Talk:Toontown Rewritten

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Earth605 talk 17:09, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that people used Toontown Rewritten for virtual Black Lives Matter protests in 2020?

• Source: https://mashable.com/article/toontown-black-lives-matter-protests

• • ALT1: ... that Toontown Rewritten helped uncover a string of fraudulent disclosure requests claiming to be from the CT-Cyber Crime Investigation, Dhaka Metropolitan Police? Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-28/it-felt-fishy-kids-game-operator-rebuffed-fake-data-request
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  • Comment: I wanted a hook that was less about the existence of the game itself and more about weird circumstances surrounding it, so I avoided adding an alt like "...that teenagers recreated Toontown Online?" or similar even though it seems like it'd be the most obvious option.

Created by Serilly (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

⋆˚꩜｡ serilly! (he/him) (talk) 22:45, 1 September 2025 (UTC).

• New enough. Long Enough, 24.2% on Earwig because of direct quotation. No issue with the article. Hook is okay and is cited. QPQ is not needed. Good to go then. ALT0 is prefered. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Miminity (talk • contribs)