The Mysterious Club Penguin Iceberg - Explained 

when i clicked on this i thought it meant like the iceberg in the game that was always rumored to be flippable and i was so ready for a 45 minute deep dive into the history of that specific lore. this is really great too though

I remember that my parents bought me 3 month membership, but it lasted for 2 whole years, so yes, ghost memberships were a thing. Even my best friend at the time bought a membership for a month but lasted for about 6 months. I wish I could go back and explore the amazing events for the first time again, life was easier back then.

I remember the last day before club penguin shut down, my friend and I were at lunch on our chromebooks trying so hard to get the iceberg to flip before lunch ended. It was such a melancholic feeling when we finally flipped it

I loved how the devs played into the rumours and sometimes even made them come true

As a former Club Penguin player, I did get into the whole pookie thing. At the time (I was 7-9 years old), I obviously just thought of it as playing house. Now looking back, some things that happened during those times were just plain creepy. Quite a strange community in Club Penguin

Every person we met on Club Penguin are now adults with entire functioning lives. Can’t believe it. For years I have thought about all of this, and the fact that you’ve now immortalized it in such an amazing video, is so fuckin sick.

I didn’t know of the term Pookie, but I know of the whole “adoption roleplay” thing. Then again, that shit happens in EVERY MMO, so…

with the renaissance of chat rooms and metaverses, I hope Club Penguin will return someday. The original art style was so charming yet mysterious. I spent hours in single rooms as a kid just admiring. One of the best worlds built, with so much secrets and lore.

I wish I was able to play the OG club penguin, I was able to play rewritten in 2020, but I lost my account after half a year. I hope that Disney brings the OG game back cause they got rid of rewritten!

This game was a gem. Especially once they started adding missions, and more “role play” kinda task. I spent HOURS ON this game grinding the black pearl on the game by the iceberg for coins.

The highlight of Club Penguin for me were the holiday based parties. Obviously besides friends, but those times added to the holiday vibe. Especially Christmas. Spent so many hours every year from 2006-2011 redecorating my igloo. I remember they added limits and what not, which kind of killed igloo building.

Loved the video. There's a lot of misinformation that is spread about Club Penguin but I felt that this video was very well researched and executed, all of the mysteries being genuine secrets/events that I recall from the game's run. Thank you for putting the time and effort in to share this with us!

I feel a bit ashamed to say, but I was a pookie in Club Penguin, and sometimes even a pet ☠️ cuz I dunno, it was fun to create those histories, I was between 9 and 11 years old and thankfully no stranger did mess with me. This video game me so many bad flashbacks 😂😭 I remember that some people (including me ☠️) would dress up as a mummy or just use a naked white penguin and sit forward to make it look like a egg so we would simulate a penguin born 😭 I feel so ashamed now, but back then I was just stupid 😂

I joined club penguin in 2006 as a 6 year old. Even when I was a teenager I would periodically hop on to see how things were, collect some new items and badges. I remember when the red puffles were first introduced, I remember the old HQ and feeling annoyed when it got destroyed and they made a much fancier HQ (before that it felt kind of secretive and after it didn't feel as special lol). I remember being so excited when the dojo turned from a boring old room into somewhere with purpose and collecting card jitsu packs in real life! When they introduced the thin ice arcade game! And the recycling centre! Also there was once a promotional thing where with every box of innocent smoothies you could unlock an item in club penguin and I drank sooooo many smoothies and collected so many items :D Even the smaller things like seeing more books appear in the library and reading the jokes in the newspaper... I literally grew up on club penguin so I miss it sometimes. I know about the bootlegs but they aren't the same. They're like an old photo album where all my photos have been removed.

