Animal Crossing's BIGGEST Controversies that shook the community...

Over the years Nintendo has hit some of the biggest Animal Crossing Games out of the park. Animal Crossing Wild World for the DS, City Folk for the wii, New Leaf for the 3ds all the way to Animal Crossing New Horizons for the Switch. It hasn't always been smooth sailing though, nintendo has run into a lot of controversies with animal crossing over the years, and today we are taking a deeper look.
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[@kaibird542]

Funniest thing about the PETA controversy is that you have to actively catch fish and give them to Blathers to even get fish there in the first place. So someone on the PETA team had to defeat the point of the protest entirely just to stage it.

[@magentasky234]

Ikr

[@snappishtemperament213]

Literally all of PETA's publicity stunts in a nutshell

[@miyunyan]

​@@snappishtemperament213 fr

[@bean6803]

The funniest part is that in their full article they decry animal themed furniture such as the doghouse that exhibit “animal cruelty”. One of their starting villagers, Agnes, has a cat tree and pet food bowl in her home. They also seem to completely ignore the fact that their animal villagers participate in fishing and bug catching, wear clothing with animal products in them, eat meat, and give the player these so-called “bad” items. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been gifted a hamster cage.

[@farfrommercury]

@@bean6803 Once, Flurry gave me a hamster cage, and she’s a hamster herself-

[@ScrewdriverGaming]

In New Leaf, if a male villager puts on a Skirt, Mabel would go "Oh that's... adventurous..." which made me giggle as a little kid

[@Yzzami]

One of my characters was a boy and I did that ironically to make fun of anime tropes, but then I found out people were doing that unironically and I was cringing

[@tararosabelle7368]

@@MichaelDavis-mh8bbsometimes doing cringe things ironically is genuinely hilarious though and has the opposite effect of cringing… have you never had friends before or just no sense of humor? Like this is a staple in friendships for me…. Well both being funny and doing ironically cringe things… also dudes putting on skirt isn’t cringe it can even be a hobby, called crossdressing! Although most people who do it don’t do it for the hobby and do it bc they’re trans, which is cool, but I’ve met people do the hobby also! Very cool. And wearing skirts (comfortable ones at least) isn’t cringe and is for all genders, there’s no need to gatekeep fabric buddy. It’s a fabric. It won’t kill a gender for wearing fabric. If anything they’ll get made fun of but like who cares, these days people will make fun of you for even normal things, no point in accommodating bullies ever, it’s stupid to do that and they’re the idiots, so just be you and don’t give a F about em!

[@HylianHo3]

​@@tararosabelle7368they were replying to someone

[@crystalwhisp]

​@@Yzzami It's not cringe to do what you want with character customization. Some guys like wearing skirts and making their in game character match their style. You aren't any better than anyone else just cuz you did the same thing they did "ironically".

[@ClaraLemlichRules]

You are right screwdriver! In fact AC was challenging gender stereotypes pretty early in the game with some of their animal residents (as this video pointed out)... and they challenged them in a fun and playfull way. I miss those times...

[@miss_jeannalee_20]

I am flabbergasted at the thought of people thinking Tortimer was a predator. 😂

[@princesspixel3151]

Sounds like it was a slow news day, so they had to make up something ridiculous to get people riled up in order to get money.

[@anonanonymous9670]

@@Leeloo_the_fox Also consider the yokai Kapp'n is based on

[@midnight1978]

Some Characters actually switched Genders upon translation to different languages. Gracie, Saharah and Blanca were all male in Japanese but got turned into female in the west

[@audrywave]

I didnt know sahara was female 💀

[@Shosholegbt]

@@audrywavewell …. so

[@foxbuns]

trans icons💙🤍💗

[@Twinklethefox9022]

It's interesting that Blanca still has a male voice despite being female in the west.

[@0ddestMouse]

@@foxbuns Fr 😍

[@eclipseRz]

Cat13 is probably based off Ganguro fashion, which was popular in the late 90's amongst Japanese young women. They'd get dark tans and use tons of bright makeup, plus occasionally dying one's hair blonde. It could've been removed for being too mocking of the fashion, plus the prior issues with Jynx's design in the West.

[@Twinklethefox9022]

They should have used a different skin tone then.

