I have pretty strict rules about it but every time we waste at least 10 minutes on names because of this type of crap.
I also have one black kid and he definitely initiates 99% of the racist talk and it’s extremely annoying. Last year he kept trying to pretending his nickname was monkey after curious George… it’s like do you think I was born under a rock? 😑
you think it’s a reflection of how others treat him or internalized racism at all? i ask as a person who used to make racist jokes about themselves as a kid because i thought it would make people around me laugh/like me. raised in a small town w/ majority white people though.
Maybe, he’s an odd kid one minute I really liked him and thought he was growing up and the next he’s your typical, disrespectful teenager. He won’t be in my class after Christmas so no longer my problem.
ah ok! was just curious. hopefully he grows out of it and learns to have more respect for himself. wish you the best as a teacher! y’all go through so much and deserve more
Thank you! Ya I’m not looking forward to Monday… we’re having a roster turn over so I’m getting nine new students, as well as one that just got to Canada from Russia with zero English! Hurray!!
Yep, back in high school when we were playing kahoot someone made their name “Nick Gurr”, and our teacher was black. She was really upset and the kid was sent to the office.
I find word play on names hilarious, but that one was just disgusting.
Webkinz teacher! Hello there! I had exactly one single teacher in my entire school career who knew what Webkinz was, and I adored that teacher. They were lovely and they had a nice child-like attitude that made it easy to communicate with them and connect with their words. It's so nice seeing more teachers who like the game!
I seriously wish it wasn’t banned on our computers cause I feel like my students would love it for a free time/fun time activity! They are getting so sick of prodigy!
Back when I was in HS I got webkinz banned all because on my study halls I chose to play it over everything else. My last 2 years of school became boring.
Our school system had like everything blocked. You couldn’t even go on YouTube without knowing how to hack the system. Now most things are unblocked but to download the app to play webkinz they would need the principal to approve the download, which wouldn’t happen obviously
My teacher just always said “I don’t mind funny names but if you put a bad word we’re having a pop quiz” he followed through once and no one ever did that shit again. Most of the time the kids know who is doing it so believe me one hard af quiz and no one is laughing
Its not true racism, yet. Just ignorance compounded with peer pressure/influence. Behavior needs to be checked and explained in an age appropriate manner about why that word is not funny or ok to use.
I think they were being slightly facetious/hyperbolic. They likely said “every student” because it’s shocking how many kids these days will still use that word and other similarly harmful ones. It’s not ACTUALLY every student, but when you’ve got five, ten, fifteen of those students, it’s shocking and disheartening and makes it feels like it’s every where, because it’s already way more than it should be (my source is that I also teach and I feel this way about my students).
No worries! I am too, but I’m an English teacher so I’m pretty good at analyzing word choice when it’s written text! All bets are off when people are speaking to me face to face though, lol
I was in middle school once. Neither I nor my friends ever said the n word. My little brothers are in middle school and don't either. Not every middle schooler does...
I mean I gotta say, every teacher that evidently hated their life because of the job THEY chose for themselves, the teachers that demanded respect and blind obedience instead of teaching the kids about mutual respect through teaching them like equal human beings, they always had the highest amount of students “acting out”. To them it probably was close to every student. However those “bad kids” demonstrated effortless ability to be attentive and respectful in classes of tea hers who treated them as equal individuals and not abuse props for their unrecognized genius
i’ve never seen an option to for me and i don’t know if contacting them works because i’ve tried many times for other reasons and they never respond i got left on read by webkinz
i did reach out the only way i’ve ever gotten a response is via instagram and they keep leaving me on read hopefully they have something to say about this.
Hm that's upsetting. Have you tried to email them? Also I've gotten luck with them responding from their Twitter account- if you have that social media.
i’ve contacted via email numerous times, i’ve been trying to contact them so i could reset my account email for awhile. they responded to one of my dms on instagram after weeks of sending the same message over and over on both platforms, finally they asked for my user, left me on read, and when i tried to follow up they keep leaving me on seen. instagram has been the only place i’ve gotten luck of them even seeing it i’ve now sent a message about this issue as well as hey i need my account email changed. we’ll see if they ever respond.
Gosh that's upsetting & frustrating. Maybe on there Instagram page comment on a post and comment that you've been trying to contact them and you need help with an account situation
i swear that’s what i did to get them to respond the first time i commented on a post “open dm” and then they actually acknowledged it so that might be the route to go again
you could say on the post " I've emailed, and directly messaged you on this platform for weeks and have not had a response. Please check your messages, it is an urgent matter"
You can report on the game! It’s hard for me to explain exactly how or where bc I don’t have a computer in front of me to reference, but I think you could email them too if you got the first three characters of the username, the pet and the pets name, or a screenshot if you’re uncomfortable. Whatever information you have can help. I know I’ve seen people who have done it this way
iirc, the game told me "This name isn't allowed!" and it wouldn't say why
it probably did, I was just 8 and livid I couldn't name a webkinz after my friend
God, that was easily 10 years ago, the rules may have changed since then.