I can attest to the 'ghost membership' bit. I had that happen to me as well. My parents would occasionally buy me gift cards for 1 month gift cards and sometimes for Christmas I would get a 6 month card. I was never allowed to put in their credit card because back then in CP's prime adults didn't really believe in online shopping yet. One year my parents got me a 6 month membership gift card for Christmas and I remember I was extremely happy about it but boy oh boy I only got happier as time went on because when the 6th month came and went... My membership remained and I was ecstatic but I figured it wouldn't be for long... To sum it up I ended up having a membership for the next 3 years on top of the original 6 months I paid for. ~Mitch (A Club Penguin fanatic)

Man, watching this video was such a blast from the past. I remember the pookies and the armies (which I had forgotten about entirely until I watched this!) all too well. Club Penguin was an enormous part of my life and it still holds a truly special place in my heart. Glad to see the community that remembers it fondly is still out here.

31:05 BEFORE DISCORD I SWEAR MOST OF THE ARMIES USED XAT, I remember it pretty well that xat was actually pretty common on vlogs and websites and their iconic notification sounds. I'm glad a real deep iceberg exist it makes me so happy all this being revealed, thank you

I was an og club penguin member and watching this video brought back so many memories. I was always into the secret agency and card jitsu. It’s crazy to think at some point I just stopped playing and before I knew it was gone forever. Thank you for letting me go back and “ play” this game one last time :)

The membership ghost perk was real, my sister had bought a 3 month membership during 6th grade and it lasted all the way till the game shut down right after she graduated high school. We made sure that our parent's card wasn't auto renewing it and they confirmed that they never received any additional charges

Oh the nostalgia. I miss this game so much, i wish I could revisit it. Great video mate. I do felt you missed the opportunity to talk about the smaller rumors and such that added flair to the club Penguin community, like the rainbow and gold puffles.

I remember activating the membership, the payment not going through and STILL getting full VIP for as long as I had the one account. Of course, before getting inevitably banned xD Great video as always!

I remember partaking in Club Penguin armies as a teen on rewritten, it was just so much fun.

The editing style on your vids really makes you standout from the other iceberg creators, keep it up!

I played the OG Club Penguin and CP Island, while I'm not nostalgic I really enjoyed this video along with your Pokémon iceberg (and I don't even play Pokémon). Your videos are always a great viewing experience and the quality and always evident.

Dude. I remember over half of these things just from playing the game itself. Club Penguin stood as the obelisk of my childhood, I spent probably thousands of hours scouring the island for things to do. Ghost Memberships were definitely a thing, as I once found a fabled one year membership that ended up lasting for like three years before getting beamed. Pookies were something that just seemed like a virtual house roleplay as a kid, not too different from the kind of house games at the school playground, but in retrospect, they were a really dodgy aspect of the game. I joined an army once as well, Rebel Penguin Federation I believe, and it really made the game more fun to play. The hours spent scouring the island for clues to Shadow Ninjas, finding people who had that portal to the Box Dimension in their igloos, exploring with friends, and other countless features and quirks of Club Penguin and its community have defined my entire childhood. Videos like these really take me back to my childhood when this game was my entire world. Thanks for making this, dude. Amazing video.

Don't worry, I remember pookies vividly. It is weird that I haven't seen many other people talking about pookies though. I remember those "fashion contests" to see who'd have the best outfit in certain categories to be the one that gets "adopted" I remember this cause I actually did roleplay as a pookie back then. Bad memories. I also remember how there were "pookie eggs" where they'd dress up in a ghost costume and face away from the camera to be a "pookie egg" I also have no idea why pookies were all just yellow back then. Pookies were just all yellow because of some unwritten rule I guess. You would never be able to walk into the pet shop without seeing pookies everywhere begging to be adopted. So I have no idea how most people don't remember them. Edit just for a few extra things: I never remembered anything about the parents being called "Duh duhs" that surely wasn't the norm. Mainly what I did as a pookie is that my pookie would age up through an entire lifespan super quickly. I guess it's a good thing I don't ever remember what happened during those days. It's been so long that my memories are pretty much non existent about anything that happened. And now that I just turned 18 today, it's just really mind boggling having remembered all that stuff. That stuff was all back when I was like 8 or something.

