I have to include this here since this video has been gaining a lot of attention now (thank you!) but I know that these suggestions of mine are not perfect! I know that there's reasons Animal Jam might not be able to fix these things. I'm young and don't know much, honestly, so this video was me just speculating and pointing things out- and most of all, ranting about things that make me angry with the game at the moment. I felt the need to express this because some of the comments lately have been a little too harsh, and I had to delete quite a few because I think some people missed the point of the video! This is purely my own stance on what sucks about the game, and was made purely to list from grievances I had. If you disagree, that is okay! I'm open to seeing what you might think, but please be kind about it. Especially to other people, relating to their experiences in the comments. Remember that this video was made to be opinion and observation, not absolute fact. Do not harass others for their stances, experiences, or opinions. There is no need to be mean or aggressive towards others. Your comment will be deleted without hesitation if I see this happen. This is a safe space. Thank you so much for understanding! 🩵

So real. Got banned for password sharing, while jambassidors make videos logging into each other's accounts like be fucking for real

back around 2017ish animal jam banned me because the credit card company told them to stop charging my mom for a membership i didn't have. genuinely not exaggerating-- they banned ME because THEY were caught stealing money.

i got back on my childhood acount after like 8 years and got banned after two days of playing.. i had like 5 spikes all gone

the fact that shops are unavailable to nonmembers is crazy to me. like 90% of players prefer to sell/buy things from each other rather than trading nowadays...

I was hit in the data breach and when I emailed AJHQ's support team about getting my stuff back or doing literally anything they just said "We can't help you. Fun fact: most hacks happen because of account sharing! You need to take precautions to protect your account! Fuck you! Ugly." The audacity of telling players it's their fault knowing they had their emails, passwords, birthdays, billing address, and literally anything else attached to that account LEAKED because their security is straight up dookie. My email was signed up for spam mail right after the hack and AJHQ couldn't even say sorry. I can't open my email without being flooded with GARBAGE. I been playing this game since 2011 and been paying for it since 2012 and I don't even get a genuine human message when I email them about a decades worth of work being stolen and my EMAIL GETTING SIGNED UP FOR SPAM. Not even my billing address was safe bro. Back in May, one of my spares got banned despite not being active on it for years. The ban email literally just said "Op, you're banned!" like I'm literally so confused I fear logging onto my new account and losing everything again and I'm more fearful of talking to their support team bc why is their automated messages so backhanded all the time

I had played animal jam for about 5 years and amassed a ridiculous amount of wealth in items. I changed my password regularly and took safety measures, but when the data breach happened my account was CLEANED. Everything gone. Most of my friends quit after the data breach as most of them had been cleaned as well. The game used to be fun, but there's literally no point in playing after that happened.

I stopped playing Animal jam on both Classic and Play Wild because in Classic no one roleplays anymore or does anything remotely exciting its just "Buy this! Or Trade me this!" Not to mention that they dropped the story the were working on with the adventures. I stopped playing Play Wild, because I feel unsafe talking to literally anyone on the game because so many predators have gotten into the game. There isn't really anything pulling me back until they find ways to fix these issues.

It sucked so bad when they got rid of spikes in forgotten desert >_>

the only way I can think of them actually listening to us is if no one plays animal jam for a month, we pull another feral discord incident, we pull another quakity incident or some hacker group does yk,, weird hacker shit . Either way if we wanna protest we gotta plan it and their has to be a fuck ton of people which would be hard to do if you aren’t a popular creator 😭

aj just needs to sell the game to a company that wants to push out updates that players look forward to.. i remember the horror of watching them put classic in the name..and then never getting a decent update again... would love to see aj get optimized and embrace the 2d/3d style that everyone still loves and getting actually stylish diamond sets...

God-that monkey plushie sent me back to the days where I would cover my entire den with random plushies from that one minigame in playwild. Sad to see the community like this though :(

Animaljam was in its absolute PRIMEE back in 2010-2012. I hate how its always been kinda pay to play too

I miss old animal jam when people were just roleplay and making friends, the game is just so dry now :(

I remember losing an old account I had since 2013/2014 around 2019 and I had to make a new account. There was no reason, nothing. I couldn’t log back in and was upset. Random suspensions are wild

Ok but to be real for a second it legit breaks my heart seeing the current state the game is in since i used to be super active back in the day and just hearing how back it has gotten just makes me sad.