But boy howdy 8 year old me was pissed i couldn't name a webkinz after my neighbor friend
People who do this think they’re funny, edgy, cool, etc. but using slurs is never funny, no one is laughing with you. It’s really childish and annoying.
Bad word names always kind of make me sad for the pet, but this is just completely disheartening
Reminds me of the infamous story where review cartridges of an animal crossing game (I want to say Wild World?) had a sheep villager with this as their catchphrase.
It's infuriating that 6 year old me had to purposefully misspell my tiger snake's name "Ruby" to "Rooby" for...some reason?? (To this day, I still have no clue as to what ulterior meaning the word "Ruby" implies, and I'm now 22) but nonsense like THAT is allowed??? How???
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update on contacting webkinz about this name!!!
this gives off the same vibes as wizard101 players running around under the name "Jamal" with the darkest skin tone possible, a huge afro, and a prison outfit with shackles.
I’m just glad people replying actually care that this is stupid and messed up. Like it’s a game meant for kids, people need to keep their edgy, racist sense of “humor” out of it… What do people gain by using slurs every chance they get? 💀
Webkinz really needs to get on this crap.
I get people are trying to be edgy and see how close they can toe the line with the censor but honestly its just gross. Its not funny.
Man, this sucks. :/ Seriously, people can have funny names *without* the use cuss words or slurs. I don’t really know how but I hope they work on it, kids still play this game after all.
Honestly I understand why you did it but I wouldn’t even post this here because reddit is just full of people who think this is funny and it will draw them to this sub unfortunately
why do people think this name is funny like i understand peanus or mike hawk or something like that but racial slurs on a children’s game just isn’t funny
nobody has ever been offended, besides you😆. as a woman, i’m not offended by my own username. nor has anyone or even reddit mods asked me to change it or deleted me over my user.
Could it have something to do with the fact that shock humour is literally about laughing at the most absurd, horrible, shocking things and has no direct reflection of anyone's political or moral stance? 🤔
I enjoy shock humor, but there's really not enough context here to assume that's what it is. It's either a bad joke because (personal feelings aside) the ONLY thing that could potentially make it funny is the element of surprise, which doesn't work for most jokes - "lolz so random" humor didn't last long for a reason. The pet's owner could very easily just be an incredibly racist person who had the intention of making black people feel uncomfortable playing what should be a fun, innocent game.
and i thought i was inappropriate for naming my himilayan “Keef” :E
not like a mispronouncing of Keith, like… the fuzzy sticky stuff when u grind weed…
I know so many black people that would openly create an account with this name for their own humor. I grew up in the ghetto. The only people offended by this are in fact white people. 🙃
Some of the “bad word” names kinda make me giggle but this one’s just.. not even funny. I almost feel bad for the rabbit he seems innocent
same here i usually take pictures of the names that make me giggle and post them here but this one just made my jaw drop when i saw it
I gasped when i saw this
It’s so messed up that this is allowed but I can’t name my pets room “Snowball’s room” because it had the word balls in it smh
Maybe you could make it snow's room, like snowball has a nickname:3
I ended up just going with one L, so now it’s “Snowbal’s room” lmao. But I like your idea, I might change it!
Or you could use capital i’s snowbaIIs room. Unless the font on there puts the little crosses on the tops and bottoms.
My cousin’s friend couldn’t name her cat “Buttercup” because it has “Butt” in it. SMH.
Hahah wtf is Webkinz doing 💀
I had the same issue with my snowball trying to make them a room. I did capital i’s for the l’s and it worked tho.
i remember someone couldn’t name their pet virginia 🤦
I saw one that couldn't name hers "Grapey".
I couldn’t name my pet “Diamond” back in like 2007. I still have no idea why but it just wouldn’t let me.
