animal jam nostalgia is truly the most based thing 😭🙏 also wootmoos den gets full sometimes still! just depends on the day and the time, its normally not busy in the daytime but more so in the evening but on the weekends it gets busy again!
I miss when animal jam was owned by wildworks and National Geographic kids.. Back then they focused on the ANIMAL part on animal jam. Everything fit the natural vibe, even the music! All the items were cozy and simple, but the newer ones are too modern and detailed. Animals had a better style, and even the patterns just looked better. Back then when the mods actually cared about how the items would fit on the animals, not just cram them on a default spot and call it a day. Like, come on. Just take a look at the hippo.
I definitely agree with you on the pattern aspect, the old ones were unique and a few large patterns spanned the whole animal, now its just bunch of the same small patterns spammed on the animal.
The old aj we're better, People won't so toxic, Trading wasn't as bad as it is today, There was less bad people and there was no custom name tags, I just really like the 2020 animal jam. I agree with you!
To me the one thing you missed abt Play Wild nostalgia is the old AJPW app icon. The old icon used to have the normal wolf that was smiling with it’s paws hanging on the frame, whenever it was winter/Christmas the icon would change into an arctic wolf with the same pose as the wolf before changing back into the normal icon (or other seasonal icons). They eventually replaced the wolf with the arctic wolf entirely during update 14.0.3 and boy I was so angry when I found out that the wolf was gone forever 😅 I always thought AJ was too biased with the arctic wolves more than the normal wolves as a kid, and honestly without that blue wolf that caught my eye I probably wouldn’t have discovered AJ at all
Dont ask me why, but the Jamaa Township nighttime music is SO nostalgic. I literally have no idea why XD Whenever I hear it it just makes me think about other nostalgic things that you listed-
when I got scammed out of 8 flowercrowns in bepper's den... when people fought over who got to advertise on the bridge in jamaa township.. the old layout of jamaa.. the old sapphire shops.. when kimbara didn't exist yet.. when i bought 6 arctic wolves to get a better chance of a spike in the treasure hunt.. when shops didn't exist.. when pets couldn't be traded.. when i got groomed by a 20yr old.. ah, nostalgia
Animaljam has so much nastolgia it makes me think back when the world was so nice but now there just memories 😢 i rlly miss the old saphire shop and my friends who used to play
I joined in 2018 and personally. the most nostalgic for me is the old dens and animals (and the treasure hunts too, they were much more entertaining than the daily spin-)
The players have definitely changed. I've been on and off of AJ 3 times now. Once in 2017 when I started, once in 2020, and now. 2017 is mostly a blur, but I did make a good friend from back then. 2020 was SO nice, I met tons of friends, and even started my childhood dream, being a TH-camr, and now.. god the people are just dumb kids. I've been called "bbg", short for baby girl, 3 times now, 2 in the EXACT same area! And the first one was the day I started playing again! I haven't dug into the roleplays or popular trading areas a lot since I came back but I bet their worse
To me, it is really nostalgic to think about how differently the game was designed back then - how there were no toxic players - and all of the beta items and easter eggs you could find. I remember back in the good old days of 2016-2017 I loved exploring the lands and a lot of the time me and my grandma looked for small details and easter eggs in the game. Yes my grandma also plays animal jam, and we started the game together. And back then it was designed so much differently as well. It’s really nostalgic to look back at the old jamaa journal, loading screens, club geoz, and even the way the game looked when you were switching animals. I also remember when pet clothing items became available in stores.
I honestly thought the old old diamond shop was a dream until a few months ago when I actually found some footage. It brought back memories of me getting sad when they turned it into a rectangle
I miss the old aj where people would be in the juice hut and fight over who got to dance at the microphone lol. Now the server is always empty and there is just that memory.
When i first saw the sapphire shop changed, I nearly punched my device. That is where I got my first sets, where I got my first sapphire shop animal. Im talking about the horizontal shop version. If I could go back to that time with that version, when I was still chasing my dream items like Water Wings and a Freedom Spike, when my favourite parties were the dance party and the summer carnival, when I would become so excited for night of the phantoms so I could possibly get the phantom set and get to hover with it, when Stack Attack was a more available game and I won nearly evry round, with the loading screen pictures greeting me as I waited to return to the world I was in. The thing I can thank the most is Shimmerdeer, my first Animal Jam pet, a highlighter pink and highlighter green poodle from 2017. She is the one thing I will never let go and I have always been OBSSESED with her. So thank you the most, Shimmerdeer, for being my first pet. You are the most special thing on my AJ account and I have NEVER underestimated your value to me.
It was funny because I had started playing a couple days after the treasure hunts were deleted, I never got to try them XD But one of the things I miss the most is the old sapphire shop :(
Actually the thing that I miss the most is logging on and meeting my sister in her den, going to fasion shows, hosting them, making forts in her pillow den, going into the old sapphire shop and sharing sapphires to get something, trading with each other, getting so excited over new items and showing each other.. Until she quit. It hasn't been the same, our most memories were in her den or the old sapphire shop. I still have her buddied, I still visit her den every now and then I still show her items.. But she doesn't get excited like how she used to.. I miss playing with her so much!
Rip treasure hunts. Also I’ve recently found woot moo’s den full- I think it depends what time you get on. (Like if people are in school or different time zones) Overall great video! I always love to hear the stories of older animal jam.
