w-what? seriously?! whoever came up with the idea deserves a medal

This is the most legendary confirmation I've ever read in my life! The Archives were complete after all!!! Edit: I did a google search and found a forum from *2006* theorizing about the Director's identity being revealed in Morse Code. I still can't believe that a 15 year old theory *about* a theory was finally confirmed for the first time in the comment above!

years ago i saw a youtube video showing aunt artic as the director in the newspaper. blew kid mes mind.

I really miss club penguin

@@TauGeneration or a raise

So glad I was there to experience it

I had club penguin in a period when I had no friends at school. It holds so many happy memories

Not counting club penguin rewritten, cuz thats just club penguin

I wish I was there

I am so depressed I didn't experience it

What a determined9 year old

We finally found her! You’re going away for a long time

Charisma 100

I never knew that you could even do that lmao

@@dragondude7107 oh cool a doppleganger

Don't blame you, i was like: Oh no everyone's gonna know!!! And i was in 3rd grade xD

dude same, I may have been little but I was INVESTED in the whole secret agent thing. I took it so seriously as a kid, it was honestly some of the most fun I’ve had in a video game back then XD

YES UGH THE DETAILS AND WE WERE ALL SO INVESTED LIKE WE LIVED THERE😭 nothing will ever compare

I went to a small primary school, I really thought it was our little secret, we were so invested 😂❤

I lived on the family PC during this. My mom would tell me it was time for bed and I'd cry bc Club Penguin needed me (which, I knew wasn't exactly true, but I couldn't stand to not be online in case something changed and I missed it lol)

This is something that I always wondered, were you immediately drafted into the EPF? Because in the early days you had to wait 30 days or do a test to become a secret agent, how did you become one so quickly? Also, where you confused by what was happening since you didn't have any backstory on Herbert?

During Blackout, people who were weren’t agents would see a paper in the newspaper that said “Everyone on the island is now a part of the EPF resistance”, and then they could click it and immediately become EPF.

@@KeyanCarlile Ah, so that's what happened. It's nice that everyone got to participate but a little party of me feels a bit slighted that a bunch of new players got to defeat Herbert and learn the Director's identity so easily. Like when I played Operation Blackout it felt like a culmination of years of effort. I played all the PSA missions, faced off against Herbert in the shadows and theorized about the Director for years. Operations Blackout and learning the Directors identity felt like something I EARNED and it gave Operation Blackout an irreplaceable feeling of accomplishment and exclusivity. So I don't know how I feel about new players finding out the Director's identity when they didn't even know who the Director or Herbert was a few days prior. Like there is no way they could have appreciated the gravity of the secret they just conveniently learned and in my Club Penguin mind, it feels a bit unfair for new players to just learn these huge secrets when older players participated in a a story for years before they learned these bombshell story developments.

@@Obi-Wan_Kenobi I was just like you and I feel the same tbh but I had a lot of fun regardless…man I miss Club Penguin

@@KeyanCarlile I played Club Penguin for a while before the operation, but I never could figure out how to pass the test to become an agent. I finally did as soon as Operation Blackout started. I guess necessity is the mother of invention, or in this case the mother of figuring out how to enter the EPF

Honestly, I wasn't there, and I totally got it.

Rewritten was pretty good until around 2020

Literally the best thing. So glad I got to experience it.

i wish i was playing the game at that time 😭😭 i remember the missions but i think i missed blackout

@@iwakeupandboomimarat same bruh. This seems like some James Bond stuff. The missions are core memories to me. Something about them held so much substance to me.

Why is Herbert unironically such a kickass villain?

@@juliogomesdesouza9035 Seriously

Ohhhhhhhhh!! So it actually is all masterminded! Damn, the effort that goes into this game.

Actually! If you've ever played the DS game Herbert's revenge, another possible explanation that (yes doesn't make sense) is given is that Herbert used a large death ray to melt a hole in the island. Cool fact.

@@Real_Moon-Moon I remember that mission. It was awesome and funny. It also explained why Herbert never fled the island, he can't swim.

and then the biggest mission ever tip the iceberg... and we did it

Probably the closest I could ever think of was Fortnite's black hole event way back in 2019.

@@lukethekuyaI wish more kids games did more of these dark, apocalypse style events.

Wdym bro? Fortnite events are bett- **gets shot down**

@@normalLaSerpienteBoluda Fortnite is not the same at all, it has a lot of fans but isn’t that different from other shooters. There’s not this feeling that this was all made by a handful of people who just drew and made what they could, it felt more like a corporate team which it is.