Yeah I expected Animal Jam to die out. I stopped playing anything WildWorks when they shut down Feral out of nowhere for an NFT game.. They threw away my time like it was nothing so I decided they wouldn't get anymore of it from me.

I'm so scared to go back to my account and see I'm banned for no reason. 😅

I WAS BANNED FOR NO REASON. ive emailed them back and forth for WEEKS and they've done absolutely nothing to solve it. Im in shambles considering ive had this game for years, i finally got back into my og account just for it to be permanently wiped. It meant so much to me as a kid. I grew up with it. Idc if its just a kids game, i'm furious.

“Now… let’s 𝐅𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 rage.”

Holy. Crap. I thought this was only an issue with me. I got permanently banned for no reason a few months ago on an account I had spent hundreds of dollars on for sapphires, completely out of the blue. I’ve had this account since the dawn of play wild and I was very frustrated when I tried to log in to see the message telling me that my account was PERMANENTLY banned without warning. It’s frustrating yet a little comforting to know that this wasn’t just an issue with me.

Animal Jam and Feral fell apart when they decided NFTS is the responsible thing to go after.

I quit Animal Jam the moment I found free to play games that offered WAY more fun and content completely FREE! But I still miss playing as a cute animal, dressing up and decorating my den.

after more then a decade im actually quitting AJ due to my acc being hacked from a data breach i had no idea about. i tried to contact them to get my items back because it was a security problem on THEIR part that i lost a ton of my items, but they completely shut me down and were actually pretty passive aggressive! this is a stark contrast to their old customer service where they'd give you back the items you lost. i saw other commenters speaking on this a bit so i wanted to share my experience. what a sad thing my childhood game turned into

I miss when “Play Wild” was just their slogan and not a mobile app, sincerely, someone who started playing AJ 11 years ago 😭

Dude, I quit animal jam because of these (as in wished some kid good luck and got suspended for it), multiple people-all very obviously adults-trying to date me (no punishment because why should groomers be punished), and the chat block got to the point where we couldn’t even say our genders. also non members can barely use shops in play wild, the get charged extra. There are SO MANY other problems I would rant about if I had the time, but those are a few Im just glad the friends I did make on this hellish game can text now

Tbh I think that they need to add a trade history! 4-5 years ago I got the membership and got 3000 gems along with it, about 1/2 through it I stopped playing. I decided to long on to find all my gems gone and all my pets gone. My password most likely got leaked and I’m almost certain that I won’t be able to get my stuff back if I contact support. They should have a system to check their trade history like adopt me on Roblox to where they will have you show proof of the trade and email of your support email from Roblox and then they will give you back all of your stuff back that you lost when you got hacked.

My 6+ year old account, which I never paid premium for, was deleted due not “logging in often”, help was refused because the damage was done. They’ve been long lost at this rate.

Also ajhq lowkey harbours a safe space for kiddy fiddlers inside animal jam especially with that situation with that one jambassador and hynine1

Animal jam has always had problems to begin with, and its mainly because the majority of the people playing are kids (right now in 2024, I actually think its more teens and young adults who are coming back for the nostalgia rather than actual kids), but it has always been so easy to take advantage of these kids and just do whatever, such as "trust", convincing them to share passwords, and lots of other things. When AJ play wild first started out, im going to be honest, I didn't like it because I thought AJ was putting more effort into that, and it made me sad. guess what, they literally changed the name, now its the actual Animal Jam and this is called "classic". I think that was when AJ truly fell apart, updates stopped, there were no new events, no love or effort put into the game, and its just really sad to see one of my favorite childhood games that I started 9 years ago turn into this. I made 2 new accounts about a year or two ago for THE NOSTALGIA, and one of them got hacked. I sent an email and they replied with an email on "how to keep my account safe". Yea cuz thats totally helpful when I already did ALL OF THAT and my account STILL GOT HACKED. My other account I bought a membership and ended up with 700 diamonds, but then the membership ended, and I literally have nowhere to spend it all. I hate to admit it but its so boring to play AJ now.😢Even when I want to do an adventure with others for fun, most people just go in and leave, so they can hack out the prizes. That's just disappointing. I really want the game to do better, but I don't think thats going to happen anymore :(