[@eclipseRz]

@@Twinklethefox9022 sure but the reference would've been lost on Westerners and anything with dark skin and big lips was being changed or removed from games, plus could've truly been a test for a 13th cat (even tho there is already 13 cats in the first game so who knows)

[@the-og-cerealkiller]

@@Twinklethefox9022 Dark tan is part of the fashion, my man

[@julianthefoolian]

Gyaru?

[@ollie_3948]

@@julianthefoolianganguro is a gayru subculture I believe

[@NoirCrow]

What's so funny about the peta one is that they had to catch the fish and donate them to the museum... To protest the fish being caught and displayed...

[@princesspixel3151]

As if their hypocrisy wasn’t obvious enough 😂

[@newgameld2512]

That definitely sounds like Peta to me.

[@brare45996]

It’s like they understand that they’re just video game sprites with no consequences for catching and donating them… but don’t want to acknowledge it

[@newgameld2512]

@@brare45996 The lack of self-awareness is palpable. It's a frame-up.

[@TheCouch_Akio]

16:00 - About this, I vividly remember that Wild World gave you the option to choose the opposite's gender hairstyle once you changed you hair a couplt of times. They might've come late to the party, but I feel like this was huge for its time.

[@musicinmymind623]

Regarding what you said at 10:31, the thing is-there are Japanese people with different skin tones!! East Asian beauty standards tend to favor paler skin tones but many people in rural areas or indigenous people have darker skin, but colorism in addition to nationalism make it so that those audiences aren’t recognized, in addition to those globally who may be South/Southeast Asian, Indigenous, or black. It’s really heartbreaking.

[@weewooweewoo906]

how have i not heard of the red tulip thing before? thanks for always offering stuff that hasn't been covered already a million times. i mean covering well known stuff isn't bad from time to time for newer players to learn but i love the obscure weird stuff lol

[@Moons_Cartoons]

I have not heard of it before, either!

[@Layorgenla]

Personally, I love that New Horizons has a greater foem of self-expression when it comes to clothing and gender-expression. Because it's optional, you don't have to participate in wearing clothes that are stereotypically worn by members of the opposite sex. That's the beauty of it anyone can wear whatever they want and it allows for a sense of freedom to experiment and just make your character look the way you want it to look without judgement from the other characters. Do I, as a man, wear dresses and have long hair in real life? No. Do I sometimes wear dresses and pick a traditionally feminine hairstyle every now and then because I think its pretty? Absolutely. It's brilliant!

[@wonderlandzer0]

Actually, the first Animal Crossing game you could change your skin tone in was Happy Home Designer for the 3DS!! Followed by Pocket Camp. Not much better, considering they were spin off titles, but still lol.

[@gray9702]

Yeah! I swore you were able to change your skin color somewhere around new leaf time!

[@EmilyBee147]

​@Gray it was possible but only through tanning, by having the character spend lengths of time outside on sunny days

[@TylerFurrison]

​@@EmilyBee147It was actually possible even earlier!

[@user-vx5lt5me4d]

Okay the PETA one made me laugh 😂 but honestly that does not surprise me all that much tbh 😂😂

[@An262.]

Aw man, peta has always been such a joke. While i can appreciate the message of being mindful of animals and making sure they don't go extinct, these stuns will always ruin it. Interesting video, learned a lot!

[@TLuigi003]

I don't share Peta's view on this but I do understand them and I think they've been widely misunderstood They were just pointing out how in a cozy game where almost no violence exists, fishing and capturing was still featured. Like if violence against animals isn't violence. I don't share this opinion but that's the point they're trying to make and sincerely, they are partly right

[@FriendofMineralTown]

Oh GOD poor Tortimer. I forgot about that completely. But I do remember them saying kids were being tricked over video games a lot in the mid 00s. I never had any such encounters in AC. Really I think the only thing are some questionable usernames in Mario Kart…

[@joebradburnii]

I hate when people say that the player character’s in Japanese games are white. It’s stylized, just like how a lot of anime characters look white. They’re Asian. It’s not a racially insensitive thing, it’s that they are designing something meant to connect within the country on a ground level. As such, only more recently are we getting an option for other skin tones and hair types. Look at Pokémon. There are two light skinned options and two dark skinned options in x/y. One light skin with blonde hair and blue eyes, stereotypical white, one with dark eyes and black hair, stereotypical Asian.

