3:10 "Police can't track live, encrypted VPN traffic, but if they have a court order, they can go to your ISP and request connection or usage logs." So yeah, uh, no, they do hold logs, and so do your ISP. I don't know why people seem to believe a VPN turns them into Neo from the Matrix on a computer. You're still logged, everything you do is still seen by third parties.
@@paulojunior7642 pretty much. Plus likely dev intended because social pressure is a very reliable way to get impressionable children to spend their parents money.
i feel horrible for all the kids that were taken advantage of on there :// i cant imagine wanting to play a fun game and getting blackmailed instead. esp since some of the offenders only had a few years behind bars🤢🤢🤢
Here's a fun little addon. The Danish text at 19:51 says: "We want to give a huge thank you to all of you amazing people, who have made the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish Habbo into an amazing place. It's been an incredibly fulfilling experience to serve all of you through the years. Sincerely, Habbo Staff" --------------------------------------- [Translation notes] 1: I changed "Fantastic" to "Amazing" as it fits better in the English language in this context and gives more of the general vibe of the original message. Fantastic was used 2 times. 2: The word "And" was misspelled as "och" in the original message, so I'm just assuming it's supposed to be "And", since the Danish word for it is "og". 3: In the "to serve all of you" bit I added "all of" to better fit the vibe of the original message in English. These 2 words wasn't in the original. It just said "to serve you". 4: The original message is using the English word for "Staff" instead of a translated version like "Habbo Teamet" or "Habbo Holdet" which both translate to "The Habbo Team". 5: If it feels like the translation just cuts off abruptly, I can promise you it feels the exact same way in the original message. This is a very lacklustre message.
thank you so much! ohhh i didn't get that it was that lackluster. that's so interesting. i just assumed they kept it short or had another post that wasn't archived but it honestly makes sense 😅
I remember being a kid(probably 12-15?)in habbo hotel, and some guy wanted to trade me Habbo club sofa's for a video of me spanking myself. I said I didn't have a web cam and he said audio was fine. So I sent him and audio clip of me clapping. He ended up giving me five habbo couches. My account last I checked still had one of those habbo couches left. I'm not sure who scammed who.
You have my applause. Took something monetary from a creep and dodged getting exploited at the same time. Feels gross that the situation happened to begin with but ya got away unscathed so I’m glad
@@Venya9 "I was there with the players of the time, running hustles, playing tricks and scamming e-sex workers out of their furni. And I did it all because of the lolz."
I remember being part of an agency on Habbo. I worked my way up to the top and it wasn't worth it. There was doxxing, sooo much drama, and the stress wasn't worth it. I got put on a 2 day leave from the agency bc of some drama, and I remember SOBBING in my dorm room. That's when I realized that I had a problem. After the semester ended, and I had some kinda crappy grades, I quit the agency and I haven't returned to Habbo since.
I had the same experience T T My grades didn't tank because my boyfriend at the time made me quit and did something on my pc so I couldn't access it. But girl, we had an issue.
You went out better than me. I paid 4000 coins to become an agency co-founder back in 2009. I made over 15k in coins. I don’t know if works now but what we did was sell ranks and take users passwords. We’d send them a link via email once tthey’d worked their way up to a senior rank HR, Managment Etc. once they opened the link to a forum and we tell them to sign up using their Habbo details, we’d say it’s a way for high ranking staff to communicate. We’d log into their accounts, If they were broke or bought a rank in the agency we’d never touch their account but if they had coins or we’d paid them over 500 coins in wages, we’d log into their account and trade everything to a “Alternative” account and change their account password. However you know what they say there is no loyalty among thieves. I was sent a link by the person I was running the scam with, he told me he’s switching forums so I created a new account for this forum using my same Habbo password🤦♂️I lost my entire account completely on top of that the password for the alternative account was changed too. In total I lost around 20k in a Habbo coins including the 4K I paid, 10k on my account plus the money in alternative account. I was depressed for about a month and it took me nearly 8 years to build up the strength to create a new account.