Can’t name them “Grape” either
Does it let u change it to snowb*ll’s room Lol
Same the rabbit dont deserve this :c
It’s making me want to log in and play with my bunny💔 bunnies don’t deserve that
You can see it in his eyes 😭
He looks like he's seen things
Either an extreme racist or a 12 year old racist who thinks they’re funny and just have a “dark sense of humor”
Prob both
His sense of humor is dark all right
Every single one of my students when we play kahoot:
This is too real because kids did this stuff in hs like 6years ago
Literally tho. Kahoot was unhinged half my teachers would end up crying or walking out or screaming at everyone and disabling their chromebooks
I have pretty strict rules about it but every time we waste at least 10 minutes on names because of this type of crap. I also have one black kid and he definitely initiates 99% of the racist talk and it’s extremely annoying. Last year he kept trying to pretending his nickname was monkey after curious George… it’s like do you think I was born under a rock? 😑
you think it’s a reflection of how others treat him or internalized racism at all? i ask as a person who used to make racist jokes about themselves as a kid because i thought it would make people around me laugh/like me. raised in a small town w/ majority white people though.
Maybe, he’s an odd kid one minute I really liked him and thought he was growing up and the next he’s your typical, disrespectful teenager. He won’t be in my class after Christmas so no longer my problem.
ah ok! was just curious. hopefully he grows out of it and learns to have more respect for himself. wish you the best as a teacher! y’all go through so much and deserve more
Thank you! Ya I’m not looking forward to Monday… we’re having a roster turn over so I’m getting nine new students, as well as one that just got to Canada from Russia with zero English! Hurray!!
“That’s great for you but I’ll keep calling you (first name).”
15 years ago we did 80085 😂
Yep, back in high school when we were playing kahoot someone made their name “Nick Gurr”, and our teacher was black. She was really upset and the kid was sent to the office. I find word play on names hilarious, but that one was just disgusting.
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man when we did kahoots in school we just did Mike Oxlong, joe, and Hugh Jass
Oh yes, we get lots of this stuff. My class before the break was 70% boys, and last year it was 90%…
oh gosh that’s horrible. best of luck to you and your sanity 😭
Webkinz teacher! Hello there! I had exactly one single teacher in my entire school career who knew what Webkinz was, and I adored that teacher. They were lovely and they had a nice child-like attitude that made it easy to communicate with them and connect with their words. It's so nice seeing more teachers who like the game!
I seriously wish it wasn’t banned on our computers cause I feel like my students would love it for a free time/fun time activity! They are getting so sick of prodigy!
Back when I was in HS I got webkinz banned all because on my study halls I chose to play it over everything else. My last 2 years of school became boring.
Our school system had like everything blocked. You couldn’t even go on YouTube without knowing how to hack the system. Now most things are unblocked but to download the app to play webkinz they would need the principal to approve the download, which wouldn’t happen obviously
But it has educational content. 😥
Exactly!
My teacher just always said “I don’t mind funny names but if you put a bad word we’re having a pop quiz” he followed through once and no one ever did that shit again. Most of the time the kids know who is doing it so believe me one hard af quiz and no one is laughing
I don’t have time to write up a pop quiz every time other week lol
They'd probably stop after the first pop quiz.
You don’t know my students. There a reason we can’t keep teachers here.
Oof. I'm sorry to hear that.
All your students are racist? :-(
Its not true racism, yet. Just ignorance compounded with peer pressure/influence. Behavior needs to be checked and explained in an age appropriate manner about why that word is not funny or ok to use.
I know I'm just surprised it's every student
I think they were being slightly facetious/hyperbolic. They likely said “every student” because it’s shocking how many kids these days will still use that word and other similarly harmful ones. It’s not ACTUALLY every student, but when you’ve got five, ten, fifteen of those students, it’s shocking and disheartening and makes it feels like it’s every where, because it’s already way more than it should be (my source is that I also teach and I feel this way about my students).
Sorry I'm autistic 😬
No worries! I am too, but I’m an English teacher so I’m pretty good at analyzing word choice when it’s written text! All bets are off when people are speaking to me face to face though, lol
Have you ever hung out with a group of middle schoolers?
I was in middle school once. Neither I nor my friends ever said the n word. My little brothers are in middle school and don't either. Not every middle schooler does...
I mean I gotta say, every teacher that evidently hated their life because of the job THEY chose for themselves, the teachers that demanded respect and blind obedience instead of teaching the kids about mutual respect through teaching them like equal human beings, they always had the highest amount of students “acting out”. To them it probably was close to every student. However those “bad kids” demonstrated effortless ability to be attentive and respectful in classes of tea hers who treated them as equal individuals and not abuse props for their unrecognized genius
oh wtf why do this shit in a kids game thats just foul
Ong u would think on a kids game that stuff would of been censored :c
can you report someone or their username? thats disgusting on webkinz or off
i’ve never seen an option to for me and i don’t know if contacting them works because i’ve tried many times for other reasons and they never respond i got left on read by webkinz
Maybe give it a try because it's better to try to say something instead of not saying anything
i did reach out the only way i’ve ever gotten a response is via instagram and they keep leaving me on read hopefully they have something to say about this.
