How Habbo Hotel Turned Its Players Into Ruthless Teenage Capitalists

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  • @Trolligarch
    @Trolligarch  5 ปีที่แล้ว +942

    Thanks so much for the support

    •  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Trolligarch bro how you only got 716 subs the quality is here we’re the audience at anyway you got a sub in me mate

    • @RilkeanKisses
      @RilkeanKisses 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hey Trolligarch. If you're still actively making videos contact me. I have some interesting info similar to this on a game called OurWorld which has fallen into anarchy. Could make an interesting short video.

    • @Cookies1o1
      @Cookies1o1 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      In the video you said you couldn't rig dice,
      This isn't correct, with wired you can force the dice to a certain state with a trigger so it can be possible it's just hard to get away with

    • @honestabe5153
      @honestabe5153 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ok

    • @smugmode
      @smugmode 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think Discord is definitely a MECCA 4 PEDOPHILES

  • @BrendanLloyd
    @BrendanLloyd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7098

    people straight up started a pyramid scheme in habbo

    • @ollum1
      @ollum1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +147

      Not gonna lie I would like to do that

    • @andrewhsu7202
      @andrewhsu7202 5 ปีที่แล้ว +211

      The problem is, pyramid schemes rely on retards to literally sign themselves up for the scam. Most people at least have a bit of sense unlike the kids that played habbo.

    • @justsheeps7740
      @justsheeps7740 5 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      @@andrewhsu7202 nah they dont, we are getting scammed every single day

    • @AloysWalterStefan
      @AloysWalterStefan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@andrewhsu7202 i remember taking part of a pyramid scheme in habbo and it was indeed crowded af

    • @andrewduan5123
      @andrewduan5123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      EVE online had a wild Ponzi Scheme a while back.

  • @matthewduncan6061
    @matthewduncan6061 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21518

    And to think I wasted my time on club penguin when I could have been building a slave trade on habbo

    • @BadNumberGenerator
      @BadNumberGenerator 5 ปีที่แล้ว +611

      I never knew habbo had a real history.

    • @jedenachtaufpcp4621
      @jedenachtaufpcp4621 5 ปีที่แล้ว +198

      It was rude the First times i got Scammed

    • @arposkraft3616
      @arposkraft3616 5 ปีที่แล้ว +191

      jup we had the 2nd biggest maffia on the site

    • @romanaguilar7277
      @romanaguilar7277 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      3k like!

    • @THIRTEENTH13TH
      @THIRTEENTH13TH 5 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      Zer Daddy i used to own a casino and just open and reclose it with all the inested money and pretty much the same people would come back without knowing and then in a week u just close the casino and reopen it with free profit

  • @alexkatakuna2615
    @alexkatakuna2615 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2574

    I once worked for 4 hours straight on habbo without anyone paying me, I accidentally logged off and while I tried to explain what happened to the people in the game I cried in real life. I didn't get paid

    • @IceFire1800
      @IceFire1800 5 ปีที่แล้ว +451

      still more dignity than working retail

    • @GreenGoblinCoryintheHouse
      @GreenGoblinCoryintheHouse 5 ปีที่แล้ว +135

      When buying furniture is harder than any game mechanic.

    • @charevandenheever4460
      @charevandenheever4460 5 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      Soooo just like real life?

    • @shhlonggy
      @shhlonggy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    • @farewelltome.
      @farewelltome. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      thats sad.

  • @sellis3166
    @sellis3166 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4944

    My cousin use to go to populated areas in runescape and say “anyone need a gf” and then she would say it would cost 300 coin and as soon as they made the transfer she would block them

    • @overtheunder8522
      @overtheunder8522 5 ปีที่แล้ว +770

      300 coin is like nothing, your cousin needs to up her prices

    • @dacejar
      @dacejar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +311

      what a fucking legend

    • @ryancage1006
      @ryancage1006 5 ปีที่แล้ว +271

      Tell her to try asking for 300k...

    • @ibrahimbelen8421
      @ibrahimbelen8421 5 ปีที่แล้ว +155

      Lmao theres no point in scamming at runescape, u can just get millions by asking to get help

    • @overtheunder8522
      @overtheunder8522 5 ปีที่แล้ว +168

      İbrahim Belen this isn’t garanteed and I hate people who spam beg at GE, but I was my poor self, saying funny things for money, selling ‘funny’ things (‘selling weed’ *gives grass rune*) and some guy traded with me , gave me 10 mil and full iron gilded and after my thank you s, left. I spent at least 5 mil giving back, doing rune scim drop parties and exposing scammers, buying other people’s funny shit, just donating. Such a fun rewarding experience. People can just donate millions to you if you stick around long enough

  • @4444-v9v
    @4444-v9v 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2696

    I got banned for 11 years for trying to sell a sofa for 20 coins, I’ve been waiting for 10 years since

    • @Mr-Ad-196
      @Mr-Ad-196 5 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Wut..........guess you will be waiting another 9 more year.......

    • @YourIQDoesntMeanShitToMe
      @YourIQDoesntMeanShitToMe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Can people still get banned nowadays?

    • @fredrickrodriguez2175
      @fredrickrodriguez2175 5 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      MR AD guess you cant read or dont know math

    • @domkoupil9808
      @domkoupil9808 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@fredrickrodriguez2175 ask him wus 9 + 10

    • @yusuf_kizilkaya
      @yusuf_kizilkaya 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@domkoupil9808 21?

  • @aminah8353
    @aminah8353 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3284

    Does anyone remember dressing like a baby and getting 'adopted' and then your adoptive parents would give your furniture
    Why did i do this lmaoo

    • @uno9331
      @uno9331 5 ปีที่แล้ว +274

      I remember being a parent on there and having a son for a year but never played as a baby lol

    • @notimeforcreativenamesjust3034
      @notimeforcreativenamesjust3034 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Noooo

    • @enzoqueijao
      @enzoqueijao 5 ปีที่แล้ว +280

      So you had a sugar daddy?

    • @cyqry
      @cyqry 5 ปีที่แล้ว +211

      @@enzoqueijao Now that I think about it, that's exactly what this was. Except literal daddy, given how many people acting as babies would just *cry*.

    • @MrPF
      @MrPF 5 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      I played Haboo once, and the first room I find is one like this. I quit the game after being adopted by 10 different people.

  • @REC-L
    @REC-L 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3617

    "Pools closed, due to aids and stingrays."

    • @TheGerbennos
      @TheGerbennos 5 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      Ah shit I remember this, great stuff

    • @abandonedchannel281
      @abandonedchannel281 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Quacky raid, damn I remember that

    • @vallisdaemonumofficial
      @vallisdaemonumofficial 5 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      🕴🏿🕴🏿🕴🏿🕴🏿🕴🏿🕴🏿🕴🏿🕴🏿🕴🏿🕴🏿🕴🏿
      *POOL CLOSED DUE TO AIDS*

    • @Ne1170
      @Ne1170 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Stingraids

    • @IHiggs
      @IHiggs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Classic

  • @Despair505
    @Despair505 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4716

    Ah I remember playing Habbo. I never understood how agencies worked and why someone would pay real money to pay fake money to people for just standing around "working security" or if there were even real people behind them, so I was jobless and broke and just goofed around the edges of the Habbo society with my friends, doing nothing of actual value.
    Wait a minute, that's just my life right now. What the fuck.

    • @dac518
      @dac518 5 ปีที่แล้ว +213

      This hit too hard

    • @dac518
      @dac518 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Mike Tyson with the feelings

    • @vhs5859
      @vhs5859 5 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      I played the hacked version called "pro hotel" until it got shut down

    • @arrietty1619
      @arrietty1619 5 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      when i used to play habbo years back, I had a job and was able to be promoted to a high position after months of “working.” It was super fuuunnn thoo. I miss playing habbo

    • @miniaturejayhawk8702
      @miniaturejayhawk8702 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Actually it is not fake money since it is backed by real currency.

  • @Heattokun
    @Heattokun 4 ปีที่แล้ว +776

    “Assuming it’s not rigged, you have a 50% chance” nice foreshadowing to the next vid now that I’m revisiting this

    • @arposkraft3616
      @arposkraft3616 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      and its always rigged... without exception ^)^
      I havnt watched this one yet but if the maker of the video didn't mention keylogging and habbo radio scams then he hasn't scratched the surface yet

  • @swegcisu9389
    @swegcisu9389 5 ปีที่แล้ว +963

    I literally wasted all my day in this game with my friend. I remember forcing her to find a rich bf and when he gives coins to her, I would get the half. Best way to get rich in Habbo 11/10

    • @MrAhme63
      @MrAhme63 5 ปีที่แล้ว +174

      Swegcisu sounds like a pimp hahahaha

    • @spoony8485
      @spoony8485 5 ปีที่แล้ว +188

      I like how, even in a game with no direct connection to real life unregulated capitalistic economics, still happened to create every single example of it. Casinos, pyramid schemes, rigged games with no end goals, monopolies, you name it.