I still don’t think parents of our generation understand the separate lives we had online. My parents were older so they barely understood computers in general, much less the internet and it’s communities. Lorde was right when she said maybe the internet raised us
As someone who regulary works with parents, I can say its not a generational thing. Parents these days are as clueless as back then about predatory mechanics and features in games, and kids love meeting in games now as back then.
Habbo's fan servers are home to my best internet memories (not without their own oddities). Wasn't surprised in the slightest to learn that original caused many controversies (also that Habbo is into NFT)
Until a few months ago i forgot about habbo until a saw a screenshot of a super whimsical room on Tumblr and then all the memories hit me like a truck.
@@plushiepath oh and those dragons you’d double click and have them shoot fire out the mouth with the old time transporters; being a HC member which turned into…. VIP? Idk their marketing team sucked ass literally if they kept the OG formula they would have lasted way way wayyyyyy longer
My dad works in advertising and one of his favorite stories to tell is how he was pitched Habbo Hotel. He says it was the worst pitch he ever had to sit through. They were hyping it up since the person who made it was some sort of young entrepreneur with great ideas. Apparently after the pitch ended everyone was in awe of how terrible of an idea it was and thought that it would never work. It turns out they were right.
OH noooo hahha that’s so interesting. habbo had some cool ideas and as a kid i was so amazed by everything you could do. but as a whole, it was predestined to fail. it’s funny how quickly they saw through it.
None of what you just said regarding how Habbo was founded or how it was pitched to advertising agencies is even remotely accurate - It was founded by two guys who worked in the marketing/tech industry in Finland who made the precusor to Habbo to promote their friends band called Mobiles. Neither of them were really entrepreneurs at the time, they were just two dudes doing stuff for fun and small paychecks. Habbo came to be in Finland in the year 2000 and broke into the English market in 2001 before exploding in popularity in 2003. It was an immensely successful business until things started to fall-apart in the early 2010's when more competition arose, parents became more aware of what their kids were up to online, the market just generally shifted away from games of this type, and more importantly? The online landscape and world in general that Habbo was created in just ceased to exist. It naturally fell out of popularity with the changing market. It was astounding how revolutionary it actually was for its time - To say it was a "terrible idea" from the get go is immensely wrong.
I definitely should not have been on Habbo as young as I was. I never spent any money because my parents would let them nowhere near their bank card, but I used to play every night with my friend and I absolutely loved it. Our favourite hobby was to go to the McDonald’s/Diner themed room, go into the toilets and pretend to have diarrhoea…. it was fun I swear
I thought Habbo died years ago. If they're still alive, I'm honestly amazed they aren't trying to do something like introduce NFT's. That kinda shady crap seems right up their alley. Edit: WELP
This unlocked so many memories. Mostly the part about "child enthusiasts" I remember my sister and I were aware the issue and we found a way to sniff out the creeps then we would troll them till they blocked us
@@Kas_Styles Imo, people who ask too many personal questions and don't take 'no' as an answer I remember telling someone in a different online game that I was a minor and that it was inappropriate of him to say my character is cute, and there are an abundance of 18 year olds playing the game he can talk to, and he just continued to flirt and make subtle remarks that are probably intended to work down my guard.
@Kas S one of of the biggest ways we used to find creeps online was when they asked our age, we refused to say until they did. If they also refused red flag. The other was we would lie about our age like, for example "oh I'm 15. No mean 27. Just kidding! I'm actually like 20. Kidding again!!" I remember one person who every time we changed our age, he changed his to match and we continued on till he blocked us and it became a game to us lol
that was definitely too far. like if they’d just go there and stood in front of the building without actually blocking people, it would’ve been ok/kinda funny even. a ton of countries in europe have super strict laws against drawing/making that symbol, and even if it’s just a joke, people regularly get in trouble for it.
