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Probably not lol but I'd figured I'd ask since I've been wanting to ramble on these apps for a LONG, LONG WHILE
So, starting off with Popjam, it used to be this like social media-like app for all ages. Anyone could post anything there such as photography, Gacha Life/Club edits, art, etc. as long as it wasn't against the rules (which, if I remember correctly, there wasn't an actual page or whatever to see these rules, but it was pretty clear they were just don't be inappropriate or rude obv)
I used to be known as "EverythingPokemon" on there and posted artwork I would draw on the app of various Pokémon, along with pictures I would take of my Switch to show off shinies and other cool Pokémon I got. Sometimes people would ask me to draw certain Pokémon and I would sometimes ask for other people's favorite Pokémon to draw for them (which actually made me meet either one or two people I liked a lot :D).
I also had two alt accounts I associated with EverythingPokemon, those being "ARidicouslyLongUsernameForNoReasonLol," where I would usually post Undertale/Deltarune artwork and shitposts, and "Lech0nk," where I would roleplay as a Lechonk from Pokémon for the funnies. I would also usually shorten the first two to just "EPKMN" and "ARID," though I forgot whether or not I made the "ARID" shortening well-known. I also remember there being no emails required to make an account so uhhh it would kind of suck if anyone forgot the passwords to one of their accounts oopsies
I also used to have an account on there in the past called like "BoredWhiteboard" where I would usually post stuff of my Gacha Club characters and artwork of some old OCs I brought back recently, being Jackie, Honey, Lovely, and Fido. I also made an account before that (I used to pretend to be multiple people online hhh) called "CopperAndGoldie" or something, focusing on roleplaying on being a male cat named Goldie, who would be the main one, and a female dog named Copper.
As for Anitales (also called Anitales: Story Creator and Anitales: Make Story I think), my memory is way foggier with it since I was on there when I was way younger lol. It used to be this all-ages app where people could use animal characters to make stories (usually called books or anitales due to the book and fairy tale theming) by moving them around in scenes, making them talk with both ten second (as the default) voice recordings and text, using sound effects, music, props, and more.
People could also make their own characters with three being the maximum by default; one of them would represent you and the other two could be whoever you wanted. If you were friends with someone, you could also use their character in a story if you wanted and could even collaborate by sending your story to them so that they can edit it however they want (I think? I only used it once and uhhhhhh yeah no).
I'm not gonna share what my username was on there, but I remember making myself a light purple rabbit and my most memorable character being Bonnie, a grumpy white female rabbit.
I also remember making a series called "The Anitales Journey." I'm pretty sure I made it just because I saw that stories with "War" as their genre were popular and I wanted clout lmao. Anyways, I don't remember too much of it, but I think it was a generic apocalypse story with either me or some other character as the villain who caused it.
I remember pretending to leave Anitales for good because of something that was happening but then wanting to pretend to come back after it was starting to die down lol. Problem is, I didn't want to let other people know I was faking anything for sympathy or whatever and was a little paranoid about what the possible (yet very unlikely) backlash might be, so I just kind of came back on a different account after it fully died down, pretended I was a new user who used to have a different account she didn't want to talk about, and was also inspired by some character I made for a contest into coming back with a different username??? I also kept it going until something else happened on Popjam and caused me to abandon that persona but uhhhhh.... yeah not really feeling like talking about that one yet lmao
Both of these apps are shutdown now and I don't think have ever been brought back (I haven't checked either of them after the shutdown so...)
There was also... a lot of drama and general bad things that happened within both of these apps, some of the Anitales ones also involving me. I could ramble on and on about those but uhh maybe some other time (trust me the Anitales ones were horrendous)
So yeah! Did anyone else use these? Anyone at all...? Please let there be another Anitaler on here I can vent to please please ple