[@saphiriathebluedragonknight375]

Agreed!

[@Glitchy5885]

Agree with you but XY not necessarily great examples when the characters are European

[@joebradburnii]

@@Glitchy5885Ahhh, but your character has recently moved to Kalos, thus they could be from anywhere. Kanto, for example? Your mom DOES have a Rhyhorn

[@Glitchy5885]

@@joebradburnii which isn't kanto exclusive, certain parts of kalos need rhyhorn to traverse

[@Rae0814]

I find it hilarious that the News station was so quick to jump on the ‘all video games are bad and evil’ bandwagon that they didn’t even do any research.

[@SvengelskaBlondie]

It's like christians telling other christians how x/y/z is bad without them doing any research, instead just playing Chinese whispers..

[@spurii]

I vividly remember a lot of discussion about Kid Kat on the German Animal Crossing forums because his name was somehow translated to "Petra" in the German versions of Wild World and City Folk. Petra was renamed Pit after CF. This was huge back in the days!

[@Clouditivity]

what does petra mean???

[@anonymousalien7417]

​@@ClouditivityI know it's a common feminine name, but idk if it has any other uses that could have caused a stir that I know of

[@InazumaDash]

Kapp'n was extremely annoying in City Folk always teasing the player about meeting up with the opposite gender. It would always repeat every single day.

[@radioactivevolt]

The way he flirted with the player if you were a female character was really weird since it's implied that you are a kid

[@TheMarshmallowMushroom]

same for new leaf. i changed my character to male because it made me so uncomfortable. (i'm femme non-binary so i usually choose female, but i didn't mind choosing male if it meant i didn't have to deal with that.)

[@timmyb.3426]

I just remember thinking that Kapp'n's dialogue was really boring and just mashed the A button until it was done.

[@Twinklethefox9022]

And in new leaf. Asking if I had a boyfriend. I'm surprised he was brought back knowing how characters from other media got cancelled hard.

[@Clouditivity]

I never played this one. how did this work? like when you went to the city you had to talk to him? what did he say? sorry for all the questions

[@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852]

The space buns thing was by far the dumbest one yet.

[@AVB40000]

Minor correction in the 10 min mark, there IS a way to change your skin color in previous games, but it's only seen as a "tan" and getting a dark enough tan can give you the desired skin color for your character, however that's an extremely flawed system and nigh offensive way for Nintendo to have tackled that important feature of customization, I guess you know what they say, better late than never, but it was pretty damn late to the party Nintendo... 🙄

[@Twinklethefox9022]

And it's only temporary. So the only option is a temporary tan or a mii mask which won't let you wear hats. Honestly there's other things I don't like about new leaf but no one talks about its flaws. Like its the perfect game. It lacks in character customization and its actually more stressful compared to new horizons. Like last night I was debating on if I should play the game or not because I was tired and said. "Its not like anything bad will happen if I don't log in" the next day Butch moved in and crushed all of my perfect pears. Now I have to try and get them the harder way. And if its not that, I have to log in every day or a villager I love will move out without me knowing. Yeah its realistic but sometimes, I don't want realism in a game about you living in a town or on an island with talking animals.

[@starcrysis23]

I mean, most of their Japanese media is Japanese centric, maybe mixing some western character types in (like cowgirls in Pokémon Platinum) I feel like we should appreciate that the very closed bordered Japan even did it at all for westerners.

[@GloomyFish]

in regards to cat13... what about Jane? In the Japanese version she looked like a racial stereotype, made even worse by the fact that she was a gorilla villager. they had to change her colours for the English release and then never showed up again in future games. But that being said, if cat13 was cut due to looking like a racist stereotype, then why did Jane, a villager that was even worse, make it into the game?

[@Centurymillenniaspookiebear]

Didn't know what you were talking about and I looked it up...how are people upset over a scrapped character than a character that was actually put into the game

[@alanrecinos7700]

I was really upset when I first found out how Jane actually looked like in the Japanese Animal Crossings. I had Jane in my town as a kid and I loved her so much. I loved her purple and rainbow shirt:(

[@Centurymillenniaspookiebear]

@@alanrecinos7700 There was no way they didn't know what they were doing when designing her. Sorry that you had to find out your favorite villager was a racial stereotype, that must be hard

[@d.o.p.d.o.p.1775]

​@@Centurymillenniaspookiebear I heard that Japan was really racist, so I agree that they definitely knew what they were doing. Consciously or not

[@NumeroLetter]

Oh jeez, I have Jane in my GameCube town right now and I had no idea what you were talking about until I googled it 😭 My poor purple gorilla girl!!!

