Animal Jam Easter Eggs That You Might've Missed

Hey people/Jammers/whatever.

I hate intros by now. They're so repetitive! I just can't think of anything creative, though, so I'm stuck with the regulars for now.

This post is about a few AJ easter eggs you might've missed. I've actually mentioned the first one in the past, but it's still cool.  In the game Mira Says, there are four colors you can press.

The word says has the four colors. Well, in the Sky Kingdom den, there are also four familiar colors surrounding the Mira statue in the center of the den.

This is a cool easter egg, but I do have a few questions. Is it just a reference to the game Mira Says, or are these colors going to play an important role with the lore of Mira any time in the future?

Moving on. The next two easter eggs are located in Balloosh. The first is a simple feature you probably looked over.

The shop is selling sea shells (say that fast, 5 times in a row, I dare you) and that's a little odd. Why would a swamp be selling those? There might be other items in there, but I can't figure out what they are.

The last easter egg of this post could lead to new theories.

In the upper right corner of Balloosh, it seems that there is a small river leading out. On the world map, this is proven, as it appears on it. I don't know if this is the same river, or if this is even truly a river leading away, but what do you think? It's clearly an opening in the trees.

That's all I have for this post (that's also a stereotypical ending, but I can't help it lol). I'll see you in the next post!

I'm Uploading Youtube Videos Again?

This is something I've been wanting to do for a while. Yep, start uploading youtube videos again. I just uploaded an experiment video, with no real reason. Check it out if you want, my channel is PenguinBoss AJ.

Just Something To Think About

Hey people.
I don't know how many of you play sports or consider yourself an athlete, but this story is related to that kind of stuff.
Anyways, about 2 weeks ago, I was practicing basketball at a park. I went for a layup and jumped the wrong way. You see, in jumping, there's a penultimate step, the step you take right before jumping off the ground. I was trying to get the ball as high as I could for a dunk (and to be honest I was close lol), but I twisted my (insert unknown body part name here) on the penultimate step. I landed on my other foot because my left lower calf was in pain. It wasn't my ankle, no, it was on the side side but a little higher. I have no idea, but I might've injured a tendon. I'm not sure. Then, this Friday, I was playing pickup basketball with a bunch of others at Boys and Girls club. I once again did a layup off that leg and it hurt instantly. This stuff is really, really scary to me. It's not hurting as bad today but I'e been resting it for a little while now. I really want to keep getting on the court to play, but I was even told to rest it for a week or two. I absolutely hate taking time off. The point is, the injury I got was really close to my Achilles tendon, and that's not something that would've been good. I'm gonna keep playing tomorrow, but take each practice light for a few days. Just don't take things for granted, especially athletes. When you train hard everyday seeking a goal in the future, it doesn't seem like anything could prevent you from reaching it. It could all be taken away in a second by some injury, all the hard work and everything. I just really needed to get this off my chest because it was in my mind. It is necessary for everyone to know this, because basketball is not the only thing that can be taken away, it can be anything else you take for granted.
I hope you all understand. And now, I am really going to a birthday party, unlike my lie in the last post's ending.

The Schoolhouse Party

Back to school.
The three words that frighten children's lives across the world in the months of July-September, and possibly other months for certain people. But that's not the point. The words are scary, right? Yeah. And that means AJHQ will use them in their game!
So the Schoolhouse party returned, and I just happened to take a few screenshots of some intense roleplay going on.

Super intense, right? (Just kidding, guys.) Well, that's what goes on at the schoolhouse party, if you wanted to know.
To wrap up this post, though, I'm going to show you all of the available items at the Schoolhouse party.

That is all there is to show about the Schoolhouse party. Besides that, it's just a reminder that school is coming soon.
So, since that's all, I'm leaving now! I'm off to a birthday party... yep...
Bye.

Wild Weekend Item Review and Juno Theories

Yo yo yo it's your boy...

Hmm. I don't know if that's right yet. But I don't think so. Who cares, though? The intro is still a working progress.

Anyways, all of my posts from now on will be about things that I want to discuss or interesting topics involving Animal Jam. Also, I might start posting other things about my life, too. This post is about the Wild Weekend items and some theories on Juno.
I want to say this about the waterpark items. They're cool and might even be worth something one day, but why did AJHQ have to make it so the Corner Waterslides don't even flip sides? If you click the rotate button, the slide literally flips the colors, not the side the slide is on.

That doesn't make any sense at all, lol.