    • @Lucardini
      @Lucardini 5 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      Bruh.. i ran a pyramid scheme but at least I didn't pimp my own friend out haha

    • @swegcisu9389
      @swegcisu9389 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @@Lucardini After some time she started to get rich bfs by herself and not by force because of the money lol

    • @thechameleon2636
      @thechameleon2636 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Swegcisu I guess I was her biggest client. I guess you owe me some Habbo coins!😂

  • @monkiram
    @monkiram 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2100

    Even when I was on it as a 13 year old (and never spending any real money), something felt very dark about this game. The weirdest story I have is when I entered a room and started speaking old English, so people started listening to me and thinking I was like some religious figure or something and then this 18-year-old started messaging me for advice about whether he should convert to Islam in order to marry his long-term girlfriend 😂I freaked out a little and told him I was just a 13-year-old kid so the conversation ended pretty quickly after that.

    • @celestinemachuca8930
      @celestinemachuca8930 5 ปีที่แล้ว +373

      We can make religion out of this.

    • @CaveyMoth
      @CaveyMoth 5 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      @@celestinemachuca8930 Let's start a new society.

    • @GreenGoblinCoryintheHouse
      @GreenGoblinCoryintheHouse 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      I couldn't spend money in any game,my parents moderated any online payment. Grinding in games was painful to me as a child.

    • @mlindalina1
      @mlindalina1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      As a Muslim I am screaming lmao bless your traumatised soul

    • @bangtanfoxy
      @bangtanfoxy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@celestinemachuca8930 pls no

  • @justcallmesteve9123
    @justcallmesteve9123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1108

    Game: *has tradeable currency in it*
    Players: ...anarcho-capitalism it is

    • @nixtoshi
      @nixtoshi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      The superior system rises organically

    • @bogey
      @bogey 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@adolfhitlerwithinternetacc6259 you'd think that, adolf

    • @pedinhuh16
      @pedinhuh16 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@adolfhitlerwithinternetacc6259 Funny you should say that because you got rekt by communists, LOL

    • @masken8355
      @masken8355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@nixtoshi Based

  • @tvpivm
    @tvpivm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1397

    When I was 12 years old someone told me that if I put my password in the chat box and pressed some keys on the keyboard, a funny emoticon would appear, and when I did it he stole all my stuff. It's been 10 years and it still makes me angry that I fell for that smh.

    • @WEBTEAM1000
      @WEBTEAM1000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +180

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
      Dude, I am literally wheezing right now. Oldest, and I mean, OLDEST fucking trick in the book!

    • @slm0nw174
      @slm0nw174 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      lol

    • @lichtishlogistics
      @lichtishlogistics 5 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      I'm betting those keys that you put down after your password were alt+f4

    • @jungletrouble8296
      @jungletrouble8296 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same lol.

    • @Onyominoma
      @Onyominoma 5 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      SHOUT YOUR PASSWORD AND IT COMES OUT AS *********
      Me: pikachu32
      Me: it didn't work

  • @Nukestarmaster
    @Nukestarmaster 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1619

    Habbo has one very major difference from a normal deregulated economy. It was an economy without any form of wealth creation. No primary or secondary industries means that the economy becomes a zero sum game, and only way to make money is effectively exploitative.

    • @ChaotikmindSrc
      @ChaotikmindSrc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      But the money is controlled by a central authority !
      so that's not a true deregulated economy anyway.

    • @ArcticProxy
      @ArcticProxy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      Also no real consequences or incentive to make a profit.

    • @nicotavo
      @nicotavo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +160

      That's what I thought. People tend to think that captalism is a zero sum game like Habbo, when in reality wealth can and is created by making ir producing New things. Wealth then is measured by the amount of things and services that can be achived by one's limites resources

    • @Cowboydjrobot
      @Cowboydjrobot 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Nicotavo Nick is wealth created though? Things are created services are created. Peoples wealth gets distributed differently based on new things and services. But is new wealth actually being generated or just redistributed?

    • @Nukestarmaster
      @Nukestarmaster 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@Cowboydjrobot Every new resource obtained from primary industry, every object created in a factory, every new idea. These are all new wealth.

  • @firetarrasque4667
    @firetarrasque4667 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1242

    The one major difference between Habbo and anarcho-capitalism is that Habbo can magically assure that there is no violence or straightforwards property theft.

    • @desmondbrown5508
      @desmondbrown5508 5 ปีที่แล้ว +147

      True but it is a good analysis of how even the most ideal form of capitalism is tyranny via class-ism and business control.

    • @firetarrasque4667
      @firetarrasque4667 5 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      @@desmondbrown5508 My actual line of thought in posting that comment was that in an ordinary situation anarcho-capitalism wouldn't work because the workers could simply seize the means of production because capitalism requires a State to function

    • @happyjohn354
      @happyjohn354 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@firetarrasque4667 not necessarily the black market trade says otherwise... money is just a representation of value so if money no longer has value we would just go back to trade/bartering... there need not be any state just have something thats valuable that someone wants more than you...

    • @firetarrasque4667
      @firetarrasque4667 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@happyjohn354 Markets and capitalism aren't the same, afraid to say. Capitalism is when the means of production are privately owned.

    • @happyjohn354
      @happyjohn354 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@firetarrasque4667 well durr but you can still own a means of production without a state...

  • @ImStian
    @ImStian 5 ปีที่แล้ว +942

    Mastering Habbo economy is harder than getting an economics degree.

    • @swissarmyknife7670
      @swissarmyknife7670 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      i have learnd alot in this game and never spend a cent. then i got hacked and lost everything. i had to let go my employies :(

    • @ashleybyrd2015
      @ashleybyrd2015 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The real trick to it is leaving behind what is "ethical". You're an agency, Not a damn charity!

    • @jekesan4221
      @jekesan4221 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ashleybyrd2015 yup,those so called righteous people don't have the heart to do it

  • @armandoreyes2634
    @armandoreyes2634 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1477

    I had like 3 habbo girlfriends and when one would teleport to me seeing me with another one they would start arguing and cursing me out lmaoooo good times

    • @sbapungi1506
      @sbapungi1506 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Lol

    • @iratepirate3896
      @iratepirate3896 5 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      Those HC girls were easy.

    • @DanielGonzalezL
      @DanielGonzalezL 5 ปีที่แล้ว +226

      I once lied in the same bed as my friend and his girlfriend came and dumped him thinking he was gay lmao

    • @mm-xk2zl
      @mm-xk2zl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@iratepirate3896 thats actually true lots of them look the same and are really dumb and trashy but some of them can be nice(sadly i never met a nice one)

    • @SunnySalasar
      @SunnySalasar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      two neckbeards fighting over a third, that is poetic

  • @justas423
    @justas423 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1963

    Money systems in these type of sites always end up horribly wrong. Whether they turn the whole site into a simulation of anarcho-capitalism or hyperinflate into oblivion.

    • @brandonporter8509
      @brandonporter8509 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Justas I see someone else remembers Gaia online

    • @farenhite4329
      @farenhite4329 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      If there’s a will, there’s a way.
      And if there’s money, there’s a will.

    • @badlydrawncars6460
      @badlydrawncars6460 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      OSRS is pretty sane imo

    • @perkypears
      @perkypears 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      money systems in games go infinitely deep the moment you give players the ability to trade goods/money, and its usually inflation. animal crossing players make you spend millions for things they didnt even work to get, neopets has players spending millions and millions of money to make their pet look cool, prices of some things in final fantasy 11 went up tenfold, etc. EVE Online is pretty much one of the most resilient virtual economies in human history but that is an absolute miracle with so many devastated economies around because people either get lucky and find an item highly in demand with no supply to support the demand or people dupe things or farm items that should be worth more than they become. It especially gets messy with real life money because the moment money trading is added especially without heavy moderation everywhere people will sell virtual money for real money
      it doesnt get nearly as interesting but having a system where you can only buy and sell directly with NPCs is something you could do to make an economy basically flatline and never get crazy and do dumb things, like the video mentions Club Penguin which only let you buy from NPCs so the economy never even had a chance to mess up
      I think an mmo rpg that has a nice middleground is what Wizard101 did quite honestly with the Bazaar where you can buy and sell equipment and crafting recipes to an NPC but you dont get the freedom to rack up the price and instead the price automatically goes up and down depending on how many are in stock that players sold to him, and all items bought with the Real Life Money Currency cannot be sold or bought there

    • @mclilzenthepoet2331
      @mclilzenthepoet2331 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@farenhite4329 fax

  • @elizabetharmitage2748
    @elizabetharmitage2748 5 ปีที่แล้ว +313

    When I was a kid I reported someone on Habbo for saying I wasn't cool

    • @andre-li7qo
      @andre-li7qo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Bruh

    • @SporkSlayer
      @SporkSlayer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      That kid had it coming.

