Flip the flops

Hey!
It's Monday- for those that started school I guess you're not particularly happy about that. Yup, Monday- the start of the extremely difficult obstacle course known as the school week. Five obstacles. Monday is the first. Each obstacle seizes hours off your valuable time.
The school week basically feels like an eternity, end of story.
Never fear! AJHQ seems to be keeping the Summer spirit up quite well, with this super Summery rare item Monday.

Yes, it's member. Yes, it's expensive. That colour scheme though! Can't resist that. 

If you want to enjoy the last month of Summer in style (and you have a membership and at least 900 gems!) then you should buy those funky flip-flops. Like,right out of the 90s.

A spooky video in the Sarepia Theatre, just please don't watch it at night. Like, seriously. Don't.

In the Dark. Yes, the deep mysterious dark. Welcome to a void full of unanswered questions and conspiracy theories. Ho ho.

Would you look at that!

I got a gift. No, better than that. THREE mystery gifts.

Not my first time, and it won't be my last.

Oh, you want to know what I got. Okay.

Pink bat glasses, a freedom bunny hat and... and...

a blue old hood. Okay. Could have been better. Like, if I got a magenta bow and arrows, a black worn blanket and then a red pirate sword. That would have been cooler.

Whatever though!

A gift is a gift, right?

On to blog stuff. Thank you so so so much for voting so far! :D

4 votes. Come on- keep voting. Now I know the AJR is doing well in terms of views. :3

It's up to me and several others to keep the AJ blogging community as lively and fun as it always was- we can do it, right?

There's a new gadget that tells you how many people are viewing the Animal Jam Rainbow, so it's also quite useful to know when the best time is to go on the chat function. For instance, if the counter showed '1', you would know not to go on chat because nobody was going to be on. That saves a few seconds of your time! 

Thank me, yes.

If the counter showed, hmm... '3', you would know it's quite a good time to go on chat.

You know, to check who's on. :3

I also post little updates and stuff through the chat.

I can't wait for my first graphic order, so YOU BETTER TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT RIGHT NOW.

Okay, that sounds a bit harsh O-o

Anyway, I can make graphics for a wide range of people.

Thumbnails for YouTubers? Check.

For instance, if you want a thumbnail for a Sky High video because you won a black pirate sword and that is something that is going to win you a bunch of views, I could try making something like this;

Or my favourite classic neon animals! >:D

He he. He.

SO NEON YOUR EYES HURT.

And I can also tint you, or even try giving you a member name tag if you're not a member!

Meet Awesome. Awesome is a Panda.

Awesome likes purple and wants a nice profile picture. Check!

Awesome is now a happy panda and can live up to her name :D

That's all for today, don't forget I'm going on vacation on Wednesday. :D

-CleverQueen

Bamboo Patch

Hey Jammers!
Today's new item is in Treetop Gardens,

The bamboo patch! This would have made an excellent non-member item, especially since we had member items all week :(

However, I guess there's still hope...

AJHQ might come up with a small bamboo patch for non-members or something.

Or next week there will be more non-member items.

The new video is in Brady's Theatre.

WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT? :O

Of course humans are animals!

In blog news, I have added two new pages- Rainbow Chat and Graphics and Banners. Check them out, maybe? :)

Wait... you're not coming?

I can make you a neon animal!

NOW you're coming. Neon stuff always works on you lot! :] (And me :P)

I have done some work on the pages, too, and there's a new slightly boring poll up there.

Vote please?

PRETTY PLEASE?

Thanks! :D

I was overjoyed to get 11 votes on the previous poll- keep it up! :]

You may be tempted to come to the graphic store after you discover I can...

Allow you to try on specific items!

Well, I can try my best anyway :P

Like, it worked for me wearing the ugly, creepy glitch ring O_O

I'm going to have to experiment a bit more with this :P

Eww. The glitch ring is SCARY O-O

Did you know that I bought the glitch ring?

YES,CHILDREN, I BOUGHT MR.CREEPY GREEN EYE!

I recycled it though, because I was like...

''eww that's ugly and weird''

Well, it looks like some really scary abnormal eye. And the colour isn't so bad, but the store turquoise rings look much better.

Yup.

