EVERSKIES
Hello and welcome to my shrine for Everskies!
Everskies is,, a game? It's technically a dress-up game, with both a mobile app and a website. I'm active on both, as it's cross-platform, which is really nice! The reason I hesitate to call it a game is because it's more like a social media platform, in a sense. It's filled with forums, which I love, and it has a pretty heavy focus on buying and selling things, which I love notably less. It's strange to say the least, but I still like it enough that I'm making a shrine about it, y'know?
I originally started playing in 2022, though I was quickly turned off by how inherently it relied on currency and talking to strangers in order to run, so I uninstalled the app. Notably though, I didn't bother to delete the account. It sat there for a while, untouched but otherwise intact.
It remained that way until last year, when several of my friends on Threads all joined at the same time. I remembered it, so I logged back in, and my understanding of it suddenly shifted. Interacting with my friends, building up currency via minigames so I can buy them gifts, browsing through different forums, it was fun! I realized you can earn currency extremely fast by watching ads, which led to me spending an absurd amount of time with the app open, just playing ads - I was spending nearly 60 hours a week this way, basically watching ads for as long as I was awake.
I've always known I'm oddly susceptible to rewarded ads for some reason, so I spent quite a while in that cycle. Even when all of those friends moved on from the game, I was still doing this for a while. Even after I mostly lost interest, I kept it installed so I could occasionally log in to watch a few ads and claim the login rewards. Still though, I did lose interest for a while, so I had effectively abandoned the game for another year.
I'm not even sure what drew me back this time - I wanted to change up my character for no real reason, so I popped back in to do so. Next thing I know, I've been playing for hours and I got several new followers! Not long later, and all of a sudden, I was getting my first ever layout commissions, essentially making small websites for people!
Making layouts is SUPER fun for me, and technically, I've been doing it for a while! I have a codepen account that I used to make and share simple website layouts a while back, and I've added some Everskies layouts to it as well! I don't put my commissions there, for the sake of ~exclusivity~ or whatever, but I'm thinking of making some more premade layouts, and maybe making some snippets to add to other ones!
Now, technically I have a whole blog post about how this all happened, so I don't need to rehash it here. The point is, Everskies, to me, went from a nothing social app to an addictive ad-watching cycle to the source of my first ever commissions, all in the span of three-ish years. It's crazy to think about! I went from uninstalling it without a thought to opening it before I even check the time, and I genuinely really like it now!
It is odd, though. The environment can border on toxic at times, and it feels strange relative to most socials. It doesn't really feel like social media, but it doesn't really feel like a forum, and it still somehow barely feels like a game?? I know it's technically all of those things, which might be part of why I still can't really put my finger on what it feels like. I know I like it, and I know a lot of people hate it, and I can't even argue with them about it - not because they're unreasonable, but because I understand where they're coming from. Everskies is flawed but fun in my opinion, and everyone's entitled to their own.
I'm making this shrine as a sort of extension to the blog post, just wanting to talk about something I'm interested in for a bit longer. A (mildly) proofread yap section, I suppose. If you've read this far into it, I really appreciate it! Also, if you happen to have Everskies and want to say hi, I've linked my account :3 Thanks for reading! ♡