Hello, past mumu here, I viewed the pet shop and pookies as playing house but some of the duh duhs and even some pookies made it super creepy. It was such a dangerous part of the club penguin community tbh. It did make me super skilled at making igloos tho so bless that

Honestly I think the whole pookie thing might also just be because a lot of girls enjoyed playing family house / dolls at that age so they replicated it online. I was never apart of that group as a kid because I was never interested in baby dolls or parent/family role play to begin with 😅 I hosted a heck ton of parties in my igloo back in the day 😎

I totally had one of those "ghost memberships"... but I sort of know why? I have a distinct memory of logging in one day and getting a notification along the lines of "congrats, you've been granted a lifetime membership!" I don't know why this happened--probably in error--but as a kid, I didn't question it. I was just happy I didn't have to beg my parents for money.

I used to watch pookie roleplay videos on RU-vid when I was a kid. If I'm being honest, I think most pookie roleplays really were just kids having fun, even if there were definitely a few creeps trying to sneak into it.

Herbert being a fed really wouldn't surprise me in the slightest tbh. If he was shown to be behind the secret forces 10yr old me would've lost it

@15:00 gosh, you are the first person to have ever mentioned this. I remember it pretty distinctly as a kid cause I thought it was just silly roleplaying. But a couple years ago the memory of it came back, and I am very very certain there were some creepy folks on the other side of some of those duhduhs and mumus. It scares me to think about how Club Penguin chat filters and moderation probably saved me from being some sort of victim.

Hi, I just have to comment about how well is this video edited. I usually watch videos more like a podcasts but you got me hooked. An amazing job!

One thing I can contribute is on the Army part. For communication we used online chat room called xat. These xat rooms were used for army meetups and depending on the room used to track down the famous people in club penguin during events.

0:30 , I just realized, I can say "you had to be there" to everyone who asks why I loved Club Penguin as a kid, and why I still miss it. I have been waiting for this opportunity.

It meant a lot to me too. It made up so much of my childhood, and I used to play it with my late grandma, and it went offline mere weeks after she passed away which made it going offline twice as devastating. I honestly never understood why they took it offline, I wish Disney would bring it back, and just update the original stuff, and add in some new things, cause I'm sure there are a lot of people who would still play, and a lot of new ones too.

Finally someone did an actually good video on this iceberg.

The expired domain thing just solved a decade long mystery! I remember getting the golfer page and seriously thought there was just a problem on my end the entire time and didn't even question it again by the time it was fixed. Also remember being annoyed because I had a long day at school and just wanted to go home and play Club Penguin only to be greeted by that.

Im pretty sad that I didn’t get to experience Club Penguin for myself, I was like a month old at the games release. But god damn, it seems to have been a blast being a part of community at that time. I have been watching a lot of Club Penguin retrospects recently, so thank you for making another video for me to enjoy :D

15:18 omg I remember pet shop people! I genuinely thought I dreamt up that community until I found the wiki page abt it haha

i literally never knew what pookies were until rewritten. all the roleplaying ive had was eating pizzas and dating penguin girlfriends

I stumbled upon this channel today and I decided to take a look at your videos. I was very happy I did. You have some VERY well made videos. The editing is great, the scripting is unique (especially compared to normal iceberg videos), there was a lot of research and time put in, and even your voice is very clear and understandable. I subscribed (of course) and can't wait to see more videos. I would highly recommend this channel.

One of the devs said that cardjitsu shadow is the base cardjitsu game, thats why you already have the gem

So on the topic of ghost memberships, my mom used to play Club Penguin with me and I would occasionally be gifted membership and use it on my own account. However, one day when we were playing she was just a member without ever making a purchase, and the membership stuck around for a long time. I don't ever remember it ending. Also I remember pookies, they were terrible...

I used to pookie roleplay all the time back when I was little. I really didn't have any negative experiences but because at the time, most of the people roleplaying were still kids but it wasn't hard to find the occasional creepy old dude. Pookie contests were fun tho. i would have so much fun trying to dress up my little penguin.

