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What makes someone a noob, and what makes someone a pro? Philosophers have debated this for years. Today let’s talk about digital status symbols- from rare items to memberships to entire digital lives, let’s explore how wealth, power and control are communicated through all kinds of weird digital items.
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when i was younger i got fed up with the non member inequality in animal jam. i was at a good vs evil roleplay in someone’s den and was trying to get adopted as a baby bunny. there was a member baby bunny also trying to be adopted and she got more attention, so i roleplay pushed her off the cliff as an act of political protest ✊
I'm kinda shocked you didn't mention Korblox leg and Headless when discussing roblox. If you wanna talk about status symbols, those are the two major ones right now. Like you said, the divide is blurred because anyone can buy a beautiful avatar for 5 dollars, however this skeleton leg and headless head both cost in the hundreds. I've heard of many kids asking for that item for Christmas or their birthday, I find it really insane.
the first thought that comes to mind is genshin community calling those who regularly spend irl money on the gacha aspect specifically dolphins and whales!! im a relatively casual gamer and not a whale myself so im not sure if that's something that comes from other gaming communities
This brought me backkkk I used to be bullied so hard haha and still have this kind of avatar collectioner mentality in these old online games
I liked your old teeth and face better. Sorry. Can’t quite put my finger on it. You just look different.
This is the first time I have ever heard anyone say "IMVU" as one word and not just the letters individually (which sounds like you're saying "I envy you" but with an M)
Haha oh man, it's a little older than the target audience of this channel and ik you showed it on screen briefly, but runescape had some of the craziest items like this. A runescape party hat or santa hat (the originals) would go for thousands of dollars.
In the case of Club Penguin items, there was also a fourth category / subcategory of the first one, which were the items you could get by using a code that came with the toys you bought in real life. I for instance was never a member, but I had some clothes and some different puffles thanks to my birthday presents
More inside of roblox:
DTI VIP membership
MM2 chroma knives
RH halos, toy items
Literally any gamepass that says that you're an VIP
I played Guild Wars a lot as a kid, and the main status symbol I remember was the armour set you could only get by obtaining a bunch of rare/expensive crafting materials and making your way to an NPC in the middle of a high level dungeon. Fissure of Woe armour I think it was. I never got any for my character cause I thought the elementalist version looked ugly lol.
Oh yeah, another thing you could do was dye all your armour black, because black dye was the most expensive. This was even more of a flex for "perma-pre" characters, which are characters people made to live permanently in the tutorial zone of the game, which is entirely isolated from the main game and has its own economy. There was no dye trader NPC there so the only way to get black dye was to either farm for it, which took forever, or buy it from another player, which cost way more than it did in the main game.
Izzzy, I'm sorry, I think it's pronounced "Eye em vee you," not "im-voo", as in it's supposed to sound like "I envy you".
sky children of the light is so guilty of this!
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I wondered if pony town has/had this
In Team Fortress 2 people who wear the gibus hat get bullied. 😢
lmao my 18th birthday present was lifetime starrider for Star Stable Online. best present ever imo but it did confuse my parents a lot
In the game mundo gaturro the "rich people" used a different colour skin and everyone without it were called poor and other awful things.
There was racism in that game…
I played NosTale as a kid from about 2008 to 2011. It's an extremely grindy Asian mmorpg and very much pay2win. I remember that you could upgrade equipment and it would make very flashy glitter effects on your character if you upgraded it a lot. There were also some kind of wings for upgrading a so called "specialisation card" that let's you transform into another form with a different skill set based on your class. I was so jealous of people who could afford to upgrade their stuff and it was extremely rare to reach the maximum upgrades. I spent so much of my parent's money in this game and in the end lost it all because I got banned for sharing my account with a friend. Man that game was bad lol
"Thus Skyblock demonstrates the class struggle inherent to capitalist systems which can only end IN THE RISE OF THE PROLETARIAT" – Technoblade, 2019, "the deadliest sword in skyblock"
I was so very lucky, I would do jobs around the house to up my pocket money (also saved any money I got given even if it was a pound) each month, I would give it back to my mum and she would pay for my membership and then whatever I had left, I went and got the cards when they released, I had fun (I also played since early days so I was flushed) god I miss Club Penguin, I play Club Penguin Journey now, it's fun without the paywalls
pretty straight forward for collecting MLP custom pony plush lol
my stupid ass clicked on this thinking you'd be talking about the icons that are shown when your character has a status condition. like "yeah this is the symbol for the paralysis status effect in generation 7 of pokemon"
