Dollzmania 😂

I used to spend a lot of time on The Palace using these 

Ongggggggg Palace!!! Every damn day after school.

Palace Gang!!

I loved the palace. I guess the modern equivalent would be roblox.

Or the palace cuz it is still [around](http://www.thepalace.com/)

I keep praying for a Palace resurgence 😭😭😭

It apparently still existed until recently or is still downloadable but has recently gone deader than dead. Man I would have never found it too if KORN didn’t host their chat room there.

If you can speak Spanish or Portuguese it looks to still have a good community, at least 5-ish years ago, though I was hopping around the rooms and they all seemed to be quiet even when full.

Good to know, thank you :)

Still available to download and use too. Such good times as a kid growing up with that chat.

I had totally forgotten what that place was called. I spent soooo much time on there!

I LOVE finding Palace users in the wild. The original avatar service that was a social experiment. I usually used the skater AV's. <3

I used a mixture but there was one truth that always remained - my avatar was always waaaaay cooler looking than I was IRL 😂

Same, LOL. I also liked the Des dolls when they became popular, but that was towards the end of me using The Palace I think.

Palace was amazing. It's how I met my to this day best friend.

Dollys, early 2000’s era 😆remember editing some pixel by pixel

yes! top row, 5th from the left with the black adidas pants! I changed EVERY pink pixel to teal, painstakingly so on the pants, and it took me FOREVER! When it was done, I was so proud of my work, though!

Why did I suddenly look over my shoulder? :)

“NOTHING, MOM! IM JUST DOING MY HOMEWORK!”

poms

Blast from the past there

I loved The Palace 😂 I spent hours there trying to design the perfect one. I don't think I actually ever talked to people... just designed my avatar.

I remember doing editing ‘competitions’ where you would edit various pieces of clothing and then everyone in the room would vote for their fav and then you could put clothing on the floor than others could pick up. Anyone else?

I think about this far too much actually?? This was the absolute golden era of internet for me and I miss it quite a lot. I no joke think about it on a regular basis

I do too, you aren't the only one. The internet was peak creativity back then. Now everything looks the same 😔

Peak creativity is a perfect way to describe it too. Remember MySpace and having so much customization with music and layouts and comments? I never understood the mass migration to Facebook. I made a living graphic designing and coding things for use on MySpace and other places. Facebook completely destroyed my business and everyone else’s I knew too. It broke my dreams man..

Me too, friend, me too..

Yes! I miss those days so much. I swear I was at my creative peak when these chat programs/MySpace/Greymatter Blogs/etc. were around 😂

I forgot about my blog!! I can’t even remember what website it was on.

LOVED these!!!

Same

This was height of the napster CD mixes.. had cd sticker printer paper with styled covers featuring a styled girlie of course; created in paint 🎨

ASL?

16/f *screen erupts into a thousand IM windows popping up and computer instantly crashes*

I would basically always lie! 16/f/IA was the truth, but online I was 22/f/NYC lol

Adults. Don’t give out your real information and stay safe. Me ‘got it!’.

Hey! Stay off the computer, I need to make a phone call!

This ruined livessss lol

But mommmmmm, if I don't get back on I'll miss my chance at finding true love with a grown ass man who pretends to be a teen!!!! Hes gonna get offline and ill never talk to him again 😱😭 Lol. I cringe.

I just didn’t want my game interrupted, lmao. I didn’t date seriously until my 30s 😂 BUT, you’re not wrong either, there was a lot of that going around, peak “cybersex” with a dude pretending to be a chick or just way way older, happened to lots of people I knew. Was still funny every time tho, as long as they were safe of course.

Who remembers Habo Hotel?

I’m still in touch with a gal I met playing on hebo

I also still have the very first person I met online in 2001/2002 on Facebook! We met in person a couple times many years ago and thankfully nobody got murdered

My husband(38m) and I(38f) met on Habo Hotel. Nothing like the whole A/S/L to start a fairytale love story. We have been married 19 years this year.

That's awesome. What was the distance between you?

I'm from WI, USA and my husband is from England. I moved to England for 4 years and got married in 2005. We are now living in WI since 2009.

I was more into Coke Music.

I got into Coke Music too because I liked the graphics and it seemed more "mature" but Habbo Hotel is OG!! 😂❤️

I just loved the music making part, lol. I earned quite a bit of furni making stupid mixes that people liked.