It was a joke. The people that did it knew people who weren't in on it would take it seriously. It was funny. There were even breakaway groups within the raiders. Lol
@@cute60666 The Nazis did genocide. No genocide was done at the Habbo hotel pools, and it was obvious to anyone with a brain that it was not done to actually endorse Nazis (at the time. Nowadays i’ll admit it’s a lot harder to tell and as such I stay off 4chan.)
@@2yoyoyo1Unplugged lmao the swastika is not some quirky sign, ppl who use it even ironically are still making a literal hate symbol of a mass genocide that killed millions, there’s literally no part of it that is funny. You have yet to explain the joke. Tell me what is funny about a swastika. It’s also very easy to say “it wasn’t to endorse nazis” after the fact but you have no idea what the ideologies of the people who did it. Clearly it was people like you who found it funny, which is the wrong crowd to be enabling. There’s a reason why a swastika was chosen and not another symbol.
I'm surprised you haven't mentioned IMVU. Also, I played VMK when it was around, and I regretted every minute of it. I'm glad it went away. It will not be missed.
habbo was such a huge part of my childhood. i remember i had to stop playing on the US server because of how incredibly terrible the players there were and moved over to the canadian server where i had a much better time. the CA server didn't have as much fun roleplay rooms tho so i missed out there but at least i wasn't being harassed and exposed to disgusting behaviour 24/7
I played Habbo from the mid-2000s until 2020 (I lost interest). I joined many Habbo "militaries" because I just wanted something to do on the game aside from the dating nonsense that was happening in public rooms. I got to know a lot of people, some of whom I still speak to 'til this very day. Boy oh boy, if only more people knew about the shit that happened in militaries. There was a high concentration of weird shit that I was personally privy to that happened between 2014 and 2020-from IP logging, to revenge 🌽 . Doxing was almost a DAILY occurrence. An anecdote: there was a leader of a certain military (no names involved) who constantly rallied against "child enthusiasts", but in secret would pretty much try and date every female military officer he could get his crummy little hands on, and then emotionally abuse them. Even with this happening behind the scenes, he was still largely popular within the military community. Things fell apart in the end and here's the thing, no one really knows if he's still on Habbo trying to do the same thing on a new profile.
THE MILITARIES. I was part of the biggest miltary in my country's hotel. Such a toxic place. Glad I left but hated I didn't leave earlier. I now see how fucking messed up that place was.
Why am I not surprised a Dutch teen got arrested... That game was HUGE here! It was like, the only online game at the time you could hop onto and immediately speak Dutch with a stranger in. That doesn't really happen anymore these days
Habbo was a HUGE part of my childhood, I started around 2009 with my own account but my friend let me play on his from 2007. I remember so much chaos, and I still have my account just to pop in every 2 years or so and see what’s changed (it’s cool you get crowns after a few years have passed) - I used to roleplay in `H`ogwarts / `I`hoggy! That was such a wild time, I loved the Harry Potter roleplays and used to make so many friends. Last I checked, that community STILL exists, 10-13 years later! Sometimes I still play on a retro hotel called Habboon, since I have a lot of history on there. I remember days of Frozen and some other hotels that got taken down, but Habboon somehow always stayed strong and kept running for so many years, still existing. I THINK at some point Habbo gave up trying to take down retro hotels, honestly.
I met my first love on the Habbo knockoff Habboon when I was 13. We were best friends for about 6 years before we fell out but he taught me a lot and I'm greatful to these kind of platforms for the friendships I kept for years :)
That part! I was too young to even know what was going on. My parents were not internet savvy and did not know to prepare me against that when I was young.