About the IP ban… IP bans are reserved for like, the worst of the worst, because IP banning someone can ban an area around them, like a neighbourhood. Anyways, I totally agree with this video. I’m on Play Wild, but inventory space and scamming is equally a problem for me. I’m so tired of having to choose which den items to give away by the hundreds so I can continue to buy ones I want a little bit more… I also knew a buddy who was trying to trade for a double tail (That’s basically most of people’s first huge rare) for 8 YEARS and they got it scammed the minute they got it 😭… I felt so bad.

I quit Animal Jam years ago because of the rampant scamming, toxicity, glitching and AJHQ refusing to do anything to fix the game, ban scammers/players engaging in toxic or creepy behavior, or even helping a younger me get my items back that were stolen. The game just wasn't fun for me anymore which sucks because I used to really love it. Awesome to see nothing has changed and has in fact gotten even worse. It's like they WANT AJ classic to shut down. Terrible company.

On a less important scale, memberships in Classic sucks. If they want to lock most of the game behind a paywall, just have people buy the game upfront. Shopping and customizing your animals is the main selling point for AJ. Trying to play it off as anyone can enjoy the game, paid or not, when in reality most items and animals are behind the paywall. I think they remedied this in PW, sapphires are harder to get, BUT if you've saved enough anyone can buy anything (minus the member-exclusive shops). The game feels much more open to all audiences with the membership features being quality of life add-ons rather than locking integral parts of the game. Classic made a step in the right direction by allowing nonmembers to play any adventure (except TFD since there's still no nonmember flying animal) but the company made no further actions past that from what I remember.

i understand they delete accounts after inactivity but literally all my previous accounts are still active, i have access and have checked all their inventories for items to give my current account but my PREVIOUS account, with all my items i collected over my childhood including spikes and headdresses and those angel wing things and skullies and some betas has been deleted. like what😭 and they can’t do anything about it. the animal jam economy is so expensive now and it’s so hard to get those items back. asides from that just basic ahh glitches that have been there since my childhood are still present and despite AJC being converted to a desktop version, it’s still as laggy as when it was run by flash. we as fans/consumers need to riot or sumn cus theyre so lazy brah

Animal jam putting those “Dont give your passwords out!” messages on the newsletters were a hard slap in the face for me since my account was hacked during the data breach 😭 Ive sent them proof that I own the account yet no response yet

ever since i had been hacked i had basically quit the game, there’s just no fun anymore knowing all my hard work was for nothing and everything i had earned ( mainly my pets, items only for my avatars ) were gone , i had the account for YEARS. when i had contacted animal jam for help, i never even got a response. it feels like they just don’t care and now are just trying to get money from their game and that’s it :/ what sucks is the person who hacked me i FOUND and reported and they still did nothing. they just don’t care.

Honestly true i got suspended for no reason and got a npc message when i emailed Im so paranoid that im avoiding trading on bradys because take ages to get there cuz full and boom ur minnowed and u need to spam join again *wow!*