Thank you Leamon, I quit Aj a few years ago so this video was very nostalgic. Actually the reason I’m still subscribed to your channel is nostalgia :) I just sometimes watch your videos because they give me a nostalgic feeling.
seasonal events are really nostalgic. I would have so much anticipation for the summer carnival, jamaaliday calendar, and especially super sweets considering that was around when I first joined in october 2017
Yes. I especially miss when animal jam trading wasn't as overrated and demanding by people. It used to be very exiting to get a rare item on the (old) chat-off trade system, and it was also actually fun for collectors to go to trading dens. Now days trading is rather boring and used way to much, and is just genuinely not that fun. I am not that social on the game and trade chat can be very awkward, especially when the person throws an unnecessary fit, as you said in your video. The treasure hunt was also very fun, and I vividly remember it when I was young (maybe 7-8 years old.) ...Ah, odd enough, a particular room in my house upstairs still has the same smell (don't take that weirdly) or like, feeling,- that it had when I first started AJ. The same computer that I used when I *frst* found the game is still up there. Although I was quite young, I still get that nostalgic feeling every time I go upstairsnas the memories of AJ's beta days come back.
I miss being able to go into literally anywhere, without seeing 7 million different: “My list for ___!” And when I could go to the pillow shop for RP and stuff, I miss adopting other jammers for fun and doing fandom based roleplays in AJPW..
I wish I was part of the old Animal Jam. Also just so you know, today I saw one of Aggrix's alt accounts in Jamaa, Aureius. I had to record a video of it. Animal might have been more safe back the beta days. Thanks for your amazing content!
The old aj was amazing! I remember the time when the pillow room was still full of roleplays, and the treasure hunts, the treasure hunts make me feel like an old man. BUT i hope this new AJ, being toxic and just trading/buying just lowers.
in my opinion, making pets tradable was one of animal jam’s worst mistakes along with bringing back old animals/dens, changing the sapphire shop layout, and putting beta items back in stories…like, I was SO mad when flower crowns appeared in epic wonders one day…
I am late, but one thing i miss is from animal jam classic. I remember the AJschool den, how people would roleplay there, and it was always full. It was fun, a good way to make buddies on animal jam.
OMG! I have been playing ajpw for 4 and a half years now and I remember most of these things! The things on ajpw that were most nostalgic to me were the ad chest, claws and paws before the pet token machine, the old sapphire shop, when bundles were on a board in the sapphire shop, when they first added the daily spin, when most of the buildings had coming soon signs like the exploratorium, walls and floors, etc, the pre-my shop days when it used to be so hard to get sapphires, when moku ahi came out (it came out the day after I started playing ajpw), and when I first started ajpw there wasn’t many member exclusive features
I say we just bring back the old system. item worth is like too confusing now also i sorta enjoyed when everything was constant. As someone who is autistic and hasn't had a constent thing in years it was very calming for me and I knew what to look forward to. Now its kinda just annoying. esp with them re releasing old items.
Yeah I hate the new trading system. I agree with it being awkward because it is awkward. My pet peeve is when I’m adding items to trade and the person just exits the trade because I’m “taking too long” like nobody has a bit of patience? I will tell you when I’m done adding items. With the old system I could take all the time I needed and send the trade request and if the person accepted then yay! It was much quicker.
I remember the old ajs... sucks i dont play anymore... but I do have another piece of nostalgia you didnt mention! It was in the sapphire shop or whatever, and you were able to go to this little box and watch a few ads to get prizes everyday! (etc. clothing, den items, and sapphires from what im aware of!) Also another thing-- The word sapphire. To this day, still struggle to spell it.
One of the nostalgic things I had was pet for pet trading I just feel like there’s barely anyone that does it anymore and I always did it when I used to be obsessed with pets
Old aj was sooo much better Original dens Good animals Great nostalgia No scamming (okay a bit of a stretch but still less scams) Barely any toxic people And just so many things
old aj had a LOT more scamming than you people remember. there was still toxic people because the fanbase was young and immature. and there was also drama.
@@starrycat127 i agree with you there As someone who used to be active in the aj yt community I'd say that there was a TON of drama and scamming problems back then, theres times where people have to post awareness videos about the community becoming toxic.
You missed one more thing! Remember when you started the game in the beginning and peck shows you around? And like people put the emoji thingys? Yea, sadly ajhq took that out. :(
I remember a lot of these things but sadly I took a month break in aj and my account was hacked so I took another two month long break be cause I was a little sad/mad and now I had to restart but this video brings back a lot of Old time Nostalgia
I missed old trade and oldest sapphire shop rip my homies 😢 Edit: wootmoo is usually full but its not the same as it used to be. Wootmoo used to be the only trading den. Now fancyshorts took it over but people still go to woot.
I personally think the old dens were the most nostalgic, I used to have the Bunny Burrow in my den as the very first den I ever got with sapps, But deleted it for some weird reason. I MISS THAT DEN NOW 😭...