Now, onto some theories about Juno. Everyone's been talking about "this" alpha by saying it is nonbinary. Some reasons that this is a theory are:

- Juno could be a name for both genders.
- In the Jamaa Journal, Juno is referred to as "them", and a few other words that don't reveal a gender.
- In the picture of Juno, it doesn't seem to be more correlated to a boy or girl.

So, I'd just like to share some of this information, because my view on Juno during the update was different. I didn't even realize AJ was referring to Juno when saying "them", so now there are new ideas going through my mind.

This is the end of the post now, and I hope you all enjoyed! I'll digitally see you in my next post.

Why I Am Getting Back Into Blogging

The title says it all.

Everyone lately has been talking about the thought of quitting blogs and AJ, but nobody has done it completely. So many of my friends have lost interest in this game this year and have decided to not post nearly as much. I could never comment on blogs because of a certain glitch that was never fixed, but I was really sad when I saw that Nafaria9 decided to make the "update" post. I know she's not quitting, but I also know that I won't be seeing her posts like I did years ago. And to be honest, The Animal Jam Whip was my main inspiration to start my own blog back in 2014. I just hope you know, Nafaria, that I'll always be willing to talk on instagram and snapchat. I don't currently have a console but I might be getting one soon. 

Other people, too, have lost interest in Animal Jam. Pretty much everyone. Honestly, how many people post regularly on their blogs anymore? Not a lot. Not a lot at all. It's just sad to see the Blogger Community slowly losing people. And guess what? It's the same thing with the Youtube community. Views are going down and youtubers are posting less and less content about AJ. I asked random people in Aldan what they thought about this and they were completely oblivious to it. They acted like everything I said was not a reasonable point to prove that Animal Jam is not what it once was. The game is really losing its older members. But is it making way for a newer generation? I don't know. 

My buddies have really impacted me over the years on this game. When awesomepanda868 quit in 2017, that also devastated me. I couldn't even comment, but I hope all bloggers reading this know that I am reading posts daily and have thoughts about them. In December of 2017, purplestarclub quit. I hated this also, just like when Panda quit. It was sad to see some of my oldest friends go. Just recently, everyone has been posting rants on the AJ game. Sarahkey8, who is an author on The Animal Jam Community (which I will start posting on again), just made a post about what she feels. And it's all true. People are losing interest in AJ. It's sad to see her say all of this, but also must be relieving for her to say. Lostfairy of the AJ Jumble just made a post about her losing interest in the game as well. She stated that her blog has been dead. Lostfairy is a great buddy and I admire how her posts are so well thought out, and how she puts so much effort into them. I also respect what she said in this post, because it's relatable to pretty much every AJ blogger right now. It's also sad to see that post on her blog. People, like me, are simply losing interest in Animal Jam. 

Animal Jam used to be fun. I remember logging on, looking for buddies online, going to their den, and having long conversations. There were a lot of people I met that became amazing friends, some not even through blogger. Some of the people I haven't mentioned yet are sixty58 (I have so many memories with her!), lilkinzie (she has supported me throughout my blogging years and is always kind!), meeper2 (another supporter of my blog and someone that will help you when in need), cyacheer (a selfless person who is absolutely amazing at art), koolestkat (another kind and caring friend), tig47498 (yet another nice person who was willing to help), tigers123g (tigers made a a lot of memories with me and they were super nice),  2fangwolf (a great blogger and role model for others), arcticstar8404 (a super kind person and someone who I looked up to around the time I started blogging), cheetah87516 (great at graphics and a nice person), and ja983 (a really great blogger who has great ideas and is a great buddy). There are still more people but so many to list, and that paragraph was written fast but thought out well. These are all amazing people and have really shown that the AJ blogger community is one of the best communities out there. 

Swirlshine, another amazing buddy of mine, still posts, and that's cool. She also puts a ton of effort into her posts and it really shows. Her posts are also unique. Violet86271, owner of The Animal Jam Legendary Palooza, also still posts, and she's  a really great friend of mine that I've known for years. The AJ Blogger Community is not dead. There are still people who post. There are also a lot of newer bloggers who I haven't met/don't know well because I haven't been active in the community this year at all. Props to you guys for still posting, though! I hope to get more connected to you guys and become great friends.

Not a lot of Bloggers have truly quit the game or blogger itself, but they have lost interest and decided to not post as much. That's what most people are doing now. As of now, though, I'm deciding to full on start posting again. I'll get into the reason why soon.