Yup. All of this is right. My JAGs have been glitched since 2020. The send button is gray, and it can't be pressed. I can't use JAGs, period. If I do succeed in trying to send something, it just freezes and doesn't send-- and my JAGs constantly crash other players. It's super annoying. Of course, telling AJHQ about it did nothing other than an automated response. I tried multiple times after the first response, but no luck. And the spare thing? Yup. I have five spares right now, and all of them have more than half-full inventory. And the shop thing? Yup. It takes forever. They need to raise it, too-- people constantly get scammed with buying solids. And the hacking thing is also very true. It's sad to see AJC deteriorating, but it's a fact that it is. I appreciate that you're acknowledging these issues, although it's not super likely that many of them will be fixed. The only things I play for are fashion shows and friends at this point-- there's just nothing intriguing about the game's nostalgia. The only entertaining features are player-made things at this point. I wish AJC would be revamped, but it just won't. I think we all know this. I've had terrible and great experiences, but recently just boredom. The game feels so much more rigid now, it honestly doesn't surprise me that so many people are hacking and scamming. Yes, there are a lot of bad things, but I also feel like because of all of these issues, some players have soured. There are so many random false accusations of scamming, hacking, even genuinely illegal things. It hurts to see something with potential-- because AJC, bare in mind, has no advertising anywhere, and has a decent amount of players considering that- go to waste. The end of Flash was definitely the start of all of these glitches and automated responses in return. Odds are the game will eventually shut down-- AJHQ has made it clear they don't want to spend effort on even things that Flash couldn't have affected too much, like the ban waves. And it's understandable that they don't automatically give items back, but how hard would it be to at least make sure accounts are recovered, or to give the player advice other than AI for "it's your fault, idiot."

honestly, i just stay in my den the whole time when im in aj because im scared of hackers and scammers

5:50 in regards to IP bans, I can think of two reasons (one optimistic and one pessimistic) as to why they aren't IP banning returning banned users. OPTIMISTIC: Due to the massive backlash from the banwaves (particularly with the amount of innocently banned people) they want to avoid accidentally false-Ip banning someone who's so desperate to return and play AJ that they make a new account. PESSIMISTIC: Scammers, Minnowers, etc. have a chance of re-buying membership so they can get back to scamming/minnowing, and so every time they're banned and COME BACK, they are likely to give AJ more money.

4:28 The wah my neurons activated when I saw the FMan wolf again after so many years😥😥😥😥

so true I was scammed a few days ago by a new jammer and their STILL on the game NO consequences and it takes so long to get higher up in rarity how have to grind for hours but aj is aj 😍😍

minnowers are annoying but its pretty easy to avoid if u have access to your parent dashboard, since they cannot crash your game if you turn trading off. its insanely irritating though, and the fact WE are blamed for it is insane. what has always worried me is the mishandling of predators on animal jam. I had interactions with multiple grown adults who acted inappropriately towards me and my friends when i was as young as 11 year olds, and ajhq never did anything about it.

I like the idea of notifying if someone’s been suspended or banned for scamming but I once got trade suspended for “scamming” because I talked with my buddy in-game on how I got scammed that day and who to report and then nothing happened to my scammer-Happy I wasn’t banned though but their support team is trash when it comes to reviewing reports

I haven't played animal jam since I started highschool (im 23 now) but this is such an informed and concise way of airing out all of animal jam's dirty laundry. Good video! I don't exactly have any high hopes for a game that relies on children stealing their mom's credit card to pay for memberships, but perhaps one day it'll get relinquished to a different company that can handle it better. Right now WildWorks is not the correct company to handle a game like this I feel like.

Animal Jam was the biggest part of my life as a kid and i made friends that were there when i was really going through it. Seeing it come to this, people including me being afraid just to log in in fear of losing memories, honestly horrific. I cant even begin to describe my grief about this game.

Animal Jam ghosted me SO MANY TIMES trying to get my account back it’s insane. What a shitty company.

being scared of being banned = being scared of playing aj 😭

This game used to be my favorite childhood game, which I loved so much. But I hate the fact that AJHQ has poor security and problems with their system. I NEVER shared my Animal Jam Classic (2D, PC version) and Animal Jam Play Wild (3D, Mobile version) passwords but at the end, I still mysteriously lost all of my beta/rare stuff from both accounts. I don't know if it was data breach or if I truly was hacked by someone. Yes, I still could log into my accounts but what's the point to play it when you loose your most precious stuff, for which you worked hard. There was no point to access AJHQ because they don't answer immediately and probably would reply with "it's your fault, you didn't have to share your password with anyone". So, I just deleted entirely my two accounts for safety. Very disappointed that it happens to many players, I am not the only one, who suffered from this. Sometimes I miss old times when I played these games but it was worth it to leave everything behind. Hopefully someday AJHQ team will change and make their games better.

for some reason moderation sucks in most successful games right now. people on roblox are also getting banned for no reason 😭 (hasn’t happened to me yet but still scary lol)

thanks for yapping omega

Don't know much about Wildworks stuff in general, but honestly from the content in this video I'm... Really not surprised. I've met an illustrator who was a covid layoff from Wildworks who did a lot of concept art for both Animal Jam and Feral. And from what I remember (because I went to a talk he did in 2021), the way he talked about his work he was fed up with the company himself. He even said "I can't believe I'm giving them free advertising" when someone asked for the website for Feral. So from my understanding, things are pretty bad both for the playerbase and employees. I really hope things change for y'all's sakes.

