What is a Community Ambassador? In the words of TNT:
Community Ambassadors are passionate & knowledgeable Neopets players who volunteer their time to help strengthen communication between the Neopets Team and the broader community.The article also includes a small FAQ to clarify some other details of the application and selection process. Applications are open to all players. The selected applicants will be notified and onboarded "by early June 2025," with some transition overlap planned with the current cohort.
They serve as a bridge—gathering community concerns, reporting major site issues, and relaying constructive feedback directly to TNT through dedicated channels.
While Ambassadors collaborate closely with the team, they are not staff members and are not involved in development decisions or internal planning. They do not have access to all behind-the-scenes information but work alongside us to help enhance the overall player experience.
The application is open now through April 28th, according to the article.
For context, the first & current Community Ambassador cohort launched in October 2023. At the time, TNT declared this group an "alpha program" to do a "test run" in the October 2023 AMA, and planned to expand the group three months later in January 2024. At some point TNT decided to instead keep the group in place for a full year, announcing so in the May 2024 AMA, then clarify in today's article that they chose to extend the group again "to solidify the program's direction and gather deeper insights."
TNT Dom, the current CEO of Neopets, gave a presentation at Game Developers Conference in March 2024 on the success of the program thus far. You can read our recap of the presentation (or watch it in full!):
