The Rise and Fall of Moshi Monsters 

I was so upset by them removing Lady Googoo from the game and replacing her with Baby Rox that I actually sent a complaint email asking where Lady Googoo went and if she could come back. The reply I got was, “she went into the sun and will never come back.”

I remember back in primary school we had a competition where we had to give a speech about something important to us. A girl in reception class did hers about her Moshi Monsters figure collection, and it was so good she was invited to deliver it to the CEO of Moshi Monsters herself. She was Looked upon by everyone with godlike awe. Sorry, that's such a long and random comment, but I suddenly unlocked a memory.

I remember being kind of relieved when I heard Moshi Monsters shut down because I hadn't been on the site in years at that point and I knew if I logged in my monster would be really sad and sick and I would feel bad. So when I heard it shut down I was like "oh good, abandoned monsters have been put out of their misery"

I actually had my art published in a moshi monsters magazine twice! My friendship tree was the tallest thing ever! I was still getting friend requests till it shut down. I will miss it, my little Gaz is in a better place now. RIP Moshi Monsters 😞

I swear, these videos are gonna be considered ethnographic studies of internet culture one day.

your eye makeup NEVER misses

I never thought of moshi monsters as a "social media for kids" but that really makes me feel thankful that I was exposed to simple and child friendly sites like this at a young age before more mature sites like twitter and instagram

In primary school we lived and breathed moshi. Thought it was just a UK craze but apparently not 😅 only 18 myself but it's mad how young kids nowadays get into social media without going on virtual worlds beforehand

When I was 8 years old, in 2010/2011, my class was given the task of writing a letter to a company of our choice. I have no idea why. But anyway, I wrote a letter to the CEO of Moshi Monsters/Mind Candy, Michael Acton Smith. I was the only person that year who got a reply - it was a handwritten greetings card thanking me for playing the game, and the envelope was full of so many stickers that I’m still getting through them today. I loved playing Moshi Monsters as a kid, and it was very dear to my heart for this reason. I don’t know much about Michael as a person, but I would say he certainly understands how to make kids smile. The topic of the game’s decline is actually a pretty sad one for me, as a result!

Hey! We are the the owners of the Moshi Wiki and of a project called Moshi Community, thanks for mentioning the part about the Rewritten owner. It took a toll on us mentally, so we branched out and made our own version to protect Moshi’s legacy. I am glad to see the darkness come to light and rest assured that Moshi is in safe hands now and we will do all we can to keep it archived.

I’m so surprised she didn’t mention Poptropica. That was an insane part of my childhood

Fun fact: I was OBSESSED with Ecto the Moshling as a kid. I would draw him constantly and I even made my own Ecto OCs I even made my own felt plush because they never sold an Ecto plush. I bought so many of the blind bags just to get the little figure of him. I still have it to this day. And honestly I have no idea why I hyper fixated on it like that lol

I was OBSESSED with moshi monsters, to the point I could recognise each individual moshling purely from the noise it made. It had such a grip on me it was insane

This is my moment to shine. Not only was I OBSESSED with this game, I spent all my pocket money on the playing cards and figurines. And the DS game! I still own all of these including the literal rarest one (our school called the holographic ones 'rainbow shiny' because well... they were rainbow and shiny) -- I got the rainbow shiny iggy (after convincing my dad to buy it off ebay) I used to show my dad my house and my moshlings. I even managed to get a 1 month membership at one point. After my dad passed away, some of my fondest memories are playing the DS game with him, trying to get him to play the ice-cream game, and showing him my card collection (which I still have!) I also once got a note which said "u are cute" and I remember I started shaking because I also shared my account with my crush at the time and was also terrified because how did they know what I looked like? Ahhh memories...

Oh yeah the developers/mods said that because Moshi Monsters was meant to be for kids, having a discord server made it dangerous for them when it came to interacting with strangers and therefore had to be shutdown. However, the server was very friendly and active with many events and fun quizzes being uploaded by the staff from my experience! I understand their concerns for sure though

having moshi monsters as a uk based game was insane here, moshi monsters were everywhere at the time, theyre was even corner shops with off brand moshis to get into the craze and make money lol.

All of your video topics feel like they were hand picked for me, you’re amazing

Oh gosh... i loved moshi monsters back in 2012. It was the first place i went to vent about losing my first dog. I'm still devastated about losing all those pinboard messages 😭 I'll definitely be playing the rewritten asap, no other game has come close to that fucking ice cream minigame

It's kind of sad that virtual worlds are being phased out. I'm definitely part of the group that thinks kids shouldn't be on sites like Twitter or Instagram where they could easily come across adult content. Kids should have their spaces and adults should have theirs, and neither should have to worry about overstepping boundaries.