I remember being banned for 24 hours for saying “shit” lmaooo, I was so ashamed

I'll never forget the Card JItsu TCG, it was mind-blowing as a kid back in the early 2010's to see toys at based on browser games like Club Penguin. I don't think my brother and I ever learned how to play it, but we had a good number of cards.

YES I HAD THE GHOST MEMBERSHIP!!! I had a theory as a kid that it was the allotted time of a month that the membership lasted. So you would actually have to have the play time of a whole month for the membership to expire. Now I'm thinking it was just a lucky glitch.

This was probably one of the best trips down memory lane I didn’t know I needed. This video truly put a smile on my face. :,) Thank you

This is an amazing video. Club Penguin in the “CPPS era” is still going strong, with a community closer than ever! Now the main client we use for cp is NewCP, super easy to download and basically picks up right where disney left off. i didn’t think armies would come up in the video either, because they never do, but you really did your research! CPAC is rebranded to Club Penguin Army Times, and the community is still (somehow) living to this day. in OGCP armies used skype and xat to host events, but it was honestly more common for them to happen solely on club penguin. i actually just opened up my own army and i realize how much of a cult it can come off as. maybe we are, idk. and while a lot of people don’t want to admit it it’s definitely an interactive role play, not just some “rahhh battle” stuff but it really dives deep into politics, warfare, climbing up ranks and proving your worth in the sub community. thanks for making this video! i’ll promote it every way i can. Waddle on!

I appreciate you making this video. I would like to believe Club penguin never dies and all the memories from it will always stay in my heart. Right now I'm playing 'New Club Penguin' once in a while, it's basically as safe as CP was from what I've seen so far and works pretty well! It's a nice escape from adulthood

This is one of the most well edited and well paced iceberg videos I've seen in a while 👺👍

After the cpr shutdown, there was also something called club penguin legacy who also got the axe but they actually had proper moderation thats up to standards and only lived on donations and yet Disney still axed it. Although they have stated there in talks, it’s unlikely they will ever come back.

Youve managed to become one of my fav channels with only a few videos! Wishing the best for you always💖

Damn and here I thought the only club penguin mystery was the iceberg. Interesting iceberg topic 🔥🔥 love the vid

a year late, but my GOSH you unlocked DEEP memories of the roleplaying I unfortunately partook in. the actual gasp I gave when you mentioned it, my gosh. i was just an innocent child, and had no clue how creepy it actually could have been...

This is so nostalgic, I miss this game!! Great video, keep up the good work ❤️

I wish Disney would be rerelease club penguin so it comes back like how it was and we pick up from where it was left off.

this is such a well done video!! i absolutely love that you included club penguin armies. unfortunately i never got to be part of one, but my big brother was! i always found them so fascinating and admired the coordination, and they actually inspired me to lead a similar group on animal jam a few years later. (which was very successful!!) armies seem to be mostly forgotten now, but i see some people in the comments remember them and/or are even still a part of their communities, which is great!! :D its got me thinking about the other niche parts of the community and its little cliques. stadium penguins, pizza parlor penguins, igloo advertisers, etc etc... i hope someone else remembers them too. maybe through some whim of fate one day i'll find my stadium bestie again. still miss u, pink

27:39 Omg I remember this!! My friend and I used to play CP nearly every day. I remember calling her on the phone so we could play together as usual, but we were met with this exact screen. We started freaking out, thinking that maybe the site was gone forever. My mom intervened and told me that they had probably just neglected to renew the domain, but I had no idea that was *actually* what happened; not until now, over a decade later.