My older sister figured out how to scam people through hosting falling furni games and got me and two cousins to help her run the scam. She'd split the earnings between us until her account got blocked lol. We were all in primary school at the time (7-12 years old) Good times
@@plushiepath haha yeah, no worries! i'm not mentally scarred or anything, i consider myself very lucky in that regard! but i've definitely had some grown-ass guy talk to me in a very inappropriate way for a period of time. i'd almost forgotten about it; luckily i dropped the game before it got out of hand. but i'm really, really glad you're talking about this! i'd almost forgotten about this obscure website. but people need to know that the early 2000s were insanely unsafe in terms of online safety. i hope someone can learn from our mistakes; kids should never let their guard down in online spaces 🙏
Another way to say "child enthusiast" is PDF file or PDFfile because it sounds close enough to the real word to make sure people understand what type of person your talking about without risking demonetization.
my first taste of Habbo was entering the pool and seeing the first POOLS CLOSED raid in action. Seeing all of this really brought me back for a minute. And for those who know, shoutout to GOTH HOUSE.
I remember some stuff about Habbo. I remember my friends and I got actual cards from Riteaid to get habbo currency cards, and people stealing some of my currency in game, with scam rooms. I remember the Habbo Harry Potter Room, the McDonald's room and some of the more questionable ones too. (Which I tried to avoid) However, my favorites were the obstacle course rooms. Those were so fun! I was way too young when I started on Habbo, and when I was done, I was in highschool. Man, looking back on it, it was a very strange game.
thank you 🥺 new video(s) should come soon! like end of the month at most! wasn’t feeling good over the summer and had to figure out some family stuff. 🥲
@@plushiepath OMG its no problem. Im so sorry and I hope things get better♡. Your contents amazing and I love your narrations. Thank you for the work you put out~
aaa when i tell you i jumped when i saw this on my home page! i remember back in summer i was really reliving my habbo nostalgia and desperately prayed for a habbo deep dive or retrospective only to find out there were absolutley none here on yt, i was so bummed out lol. So seeing this made me very very happy and i want you to know you really made my day :) (and probably more days in the future because i will defo be rewatching this a couple times) so thank you!
Great video!!! Started playing habbo quite late (in 2011) but even so it was a big part of my childhood (can't really say if this is a good or bad thing) and I have a lot of found memories of the friends I made there. Unfortunatly, after the great mute all my friends and many players stopped playing and then the hotel felt really empty, so I leave the game too. Its funny to remember that after almost 3 years I spent in this game I had just modest rooms and didn't spent too much money on it, but in the end, I think the real gold bars were the friends we made along the way :)
I got into Habbo during the pandemic (2020, I’m 21 now). Most players now are mid to late twenties with the occasional 16/17 year old. Most of them are good people, we’re just looking for community. But it started taking over my life. Every spare moment I spent on Habbo with people from all over the world who were also spending 12+ hours online. It’s not healthy and the relationship I made online are going to suffer now that I’ve quit but at least my offline relationships will thrive now.
i'm so glad The Algorithm chose to offer this up. i never played habbo, but the aesthetics are so appealing, and you're a wonderful writer and presenter. look forward to seein more cursed content :))
I loved Habbo as a kid, but I was also being groomed by a creepy old guy I met on that site when I was 11. I thought he was my friend until he started sending me inappropriate photos. When I brought up the issue with my aunt, she freaked out and explained child predators to me (because my parents were very closed off and never really explained things or engaged with me). Its wild when I think about it now. Im so glad I never tried to meet the creep in person.
I’m so sorry that happened to you. These’s no excuse for sending unsolicited pics to anyone, but especially to kids. I’m glad your aunt was there for you and you didn’t meet that guy 😵💫 It’s scary how almost everyone has a story of an online creep asking them to meet up. Hope you’re ok!
