How long have you played imvu for?

NeedTrigger4_Free
by NeedTrigger4_Free · 46 posts
1 year ago in Introductions
Posted 1 year ago · Author
I've personally started playing due to an ex who got me on multiple social media platforms. So when I started I started in 2017 but people actually played back in 2010 and such and I was even surprised to see people to be around that long. Do you think imvu still holds up nowadays for all the updates it's received over the years or not?
Posted 1 year ago
I started in 2006, after I saw an ad on porn hub, advertising IMVU as a sex simulator "beyond reality". Back then, IMVU was much more open to sex products. They did not ban sex from IMVU till July of 2007; the same year the IMVU Mafias graduated from an IMVU group to our own website. It was actually an IMVU staff members who told us to make our own website, because our group had gotten too large and too difficult to moderate via the limited functionality offered by IMVU's groups system.
Posted 1 year ago
Don Von Alpha Dom wrote:
I started in 2006, after I saw an ad on porn hub, advertising IMVU as a sex simulator "beyond reality". Back then, IMVU was much more open to sex products. They did not ban sex from IMVU till July of 2007; the same year the IMVU Mafias graduated from an IMVU group to our own website. It was actually an IMVU staff members who told us to make our own website, because our group had gotten too large and too difficult to moderate via the limited functionality offered by IMVU's groups system.

@Don Von Alpha Dom


woah!!! had no idea that was originally a vu group! that's really cool!! pretty interesting that a staff member told u to go make ur own site lol
Posted 1 year ago
@sadecatgirl


Yeah, the group had around 2,500 members after only a few months, and then during it's last couple weeks of existence it jumped to 4,000 members. With great popularity came critiques though. A group of nutzo creators / developers made a thread on the IMVU forums accusing us of harming them via our tutorials on how to get free credits / products (the same tutorials you can find on our site here: viewforum.php?f=64 ). The accusations were that we were somehow lowering the profits of all developers. Anyways, these developers were really pissed off and started creating dummy accounts, which they used to raid the group ... filling our threads with pictures of dead children hanging from trees, with the message "this is what happens to kids who want free stuff". At the same time, our moderators started getting h4c|<7d and disabled. The spam attacks were happening too fast / too often for our remaining moderators to keep up with, and IMVU staff couldn't have a group full of dead child pictures, so they contacted us, told us they needed to shut the group down, and recommended we create our own site ... gave us their full blessing, even recommended phpbb as a system with good moderation features. I agreed, and asked for a bit of time. They said that they would give us a week to move everything to our own website before they would shut the group down. I spent the next week coding like crazy and getting our members moved over. That's how The IMVU Mafias was born.
Posted 1 year ago
Don Von Alpha Dom wrote:
@sadecatgirlYeah, the group had around 2,500 members after only a few months, and then during it's last couple weeks of existence it jumped to 4,000 members. With great popularity came critiques though. A group of nutzo creators / developers made a thread on the IMVU forums accusing us of harming them via our tutorials on how to get free credits / products (the same tutorials you can find on our site here: viewforum.php?f=64 ). The accusations were that we were somehow lowering the profits of all developers. Anyways, these developers were really pissed off and started creating dummy accounts, which they used to raid the group ... filling our threads with pictures of dead children hanging from trees, with the message "this is what happens to kids who want free stuff". At the same time, our moderators started getting h4c|<7d and disabled. The spam attacks were happening too fast / too often for our remaining moderators to keep up with, and IMVU staff couldn't have a group full of dead child pictures, so they contacted us, told us they needed to shut the group down, and recommended we create our own site ... gave us their full blessing, even recommended phpbb as a system with good moderation features. I agreed, and asked for a bit of time. They said that they would give us a week to move everything to our own website before they would shut the group down. I spent the next week coding like crazy and getting our members moved over. That's how The IMVU Mafias was born.

@Don Von Alpha Dom


wow....such a crazy story!!!
Posted 1 year ago
I started in 2011. At that time, social networks such as netlog were still popular, IMVU was advertised through banners (but in those years it was also highly advertised on platforms such as YouTube) which allowed me to learn about IMVU.

For several years I frequented IMVU steadily, until I gradually abandoned it starting in 2017... about two years ago I even decided to delete my two accounts, since I was no longer using them, but after a few months I decided to sign up again, even though I login to IMVU very rarely.

I thought I could keep an active account, in case I wanted to use it, just as I did with the Second Life account that I haven't used for years now.
Posted 1 year ago
Started imvu in 2008 and joined mafias almost right away. Love this community.

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