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'The most interesting subreddit about things you're not interested in.' A place where people can post dramatic and controversial stories, events and situations within their specific circles, usually consisting of events others may not have heard of. Title all posts in this format: Hobby Name Drama DescriptorWhat is a hobby?- A hobby, as google describes it, is an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure. The sub mostly follows this definition, with examples of hobbies including:Hiking Knitting Film-making Hi-FiWhat is NOT a hobby?Some examples include:.Drama related to a Twitch Steamer or YouTuber.Current news and events.Watching TV Shows and moviesWhat is a hobby drama post?.A post that describes an experience relating to a hobby you participate in.It's a story that we as users can read and enjoy.
Don't just post text message logs, tell a story.What is NOT a Hobby Drama post?. A short one liner, or a post directly asking for advice.Post Rules.Title all posts in this format: Hobby Name Drama Descriptor.Low quality and low effort posts will be removed.
This can be defined as posts less than 45 words, copypastas, and other such low effort material.Post reddit community related drama in.Consequences must be detailed.No validation seeking or awfulbrag posts.There must be a noticeable impact to the relevant community.Sub Rules.Do not post, link to, or ask for personal information.No trolling, hate speech, or using slurs.Do not insult other users, flamewar, or flame bait.Don't break reddiquette.Don't break reddit site rulesPlease help maintain the quality of this subreddit by reporting rule breaking posts.Related subreddits. Before I start, I just wanted to say that I do not use this website anymore.
I was originally interested in the website for the casual gameplay, cute artwork, and art commissioning side of things on the site’s forums, as well as a way to build up a small following before I transfer all of my work to a more suitable website. Most of the information contained in this post is dated from around late 2017 - early 2019 when I used to play every day, and is mostly going off my memory. I'm unsure if the topics discussed in the following have been fixed, but I'm going off past occurances anyways. What the hell is Chicken Smoothie?is a virtual pet website directed towards young children and teenagers, focused around collecting cute, colourful pets and trading these pets for increasingly rarer ones.
The bulk of the site is focused towards these virtual pets - swapping them, adopting them, trading them, even roleplaying with them, but mostly gawking over other peoples’ pets that have rare or higher rarity markings. The following rarities are as follows (remember them, because they will be referred to throughout the entirety of this post):.
Oh dear, the deer are all out of place! And jokes like that are all part of me cleaning house and sweeping dust under the rug in this pet simulator video. Adopt free virtual pets at Chicken.
OMG So Common/OMGSC (Extremely common, basically worthless fodder). Very common/VC (Also extremely common, these pets are also practically worthless fodder). Common (A little more valuable, but still just fodder/bulk. They make up the majority of the pets on the site.). Uncommon/UC (Uncommon, these start to get valuable.
Certain uncommon pets can be quite valuable, but not that much. Have the potential to become rare over time.). Rare (Rare and sought after.
Some rare pets aren’t very widely collected, whereas certain ‘09s and ‘10s can be quite valuable. Will explain these numbers later.). Very rare/VR (Extremely valuable and sought after.
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Most of these pets are either purchased with real money/site currency, or are ‘08s, ‘09s, and sometimes ‘10s.). OMG So Rare/OMGSR (The prized pets of the site. Everyone wants these, extremely treasured and the most rare. Only a select few people have these ultra-rare pets.)Some examples of popular pets that are rares+ are the following:, a popular rare pet. Rare 2009., one of the rarest pets on the site. OMGSR 2008., rivals the Sunjewel in value. OMGSR 2010., extremely rare and beloved for its silly appearance, and named after one of the site's coders.
OMGSR 2011., prized because of their resemblance to the characters from the children's book series Warrior Cats. Variable rarities and years. Events and Rarities in-depthEvery month, a new batch of baby pets gets released. These baby pets ‘evolve’ throughout the month, usually going from (baby/newborn) to (mid-age) and (adult), but some pets have fewer stages, and some have more.