    • @kkwun4969
      @kkwun4969 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Elizabeth Armitage you arent cool

    • @cynthiabauer5763
      @cynthiabauer5763 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You weren't very cool then but you're pretty cool now.

    • @nickv2601
      @nickv2601 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      To be fair though they weren't lying.

  • @LorenzoDoesntExist
    @LorenzoDoesntExist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    The scam I hated the most as a kid was when someone sold you a teleporter that didn't work. Every elevator, closet, phonebooth, and porta-potty is made as a pair such that you walk into one and come out the other. Each has a unique ID for itself and its twin, and these can't be changed. There's no safeguard preventing people from separating pairs, so people often sell single ones to noobs or two that aren't linked. You can't ask them to show you that they work because they could easily demo a working pair but sell you different ones. 1 in 1 million chance you walk through a teleporter and meet whoever got scammed with the other one, but people don't normally bother putting them out. There are countless broken teleporters floating in cyberspace because of this. As a programmer, I consider this an awful mechanic.

    • @TWOZERO23
      @TWOZERO23 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      lmao I remember the teleports. Actually pretty cool that you could teleport, if it was a workable pair lol, to other people's room. It was a nice feature. But yea I feel the emotions on this.

    • @william56e78
      @william56e78 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hoje em dia o habbo implementou um sistema de "ligar um par de Teles" é bem interessante, pena que demorou 20 anos para isso acontecer

  • @cardboardhawks6783
    @cardboardhawks6783 5 ปีที่แล้ว +722

    “I am Andrew Ryan, and I am here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
    'No,' says the man in Washington, 'it belongs to the poor.'
    'No,' says the man in the Vatican, 'it belongs to God.'
    'No,' says the man in Moscow, 'it belongs to everyone.'
    I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose…
    Rapture.
    A city where the artist would not fear the censor,
    where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality,
    where the great would not be constrained by the small.
    And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city, as well.”

    • @rubens5689
      @rubens5689 5 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      if bioshock made you like the rapture i think you misunderstood it

    • @arcticmonke7661
      @arcticmonke7661 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Ruben S I don’t like the idea but I do like the name so I’m supporting it

    • @muhammadammarrasyid5780
      @muhammadammarrasyid5780 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@arcticmonke7661 and i definitely wouldnt blame you. Man's charismatic madman

    • @CaveyMoth
      @CaveyMoth 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Habbo Hotel..home. At least it was before the Anarcho-Capitalists hecced everything up.

    • @teal_m_101
      @teal_m_101 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Is a man not entitled to the AIDs in his own pool?

  • @angelicau.4609
    @angelicau.4609 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2125

    This is nothing compared to the communist uprising against the people with memberships in club penguin

    • @marycolabella4212
      @marycolabella4212 5 ปีที่แล้ว +249

      Angelica U. THE WHAT. PLEASE TELL ME ABOUT THIS THATS INCREDIBLE

    • @Seth9809
      @Seth9809 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      What?

    • @szechuan698
      @szechuan698 5 ปีที่แล้ว +159

      I always bought that membership cause my favorite part of the game was flexing

    • @freddy4603
      @freddy4603 5 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      @@marycolabella4212 he's just talking about that quackity raid...

    • @kieron822
      @kieron822 5 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      Quackity brings the workers revolution

  • @phoebeartemis5367
    @phoebeartemis5367 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2953

    Someone should have gotten on there and taught some union organising skills.

    • @YoelRekts
      @YoelRekts 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Phoebe Artemis 😂😂🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @phoebeartemis5367
      @phoebeartemis5367 5 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      Would have been useful for them in real life too...

    • @hotshotroom964
      @hotshotroom964 5 ปีที่แล้ว +155

      amazon didnt like this

    • @phoebeartemis5367
      @phoebeartemis5367 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@hotshotroom964 Indeed not!

    • @Nukestarmaster
      @Nukestarmaster 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      How would that have helped?

  • @epykness
    @epykness 5 ปีที่แล้ว +206

    That just sounds like real life with extra steps

  • @ArtUniverse
    @ArtUniverse 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2054

    Things that define anarcho-capitalism:
    1. Anarchy
    2. Capitalism
    ...sounds legit.

    • @WEBTEAM1000
      @WEBTEAM1000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      He kinda did explain it, though.
      Like, I remember how my teachers used to mark powerpoints with one or two words every page much higher than powerpoints that spew information, because the lion's share of the effort is in the verbal explanation.

    • @coryneform
      @coryneform 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      Bartosz Wojczyński don’t forget extreme ideological contradictions

    • @Hyperversum3
      @Hyperversum3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      And pedophilia.

    • @pedesromanus657
      @pedesromanus657 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Hyperversum3 tell this to the US educational system, 29+ thousands of pedophilia and pederasty cases

    • @Hyperversum3
      @Hyperversum3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@pedesromanus657 Pedos in a nationalized system doesn't change that people selling kids as child slaves aren't exactly lawful individuals that wouldn't dare to do it in broad daylight if they had the chance

  • @evenmorecheese2785
    @evenmorecheese2785 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1772

    So in other words Habbo Hotel simulates the late 19th century economy.
    Does that mean that there'll be 2 huge wars and a communist revolution?

    • @killermlg5360
      @killermlg5360 5 ปีที่แล้ว +148

      I WANT THE REINCARNATION OF THE SOVIET UNION AND I WANT IT NOW!!!

    • @evenmorecheese2785
      @evenmorecheese2785 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      *YES*

    • @ashleybyrd2015
      @ashleybyrd2015 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      We can eat capitalism out from the inside, We start off as an agency and then use the money to start a REVOLUTION.

    • @drinkwater247
      @drinkwater247 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      NUKES

    • @crabeatcrab6011
      @crabeatcrab6011 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      hopefully without the 2 wars

  • @-JustHuman-
    @-JustHuman- 5 ปีที่แล้ว +163

    Eve online is still more badass, having people using years on infiltration and spying to get information or close down a rivaled corporation, or steal ships and assets.

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      its starting to get too realistic for a game, that way I play real life

    • @kabobawsome
      @kabobawsome 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      The difference is that EVE has a sense of community. People didn't want an unregulated environment, so they self-regulated in many places. Habbo lacks that sense of community. That's why agencies aren't an arrangement of work like EVE's corporations, but straight up pyramid schemes.

    • @smygskytt1712
      @smygskytt1712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@kabobawsome
      I look at it in another way. Basically, libertarianism can't work in real life. Like the way the goons went after recruiting noobs and then roflstomped the smaller elite alliances under the sheer weight of numbers. And then everyone else had to follow, and EVE got three gigantic space battles.

    • @AleTheGreat00
      @AleTheGreat00 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @The industrial revolution was a disaster if want to experience that....play "Rival Region"

    • @qooqle
      @qooqle 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      any good videos about what you described? Im interested...

  • @FeCyrineu
    @FeCyrineu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +345

    I remember my brother's friend created a website that allowed him to know the account and password of anyone who enters it while having Habbo open. He got alot of coins like that. I was 8 at the time so it didn't occured to me that it was theft until I thought about it recently.
    Habbo really was a cesspoll, wasn't it?

    • @aliasofgray2854
      @aliasofgray2854 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      How did he manage that?

    • @FeCyrineu
      @FeCyrineu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      @@aliasofgray2854 I dunno, 8 year old me was not exactly a master of technology.

    • @stackthatcheese7020
      @stackthatcheese7020 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      I remember when I was 9 I fell for one of those scam websites and all my coins got stolen. I cried the whole day, but learned a valuable lesson.
      And fuck your friend

    • @BraceInc
      @BraceInc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      those fucking fake habbo free coins websites : I fell for like 10 of them but they wouldnt steal shit cos i didnt have shit

    • @tredroidxmobile1424
      @tredroidxmobile1424 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@BraceInc I used to.make.many they cant steal your info the way this comment suggest though

  • @ozzell
    @ozzell 5 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    Finnish Habbo (which is the original one) had competing militaries that emulated the real military in terms of ranks and discipline.

    • @amberhide04
      @amberhide04 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      sorry i know this comment is four years old but i need to know more

    • @her-em-akhet
      @her-em-akhet หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@amberhide04 Same. Please, god, elaborate. Tell me about what was almost certainly Baby's First Fash State, I'm begging.

  • @colinwilliams7549
    @colinwilliams7549 4 ปีที่แล้ว +373

    >government bans child gambling
    >habbo forced to fire employees preventing child gambling
    >child gambling continues
    Beautiful

    • @olliegoria
      @olliegoria 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      imagine getting screwed out of your job over something that just got worse after

    • @sephikong8323
      @sephikong8323 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not Stonks

    • @mylhouse0887
      @mylhouse0887 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      its like when you ban a drug but people still do it they just die of tainted stuff and kill each other over it instead of doing it more safely.