This is how I expanded and fixed Puppy In My Pocket series in my Puppy In My Pocket fanfiction series 💖🐾💛🐾🧡🐾 1) animal characters live in the same world as human characters 2) all of the animal characters are small and cute (all of the animal characters are the same size as each other (all of them are 31.75 cm tall), plus all of them have large anime eyes and human like facial expressiveness, the only thing that differentiates them is their animal species, as there are both well known species and lesser known species, plus there are more than just one member of the species) 3) all of the girl characters have the same extreme hourglass figure as each other and the exact same cup size as each (all of the girls have 35-25-35 bust-waist-hip ratio and the C cup size, the only things that differentiate them are hair colors, eye colors, skin colors, hairstyles and clothings) 4) all of the boy characters have the same body type as each other (all of the boys have 35-25-24 bust-waist-hip ratio and lean athletic build with medium sized defined muscles, the only things that differentiate them are hair colors, eye colors, skin colors, hairstyles and clothings) 5) all of the characters that are animalistic deities in the original versions of their stories are now just as humanoid as the other characters (the only things hinting at their animal inspiration are their hairstyles that look like attributes of animals they are based on, for example, Bastet has buns that look like cat ears and a braid that looks like a cat tail) Series in Puppy In My Pocket: Puppy In My Pocket Adventures In Pocketville Momotaro Journey To The West The Three Musketiers Sword In The Stone Leilani And Pele's Hair Jason And The Argonauts Wurrunna Little Red Riding Hood Diego And The Charcoal Cat Quetzalcoatl Bastet Anansi Vasilisa The Magical Glooscap Terror Of Gevaudan Killer Phantom Kangaroo Of Kentucky Baatar And The Death Worm Loch Ness Mystery Ramayana Pocketville Princesses are Katie, Martina, Molly, Nicole, Alice, Anabelle, Beatrice, Francesca, Michaela, Vanessa, Alexia, Valerie, Maggie, Emilly, Lillia, Kaguya Hime, Otohime, Urikohime, Jade Princess, Amelie, Vivianne, Leilani, Penelope, Anjea, Little Red Riding Hood, Isabella, Xochiquetzal, Nefertiti, Zuri, Vasilisa, Atahensic, Jacqueline, Sierra, Zhana, Evelyn and Sita Pocketville Princes are Kevin, Marc, Stephan, Lucas, Daniel, Liam, Momotaro, Urashima Taro, Kintaro, Issun Boshi, Sun Wukong, D'Artagnian, Porthos, Athos, Aramis, Arthur, Kanekehili, Jason, Wurruna, Friedrich, Diego, Quetzalcoatl, Papyrus, Anansi, Ivan, Glooscap, Guillaume, Duncan, Baatar, Lesley and Rama Pocketville Principal Pets are Magic (dog), Bella (dog), Princess Ami (cat), Mela (cat), William (dog), Balloon (cat), Danny (dog), Wallace (dog), Eva (cat), Zull (dog), Gort (dog), Krakia (crow), Evershell (turtle), Durilia (crocodile), Toby (dog), Goldie (hamster), Robbie (American robin), Slowpoke (turtle), Juno (dog), Orilliam (pig), Sketch (dog), Swimmy (dolphin), Dr. Carrot (rabbit), Pinna (goldfish), Phoebe (dog), Pia (dog), Ginevra (horse), Kikki (dog), Frankie (dog), Leo (dog), Otto (dog), Camo (cat), Ribbon (baby chick), Tray (dog), Lenny (monkey), Precious (pheasant), Luna (rabbit), Virgo (lamb), Diana (moon moth), Rocky (sea turtle), Coral (tropical reef fish), Maomao (cat), Amethyst (turtle), Crystal (silkmoth), George (cat), Maybelline (parrot), Blush (horse), Elliote (falcon), Malorie (dog), Charlie (cat), Polly (hedgehog), Angela (Hawaiian honeycreeper), Matthew (sea turtle), Sylvester (dolphin), Octavius (octopus), Oscar (tropicbird), Gabriella (swallow), Andy (wallaby), Bouncer (bandicoot), Carmen (numbat), Star (billby), Roxy (dog), Freddy (squirrel), Charcoal (cat), Lilly (dog), Obsidian (snake), Ruby (bat), Bastet (cat), Anubis (jackal), David (spider), Glimmer (butterfly), Millie (cat), Chase (wolf), Joshua (turtle), Uriah (groundhog), Mary (bobcat), Alex (peacock moth), Roderick (dog), Briana (Mexican tree frog), Tony (anole), Rufus (ground squirrel), Manisha (sandfish lizard), Harry (longhorn beetle), Sarah (cat), Patch (tiger) and Faith (dog) (Puppy In My Pocket) Pocketville Villains are Pet Buster, Akandoji, Yellow Wind Demon, Cardinal Richelieu, Morrigan, Nightmarcher, Circe, Bunyip and his drop bears, kangawallafoxes and hooroos, Wolfgang, Lobo, Tezcatlipoca, Apophis, Giza, Baba Yaga, Malsumis and his wendigos, Beast of Gevaudan, Killer phanthom kangaroo, Mongolian death worm, Arthur Grant and Ravana
I miss there being wild animals and wild animals ONLY [Well, in Play Wild's case.] I also miss National Geographic, they helped ensure the ANIMAL of ANIMAL Jam. One last thing, when Play Wild was just a spinoff of Animal Jam and not just it's 3D replacement that ended up taking it's namesake anyways.
Animal Jam was and is still a kinda big part of my childhood, now not really anymore. I dont really know why, i still love it but it kinda got a little boring. All of my friends quit :( . It brings back so much memories, great and bad (but like 90% great memories). It changed alot and i love nostalgia! Dont get me wrong I still love aj but its not like in the old times. Sometimes I think of the old AJ and my younger self playing it! I’ve been playing it since 2018 (and now too)❤
i started playing animal jam in 2011 and when flash got took away i lost all my thing some of them was beta stuff i guess my save cloud wasnt back up on there severs some of the game i played and grew up with the companys shut down the people that made the evil with and dishonored if u know theses everything comes too and end for sure long live 2010s!!!
I miss when members only got packs and daily sapphires. Having member items, especially recolors of nonmember ones is greedy. I'm a member, so it does not impact me, but it is gross.
So apparently, what I've read from a comment in the past on a previous video on awesomeisme's channel on one of her videos. Someone commented why Club Geoz was destroyed because National Geographic had ended their partnership with WildWorks since Club Geoz was based on some real place im pretty sure idk. The comment is left on one of Awesomes animations from a couple years ago, I'd have to find it though.
I can’t believe I started playing since 2016.. wow… just wow.. back then I wasnt really trading for rates but for stuff that looked good but there’s one thing you forgot leamon idk if this counts but the old cool looking styles people used to have like flower crown nutcracker boots rocker hair spiked collar and black or grey fur with a white face. That style used to be so popular but now it’s just not there anymore.