Thank you for making this. Im 26 now and ive played habbo wayy back in the days when it first came out in its simplicity and i was a teen . Habbo was so fun back when it wasnt so strict. The final straw for me and my friends was when they removed casinos and gambling. listen i know its not good to gamble but hey it is what it is. Also ive revisited habbo and saw that they did a tax system and i never logged back in a day in my life. Habbo fell off sooo hard
i moved over to habbo retros in 2013 and have met some of my most special friends i still have on them. sulake was a bully and would shut these down very quickly, so it was easy to lose friends - since nobody has any issue buying things. everybody had their own unique looks from things called chubbies, trolls and roleplayers. it was such a beautiful time for me as a someone who couldn’t make friends the same way online. everyones grown up now and grown out of it - but i always go into my old rooms now and then and reminisce
im not finished w the video but im so glad you posted!! also is that the fire emblem soundtrack in the bg around 10:50-11:00? it sounds like the music from fe fates (which ive been playing the last few days)
I remember loving the Habbo Hotel game rooms so much in middle school, like the competitions to win furni, would literally play for hours lol... and also talking with people in the RP rooms like fashion shows (didn't have drip so I'd spectate lol), cafes, fictional character rooms, etc
i remember being a part of an MMO that was popular in my country named mikmak when i was around 9, i was quite known for posting my art on the community page and even getting into photo of the day once, i had good connections with the admins and heck! my dad used to work with the founder apparently! it was a total blast! i played with my friends from school and met some awesome people there (if anyone here was also a part of "the village, how are you doing now?), but then the new school year started and i switched schools and lost interest, i kinda miss my old online friends though
Just started watching so idk if this might get mentioned later but I remember staying in Habbo chatrooms for hours with my friends for many years, but since you really couldn't have any cool furntiure without actual money, there were a lot, and i mean A LOT of Habbo knockoffs that had a different money system, which didn't require real money. Although I sadly do not remember anymore how you got money. But those knockoffs were practically 1:1 copies, even the name was always something like "Hubba", "Fobba" and what not. And seeing screenshots from the game in this video makes me incredibly nostalgic.
It's a good thing hotels in real life are much better and safer than- ...nevermind. Turns out you’ll have a consistent experience on, or offline. How…comforting
Not the same game but on imvu I made a whole spam email for those sketchy surveys lmao. Very similar thing tho, either buy credits or do weird surveys, I hated when I’d do one got nearly to the end and it was like “sorry!! But this survey isn’t the right fit for you” bruh I spent 10 mins on that!! Some surveys were literally 45 mins long I hated those
I mean, I played Hotel Hideaway while it was fairly new with my ex boyfriend. It was fairly fun for the time being, but I remember there not being much to do unless you were actively playing with someone else. Then they'd give you the entertainment, not the game itself.
A Translation for all non german speakers at 28:16: "Deutschland ruiniert halt immer alles" Translates to: "Germany always ruins everything" Wonderful and very entertaining Video!
PLEASE do a video on stardoll, i grew up playing that game and spent soooo much of my parents money on it but idk if it’s still a thing & would love to hear lore on it- can’t find many videos on it either
OH YES! i remember spending hours in my school’s library playing it. like every free period it was either stardoll or that island building game (where you fly off to space after some time haha) i’d love to do a video on it! i’m already working on the next one, but stardoll is on the list! (i’m still slow with videos so it might take a bit haha)
Your vid just popped up in my recommendations and not gonna lie, while I only was in contact with Habbo in my teens through the FourChan memes and never logged onto the service itself - your deep dive into the history of it all is a breeze to watch! Also, the deer/flower headpiece is just a vibe to look at. I guess I'm binging your vids over the next few days or so with how cozy it is and how you already tickle my nostalgia bone. Hope you keep having fun doing this sort of content in the future, have a cookie yourself! :)
Almost did a spit take at “Right, Nintendo?” I’m a Pokémon fan. Enough said lol. I think I went on habba once in 2007 but I was irritated that you had to buy stuff with real money so I never came back. I had no idea it was so hellish tho.
