HomeNewsClub Penguin
The kids aren’t alright
The BBC interviewed one kid, a fourteen-year-old named Kaden, who said “I’ve seen people advertise strip club igloos, I’ve seen people ask for pimps. There’s a lot of swearing on there and I’ve been asked a lot of crazy things. It’s really put me off going on these mature servers.” Kaden explained that there were safer areas of the game, but apparently most folks wind up in the “mature” areas where penguin people were openly sharing details of their other social media accounts like Snapchat or Discord.
Unfortunately, an unmoderated mess is the least shocking result of fan communities reviving homonculi of beloved dead games. Shame for anyone who was actually finding new friends in their favorite dead game, but otherwise probably for the best, eh?
Ta,VG247.
Header image credit:BBC.