When a pet grows into an adult, they get their rarity ranking, and every baby pet has a they can grow into, having different rarities for each outcome. Usually these free monthly release pets are under very common/common rarities, sometimes uncommon. They’re almost always bulk and fodder pets to pad out your collection, and most people just end up giving them away because they’re so unnecessary (excluding the elusive zebras which are randomly given away when adopting baby monthly horses, but that’s not important to this story).Every holiday season, the Chicken Smoothie staff release an event.
These are things like Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Chinese New Year, Valentines, etc, but the most anticipated event of all of these is Christmas.The Christmas event is different than all the others. Easter and Halloween make use of timed site banners across the site for users to collect tokens and redeem them for pets and dress-up items, and events such as Thanksgiving and Valentines just have a couple freebies that users can collect and swap around with other users. Whereas Christmas has an advent calendar which gives away rare pets and items that only become more sought after over time.The Christmas event also has a very special day that Chicken Smoothie players treasure - December 18 th.
On December 18 th, pets from older years are distributed amongst accounts older than a few months (to prevent scalping and cheating), some being extremely rare, while others are not as great. These pets are only rare, very rare, and OMGSR, and they can release pets from ‘08, ‘09, and ‘10, which is what people mostly hope for.You’re probably wondering what these ‘09 and ‘10 numbers mean, so let me explain. These are the years that pets were introduced, so an ‘09 pet can be read as ‘a pet released in 2009’, but just stating the year before the pet’s name is easier and more accepted by the wider community. Chicken Smoothie was created in 2008, so any pets that were created in 2008 are referred to as ‘08 pets. ’08 pets are all extremely rare and prized amongst Chicken Smoothie players, because they are usually all rares, very rares, and OMGSRs. An ’08 pet is usually more valuable than an ’09, an ’09 is usually more rare than an ’10, and so forth.
So an ’09 rare is more rare than an ’18 rare.Confusing? You're right, it is.On Christmas these older pets are randomly generated and released to the public, 3 for each person, to collect and trade around. However, these December 18 pets are all in their baby stages when first distributed to their new owners. This is where things get tricky. Scamming, Ninjas, and DramaBecause these baby pets don’t have their associated rarity attached to them as when they are in their adult stages, children and clueless members have no idea what rarities these pets will be when they are in their adult forms. There are multiple forum threads on-site dedicated to identifying baby pets released on December 18, but people who don’t go on the forums, are too young to understand pet rarities, or are too lazy to scroll through the past pets archive don’t check these too well, and that’s where the scamming settles in.December 18 th has a scamming problem called ninja trading. Players will attempt to scam young or clueless users out of their rare, valuable pets of undefined worth by attempting to make them believe that their baby pets are actually low-worth rares, usually convincing them they’re around ’17-’19 rares, when they are actually ’08-’10 very rares.
Alongside this, every December 18 th a brand new batch of OMGSR pets are also released, but these pets have absolutely no information about them so users can’t as easily look up their adult rarities, and so these ninja traders will attempt to swindle users out of these pets as well.There is a notorious player that crawls the forums for young and oblivious users checking to see what rarities their pets are on December 18 th so they can ninja trade them for pets of lesser rarities. Enter Lyric (username changed for privacy).
Their presence is very widely known amongst Chicken Smoothie veterans and forum-goers, as every year they’ll skulk around the forums looking for their next target to ninja trade. Lyric's menagerie of beautiful, treasured, ultra-rare and well sought after pets was almost exclusively gained through ninja trading oblivious children for their own benefit.Because the site’s pet ‘economy’ is largely controlled by the users and frequency they adopt pets out or trade them, these can also effect the unspecified rarities of pets. Rare pets are deemed 'rare' due to the amount of that specific pet on the site, and the more a pet is adopted the more common it will become. Lyric has a very clear, and their account contains of extremely rare pets dating back to ’08-’09 that they keep all to themselves, thus inadvertently boosting the rarities of these already rare pets, and the staff can't do anything about it because the pets still exist on Lyric's account.