You forgot That Time when You logged in there where a bunch of NPCs and Peck There Where a bunch of bushes And a gate to Jamaa the first time i started AJ wasn't close to 2015 but it will stay forever in my heart 😢❤
I miss the old ( not old old ) sapphire shop, hear me out. This one messes with my screen SO MUCH and this one is just… I don’t like it. Probably because I grew up with the old one, the old one was super cool tbh, nicely laid out.
i prefer the new trading system over the old one bc it’s easier to trade for multiple items without getting scammed, but i don’t really like the random trades i get asking for free stuff
i just played aj rn, lol as a person that started playing aj in 2015/2016, yes, most of them were better versions than now, and I may forgot some of the old versions. lol
I started to play animal jam around 2016 honestly I fell in love with it after all although my rainbow spike got scam. And so I never even got into training things because of that. I love the game overall but I wish animal jam HQ would add free membership for all jammers at least.
I'm really late to the party but man, I miss animal Jam.. its such a same how much this game has changed Honestly its sad I lost my account as i grew older and I never got in touch with my old friends compared to more popular games like Roblox and such. I do miss them alot and this game overall but its better to move on, I'll still thank animal jam for making me the person I am today, Thank you Animal Jam Play wild for all the nostalgic and fun memories I had with the app growing up.
I rarely comment on videos, but holy cow this stuff was pretty nostalgic! I started playing in 2016 and when I found out AJPW was changed to just AJ, I felt pretty sad. I personally don't remember club geoz but I remember seeing the toy at target lol. I miss the old trading system but I do like the fact you can add more than 4 items, the chat box is nice but sometimes I just don't like it. Anyone else miss going to the snow leopard den and find lots of players saying "Warrior Cat/emo wolf RP at my den!" and they use the garden den for the RP? Just me? Idk. I wish they brought back the old sapphire shop (rectangle version) and treasure hunts. Is it me being too critical for the new model style or is AJPW not making models that represent the AJ style with more blocky shapes? Edit: Anyone else get bombarded with trades of jammers giving you a (ex: item every player gets when they are new) and asking you to trade for it but you don't want that item or they trade you that for a rare item (ex: nutcracker boots)?
I have to agree with the Club Geoz (I agree on all of these) but the Club Geoz.. 2017?! I thought it was removed in like 2019/2020, I remember it being there in 2019.. But I’ve been playing for a LONG time. My first account i made in like 2016, I don’t know the password to it but I probably have some rare items on there.
I remember when the new sapphire bundles had dens and animals in them and back when the there was a fox arctic wolf i think and tiger bundle with the dens like the tiger with the tiger palace
I miss the old sapphire shop, the old old one. It actually looks like the outside, the new one looks like 5 times the size of how it does outside.
Omg same! The new one is too fancy and big
The old sapphire shop 😭
THE NOSTALGIA OMG
@@SquishyMain I MISS THE OLD SAPPHIRE SHOP
I was SO mad when the store went away
animal jam nostalgia is truly the most based thing 😭🙏 also wootmoos den gets full sometimes still! just depends on the day and the time, its normally not busy in the daytime but more so in the evening but on the weekends it gets busy again!
I miss when animal jam was owned by wildworks and National Geographic kids.. Back then they focused on the ANIMAL part on animal jam. Everything fit the natural vibe, even the music! All the items were cozy and simple, but the newer ones are too modern and detailed. Animals had a better style, and even the patterns just looked better. Back then when the mods actually cared about how the items would fit on the animals, not just cram them on a default spot and call it a day. Like, come on. Just take a look at the hippo.
I definitely agree with you on the pattern aspect, the old ones were unique and a few large patterns spanned the whole animal, now its just bunch of the same small patterns spammed on the animal.
The old aj we're better, People won't so toxic, Trading wasn't as bad as it is today, There was less bad people and there was no custom name tags, I just really like the 2020 animal jam.
I agree with you!
And also don't forget aj wasn't as money-hungry before.
I played AJ all through 2020. Quit, came back a few months ago, changed too much
@@Im_ell_and_u_know_it Okay
@Lilly The Therian Sameeeeeee
I personally would like if the name tags were like AJ Classic.
To me the one thing you missed abt Play Wild nostalgia is the old AJPW app icon.
The old icon used to have the normal wolf that was smiling with it’s paws hanging on the frame, whenever it was winter/Christmas the icon would change into an arctic wolf with the same pose as the wolf before changing back into the normal icon (or other seasonal icons). They eventually replaced the wolf with the arctic wolf entirely during update 14.0.3 and boy I was so angry when I found out that the wolf was gone forever 😅 I always thought AJ was too biased with the arctic wolves more than the normal wolves as a kid, and honestly without that blue wolf that caught my eye I probably wouldn’t have discovered AJ at all
Pretty much when I joined the community like 2 months ago
I pretty much get annoyed when ppl advertise in places where they ain’t susposed to
Leamon! Stop making all of us feel old!
bye u didnt even watch the video..
@@fireaj I believe they are joking since it’s about stuff that’s nostalgic 😊
@@fireaj Am I allowed to comment before I watch a video?
I had no idea it is now against the law.
@@CleoDragon yeah go to jail 🤨
Jk 🤣
You are probably like 12 years old
Dont ask me why, but the Jamaa Township nighttime music is SO nostalgic. I literally have no idea why XD Whenever I hear it it just makes me think about other nostalgic things that you listed-
For me the most nostalgic thing in animal jam is going down the slide in the tiger temple den with the music "raccoon nights" playing in the den.