Anyway, does anyone have a grey egg on pedestal or a red/yellow tall phantom statue?

If so let me know! :]

By the way, this is my trade list on my storage- meaning I'm trading all those things. It doesn't mean you can go and say ''RHINO FOR MY RED TALL PHANTOM''.

NO.

Just random rares I have nothing better to do with.

Want a holiday sweater?

I have a lot in storage, so let me know your offers in comments ^-^

Don't get scammed! Red elf shoes are worth more than all the other colours and it's easy to get scammed thinking the pink ones are red, because the two are quite similar!

Thankfully, I have both so I can compare them.

Those are pink- note the pink in the top lining thing.

Those are red- they have a more orange hue than the pink.

DON'T GET CONFUSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THERE.

That's all for now, bye bye!

-CleverQueen

Inflated Hummingbird

Reminder: CleverQueen is going on vacation on Wednesday,20 August and will be back between 8-11 September. This means there will be no posts on the AJR, unless I want to post and I have the chance. Sorry Jammers!

Hey!

I'm so sorry for a late post today, but at least I'm still posting, right?

Right!

Today's new item is in the Summer Carnival, another balloon hat!

This time it's a hummingbird.

Hmm, I guess this is my favourite balloon hat so far! The price isn't bad- clocks in at only 2,000 tickets. I assume that if this was a 2012 item, it would have sold for around 8000-10,000 tickets O-o

The new video today is in Tierney's Aquarium, about seahorses!

:OOO

Seahorses are just fabulous!

Don't you love seahorses? :3

I'm sorry to all my rant-lovers, but today's side-topic isn't a rant T^T

Well I can't rant every day, it makes me look ungrateful and depressed O_O

Then will come in the comments like:

''omg if u no liek dis gam get of then geez yolo swag''

''ok can u stop komplayng abot rarez and dat u dont care liek if u dont care give me ur rarez plzzz ps i want ur neon bow most''

''can u stop becuz dis blog is just saaaad''

Yup.

-_-

Oh look! A non-member fox! 

What's the side-topic? I hear you ask.

Well, just blog arrangements and stuff.

First off, fomar

Could you please comment to arrange a trade in AJR time please? It would help a lot if you specified what plushie/s you want and what you are willing to trade. You can comment on this post, the trading station or the plushie store page.

I'm so sorry for not being available lately to trade with you!

Eyetoypuffx

Of course you can beta test the next store! However, I think the next store is going to be available once I'm back from vacation in September. Sorry about that, but don't worry- you will still get to be a beta tester!

The poll has been closed today!

The results will be up on the 'Your Thoughts' page tomorrow along with a new poll that will last 2 weeks. Once that poll is over, paws crossed I can put up another! ^-^

Next, does anyone have page ideas? I'm thinking of having a little chat page for Jammers to communicate together (much easier than chatting in comments,you don't have to get on AJ, it's easier to reach certain Jammers and lots more benefits!)

I don't know, but maybe I could have graphic/banners for sale? I can make some pretty nice things... I might test it out for a bit before I go on vacation. I don't know.

That's it for today; stay safe, have a splendid Saturday and have fun!

-CleverQueen

Angry ladybugs

Hey!
Today's new item can be found in Jam-mart clothing, the ladybug hat!

Okay, that is a fairly wacky item. I wonder if anyone is going to use this in any way?

Hmm, we haven't had a non-member item for a while now. Paws crossed for tomorrow, then!

The new video is over at Sarepia Theatre; all about earthquakes!

Earthquakes... hmm; what do I know? Meh,I'm no expert but my brainstorm would be: tectonic plate movement. Impact on society and government. Economic effects. Environmental factors affecting severity. Other stuff I don't want to bore you with. Yup. Definitely did something on earthquakes in Geography last academic year, but I think it was kind of merged with the volcano unit o.e

Now then!

There was meant to be a video and a party post, but the party I wanted to do wasn't coming on so I decided to leave it until today.

Ranting time- seriously helps me get all those annoying things off my chest.

Annoying people in Jamaa 

Can you see me behind that speech bubble? Yes, you can :D

Can you guess where this was taken? If you can, leave a comment for a mention in tomorrow's post! 