I haven’t played this game in ages and got this on my recommended. This game was my life throughout 2013-2017ish, got permanently banned for “selling items” only for them to unban me 28 days later because they “made a mistake”…? How do you accidentally do that lmao? Wild to see this kind of thing is still happening, though. Yikes. 😧

I lost my account over 4 years ago for mysterious reasons. I contacted support multiple times and they were f$#@ing *_clueless._* The account is still gone, spikes sheepcloak & all.

i stopped playing in like 2020, and i tried playing it again a few months ago, but omg WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PHANTOM FELLERS… WHERE ARE THE SILLY PHANTOM MONSTERS THAT I USED TO BE SO SCARED OF…

ABSOLUTELY TRUE.!! glad to have sat through this; you have a nice voice,- easy flowing and nice to sit through.!! i actually enjoyed watching this video, and i'm not usually big on commentary.!! i, like a lot of other people, used to love animal jam and it was a massive part of my childhood; it's so glad to see that it's still got a community that's still living on!!

I just checked up on my childhood acc and it’s permanently banned 😭 I didn’t share my account with ANYBODY, and it makes me so sad that it’s gone. Hopefully one day it will come back ☹️

I'm literally so scared to play aj for the fear that my account will get banned, or that it already is- Animal Jam really gotta get their shit together

I think another issue that needs to be adressed is AJ's spiral into borderline gambling. AJPW specifically is plagued by this with their tokens and wish coins for those new animals (Dragon and Unicorn) It was fine with dinosaurs becausr you could get an egg with sapphires but the same doesn't apply for the others which means the only way to get them is to buy a wish coin and regardless you are getting a random pet so either you get something absolutely doodoo with bad colors, something useable or something desireable by others. The idea that you could get rare just if you buy more wish coins to essentially get more pulls on this lottery is literally 1:1 gambling and the fact that it's in a kids game is deplorable.

Ill be fr deadass right now, i left after the great password incident. I was NOT about to fucking start all over again. I had few items of any "value" like spikes or betas, so i collected items i liked instead. But without a membership, i couldnt even use those, so i went largely inactive. I didnt know about the account nuking until way too late and when i did want to go back to my old account, my password didnt work anymore, and trying to change it resulted in jack shit. So. In conclusion. As an old fan. Im not surprised AJ hasnt improved much 😐

Ouch. As someone who's been playing since 2014, it's AWFUL to see so many players having a bad experience. Things need to get better! :( (I, too, lost my account, Miloki, to a hack in 2020. I got banned!)

I think the biggest issue is how easy it is to just create a new account and start trading. There should be a waiting period to add buddies, trade, or jam-a-gram when you create a new account. The game should encourage earning new items through earning gems, playing adventures, and the little scrapbook you find animals/vegetation with. Though it won't stop it entirely, I feel as though it would help if they won't IP ban.

i got hacked literally twice a week after i got blackout and double tail. my hacker deleted my otter and unicorns some of my dens too just to be a jerk. i lost so muchhh stuff and the worst part is nobody ever believes you when you got hacked? plus literally all i did was ask ajhq to show me my trade history or account history, that’s literally all i needed because i could see who hacked me but nooo

The reason that I believe that Animal Jam isn’t doing IP address bans, is literally so you can make another account. If you get false reported, you can just make a new account. Spam reporters are everywhere, that’s why I don’t really enjoy public games anymore. But if there is an actual hacker, literally hacking, please animal jam. I wish that there could be some moderator in game.