    • @DodgyDaveGTX
      @DodgyDaveGTX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mylhouse0887 "we herd u liek smoking weed, so we banned it **oops** here have these really dodgy synthetic cannabinoids instead lol hope you enjoy psych wards"

  • @yardofshe
    @yardofshe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +634

    I have one thing to say:
    Bobba.

    • @FatalityScouter15
      @FatalityScouter15 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bobber

    • @exolaruia8789
      @exolaruia8789 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      chansey you bobba

    •  5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I'm gonna say the n-word
      Bobba

    • @exolaruia8789
      @exolaruia8789 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Le Petitioner you bobba bobba

    • @zoie4000
      @zoie4000 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bow-bah?!

  • @nile7999
    @nile7999 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1220

    These type of games with econonies that mimic real-life, incentivize scamming, and obeying higher bosses imitating reality, is 100x more entertaining than any other type of game

    • @Pre-Omniscient
      @Pre-Omniscient 5 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Case in point: crate depression

    • @francescoazzoni3445
      @francescoazzoni3445 5 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      As a student of economics I'm always fascinated to see what i study in theory, with rather counterintuitive mathematical models, appear so brightly in many games.

    • @tjerkeman5369
      @tjerkeman5369 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      you should try eve online

    • @sintheemptyone8108
      @sintheemptyone8108 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @@francescoazzoni3445 It's fascinating for me to see just how depraved communities can become, and those types of communities happen to be gold mines of psychological, moral & social decay. Knowledge is fun... when you're the one in control.
      To me, economics are fascinating... until it starts to involve heavy social engineering & exploitation of people on a large scale. At that point it just becomes repulsive and frankly sociopathic in nature.

    • @Laiser
      @Laiser 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      You need to watch/read about 2b2t, it's a Minecraft Anarchy server and researching the main history is genuinely some of the most entertaining things I've ever seen on the internet.

  • @TV-8-301
    @TV-8-301 5 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    It seems like a massive benefit of virtual games is to have social experiments or economic experiments in a much more ethical way than to attempt it in real life

    • @Fischdosepremium
      @Fischdosepremium 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      That is exactly the reason why I watch stuff like this as an econ major lol.
      This one is more of a hilarious story than anything actually usable by a scientist though. Habbo didn't have a real way of generating value, so it's entire economy had to be based upon scams and exploitation by design. Totally interesting and fun to listen to, but not really applicable to the real world.

    • @Karl_der_Genosse
      @Karl_der_Genosse 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Fischdosepremium
      Runescape on the other hand...

    • @mylhouse0887
      @mylhouse0887 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      i hope no kid has a lifelong gambling addiction bc they spent all their allowance on coins
      but fr there is so much to learn about our capitalism from this lord of the flies version

    • @TV-8-301
      @TV-8-301 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mylhouse0887 Good point, I wonder how susceptible kids are to gambling addiction compared to adults? As a kid I spent my allowance on similar virtual nothings, and it only taught me what a waste it is

    • @rainbowunicode8352
      @rainbowunicode8352 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@TV-8-301 I know I'm late to the party, but the answer is more vulnerable than adults. I work in addictions and research suggests kids age 12 are about 8 times more likely to develop an addiction than an 18 year old, and 18 year olds are about 8 times more likely than 25 year olds to develop addictions. So 12 year olds are very vulnerable, from the perspective of addiction treatment professionals. The earlier you're exposed to a substance or behavioral process, the more likely you are to develop an addiction, up until about age 25, since that's about when your brain is fully developed

  • @zmax9908
    @zmax9908 5 ปีที่แล้ว +575

    I played Habbo Hotel some 18 years ago. I’m 28 now. Everything he says in this video was true even back then. Moderators existed, but pretty much no matter what you did in private rooms they didn’t bother. Only place there was reason to fear them was at the large public rooms like the pool, because if you said simply mean things there you got blocked out pretty quickly for a while.
    The non-moderation in private rooms lead to incredible scamming culture. Me and my friend were accumulating a shared stash of items to run our own little casino. I don't think you could pass coins/credits back then or maybe just no one had them. We got furniture as payment by participating in agencies like in the video and trying to play casino games but the latter never worked out because even at the fairest the odds were 50/50. Working in agencies was rough. Back then they were mostly “militaries” and generally hazed newcomers. You’d have to do some sort of squats where you sit in a chair and stand up for 1000 reps. Once you got through hazing and they got to know you they’d easy up though, and you’d be given certain control in their rooms. I think we simply loaned some items from the military to run our scam casino, because the military had begun trusting us enough. If you messed with them they’d do all in their power to hit back because they generally had little to do and they were the military after all. I think I remember some times when we attacked some "enemy" rooms, entering them and spamming text that offended them. There was no room-wide mute. If there was no one with rights to the room present you could cover the entire room with text bubbles.
    When we finally reached enough furniture to prop up a cheap-looking, bare-bones casino, we immediately ran a scamming operation from the get-go without even any experience at running a casino. The usual tactic most casinos seemed to do was have a friend win. We sucked at the chair game so bad that even with us co-operating someone else would always end up winning, but at that point we'd just have to pretty conspicuously kick them out and pretend like nothing happened. They might keep returning to the room, because you couldn't block people from entering. If it got too bad we might have to start up another room or even transfer our items to new characters by one of us acting as the middleman. But even like this, somehow, you'd find people willing to play. The stuff they wagered was always the cheapest brown trash that no one wanted even as currency, so we didn't exactly make bank. We had a room full of brown trash and a few loaned colorful items, that's about it.
    The best thing you could do in Habbo, and which was heavily influenced by how rich you appeared, was to have cyber sex. There were pair beds two people could get in, and then you’d write in text how you’d have sex. It was run by the imagination of little kids, so it was pretty much what you’d expect. You’d also constantly be out of sync. In fact the usual reason for us two to enter the public rooms and especially the dance club was to find cyber sex partners. It was pretty fun in itself to hit on girls, Night at the Roxbury style.
    I don’t think we ever got banned really. We just drifted to other games like Runescape, where we were scamming people into entering the Wilderness by one of us teaming up with someone random to gank others, but that person just ending up getting ganked themselves.

    • @DontreadPimpBoy
      @DontreadPimpBoy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Wow

    • @DwnGoz
      @DwnGoz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      congrats you are a trash person, and its sad that im getting a vibe from you that seems like you are proud of the things you have done. weirdo.

    • @digletminer8464
      @digletminer8464 5 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      And I thought exploting Minecraft glitches where bad when I was a kid.

    • @jackg5321
      @jackg5321 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      wow what a trip, thanks for sharing your detailed story. Yeah, it's funny how we get sucked into the very system we hate. For me I also joined an agency, but more social one later on, I enjoyed making friends aspect and wasn't in it for the money.
      Maybe if you had the chance to have that experience, you or perhaps others could enjoy the social and community part of habbo . Anyways just my short experience role playing was fun for me in this game and what I remember fondly.

    • @DontreadPimpBoy
      @DontreadPimpBoy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@DwnGoz ​ RestrictMania

  • @dogeyes200
    @dogeyes200 5 ปีที่แล้ว +562

    fam, 2003-2012 was legit the years i sat and rinsed 9 years of my life into this game, gambling gold bars and shit in the casino fml. now it feels like a prison sentence looking back lmao. ngl though i did have some funny times on this game.

    • @lennydoeswalkthrough
      @lennydoeswalkthrough 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I was a dealer in a decent casino and I was making bank off it. I haven't played in years and didn't know gambling was banned now. I wish I could go back to those days

    • @yardofshe
      @yardofshe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      rip habbo, we didn't know how good we had it.

    • @user-du6vx7ir7m
      @user-du6vx7ir7m 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was thinking the same thing and I only played from 08 till 2014. Still had a good time though w my real life friends scamming people and being like 12 years old. I wouldn’t change it

    • @becca9759
      @becca9759 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same it’s actually crazy I was fucking 10 and gambling online 😭😭

    •  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was hanging out with my boys it was awesome

  • @Synsane
    @Synsane 4 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    This brings back some good memories. It's so true about the power statement. Being a coinless scrub lining up for hours to maybe get a duck here and there was a brutal life. I used to work at a Falling Furnie room, and I felt so powerful being in charge of the game. Eventually the owner of the room quit and gave it all to me, and I felt like an absolute king. My personal room looked so baller, and I had so many teleporters I must've made 20 maze games and a private club. I was raking in so much money and rising the social ladder so quickly. It was magical. Almost makes me want to log in on Habbo again... almost...
    Of course this video was supposed to display how bad this stuff was... erm... bad habbo! Bad!