One of my best friends on AJ, who is also probably one of my oldest buddies I've recently talked to, is talking with me again. Her username on AJ is carrot04. She used to run a blog called Animal Jam Lights The Way, around 2014-2015. I've had a lot of AJ memories with this person, from The Phantom Grill (insert overused lol here), to The Voice AJ (including other buddies in that, too!), and many others. I can't list them all. She really made an impact on my life, along with all of my other buddies. I'm finally in touch with Carrot again after a while, and this made me realize something. I should continue posting as much as I want to, because, honestly, you never, ever know what will happen in the future. Big things could happen. I don't want to stop posting regularly like I did earlier this year, because I want to stay around for a long time. When I first started the AJS, I wanted to become famous and become a well known blogger. That's not my focus anymore, though. I want to now use this blog to stay in touch, post about interesting AJ topics, and to stick around for the future. I don't want to stop posting or go on a hiatus, at least not for a while. I've had so many memories from this game and I can still manage to take the 1% of it that is interesting and remain an active player/blogger because of that.

So yeah, to wrap things up, you can expect more posts from me. This post started off seeming like a quitting one, but all of the stuff lead up to the end. I will continue posting because I don't know what will happen in the future. Good things, bad things, you never really know. Bad things have happened already, but there will also be many, many more good things to happen. Also, forgive me for the horrible grammar and misspelling in this post, because I do not feel like going back and editing this. That would take forever and it wouldn't be the point of the post. Now I am going to publish this and pray to god that it was written the way I truly wanted it to be, (insert another overused lol here).

Well, I guess I'll see you in my next post, lol. 

The Juno Update

I really don't know what to use for intros to posts anymore. I hate saying "hi jammers" or "hey guys" because, well, I'm just not that type of person anymore (insert lol here). I'll have to think of something creative every post from now on.
Now, AJ was literally just updated minutes ago. And this post is here to explain to you my thoughts on the update.

Everything in this update, except or the part about Juno, was pretty much expected. I do like that Tiki Trouble has returned, though.
Now, the part about Juno is interesting. It states that Juno "protected the lands of Jamaa" and asks "what became of them". By this, there's two possibilities: Juno is just protecting our known Jamaa itself (the lands we can visit), or the actual world of Jamaa, with many other lands out there. Then it asks what became of the lands. I'm sure they aren't talking about the accessible ones, because we already know that. So, based on this, hopefully this is leading to something new, maybe even a new land. What do you think?
To go along with this update, there are now two new notes in the Temple of the Ancients.

I don't really know what these notes could mean, but obviously, something is going to happen with that statue itself. We'll probably get more info in the next update.
I'm going to end this post now, but expect another one (maybe) today. It's going to be an announcement type post. I'll see you then.

Nothing To Headdress Challenge - Part 3

(insert really stupid awkward weird intro here)
And we're off! This is part 3 of the Nothing to Headdress Challenge. Let's get right into the first trade.

I just was in Aldan and managed to finally, after a long time, trade the nerd glasses and rare sun hat for a long spiked wristband.

Now my goal is to get 4 den betas for this wrist, or something like that.

Okay, so I've been watching a lot of videos lately... and I think this would be much easier if I played adventures and bought items. Yeah, this is a trading thing, but honestly, nobody just trades to work towards an item. So starting in this part, I'll be playing adventures to get more items.
Now, I've been working towards getting a bunch of items lately. And here's m inventory now:

I haven't been on as much for the past two days so it's been taking longer to upgrade to better items.
So, from now on, my plan is to start trading all of these smaller items and start collecting more den betas. They're pretty much the basis of rarity these days. If I can get at least two more, I can trade them and the long wrist for a short collar. Before I end this part, I plan to at last get a clothing/den beta.
I just traded 11 of the items for a clothing beta; a brown beard. This is my clothing inventory now:

At this point, I managed to win a giveaway by onacat, who gave me many, many RIMs. A huge shout out goes to this person and I've already made a post about it. Once again, thanks!
Just today, I traded 20 RIMs for a den beta.

Now, these are my main items up for trade!

I am getting really close to my first spiked collar on this account. Hopefully in Part 4 I'll be able to get a bad short collar.
Anyways, that's gonna conclude this part of the series. I hope you enjoyed, because I've actually been putting in a lot of work to this lol. And it's now August 1st, which means I'm starting my freshmen year this month. Weird to think about. I'm ending this now, so... I'll stop being cringey.

No, I hate that outro. It feels off to me. Here's a better one: bye, lol.