I was hacked in the data breach in around… 2019, I think it was? I was devastated. AJ claimed to have sent a pre-reset password to my email to log back in, but by the time I found out, it was too late and either I couldn’t find it or it didn’t work. When I emailed them about this issue they told me it should just… be there??? In my email? Even though it wasn’t and I had said so. So they told me to just reset my password and left me to my own devices - even though I had said that password reset wasn’t working. No emails were being sent to my email linked with the parent account. I had played for years, when AJPC was in it’s prime, so it SUCKED seeing my original, first account be just… lost. This vid is some of the first AnimalJam content I’ve watched since then and is making me want to try to get back into my account but honestly it still feels hopeless.

I remember playing Animal Jam Play Wild when I was 6-10 years old. I loved the game so much. I didn’t have a lot to work with item wise, but I specifically enjoyed the role playing aspect of the game. I’d regularly host forest roleplays in my den and play for hours until my mom told me that it was time to go to bed (which in response I’d get very upset and beg for more time lol). I was 10 when I got caught in the crossfire of the data breach. My main account along with my entire parent dashboard were ‘hit’ so I had no spares to fall back onto. The account that I had for 4 years, the account that I had since I was transitioning out of toddlerhood, was completely wiped. All of the items that held great memories of the digital aspect of my childhood were most likely sold off by some careless sophomore in Highschool for $10. I know this because I joined the AJ discord selling community shortly after when I was 11. Everyone there was very open about capitalizing off of stolen virtual items. I’m not going to lie and say I didn’t do it as well, but I quit when I was 13 because I didn’t see a point in it anymore when the selling community started dying. I am 14 now and I’ve completely gotten Animal Jam out of my system. I still play it from time to time but not with a purpose like I used to. All of the drama going on now and the toxicity I’ve been exposed to when I was younger combined have completely turned me off from ever getting back into the game again. It’s not the same AJ I knew as a kid and I fear it never will be.

i stopped playing aj classic a few months ago just because of how difficult it is to do anything as a nonmember. We can’t shop, most of the new items are member only, and we can’t even make masterpieces even if we have the diamonds needed 😔

My account i had since i was 12 (i am now an adult) i played for 5 years on then i didnt log in for like 9 months and THEY DELETED IT and i was a member for 5 years. After thay i never picked AJ up again. Its been years since i played and i guess it was a blessing in disguise.

honestly yeah someone glitch accepted my trade and got no consequences when i contacted aj

I remember on 2020 got hack on my 2018 account, sadly the support did not help me at all and didn't notify me about someone on my account IT DID HAVE THE 2 STEP LOCK ON THAT ACCOUNT 😭, it's depressing that the support doesn't do anything against hackers and even nowdays, i this point and for the sake of the game, they should just shut down if they don't care about it

Animal jam used to be my whole childhood and now i cant even play it without remembering the times my account was hit with the data breach and when i contacted them for help it just felt like they responded with "its not our problem", i spent 7-8 years on that account, i even bought membership on both games and now i cant enjoy it anymore since i would have to start over again

I have an idea! Let's just stop playing this game and paying for it. I know people love Animal Jam but it is more than likely that one day somebody is bound to make a similar if not BETTER game than Animal Jam. Also we've put up with WildWork's bs for YEARSSSS it's time it stopped because they are just not cutting it.

Since the quackity raid I don't think Animal Jam has ever been the same.

I played for the first time since I was a kid a while ago and oh boy- You don't even get starting animal patterns? They force you to have a pet? A randomly generated pet? What is this? I uninstalled it after that what did they do to the little goober game where I demolish people in checkers and that one dodge the volcano creature minigame

I haven't played in forever but thing is since WildWorks cancelled Feral to make stupid NFTs and National Geographic pulled out because of those NFTs (rightfully so) things have gone downhill. I would even argue the decline started with the diamond shop but I get they had to probably find a way to make extra profits to keep all their servers up and running like they have been to this day. I quit forever ago when I noticed none of my friends coming on, my items going missing, ending my membership, and finally just having no motivation to keep playing as I was getting older and busier. Animal Jam may have survived the death of flash and surprisingly outlasted club penguin but at the rate they're going I won't be shocked if it eventually dies once enough of the player base leaves. There's been no commercials, IDK if they still make toys, and the original audience is slowly moving on to different games or just becoming too old to play altogether. Maybe Animal Jam won't die completely but I won't be surprised if/when it does.

