them easier to abuse. You can be a perfectly normal person and a christian, but you cannot be a perfectly normal person and a JW. That is intentional. Again, pleaze google the B.I.T.E. model.

@@polocatfan Cult of Scientology: We must make sure no outsider reads our crazy book. Swedish justice: Congratulations, you played yourself

so now i gotta go to sweden to read that fuckin book

its probably just a bunch of crazy bollocks though

@@MrChukinorris It is. Their beliefs going public spawned quite the wave of ridicule.

@@MrChukinorris Oh it is. Keep in mind that L. Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer... The jist of it is that long long ago the evil warlord Xenu (Zeenu? Xeenu? Idk, dont care) exterminated entire species by throwing them into a giant volcano. The tortured souls of these poor aliens became trapped in our universe. Countless aeons later some plucky chaps called the human race came to exist on a little planet called earth. Those tortured souls would then come to inhabit the bodies and souls of the humans and are called pheatons (again, spelling, idk). Many pheatons can reside in a single person and the more pheatons inhabit you the more unhappy you will become. Depression, anxiety, financial problems, bad luck, all of it is caused by pheatons! Of course, the church of scientology has a nifty machine that can detect the pheaton levels in your soul! (Thats the weird testing that the two creators of Neopets were talking about). And for a modest enormous fee the church will even help you get rid of those pheatons! Hooray! Of course, if you want to get rid of ALL the pheatons in your soul then youre going to really have to fork over some serious cash, as the more "advanced" practices are only shared with the higher "leveled" members of the church. Lucky for you, all you need to do is hand over tons of money in order to get to a higher "level" and really get the help you "need" (which im certain is perfectly reasonable or something). But with enough money and dedication, you too can have the poor souls of those aliens exercised from your body and all your problems will be gone. Hooray! I shit you not. This is what is actually in that book. This is how the church operates. Im still not sure if the whole church is hilarious or horrifying.

Pedro Rodriguez I think giving $20 million after the $160 million buyout *might* count as *something*

@@Komodofq8 well yes but I don't think that's what the OP meant, I think he was referring to creating something on the actual Neopets site that would aid in recruiting younger members. Then again they seem to only focus on rich people so maybe making that money is all they really cared about in the end.

Yeah no doubt attempt to brainwash

@Emma Anderson Probably L. Ron Hubbard's study tech, by the sounds of it, aka useless brain-numbing garbage that comes in the way of actual learning. Sauce: was a Scientologist for almost my entire childhood.

@@learnova1761 thats a strange sauce

They better turn off their ad blockers!

here comes the hit squad LUL

Hi, Karen!

everyone not in the church is on the list

He’s probably already a part of it and now he’s in the “public relation” department and slowly brainwashing us with these videos 😲

*Xemu

@Minty ZEE KNEW?

Who knew?

Whomstd ever knew?

You remind me Zenu. What Gnu? The Gnu with the power! What Power? The Power of Xenu! Who knew? Sue You! For What?! Talking bout Zenu.

That's the quality content we all subscribed for!

Same thing for me. Can't imagine my childhood without neopets, it was so so special to me, still is and always will be. Oh boy I miss those days!

Why did you stop?

@@souperkow i got hacked on a 2012 data breach. Then i made another account and got frozen on 2018 because one of the pets i tradef for was a scam. That was efore people found out EVERY UC that exists was a scam.

Sociologists and scientologists are completely different things. One of them is a group of idiots who push pseudoscience about human behaviour and society, and the others are scientologists. Wait...

@@nathangamble125 bro that was most definite auto correct. Look it up they got a headquarters here.

@@Ed-ss1uh I don't doubt it, and I don't care.

Edgar Silva I was raised in Tampa. You should move out, trust me.

They harass you when on the walk of fame in hollywood.

ew furries

@@DirtyDoctorDan Ew, thinly veiled homophobia

Who?

SHH

i hope that is sarcasm

Is this a real thing people did oh my god

@@maysar4159 oh yea you can still find websites on the internet that'll sell you neopets items. Claricks is one that comes to mind. Every 12-14 year old who wanted a little extra cash probably sold their stuff lol.

I mean don't scam but also wow that's impressive capitalist stunt for a kid.

I would have shanked you

Oh my god I love RU-vid. Love your videos, love that we watch the same stuff it's so funny.

Pretty sure this is only a story

@@TheHighPhilosopher "The incident is stamped indelibly in my mind because of one statement that Ron Hubbard made. What led him to say what he did I can't recall-But in so many words Hubbard said- -'I'd like to start a religion, That's where the money is" -'Over My Shoulder. Reflections of the Science Fiction Era", Lloyd Arthur Eshbach en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Arthur_Eshbach en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Moskowitz -the man who invited Hubbard to speak at the convention stated throughout the years Hubbard said it, too.

@@TheHighPhilosopher Yeah it is just a story. I'm pretty sure Scientology was found mostly as a tax evasion scheme.

I'm pretty sure that is a urban legend but based on a few different actual facts mixed together.

It was Jack Parsons it happened with. Both Jack Parsons and Hubbard were members of the OTO. A lot of dianectics was plagerized from Aleister Crowleys Magick without tears

Reminds me of Piccolo/Piccoro from Dragon Ball

Hell yeah

Tamagochi truely is the dark souls of digital pets

WastingtimeInc GOD SAME

Looks more like a phone interview :V

Same, I clicked to go to another page right before I saw the title of this video and was like wtf I have to go back and watch that

If the school was ran by Scientologists, did they use study tech there?

@@bb010g They sure did! Scientology rarely if ever actually came up within school grounds, but study tech was everywhere.

Candi do you really? That’s super interesting:-)

@@tomg5187 I do, it's my main hobby. I've been on and off the site since 2000 (wasn't there during the Scientology run apparently.) But there are plenty of people my age still on Neopets who just find it comforting and relaxing to play.

I don't go in there everyday but I also check it from time to time and play some games :) since 2004

It's really the ultimate time killer while looking productive at work. You can only online shop so much before your job starts costing you almost as much as you're making.

By now you should be an Operating Thetan, depending on how many Neopoints you've spent.

dr.sloth?XD

My oldest account was deleted and my other one requires a birthday. I used to use random ones so I'm pretty much locked out. It sucks. Now I just have dragons on Flight Rising and that's good enough even if there's not much to do.

Irish don't crack

To me he will always be the fresh faced young videogames journalist experiencing virtual reality anal beads for the first time.

@@KamradO He's not Irish though...

Uhh... The author of the video is always under the thumbnail of the video, at least on mobile.

Yeah. They're just glorified hall monitors anyway.

Prefects are from the British system and many British Schools and those from the Commonwealth use them.

They're good for encouraging leadership in kiddies

@@darkinfinity333 not in any school in britain ive been to. I think a few of the posh private schools have them but in the rest of the schools the teachers just do their own jobs. Weird that

The normal schools I've been to have all had prefects, but they were just called something less poncy, like "class representatives" or something. Usually just meant you were on the school council and were supposed to communicate the ideas and wishes that your classmates had to the head teacher. That, and run pointless errands. That being said, we did have head girl and head boy in our school, but they were meaningless titles. We also had houses, usually named after famous people and local landmarks. If our house got the most "credits" (house points) we got to go to the fair or some shit at the end of the year. Dunno what it's like in posh private schools, but it's not much of a leap to assume most of them have prefects.