Playanimaljam/therealajhq/Compass Locus/paj-vtl

*This is a page about the history of the PLAYANIMALJAM/PAJ universe in real life, you may be looking for AJHQ.*

PLAYANIMALJAM is the blog of all time. Read it now! Side effects of reading may include asthenia, coughing, increase in body temperature, fatigue, headaches, increased depression and anxiety, mydriasis, tachycardia, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, throat irritation, dyspnoea, arthralgia, neck pain, hypokalemia, inflammation, pruritus, hyperglycemia, hypertension, death,

## History

### TheRealAJHQ

PlayAnimalJam, commonly shortened to PAJ, originally began as a blog called TheRealAJHQ (Now found at NotTheRealAJHQ, see below for extra detail), created April 13th, 2018. The blog was a parody of Animal Jam's management, masking itself as the official promotional Tumblr blog for the game. The blog had a very loose plot and was mostly jokes unrelated to the actual story behind it, however it still saw the introduction of characters such as Eric, Bigfoot, National Geographic and Jane.

The blog had received mixed reception from the Jamblr community, regarding fake (originally - it became genuine due to the idea of the blog spreading "misinformation" that went untagged) discourse over the character Bigfoot seeming too realistic/serious. Later, the blog's cryptic nature would come into question for similar reasons.

In May 2018 TheRealAJHQ was left abandoned and the content for the blog was largely moved to PlayAnimalJam.

In April 2021, TheRealAJHQ was briefly terminated on the 16th. This turned out to be an error from Tumblr's system, and unlike PlayAnimalJam, the blog was successfully retrieved after a few days, being fully restored on the 25th.

### PlayAnimalJam

Playanimaljam was created as a continuation of TheRealAJHQ. In its first month it exclusively reposted posts from official Animal Jam social media and kept quiet about its relation to TheRealAJHQ before revealing itself with the poster of the movie "We're Back!" edited to have Animal Jam logos and items over the character's faces and Bigfoot. AND ALSO NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, WHO THE ORIGINAL MAKER OF THIS PAGE DID NOT INCLUDE. EDITOR'S NOTE: FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE!! THAT'S MY HUSBAND

This blog had far more posts related to the story of the blog and characters as it went on while also still keeping up the comedic feel of its posts from TheRealAJHQ.

The blog ran from May 2018 to October 2019. On October 1st, 2019, PlayAnimalJam was banned by Tumblr for the impersonation of Animal Jam and WildWorks as a company. Goodnight, sweet Jammer.

### Compass Locus/CLHQ

   Compass Locus was the first blog created after the termination of PlayAnimalJam. Designed to carry on the story without being directly related to Animal Jam, it followed the events of the story after a complete wipe of the universe on Locus after the events of Sexybirds (Eric and Leonardo's epic swag adventure), as well as the introduction of new characters to keep the story flowing.

Compass Locus had a changed logo and blue color scheme instead of orange, but eventually returned to being orange after one of the mods threatened departure, citing the uncanny logo as her reasoning. Posts on Compass Locus were similar to the previous blogs, being cryptic at times but relatively story-driven. The blog was very short lived and only ran from October to December, making its final post on December 18th, 2019. This was because it fucking sucked, and nobody wanted to read it.

...but hey, you should check out the two boys who lived.

### PAJ-VTL

PAJ-VTL was created in May of 2020, with development for it beginning May 16th. It took the format of a webcomic retelling all the events of TheRealAJHQ and PlayAnimaJam but with no relation to Animal Jam, at all, because the trainwreck that was Compass Locus was not enough of a lesson in "don't fucking make it about anything but Animal Jam" to convince anyone of how bad of an idea this was.

The company in PAJ-VTL is only known as "The Company", and it's not updating a-fucking-gain, having only lasted until September 3rd, 2020, with only occasional sporadic updates. Good riddance!

### (Not)TheRealAJHQ, ***again***

TheRealAJHQ, which had to get its URL changed out of fear that Tumblr would once again cast its fur(r)y upon our innocent lives, was finally given a return arc in August 2021 after the ~~months~~ YEARS of mistakes that had happened prior. The blog pertains to a similar posting formation that PlayAnimalJam had, balancing posts about what-fucking-ever with random story intervals in no discerning order or predictable manner. As it should be, Jammers! <3 (E/N: Hope this looks cleaned up enough, besties)