We take our responsibilities towards our members very seriously, which is why we are delighted the forums are so active with real advice and discussion between daughters, mothers and grandmothers.” “But people know the difference between a character and real life situations. Goodbye, my love.' Frank felt himself drifting he couldn't maintain the physical form he had created. You do that by balancing a healthy diet with good fashion and having fun, just as you should in real life. The founders removed that option but made no significant changes to the game after widely consulting with members.Ĭhris added: “The whole point of the game is to keep a healthy character, not just a thin one. Just as in real life the pills had unwanted side effects on the characters. The average age of members is 19 and the oldest aged 61.Įarlier this year Miss Bimbo hit national headlines, when it was criticised for allowing members to buy diet pills for their Bimbo character. They have become the place for women on all ages to discuss the things that are important to them.”Ĩ5 per cent of members use the forums, with sections including women in society, the female body and fashion contests.Įvery day 60,000 people sign in to use the website. “While the game is what attracts people to Miss Bimbo, it is the forums that are growing rapidly. The latest Tweets from rational bimbo (real) (rationalbimbo). He said: “We are currently attracting 4,000 new players a day, and anticipate reaching the million member mark well before Christmas. They do this by feeding her, buying her clothes and living out her life online.Ĭhris Evans runs the site and can’t believe how quickly the website is growing. In the fashion game players must create a female character known as a Bimbo and help her thrive in a virtual world. It has one of the most active female forums in the UK, where women of all ages talk and exchange advice. The website launched in England in August 2007 as a virtual fashion game, and has since grown into a social networking phenomenom. Jacquart may not have much of a conscience, but I am sickened by the way he's taking advantage of young women.The UK online social networking game Miss Bimbo has just welcomed its 800,000th member – making it the biggest female forum in the UK. What's more, it sets a kind of trap to dupe the young girls with cell phones or credit cards into paying loads of money (or, rather, getting their parents to pay) for their infantile game. While the creators of the game probably intended it to be a caricatured look at what shows up in so many tabloids, the satire is probably lost on most of the games players, especially young girls. If a player runs out of "bimbo dollars," they have to pay into their account via paypal or text messages costing about $3 apiece, and some parents are reporting high phone bills as a result of their children playing the game.
There's a tidy profit to be had from the game as it exchanges real world money for "virtual money" ("It's like your money, only I have it"), and some young girls are already racking up bills to make sure they can keep playing the game. Jacquart sounds like a bit of a jackass to me, and he probably thinks he's pretty slick. The breast operations are just one part of the game and we are not encouraging young girls to have them, just reflecting real life. The missions and goals are morally sound and teach children about the real world. It is not a bad influence for young children. Parents say "Yes," but the creator of the game, a 23 year old man named Nicolas Jacquart, says "No." Quote Jacquart Does the game have a bad influence on them (especially the younger ones?). Oddly enough, the #1 consumers of the game are young girls aged 7 to 17. Perhaps meant to be satire of the "glamorous" lifestyles of female media stars, the game instructs players to find rich boyfriends for their characters to leech funds from, blow their money on breast implants for their avatars, and throw a few crumbs to their "bimbos" to strike that balance between emaciated and dead. According to CNN, a game launched in Britain called "Miss Bimbo" is causing quite a bit of controversy. I thought the whole "digital pet" craze was over, but apparently it's just mutated in some disturbing ways.
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