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by brotherjerky 3158 days ago
Was this really just girls? I knew plenty of guys who played as well.
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No, but they talk about that in the article:

"According to Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown in their 2006 book Packaging Girlhood, nearly 60 percent of Neopets' visitors were girls, which is high for a computer game in the early 2000s. Glixel reached out to Neopets' original creators for more detailed data, but did not receive a response."