#Santae, the virtual pet site that fired me after two weeks working there because the owner and one of his admins started a conspiracy theory that i was an evil infiltrator because my voice sounded androgynous, has just closed after a few months of slow implosion.
I'm not sure how I feel. I don't think it was ever going to improve because the problems were so systemic and high-up. This is not the owner's first failed pet site and if he had been clear about his identity I know that many people wouldn't have funded it. I was never going to go back to normally using it after my experience working there. It's still sad to see it go because people poured their money and time into it, and there are artists that have still not been paid by the owner.
I'll be updating my page of #virtualPets named after my wife at https://luckydevil.nz/bo shortly to reflect the site is not coming back. I'm happy I already had this screenshot, since everyone was given under ten minutes warning in the Discord before the server was nuked and the site went down!
Very few people can appreciate the reference, but I'm so fucking pleased!!
Also if you're interested in this neopets-like web-based pet game:
The pet site #Santae is now open for signups. I would love if you could share my referral link and, if you're interested, sign up and join me >:) I'm trying to get one of each pet and one species is primarily from the referral contests!
https://www.santae.net/refer/3447
Here is my wife pet and petpet, of course (pet names can be non-unique)
GensoX
Lucky ✨
Void-Star