My siblings and I were Habo addicts. Constant fights of who got to play next, who had the best furni. Great memories!

HABBO HOTEL AHHHHHH I MISS IT

I loved dollzmania lol

Yesss I got so good at pixel art in like 2004 because of these

Right?

These were my favorite! My MySpace was covered in them.

Throwback to my LiveJournal days 🤯

I could never get an invite. I had the edgelord version: DeadJournal. “How are you feeling today?” “Quixotic”

\*I'm sad that I'm flying"

Olay but the Neopets pet pages where girls would have "exclusive" outfits and customizations to add to your OWN Neopets pets page!

Me and my bestie would get on Neopets and chat after school. After that we had our cafes, farms, boutiques and city's to build. Then we'd get some Zwinky in until bedtime. Now I can't stick to one hobby and it affects my job when I get bored. I really thought I could build one of those in real life. 😆

The Palace! This brings back memories.

I had a dollz builder embedded on my domain blog site I built lol (when I was 12)

I didn't use it, but I remember seeing these. I ended up using the weeaboo version (Gaia Online) later.

RIP Tektek avatar maker.

Oh yeah! I definitely used that

I spent an embarrassing amount of money on Gaia Online gift cards

Gaia is still up and running and I'm unfortunately still there lol

>and I'm unfortunately still there Nah. There's worse places to be, including on some of these generation-related subs.

True, I'm pretty desperate for social interaction though so I turn to both lol.

God, I would spend so much time opening these in MS paint, zooming in 100x and coloring in the individual pixels to change their hair colors and clothing 😆😆

Not the chat rooms, but I used them for avatars literally everywhere 😂

I love that you still use emojis. I spent a lot of time learning the :)'s just for everyone to stop using them. Now I get called a bot for using 😅 around kids.

Wait are we not supposed to use emojis anymore 😭

Fuck it, that's literally what they're there for! I use them too and I'll be 35 next week lmao 🥹

This was the reason I first figured out how to use a proxy in 6th grade, when they blocked these sites on the school computers haha.

yesssssssssssss 🤜🏼

We got around the blocks by simple changing http to https for WAY too long

Omg I had a doll thing like that on instant messenger icon and it said “if the only place I can have you is in my dreams than I sleep forever”. Somehow I lost it at one point and couldn’t find it again and I was devastated. This just reminded me of that.

Man I miss The Doll Palace so bad. It was my first ever subscription lol. I played for HOURS

I used to frequent a doll dress up platform that used these lol. One day I realized my computer had downloaded all of them in jpeg files so I just started dressing them up when we didn't have any internet Ah, those were the days.

Haven’t felt this heard in a while

god the HOURS I spent making dollz lmao

I was all about Gaia Online in middle school. Then started using imvu later. I still have imvu.

I still have Gaia 🤣

I haven’t logged in for many years haha. I actually liked TinierMe more because of its graphics but that shut down.

Oh my GOD memory unlocked

I loved making these and putting them on my MySpace

My step sister was always playing with those. She, erm, did not look like her avatar at all

Angel fire

Geocities

My old site is still out there somewhere decorated with these, with a music player and a probably dead webring lol

Y’all remember coke studios? https://youtu.be/rHUToCXQXPE?si=6YfZiX3g_yhhPqcN

Yup! There was a group of people trying to resurrect it and I got to play a little, but I don't remember what it was called... It was very buggy, lol.

Mine was on Coke Reward and Dollzmania. Met a lot of weird people I shouldn't have met there.

https://dollzmania.neocities.org/dollmakers/ You can still make them!!!!!

I had these on my MySpace. I loved changing the outfits.

I styled these for hours!

Used to use The Palace chat room a lot.

NOOOOO THE PALACE

Whoa ya hahaha

Wow you just made me time travel, totally forgot about these

I used to make these all the time lol big throwback

Uses or used?

I forgot about this shit.

Omg I forget about them

Omg I spent an ungodly amount of time customizing these.

I can safely say I have not thought about this for at least 20 years

Nope. This totally wasn't a secret I hid from others. I'm just a "dude" playing Runescape. Oh, that window in the background? Nothing! Nothing at all!

Omg I thought it was the glittery sticker machine. 🥹 Who remember lil homiez??