I applied for a job with Mind Candy in 2017 and had to animate a "yet to be released" Moshling as a test, so I assumed business was booming and it's a surprise to hear how much they were struggling at that time and were actually cutting staff. Maybe they were looking for a single person to the the job of several, since I think the reason I didn't get the job was because I didn't have game-making experience (even though it was an artist role.)

Man, Moshi monsters was a repressed memory of my childhood. I liked it, but stopped playing bc so many things were locked behind membership

I remember having 2 accounts for every monster, because I wanted a “girl “ and a “boy” version of each, even with the luvli and poppet which were seen as the feminine girly ones.

I stil lcan't get over the Megamind plush. The way it doesn't mesh with the artstyle at all, how it's description spoils the movie and how it's the last thing I would expect to see on the site as I left before it was introducted i think.

Moshi monsters was the reason I was never bought anything in online games. I had been playing it for a while when I was probably 8-9 and I finally worked up the courage to ask my parents to buy me membership and they did but as soon as they bought it for me I couldn't log onto my account. My mom got super pissed at me and sometimes out of the blue would be like "you know i'm still paying for that membership you better be using it" and i'm like "mom i've told you so many times i can't log in )':" Anyways I never asked my parents for online currency or membership after that

I loved the aesthetic and art style of this game as a kid. I was so mad when the overworld models changed to match the designs of the movie that I would spend hours refusing to leave my house just to keep looking at the old designs

Okay, between how this game was created because the creator noticed how much children like nurturing things and how they persist now as a mindfulness and sleep app... This may be one of the most genuinely wholesome and not evil video game corporations out there! Seriously. When hearing about how the creator noticed how kids like nurturing things, I couldn't help but let out an audible 'Awwww!' Because you know something? They're right! A lot of people see kids as these hellish, uncaring creatures, but honestly kids are inclined first and foremost to caring about things, and so creating a game geared towards that caring nature is a really nice thing to do! It's very good that this game was created on the foundation of having kids nurturing things over any other kind of gameplay loop or philosophy they could have founded it off of.

you know, given how all these virtual world stories tend to end, i'm surprised wizard101 is still chugging along 14 years later

Great video, but I feel like you didn't really cover how much LORE this game had apart from mentioning missions once. Between the missions, magazines, and books, I remember talking about new missions with my friends and speculating what the next one would be. God, the more I'm thinking about it the more nostalgic I'm getting. I remember when Music Island got introduced and the map got bigger. I moved and left all my toys behind, but I think I might still have some posters somewhere.

that "The Super Moshis need YOU!" line was what got me to beg my dad for a membership lmao, I even had magazine subscription too! edit: I forgot to mention I have almost every DS game as well too lol, this game really did a lot

I remember once as a kid, my dad bought me a card a GameStop which had a code to become a gold member for one month, and have access to activities otherwise hidden behind a paywall. And let me tell you, I made good use of that one month. I played this game all day and night, so much so, I'd get frequent headaches from staring at a computer screen for so long, but I still didn't stop.

i was an avid moshi monsters gal. had the figures, made my family spend LOTS of money on memberships back in its prime. such a core memory. i play moshi online or rewritten every night. it’s so nice and nostalgic and i find myself ALWAYS rewatching this vid cuz it’s SO refreshing to hear someone else talk abt moshi!!!! so yeah i rewatch this vid almost every night..probably seen this vud 50 times in the past 6 months. my bf is always like “ur watching that AGAIN?” yes i am.😭😭

I used to be unhealthily obsessed with moshi monsters… I watched the movie so much that my parents banned me from watching it and I’m pretty sure I have an old Ecto glowing keychain from a magazine which still kinda works hanging around somewhere

I'll always be grateful to have been able to grow up with these virtual worlds. Games like these shaped my childhood.

I remember one day while shopping with my mom in the toys aisle, there was this super cute plush called "diavlo" from moshi monsters. I begged and cried for my mom to buy it for me, and i got it. I didn't know moshi monsters were such a big brand, i just knew i needed diavlo or else i would probably die.