It's never occurred to me how purchasing unknowingly super overpriced Animal Jam items could be a form of getting scammed. As a now very upset PW user alot of grindies owe me sapphires.

My old account is inaccessible, so I recently created a new one. I played on ajpw only at first because I remember realizing how jarringly pay-to-play ajc was. Generally less fun and unable to express creatively at all without membership.

I SPENT 200$ ON THOSE MEMBERSHIPS ALL MY CHILDHOOD OMFGG 😭😭 I DID NOTHING

When I was younger it got more into learning more about nature and animals in general

the reason animal jam classic cant add many more updates is because when flash died in 2020 it made the game incredibly hard to update and acces!!

I lost access to my old account in the data breach and have no way to get back into it because I'm pretty sure they auto-changed all compromised accounts. All my stuff is still on it and everything, but I'll never be able to get at it again.

Back in May, I found out some of the accounts that I've had for well over 12 years were logged into by some random a month prior, and I had no idea they were accessed until I actually went in to check in on the game, for nostalgia's sake. When I logged on to them, all the valuable items on them were WIPED completely on PW and PC. I rolled my eyes so hard, because how can a company like that not even *notify* you of a sketchy login? I may not care much about this game anymore, but that doesn't dismiss the complete unprofessionalism on their end.

animal jam was one of the first online games i ever played and had a membership for. i started playing way back in 2011 i wanna say, but i was definitely there in 2012 for the arctic wolf release because i went FERAL over them omg!! i was only 10 back then. i remember my mom taking me off school one day and taking me to walmart so i could get the gift card. i loved animal jam. i spent hours and hours roleplaying, making the random drinks, at the parties, trading in jamaa township, decorating my dens, playing games (i loved the dress up game and the one where you had to avoid the falling phantoms and the jumping on clouds game).. in the adventures when they released, always trying to figure out the best pattern for the bunny cage locks to get the best prizes lmao.. on the eagle adventure and winning my first spikes ever.. those were the best times ever. i kind of stopped playing as much in like 2015 as i got into my teen years, but i would still revisit as i often do with games i loved as a kid because sweet sweet nostalgia. i logged in a few months ago and found out ALL of my items had been lost in the breach. i had been aware when the breaches had originally happened back in like 2020.. 2021? but i thought i secured my account. either way, support never got back to me about this and i'm sure that's the case for many other players who were wronged due to THEIR negligence in keeping our information safe?!?!?! like what?!?! i really dont get that. other players abused the system so other people who were actually hacked dont get justice? especially when it wasnt their fault, but animal jam's??? i was really destroyed at the time because that was 10+ years worth of memories just *bloop* into the void gone forever. it still pains me to think about. 10 year old me would be crying and screaming right now if she knew what was to come lol. i wish whoever is in charge of animal jam cared more about the game and it's player base. it's actually such a cool game and has so much potential. it also seems like they care more about play wild.. which ermmm.. that game is so ugly im sorry like i dont know why it was made when they have a PERFECTLY GOOD GAME WITH ANIMAL JAM CLASSIC??? does anyone even play play wild? play wild would not even exist without animal jam classic. i gotta stop now or else this will go on for ages omgg. national geographic please come get ur game bruh

My Animal Jam account that I've had since 5th grade recently got deleted, possibly from inactivity but it was incredibly random, a few months prior to the deleted account I had hopped on for a few minutes gotten off, and didn't log in for a few. I returned to hang out with friends and it wouldn't let me access my account. I literally gaslight myself into thinking i had changed my password or something because it wasn't working anymore, but I searched for my account and no results were found. to say I was devasted is an understatement

I remember getting suspended. I was falsely reported because I backed out of a trade. I emailed animal jam about this, explaining myside... What did they do? Extend my suspension.