    • @janu4rymusic
      @janu4rymusic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      im a 30 year old man and i logged back in the other day, i played when i was a kid, like 12-15, there is something so awesome about habbo, i had a very similar story, someone gave me a duck when i started and i traded and traded and traded up and got rich off just trading and going to giveaways and fallin furni and casinos, it was so fun gertting a throne and a dino and the mazes, i literally still crave to this day

  • @xigbar68
    @xigbar68 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1714

    11/10 would steal kids' money again

    • @ItsKrizi
      @ItsKrizi 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Frfr hahahaha

    • @x0q4
      @x0q4 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂

    • @Mikemeds420
      @Mikemeds420 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hmm

    • @trapzone4329
      @trapzone4329 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ballbag good old days

    • @spontaneousbootay
      @spontaneousbootay 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@ballbag youre a pure scumbag and i wish everything bad unto you

  • @jocosesonata
    @jocosesonata 5 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    "We live in a society" Habbo version.

  • @kfoley275
    @kfoley275 5 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    My thoughts on Habbo before this: Haha pool's closed due to aids
    My thoughts on Habbo after this: Well, this was a trainwreck...

    • @Chaingun
      @Chaingun 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      no reference to the Genos? eh... you people know nothing.

  • @ratwurld
    @ratwurld 5 ปีที่แล้ว +208

    why was i on moshi monsters when i could of been making bank on habbo

    • @theblackkoopa2329
      @theblackkoopa2329 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      ikr. there i was, paying for a club penguin membership like a loser. shouldve started scamming at 8. imagine where id be now if that was my gig, lol.

    • @synthia4020
      @synthia4020 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh god, forgot that game existed

    • @tomhill3248
      @tomhill3248 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@theblackkoopa2329 The same place with looser morals and slightly fewer friends. You can't make any money on sites like Habbo. There's nothing to spend the coins on so there's not much demand.

  • @solortus
    @solortus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +200

    I wasted my time slaying dragons and killing goblins in runescape when I could have been a power-hungry captailist. Goddamn I wasted my childhood.

    • @jekesan4221
      @jekesan4221 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah,but the people that did it is at least have to be above average smart

    • @MadeInChinaPlat
      @MadeInChinaPlat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah man, how could i have missed this when i played habbo even tho it was very little

    • @k2ggers961
      @k2ggers961 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      you could have been a power hungry capitalist in runescape too

  • @MrUglybugly123
    @MrUglybugly123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    lol "teenagers" me and my cousin played this at like 10 yr old and my god were we ruthless child capitalists. i was a right scammer.

  • @notquiteatory971
    @notquiteatory971 5 ปีที่แล้ว +130

    When your boss violates the NAP when he underpays you for your job. So you retaliate by launching your army of 600 recreational nukes on the McArmyBaseTM which your boss owns.

    • @chronovac
      @chronovac 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      peak libright

  • @Eirith
    @Eirith 5 ปีที่แล้ว +401

    In terms of the "giveaways" section, you forgot to mention that you have the ability to 'stack' furniture into eachother, so people end up stacking about 100 of the teleporters into eachother on each of the "losing" spots. and only one on the "winning" spot. this ensures that you have an even greater monetary value after fast pass, super fast pass and ultra super fast pass purchases (yes, there usually is that many).
    sources: me, making bank off kids on habbo

    • @pergioserez
      @pergioserez 5 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      "Its not stacked trust me lol"

    • @dealloc
      @dealloc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@pergioserez You could actually see if there were stacked items, because they'd usually become brighter as more items were stacked, so it wasn't that it was a secret, it was more that you didn't know the odds, as you would do with a dice.

    • @youriiiboy
      @youriiiboy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Lol this game was mental

  • @muchotexto4248
    @muchotexto4248 4 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    There is something called the "Crazy chair"
    The owner moves chairs around for all of the people but one.
    If you're left without a chair you're gone unless you buy lifes (A credit, a life. Furniture accepted)
    When you win, you're told you're in for a final, so they sit you in some sort of winner seat.
    While noone pays attention, they ban you

  • @JREG
    @JREG 5 ปีที่แล้ว +536

    Interesting

  • @MarcosGarcia-kx4rb
    @MarcosGarcia-kx4rb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    The two things I loved doing on habbo as a kid were:
    Scamming children with the dice
    Getting into corporations by using the ghost effect and back clothing wich made you almost invisible

  • @birdbird749
    @birdbird749 5 ปีที่แล้ว +227

    “How Habbo hotel turned its players into ruthless teenage capitalists”
    Me reading the title for the first time: Oh cool....
    *wait what?*

  • @SauceyNoodle
    @SauceyNoodle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +199

    This man made a documentary on habbo we’re living in the best timeline

    • @martimking1craft
      @martimking1craft 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      and its a very good documentary about a sadistic experiment actually

    • @Brunixlala
      @Brunixlala 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      man, you made me smile

  • @DrCanary
    @DrCanary 5 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    I worked for one of the Habbo agencies when I was a kid. I never got paid a dime.

    • @volcanicred9078
      @volcanicred9078 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      did you get "promotion as payment" instead? i still haven't gotten my "payment badge."

    • @DrCanary
      @DrCanary 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      volcanic red wait that was a thing? I used to get “promotions” like every day at that place

    • @volcanicred9078
      @volcanicred9078 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@DrCanary i didn't get a single credit in three days of being there. they literally just try and fool you into thinking that you're getting closer to being paid the whole time. they promoted me every 10 minutes, told me that payment was closed for the day but that i could get "promotion _as payment"_ to avoid paying me, then the next day i had someone promote me to advertiser for no reason instead of telling me how to get my fucking pay badge... then eventually, when i hounded them for details enough, they brought up "online time points" which, surprise surprise, had not been mentioned at any point before. they just keep stringing you along like you're their lapdog, which would actually be amusing if it wasn't so depressing.

    • @b4sh936
      @b4sh936 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I worked at an agency like 3 years ago, i saved like 30 credits, and then started trading, i raised my networth to 300 credits lmao

  • @jomy10-games
    @jomy10-games 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    A guy at my school once made a Habbo hotel and almost everyone at our school was on it. He gave me money to buy furniture and I build the nicest room in the whole hotel. It was a park with a river and a bench. Every time I think about that period in my life, it makes me happy. The guy who made the hotel even set it as the "home room" of the hotel.

  • @margotalmanzar5210
    @margotalmanzar5210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    My first ever experience striking was on Habbo. I was one of those “models” that would judge other people’s looks. Anyway, long story short the owner of the modelling room wanted to start charging us for using the room to judge other people (it was all in good fun). All of the “judges” private messages each other and stopped visiting the room so her room wasn’t popular anymore.
    Good times 😂

    • @WEBTEAM1000
      @WEBTEAM1000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Trade Unions, BITCH!
      Really, tho, y'all did great.

    • @Muffinmurdurer
      @Muffinmurdurer 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Solidarity forever!

  • @coomsicle
    @coomsicle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +365

    This game taught me an important lesson about scamming and trust. When i was just 11 years old, bought my first coins and some furni (green sofas, some regular dice) hoping to start my own casino. Someone that was helping me build the room befriended me and managed to phish just enough info out of me to take over my account and steal all my furni. Learned to never trust people online and have never been scammed again!
    Shouts out to whoever stole the furni from Clasik back in 2007. RIP Habbo.

    • @SrIgort
      @SrIgort 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Me too bro, me too...

    • @fernystein9516
      @fernystein9516 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Why did you tell your account e mail and pass? That is just stupid

    • @SrIgort
      @SrIgort 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@fernystein9516 kids are stupid

    • @coomsicle
      @coomsicle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@fernystein9516 i didn't.

    • @AsgardTheFatcel
      @AsgardTheFatcel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jmla4803 social engineering is still working in some degree on habbo hotel.

  • @viking515
    @viking515 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Someone needs to do an Habbo documentary some day, describing its rise and fall and its greatness

  • @SelenaShea
    @SelenaShea 5 ปีที่แล้ว +731

    This is why I played on retros, they were literally my shit.

    • @hartemis
      @hartemis 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      t r u e

    • @chalk6168
      @chalk6168 5 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      Retros were way better. I could actually build shit there

    • @hol422
      @hol422 5 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      retros were anarcho communism counterparts

    • @demonvictim
      @demonvictim 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@chalk6168 retros are still the shit even old school runescape has a functioning economy with gold worth more then money

    • @jasminejackson3485
      @jasminejackson3485 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      did anyone play shade hotel (retro)?

  • @DianaKaulitzListing
    @DianaKaulitzListing 5 ปีที่แล้ว +204

    "people get paid to recruit others"
    Dang, MLMs have infiltrated even games 😂

  • @-AirKat-
    @-AirKat- 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    The most shocking part for me is the implication that people are still playing habbo hotel

  • @tysk5729
    @tysk5729 5 ปีที่แล้ว +641

    when i played habo i was trying to have fun and make friends lol

    • @Yorkil
      @Yorkil 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Alot of people did, you all just got exploited like fuck

    • @ValentinoSpoor
      @ValentinoSpoor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      tys k and you ended up being scammed into somebodies pyramid sceme 😂

    • @tysk5729
      @tysk5729 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@ValentinoSpoor no i got some simple game rules from momy
      dont spend real cash on fake items
      wich back than stil made sence

    • @Yorkil
      @Yorkil 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@tysk5729 In theory, people paid to be employed in a pyramid scheme. Which is even more retarded for a glorified chat-lobby.