I feel that, haha. Good times.

ME TOO lmaoo

You had your priorities straight lol

valió la pena?

@@Jeremias3191 Eso mismo me estaba preguntando 🤣 pero para mí sí 💕😭.

Herbert was the perfect villain for Club Penguin. Club Penguin was really happy place and I'm really happy the team decided to make this one character evil and imposing enough to actually be seen as a threat. I mean this guy stole, kidnapped, bombed, and destroyed whatever he wanted to achieve his selfish goals. I always took Herbert seriously and that's vital quality for any villain!

@@Obi-Wan_Kenobi absolutely! He was the only polar bear and the guy was intimidating. Also he tried to demolish the ski lodge like 3 times not to mention the popcorn incident

Well, in Britain and the Commonwealth Realms, "Esquire" is just a title that can be given to someone else, much like Mister. And since Club Penguin is a Canadian game, that explains it all.

@@Obi-Wan_Kenobithe protobot is even more evil

I'm gonna question smth- Did he TECHNICALLY do attempted genocide? Curiosity boutta kill me today

Same here, it was great

YES, same here, is one of my core memories I think, lol

Same, it felt so amazing tbh. I felt so cool

IKRRR

Fun fact, I had a similar experience, I did not know that sucha thing as EPF existed and always questioned myself what was the point of the "Estranha Parnefenália Falante" (Everiday Phoning Facility, I am Portuguese) until one day (when my penguin was like 100 or so days old) I received a strange mail telling me to go to that place so that I could be tested. The thing is, it was not the email you could send people to recruit them it was different it came out of nowhere from no one

Me too

His name is Klutzy. Man was a menace.

the taliyah profile pic is chef kiss

Klutzy is an annoyance, to say the least. But then again he's just that silly emotional support crab.

Hey, you don’t need to fear klutzy. He’s not entirely bad.

That's so fucking wild

Honestly I thought it was him the whole time. A Tobi from Naruto situation, only good.

@@zachanikwano fax

there was a future paty??? i seriously dont remember

Oh shit! That’s amazing 😭

Aww

lmao same!! I remember going to bed the night before being like ''...Tomorrow is operation Blackout ... oh and also my birthday i guess''

@@doot1doo1 I didn't know anything about Operation Blackout, so I can't stress enough how much of a surprise it was

What a rad time. Happy Birthday btw!

Best Birthday Present of all Time!

wow. didnt think of that. pretty cool. a little sad too. waddle on 😊

don't say this im gonna cry

Dude this comment. I remember that minigame so well it was so creative

Same here. Non members being included always made me so happy!

That shit scared me so bad as a kid. When that door locked behind me I literally closed the browser because I thought I was really trapped

I had a lot of trouble doing that mini game! It was so challenging at the time, now I just laugh at the happy memory

so true queen

If someone steals his ray or stolen heat and uses the heat for themselves, he knows how to permanently shut it off.

He learned all he knew from his mentor doctor doofenshmirtz

@@benwatterson851that is the very first thing that came to mind for me😂. Besides inator, the “self-destruct” button is more or less an unlicensed trademark for doof.

Skipper: Rico, you still have the pipe bomb? Rico: *gags up the pipe bomb and button, and throws the pipe bomb into Herbert’s lair* Private: *presses the button*

can i steal your ideas?

@@someguy7777 Lol, sure.

@@AnaLeeBR well. i have a theater club so It might be cool

@@someguy7777 pog, lmk if anything comes out of it

@@AnaLeeBR btw. tell me more about your play!

Omg Sawtooth! Didn’t expect you to be here, so much childhood colliding

more backstory about the real life sawtooh waves is revealing one by one

same

Same

What? _WHYVARE YOU HERE-_

never say the word "pengussy" again

@@-fragment-pengussy

i said never@@TheRealJustAGuy

@@-fragment- pengussy ;3

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA@@xfirexheartx8840

"Enjoy it before I destroy it" hits harder than it should nowadays

@@jettash0720 I can run fast but not fast enough to enjoy club penguin for very long

@@jettash0720 Written by Disney themselves...

@@albond Aw nawh 😭

​@@jettash0720THEORY: HERBERT IS A REPRESENTATION OF DISNEY??? HUHHHHH???

Wise words as always obi wan may the force be with you

a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

Hello there

thats kinda similar to how i navigate old channels and seeing them upload a new vid in many years. i just have a lot of telepathy or time travelling shit going on with me too

Oh my, long time no see Obi Wan

Verified with no likes? What black magic is this

Impossible, verified with 5 likes.

