Hahahaha OH MAN as someone who worked at Neopets for seven summers, “creators literally setting out to make to make the worst design possible on purpose” is… hilariously accurate for some of these.

The team was AMAZING, we’re all still friends, but the founders were doing everything they could to lightly sabotage the site before they left to start their own company; thus spawned the, uh, “custard brush” as well as the Xweetok and Ogrin – both of which were released solely because we didn’t have Neopets that started with X or O. And that poor Ogrin, hoo boy – that was the founders attempting to make, by their own admission, the ugliest pet imaginable. Universally despised by the team.



I loved, loved, loved working for Neopets, but it was a bunch of amazing people constantly struggling with the limitations of working for a relatively inept and tone-deaf parent corporation. We knew what we wanted to make, we knew what the fans wanted and we occasionally got to give it to them (storylines, comics, all the cool paintbrushes), but the instances were few and far between. 💔

…but hey the Krawk I designed and the terrible Poogle I redrew made the alright category, NNNNAILED IT