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(This is my first ever post so please enjoy and tell me if I did anything wrong! Nothing in this story is true.)

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It was a regular day on Animal Jam. I was trading in jamaa, when suddenly, someone said "I'm quitting, giving away my items my den!!"

I was pretty sure this was a scam, so of course I came and started recording.

The den was filled with jammers saying things like "HD MINE!!!" and " I WANT THE BLACK LONG" I waited patiently for Smilelynx, the person who called the givewaway, to come. Eventually they did.

"Lilacwhispers, buddy me." So, I did. They accepted and I was surprised to see that I was the only one in their den, they had locked everyone else out.

"Hello! I work at AJHQ!" I snorted, when the REAL AHJQ saw this they would not be pleased. The jammer said, "I'm going to be fired sooner or later, so I might as well go all out, and gift nice jammers rares." At first, I didnt believe. Then, 3 jags popped up. 3 alpha swords were gifted to me.

I stopped recording.

They did the :) emote and logged off.

I wore my alpha swords and went off into jamaa. Just as I did that, my buddy was in my den. "Hey Owl!" "Hi Lilac!!! How did you get that alpha sword?!" "Some giveaway." "Can I borrow it? I need it for a skit." I hesitated. Owllishh had always been my closest buddy. She had trusted me with a pink long, her rarest item. And I had trusted her with longs as well, and she had always gifted back. Even if she DID scam it, I still had 2 more. "Okay, but please give it back." She walked away.

Several days later, she was all black. I groaned. Had she been hacked?

She went to my den.

"hi" "Hello."

"do u have any rares?" "No." I lied. I was 90 percent sure she was hacked.

"can i check?" "What do you mean?" "i mean get on to make sure u are telling the truth" "No you cant." "i will anyways wuts your final answer" I knew this was a bluff, but I couldnt resist. "Okay, okay, I am pretty rare!"

"good" "Are you going to hack me?" "idk, i mean u told the truth at the last second so i guess not" "Okay" "im gonna be firrrreed from Ajq prettu son anywas so mighr as wel make surr peepleee r honst"

This chat was so distorted I could hardly read it. So I asked "Smilelynx?! Is that you?!" "ye2=s" "Why did you hack my friend?!" "i dint hac herrr im just cheking to maksure shes honesss" "Is she?" "yeSs" "Are you okay? Your typing style seems off." "Yes, I am perfectly fine." Then, she smiled at me, and logged off.

I waited for my friend to tell me it was all a prank, but she never did. The next day she went to my den, in her normal look. "Omg! Lilac! I got hacked!" "Did they take anything?" "No! Just all my looks were black!" "Thats good." I decided not to tell her.

The next day, I searched up Smilelynx. "This jammer could not be found." I checked my jags, I had one from her. It simply read: :)

After I clicked on her username, my screen got a popup. "One or more of your items may be glitched or unsafe. Would you like to recycle {2} {alpha_swords}?

Obviously, I pressed no.

Then, I went to jamaa and wore one.

Immediately I got a jam a gram. The user was simply called ":)" The jam a gram said ":)" But this person was a nonmember, which creeped me out. More and more the jamagrams came. Blocking them did nothing, eventually I just ignored them and went to my den. The person was there. "I'm sorry, we cannot recycle your alpha swords anymore. :)" "Who are you?!" "Trying to recycle alp:)" I got a "You were gone for too long and got logged out screen!" I freak out, and log back in. All my animals were wearing alpha swords. All my items were now alpha swords. At first, I was excited, I could get so rare for this! I followed ":)" One more time, and then, all my alpha swords and old items were gone, except for the first 2. I locked my den.

I tried to trade them, but everyone kept declining and calling me a scammer for trading necklaces. Finally, I got 1 more jag, this time it was from Smilelynx. It said "Smile! :)"

Another login message. I logged back in. It was exactly the same, except with a tiny emote. I clicked it. One of my animals disappeared.

And it got bigger every time I clicked. It soon covered my entire screen, except for a tiny, "You were gone for too long and got logged out!" But the emote stayed there. I screeched as I realized me webcam was on. I logged on AJ one more time, though it was very hard to see. I covered up my camera with a piece of tape.":) was in my den again. Even though I had locked them out. They were above the emote and said: 'This is what you get for not being honest. Also, stop covering your face. S M I L E :)'"A popup once again showed up infront of the emote. "All of your animals have been deleted! Make a new animal?" There was no OK button, just a cancel, so I clicked it. I could never use that computer again.

About a month later, I was at a friends house and decided to log on. "This account has been permanently banned and cannot log in." I quickly looked up my user, trying to convince my friend I have done nothing." Tons of videos popped up about Owllishh and I. We were hackers in all of them. I clicked a more popular one.

I had hacked him. It said when he logged on, all his items were alpha swords, he went on a spare and checked, and those items were necklaces. He couldnt change his look.

Me being a hacker had become really famous in the AJ YouTube community, with the average video gaining about 1.4 million views. I sighed, and quit animal jam.

BONUS

I saw a news report today. A girl who worked at AJHQ had been fired and arrested for sending viruses and selling photos of minors. The article read, "She would use 2 main accounts to do it. ":)" and "Smilelynx".

I was glad I had covered up my camera so quickly.

(I hope you all enjoyed the story! None of this is true of course, and if you didnt like it, tell me what I could do better! Thank you for reading!)