I love this party this was the best party ever

Don’t say it don’t say it

@@mualiffstudio13 amogus

Honestly. That’s what I remember the most. The countless hours roleplaying and coming together as a community to survive such a disaster. When I played the final mission, I cried when the cutscene showed the hopeful looks in the penguins eyes as the sun shown through the clouds. It was very heavy seeing the snow pile up day after day and you could just feel deep in your bones, how freezing the island was getting. Seeing those penguins light up when the clouds part, I felt part proud to be an EPF agent, and part proud and relieved as citizen of club penguin. If I could go back to one time in my life, it would be to go back and reexperience Operation: Blackout, just as I did as a kid.

Tbh people were blowing the secret afterwards. I wasn't one of them because I didn't want to ruin the surprise for others. Aunt Artic didn't deserve sharing it to those people.

I miss CpRewritten

@@fil2337 miss it too man. sometimes it just hits me 😔

@@chloenieuwsma4846yeah but social media basically didn’t exist for young kids back then so there wasn’t much of a way to expose it

Yeah, it really was a product of its time. It was one I cherish deeply but had to end at some point, it just couldn’t compete with the newer games that kids were playing. The difference from CPPS’s are that there isn’t that same feel of “this is made by a passionate team that makes new unique parties every month”, you know that it’s reused parties, not unique ones. I know CPR had those later on but I didn’t get to play those before it shut down.

I remember loving those as a kid. At that age I never realized it was marketing, but I did think it was clever of Disney to use their different properties to give us unique crossovers we could play in for free. After a while, though, they started to all be the same "go to room, find object" model, which got really boring and repetitive. I actually remember being more annoyed by those parties than anything.

@@hunterlawrence3573 that is like 90% what happened to me

don’t forget how 90% of the game became members only, including most of the cool prizes that came with the parties being members only and non-members getting a fucking pin or tiny hat. disney really just squeezed money out of club penguin and squeezed out it’s charm and life in the process.

@@hola-gy8te yeah i remember begging my parents for years until they bought it for me

@@hola-gy8te I only had memberships occasionally, when I decided to use the membership cards I got for birthdays and Christmas. When I was a non-member it was still fun, but it felt like I was a second class citizen. When I was a member, I kinda forgot the non-member players existed. I don’t know what that says about society, but I definitely much preferred having a membership to not having one. And one time during the Star Wars party my membership ran out right before I got to the last mission. Unfortunately, this was also the only part you needed a membership for. Perfect timing!

SAME

same im so sad i didnt get to experience this event

Same,and the dojo was definitely second to me. I was still frustrated that I couldn't win as a white belt against sensei but I quickly figured after my second try that he was pulling all the right cards so I couldn't win.

yeah i stopped playing months before the blackout and i actually returned playing some months later. its like i missed something pretty huge and was very frustrated about that. had to play it on rewritten years later lol

Literally the only reason I played any recreation of Club Penguin today is to keep playing those missions.

I regret not being able to play it at all, I only remember the Ninja events, it was really such a fun experience, I even bought cards of Club Penguin and were SO COOL

Yeah, i still remember when servers were all full becuase of a new party. You just never see that on any other private server. People likely could still enjoy it, it’s just that there’s a lot more competition than back then. Most kids want an action packed game, not a game that changes every month to something new that you have to login to using a computer (which not everyone has now).

It sucks that my brain capability wasn't enough back then for me to create an account :(

Relatable

Considering a lot of us were kids around the time CP existed, we essentially grew up along the game 🥺

For me I played until 2013 ish. 2017 I was already in my mid teens (15-16)

That's how you know when something is really good.

same. i remember this event so vividly.

Yup 2009-2014 was peak club penguin

Looking back on it, I can see how this would have been an amazing era for the game. Unfortunately I was 12 / 13 and older during this time, so lost interest in the game anyway, naturally, and mainly became really salty / sad nostalgic about the art style changes. If i'd been 6-10 then, I think I would have loved it. Most people who run the current cp private servers probably remember the earlier club penguin as the best time, because they were the right age for it then.... Club penguin rewritten has actually started using a lot of art and material from 2010-2013 during it's parties... A lot of rooms I don't remember ever playing, but the art style is actually really cute and the rooms are very interactive :)

I didn't even know that this party existed until now, it looks absolutely mental... I used to get SO hyped up about the PSA missions when they were released.... If I hadn't been a teenager when Operation Blackout came out, it would have probably been a defining childhood moment...