My friend literally got hacked, and their account was still charging their moms credit card for membership because why wouldn't it? 😍 they also need to stop bringing back or getting rid of items because trying to keep up with the aj economy is exhausting. My one last complaint ig for aj, is the number of people selling items for actual money?? Aj isn't doing like about anything about this, and im shocked 💀

Thank god someone is acknowledging this stuff too!!! It’s so bad right now. I have recently quit along with loads of my friends due to the ban wave, toxicity, awful community, and terrible support. I’d also like to add that me along with 4 other people have been completely banned for absolutely nothing. I’m no longer interested in anything AJ related because of this :(

wtf forreal.. my aj account from 2015 got banned and i wasnt even on for a year. the appeal system is so dumb. ive already lost both of my squirrels in a data breach and got blamed for it for "having a weak password" it was HACKED.

Literally. My account got hacked and I tried to reach support to no avail! I’m so mad and devastated. Playing for 10 years just to lose everything I worked so hard for really sucks. I hope they get their crap together!

I had no idea that this was such a widespread issue on AJ! I occasionally return to the game and the last time I did so I noticed that all of my valuable items had vanished… Fortunately I still had 60% of my stuff, but anything that could have been considered valuable was just gone. Suddenly I wasn’t so excited to revisit the game anymore. I reached out to AJ support only to be told they wouldn’t do anything. Then, just recently I got the email that one of my backup accounts was banned for absolutely no reason. When I went to see the activity log in parental controls, the most recent login (a few days before the ban) was for a total of 0 SECONDS!!! How does that make any sense?! Very frustrating, but I will say that it’s reassuring to know it isn’t just me 😭

I literally quit last year because of all the issues. I've been playing since 2011 and over half of these issues mentioned and most of the ones I can remember otherwise have been issues since like 2016. It's absurd.

I didnt realize how messed up animal jam got since flash ended, I just thought they forgot about classic and didnt care about it anymore (cuz of PW) so they didnt anything to it but now reading all these comments, im kinda scared about if my account or my sisters who dont play as often if even at all still exist or are banned or if we still have our items-

OMG THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO??? Legit recently got my AJ account permanently banned that I've had since I was 13 (I'm 21 now) and all those years just went to waste and I was heartbroken, AJ sent me an email saying I violated the rules by using "bad language", when I never swore, I wanted to say simple words when AJ just blocked the words out saying they "might be offensive" (they weren't, I just wanted to say a number when I was talking about items I own) and when I contacted AJ about this, they just p much gave me a middle finger for it

great video 💪 glad to see im not the only person that was screwed over by ajhq being negligent to the needs and requests of the playerbase. my main account got hacked in october last year and i have actually no idea how anyone got my account to steal my items but that firstly should've been a big warning sign for that many items leaving my account via trade; but also the last time my account was fine was getting on in june for a nostalgia trip and i recall speaking to one person that wanted to trade me for i think a masterpiece. not sure if those two events are connected but i cannot report anyone since it had been 4 months qwq

I think we need a new game like this altogether. People with the knowledge, the skill and the passion should make a game that we all want. I've been wanting to make one myself but I'm just one guy with sub-par coding knowledge and very meh art skills so i really hope some people can group together and make what we all want

facts bro

Genuinely if my account got taken down I’d have to take off work for a few days for bereavement. 12 years on that account!

i've been an on-and-off aj player since 2014, i wasn't affected by the data breach but the amount of shady forum sites and discord servers that were posting an entire pastebin of those affected was SCARY. it's so scary and surreal that you could've clicked on a public document detailing every single user affected and their password, no one deserves to have years of their work be scraped like copper wiring. not to mention that the same company who prided themselves on their community and jambassadors is doing JACK SHIT in helping their own community and working with them to obtain their hard work back. it's not really fun going back to after the data breach, especially when you're non-member and 90% of the game is paywalled. i just wanted to dress up my animal in cute clothes, decorate my den and roleplay in the pillow room like the good ol days. i haven't watched an aj vid in a long time, it was super refreshing to see a rant vid about it, thanks for this!!!

This video unironically made me try animal jam, I have never played it as a kid. And I don’t even know the difference between play wild and classic 😭

If all scammers got something beside their name to show theyve scammed before, then itd make it easier for them to meet up