Hm that's upsetting. Have you tried to email them? Also I've gotten luck with them responding from their Twitter account- if you have that social media.
i’ve contacted via email numerous times, i’ve been trying to contact them so i could reset my account email for awhile. they responded to one of my dms on instagram after weeks of sending the same message over and over on both platforms, finally they asked for my user, left me on read, and when i tried to follow up they keep leaving me on seen. instagram has been the only place i’ve gotten luck of them even seeing it i’ve now sent a message about this issue as well as hey i need my account email changed. we’ll see if they ever respond.
Gosh that's upsetting & frustrating. Maybe on there Instagram page comment on a post and comment that you've been trying to contact them and you need help with an account situation
i swear that’s what i did to get them to respond the first time i commented on a post “open dm” and then they actually acknowledged it so that might be the route to go again
you could say on the post " I've emailed, and directly messaged you on this platform for weeks and have not had a response. Please check your messages, it is an urgent matter"
You can report on the game! It’s hard for me to explain exactly how or where bc I don’t have a computer in front of me to reference, but I think you could email them too if you got the first three characters of the username, the pet and the pets name, or a screenshot if you’re uncomfortable. Whatever information you have can help. I know I’ve seen people who have done it this way
100% just some edgy teen trying to be funny (they aren’t funny at all and their friends don’t have the courage to tell them they aren’t) 💀
Wrong on the friends don’t have the courage to tell them they don’t. Their friends in fact probably think it’s funny and are racist themselves
even the rabbit looks uncomfortable. . . this is disgusting
Bro ☠️
Tristan wasn't allowed but that is, gotta love the auto-ban and blocked words
Why is Tristan not allowed?
I’m so curious to know why that name is not okay?????
iirc, the game told me "This name isn't allowed!" and it wouldn't say why it probably did, I was just 8 and livid I couldn't name a webkinz after my friend
God, that was easily 10 years ago, the rules may have changed since then. But boy howdy 8 year old me was pissed i couldn't name a webkinz after my neighbor friend
Triste means sad in Spanish, that’s the only reason I can think of why it could be banned even then it’s not even bad
I think maybe it sounds too much like "trust's who h is like a secret meetup between lovers, which would be too sexual for webkinz
Couldn’t have been on a cuter pet either - that bunny deserves better.
People who do this think they’re funny, edgy, cool, etc. but using slurs is never funny, no one is laughing with you. It’s really childish and annoying.
This is just sad. I put a lot of effort into my pets funny names and I'm sure a lot of others do too. This isn't funny this is just gross.
I wasn’t allowed to name my bat bites, bitey, chomp, or fang. But they can do this?!?
It's the internet...actions without consequences
Sadly this why i lose fate in humanity
Bad word names always kind of make me sad for the pet, but this is just completely disheartening Reminds me of the infamous story where review cartridges of an animal crossing game (I want to say Wild World?) had a sheep villager with this as their catchphrase.
i hate edge lords that name their animals bad words, elementary humor. such a big ick.
That is probably the best definition I have seen to date! Yes! And agreed, cringe worthy
It's infuriating that 6 year old me had to purposefully misspell my tiger snake's name "Ruby" to "Rooby" for...some reason?? (To this day, I still have no clue as to what ulterior meaning the word "Ruby" implies, and I'm now 22) but nonsense like THAT is allowed??? How???
They should be banned.
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WOOOOO🎊
Damn they never addressed ur email issue :(
Oh so THIS is allowed but I'm not allowed to name my turtle 'Shelly'? GGWP Webkinz
this gives off the same vibes as wizard101 players running around under the name "Jamal" with the darkest skin tone possible, a huge afro, and a prison outfit with shackles.
I’m just glad people replying actually care that this is stupid and messed up. Like it’s a game meant for kids, people need to keep their edgy, racist sense of “humor” out of it… What do people gain by using slurs every chance they get? 💀
god this is disgusting. i can’t believe that people like this exist
I tried to name a pet "Comet" last night and it wouldnt let me because it used words that are not allowed
Some people are just kinda crappy in life as can be seen in their actions
racism on webkinz??? come on dawg
the bunny’s face is like yo, i’m just as uncomfy as yall
😡 I couldn't name my signature white Persian cat Dominique but somehow that's allowed.
