Share your Habbox History!

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Habbox History!


Since we are celebrating diversity and all that we have achieved, what better way then to celebrate our Habbox History, our individual achievements, thoughts and feelings!

Please comment below with your Habbox History!

How long have you been at Habbox?
What is your greatest Habbox achievement?
How long have you been staff for?
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Please refrain from posting any nasty comments, this is after all a celebration!

[Jarkie]

How long have you been at Habbox? - Been on and off for a good few years.
What is your greatest Habbox achievement? - Finding and befriending some amazing people.
How long have you been staff for? - Again, on and off for a good few years.

[Ozad]

I have worked at Habbox since 27 March 2018, which is just over 3 years now!

I began my adventure here as an Event Organise, having been convinced to join by Despect, YellowBelli and Ekelektra. I was very nervous and shy when I first started here, however after a few short months I fell right in and ended up joining a couple of other departments and making my way up the ladder to eventually assist in managing two departments!

The thing I love most about Habbox is the people, they never fail to put a smile on your face when you need it and are always there for you! Habbox has been more like a family to me then a fansite, and I don't know who I would be today without meeting every single one of you.


#SoppyButTrue (https://habboxforum.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=SoppyButTrue)

[tbl]

I officially joined Habbox in January 2019 after lurking for a couple of months. Kudos to Emily for being a complete stalker and convincing me to join, lol.

I've learned a lot and met some great people while at Habbox. Some of my favorite memories are with people from Habbox!

[Ozad]

I officially joined Habbox in January 2019 after lurking for a couple of months. Kudos to Emily for being a complete stalker and convincing me to join, lol.

I've learned a lot and met some great people while at Habbox. Some of my favorite memories are with people from Habbox!

I love this! sexpot; the lil stalker, she has been a great addition to Habbox over the years! as have you!! <3

[Ekelektra]

I joined HabboxForum in June 2011 and I just looked up the date and it was... 10 years ago today! I remember it was around the birthday time because I signed up and entered a birthday comp and won some forum VIP which definitely made me feel welcome ;)

I hung around in the Help Desk a lot and applied to be staff and was accepted in September 2011. Then I was staff there for two years!! Becoming a senior after one year and assistant manager and then manager. I left in October 2013 and didn't really come on much until actually being asked to come back to HxHD in June 2017. In September that year I joined Content Design and then became the manager a monthish later.
And then May 2020 I joined HabboxLive which I had been thinking about doing for yeaaars and finally did which has been great. I was also an events organiser for a little bit in 2011.

So I've been here for 10 years and staff for 6 years all up.

My greatest achievement as I said in the recent habbox.com interview lol has been HabboxWiki of course which for the past 3 years has just been growing in popularity SO MUCH and sometimes I cannot keep up. But it warms my heart when I see it referenced on Twitter or YouTube or people contact me to add something or I get to teach people how to do it. And of course that is not just my achievement because so many people contribute to it.

[jamiexo]

I've been at Habbox since I think April-ish 2018. I was off and on joining events throughout that time, but I was Competitions staff since then. Since then, I've been in multiple different departments, and I've enjoyed every single one I've been in. I don't even remember to this day how I came across Habbox, but I'm glad I did!

I agree with everyone above in that, my greatest achievement definitely has to be getting myself out there and meeting a bunch of new people. When I joined 3 years ago, never did I imagine that I would meet and become friends with people that would later become some of the most important people in my life. So thankful for everything working out the way it did <3

[MadameJaquack]

I remember I stumbled my way into a couple events and clearly had SUCH FUN that I applied to be an events organiser back in October, and (still) pretty proud that I was promoted to senior within a month of joining:P Then ended up joining content which has been better for me than I ever knew it was lol, guess some part of me has missed the mental research phase of uni so researching for the wiki (and articles!) keeps my brain happy lol.

BUT just like I think everyone has said, I've been so unbelievably lucky to meet the most amazing people who, despite having never met any of them irl (YET), have made the most incredible changes to my world already. I joined Habbox thinking it would just be a way to fill my time while there was a pandemic and I was between jobs but instead found something so much more special


just wanted to add a note that while I was writing this Jarkie was watching my dominoes pizza tracker and sending me live updates and tbh I think that's the friendship we all deserve

[LucyFaye]

I think I've been a member since about 2011 (that's what my forum account says anyway, not sure about the actual site as I just locked myself out by using the wrong password too many times... LOL)
Initially I just used it for the rare values, radio and possibly a few competitions I'm not sure. But I always loved it!
I don't think I used the forum very much at all.