Anyway, here's what is wrong with this party.

> It's wolves, not wolfs 

> OKAY! Stop with the member only parties, seriously! Before I have an emotional breakdown or something. No, it's not like I care that I can't visit a virtual decorated house without getting kicked out by raging pixel animals with coloured name-tags,it's just that the parties are RUDE! Rude rude rude. RUDE. Listen now, not everyone can afford to get a membership, and not everyone has parents that support the idea. Non-members are also people, no different. Why just members? Non-members can be cool, too. It's really stuck-up to do members-only parties, as paying $4 a month doesn't automatically make you 'cooler' or better. We are still people! Memberships don't alter your genetic make-up, do they?

Guess where this was taken, anyone?

Anyway, I don't like this type of attention seeking.

It *basically* looks like the person saying this got into a fight/argument with someone and then they got all upset so... they said this *_*

It doesn't look like role-play, and as I said in my rant on Wednesday; you don't want to lie about not having parents. Okay, maybe you might not have parents, but THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT ALRIGHT FOR YOU TO BRING IT UP ON A GAME FOR KIDS! Hello, 4-10 year olds are all over the place. Some of them don't want to hear about others' dramatic lives or whatever. 

The reason I assume this is attention seeking;

*They are talking about how tough their life is and everything. Doesn't bringing it up make it worse? If you try to stop thinking about it for a while, that makes it better at least temporarily.

*They are in a crowded place- if they didn't want attention they would be saying that in a locked den or something.

*I met a lot of buddies with tough lives and they only talked about it in locked dens and quiet places. They didn't suddenly talk about it in the middle of a huge crowd -_-

THIS IS A GAME FOR KIDS! KIDS!

You are not supposed to be dating on AJ, because... well, it says in the rules -_-

If AJHQ wanted dating on the game, they wouldn't say it's forbidden in the rules, would they?

Why is dating on AJ wrong? Because, kids are everywhere. Fairy is a kid herself. Dating is deemed inappropriate for kids because it can be dangerous. It can lead to drama and arguments kids aren't ready for coping with yet. Kids can be manipulated through dating, especially if one partner is older than the other. Dating is like a door to the wider world kids are not ready for just yet, and it exposes them to things they are not ready for. ENOUGH SAID- it ruins childhoods!

AJ dating can be dangerous- the 'boy' that comes up with you could be a 68 year old man who tried to lure you into things like real-life meetings.

Just don't do it, okay?!

Enough ranting for today, see you all later!

-CleverQueen

The stone lamp debunks myths

Hey!

Today's item is in Outback Imports, the stone lamp!

This lamp is quite oddly shaped, but I  guess it would look great if you were making a stone den. Have you ever tried that? I don't think it would look that bad ^-^

If you feel like learning something, head over to the...

NO,WAIT.

THERE'S NO NEW VIDEO.

D:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Okay, end of my mini-rant. 

So...

After I publish this post, I will check on the plushie stores.

Don't forget that if you want anything, you can also leave a comment here ^o^

It's raining.

Now it's hailing.

IT'S RAINING ICE CUBES! :O

I just had to pick up the washing. While getting hit on the head by ice cubes and rain. Then there came the lightning and thunder.  Ha. I'm alone in a storm. Okay. Now I'm freezing. :O

My internet connection cut off for a while.

I'm alone in a storm. Like, that's the newest horror movie or something.

Now I'm in bed, shivering and listening to the thunder.

Anyway, today I'm going to talk about...

RUMOURS!

Okay, to clarify, below are the most common rumours. Yes, that's right- those are all false and no, I don't have any idea why anyone ever started them.

• If you hop on the bridge in Coral Canyons, it will break 
• If you hop on the ice in Mt.Shiveer, it will break
• Be all white and dance around the arctic wolf in the Diamond Shop to get free diamonds!
• Sleep around the statue in the Temple of Zios

There are loads of ideas on what you get if you break the bridge or the ice, or sleep around the statue in Zios. Most people either say membership, rares or both.

They don't really make sense, because Animal Jam wouldn't give out free membership just like that. Otherwise, 98% of Jamaa would have been members, and most of those wouldn't have paid for it. Also, if rares were given out- there wouldn't really be rares anymore because almost everyone would have had them.

