However, 60 per cent of its users are aged 18 or younger, and around 8 per cent of users are aged 13.Īccording to the Miss Bimbo site, a Facebook version of the game is currently under development. The online game currently boasts over two million registered users, with the highest percentage - 12 per cent - being 19 years old. Our players are not bimbos at all and that's our best defence against people who try to denigrate our community." "Miss Bimbo is actually making fun of those bimbo celebrities that are on TV. Miss Bimbo is a good game for everyone and is definitely better than real bimbos on TV like Paris Hilton or girl Katie Price. (Note: for those of you who also play Miss Bimbo, the level goals are slightly different, so dont assume their guides will help you) LEVEL 1 : - Change your. The goals for levels 21 and beyond are in a separate (members-only) post so as to avoid accidental spoilers. "There's something important that they always forget to say - the average age on Miss Bimbo is over 19 years old. These are the Ma Bimbo goals for levels 1-20, translated from the site. Papadopoulos is "judging a book by its cover," according to Jacquart. He adds the game is intended to make fun of celebrities, and that the average age of its players is 19 years old. "It is another powerful indication of how the boundaries between what is seen as appropriate for children and what is the preserve of adults is being blurred."īut according to Nicolas Jacquart, Miss Bimbo's creator and the director of Blouzar, Papadopoulos hasn't taken the time to properly test the game before making assumptions. Maybe these games are supposed to be 'ironic' but the fact is that they normalise topics ranging from cosmetic surgery to marrying for money as appropriate subject matter for child's play. "The site currently has over two million registered 'bimbos'. "At, girls and boys are encouraged to use plastic surgery and extreme dieting to help their virtual characters achieve the 'perfect figure' and compete with each other to create 'the coolest, richest and most famous bimbo in the world'," sates the report. "However, some are undoubtedly encouraging very young girls to present themselves as adult women and to focus on their physical appearance to the exclusion of all else. "Many websites for children are perfectly safe and have a high educational and social value," noted Papadopoulos. Women who like a bit of frivolity and know that plastic surgery are best left for the hollywood types, what you wear can matter but you gotta watch what you eat, won't take it too seriously and might enjoy it for a while.London-based developer Blouzar has responded to accusations made by television psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos that games such as its own Miss Bimbo have their part to play in the sexualisation of children and teenagers.Īccording to Papadopoulos' report 'The Sexualisation of Young People', commissioned by the Home Office and published today, the site is encouraging young people to compete based on their appearance and nothing else. The site should restrict urderaged girls and instead promoted to adult females (I could see a Facebook version of it). The administrators have since taken off the diet pills option, quite rightly I thought. For someone's whose faced peer pressure and discovered, perhaps painfully, that it ain't all that. What do I think of ? Its a pretty harmless site if you are an adult. The Internet Republic of Bimboland was founded by Miss Bimbo in 2007. I'm slightly worried that she's going about in her knickers and unable to find a boyfriend because I get bimbo points for finding a sugar daddy. Have a breast operation).Īs you can see, I haven't figured out how to dress my bimbo. And apparently you can opt for some plastic surgery in higher levels of bimbo-ness ( Level 11 - Bigger is better. There is a target weight for my 5 feet 6 inches gal. While I think renting an apartment shows a degree of independence and undertaking some training shows commitment, traits that should be feted.buuut I can't go to the next stage and unlock new clothes et al, if I don't style my hair blonde and with pigtails. After you register your bimbo, the game sets goals for you to achieve. Bimbo (Miss Luxury Remix) Lyrics: Miss Luxury / All the guys on the street / Look at me like a piece of meat / They know I aint fuck for free / Gimme them. I entered a fake birthdate because I think one's chances of being a bimbo decreases with age but I could be wrong. You know, think Paris Hilton.Īlthough my teenage years have long past, I've registered myself to see what the hype is all about. There's been some adverse publicity online about an internet game called Miss Bimbo, whose target audience are impressionable teens, aiming to be the the coolest chick on the online block by choosing the right clothes, having the most money, keeping the right boyfriend and staying thin. Bimbo is defined by the as "vacuous" or "as having an exaggerated interest in her sexual appeal".
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