Moshi Monsters was such a pinnacle for me, I remember how excited I was for each superhero adventure that came out that you would get to participate on (what were they called??? Super Moshi or something) I hadn't played since like maybe 2013 because my account suddenly stopped working and I never sent an email about it, so this was the very first time hearing about it's shutdown. It's still a shock for me how a large part of my childhood is just gone now, it's crazy that all those years ago was unknowingly the last time I ever would have played the game. RIP Moshi Monsters, you were absolutely incredible

It's so surreal to hear someone talk in depth about something like Moshi Monsters. I never played the game myself but I remember seeing it advertised all over the place. I was really big on web games during my childhood and early teens, and sites like Newgrounds, Kongregate, and Armor Games used to have advertisements for Moshi Monsters that would play before your game would load. I got so used to seeing them and tuning them out that I sort of forgot they were al real things that actually existed.

I think it would be super interesting to see you cover the controversial “teen” centered virtual worlds; OurWorld, SuperSecret, IMVU, Second Life, etc.

I was WAY too old for Moshi Monsters, but I still vividly remember it mostly because of the whole Lady Goo-Goo debacle. It was the first big “Corporations are coming to destroy the internet with frivolous copyright suits!!” stories I remember seeing

I miss the magazine so much :( I remember my dad coming home from work and picking up the latest copy for me. The posters were probably my favourite part and the "Toastie" presser which I used for so many years after. The memories are endless!

My mom was more obsessed with moshi monsters than me, buying the yearly membership for herself. I remember that there was missions and you had to complete certain tasks in order to get fancy house shit lmao. I struggle to remember since I was so young but a volcano definitely comes to mind. When I can steal a laptop tomorrow I’ll definitely have to be playing on one of the rewritten servers because I’m desperate to have fun and bask in that nostalgia once more!

As someone who’s a great advocate for game preservation, it’s really cool that so many online games are being preserved and archived by fans

oh my god i was like 90% sure this game was just a fever dream... i played it so much as a kid but i literally never saw anyone else talk about it so i was CONVINCED that i made it up entirely. good to know that its actually not just a weird webkinz ripoff that i hallucinated playing in the fifth grade

Does anyone else remember how people would make "text art" on the pinboard? I remember people being surprisingly talented at it. I tried it myself and spent a lot of time making horses out of text for my friends. They must've looked like crap because nobody ever bothered to save or pin them, lmao. Good times

It’s crazy how popular moshi monsters was in the UK because hardly anyone at my school in the US knew about it. Makes sense as to why the friends I made on there were usually from the UK

I remember having literally everything moshi monsters- pyjamas, a bed spread, plushies, collectable moshlings. I remember always entering the competitions as well. I joined rewritten recently for the nostalgia and saw there was a design a moshling competition, I entered, and finally won a moshi competition. Made my 10 year old heart happy, lol

I distinctly remember playing moshi monsters before the paid membership even existed. They announced that it was coming in an email to all players and being a naive nine year old, I emailed back BEGGING them not to charge money and just use ads instead, and I actually got a reply saying that this was the way they were moving forward but thanking me for my support and suggestions lol.

I remember playing this game all the time in elementary and was so addicted to the game. It's sad knowing that it has fallen and shut down, but at least there is a remade version of it. I have so many fun memories of this game. Thanks for giving us your time Moshi Monster's!

about the separate fan recreation of moshi monsters, moshi community just recently came out of beta! the devs of moshi community add new stuff to the game all the time and do frequent events/giveaways on their official server. one dev on the discord even said they'd be involved with moshi monsters for as long as they're around, which is a pretty serious commitment if you ask me edit: moshi community got shut down :( the moshi community team said they can't disclose much information about it except that it was a legal issue

You know it's refreshing to see a kids flash game that didn't have any major drama (at least, not any that was their fault) or shady connections. Childrens media seems to be such a magnet for trouble these days.

I used to play this CONSTANTLY. I only realized they’d closed down the site a couple months ago when I remembered the ice cream mini game, it was my favorite lol

I was absolutely obsessed with this game, and was so sad that it quietly shut down like it did. Everyone in my school had the figures and cards and traded them with each other. I had six accounts, and I even managed to convince my parents to pay for the membership for my main monster. My room was full of Moshi merchandise, I still have most of it to this day. I remember buying some of the merch just because it came with a secret code for a rare Moshling or item. They even had a Moshi Monsters event at this theme park I went to, they were giving out a rare Moshling to everyone there. I felt so cool when I got the rare Moshling, until they made it available to everyone a few months later. There was someone dressed as a Katsuma monster that you could take photos with, and I stalked them throughout the whole park. Eventually I lost interest and moved onto games like Stardoll, but I still checked my monster at least once every year until the site closed.