Lyric also has a habit of hoarding thousands of event tokens for Easter and Halloween, and then trading them in for loads of exclusive event pets, turning a possible rare event pet into an uncommon, which then ruins the experience for players hoping to get cute new rare pets. CS players, understandably, loathe Lyric's practices and unfair ways of trading for rares.Users often on their anonymous Tumblr blogs about ninja trading to other like-minded Chicken Smoothie players, due to the fact the on-site forums prohibit any form of ranting or swearing. Some such blogs even have lists of these ninja traders to attempt to warn other players about possible scammers, but unfortunately every year more and more kids get swindled out of their rare pets. The AftermathChicken Smoothie's ninja trading problem has become such an issue for the site, that December 18 th - meant to be a fun and exciting day to collect valuable pets, now turned into a nightmare for staff and veterans having to deal with upset children and their angry, complaining parents - has now implemented multiple disclaimers plastered around the site nearing the dreaded day warning new and returning players of ninja traders. Lyric is not the only ninja trader on the site, but they are the most prolific by far, and have been ninja trading for pets for years now. Every Christmas, people who post on the forums have forebodings about Lyric and how many poor children they will scam rare pets from, while Lyric makes off with a hefty amount of new valuable pets they can flaunt and show off, much to the dismay of the majority of users who play fairly.And there's nothing the staff could do about it, because ninja trading wasn't bannable.TL;DR: Children's virtual pet website has a mechanic involving rare pets.
Users scam oblivious children in a Christmas event where players can obtain rare pets, resulting in outrage. Chicken Smoothie's forum is a large attraction for many users, and lots of players are only on the site to roleplay and sometimes adopt common monthly pets, generating them ad revenue from children who don't know what AdBlock is and retaining players who don't even play the events.
CS's main money making audience also teeters towards the older teenagers who use the site to advertise their artwork and roleplaying skills, and buy the on-site currency to buy other peoples' items and unwanted rares.I actually don't know why ninja trading isn't a bannable offense, but I'm guessing it's because they can't stop it because these kids and users are willingly trading for Lyric's (and other ninja trader's) garbage pets. They think they're getting a great deal because they're being given a lot of cute colourful commons - but don't realise their rare is worth a lot more.Lyric is also a veteran to the site, as well as lots of the other ninja traders, so CS staff might get a fair bit of money from them (I'm going off the fact Lyric often flaunts their currency count and amount of premium store pets), which might also have a say in it, but don't quote me on that.
No, as it usually takes about a month for the rarity rank to appear, for every pet to have finished growing, and to be posted in the archives. Pets also age at different times (both same litter and type of pet), and most players prefer to collect one of each of the current month's pets during that month, as they'll know which ones they've missed based on what other users have posted.Having this rule just for Dec 18th pets might be reasonable, but there would still be push back from some players. Freemium games usually have a very small percentage of players willing to spend considerable amounts on their digital offerings (known as whales, but you all bbn probably know this already). I have a feeling the type of person willing to ruin holiday fun for children by cheating them out of their gifts from the devs are the same as the 'whale' class of player.Another part of the problem is that younger people are less likely to have money to spend, except for special occasions like birthdays. They do produce ad revenue, but they would probably stick around even if they were cheated.From a financial standpoint it probably doesn't benefit the devs to restrict these trades.If you are still active at all, maybe suggest on the forum this solution: the Dec 18 pets are trade restricted by a warning message message that informs of the risk before being traded.Another solution could be that these pets can only be traded as babies to friends lists if the trade is going to be for anything other than a Dec 18 baby. To get around this, the devs could also set a minimum fair price in digital currency that must be paid if they aren't on your friends list and you really need a baby.Assuming that the adults can be traded, people can still have a full month's worth of pets after they have grown up, trade between friends, or purchase the currency.
Maybe there's something I'm missing here, but couldn't they just like lock the event pets from being traded until they're matured and the owners actually realize how rare they are? Once that happens, it can be fair game, but it sounds like the problem is they're taking advantage of people who don't realize how valuable the pets are while they're still in their 'baby' form.I'm sure some people would be upset, but going off whats been posted here, it seems like most people would be understanding about this.
The events are periods of extreme increases in trading.
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