Really, don't waste your time over rumours. The ice won't break past a specific point, same applies for the bridge and statue. It's fun to gather with your buddies and hop on the bridge for a bit, but not if you believe it gives free rares/membership/other crazy things.

That's it for now, see you all tomorrow or later today! ^-^

-CleverQueen

P.s apologies for a rushed post; don't forget I'm going on vacation on Wednesday! :o

Attention Flamingos

Hello!
Eh, I feel tired today o.e
The ice-cream parlour collection is over T^T. However, there's something new over at the Summer Carnival!

O_O

It's supposed to be a flamingo.

I hope they make a non-member balloon hat any time soon! cx

2,000 tickets- not bad! 2012's Summer Carnival prices were CRAZY. 

(Credit to the Animal Jam Spirit Blog)

Following the lollipop necklace through the years...

2012- 10,000 tickets

2013- 4,000 tickets

2014-2,000 tickets

You can find the new video over at Tierney's Aquarium, telling you all about this thing called 'Sea Glass'

Wow, I'm certainly going to watch that when I have a spare moment. It seems beautiful!

Do you remember when I still checked on the activities calendar? Well, I guess I won't abandon that idea completely ^-^

There's nothing new today, though.

Anyway!

The plushie stores are running smoothly again, so don't forget to pay them a visit at any time to see if there's a plushie you're after! Every time a plushie is sold, a new plushie is put in its place- I try to keep the den full at all times. I'm thinking of creating more special plushie stores soon, and more regular stores should come soon too! Then, maybe I might make 'bunny-only' stores, and so forth cx

There is also a new branch of stores- toy stores! Pay the new 'Toy Stores' page a visit to learn more, and visit the first toy store to see if there's one of those cute, collectible action figures you're after in there! 

Guess what time it is?

-checks watch-

Duh, it's RANT TIME!!!

Just to clarify, I'm not going to rant every day O_O

There's just something annoying I want to speak up about in today's post, and that thing is...

ATTENTION SEEKING.

It's everywhere!

People sleeping in the middle of a crowded land wanting attention, and that's really annoying. Not to mention, really ungrateful >.>

Now, do you really want to have no parents?

Do you really want to be in hospital with a life-threatening fever?

Well, okay, I'm going to be fair. People role-play about those things, and I guess that's fine to an extent since it gives characters more developed stories and stuff. 

But what ISN'T fine, is when people say things like;

''Plz send me rares i have no parents''

Uh, that's no reason for us to give our pixel-items to you. Besides, how will rares help you? :/

Sure, they might make you happy for a while but not happy enough to overcome being that sad :L

''donate plz im in hospital with a rare illness''

Okay, that just makes no sense. Pixels can't cure your illness :/ It's no fun to be in hospital with a rare illness, because you don't know what's going on and if you're ever going to be normal. How can you use something like that to get attention, I don't know O_O

''my mom broke her leg and idk if she's gonna make it plz donate''

Most stupid thing EVER. First, can you even die from a broken leg? The leg alone, no O_O 

Next, pixels won't help.

Finally, WHY AREN'T YOU WITH YOUR MOM LIKE RIGHT NOW? *O*

I just hate attention seekers. Okay, when you're role-playing you can make up all sorts of crazy stories about your character. Even though some RP attention seeking annoys me too :P

For instance, in schools everyone is suddenly the good kid that does everything perfectly and yada yada yada >:O

And when trying to get a virtual family everyone is a homeless abandoned cute magical rare whatever baby. XD

What isn't fine though, is when people lie about their real lives. To get attention.

They should be grateful they have a home, safe water, food and a computer, really. They should.

However, they lie about not having those things just to get attention!

:T

''omg im in hospital and i will die in 2 seconds omg help me plzzz''

Being in hospital isn't exactly something you want to lie about, take my word for it 0_0

What else I don't like is when people think that me saying ' rares are just pixels' automatically translates to 'everyone I don't care about rares I don't even care they exist everything I have is free just ask for it'

NO, IT DOESN'T.