My greatest Habbox achievement was any awards I've won so far! Such as nicest member/staff and Comps writer hehe. (Not sure if I won an events one I can't remember off the top of my head)

I have been staff since HxSS 2019 (Pretty much same time as Dyl [Ducklopholiac])about 2 days after I returned to Habbo after a LONG hiatus. (Only came back to give my stuff away then got re-addicted!)
I initially went to HFFM but soon realised it... wasn't for me shall we say... lol. So came straight to Habbox when I realised they were still a thing! (Which I was VERY happy about hehe)

[Shannon]

So I actually came across Habbox, way way back in the dawn of fansites (dun dun dun) where i was working at other fansites and was actually snooping. (I mean who didn't snoop). I eventually retired in 2012 (yup retirement) and joined habbox as a mini stop shall we say, and ended up joining as DJ and lasted a few weeks before i was getting harassed to re-join said site. I actually met a lot of you back then, but had never connected the dots until recently.

After another fansite retirement and being harassed again, i decided to rejoin habbox last march . To actually be an unknown, no stigma, no preconceptions and no drama and i actually used an Alias! Its actually a known fact i make alot of choices based on drunk and spontanous or joke like impulses, and this was one of them. But its hilarious looking back to actually see im still here.

So honestly I have so many personal accomplishments here at habbox. So firstly the radio revival, I mean wow! Its been such a pleasure to be able to have gotton HxL to where it is now, and I am so proud of everyone who has been apart of that journey, weather its suggestion idea's or just booking the odd slot, its just phenomenal to see that we are the most active, and legitimately one of the most popular radios in terms of habbo. Through this i have had the pleasure to teach a wide range of staff different skills and i have found it so rewarding to see them progress and grow both online and off. Mega soppy but #truth (https://habboxforum.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=truth) . Im just super excited to see what the coming years have in store for hxl.

I think Last Man Standing was a huge turning point and achievement for me, it shocked lots of people, alot of people in the past have always confided me to this radio manager sterotype box. I can host events, and do lots of other stuff (some skills you have yet to see - MWAHAHAA), alot of friends were actually shocked at the impressiveness and smoothness during the event. It was just super amazing to see everyone come together and create something fun, different and exciting on the client. I can't wait to beat this again next year and up the anti even more - Just watch this space.

#superlongbutalottosay (https://habboxforum.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=superlongbutalottosay)

[welshcake]

I joined Habbox in 2011 but started in the Help Desk and events in 2014. From there I swear I've done almost everything. Senior HxHD, senior HxL, head DJ(?), graphics then rare values.
I took over the rare values manager job from undertaker and became help desk manager for a minute just before I became assistant general manager content. I left AGM due to er ... a personal reason :') but kind of stuck around until I left properly in 2017. Genuine have no hobbies or anything in real life but Habbox was always something I randomly thought about a few times a month up until May this year when I messaged Empired and said guess what?! I've applied for HxL again. So that brings me to now. HxL and just returned to the help desk. In some ways every thing just feels so familiar here apart from all the new people. I am actually very happy to be back.

[lawrawrrr]

How long have you been at Habbox?

I signed up in 2009 after my friend (also laura) introduced me. I was sort of active on Habbo (as much as one can be when they're not allowed to use a computer) but came back in 2010 after I won a win a room comp with DJ Rave and DJ Robbie and never looked back!



What is your greatest Habbox achievement?

It's a tie between designing & coding the current site/forum layouts, and building RV from scratch.

Neither were completely alone and I just wanna say a massive thanks to everyone, most of which don't even use the forum any more, who helped in that process.

How long have you been staff for?

On and off since Christmas Eve 2010. Fully since June 2013 :P

[LUCPIX]

How long have you been at Habbox?

January 2016, 50% of a decade and counting! It was one of my earliest and most unusure days after actually concluding High School aka after minimally being an member of the academic environment for about 15 years nonstop. Habbo can either be the cause or the consequence of your life's temporary darkness! Luckily, I'm the B case!

