There’s something seriously wrong with this website. Called Miss Bimbo, it seems like an ironic stab at Paris Hilton and other pill-popping, plastic-surgery-embracing, do-nothing celebs. However, it’s a real game aimed at kids who won’t know the difference; it’s apparently very popular, and parents are quite angry.
In the game, you’re Miss Bimbo, and your aim is to get a “fun job to pay for your needs and all the clothes a Bimbo could possibly want,” and “become the trendsetting bimbo in town.” To do this, you will stop at nothing, you can “even resort to meds or plastic surgery.” You pay for stuff with “bimbo dollars.” The tagline? “Stop at nothing to become the reigning bimbo.”
Usually, I’m not the one to accuse games for corrupting our youth, but this is quite insane. The game already has over 200.000 registered members, mostly girls aged from 9 to 16 (and possibly a percentage of quite older, bald, hairy guys,) and I bet that the irony is lost on some, if not most of them.
The site was created by French entrepreneur Nicholas Jacquart, who first started the site in French (it’s called Ma-Bimbo, and it has 1.2 million subscribers) and then decided to do an English version, too. Judging from the outrage the site caused among parents, he’s going to run into trouble really soon.