User blog:Chocolatekoala96/Half- Quitting Animal Jam

Hey y'alls, I guess it's in the name - I'm quitting AJ, at least for now. I really love the wiki community, so I'll try to stay active on here, and I also wish that I didn't have to quit, but I'm forcing myself to stay away from Animal Jam. Why? Read on, curious child.

It's not because I find Animal Jam boring now, and just a little note, I'm not trying to blame Animal Jam for how I've been lately. It's completely my fault. Anyways, my schoolwork has been doubling what with being in accelerated classes(the regretti spaghetti has been eaten), and on top of that, I have piano, flute, robotics, walking the doggo, etc. I tend to get these stress/anxiety attacks where I think I'll have forgotten something, or there's just too much to do and I kind of send myself into overdrive and work non-stop, which hasn't been good for my mental health. I say addicted for lack of a better word, but I think I've become 'addicted' to AJ in the way that when I go on to take a break from homework, I lose track of time and end up taking longer with everything than I meant to. That's why I decided that if I stopped Animal Jam, I could end up being more productive and less stressed out. I really love this game and the wiki community, but it's best if I leave AJ just because I'm getting less free time, and the free time I have always goes to family first.

There's actually one other thing. A lot of my irl 'friends' used me and now just have me as what I like to call a 'back-up friend', meaning that if they need help with homework, their friends are being mean or ignoring them, etc, they'll come to me instead. Not trying to brag or anything, but I consider myself a kind person and I'm always willing to help them because I'm a total push-over. That's how I ended up getting bullied for a couple of year, but that's not the point. I figured that on AJ it would be easier to stand up to myself in these situations because it's not a face to face confrontation(lame and lowly of me, I know), which I why I enjoyed talking to my buddes and listening to my buddies on AJ. I had this one buddy, who I'll call snowy though, who I'm really mad at. I haven't told her, but here's what's happened(Keep in mind that I never trusted Snowy and didn't like her much from the start):

Snowy buddied me one day, and occasionally she would comet to my den to talk, so it wasn't a close friendship. She had membership when she buddied, then it timed out and she didn't renew it for a while. One time, she came to my den and asked me to put bad on trade, then gave me a worn spike. I thanked her for her thoughtfulness and gave her 2 nm pirate swords in return. A week or two later, Snowy(still an nm) came to my den upset and told me about how she had gotten scammed, and asked if I could give her something small. I didn't believe her, so I said "I'm so sorry! I can give you something, but who scammed you and how? What'd they take?" She didn't respond, didn't move, so I guessed that she had gone afk - perhaps on purpose because she never got scammed and just wanted items from me. Then I realized that giving me the worn spike was just so that she could put me in her debt, that way I would give her rares when she got scammed. After that we talked occasionally whenever she would come to my den(she got her membership back at one point). One day she came to my den and said that she had to tell me something that might make me unbuddy her, and then told me she was hacked. I didn't believe her, but I didn't have any proof and she had asked me to give her something small and being the push-over I am, I gave her my rare feathered mask. I had also won a traffic cone in a giveaway and gave that to her as well. She thanked me, we talked for a bit, and then she had to leave. Eventually Snowy created a new acount to avoid any other items being taken. She told me that the items I had given her were also hacked, but I didn't offer and she didn't ask for any more items. I was almost positive she had lied to me about getting hacked because when she came on her new account a couple of days later, she was wearing a freedom top hat and spring worn - just like she was wearing on her hacked account back when she was nm. Everytime we were both on I noticed that her rares were built up more and more, and everytime we were on all she asked was "do you wanna trd?" and that was it. I accepted her 2 cbs for my den beta without wanting to. All she wanted was to trade. Eventually, she changed her member account's password(or so she claimed, at least) and was back on it, and this was the other thing I noticed - her artic wolf look was so familiar, and I have a really good memory, so I was sure that she had never been hacked. Of course, it is a possibility that she just worked to get the same items that she had, but I'm sure that the hacker would have continued to use her member account even if she changed passwords. Yesterday she came to my den and surprise suprise, asked me if I wanted to trade, but I told her about quitting AJ instead and about how I was having anxiety  problems so she's like "oh ok". She went brb, then asked me to come to her den and started asking me "what for the spikes on ur trd?" and I said that they were for my school friends(a lie, none of my irl friends play AJ) just to get out of explaining what I really planned to do with them. She was like "oh ok I understand" and then she told me "You're the only friend who pays attention to me" most likely to guilt me into giving her a spike. Been there, done that. She wanted to trade, but I wasn't interested in any of the items on her list and had taken the spikes off of my list, so I just gave her rims for her spring worn. Then she went to Jamaa for trading.

So yeah. That's the story, she's not the full reason I'm quitting AJ, but a small part of it. I don't want to log onto AJ to be used by a buddy. Oh yeah, I should explain what I mean by half-quitting: I'm giving away my rare items on treblekiwi96(I'll create a thread for that soon), and then I'm going to create a new account for adventureeess whose user I'm ot going to disclose. I won't be making trading posts anymore so I don't have to be on AJ to make a trade with someone, and I'm keeping the account anoynmous(heccin can't spell xd) for personal reasons.

Anyways, congrats if you made it this far! I'll be making the giveaway thread soon, and I'm going to try and stay on the wiki for now, though I may be much less active.

Thank you so much to EVERYONE on this wiki for being such a great community! And a HUMONGOUS thank you to all the staff members - running a wiki as successful and as active as this one is no small feat, and as I've seen, extremely difficult at times. <3

Probably for the last time now, but.....

~Chokoala out.