My proto stages in the context of being a Habboxer expressed firstly when I fled from the Brazilian Habboy panorama kinda under the intuitive impulse of, God knows why, verifying whether the concept of Help Desks was as trendy as it was in my country's Hotel, and everything else. Turns out it was — the instant research took me immediately to this isolated but fruitful portion of available rooms called HxHD, featuring some folks of interesting chats (at least from the perspective of a person who was still yet to develop a minimal sense of English speaking?) and low numbers on their registering dates, in some extent demonstrating how absurdly cool everyone and everything seemed to be, but that's because I'm a lifetime easily-impressed noob! The room building, at the time, provided an aesthetic that reminded me a little of Greek buildings given the profusion of marble, white structures, but I may be fully incorrect on that. That superstars from that era (and present, why not?) were all there: [...] Absently, despect, Empired, Joe, lawrawrrr, Samanfa, welshcake, dbgtz, Plebings [...] and everyone with which I didn't happen to have a considerable level of personal connection but, by the non-necessity of living in a mutual admiration kinda society, still matters because of how they indirectly helped me to develop my habboxology? Like, I have it in my old journal, you can laugh of me: Zealoux (a.k.a. Alysha) casually mentioned the existence of the Graphics Designer and the Pixel artist jobs availability and the invitation did flame a candle above my head, which made me, faster than immediately, to hang up on my now unused HabboQuests account to dive into a white and blue, snowflaky HabboxForum (as, you know, it's set to use a wintery theme as default), took a quick screen print of my now-banned Habbo avatar chewing a carrot with the eyes closed, and created THE WEIRDEST self-introduction thread, on which I probably emphaticise too much on the fact I love watching Warner Brothers short cartoons directed by Robert Clampett, which was the most alien thing I could highlight in a thread of its kind if I wanted to summarize who I was as a human!!!! The fact is that I didn't have ANYTHING to send to the Graphic Design folks as I had a baggage with zero of-recent-memory habbo arts and the only thing that stuck me to the work was the affirmation that "I enjoyed rearranging the digital matter into something relevant, the good whole cause and effect business that art promotes and all that jazz" and that my sporadic moments as some RPG Maker person taught me that pixel arts have their charm as the only digital art form that couldn't be faithfully duplicated IRL and just happens to be one of the most catchy visual elements when done well (still workin' on it)! So, let's see, what should I send 'em as DEMOs? In less than 10 minutes I drew 2 or 3 potentially decent badges with no specific context on PhotoFiltre Studio X (still my number 1 crafting table, after all these years!)... and, the rest, you probably already know!


What is your greatest Habbox achievement?

I have this WONDERFUL but IMPOSSIBLE idea of programming an icon-sized picture drawing tool and asking people to draw beautiful images on it it as a Graphics Department competition. Using an engine that was built to code dragon fights, world maps, hero dialogues, but... not to be a MS Paint replacement. What the HELL was I thinking? It was a blurry wackiness, the sending of 10 different "does it look good?" builds to Shonly per second on Skype, with little to no differences between one test version to another; the impromptu trip to Grandmas' town that tightened the deadline; "Sloths, can you please post this comp for me in X days?" and multiple other inconveniences... only to, in my return to Curitiba, witness the actual competition entries from little people who not only successfully downloaded the program but managed to make something GOOD out of it, pushing the weird lucpix icon painting engine straight to its boundaries, meaning that it paid off in its actual purpose, which made me as joyful as Daedelus seeing his son playing a horse toy he's built — in fact, all that they did won "7x1" if compared to my tests— and gave me the false (false?) sense of security on following the steps as a coding-wannabe!!

OH and designing the generic, aseasonal version of the current Habbox logo? It's the first thing that most of the new folks look at when they walk around our town and, in an indirect fashion, determines their overall perception, which matters when they decide on whether or not they should be one of us, then I think it's one of my greatest Habbox achievements, too

How long have you been staff for?

2016-present on multiple Graphics roles (MINUS a 2019 hiatus)

[Badr56]

In 2016 me and my friend Lill-meeDk (some of you know her as Katja or Kat) came by the Habbox Helpdesk.
I know about Habbox from rare values but had not joined back then, a lovely helpdesk worker called Cerys convinced us both to join the helpdesk.
I clearly remember the Habbox awards were right after we joined, and we planned to go in matching outfits and actually won best dressed still being HxHD Trialist.
Later in 2016 I joined the hxl even though i was very uncomfortable with speaking English but our manager back then despect convinced me, when I 2 weeks after passing my trial as a DJ got offered Senior DJ I knew it was my destiny to DJ for habbox and even though i have left a few times I have always returned.
My greatest achievement was probably in 2018 when I became Articles Manager when I joined I did not see myself in a manager role but i achieved it, and I might not have been the greatest Articles Manager and my reign only lasted 4 months but I learned allot in those 4 months, I still sometimes go back and find my old articles for nostalgia reasons.

[Dan2nd]

How long have you been at Habbox?