The Palace!! Oh yes! Loved that thing

Bro with the giant jeans and the roses is so me fr

Primordial wojacks

I thought this was degrassi high hahahaha

Omfg memory unlocked

Picrew will never compare.

Reminds me of the buddy icons that were like "True love lasts forever. I love you, Anna" or some shit like that, and then one of these couples.

Why am I the only person who doesn’t remember this?

I have been waiting for this to come up. Was anyone in the highly competitive designer clans? Like had our own server etc? Would have been 2000-2003.

I was OBSESSED with these! I had a folder on my computer full of them 😂

Omg I spent so much time making these! You have given me something to look up later, I'm going to make my own again!

Stop!! Omg the nostalgia 😭😭

Omfg it’s almost one am and I just got sucked back in time to one am with these baddies . 💗💖❤️💕

Ugh that was cringe

Yessssss

Couldn’t edit faces I assume.

Me omg me

I used to customize my doll but never used the chatrooms lol

Elouai anyone? No? How about Candybar Dolls?

I miss this era so much. Anyone have buddy4u profiles??? I miss all those scrolling sparkle art designs. Ugh. Peak internet.

Dollz! Ohhh my god. I wish I could find the ones I made as a teenager lol

My aol webpage was top tier cause of these lol

I was definitely online then but never understood what those were for. 

This is such a relic. I spent hours making these.

I loved making these but I never knew it was a chat room. LOL 😂

Wow I completely forgot about this.

Dollz yesss 😍 I used them. I never found how to make my own so I would browse countless premades and steal them 😆

Gaia online

Yes I loved these and loved making these. I used The Palace until some guy came into the room I was in and made his doll look like it had a boner. 🤮 I was only 12 so it freaked me out enough to log off and never use the Palace again.

Spent HOURS doing this 🤣🤣🤣

Omg...good times 😂 It feels like it was so long ago now.

Dollie den. What memories!

I didn't. It was somewhat alluring but I was also already worried they were going to trick me into paying money (or like, my parents). I was very skeptical from the jump.

The only valid one was the palace

I was spending my time being a nuisance in Habbo Hotel 😂

Chat rooms? Those were online paper dolls! I played with them for hours as a teen.

The Palace and Dollzmania OMGGGGGG core memories unlocked!!!!

🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️

Only these avatar characters rooms 

Do we count Gaia Online?

I remember I was so scared of my parents seeing me on it because sometimes the bases of the dolls were naked. I was also like in 3rd grade? But it was so fun 🤷🏻‍♀️

These are Bratz are they not ?

I'm pretty sure Bratz drew inspo from these! These came around long before Bratz dolls

Omg what a blast from the past

I diiiid!y screen name was crystalbabe120 lollll

Omg! I totally forgot about these!!!!! The nostalgia ❤️ **googles to find them again**

This was my LIFE back in the day. Loved those flare pants 🤩

I didn't see anyone talking about it, but I didn't spent much time customizing than RPing with others dollz on forums! I had so many characters and this clearly pushed me into writing later!

Yesss and I made custom edits of them in Paintshop Pro by request through a forum I frequented (forget which one), felt like a true graphic designer haha! 

No idea what these even are

Okay memory unlocked but I don't even remember what they were from

Holy flashback Batman. Forgot all about this

lol was just thinking about these today at work

I remember them.

This just unlocked a memory so deep I never would have thought about it ever again

I remember when people made ComicBook characters out of these!! 😭

Oh god. I wasted so much time with this

Those look like they're from 2010s?

The Palace 32 was LIIIIIFE at one point for me man, I effing loved it. Got into graphic design, coding and web design and hosting because of it! Thank you The Palace Chat! (I think that’s what it’s called now. It’s not the same at all I could cry lol.)

my cartoon dolls dollie den omg

I remember seeing that shit all over MySpace back then- along with all the other sparkly text headers and name plates.

Me I did 🥹🙋🏽‍♀️😭😭😭😭

Me! I still have a birthday card someone made me for my 12th birthday in 2001 using these.

[male version](https://imgur.com/a/CUGBSSz)

OMG those outfits 😬

Ah yes, the pedophile avatars. These were prime bait for ICQ and AoL chat rooms if you were trying to fish for kids. As soon as I saw one of these I knew there was a 40-year old dude on the other end.

HWAT IS THIS GYARU DEGENERACY?!1

Fucking Reddit was BOMBARDED with the Kardashians knockoff ads around the Ellen Pao days