Barbiegirls.com Was A Scam and I Miss It More Than Anything

A couple corrections: First, the dress-up demo was re-delayed (not an unusual or unexpected occurrence in a zero-budget game project) and they've moved away from speculative release dates to avoid delays in the future. Please check out their discord (link in description) for more information! The Purple Parlor was not VIP exclusive, and therefore the entire Extreme Dreampark was not as well. Thank you again to Camila Reis from barbiegirlsblog.wixsite.com/blog for pointing this out!

i will never forget signing up up for this game in 2011 and then immediately getting hit with the notification that it was going to shut down in 2 weeks

PixieHollow, Barbiegirls, everydaygirl, moviestarplanet, Webkinz, Tygirls, Club Penguin, and Toon Town were my childhood omg.

I saw this title and RAN. I'm right in that sweet spot of "too young to be a Millennial, too old to be Gen Z" and I feel like there's a lot of stuff from that period that was SUPER formative to my childhood that gets lost in the shuffle. I remember saving my allowance for WEEKS to buy a Barbie Girl mp3 player, only to be CRUSHED when the site literally never worked. Baby's first scam, lmao.

i remember this game and begging my mom to buy me the membership for it. this game is why i found out what it meant to be lesbian when i was 7 because someone asked me if i was “les bo an” and i asked my mom. good times

As a mod for the Barbie Girls Rewritten team we are aware of all the risks but so far Mattel hasn’t said anything to us about copyright issues but to stay safe we can take any donations unfortunately

I am so sad for all the sad little girls that felt left out bc they weren’t able to have a vip account of this stupid, predatory site 😭

My friend and I had a sense of superiority of being ftp, looking down our noses at the "girls whose mommies and daddies spoiled them". Obviously we were just jealous, though also responding in kind to the elitism that having VIP gave off. You're right; I don't know what it was, but ftp players could FEEL the classism

During my time on barbiegirls (which was a lot) I remember the issue of grown men preying. It was a constant thing my cousins and I would encounter when playing the game, men straight up saying they were older men looking for younger girls, or offering to buy vip memberships if we would talk sexually with them. It was a very real issue. However you’re completely right, it’s an issue that is on every kids social site:(

I'm shocked that this is your first video. You seem like an experienced creator and this video was an absolute treat! Can't wait to see what you put out next <3

I was so hurt they closed down the site that I talked to tech support on the Mattel website about it 😭 they told me it was very unlikely it would ever come back 💔

I, a 28 year old man just finished watching a video talking about a now defunct MMO site based on Barbie... and I loved it!

Omg the bullying in those virtual worlds from VIP members just unlocked some repressed memories. I used to play a virtual world called Smallworlds (which I honestly had no business using bc it was aimed at users who were 13+) and the VIP members used to always call the free members “noobs”. They would even make exclusive clubs within the world just for VIP members. It was so damn cliquey. I still regret using my Christmas money one year to pay for a VIP membership though, because the only difference was access to certain hairstyles and items for your avatar. 😂

FINALLY SOMEONE IS GIVING BARBIEGIRLS THE TIME IT DESERVES

THIS ATE SO HARD, i loved it!! Glad the photos of my MP3 were useful!! :)

My sister and I used to love this game. It combined two of the things we liked the most as kids: MMO games and Barbie dolls. We even created an account for each of our Barbie dolls, but back then we couldn't buy the mp3 player to get VIP and since we're from South America it wasn't easily accessible to us. Sooo, I'm not proud of what we did to get access to VIP content, but we managed to steal a pair of accounts from VIP users. The security of this site was so bad, a couple of 8-10 year olds could hack into someone's accounts. For those not aware: basically, if you clicked that you forgot your password, you had to answer a security question, such as "What was the name of your first pet?" or some other basic question like that. All you had to do was guess random answers until you somehow got them right, and then you had access to a strangers account. It was that EASY.

the editing!! the research!! the makeup!! the nostalgia!! i ADORE

I'm from Argentina and I think is so true the part you talk about classism. In my country is a privilege pay with dollars. Imagine in the 2000 being a child who loves the game but just simply can't afford anything in it. I feel nostalgic but at the same time is sad to think that I could never have the possibility to play the game again as a VIP member

I have a feeling though also that, at some point when Barbie Girls started offering more and more items that were exclusively VIP and left their "free to play" users in the dust, some of them started flocking towards other platforms like Zwinky and IMVU. I mean, I remember doing that myself - the MP3 players weren't available in my country and my family couldn't afford a VIP subscription so I just started spending more time on IMVU because it also provided me what BGirls couldn't, namely a chat tool with no restrictions, a much larger array of items to customize my character and, most importantly to a young girl, the feeling of being a "grown up" and belonging to a group of older people because IMVU was frequented mostly by teens and young adults (and predators, but that's a whole other story). But all in all, I feel like that also might have killed the site, people just switched to other platforms.

I never realised how expensive those mp3 players were. I think I was either in 2nd or 3rd grade when I got one from my parents as a Christmas gift. I was grateful then but even more grateful now as a working adult lmao I think my mom still has mine stored somewhere despite us moving continents. Mine was blue and she had blonde hair and I remember having Paramore's Riot album on her! This was such a great video, thank you so much for the nostalgia trip! ❤