    • @youriiiboy
      @youriiiboy 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Then you were a noob

  • @digitalis-y9h
    @digitalis-y9h 5 ปีที่แล้ว +552

    Just wondering though, is it still mostly teenagers in 2019? I recently logged in (not the English hotel) and it was mostly 18/20+ people hanging out for nostalgia

    • @sandra-oq6kj
      @sandra-oq6kj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      I was born in 2002 and I played habbo since 2010 and at least in Latin American holos there are still teenagers

    • @OLGMC
      @OLGMC 5 ปีที่แล้ว +187

      There’s nothing nostalgia anymore about habbo, as a long time player since 2005... I think it’s pure shit since about 2010-2011
      Recently logged in again because I was curious, saw almost nothing else than FBI and CIA agencies in the navigator, 10+ fansites was reduced to 1 and stuff like 1 credit coin costing 2 credits (dafuq?)
      Still find it so weird that I saw many well known habbo’s from back in the days still online now....they must be almost 30 now ....still...playing...habbo...fucking...hotel

    • @MrMOd3RnW4rF4R3
      @MrMOd3RnW4rF4R3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Not sure what OLGMC is talking about, must be a retro. But Habbo itself still has quite a few Agencies running, CIA hasn't been running for quite a long time. Surprisingly the population is very decent still.

    • @OLGMC
      @OLGMC 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@MrMOd3RnW4rF4R3 no its the actual habbo hotel (but the Dutch one) :)

    • @Roshan_420
      @Roshan_420 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      They removed so many official rooms, it has no nostalgia anymore bc they removed them all.. :(

  • @Natenator77
    @Natenator77 5 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    It's weird seeing my childhood broken down like this. It's so accurate too.

  • @philiphaney8858
    @philiphaney8858 5 ปีที่แล้ว +425

    I love how everyone in the comments is a economics major and a fiscal expert lol

    • @Mr-Ad-196
      @Mr-Ad-196 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hrmmmm maybe they are? Lol...

    • @fleshangel489
      @fleshangel489 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Just like politics, and anything else.

    • @ashleybyrd2015
      @ashleybyrd2015 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm just a programmer who enjoys philosophy, No economics background needed.

    • @BoogieBrando
      @BoogieBrando 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Ah yes communists, the world's finest economists and fiscal experts.

    • @andrewduan5123
      @andrewduan5123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@BoogieBrando which communists?

  • @sudn5761
    @sudn5761 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    This is fucking incredible to me. It's amazing what games so seemingly simple can be turned into when the playerbase is given so much freedom.

    • @idlingabout6128
      @idlingabout6128 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      you should watch Red Bard's Gaia Online vid and Izzzyzzz's Animal Jam vid if you want more of that sweet sweet "online game turned capitalist nightmare" fuel

  • @captain_fuzzieness3582
    @captain_fuzzieness3582 5 ปีที่แล้ว +309

    So what you're saying is Habbo needs a union?

    • @Ivandcc1
      @Ivandcc1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      a Union in Habbo would just explore the workers just like the agen... wait a fucking second, thats how real unions work lol

    • @Chaingun
      @Chaingun 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      no, they need to make a V1 (2001-2002) server and go back to the simple times. No tradeable coins, no dice, no rares, no exclusive clubs

    • @arfn1973
      @arfn1973 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Union of worker!

    • @derhektor6067
      @derhektor6067 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      a soviet union?

    • @vectorialforce3173
      @vectorialforce3173 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No, we need a anarco-primitivism server

  • @christiannataylor2735
    @christiannataylor2735 5 ปีที่แล้ว +471

    The hell? Here I thought I was playing a cute, innocent game.

    • @Evan-ph6vh
      @Evan-ph6vh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Tom Guadalupe lmao he’s talking about a kids game chill

    • @youriiiboy
      @youriiiboy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @Tom Guadalupe Lol this was a cute innocent game for most players but this shit was mental. I made around 100 euros on this game when I was 12 years old. We made casinos with big groups of people, but as you know: the house always wins.

    • @notlessorequal3777
      @notlessorequal3777 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @Tom Guadalupe Under 18 child gambling is fine? Okay boomer.

    • @PinkkElephantt
      @PinkkElephantt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @Tom Guadalupe I really don't think it was ever a cute innocent game; I played back in 2010; people were just gambling, cybering and shit-talking. It was a pretty eye open introduction to the internet.

    • @leahtofu
      @leahtofu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @Tom Guadalupe , imagine defending Habbo Hotel, ok boomer.

  • @madiis18account
    @madiis18account 5 ปีที่แล้ว +334

    Man I played habbo for so long and I feel like I just never did it right. I didn't ever get involved heavily in casinos or mafias/agencies/armies. I was a VIP in a lot of mafias/armies but I never paid for it, I just befriended people and eventually I'd be given VIP. I played a lot of games like falling furni and costume change but never for the prizes, I just enjoyed the games. My favourite thing ever was habbo mazes, god I loved the mazes.

    • @Conithaa100
      @Conithaa100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here

    • @altobonifacio8936
      @altobonifacio8936 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same, playing puzzles were my hope to win coins

    • @flaviol
      @flaviol 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      me too, i still go there to play maze
      its the only thing that still works good

    • @MythicalZion
      @MythicalZion 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      such a relatable post

    • @madiis18account
      @madiis18account 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      y'all lets all go do a maze together

  • @logancressy2259
    @logancressy2259 5 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    “Club penguin for teenagers”
    You do realise most of the club penguin playerbase was teenagers

    • @happyjohn354
      @happyjohn354 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      my favorite thing was to take the jackhammer and push the button to pull it out repeatedly so that it looked like my penguin was rummaging around behind his back and then type in all caps I HAVE A GUN!!!!!!

    • @jimmybean420
      @jimmybean420 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      No it wasnt, it was children lmao

  • @MunTre123
    @MunTre123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    Who would have thought that Habbo Hotel of all things would turn into Ayn Rand's wet dream.

  • @dollparts4918
    @dollparts4918 5 ปีที่แล้ว +367

    This game was too frustrating to enjoy when I was a teenager. I had actually had furni because I got a rich habbo bf for the furni. I had cyber sex for furni. Then my friends got Habbo and instantly everyone demanded “GIVE ME YOUR FURNI”.
    Hotel Hideaway is better because no one has to trade things for anything in return.

    • @marcuss9181
      @marcuss9181 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@turkishsmurf bro shut up she was a teenager lol

    • @jcnot9712
      @jcnot9712 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Doll Parts x was it that fake cyber sex I used to see people having all the time, where they’d talk dirty and put the avatars next to each other? If it was real cyber sex, I’m sorry to hear that.
      I stopped playing the game because social capital and not socializing was the focus of the game. I preferred to log on to other chatrooms where people actually wanted to talk instead of bragging about cyber shit they bought with their mom’s credit card.

    • @beth3824
      @beth3824 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      omg i love hotel hideaway

    • @toffy1329
      @toffy1329 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I used to have a friend who would give me furni but my dumbass fell for those free coins scams and they took all my furni so i swapped to playing Zap Hotel LMAO

    • @eVidentt
      @eVidentt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      literal prostitution omg

  • @Lordsaura
    @Lordsaura 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    So in short... Habbo shows how close we are to the mindset of a cultural cyberpunk society

    • @mylhouse0887
      @mylhouse0887 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      all the oligopolies in our capitalist nations

  • @cheekybananaboy3361
    @cheekybananaboy3361 5 ปีที่แล้ว +318

    Absolutely no one:
    TH-cam recommended: Hey I found this video about Habbo capitalists from 4 months ago

    • @powpowouchy5
      @powpowouchy5 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I'll be happy when this meme dies out

    • @helloofthebeach
      @helloofthebeach 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolutely no one:
      @@powpowouchy5: I'll be happy when this meme dies out

    • @powpowouchy5
      @powpowouchy5 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@helloofthebeach if no one is saying nothing isn't everybody saying something? That just makes no sense

    • @helloofthebeach
      @helloofthebeach 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@powpowouchy5 it means anybody is saying everything

  • @jordansmith9984
    @jordansmith9984 5 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    Impressive documentary. You have a knack for this and I would love if you made more on other Habbo subjects.
    It can be enticing to fall into the trap of scams and con games. Most users are kids who lack a solid sense of self and moral compass, and so they watch their peers find success by conducting themselves in duplicitous ways, and so they start doing the same.
    With the lack of moderation scamming quickly becomes the best way to get ahead, other than, you know, actually buying credits the legit way. As a child on Habbo Hotel I was not immune to this type of behaviour myself. I would host falling furniture games and collect people's payments to stay without any intention of handing out a prize. I built up a foundation of wealth at the expense of other users. I'm not proud of it.
    As the years passed, though, I realized there was a better way to make credits without compromising on my values in the process. I learned how to play the market. I made smart investments in rare furniture that rose in value over the years. I became even more wealthy that way than I did by scamming others.
    Scamming is so alluring because it is the quickest way to gain wealth, but as scamming becomes more commonplace people become smarter to the ways of scammers. People are continually inventing new ways to make a buck, usually at the expense of someone else. It's a corrupt system and one that I now refuse to participate in.
    Would I take any of it back? No. I think Habbo is actually a GREAT learning experience for teenagers. It's like a replication of the real world, but online. You toughen up quickly, and if you're smart you learn not to replicate the mistakes you made on Habbo in real life. So, while on the surface someone might think it is awful for teenagers to be exposed to a world like this, I quite think it's the opposite. This game is like a test run of real life - the problem is that some people never make their way back into the real world.