I would always have jammer anthem playing in my den when I first started and I would sometimes just hang out in my den and listen to jammer anthem
@@CCClarinet12 omg same !! the jammer anthem is the most nostalgic aj music track for sure
I can feel my bones turning into dust,,,, and I started playing in 2014,,,
I miss the old animal jam.
the candy cavern den and it’s music gives me the most nostalgia, along with the in the moonlight music.
when I got scammed out of 8 flowercrowns in bepper's den... when people fought over who got to advertise on the bridge in jamaa township.. the old layout of jamaa.. the old sapphire shops.. when kimbara didn't exist yet.. when i bought 6 arctic wolves to get a better chance of a spike in the treasure hunt.. when shops didn't exist.. when pets couldn't be traded.. when i got groomed by a 20yr old.. ah, nostalgia
Omg its yx
Animaljam has so much nastolgia it makes me think back when the world was so nice but now there just memories 😢 i rlly miss the old saphire shop and my friends who used to play
I joined in 2018 and personally. the most nostalgic for me is the old dens and animals (and the treasure hunts too, they were much more entertaining than the daily spin-)
The players have definitely changed. I've been on and off of AJ 3 times now. Once in 2017 when I started, once in 2020, and now. 2017 is mostly a blur, but I did make a good friend from back then. 2020 was SO nice, I met tons of friends, and even started my childhood dream, being a TH-camr, and now.. god the people are just dumb kids. I've been called "bbg", short for baby girl, 3 times now, 2 in the EXACT same area! And the first one was the day I started playing again! I haven't dug into the roleplays or popular trading areas a lot since I came back but I bet their worse
It’s true, it’s not just aj changing though, the world too.
@@sophiecorley5714True. I moved on from Animal Jam a while ago and I’ve never looked back since.
2020 ah that’s the time I came to or maybe even in 2019 but I was a guest jammer back then I stayed one but I experienced some nostalgia
I started playing animal jam on its 2nd year and I remember most of it. I really miss the old days
To me, it is really nostalgic to think about how differently the game was designed back then - how there were no toxic players - and all of the beta items and easter eggs you could find. I remember back in the good old days of 2016-2017 I loved exploring the lands and a lot of the time me and my grandma looked for small details and easter eggs in the game. Yes my grandma also plays animal jam, and we started the game together. And back then it was designed so much differently as well. It’s really nostalgic to look back at the old jamaa journal, loading screens, club geoz, and even the way the game looked when you were switching animals. I also remember when pet clothing items became available in stores.
I honestly thought the old old diamond shop was a dream until a few months ago when I actually found some footage. It brought back memories of me getting sad when they turned it into a rectangle
I miss the old aj where people would be in the juice hut and fight over who got to dance at the microphone lol. Now the server is always empty and there is just that memory.
I love that Leanon didn't forget about these old things and she is bringing us back awesome memories ❤
I remember younger me when i used to be super excited and do the treasure hunts everyday after school…
When i first saw the sapphire shop changed, I nearly punched my device. That is where I got my first sets, where I got my first sapphire shop animal. Im talking about the horizontal shop version. If I could go back to that time with that version, when I was still chasing my dream items like Water Wings and a Freedom Spike, when my favourite parties were the dance party and the summer carnival, when I would become so excited for night of the phantoms so I could possibly get the phantom set and get to hover with it, when Stack Attack was a more available game and I won nearly evry round, with the loading screen pictures greeting me as I waited to return to the world I was in. The thing I can thank the most is Shimmerdeer, my first Animal Jam pet, a highlighter pink and highlighter green poodle from 2017. She is the one thing I will never let go and I have always been OBSSESED with her. So thank you the most, Shimmerdeer, for being my first pet. You are the most special thing on my AJ account and I have NEVER underestimated your value to me.
I’ve been playing long enough to remember the Quackity HQ raid lol.
It was funny because I had started playing a couple days after the treasure hunts were deleted, I never got to try them XD But one of the things I miss the most is the old sapphire shop :(
Actually the thing that I miss the most is logging on and meeting my sister in her den, going to fasion shows, hosting them, making forts in her pillow den, going into the old sapphire shop and sharing sapphires to get something, trading with each other, getting so excited over new items and showing each other.. Until she quit. It hasn't been the same, our most memories were in her den or the old sapphire shop. I still have her buddied, I still visit her den every now and then I still show her items.. But she doesn't get excited like how she used to.. I miss playing with her so much!
I miss sooo many of these, I wish I could experience them again
Old Aj: 😃 😊 🤩
Aj now: 😔💸🤑
2019-2021 were my favorite years playing Aj
I miss old Aj
As a classic player without Dance Party, I have on several occasions wished that the Alpha Headquarters got replaced by Club Geoz again.
I remember when new jammers could beg for a beta firefly friend and actually get one
Rip treasure hunts.
Also I’ve recently found woot moo’s den full- I think it depends what time you get on. (Like if people are in school or different time zones)
Overall great video! I always love to hear the stories of older animal jam.
Thank you Leamon, I quit Aj a few years ago so this video was very nostalgic. Actually the reason I’m still subscribed to your channel is nostalgia :) I just sometimes watch your videos because they give me a nostalgic feeling.
I feel like with the old trading, people actually had to think about what to offer to someone. I miss it!!!
seasonal events are really nostalgic. I would have so much anticipation for the summer carnival, jamaaliday calendar, and especially super sweets considering that was around when I first joined in october 2017
Yes.
I especially miss when animal jam trading wasn't as overrated and demanding by people. It used to be very exiting to get a rare item on the (old) chat-off trade system, and it was also actually fun for collectors to go to trading dens. Now days trading is rather boring and used way to much, and is just genuinely not that fun. I am not that social on the game and trade chat can be very awkward, especially when the person throws an unnecessary fit, as you said in your video. The treasure hunt was also very fun, and I vividly remember it when I was young (maybe 7-8 years old.)