Moshi monsters was my whole childhood man. I had t shirts, plushies, the secret poppet pillow, the moshling tree house, the ds game, my nan got me the magazine every month, pretty much everything you listed off in this video. i’m an adult now and i miss moshi monsters so much lmao

I remember way back when in one of my old schools where the teachers would keep track of student attendance by using Moshi Monsters as a base. Everybody was represented by a little Moshi Monster avatar up on the smartboard and whenever we actually showed up to school we'd all have to tap our avatars up on the board to tick them to show that we arrived that day. My avatar was that goofy bigfoot ass looking one. Y'know, that one.

This game was literally my life blood for a good few years. I managed to get a Moshi Monster gift card in my halloween bag one year because the neighbors accidentally had slipped it in there with the bowl of candy they carelessly left out, which was obviously meant for their kid. I was one of the kids that got the Moshi magazine subscription, I swear to god doing the daily puzzles ended up giving me at least ten additional IQ points. I even once got a thank you letter from Mind Candy for just being a loyal customer. I swear to god I'm not trying to sound like I'm bragging but when their album came out I really felt like I helped to contribute to it, in however small way that me and my family did. Visual stimming to The Missy Kix by replaying the music video several times in a row may have helped in some way too, who knows lol. Now if you did Poptropica my childhood trifecta will be complete, since you've already done Monster High

This is one of the few games my parents actually spent money on and im so glad they did. For 3 accts as well. I feel so spoiled lol. I could not believe my eyes when they shut it down. Iloved doing the quests even though somethies they were very hard. I had a diablo and Katsuma and lovely. I loved the music videos bought the merch moshi monsters was my life.

I had totally forgotten about so many aspects of this game until I watched this video, I only played moshi monsters for the summer after elementary school but this game was an iconic part of my childhood

Hey Izzzyzzz! About that last segment, MMR is no longer being watched over or updated. The staff of it have made a new project called Moshi Community. I was there when the whole debacle went down, I'm a creator of a fanmade moshling that got added into the game! The drama was happening while they were still trying to get him into the game, so they just went ahead and added him to Moshi Community. It's honestly a much better fan revival. They're always adding new items and moshlings and new features.

I think those games where you had to make food within a certain timeframe that shrunk as the game progressed were really enabling to a certain group of kids diagnosed with both ADHD and anxiety

I just giggled seeing them lovely Garfield pals in your background, while I'm having a super tiny, round Garfield sticker on my monitor. Also, I absolutely LOVE the fact that you're giving a special attention to your make-up for each video, so creative ✨ Keep up the good work!

I was obsessed with Moshi Monsters as a kid. The way I heard about it was after a book fair at school I found a moshi monsters book in my little mail box slot. I don’t remember buying it but it was there and that’s how I heard of it.

oh lord my biggest experience of this community was the forums. the moshi monsters forums could get a video of their own. the culture. the wars. the cliques. the guy with the mud kink who traumatised like everyone.

The Asuka make up KILLING IT

Does anyone else remember the Christmas calendar they would do on their website for Christmas, that would let you unlock something every day for the month of December.. the nostalgia😭

I'd literally die to see you cover the mobile game 'Zombie Café'. That game was a huge part of my childhood, and I got so sad to hear that they deleted it from the app store. I remember I spent a whole day looking online for APKs or something, but got absolutely nothing without putting a virus on my phone. I still get bittersweet memories from when my older sister would play it and refuse to let me watch 😭

Wait there was definitely another moshi mobile game. It was called something like “find moshlings” and it was horrible. There was no music and all the characters made eye contact with you the whole time with their horrible stares. The game over screen for the time challenge made me cry (i think it was all the moshis you didn’t find getting turned into goo by a machine) actually traumatic. If it’s still on the app store I’ll link it

moshi monsters shut down 6 days before my 18th birthday, my childhood and moshi monsters died alongside each other. I have the song that played in the ice cream game looping through my brain every single day of my life.

I was OBSESSED with Moshi monsters as a kid. Shi Shi was always always my favourite. I used to religiously collect all the Moshling figurines and the Moshi Monster cards too, I even got the advent calendars and special edition sets 💀😭😭 I was hyperfixated on it for years and honestly I have so many good memories related to it.