The editing is soooo good and clean 👌 Great job porder

I remember the pookie thing really well... holy crap. I was 8 years old and started roleplaying because all my club penguin friends did. I was a guy but roleplayed as a girl penguin (my name was sk8trpenguin) as they were the main ones picked by the creepy parents. Suffice to say even at the time I realized progressively as things got creepier. Some "mother" penguin adopted my penguin, we actually had a pretty innocent and heartwarming RP for a while and it made me feel like I had a close friend at a time when I didn't have many super close people outside my sisters and parents. It was honestly a multiplayer Sims kinda thing. That was the appeal, I guess? Eventually "she" proceeded to make various comments about covering herself and my penguin completely in ice cream in the kitchen after a day at the cove and, well, after trying to cope, I got the fuck out. Looking back, shit was so extremely disturbing even my younger self knew exactly what was going on, my sister was pretty disgusted to hear the shit that can happen in Club Penguin when I told her. I played GTA as a kid, shooters, mature games all the time. But that shit with real creeps scared the fuck out of me and got me to quickly x out of the whole browser, causing me to stay offline for a few days. Fun memories as a kid minus that, yet also freaking scary ones when you look back as an adult with more knowledge and the ability to see things as they really are. Hopefully Club Penguin banned a lot of those accounts.

I’m so happy this video stumbled on my feed!! It’s really interesting and I’m excited to have found a cool new channel :) keep up the good work!!

I used to play this so much as kid! It was one of the best experiences ever and eventually moved onto to the private servers before the end of club penguin as a whole, what an amazing video too man:)

every time someone mentions pookies i die a little inside because i was one when i was about 7 or 8. weirdly enough, they weren't called pookies then (at least not in the servers i would play on) and i remember us all calling ourselves "bay bees". i remember i used to get "adopted" by someone and once they went offline i'd go back and get adopted again, and one time i invited one "mom" to my igloo and then another one of my "moms" joined me and i felt so horrible about it back then

I did get a phantom membership once, but not exactly in the way the video describes. One time my membership was about to expire, and on its last day i saw my penguin was returned to default without items, so without thinking twice i put back on all my defining member items. When the membership expired the next day, i was still wearing all of my clothes, but had blocked access to wear any other member item i had. I never took off any of my items since then, cause it meant i couldn't put them back on. I was already falling off CP at that time so it was the last membership i ever bought and didn't matter that much. Years later, i joined the last day of Club Penguin still wearing those clothes the staff forgot to take off me, for one last time.

bro you mentioning the whole pookie thing bought up SO many repressed memories lmfao

OMG so that's why I couldn't log in to club penguin for days back in 2011. They just didn't renew the domain. I was so scared that I put a virus on my grandma's computer at the time but man that gives me closure I never knew I needed lol

This was a great video! I would love to see a video diving deep into Club Penguin Armies and some of the feuds within the army community. I've been a part of the Club Penguin Army community for years now and it still has a fairly large player base.

I was obsessed with Club Penguin from 2008 to about ~2011ish. I never got into Tipping The Iceberg though, I was more into the secret agent missions

best video ive watched in a while. Thanks for bringing back the memories

Awesome video man appreciate the work that went into this

Great video! Lots of fun trivia I didn’t know much about. I still hang on to some of my Club Penguin merch; I have some toys of a few characters, as well as a Puffle house and a steel pencil tin I haven’t ever seen mentioned online aside from old listings for the bundle I got it from. Man… I feel nostalgic now.

i remember pookies. i would sit in the pet store for a long time asking to be adopted lol. it was nothing weird i was just a kid in like 3rd grade having fun (can't say the same for others though).

This looks like it took A LOT of time to make. So I'm so glad to see it be a very successful video. Good job man!

This was a really well-edited and researched video, well done! The only feedback is that I didn't know where on the iceberg we were bc you didn't really refer to how deep below the surface each topic was. Other than that minor thing, I loved it! Keep up the good work :)

Club penguin was so much fun for me and I'm sad that I hopped on the train a little too late. Also yes this video was really really worth the wait. I wish I had more time to play this game as a kid.

I remember the pookies 😰I didn’t know they had a name. There were also so many in toontown and Roblox

I love the editing bro, is really good, great video !

Thank you so much for this video. It's been such a nostalgia trip (even though I barely knew a lot of this stuff, I was around when card juitsu has just came out) this video made me emotional. Thanks for all the hard work researching 💖

After watching this video I want to try to recreate as much of club penguin in vrchat as I can

wow homie just wow! masterful editing, great research, the whole nine yards! you should be very proud of what you've made here, you've literally inspired me to make a club penguin video of my own! :3 have a most wonderful day whenever you may read this

Seeing the illustrations at 10:14 is reawakening my forgotten childhood memories memories, they’re frustratingly just out of reach

I never even played this in my life, yet I just watched the whole thing. Great video!

