If your MMO’s overlords suddenly announced that they were going to shut down your game in a month’s time, how would you spend those remaining days? For some of the players of Club Penguin, the answer to that is “try to get banned as quickly and memorably as possible.”
Apparently there’s this whole crazy fad going on right now in Club Penguin where new and existing players are making a game out of getting banned faster than anyone else. The goal is to make a brand-new account and time yourself while violating the game’s rules and triggering an automatic ban. The current record to beat? One player used a few special tools to go from nothing to full-on ban in just 29 seconds.
The speedbanning community even has its own subreddit, bannedfromclubpenguin, in which players share their stories and techniques. Just so that you know, Club Penguin gives everyone a single free bad word before lowering the banhammer. You learn something new every day!