I still remember when my friend in primary school who played Moshi Monsters stayed with us! My birth grandmother said we had to do our homework before we could play anything and my friend managed to convince her that Moshi Monsters was a math game. She got to play Moshi Monsters while I had to do homework, I was so mad lmaooo

Moshi Monster reminds me of the time when that one Facebook game called "Pet Society" was active back then and it was a blast to play. Too bad that it got shut down.

I'm an old man, I've been heavy into MMOs since the mid 90s, all the big names, nearly none of the games you go over are anything I would've found let alone been interested in, and yet here I am, very interested in hearing all about the wild nonsense that went on in all these communities. Great videos, thank you.

Well, one of the new servers, Moshi Community, just got shut down an hour ago for legal reasons and I don't imagine MMR is too far behind. Oh boy...

In our school moshi monsters were so popular people started collecting the plastic moshlings and trading them between each other They were banned from our school because one thought the other stole his moshling so naturally they had a big fight ending in a broken nose 😂

the absolute dead pan expression and tone for “What can I say, it’s a great song. A banger if you will” was priceless

GOD I MISS MOSHI MONSTERS SO MUCH

YOOOOOOOOO I collected SO. Many. Moshling figures when I was a kid. Still have them too -- even Lady GooGoo, I believe. And I had so much fun on those message boards as a kid. I used to go through other people's conversations (I was ten, okay?) and distinctly remember stopping my snooping for a while after finding this one girl talking about how when she grew up and had a kid she was going to dye his hair black and quote, "cut a scar on his forehead" -- and I didn't put together that she was talking about turning her kid into harry potter until years later. At the time, I was horrified. Aaaah, the internet... such fond memories lol

I was out in my garage one day and actually found a box of moshi monster valentine cards from middle school and got smacked with the nostalgia.

I love your "The Rise and Fall of..." videos!! I would love to see things like Pixie Hollow, Disney Create, Millsberry, Supersecret, Weeworld, etc as well!

You didn't mention the very weird change that they made to the characters when you where in town. I don't remember very many details, but I remember logging in one day and going into town and having to look at the horrid anime looking moshi monsters everywhere. I actually remember thinking that it looked awful and hoping they would change it back, but I stopped playing it for a good long while after that.

i literally binge watch your videos while making art. love everything you put out. thanks for bringing knowledge to an era I forgot in my childhood

I remember having a membership just because my mum loved playing their version of bejewelled. Also used to collect all the cards and moshling cards. I got a moshling seed guide for Christmas and I was obsessed with going through and trying to get every moshling

Man seeing all these videos you make on kids virtual worlds made me realize we’re never going to have this sort of era ever again. A shame, too, since it’s always been so charming and creative.

moshi monsters was my special interest back in the day, i brought some plushies off of ebay recently and the nostalgia was amazing. i even named my cat (he's 10 years old now) after a moshling- Waldo

I remember I won a month long membership after my mom bought me a magazine and I was so excited!! I only got to use it for a few weeks since some stuff was happening with the adults in the house but I loved the disco and felt like an actual hero completing the Super Moshi missions! I really miss it ngl 😅 Edit: No one ever talks about Secret Builders, I remember having spell fights in the North Pole and bribing people to vote for me during the fashion shows. I even got my mom into it (and it shouldve been a clue that I was pan/non-binary since I had one account that was a guy and I pretended to be one to date pretty girls 😭)

i love watching these internet archive videos from you izzzyzzz! they always take me back to those early years in my childhood, and i grew up not necessarily playing every one of those virtual worlds but i was certainly exposed to it! i don't suppose you'd ever make a video on Nickolodeon's MMO Monkey Quest? MAN, i have so many nostalgic memories of that game. :')

I used to play this game with my friends everyday after I got home from school, Moshi Monsters is a Classic :)

I had a lot of trouble with math problems in elementary, so my mom was very strict with how long I spent playing video games. (She did so that I can study more) Idk if you guys remember, but do you remember how there was an option to play mini games ? And there were math ones? She used to be open to me playing Moshi Monsters more because I would often playing those mini games in front of her.