[@spacealien3073]

You did make an error in this video but its like... really minor. I never played it so I'm going by the wiki but apparently Happy Home Designer had skin tones meaning its been an option in the franchise since 2015. Even assuming Nookipedia is full of beans I do know the Animal Crossing Pocket Camp had them well before New Horizons came out so that's a 2017 title in the franchise with them. That said New Horizon was the first MAINLINE entry to have them so it is easy to miss this aspect of Animal Crossing's history with representation.

[@sleepyote]

He never seems to mention Happy Home Designer in his videos, so I guess he doesn't count it as its own game? Idk.

[@brogamin179]

HHD and pocket camp ARENT animal crossing games, much like how super Mario Bros 2 is not a super Mario game.

[@niyamshah8091]

PETA - don’t catch fish - they post a video with the fully built museum and fish in the tanks🤦🏾‍♂️

[@Sonictheoofhog4]

Tortimer's currently in jail for something he didn't do That's why he wasn't in New Horizons originally

[@princesspixel3151]

Sounds like he needs Phoenix Wright

[@avalasialove]

@@princesspixel3151OMG! Someone should make a Phoenix Wright/Animal Crossing crossover. I’d watch the heck out of that!

[@tonycrimes]

in animal crossing game cube, if you had a GBA and link cable for the island, you -technically- could stand in the sun a long time and become tan, but it would fade back to the default tone later. i'm glad they added more skin tones now, though

[@The_RedJoker]

Jynx was based on the Japanese fashion trend Ganguro, which is "an alternative fashion trend of blonde, pink or silver hair and tanned skin among young Japanese women that peaked in popularity around the year 2000". It had nothing to do with race or anything offensive.

[@xela-p7654]

yes but most westerns wouldn't have that knowledge and interpreted the design as a racist sterotype. its obvious that there were no ill intentions there but it still made people uncomfortable

[@CloverPillbug]

I feel like the news thing should be disregarded because every news site did that back then

[@catholiccontriversy]

The death of annotations killed the best video on the idiot news story, where OP debunked everything said in the video with those red and blue and yellow boxes.

[@OrmylLP]

There are browser addons to bring em back

[@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis]

@@OrmylLP I’m downloading an extension right now on my PC.

[@LloydTheZephyrian]

@@OrmylLP There are?!

[@lannahuxel98]

I think they couldve kept Catty if they changed her mouth style.

[@SvengelskaBlondie]

13:31 The whole PETA thing is so insanely dumb, I refuse to believe that anyone would think it would encourage people to donate fish and bugs to museums (outside those mentally ill enough to be an activist for peta).

[@PokeMaster22222]

The whole Pokémon Jynx thing is an unfortunate case of a benign design being misconstrued overseas, due to cultural differences - in Nintendo's home of Japan, it's based off a yokai, a Japanese demon, while also having traits of a Japanese fashion trend that occurred around that time. Of course, America did not know about either yokai or Japanese fashion trends, so it makes sense they'd see it completely differently.

[@Sarah-sq2vu]

i remember when acnh added black hairstyles someone called puffs “space buns” and then when she was corrected she started using racial slurs

[@Good_luck_.]

Haha, I first saw that and thought it was just a silly misunderstanding but nope, just an asshole

[@FizzyCocoaMan]

I just KNOW I'm gonna see Baabara on here

[@lilatunez]

Hello! I have been following your tweets for the past two days, and have come to the conclusion you do not deserve to have Raymond on your island. He is my comfort character and seeing him in an environment not meant for him brings me anxiety, so I will be expecting a reply to this DM when you have him in boxes and ready to relinquish him to someone who will treasure him like he deserves.

[@faimynth6030]

Bro you good? Or do you just have no other way to spend you time lmfao

[@lilatunez]

lmaoo do you not remember this copypasta? back when raymond was super popular someone recieved this DM after putting him in a maid costume LOL@@faimynth6030

[@artlequin8516]

@@faimynth6030 it's a meme

[@Good_luck_.]