I got my rares for a reason- just because I'm not obsessed with them doesn't mean they are free! I still like them and they aren't free >:o

Now then, that's it! ^-^

Just a video for all of you :D

It's about the update, all summed up into under 15 minutes :P

By the way, I do not have a YouTube channel and don't plan on having one right now.

That's it for now, see you around Jamaa! :3

-CleverQueen

-***Scroll down for possible information about x!***-

Information on x

Hello!
***Please scroll down for today's post ^3^***
I was deciding who to track when I noticed x's den was unlocked, so I went in. Some people were in there, including Novatic,Nuggetz and NorthernSurprize.

Anyway, I heard Nuggetz and NorthernSurprize talking about x, and I listened to them. From what I heard...
x was a Jammer who played in the beta days. He then quit, and someone took over his account by hacking. So basically, according to what I heard,whoever now plays as x is not the original owner. Rather, it's someone else. I then heard that the person who took over x's account is SolidGolden/Protato...

Hmm, do you think NorthernSuprize wants to hack? I would suggest to watch out, and see if there's any more suspicious activity.
I also heard it's called something like cracking a leaked file. Hmm...
What do you think?
I don't know if the whole story is true or not, but Northern and Nuggetz then went to Novatic's den.
Jam on!
-CleverQueen

I'm sure we can agree this bench looks messy to sit on...

Hello! ~(\(◕◡◕)(\~
First of all, one of my plushie stores, GreenDreams, got hacked O_O
I don't know how, the password isn't too easy to guess but not too hard, either. I suppose somebody just guessed it :L
Thankfully, nothing is gone BUT the look of my seal was changed (I changed it back) and I found some Jamagrams saying 'You're mean!'. :(
So... the hacker most likely reads the Animal Jam Rainbow and is intent on ruining my reputation.
What I think happened is that they guessed the password (I changed it now, because it wasn't a very good password)  and then they started being rude to people. I just hope they didn't say who I am ;-;
If you were recently bullied by GreenDreams, please be aware that it was not me.
I changed the password now, so hopefully this won't happen in the future :D
Anyway, today's new item adds on to the ice-cream parlour collection;

I'm quite sure it's Sundae, not Sunday O-o

BUT IT'S MEMBER! T^T 

They could have at least made the giant cone or topping dispenser thing non member :T

(\(◡-◡)(\

Oh well!

The new video can be found in Sarepia Theatre.

Hmm, the word 'weirdest' did successfully lure me to watch this video. Hang on as I watch it!

Before video: ~(⚆◡⚆)~?

During video: ~(◕◡◕)~!

After video:~(❂•❂)~!!

That IS one weird monkey. Heh. Big nose :3

Anyway, I haven't checked my plushie stores for ages O-o

Thankfully, nobody was left hanging waiting for service. 

I want to inform you all that;

☛ Plushie stores are open 24/7, so no matter what time zone you're in you can always come in to take a look ⦿W⦿

☛ If the store is offline, feel free to send a Jamagram once you find something you like.

☛The stores are currently being checked daily and all Jamagrams will be responded to.

☛ As of 12/08/2014 there are 5 plushie stores. 

☛greendreams,cyanstar2014,hypergem and weirdjoy stock mostly regular and some special plushies. 

☛ tinypotatoes stocks only special and harder-to-get plushies. Please note this does not include Sidekix plushies. The plushies you can find are plushies with accessories and plushies such as arctic wolves, lions and giraffes. This store also sells phantom plushies. Please ask to see the phantom plushies and to arrange a trade ^-^

☛A toy store is being worked on and is going to be a separate thing from plushie stores. 

☛For more information click here

Okay, so err.... ∙3∙

Time for a bit of ranting!

Put your party hats on everyone! :D

MAILTIME.

Just to clarify, real mailtimes do exist. They are often done on YouTube where fans willingly

send mail and stuff to whoever they admire and then, if there is enough mail, all of it is opened on camera. I suppose the fun part is seeing what kind of mail someone gets, or seeing their reaction to your mail, or getting a little famous :P

Anyway, this whole mailtime craze on Animal Jam was started by Julian2, probably one of the most famous Jammers out there UoU

Basically, Julian2's fans started sending him Jamagrams and gifts, and then it kinda evolved into something where people sent gifts (sometimes really good rares, and videos with those became really popular) to see them being opened on camera.