...Ah, odd enough, a particular room in my house upstairs still has the same smell (don't take that weirdly) or like, feeling,- that it had when I first started AJ. The same computer that I used when I *frst* found the game is still up there. Although I was quite young, I still get that nostalgic feeling every time I go upstairsnas the memories of AJ's beta days come back.
*"... And the Leamon will live on forever more, one of the only ones left..."*
I miss being able to go into literally anywhere, without seeing 7 million different: “My list for ___!” And when I could go to the pillow shop for RP and stuff, I miss adopting other jammers for fun and doing fandom based roleplays in AJPW..
I wish I was part of the old Animal Jam.
Also just so you know, today I saw one of Aggrix's alt accounts in Jamaa, Aureius. I had to record a video of it. Animal might have been more safe back the beta days.
Thanks for your amazing content!
The old aj was amazing! I remember the time when the pillow room was still full of roleplays, and the treasure hunts, the treasure hunts make me feel like an old man. BUT i hope this new AJ, being toxic and just trading/buying just lowers.
The adoption roleplays omg
in my opinion, making pets tradable was one of animal jam’s worst mistakes along with bringing back old animals/dens, changing the sapphire shop layout, and putting beta items back in stories…like, I was SO mad when flower crowns appeared in epic wonders one day…
I am late, but one thing i miss is from animal jam classic. I remember the AJschool den, how people would roleplay there, and it was always full. It was fun, a good way to make buddies on animal jam.
OMG! I have been playing ajpw for 4 and a half years now and I remember most of these things! The things on ajpw that were most nostalgic to me were the ad chest, claws and paws before the pet token machine, the old sapphire shop, when bundles were on a board in the sapphire shop, when they first added the daily spin, when most of the buildings had coming soon signs like the exploratorium, walls and floors, etc, the pre-my shop days when it used to be so hard to get sapphires, when moku ahi came out (it came out the day after I started playing ajpw), and when I first started ajpw there wasn’t many member exclusive features
4:30 WHAT.
2017?! I was literally what 6-7 back then that feels so long ago, damn..
I say we just bring back the old system. item worth is like too confusing now also i sorta enjoyed when everything was constant. As someone who is autistic and hasn't had a constent thing in years it was very calming for me and I knew what to look forward to. Now its kinda just annoying. esp with them re releasing old items.
It’s honestly the most confusing thing I fell out of the rarity loop and never went back. The alpha items really confused me
Yeah I hate the new trading system. I agree with it being awkward because it is awkward. My pet peeve is when I’m adding items to trade and the person just exits the trade because I’m “taking too long” like nobody has a bit of patience? I will tell you when I’m done adding items. With the old system I could take all the time I needed and send the trade request and if the person accepted then yay! It was much quicker.
I started play in 2014🙏😹💕, loving this video 👍💯🤩
Sorry I made a grammar mistake I meant playing not play my apologie❤
I remember the old ajs... sucks i dont play anymore... but I do have another piece of nostalgia you didnt mention!
It was in the sapphire shop or whatever, and you were able to go to this little box and watch a few ads to get prizes everyday! (etc. clothing, den items, and sapphires from what im aware of!) Also another thing-- The word sapphire. To this day, still struggle to spell it.
I really miss the old animal jam where rp dens were packed! It was really fun and you wouldn't be bored while playing.
One of the nostalgic things I had was pet for pet trading I just feel like there’s barely anyone that does it anymore and I always did it when I used to be obsessed with pets
I wish we could choose between the old and the new trading system when we want to trade! That would be so cool
Old aj was sooo much better
Original dens
Good animals
Great nostalgia
No scamming (okay a bit of a stretch but still less scams)
Barely any toxic people
And just so many things
there still are original dens. Just because they made a single reskin of an old den doesnt mean theyre unoriginal.
old aj had a LOT more scamming than you people remember. there was still toxic people because the fanbase was young and immature. and there was also drama.
@@starrycat127 i agree with you there
As someone who used to be active in the aj yt community I'd say that there was a TON of drama and scamming problems back then, theres times where people have to post awareness videos about the community becoming toxic.
@@Whimsykit Yeah, but in my opinion, they had better ideas in the past.
its the most beautiful this i've every seen in my life! its a bah nah nah nah! next to a bah nah nah nah!
The old shop is SO nostalgic for me, I'm so sad it's gone ):
You missed one more thing! Remember when you started the game in the beginning and peck shows you around? And like people put the emoji thingys? Yea, sadly ajhq took that out. :(
I haven't frequently played animal jam on mobile, but since I've been there a while I might find something nostalgic lol
Me then: I don’t want to have to cancel 52836 times. Add trade chat.
Me now: Social anxiety
I feel you Leamon XDXD
I remember a lot of these things but sadly I took a month break in aj and my account was hacked so I took another two month long break be cause I was a little sad/mad and now I had to restart but this video brings back a lot of Old time Nostalgia
And I started about 2017 and 18 ahhh the good old days
The music is so nostalgic ah the nintendo wii good times
6:12 wait WHUT i have this dude on my buddy list hes hosted so many sapphire drops i just thought he was rlly chill LMAO
I missed old trade and oldest sapphire shop rip my homies 😢
Edit: wootmoo is usually full but its not the same as it used to be. Wootmoo used to be the only trading den. Now fancyshorts took it over but people still go to woot.
I personally think the old dens were the most nostalgic, I used to have the Bunny Burrow in my den as the very first den I ever got with sapps, But deleted it for some weird reason. I MISS THAT DEN NOW 😭...