    • @10yearslater_
      @10yearslater_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      that's deep, really good read!

    • @MultiVigarista
      @MultiVigarista 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well said!!

    • @MultiVigarista
      @MultiVigarista 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well said!!

    • @morat3138
      @morat3138 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      wow, you should make a video about this topic

  • @jamesmiddleton8335
    @jamesmiddleton8335 5 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    I think that kids should be taught this, otherwise we will have a generation of kids who dont see scams coming or dont understand how casinos make money

    • @happyjohn354
      @happyjohn354 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      you can make money at a casino but you need to know how to play the system... they will often let you win a few hands to draw you in after all whats fun about a game where you always lose? win what few hands you can and know when you should walk away or go to the net game...

    • @bangtanfoxy
      @bangtanfoxy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@happyjohn354 how many would be a few hands, for example?

    • @happyjohn354
      @happyjohn354 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@bangtanfoxy depends on the place and how buisy they are you eventually get a feel for it but if you have good situational awareness you tend to catch the local trend faster

  • @acetown2263
    @acetown2263 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    All it took was me and a friend acting as a "customer" and we ran a scam falling furni game. Raked in a rediculous amount of furni in the 2 hours we ran this scam over our saturday afternoon. God I miss elementary school

  • @ebx
    @ebx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    I got scammed once, and it changed my life, for real.
    I started scamming people in every game i played, first Habbo with those fake free credits sites and then maplestory, with the same idea. I got so many credits in habbo doing this, but since i didnt care about real money at the time, I gave it all away.
    Habbo really taught me how to behave in a capitalist society and not to trust anyone. fuck

    • @sleeexs
      @sleeexs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Try old runescape lol

    • @altobonifacio8936
      @altobonifacio8936 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How you did it?

    • @testserver2054
      @testserver2054 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s how it works in real life too

    • @SrIgort
      @SrIgort 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow I should have done like you but I was too pure lol

    • @Mattarii
      @Mattarii 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Damn I feel you man.

  • @afeatherinthewind
    @afeatherinthewind 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    this game was so addictive as a kid. I would roleplay on there a lot (I remember being really fond of airplane roleplay rooms but then it'd get sad quick when people pretended to be terrorists, huge yikes all around). One time my older brother and I were messing around and dressed up as "hobo santa claus", found a scraggly looking kid, convinced him he was "shovels the elf", the orphan that wraps bodies instead of presents, the guy totally went along with it, we confused the shit out of a bunch of people, and I still think about it from time to time. I enjoyed the day I spent with shovels the elf so much, I wonder if he's still out there and remembers this wild fucking stuff that we did like I do. Weird, weird memories.

    • @farasapt6579
      @farasapt6579 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      damn dude. you okay?

  • @frankiehenderson9315
    @frankiehenderson9315 5 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    I started playing Habbo age 9 and was completely unaware of this. I just wanted to do the maze maps and chat up boys lmaoo

  • @adamsandaler5981
    @adamsandaler5981 5 ปีที่แล้ว +232

    nothing simulates actual anarchy quite like habbo does

    • @francescoazzoni3445
      @francescoazzoni3445 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Not really, there is a state. Private property is there and violence is not possible. If it was possible to steal and kill, an actual state would emerge.

    • @somethingwithbungalows
      @somethingwithbungalows 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Francesco Azzoni imagine habbo wars. Lmao.

    • @francescoazzoni3445
      @francescoazzoni3445 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@somethingwithbungalows I think that if they introduce stealing, violence and some kind of punishment for dying (long respawn time) some form of state would emerge

    • @somethingwithbungalows
      @somethingwithbungalows 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Francesco Azzoni possibly. Join or die. Probably some public executions to scare people into obeying.

    • @ashleybyrd2015
      @ashleybyrd2015 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@francescoazzoni3445 I happen to be a programmer with nothing much to do (I mean that's not really a title, Anyone can program nowadays), Think I should try to make a similar game dedicated to anarchy and unfair rule?

  • @helenadelapena8678
    @helenadelapena8678 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I played on the alternative servers where you started with thousands of coins. We were like 10 people in there and we ended up being super close friends. All without spending a single cent.

  • @LittleVidds
    @LittleVidds 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    They FUCKED UP when they removed the diving thing and the pizza dude who gave you pizza when u asked for it. Retros were the best.

    • @MiniMeags
      @MiniMeags 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      He rarely talked about them. But he did say that’s a story for another time lol

    • @ezr6957
      @ezr6957 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Habboon was truly my bitch

    • @mm-xk2zl
      @mm-xk2zl 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      i wish they readded the minigames,and the way they used to be,no changes

    • @KewlKatCutie
      @KewlKatCutie 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      RIP babbo

  • @patrikcath1025
    @patrikcath1025 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1297

    This sounds like America with extra steps

    • @formerlycringe
      @formerlycringe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Hotsam Noirchards heavily?

    • @michaelavalos9555
      @michaelavalos9555 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      ​@Hotsam Noirchards Someone got butthurt

    • @michaelavalos9555
      @michaelavalos9555 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Hotsam Noirchards He clearly made a Rick And Morty reference, inciting that he is joking. But you took it too serious expounding your point which just made you look butthurt, chill man.

    • @Fluid1dentity
      @Fluid1dentity 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ohhh la la, somebody's gonna get laid in college

    • @Tis_Fari
      @Tis_Fari 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is like America.... But with extra steps...*

  • @g.f.2775
    @g.f.2775 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    In 2006-2008 it was madness. Totally unregulated, scamming people was so easy and you'd get away with it so easily

  • @Phrate
    @Phrate 5 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    Incredibly accurate and somehow entertaining video on a dark topic. Well done!

  • @eiveive
    @eiveive 5 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    nobody:
    tsundrosu: has anyone listened to the new joji song

  • @iamjimb
    @iamjimb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "work in an agency that pays you little and demands your obedience" that was me in a Waitrose warehouse a couple of Christmases ago

  • @make9268
    @make9268 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    "That's a story for another time" is what youtubers always say but the "another time" never comes

    • @wackwacker8623
      @wackwacker8623 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      _You'll learn it in High School_
      High School :

    • @valven8087
      @valven8087 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That story has come! :^)

    • @Cocktailkatze
      @Cocktailkatze 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It’s here !!! :)

  • @Trolligarch
    @Trolligarch  5 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    I made this video quite a while back actually. It took me seven attempts to upload this damn video, and it was one of the most stressful weeks I've ever had (and the stress was self-imposed too).
    First, I tried rendering my video (i.e. making it into an actual watchable file) and my editor crashed every time. I reckoned my editor was killing my device so I switched to a PC. It took me around four attempts of my editor crashing at various percentages from 14% to 28% to 50% for me to finally realise that turning my device into a portable microwave may not necessarily be a good thing.
    Then I tried exporting my project onto PC. All of the clips were corrupted for some reason and I had to manually replace every file I ever used.
    Next I tried to render my video on my PC. My video was rendered at 89% - and mind you, to get here, you had to wait an entire hour - only for my hard drive to tell me it ran out of memory and my editor told me "Rendering failed."
    Then I moved all of my files away from my hard drive and onto a separate data storage.
    Point is, uploading this video took way more hassle than it should've. I hope you enjoyed my video regardless!

