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- JoJo Siwa responded to backlash over her game “JoJo’s Juice,” which parents complained had “inappropriate” questions for its audience of players aged 6 and up.
- Siwa said that “JoJo’s Juice,” which was released in 2018, would no longer be made or sold.
- Cards in the game included questions for players about kissing, dating, twerking, stealing, getting walked in on while naked, and going outside without underwear on.
- Nickelodeon and “JoJo’s Juice” manufacturer Spin Master also released a joint statement to Insider announcing the game would be pulled.
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Tween superstar JoJo Siwa addressed her 31 million TikTok followers on Monday night about a brewing controversy over an “inappropriate” game in her Nickelodeon merchandise line.
Parents complained that Siwa’s game “JoJo’s Juice” asked players questions like “Have you ever walked in on someone naked or had someone walk in on you?” and “Have you ever gone outside without underwear (a bathing suit doesn’t count)?” despite its intended audience of children aged 6 and up.
Siwa told her TikTok audience that she hadn’t reviewed the content of “JoJo’s Juice” before or since its 2018 release, but that she alerted Nickelodeon to the backlash. Siwa said “JoJo’s Juice” would no longer be made or sold.
“Now, when companies make these games, they don’t run every aspect by me, so I had no idea of the types of questions that were on these playing cards,” Siwa said in the video. “I hope you all know that I would have never ever, ever approved or agreed to be associated with this game if I would have seen these cards before they started selling it.”
After Insider's initial reporting on Siwa's game, Nickelodeon and "JoJo's Juice" manufacturer Spin Master released a joint statement to Insider announcing that the game would be pulled from retailers' shelves.
"We respect and value the relationship JoJo Siwa has with her fans and take the concerns raised regarding the game 'JoJo's Juice' very seriously," the statement says. "This game is no longer being manufactured and we have requested that retailers pull any remaining product from their shelves."
Prior to Siwa's response, a video from mom and TikTok user Heather Watson questioning "JoJo's Juice," was viewed more than 3.2 million times.
Other questions that Watson shared in the video asked players "Have you ever stolen from a store?"; "Have you ever been arrested?"; "Who in this room would you most like to date?"; and "Have you ever taken money from someone's purse or wallet without asking?" Cards also asked if players had "kissed a boy" and "learned the art of twerking."
Before Watson's videos, negative reviews for "JoJo's Juice" were left on the game's Amazon and Walmart listings dating back to two years ago. A one-star Amazon review of the game from December 2018 says: "My daughter received this for Christmas. It is inappropriate and grossly underaged. My daughter loves her JoJo bows but this game is going missing."
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