This was my childhood, I’m not even sure how I found it! But when my mom went to work she’d let me use her old clunky laptop to play. To this day I still listen to the songs bc they kinda bop. I miss the game so much. Back then I had no idea how to keep accounts/log in (I was like 9) so I constantly made new monsters lol. Dr. Strangeglove is still the best villain ever imo, my sister and I still reference him a lot!

i loved moshi monsters - highkey hope the resurfacing of y2k trends eventually includes virtual worlds

i froze when i saw the title nobody talks about moshi monsters anymore but it was my childhood and i still love it so much to this day, hence my name. i was devastated when the site shut down, i actually had to grieve it. my little katsuma gone to the abyss of internet deletion. however there is a rewritten game run by fans which is pretty good! id recommend checking it out. i wish moshi monsters never died, or at least i hope they resurge in popularity one day. i remember seeing the moshling blind bags in build a bear workshop at the mall, id buy one every time i went. to this day i still collect moshlings, i have the ds game, a moshi monsters themed nintendo accessories, and a never ending love for the series. anyway im gonna finish watching the video now lol. thank you for making this

Videos about these old kids MMOs make me kinda sad I grew up without the Internet. They all look so fun and sweet. On the other hand, my parents' money was safely spent on Goosebumps books, Pokemon merch and Mega Bloks Dragons sets instead of virtual memberships, which is neat since I still have most of these books and toys tucked away somewhere, and the membership would have been gone as soon as the game went down, along will all the digital stuff I got with it. Stll, I'm really happy that so many kids have all these wholesome memories of playing these games.

You don't understand I was obsessed with this game when it started to fall off my little heart was shattered

Just to let you know Moshi Monsters Rewritten's dev team has moved over to a new game called Moshi Community which I've provided a few contributions to :)

As a kid from the UK I vividly remember various friends being really into Moshi Monsters and trying to get me to make an account, but personally Stardoll was my go-to kid-friendly world. 12 year old me felt so grown up knowing who designers were and decking out my suite, not to mention the insane high school and fantasy roleplays I dove into on the forums. It certainly felt huge at the time (I think they had an official collab with Mattel for some stardoll barbies?) and I'd LOVE to see an Izzzyzzz video on it

When you showed a clip of the moshi monsters walking around in the street I honestly teared up. I’m so glad that it has a “rewritten” version and although my original account is lost to the void this will heal my inner child soooo much 🖤🖤🖤

i find it really funny that younger me never actually realised that moshi monsters was an online game. despite me collecting some toys, playing the ds game and being obsessed with the magazines/collector books, only around the shutdown did i realise it was an online game.

I miss virtual worlds!! It made socializing so much easier and I can’t wait until they get popular again when the time comes

I can say from experience as a kid I lost interest QUICKLY on the merchandise side of things. As more and more moshlings were made I felt less and less attached and less and less drawn to spending money to collect them. Which is honestly just what I think a lot of kids felt too. Though I still hold my Ecto and a little gold wrestler penguin I got close to my heart despite how obvious it is now they were just getting money from me. I'm gonna be happy when in the future their worth goes up (I hope) and I can make some mad money off these little things

Congrats, you've uncovered a treasure trove of buried memories! I used to be super addicted to the game. I remember I got the membership a few times (Usually just a 1 month subscription), spent hours shoving passwords into the game to get free stuff, played the games a ton (Mostly the ice cream and cupcake ones, though I also liked some of the animal games in the amusement park), and made my house look absolutely atrocious with all the contrasting items. I also got a decent amount of merch- not a ton but more than anyone else in my school had. I had a White Fang plush, a ton of the blind bag figures (I actually remember stealing a bag from a Build A Bear since I really wanted it and it obviously wasn't supposed to be there since it was on its own by the register and I didn't see anything Moshi Monsters related in the store) that I still own today in the gold collection box that barely shuts properly because of how many are crammed in there, some squishy moshling pencil toppers, and two of the three DS games (Moshling Zoo and Moshlings Theme Park). I remember even having a birthday party with a minor Moshi Monsters theme- I think we still have one or two of the large decals that were a part of it plastered somewhere.

This video brought back so much nostalgia!! I was a moshi monsters superfan back in the day and it was nice to see the old gameplay throughout the video

I was one of the first 10,000 users on Moshi just before the massive boom in popularity and I grew up on this site’s social media aspects with the pinboard for real life school friends and the forums for other kids I didn’t know. I stopped using it around 2012 when they added the word filter and I couldn’t have chaotic conversations anymore I purposefully caused so much drama, saw drama in pinboards and even saw the person who hacked my account gloat about knowing my password on someone’s pinboard. I was devastated but looking back, Moshi really was the wild west to me outside of the fun colourful online world. I miss online worlds like that but I’m glad to see kids being just as unhinged on sites like Roblox