Haha

[@MichealMechanical]

THAT FREAKING KILLED ME JUST DONT FOLLOW THEIR TWITTER IF THEY HAVE S VILLAGEF THEY CAN DO WHAY THEY WANT THAT PERSON WAS SO SILLY IN A BAD WAY

[@zakuraiyadesu]

Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!

[@wrexhammusic]

11:07 tell me you didn't research the game without telling me you didn't research the game🤣

[@Chicenk]

I just rlly like the rabbit with the school jacket and prettyboy lashes-

[@ReginaCordium722]

Oh my god I fully forgot abt the red tulips. Absolutely wild situation

[@andrescube64]

I’m surprised Nintendo took so long to change your skin color as an option and not stepping outside and become darker

[@chocoyaku]

I must correct you, actually the first game in implement the different skintones was happy home designer and not new horizons dfskf

[@RocketElijah]

Ah correct! We could count Smash Bros 4 I think 🤔

[@radioactivevolt]

@@RocketElijah They're all white in Smash 4, they changed some skin tones in Ultimate tho

[@aleafazio6431]

The news channel that you provided evidence from was from a small town in Missouri... Small town people be wild sometimes and they try to get more views, so yeah. I came from a small community and it can be wild with one mind nature.

[@chazzcoolidge2654]

so much this! you won't understand drama till you've lived in a town with >1000 people.

[@Romans10.9-13]

I like that we have more clothing options, but I heavily dislike that your character has no gender at all. They let you "select" one, yet you're only ever referred to as "they". I disagree with "gender identity", but that's not very inclusive of Nintendo if that's what they're going for.

[@Good_luck_.]

I think its a fine way of going about it, they don’t wanna get lambasted for providing a pronoun slider or a non binary option, but they still wanna be inclusive

[@ashparkerMHM]

Him: Animal Crossing New Leaf released in 2012 Me: I feel old.. theres no way it was a whole 11 years ago..

[@i-.45]

Tourtomer could be a therapist ABC news: remove the the in therapist

[@smconnors1]

Peta was ridiculous. Lets educate them on something called "Coding", which has no feelings.

[@kairi3177]

Wow shows what i know. Jynx always looked purple to me. She was aight for Psychic maybe Normal moves but not in my top fighters. I guess i wasnt paying attention. And did PETA have nothing better to do at the time?

[@anonanonymous9670]

"She was aight for Psychic " Nah fam Jynx is the QUEEN of Psychic She's strong af

[@kairi3177]

@@anonanonymous9670 my younger cousin agrees with you on this and says I'm so Espeon biased I didn't give Jynx a chance

[@anonanonymous9670]

@@kairi3177 Espeon is also amazing but Jynx is also Ice type so she's overall pretty versatile

[@Chibi_Venus]

if PETA was so against having the fish in the tanks, _why did they put them in the tanks in the first place?_

[@gradgirl12]

I love Barold Fight me

[@reema9334]

this video was so cool! i didnt know about most of these things!

[@journeyingjay3458]

This isn’t a big difference since is still excluded people but wasn’t the race of the character always Japanese until New Horizons?

[@onettaviator5396]

Tbh? I doubt it. They always had brown hair and Japanese kids usually have black hair.

[@qorkbro]

I thought it was just gonna be peta and that one infamous terroist marines found being noted NOPE

[@madelineconner9069]

PLEASE DO A PART TWO!!

[@eizuebruh364]

early days of new horizons was when i was embarassed to be an animal crossing fan ngl

[@anonanonymous9670]

Because a lot of them were just in on the trend Most of them couldn't care about Animal Crossing sadly I think the sales of the next AC game will definitely reflect that

[@unusually.crossing]

I was afraid there'd be the Ankha meme and thank goodness it wasn't shown. 🙃 Btw I *NEVER* watched this meme.

[@Ren_184]

Never ever? Like forever? Ever in the nether?

[@unusually.crossing]

@@Ren_184 not even once, Ankha is among my favorite villagers and I'll protect her at all costs 😡

[@versemaggot]

@@unusually.crossing im surprised you made it across the youtube shorts.