The games that weren’t mentioned here that i’ve experienced this phenomenon in are Growtopia and Sky: Children of The Light. I don’t know how it is in Growtopia now, but I remember when I was a kid playing it and got virtually punched and called noob so many times for not having any good clothes HAHA it’s actually crazy how the game was kind of entirely built on the status, you’re constantly grinding the game or spending real life money for building your way up to become a well-dressed rich pro. And in Sky, i haven’t rlly experienced bullying, but there are a lot of limited items that you can only get within a certain time and people really fawn over those that have stuff like that to show off. It has also become a really grindy game and over time has become kinda like a cosmetics game at this point cause everyone wants to reach a pro status too and show off cool clothes, be fawned over i guess 😅
A game ON roblox that has a crazy economy is creatures of sonaria. People spend like hundreds of dollars on the in game currency so they can get the rare and exclusive playable creatures (which there is more than 400 of). On top of that you can battle players in the game and if you die then you have to spend hours regrowing your creature, but if you spend money you can just revive it instantly so the game is essentially entirely pay to win. You would genuinely have to grind for years if you wanted to collect everything free to play but they also add more creatures like every week so theres no catching up without money, and then of course you get a fancy name title if you have every creature unlocked or if you have a certain amount of the currency
I thought IMVU was pronounced by saying every letter, I-M-V-U so it sounded like I envy you. It fits the type of vibe but I guess not 😂
Years ago when Fortnite was first becoming really big, a friend of mine got me to download it and play with them. I joined up with their regular crew and knew immediately that I was going to hate the experience of the game when after a couple hours one of them said "you gotta get a cheap skin. I'm not playing with a default skin."
Okay buddy, enjoy yourself but I ain’t putting up with any game where that's an acceptable sentiment. I logged out, deleted the game, and have felt more and more vindicated by thay decision with every year that goes by
I have never heard anyone pronounce IMVU as emvu. I have only ever heard people just say the letters lol is it supposed to be pronounced that way? Also more on topic I was super happy when I was able to get the guest_ part of my account removed lol
I think that first anecdote is universal lmaoo
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It’s I m v u you say every letter
i thought the pronounciation of imvu was a bit at first
In WoW when they first started adding items that were sold for real money people with those were seen as idiots. Status was for items that were hard to get. It's not like that any more on retail, there's really very little status to be had with items cause there's just so much stuff in the game.
I remember being on a tour. My guide took me to the underground pool, and told me about the crab that shows up. I looked for a minute then suddenly realized I lost my guide.
I have been a WoW player since 2013, and something I have observed about my attraction to cosmetic items is that I almost always go for looks over status symbols. Wearing something ugly just because it's rare doesn't really make much sense to me, but my brain tricks me sometimes.
If I can't have something, I want it even more 😀 And sometimes, even a not-so-special item appears pretty to me all of a sudden when I find out that it's hard to obtain.
As a veteran player, there are not many items left that I don't have, but sometimes they still add something new to the game that catapults me into full grind mode haha. Right now, I am into gold-making for the new 5-million-gold mount they added. And I am not buying it with real money, but with gold I make in-game, so the mount will have much more personal value to me since I spent hours grinding for it ♥
being vip on msp when I was like 13 was like being famous lowkey
I checked the TF2 backpack I had in 2017 recently. It would be worth $25,000 today.
I've felt sick every day since then.
When we ran Meridian 59 servers in the early 2000s, we only gave out cool stuff to tournament winners. Like, making a mega powerful yeti to release it upon 30 players who went nuts trying to get the last hit on the beast. 😄
I gave out elf ears, and powers like being able to eat infinitely without getting full, devil horns etc.
Otherwise only administrators looked different. But they worked for the players so, it's not like they actually enjoyed the game in any other way.
im a simple creature. i see izzzyzzz, i click.
lmao the insane pay to win stuff was why I quit aj classic, I'm only on play wild now where it's much better. Aj classic has like 70% of the coolest stuff locked behind a paywall, aj play wild only has around 20%.
Interestingly enough in many World of Warcraft communities, spending money on the store is actually stigmatized. During The Burning Crusade classic, Blizzard even removed the /spit emote because so many people had an addon that would automatically spit on people using the collectors edition mount that Blizzard added into classic.
The past few years Neopets has been making really rare and expensive items affordable and a lot of longtime/hardcore players hate it. They also made most hard to obtain pets easily attainable and it makes some players incredibly angry lol
I know it's not really the same, but when I played Warframe, it was cool to get a bit of attention since I was a low level player with a frame called, "Loki". It was originally a starter but was removed much later. I was asked how the beta was and the like. Awesome video! 😊