I miss roleplays, no one roleplays anyone 🤷♀️
And the new sapphire shop makes me dizzy 😅
I always find roleplaers go to the frosty area that's where people ask if u wanna rp
I miss old animal jam sm :(
the previous 2 sapphire shops hit me so hard with nostalgia oh lord
This is how I expanded and fixed Puppy In My Pocket series in my Puppy In My Pocket fanfiction series 💖🐾💛🐾🧡🐾
1) animal characters live in the same world as human characters
2) all of the animal characters are small and cute (all of the animal characters are the same size as each other (all of them are 31.75 cm tall), plus all of them have large anime eyes and human like facial expressiveness, the only thing that differentiates them is their animal species, as there are both well known species and lesser known species, plus there are more than just one member of the species)
3) all of the girl characters have the same extreme hourglass figure as each other and the exact same cup size as each (all of the girls have 35-25-35 bust-waist-hip ratio and the C cup size, the only things that differentiate them are hair colors, eye colors, skin colors, hairstyles and clothings)
4) all of the boy characters have the same body type as each other (all of the boys have 35-25-24 bust-waist-hip ratio and lean athletic build with medium sized defined muscles, the only things that differentiate them are hair colors, eye colors, skin colors, hairstyles and clothings)
5) all of the characters that are animalistic deities in the original versions of their stories are now just as humanoid as the other characters (the only things hinting at their animal inspiration are their hairstyles that look like attributes of animals they are based on, for example, Bastet has buns that look like cat ears and a braid that looks like a cat tail)
Series in Puppy In My Pocket:
Puppy In My Pocket Adventures In Pocketville
Momotaro
Journey To The West
The Three Musketiers
Sword In The Stone
Leilani And Pele's Hair
Jason And The Argonauts
Wurrunna
Little Red Riding Hood
Diego And The Charcoal Cat
Quetzalcoatl
Bastet
Anansi
Vasilisa The Magical
Glooscap
Terror Of Gevaudan
Killer Phantom Kangaroo Of Kentucky
Baatar And The Death Worm
Loch Ness Mystery
Ramayana
Pocketville Princesses are Katie, Martina, Molly, Nicole, Alice, Anabelle, Beatrice, Francesca, Michaela, Vanessa, Alexia, Valerie, Maggie, Emilly, Lillia, Kaguya Hime, Otohime, Urikohime, Jade Princess, Amelie, Vivianne, Leilani, Penelope, Anjea, Little Red Riding Hood, Isabella, Xochiquetzal, Nefertiti, Zuri, Vasilisa, Atahensic, Jacqueline, Sierra, Zhana, Evelyn and Sita
Pocketville Princes are Kevin, Marc, Stephan, Lucas, Daniel, Liam, Momotaro, Urashima Taro, Kintaro, Issun Boshi, Sun Wukong, D'Artagnian, Porthos, Athos, Aramis, Arthur, Kanekehili, Jason, Wurruna, Friedrich, Diego, Quetzalcoatl, Papyrus, Anansi, Ivan, Glooscap, Guillaume, Duncan, Baatar, Lesley and Rama
Pocketville Principal Pets are Magic (dog), Bella (dog), Princess Ami (cat), Mela (cat), William (dog), Balloon (cat), Danny (dog), Wallace (dog), Eva (cat), Zull (dog), Gort (dog), Krakia (crow), Evershell (turtle), Durilia (crocodile), Toby (dog), Goldie (hamster), Robbie (American robin), Slowpoke (turtle), Juno (dog), Orilliam (pig), Sketch (dog), Swimmy (dolphin), Dr. Carrot (rabbit), Pinna (goldfish), Phoebe (dog), Pia (dog), Ginevra (horse), Kikki (dog), Frankie (dog), Leo (dog), Otto (dog), Camo (cat), Ribbon (baby chick), Tray (dog), Lenny (monkey), Precious (pheasant), Luna (rabbit), Virgo (lamb), Diana (moon moth), Rocky (sea turtle), Coral (tropical reef fish), Maomao (cat), Amethyst (turtle), Crystal (silkmoth), George (cat), Maybelline (parrot), Blush (horse), Elliote (falcon), Malorie (dog), Charlie (cat), Polly (hedgehog), Angela (Hawaiian honeycreeper), Matthew (sea turtle), Sylvester (dolphin), Octavius (octopus), Oscar (tropicbird), Gabriella (swallow), Andy (wallaby), Bouncer (bandicoot), Carmen (numbat), Star (billby), Roxy (dog), Freddy (squirrel), Charcoal (cat), Lilly (dog), Obsidian (snake), Ruby (bat), Bastet (cat), Anubis (jackal), David (spider), Glimmer (butterfly), Millie (cat), Chase (wolf), Joshua (turtle), Uriah (groundhog), Mary (bobcat), Alex (peacock moth), Roderick (dog), Briana (Mexican tree frog), Tony (anole), Rufus (ground squirrel), Manisha (sandfish lizard), Harry (longhorn beetle), Sarah (cat), Patch (tiger) and Faith (dog) (Puppy In My Pocket)
Pocketville Villains are Pet Buster, Akandoji, Yellow Wind Demon, Cardinal Richelieu, Morrigan, Nightmarcher, Circe, Bunyip and his drop bears, kangawallafoxes and hooroos, Wolfgang, Lobo, Tezcatlipoca, Apophis, Giza, Baba Yaga, Malsumis and his wendigos, Beast of Gevaudan, Killer phanthom kangaroo, Mongolian death worm, Arthur Grant and Ravana
I miss there being wild animals and wild animals ONLY [Well, in Play Wild's case.] I also miss National Geographic, they helped ensure the ANIMAL of ANIMAL Jam. One last thing, when Play Wild was just a spinoff of Animal Jam and not just it's 3D replacement that ended up taking it's namesake anyways.
actually added back treasure hunts this month but they don't have one for each animal anymore
For me, the greatest animal jam nostalgia would be the balloosh theme.