The rainbow Puffle party was cool though!

@@destroyingheal3968 Yeah, I fairly regularly missed everything after the end of that dance/disco/whatever party released... basically, anything after Minecraft came out, and I was dedicating most of my time to that.

Blackout was definitely the peak of Club Penguin. I have vert fond memories of some parties in 2013 like the Ninja Party and Operation Puffle but you could tell Club Penguin was on a downward trend because nothing was ever as good as Blackout was.

The pizza operation one was good

The last one I played was the Muppets 2 party. Then I never played Club Penguin anymore

The original creators of club penguin are making a new game called box critters! I tried it out but it seems pretty early in development

Free Realms, eh? Now that's a name I shan't heard in a long, long time...

@@Ryan_Metzelar why and how tf have I not heard of this before?? Thank you so much for sharing this info

@@Ryan_Metzelar idk while fortnite is cringe. I would say it accurately fills this void. Insane events, play with your friends, custom lobbies.

"99% of the players can't do this 😜😜" lmao and yes, im saddened by the fact that virtual worlds aren't as popular as they used to be, it's a great kind of gameplay, like a second life you have inside your computer. This is genius and now it's losing its place to battle royale games or those games made in 3 days you mentioned that "99% of players can't do this".

I would get out of school onto the computer just to play Card-jitsu just so I could master EVERY element. I spent endless hours playing, such good times

Agreed, I was so into card jitsu snow and the event for it

@@albond the event was so good! It was such an amazing experience

The snow dojo was my favourite, I couldn't wait for it to come to cpo but the game shut downed before it

I remember I had hundreds of thousands of coins and would just spend hours getting power cards and made so many other players accuse me of hacking. It was so funny to me

Honestly that was the most hype event for me besides Blackout just because as someone that wasn’t allowed to get the membership I can finally play Card Jutsu water and fire for free lmao. And also Card Jutsu snow was fun as hell back then

Card-jitsu Snow was basically an entirely different game.

I was wondering “Who’s this? Was he on Club Penguin crew?” and I audibly gasped when I looked it up and realized you’re BUSINESS MOOSE! That Blackout sneak peak video is engrained in my head, lmao.

@@KeyanCarlile Heyyy! Not only that but I also did the tour video, Herbert style and the final reveal video. All of which are my favorite videos I made while working at CP. I'm only realizing now that they are all tied into the blackout story. What a crazy time to reflect on - the energy in the office was epic! Thanks for making this awesome video!

@@johnnyajansen Thanks for making a part of our childhoods so awesome! Did you work on the Card Jitsu Snow backstory cutscenes by any chance? I rewatched those so many times

Lol Herbert be like: shall steal your power too, not just club penguin’s! >:D

Literally the best thing it could’ve happened to a kid

Same lol I wished blackout had more impact or development to herbert’s character. To this day I still wish he won

this is adorable ❤️ i hope your new interests are just as lively as club penguin was

there is a speculation that he was sent to ask for help during missions on purpose and that he was Aunt Arctic's (aka. The Director) test to see if we were really good agents and if we would do more than our obligations. And when we received the Spy Goggles as a prize from the last PSA mission (The Veggie Villain) There's a note from Dot that says she gave this to us as thanks for helping a "friend of hers", which makes it practically obvious that she knows that penguin and that we don't help him for nothing.

He was so weird-looking lmao

Thank you. I’ve never really *used* this channel before. It’s mostly just been a burner side account for me to dump various projects on. But I think I’ll definitely start to use and grow it a lot more going forward.

This guy's a new channel, I *promise* that you are simply witnessing the start of a great channel. ;-)

This might be a bad question but did you post the fanfic anywhere? I wanna see it XD Sorry if you think it would be cringy or whatever, but as a former player, I can relate and be comprehensive XD

@@warfu_ unfortunately no :( but i have had thoughts about finally getting around to writing it haha

Thank you.

you counted yourself as mature at 12? i considered to be mature when i was 16 lol

@@bananafone1414 Not mature but this is the point where you turn into a teenager

@@bulb9970 um no? teen is 14 or older. 12 is still a kid.

@@bananafone1414 pretty sure 12 is the last year of kid bc after that you're thir-TEEN

@@bananafone1414 ThirTEEN. 13 is a teenager lol. It's literally in the name. So their feelings were valid...their next birthday they would become a teenager. Not trying to be rude, just saying that 13-19 is the official definition of a teenager.

Plus, maybe Herbert forced Gary to build the ray, and when Herbert didn't need Gary anymore, he decided to freeze him.