LOL. I don't follow Quackity but I do love how they revived the "pool's closed" meme. I never played Habbo but it is a lot of fun to hear about the drama and hear some memes even I know.
i remember my sister, our friend and i ran a game of "musical chairs" in habbo hotel and we would scam people because the game was rigged as we pretended to be regular players but really we already knew where the chairs would be placed, so other people would pay credits to stay in the game and not lose 💀💀💀💀💀 man why were we like that
Omg I’ve never seen anyone else talk about this game before. I used to play it SO MUCH as a kid & it was so inappropriate for a child but it was legitimately so fun 💀
I am so greedy I absolutely love how in-depth they make the videos so it definitely takes a lot of time and effort but the other part of me wants so many more videos to binge 😅 I live for videos like this! Thanks for your hard work! I look forward to the next upload 😊
I knew Habbo Hotel from my cousin but i never played it since then (about 2008-ish?). But i have seen Trolligarchs 2 Videos and was exited about a 1 Hour Video. So far (28 Minutes in), i'm impressed. Your style is unique and very good, your German ist sehr gut (very good) [wasnt expecting you suddenly speaking German]. So you have a new subscriber, and (sadly) i have only 39 Minutes of Video to watch, although your other Videos look interesting too.
I didn't see anyone else mention it, so I'll say it, the Pool Aids joke is racist, so that poor woman didn't misunderstand. Making their avatars Black while saying "the pool was closed due to Aids" is purposeful. Aids was most commonly associated with Black people (and gay people) and was used to discriminate against and stereotype both groups. (I say "was" but probably is still used like that...) I hope she's finally gotten some peace away from those loser scumbags.
Habbo was so iconic, I played it so often and went back to it for a few weeks every year for a long time. I never had any specifically scary stuff happen but the asking to be bf gf and rp sex was a thing
How do you make a great day better? Have Plushie upload a fantastic video! It's also weird to think that I remember seeing Habbo's logo around on the web at the time. I can't remember if it was ads or what, but still, to think that this thing I knew nothing about harbored such a controversial history
I HAD SUCH A COOL ROOM BACK IN 2006-2013!. Cool furniture, pet spider, jungle/Uncharted 2 themed room, teleporter to a friends room etc.. ah good times!. Habbo was also the platform that i used to practice keyboard typing. (Habbo Norway ended in 2015 sadly .. )
this video was super good, all the other habbo videos seem to be super surface level. this style of documentary is perfect to put in the background while i draw it would be nice if you said what the triggering content is during the content warning. since 'sensitive content' can mean anything from mentions of violence to photos of irl gore (something ive seen on history channels before and would not like to see again ;w; ) text on the screen would work too :)
thank you so much! that means a lot! and thanks for the feedback! i should really specify why the content is sensitive. i was scared of making people uncomfortable by mentioning the triggers, but not mentioning it kinda makes it seem worse. also i'm sorry you had to see gore on a history channel... they should really warn you. in case you skipped the second warning, it's mostly offensive language, dark humor, racism, unaliving, and 4chan stuff.
Oh my goodness I remember Habbo so much I played it for years when I was younger… I used to live and breathe the role playing part of it haha! I remember I tried to run furni games too but I kept getting scammers taking my credits so I stopped 😂
I remember giving my mobile number for free credits bc I wanted a pet cat so bad back then xD Most of my time on the game was spent either talking to the various NPCs because they'd often talk back (main hangout of mine was the Dirty Duck Pub) or just sitting in a corner and watching other players have, like, the wildest conversations - also can't forget the absurd amount of college rooms people made lol
I remember roleplaying as both a baby & a mom & sadly a lot of players would only let you be part of their “family” if you were HC. so when I became HC i adopted players who weren’t because I felt bad for them never being picked to be adopted
As someone who grew up playing games like this (I almost exclusively played Club Penguin and WolfQuest though lol), I do appreciate the upsides of them. The downsides, dramas, controversies, and just overall ups and downs were absolutely WILD. This video was awesome! The only feedback I really have (which I saw a couple other people give) is say WHY you're giving the trigger warning- like if you're going to talk about child enthusiasts (which you mentioned in this video) or stalking for example, you can def say something like "Trigger warning, this section involves discussion about child enthusiasts/ stalking. Please go to [TIMESTAMP] if that topic can harm you."