    • @draekalloy3673
      @draekalloy3673 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's an amazingly detailed documentary, for Habbo hotel of all things.
      Certainly didn't expect to see this in recommendations, but it was entertaining

  • @wamber2391
    @wamber2391 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    this why i love the non-toxic retros tho bc everyones equally depressed and funny dude and we all have the same credits on there they’re sick

  • @hellspawn
    @hellspawn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    I haven't been on Habbo for over a decade but I played this game back when it first came to the English speaking market in 2001 and I can confirm that it turned teenagers into ruthless little shits. If I had all day to go on about it, I could tell some absolutely mental stories about the early days of the scamming, hacking and gambling I saw on the UK hotel, but one always stood out to me just because of how much money the guy made out of it and how efficient his method was.
    I remember being friends with this dude who accidentally discovered a method for getting his hands on massive quantities of thrones and other rare items very quickly while he was hacking accounts that had fancy usernames. He quickly noticed that a lot of these accounts that were registered before a very specific date had a gift from the old hotel manager called ione, and said gifts contained one of three items: a russian samovar, a holo boy, or a throne. Needless to say, the mission quickly shifted from "hack accounts with rare names and sell them" to "hack any accounts created before XX.XX.02, steal their ione gift and move onto the next one". As far as I am aware, he got quite a few thousand thrones out of doing this, and managed to flood the economy with so many russian samovars that the value of them crashed completely for a while.
    Just to top this one off, the same guy made literally tens of thousands of pounds selling said items and other stuff that he got his mits on for real money via UK bank transfer. I even remember one occasion when he bought himself a Golf GTi with some of the proceeds and bragged about it on a Habbo hacking/scripting forum sometime around 2006. I fucking swear that not a word of this is made up, you might even be able to find a bit about it if you ask around or look on the Wayback Machine. He was one of the biggest casino dealers on the UK hotel, and I guarantee that you'd know his name if I were to share it.
    Thanks for the blast from the past OP, gave me a laugh at the 2:40 mark. Hope you liked my story :^)

    • @Trolligarch
      @Trolligarch  5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Would you mind doing an interview at some point? If you could, could you join my Discord. I have tons of questions and I'm working on a new video actually (but don't want to give too much away!)

    • @hellspawn
      @hellspawn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Trolligarch Yeah sure, why not. I'll drop you a line.

    • @wolfzmusic9706
      @wolfzmusic9706 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      hellspawn how can you have a rare username? wouldnt you pick your own username

    • @hellspawn
      @hellspawn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@wolfzmusic9706 Okay, so here's a TL;DR response for you because this isn't easy to sum up in short:
      Back when I used to play in the early - mid 2000's, people defined "rare" names as usernames that were either real words, or real peoples first names. So for example, the name "Cool" would be considered rare, but "Cool1985" wouldn't be considered rare, and "Kyle" would be considered rare, but "SuperCoolKidKyle" wouldn't be. They were considered "rare" because they were VERY rarely seen around the game due to the vast majority of them being registered in 2001 and 2002 in the games infancy, so most people who claimed these names didn't play anymore. They became desirable in part because they looked nicer than "normal" names, and in part because they came with the status of "I joined early enough to get a rare name."
      I feel it's also worth noting that names also varied in value a lot depending on exactly *what* words they were, so for example "God" would be worth a lot more than "Photosynthesis" or whatever. The way people came to decide this sort of thing was based off of how *desirable* the word was to have as a username, but ultimately it was personal preference. One name might be worth a lot to one person but worth absolutely nothing to someone else. Real persons names are often a good example of this unless they're extremely common ones that can be sold quickly.
      Sometimes usernames that didn't fit the above criteria were also considered rare because they either contained special characters that were no longer able to be registered such as < _ > + / ~ \ $ % (etc.), or they were ridiculously short in length (as in 1 - 2 characters). I actually remember my friend who had name "0-" on the UK hotel getting into an argument with someone over whether or not his username should be considered rare because "It's not a word and there's loads of 2 character names around" - Weird stuff. People actually stopped calling them rare usernames in (somewhat) recent years and started calling them "OG" names from what I know.
      Anyway, as for your other question: "wouldnt you pick your own username?"
      Yes and no. Picked? Yes, totally. Registered it yourself? Not necessarily, no. Back in the mid 2000's, literally thousands of usernames on Habbo (and other sites too, actually) got stolen by having their passwords bruteforced because people decided that they wanted a specific username that was taken but left unused by whoever created it. Going over the history of bruteforcing accounts for their usernames is a whole other story in itself though, and I don't really feel like OP's comment section is the place for it.
      As a pretty funny side-note to all of this, I decided to login to Habbo again recently to have a look at what was going on, and I came across 3 accounts that belonged to a few friends of mine back in the day, and NONE of them are owned by the same people they were 10+ years ago, but the owners are apparently recognised as oldschool members of the community, and one of them is actually quite famous now apparently. The more things change, the more things stay the same I guess :^)
      Hope this reply helped clear up any confusion. I know it's probably hard to understand any of this unless you've come across it before.

    • @marekdycjan9637
      @marekdycjan9637 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ekhem... So your friend made a ton of money by being a thief?
      That's something new, yea...

  • @dankhead88
    @dankhead88 5 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    Pool's closed due to AIDS.
    Those were the days. When the raids happened. Back when anonymous did habbo raids. We would design our characters with black suits and afros and would block passageways and cause chaos. We had scripts that would detect moderators, spam chat, and unban ourselves and cause chaos again. Memes were very different back in the days. It had a more underground feeling to it.

    • @FelonyArson
      @FelonyArson 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is direct action

    • @misterhydra7285
      @misterhydra7285 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      December 1st. World AIDS day, be there or pool’s open

    • @JayAreAitch
      @JayAreAitch 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      >we
      I doubt you were a part of it. You're trying too hard.

    • @dankhead88
      @dankhead88 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@JayAreAitch >using greentext on youtube

    • @JayAreAitch
      @JayAreAitch 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dave-A-Flav ">" quoting is not greentext. You're not helping your case here.

  • @ShaunDreclin
    @ShaunDreclin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Basically all my habbo friends quit when they banned casinos, they were such a core part of the gameplay loop.
    - Play games in peoples rooms
    - Sometimes win prizes
    - Take those prizes and gamble them in casinos
    - Usually lose it all and start over
    The prizes started feeling worthless when you could only use them to decorate your room instead of using them to gamble

  • @pessoinha1
    @pessoinha1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    I remember getting coins by stealing my father’s cellphone to send those messages that would get you some coins. Then i would complain to the cellphone company that I hadn’t sent any of those messages so I could have the money back. I did it for months and i get many coins without spending any real money.
    I lied a lot for habbo

  • @brandonsukut2330
    @brandonsukut2330 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Glad to see someone talking about this game. Truly one of my favorites. This is a perfect example of what kind of place the internet was in the 2000s. In my opinion some of the best games were happening at this time. Thanks sulake, jagax, wizet, blizzard and valve

  • @usertheuser
    @usertheuser 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    this makes me grateful for finding out about retro hotels at a young age.
    retro hotels give you credits by the hourly, are morally questionable, but for my 2 years of playing habbo, the REAL FUN for me started when i switched to retros. where i could actually build cool rooms, decorate my avatar and gain some friends without the constant suspicion of them scamming me. i have been playing on retros for about 6 years now, and this video fascinates me.

    • @manspidermann
      @manspidermann ปีที่แล้ว

      retro hotels? what game is that?

  • @baragsen
    @baragsen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +285

    This game literally has radicalised no-furniture broke 12 year old me into hating capitalism.

    • @fries6402
      @fries6402 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Taha Bakhit underrated comment

    • @FelonyArson
      @FelonyArson 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      10 year old me: *starts playing habbo*
      > let's see... all the cool stuff costs coins
      > how do I get these?
      *10 minutes later*
      "WHAT? I HAVE TO WORK AN HOUR FOR ONLY 1 COIN WHILE THOSE BITCH ASS PRETENTIOUS ASSHOLES BOSS ME AROUND???"
      10 year old me: *stops playing habbo*

    • @alexkrasnic3850
      @alexkrasnic3850 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You only hate what you suck at

    • @asAbsolute
      @asAbsolute 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      alex krasnic Haha too true

    • @aylin8619
      @aylin8619 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@alexkrasnic3850 haha you're poor haha, so funny to suck at capitalism haha

  • @omar90s91
    @omar90s91 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    - Amazing how Humans as little as kids, like to solve complicated problems, even is from a video game.

  • @RenegadeScooter
    @RenegadeScooter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I have to agree, simulating America except ten times worse truly is the pinnacle of human achievement.

  • @clyde_45td
    @clyde_45td 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Whenever I played this I had no idea what was going on

  • @funkytime69
    @funkytime69 5 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    TIL that there are MLMs in a children's game

    • @andriypatey720
      @andriypatey720 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Imagine landlords executions in this game.

    • @ichusagi
      @ichusagi 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@andriypatey720 Correction. **Make** the Landlord Executions happen.

  • @filmphilosophy4668
    @filmphilosophy4668 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    damn man... habbo wasn't this dark when i played it 11+ years ago... it feels like somebody has taken a poo on my childhood

    • @CaveyMoth
      @CaveyMoth 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah..I was a cheapskate, and I remember there being, like, 6 public rooms and that's it.

    • @jekesan4221
      @jekesan4221 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It was,you just didn't know about it and the stuffs happening behind the shadows

    • @BraceInc
      @BraceInc 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jekesan4221 Funny thing is, it wasnt in the shadows it was blatant as fuck