While the official Miss Bimbo website has been alternately very slow to load or completely unresponsive for-at least-the past 24 hours, its sister site in France is still going strong. In spite of this dubious business practice, it's one that's obviously successful: the French game has over 1.2 million members, and the UK version has attracted over 200,000 players so far.
Last year, a man in France threatened to sue the developers when he discovered his daughter has racked up roughly $200 in phone charges by sending a number of the pricey text messages in order to increase her character's resources. That's enough to push Miss Bimbo into "extremely offensive" territory, but it's not the only thing about the game which is raising people's hackles: when players run out of "Bimbo Dollars" (used to purchase items and accomplish tasks like going to the game's plastic surgery clinic for breast enhancement surgery), the game apparently requires them to either send £1.50 text messages-or send cash via PayPal-in order to replenish the in-game funds and continue playing. The purpose of Miss Bimbo is for players to create a virtual "bimbo," help her maintain an ideal appearance (with the help of diet pills and plastic surgery, of course), then buy her presents and send her out partying in order to compete with other players. Unsurprisingly, the game is generating an increasing amount of controversy, thanks in large part to the fact that it's being marketed towards young women. Created by Nicolas Jacquart, the game was originally appeared in France last year as Ma Bimbo and then launched in its current incarnation during February 2008. I’m probably overreacting and my girls will never even hear of that site, but it doesn’t hurt to be safe.A new web browser game, Miss Bimbo, is simultaneously sweeping the internet, angering parents and watchdog groups alike, and apparently teaching young women that diets and plastic surgery are necessary tools for achieving happiness in life. Your Internet provider usually provides their own DNS servers, but OpenDNS has faster ones. When you type in into your web browser, a DNS server takes that domain name and converts it to the actual IP address of the site so that it can loaded into your browser.
If you have never heard of OpenDNS, it’s a free service that does speedy DNS lookups. I just logged into my OpenDNS account and added as a blocked domain. OpenDNS has the ability to do some basic filtering and it’s trivial to get it to block entire domains. I’ve been a fan of for a couple of years for their speedy DNS lookups. I’ve already taken steps to prevent them from seeing that site in our household.
We have a family PC that girls can use and we do let them visit certain sites on the Internet. Users are given missions, including securing plastic surgery at the game’s clinic to give their dolls bigger breasts, and they have to keep her at her target weight with diet pills, which cost 100 bimbo dollars.īreast implants sell at 11,500 bimbo dollars and net the buyer 2,000 bimbo attitudes, making her more popular on the site.Īnd bagging a billionaire boyfriend is the most desirable way to earn the all important “mula” or bimbo dollars.Īs the father of two girls aged 7 and 5, I’m appalled by the site and I’m not going to let them anywhere near it. They are told “stop at nothing,” even “meds or plastic surgery,” to ensure their dolls win. When a girl signs up, they are given a naked virtual character to look after and pitted against other girls to earn “bimbo” dollars so they can dress her in sexy outfits and take her clubbing. Girls are encouraged to compete against each other to become the “hottest, coolest, most famous bimbo in the whole world.” The provocatively named “Miss Bimbo” Web site launched in the UK last month and is described as a “virtual fashion game for girls.” CNN had a good write up of it and here’s a direct quote: It’s widely condemned as the users are encouraged to compete against each other to become the “hottest, coolest, most famous bimbo in the whole world.” by buy chest implants. It’s aimed at girls between the ages of 9 to 16 and it purports to be a virtual fashion games. There have been a few articles posted on the Internet about a web site called It’s supposed to be fashion game for young girls, but it sounds pretty trashy.