Jason LevinFounder, Memelord Technologies

Club Penguin or nah? #streetinterview #nyc #clubpenguin #internetfriendships

Name: Club Penguin or nah? #streetinterview #nyc #clubpenguin #internetfriendships
Uploaded: 2023-09-18T16:44:01+00:00
Duration: 32 s
Channel: Jason Levin
Description: In this brief street‑interview clip, the interviewee (Speaker A) reflects on making friends online during childhood. At around eight years old, they…

18 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief street‑interview clip, the interviewee (Speaker A) reflects on making friends online during childhood. At around eight years old, they created and posted Littlest Pet Shop videos on YouTube, describing a small community of fellow creators they called “Littlest Pet Shop friends.” They also mention being active on the virtual world Movie Star Planet, where they had additional online friends, and reference Club Penguin as another popular platform of that era, though they personally were not a Club Penguin user. The tone is informal and nostalgic, emphasizing how early exposure to simple content‑creation tools and online games enabled them to form social connections on the internet.

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Have you ever made a friend on the internet? Yes. When I was little, I was really into Littlest Pet Shops, and so I would make videos of, of like the Littlest Pet Shops, and they'd be like talking, and I would have a lot of Littlest Pet Shop friends. I was like 8, and like I somehow knew how to like work the computer and like put it on YouTube and everything. Any Club Penguin friends? I wasn't— I was a Movie Star Planet girl. I liked Movie Star Planet. I had friends on there too. Movie Star Planning? Yes. It's like a game that like you pretend to be a movie star. That sounds fun.