2:20 oh wow I didn’t think I played for that long
Wait, I remember you! Glad to know you're still active after a few years!
i miss it when the games were aj plaw wild and animal jam :( also the old jambassidors (julian2, appari, bepper)
Animal Jam was and is still a kinda big part of my childhood, now not really anymore. I dont really know why, i still love it but it kinda got a little boring. All of my friends quit :( . It brings back so much memories, great and bad (but like 90% great memories). It changed alot and i love nostalgia! Dont get me wrong I still love aj but its not like in the old times. Sometimes I think of the old AJ and my younger self playing it! I’ve been playing it since 2018 (and now too)❤
I'm just used to the trading system in AJ classic lol
I remember treasure hunt too oo I got so excited when I got sea star glasses and a black spike!
Also the screens in AJ classic on loading are so cool
I don't really like the new sapphire shop layout. The first circle design does look like the AJ classic one haha
Also I miss how they removed the ads for items
I remember when the flower crown was rare and everyone wanted one then they added it back
this video gave me so much nostalgia :)
i started playing animal jam in 2011 and when flash got took away i lost all my thing some of them was beta stuff i guess my save cloud wasnt back up on there severs some of the game i played and grew up with the companys shut down the people that made the evil with and dishonored if u know theses everything comes too and end for sure long live 2010s!!!
I miss the "welcome to jamaa!" with the random jammers when you make a new account, & the old sapphire shop :(
I miss when members only got packs and daily sapphires. Having member items, especially recolors of nonmember ones is greedy.
I'm a member, so it does not impact me, but it is gross.
Don't understand why they removed the old loading screens. Now its boring.
So apparently, what I've read from a comment in the past on a previous video on awesomeisme's channel on one of her videos. Someone commented why Club Geoz was destroyed because National Geographic had ended their partnership with WildWorks since Club Geoz was based on some real place im pretty sure idk. The comment is left on one of Awesomes animations from a couple years ago, I'd have to find it though.
I can’t believe I started playing since 2016.. wow… just wow.. back then I wasnt really trading for rates but for stuff that looked good but there’s one thing you forgot leamon idk if this counts but the old cool looking styles people used to have like flower crown nutcracker boots rocker hair spiked collar and black or grey fur with a white face. That style used to be so popular but now it’s just not there anymore.
i remember when someone scammed me and i lost 3 flower crowns.. i was so sad because they were considered rare, but now..well yk
I remember most of these ... It makes me feel sad what's gone... (Edit: been playing since 2018)
You forgot That Time when You logged in there where a bunch of NPCs and Peck There Where a bunch of bushes And a gate to Jamaa the first time i started AJ wasn't close to 2015 but it will stay forever in my heart 😢❤
I miss the old ( not old old ) sapphire shop, hear me out. This one messes with my screen SO MUCH and this one is just… I don’t like it. Probably because I grew up with the old one, the old one was super cool tbh, nicely laid out.
OH! And don’t forget worth. I’m not even going to begin with worth.
Fun fact:club geoz is still in the phantom dimention and u can enter it
The invite link to the discord server isn't working; is that just me? Anyway, great video Leamon!
I fixed it! Updated the link haha
i prefer the new trading system over the old one bc it’s easier to trade for multiple items without getting scammed, but i don’t really like the random trades i get asking for free stuff
actually wootmoo den sometimes gets full
i just played aj rn, lol
as a person that started playing aj in 2015/2016, yes, most of them were better versions than now, and I may forgot some of the old versions. lol
i only get nostalgia from the original aj lol
I started to play animal jam around 2016 honestly I fell in love with it after all although my rainbow spike got scam. And so I never even got into training things because of that.
I love the game overall but I wish animal jam HQ would add free membership for all jammers at least.
I miss when beepers den was full
oh my god I remember the treasure hunt and the old sapphire shop
I'm really late to the party but man, I miss animal Jam.. its such a same how much this game has changed
Honestly its sad I lost my account as i grew older and I never got in touch with my old friends compared to more popular games like Roblox and such.
I do miss them alot and this game overall but its better to move on, I'll still thank animal jam for making me the person I am today, Thank you Animal Jam Play wild for all the nostalgic and fun memories I had with the app growing up.
OHH MY GODDD I USED TO GO TO WOOTMOOS DEN ALL THE TIME TO TRADE IN LIKE 2016 OR SO I TOTALLY FORGOT ABT POPULAR TRADING DENS
Treasure hunts should be a side feature if they don’t want to bring it back
I rarely comment on videos, but holy cow this stuff was pretty nostalgic! I started playing in 2016 and when I found out AJPW was changed to just AJ, I felt pretty sad. I personally don't remember club geoz but I remember seeing the toy at target lol. I miss the old trading system but I do like the fact you can add more than 4 items, the chat box is nice but sometimes I just don't like it. Anyone else miss going to the snow leopard den and find lots of players saying "Warrior Cat/emo wolf RP at my den!" and they use the garden den for the RP? Just me? Idk. I wish they brought back the old sapphire shop (rectangle version) and treasure hunts. Is it me being too critical for the new model style or is AJPW not making models that represent the AJ style with more blocky shapes?
Edit: Anyone else get bombarded with trades of jammers giving you a (ex: item every player gets when they are new) and asking you to trade for it but you don't want that item or they trade you that for a rare item (ex: nutcracker boots)?
I have to agree with the Club Geoz (I agree on all of these) but the Club Geoz.. 2017?! I thought it was removed in like 2019/2020, I remember it being there in 2019.. But I’ve been playing for a LONG time. My first account i made in like 2016, I don’t know the password to it but I probably have some rare items on there.
I remember when the new sapphire bundles had dens and animals in them and back when the there was a fox arctic wolf i think and tiger bundle with the dens like the tiger with the tiger palace
the halloween bundles still have both
THE FEELS HSHHDGV
Like ur art style