The Best of Old Club Penguin Myths

Hey, if you guys liked this video, feel free to watch my video about Club Penguin Music Videos people used to make! I'm very proud of it :) https://youtu.be/H6INxiFKkZU

It really sucked that Club Penguin had to end, but my mind was blown when they finally made tipping the iceberg possible

That tipping the iceberg at the death of Clubpenguin was such a nice touch from the devs, when I heard they were doing it I logged in for the first time in about 7 or 8 years just to be a part of the action. Really good video man.

I used to be obsessed with trying to go to Rockhopper island, trying to hack the mascots, and trying to get in that secret underwater room

I've got a, personal fan theory / myth with absolutely no evidence to back it up. When I was a child I had a friend who often lied, and he claimed to have an email address to send ideas and suggestions to Club Penguin Developers. I didn't believe him but his mother confirmed it and gave me the address. So I wrote an email (using an email address that no longer exists) with a few ideas, and actually got a response. One of the suggestions I had made was for a storage room or warehouse filled with cardboard boxes and all of the party supplies from past events. Like little Easter Eggs - because that stuff would have to go somewhere after the party, right? I'd say probably within a year of sending that email, the Box Dimension was created - enterable through a portal in a box, filled with cardboard boxes. After a Plant Party, it was filled with plants. I was so excited as a kid that my suggestion wound up making it into the game, even if it was modified slightly.

Oh man, this was all a blast from the past, I was super duper into club penguin as a wee rat, and just seeing all these theores again gave me a rush of nostalgia like no other!

So I started playing club penguin from summer of 2006 until around 2011. I vividly remember 3 giant reasons why club penguin myths got so popular and basically the source that started the hypetrain. (Warning! This is also a history post on the game back in 2006-2007 from my viewpoint. Its long but i felt like I needed to share it) 1. Pins: Pins came out around 5-6 months before i started playing but i could instantly tell the coolest and most well known players had all the pins that came out earlier in the year. These players werent famous but they could get a party started in any area that they joined. I know that me and thousands of other players initially got addicted to the game because of the urge to collect everything and be cool like them. The devs also got rid of 60-70% of clothes and collectibles after each update back then so you would have to always be playing to keep up. 2. Rockhopper: The day that Rockhopper first came to club penguin was the day when it collectively clicked in our minds of how amazing it is to be a famous penguin (basically being an e-celeb back in 2006). Ill still never forget faking being sick just to celebrate with everyone for 2 days in a row because of his arrival. His arrival also created the first major hints at club penguin myths being developed by players, but it was basically either ignored or super boring since some random kid just made it up to prank people... That was until a few things all happened at the same time. 3. The devs themselves got more players interested in myths by using the club penguin newspaper + youtube + club penguin fame: The thing that really catapulted club penguin myths into being a big mainstream-topic on most servers all came from the club penguin times/the newspaper. Slowly over time players would notice the devs dropping hints in the newspaper to let people know about new features coming to the game to get players excited. This created a large group of players that would constantly spread rumors of hidden information & clickable items buried deep in the newspapers pages. Not only this but players could also submit their own creative jokes & drawings that would be put into the newspaper every week. Well eventually more people would listen to these rumors and read the newspapers all the way to the end and try to find all the hidden information and items. What ended up happening is they would also start noticing the people that got their penguin names put on the last few pages, these players would became instantly semi-famous for a week. This was such a giant deal immediately after halloween 2006 that it nearly became impossible to get your creative work submissions noticed by the the devs. The people that did get their works put on the newspaper got addicted to being semi-famous for a week and started doing everything they could to keep up that feeling for as long as possible, then youtube club penguin videos hit the community. Sometime around the Christmas event of that year, I remember club penguin youtubers instantly becoming massive and well-known by all after they made their own videos. This sparked the craze of making club penguin guides, making club penguin tour videos of events, showing people how to make igloo parties, club penguin music videos, etc~>. This fame was so new and it was 10x crazier then what previously "cool/well known" players dealt with at the start of the year. Basically it got to the point where famous youtuber penguins would enter a medium sized server and then it would instantly become full and no one could enter in the area that they went into. But the biggest videos that became a giant trend around early-mid 2007 was the myth videos. The first people that started doing it were pulling in 50-100k views per video in it's first month of being published which was pretty much impossible for 99% of youtube game videos back then. Due to all of this the club penguin myths instantly became a staple in the game and the devs continued to fan the flames for years even after i stopped playing. So to sum all of this up, the way the game was designed back in 2006 and the culture it created basically jump-started the entire genre of club penguin myths. Im also so glad you made this video because it reminded me of some of the best gaming memories of my entire life. Thank you.

Even as someone who never really played CP as a kid, I remember these rumors making waves around the internet regardless. It’s definitely cool that in a way Club Penguin kept the spirit of old-school playground rumors alive in that regard, especially in the information age

That message after u tip the iceberg always gives me chills. Idk. It just hits me in the feels cause I adored this game

CP was my favorite game ever. I cried for like 5 straight nights after it shut down.

Club Penguin was one of the games that was a life changer for me growing up, especially when I was very little (I don’t even know how I discovered it, but it was during a time where I really needed positive interactions). I also spent most of my time on YouTube around that age just watching Club Penguin videos and all of the myths always stuck to me. The hype when rainbow and gold puffles were released was insane, I’ll never forget those days <3 [Edit] Oh my god, I remember seeing people speculate the Shadow element and ninja abilities all the time. I also always just imagined it was for the base game, especially since you can become a shadow already with the bracers. I would’ve loved for it to exist though, maybe one day with a fan server.

What a great retrospective. The "puffle inflation" problem specially resonated across time with my 10 yo self lol. Great video!

Club Penguin started to go downhill in 2014 in my opinion. That's when they really started to run out of ideas and milk past ones. It is sad that it shut down but it was destined for a long time. 2012 was my favorite year for Club Penguin and it will always be the most nostalgic to me. I'll never forget it.

club penguin was a massive part of my childhood and made me who i am today. i'll never forget it ever.

I think my favorite parts of club penguin were the parties. I still remember playing through the medieval party and completing the super cool boss fights with dragons and hydras. The prehistoric party was also super memorable to me since the island's look was changed so much.

Nothing is better than watching sw1che at night time very chill vibe

This was a nostalgia trip. I also didn't know about the card jitsu shadow debacle, kind of crazy how often ninjas were the source of rumors. I loved the initial leadup to the original card jitsu

When I was a kid playing club penguin, I never had membership, so of course looking up "club penguin free membership" or "club penguin cheats" was something I would do in hopes of experiencing the whole game. I remember finding this website that had a few tips and tricks I already knew like codes you could claim or some hidden stuff, but also in the same article there was an entry saying that your account becomes member if you have 1 million coins or more. Little young me believed it because if it's on the internet, then it must be true, so I grinded the pizza or the coffee bag minigame for hours, and I believe I literally got to 130k before losing interest.

I remember watching the "gotta have a wingman" music vid and being both shocked and hyped at seeing the rainbow puffy at the end of the vid

My younger brother and I had our og penguins from 2007 right up to the very last day of the game and got the 10 year jackets. It was a wild ride to have seen the game change over the years and was nice when we could hang out on it for the nostalgia. Afterwards we played on CP Rewritten for a bit along with our fiances but alas even that has come to an end. Will always miss ClubPenguin, waddle on <3