Hello everyone! We have an important announcement regarding an overhaul on which the art team has been slowly working on for a while now.

You may have noticed that the Island pets have been put under construction (image seen above); this is a temporary notice and our artists are working on a simple basic recolour to replace the islands soon. The recolours will also be a temporary state of the island colour whilst our art team works diligently with the Consultants team we have to create a more culturally uplifting and appropriate island experience for you.

What is the Consultant Team?

If you're not on the discord you may not know this - but we have a consulting team regarding the racially insensitive material that is unfortunately prevalent in Neopets. It's been slow moving trying to gather people who are suitable for giving the feedback and who are personally affected by the state of things; but our ducks are in a row and we've been making considerable progress recently! That being said we always need more opinions! Though we're not ready to open the Consultants Team to public applications just yet, it will be open soon!

The Consultants Team will be a system in which Moderneopets players who are added to the team will be asked for their valuable cultural experiences in order to better reinvent certain aspects of the site (be it art, functional lands like Mystery Island or Shenkuu, items or neopets lore). Users who have relevant personal experience will be encouraged to apply to the Consultants Team if they wish to work with our artists in order to realize a more accessible and more sensitive vision of Moderneopets. A position on the Consultants Team may require users to engage with sensitive subjects, as well as creative thinking, flexibility, and collaboration with other users and the Moderneopets Art Panel in order to come to the most viable solutions with what resources we have available.

Why has it taken so long?

Given the sensitivity of the material we want to make sure that it's done right; that we don't repeat the same mistakes as Neopets. We've been discussing and working on guidelines to follow to make sure the Island colour is appropriate and inoffensive, but that has taken time.

Though, I (Hazer) should have replaced the Island pet images with a placeholder long ago, and I apologize for not doing so sooner.
I hope we'll be able to bring Moderneopets into a more inclusive and accepting site and hope you will enjoy what we have in the works!
It might take some time still, but now the ball is rolling we can't be stopped.

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Please note you may still see the old island images, in this case you will need to clear your cache!