Pretty harmless,right? :T

Nope. Not so fast.

Even Julian's original mailtime is flawed. 

Here's why. (BECAUSE I'M HAAAAAAAPPPYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!)

✺ Julian discards most gifts without even looking at the message. It's the thought that's meant to count, but to me it seems like Julian eventually only cares about rare gifts. In some videos, he didn't even respond to the message and discarded a LOT of gifts. Okay, the discarding part I understand- inventory's full. It would have been a tad bit nicer to send it back though :T

✺ He over-reacts I-I  Come on, the reaction I would give to a founders' hat in my mail is  less extreme than the reaction Julian gave to a spiked wristband. Basically, of course Julian's happy but some of those reactions are a bit over the top- it's just PIXELS. :O

✺ Mailtime is now just pointless- it's more for the gifts than the words of kindness, and that kind of just makes mailtime pointless. Not to mention the endless 'ADD ME' 'BUDDY ME' Jamagrams.

A lot of people now just use mailtime to beg for rares, and most don't even make videos.

Ok that's weird XD

Yup

UoU

Speaking of videos...

Here's my first video :O

And I'm talking.

Explaining the video schedule thing and everything.

See you tomorrow, and Jam on! :3

-CleverQueen

Summer isn't over just yet!

Hello!
Today's rare item Monday, which I'm going to admit isn't exactly the most exciting day of the week ;3;
Anyway, today's rare item can be found on the 5th page of the Jam-mart clothing- the rare sun visor! O-o

At least it isn't the rare round glasses or something, to remind us that Summer is ending soon :c

This rare pretty much keeps the Summer spirit up, because we are still more than a month away from autumn! 

There's also a new item to add to the ice cream parlour items;

NO. NO. IT'S MEMBER. T^T

I have seen that some Jammers started school today, wow o_O

And I still didn't go on vacation yet! cx

Don't worry, it isn't autumn until September. 

Keep eating ice-cream!

Anyway, the new video is in Brady Barr's theatre.

Hmm, let me think.

-deep thought-

TO KEEP THEM WARM? 

Oh and to protect those tiny fragile shells ;3;

It's raining where I am.

...

..

.

T^T

I happened to walk in during the middle of a rather heated argument on I have no idea what x3

STOP THEM. SOMEONE STOP THE GIFTING PARTIES PLEASE ;-;

Animal Jam is not JUST about rares- it's about other things too! Sure, rares are fun to have. It's fun to collect items. But rares were never meant to be the main focus of the game, they were just supposed to be part of a fun pastime! I'm quite sure AJHQ didn't intend us to spend all of our Animal Jam time sitting there trading for bigger and bigger rares, getting involved in all sorts of drama and hacks. Rares are the reason behind lots of Jammers quitting, behind some Jammers being upset and of course the reason of some hacks. I think some items were generated because the Forgotten Desert came out and there were no longer any 'real' rares, so the 'Reward Plaque', beta blue vines and many more were born. Of course, that's what I think. I could be far from the truth, or dangerously close to it. Rares obviously took AJ by storm- in every single server you will find at least one Jammer looking for trades. Trading isn't evil; it's the very system I use to complete collections and earn fun new items for outfits. But then there is a way to abuse the trading system; scamming. Rares became coveted for some reason- perhaps the social respect earned by having them or a desire to look 'cool'. Hence, Jammers went greater and greater lengths to get them; eventually even resulting in illegal hacks! If you think about it though, rares are no more than clothing or furniture items on a virtual game. It doesn't take much skill to get them, and you can still compose some pretty darn good looking outfits using smaller items. For example- try my bunny's outfit but in different colours. All it takes is a tiara, lollipop necklace, old blanket and a glove. 

Or, chill out in Crystal Sands with this easy to get Summer themed outfit!

All it takes is tickets from the Summer Carnival to buy a sun hat, a lei and freedom bands/ leaf leg armour.

Don't forget, it's not difficult to make this awesome outfit too!

There, a necklace, a fox hat, a worn blanket and a glove. 

What epic outfits can you make out of easy to get items?

Some of those look MUCH better than just piling rares on your animals ^-^

Bye bye for now!

-CleverQueen