This made me log into Habbo for the first time in years to check, but I joined Habbo for the first time on 21st August 2004. The first thing I did was join a "Mafia" and decided to work my way up the ranks... after a month or so and having made it to the prestigious rank of "2nd Boss" I was soon given the ultimate privilege any Habbo at the time who was part of any respectful organisation would be proud of.... I was given "rights" to kick people from the room! It was shortly after this, that a spammer entered the room ****TUNE IN TO HABBOXRADIO.COM TO WIN A HC SOFA****... and I kicked them. But shortly after kicking them I tuned into The Habbox Radio and became a regular listener. It wasn't until 2005 when invited by my brother that I joined HabboxForum. One of the first post I made sticks in my mind not because I remember what I said, but because I was told by another member that "You shouldn't be able to speak"

After that I had a few different Habbox jobs and finally left in around 2012ish. I have returned a couple of times for short stints and do occasionally have a little look to see you're all still here.


What is your greatest Habbox achievement?

I'm torn, 8Freak8 put me forward as HxHD manager when I wasn't even staff because I was "doing a much better job than the people who should be staff" which put ---MAD--- in a really awkward situation and if I remember right upset a few long serving members of staff!

But I think my most fond acheivement I remember was when I worked at HxTV and created my own little series of Doctor Who. There are lots of shows that went out which were probably a lot better, but I remember at the time towards the end of HxTV's life that was the only "popular" show remaining and when I decided to leave was the last straw which resulted in the department being shut down. (or so 8Freak8 told me!) Again it was so much fun and always exciting to see the reaction from viewers!! The drama I think I had with a rival creator also made it exciting!

How long have you been staff for?

I can't actually remember if I'm honest I think I was quite a flakey staff member. I think I was HxHD Staff a few times, HxHD manager twice and HxTV creator during my time. I think I was a bit too immature at the time to really stick it out though! Funnily enough I'm now a Help Desk Manager in real life, so I must have learnt something!!

Just to end I wouldn't say I was a super popular or memorable member, but the fun times I had at Habbox will stick with me forever and it'll be a real sad day if I ever come to visit to find it's gone!

[Inseriousity.]

How long have you been at Habbox?:
I know I signed up beforehand but I didn't really start visiting Habbox actively until roughly December 2007.

What is your greatest Habbox achievement?
There are so many things I remember fondly, mostly a lot of the events I organised. Habbox World Cup, Habbox Monopoly, Habbox Olympics 2012 (same time as The Great Mute that I thought would derail the whole thing but actually made it better), Shipwrecked. I'll also give a shoutout to the Habbox Awards 2010 which moved from being Habbo-based to HabboxLive based. I believed at the time that we could use HxL in more inventive and creative ways to provide the USP that our rare values don't really do anymore. The "rehearsal" that I went through beforehand with the host DJs meant I also thought it was going to be a complete disaster but on the night, it seemed like everyone really enjoyed the different version and the jokes that were awkward in the rehearsal got big laughs. It's always a huge relief when you organise these things, you try to be a little different but you're worried that it won't take off (and I did have a few clunkers along the way) and then it turns out to be better than you expected.

How long have you been staff for?:
The HabboxWiki page says 2008 to 2015 so I'll take its word for it, sounds right. I'm not a Competitions Manager in real life (lol dan is now a help desk manager, that made me laugh, almost like fate!) but I do think I am better at my job because of the skills and experience that Habbox gave me.

Happy birthday Habbox, now you're old enough, get a round in! :)

[Sho]

How long have you been at Habbox?:
i signed up in april 2011 cos i was taking part in the easter eggstravanza, but i wasn't really active until i joined the events department in october 2012.

What is your greatest Habbox achievement?
my time as competitions manager and the big events i hosted (mainly draw my thing, habbox pokemon, habbox hogwarts, murder on habbox express). i also hold the record for most events hosted in a month which is probably an achievement but actually just embarassing cos it shows how much spare time i had :-! lmao

How long have you been staff for?:
i was staff from 2012 until 2019!

[-:Undertaker:-]

How long have you been at Habbox?

I joined Habbox on the 19th January 2006 - almost 15 years ago - after my trade room was sponsored by the then-General Manager 8Freak8.


What is your greatest Habbox achievement?

My passage from joining the forum and becoming management only a few months later was apparently unheard of before on the site at that time, so that is one achievement back then that I am happy with. My proudest though was probably my first Rare Values Department because we did a stellar job and everyone really got on well... just a shame it came to an abrupt end, although I did return for another two stints so it wasn't the final chapter by any means.


How long have you been staff for?

I was staff 2006-2007, 2009-2010 and 2010-2015 so an overall total of 9 years or so. I'm now retired!