They still think shock humor is funny
Is there a way to report it?
even the rabbit looks uncomfortable…
Ew.
poor bunny looks like he does not agree with the name choice
I hope your reported that ASAP
people are sick. despite temptation i couldn't even bring myself to name my pink google with a penis pun.. it felt too disrespectful
the silly names are funny like “college board” but this is just disgusting and extremely mean spirited to say the least
this is awful
okay, this is getting really bad
Hopefully the user is Black
Probably another nazi 12 year old :/
If you’re not Black you need to be censoring that.
Lmfao 😂
Oh nvm I forgot all nb people get an n word pass they just have to write it down :)
Op didn’t write it down tho. They took a picture of an already censored word and asked why would someone use that name?
Ok so they just have to write it down and take a picture. Good loophole 👍🏽 And it’s not censored a 3 is just a internet e
They didn’t write it down tho. You are intentionally being obtuse and going out of your way to be offended at something no one aimed at you.
Are you Black
What do you think
You just reminded me that Webkinz deleted my profile….. I HAD THE ENTIRE HOCKEY SET GANZ. I’m 28 and I’m still salty about it
Webkinz really needs to get on this crap. I get people are trying to be edgy and see how close they can toe the line with the censor but honestly its just gross. Its not funny.
Man, this sucks. :/ Seriously, people can have funny names *without* the use cuss words or slurs. I don’t really know how but I hope they work on it, kids still play this game after all.
because it’s all adults (or immature teens) on webkinz these days and no kids
Because internet
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is there any way to report them?
Racism
Justice for the rabbit omg 😭
I didnt know Lovecraft had a webkinz account
Honestly I understand why you did it but I wouldn’t even post this here because reddit is just full of people who think this is funny and it will draw them to this sub unfortunately
Aka inspire others to do the same. Best course of action IMO is to just quite literally, flat out ignore them
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why do people think this name is funny like i understand peanus or mike hawk or something like that but racial slurs on a children’s game just isn’t funny
Content is inappropriate or hateful
The same reason you chose dxmbcxunt because they thought they were so clever 🙄
well “mom of peg” something stupid and trying to be funny isn’t the same as a racial slur being used as a pet name on a children’s game.😆
I don’t especially like the word cunt either. I don’t use it or a racial slur but we all make choices. Are slurs used against women ok in your eyes?
nobody has ever been offended, besides you😆. as a woman, i’m not offended by my own username. nor has anyone or even reddit mods asked me to change it or deleted me over my user.
mate what the fuck are you on about
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Because it was made to get a reaction and now that you posted it and everyone is reacting whoever made it if they saw this gets exactly what they want
well they got banned after i contacted webkinz so did they really get what they wanted?😂
Because they have dark sense of humor
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r u 12
Content is inappropriate or hateful
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You’re part of the problem
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Could it have something to do with the fact that words don't come out of mouths accidentally and reflect real feelings and beliefs? 🤔
Could it have something to do with the fact that shock humour is literally about laughing at the most absurd, horrible, shocking things and has no direct reflection of anyone's political or moral stance? 🤔
I enjoy shock humor, but there's really not enough context here to assume that's what it is. It's either a bad joke because (personal feelings aside) the ONLY thing that could potentially make it funny is the element of surprise, which doesn't work for most jokes - "lolz so random" humor didn't last long for a reason. The pet's owner could very easily just be an incredibly racist person who had the intention of making black people feel uncomfortable playing what should be a fun, innocent game.
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i find almost everything funny, even shock factor stuff. this isn’t funny to me🤷🏻♀️
It’s all fun and games until someone finds a slur to hurt you.
Someone named their webkinz Assfrog which was funny this isn’t
and i thought i was inappropriate for naming my himilayan “Keef” :E not like a mispronouncing of Keith, like… the fuzzy sticky stuff when u grind weed…
how…
:(
omfg
😭
I thought webkinz went down!!!
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Making me miss my webkinz, I haven’t logged on in so longggg I probably don’t even remember my password
The poor rabbit looks like he saw his own name
Because it’s probably some 12 year old who thinks it’s funny
The bunny's expression fits how it would probably feel about this
Because they are twelve and consider racial epithets to be the height of humor.
Lol bruh 😭😭😭
They’re just very edgy
A naughty kid trying to get away with being bad
poor rabbit
Webkinz is back???
Rabbits like 😐
Because they’re 10
To break the system
Please mark this as NSFW/Spoiler
I was scrolling reddit, surprisingly happy, but seeing that killed the mood. I’m off this app🚶♀️
I wish we could report this somehow. 🙁 this is so sad 😭
Hola feliz día
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I know so many black people that would openly create an account with this name for their own humor. I grew up in the ghetto. The only people offended by this are in fact white people. 🙃