*sob* I miss Club Penguin... i miss the secret mission story quests. I was OBSESSED with the PSA and EPF. They never gave me closure on it. AAAAAA I'm 22 now and it STILL haunts me that I never got an ending.

i got banned from rewritten for saying milf. i also participated in the pookie thing. the whole thing with that was pookies were non-members who dressed in certain ways because they had limited options of clothes and part of it was "getting adopted" meant they were giving you membership (which obv isn't true and no one actually thought it was) but I'm fairly certain most of the people who participated were teenagers making fun of the kids who started it (at least that was my experience with it). Also does anyone else remember sitting in the pizza place looking for someone to date you?

This video brought back some great memories, thank you for making it

I joined club penguin in 2007. This brought back so many memories. I remember logging on the last day and tipping the ice berg. It was so bittersweet.

Some info on “pookies” I remembered them from original Club Penguin (I was around 7-8 when I played as one, I saw it as innocent fun at the time, like playing families) and when rewritten came out, I got really bored over lockdown and out of morbid curiosity, I decided to mess about and pretend to be “one of them” again to see what they got up to nowadays. In the short time I was involved, I saw - Someone pretended to kill themselves in real life because they didn’t get picked. They did this twice - in one game, one pookie kept saying (in character) I looked “hot and sexy”. She was roleplaying a 2 year old girl. I was playing as her 3 YEAR OLD BROTHER - One person revealed they had a piss fetish, and spend a whole game crying about having … a red rash … “down there” - One person confessed to being 35 years old - one user was playing a character who was a grown man who had a head injury and needed to wear diapers - Several occasions where pookies would roleplay dying of cancer I wish I was joking, but the community is absolutely as depraved and weird as you might think

the editing is phenomenal omg

Man I felt emotional w yo vid keep it up. I remember my favourite aspect of the game was the secret agent stuff, I even got the DS Games that released back in the day

I remember the "Pookie" era. I was super young at the time, but you can find it in many other games, such as roblox. It was more of a way to connect with other players than anything but to also act in a certain age/way as there were both adopters and adoptees. It was also really good to seek attention hence why you need to be "adopted" and taken care of. It gave a sense of family as well. My best friend at the time had a membership so we shared his account. Whenever I logged on I put on my girly clothes whereas when he logged on he put on his boy clothes. the best part is that I would have "boyfriends," so when he was on he would have other boys teleport to him and try to flirt.

it’s crazy how much time i dedicated to this game. loved the extensive coverage of everything, really took me back lol. would’ve also loved to see coverage on the cpmv/club penguin youtube community

I was a Pookie Legend back in the day!! I would sit in the Pet Shop for hours going to Pookie Contests. If I lost, I’d just harass the winners until they left. Or if I won, I’d tell my “biggies” I had to go offline!

Club Penguin just hit different though. I actually have the Card Jitsu cards physically and puffle plushies. I loved this game when I was younger and I would love a game that could fill the void that club penguin left. (Splatoon is the closest thing I can think of to filling the void the club penguin left but it still just isn’t the same)

Really excellent video. you covered more than i thought you would. more cp content would always be appreciated

the way i'd completely forgotten about pookies for 15 years and you just reminded me

Don’t know about pookie’s but I do know about all the weird romance going on at the pizzeria- all starting off with a penguin sitting at the pizzeria typing “😢”

I recently started liking CP again and remembered all the times I played it when I was younger. Herbert the Bear is actually my favorite character once again like in the past! I have memories when I had membership of playing the membership levels of System Defender in the remade EPF base like the Herbert mission in System Defender! That game was so fun in CP lmao

Nice post. As I watch I just am so curious all the club penguin times there were. It always enticed me how many there were and the art pieces as well.