[@BlitzyTehPony]

God bless you for never seeing it

[@farfrommercury]

That ac news report gave me flashbacks about those ridiculous roblox news reports- “Rawblacks” (If you’ve seen the roblox news report thingys, you’ll get this reference) Anyways, i’m getting sidetracked. Why did they think old man Tortimer was a…you know? He’s just the damn mayor!

[@anonanonymous9670]

Sad thing about those roblox news reports is that Roblox genuinely has super disgusting things in it that the news should show Yet they won't for some reason

[@MichealMechanical]

He’s an ai turtle The news is turtlist

[@idkwmytuni]

Lmao when hes talking about race and trying desperately not to step on a landmine

[@brare45996]

In games prior to New Horizons, you were able to darken your skin color by staying out in the sun and gradually getting a tan. It would also gradually fade when you’re not in the sun, so you could get a dark skinned character if you had the dedication to leave your character outside for a while every day. It’s not a quick & easy option, but it’s not impossible either.

[@Mattygezart]

Empty the tanks is funny

[@ReeeMonke]

I’m fishing and donating stuff to the museum rn

[@minecraftexpertstudios7368]

I've always seen irony in what PETA does. Doing what they don't want you to do, in order to speak out against these things

[@BlahajOfficaI]

8:12 that’s a shiny Pokémon not a different design, Pokémon have a 1/4096 chance of having a different colour and that is one of them

[@Lullaby_dreams]

11:32 Oh god dang Poor dude 😭 HE'S AN NPC 💀

[@dragtogo2735]

3DS game AC New Leaf had a creep use the new Swap Note feature not in thd 3DS but in the game I call it the green letter which spams notes unless you manually turn it off. However this creep drawed something inappropriate and a girl saw it which got attention from Nintendo to shut the Online off and make it cost for a fee with ID. No joke this actually happened and now we can't play online for free thanks to this creep.

[@littlevivigaming4822]

Cat 13 kinda looks like a Gyaru stereotype, rather than a blackface one. Its the orange hair and ear highlights that sells it for me

[@GRAVERINTH]

12:13 so is no one talking about the fact someone is named “shart_vagina”?

[@ReeeMonke]

Crazy

[@GalaxyfullofStars]

When it comes to the last point in the video about how Animal Crossing is now all "gender neutral" I don't really like it... That doesn't make me homophobic, not everyone has to like it but I can see it as a good thing but me personally I miss the interactions where the characters would recognise me as a cute feminine character cos that reflects me IRL... I feel future instalments should have the option during start game on whether you want this or not and whether say you're like male but identify as "feminine" and vice versa

[@bean6803]

While I understand why it’s included in the game, this is a good, level-headed criticism with a decent solution proposed and doesn’t come off as homophobic. Hats off to you for that.

[@GalaxyfullofStars]

@@bean6803 Awww, thank you!

[@moonamoonz]

Exactly. There is still men and women in the world, not everyone likes being called "they"

[@GalaxyfullofStars]

@@moonamoonz I do respect people who are nonbinary and or prefer going by "they/them" but it's kinda wrong to force it on everyone...? Ppl should be able to identify as whatever they want imo...

[@beccawaltz7591]

While I disagree with your opinion (I am v feminine and cisgen female for context), I can understand where you’re coming from. I do like the idea of having those options of picking fem/masc/neither, the series has become less niche with every game made and I believe the devs just wanted to be safe and make things easy, so they used a gender neutral pronoun as gender is flexible and it’d be horrible to restart for those unsure. I had to restart my island that got me through the pandemic due to it using a name I no longer go by. So, I feel they need to tackle something as simple as name changing your character and town/island first. I’m glad I was able to restart as it was apart of a healing process to put the traumas I faced during those times behind me, but sometimes you just wanna change the island/town name cuz you decided to go with a different vibe than intended or something. I just want everyone to enjoy this game series that has brought me so much comfort and joy over the years since New Leaf. We both love the games and they are inclusive towards us gender-wise but it’s important to remember the more our…population grows 😉 …the more it’s important to adjust a few things. I hope that doesn’t come off as pushy…have a good day!

[@aaronlaughter6471]

I got to be honest, the only nontroversy was the space buns one, hilarious that a hair style made people butt hurt.

[@MagicQueenGamer99]

Don’t forget when you get 5 stars it’s not perfect until you get a island that Tom Nook is not on 😂

[@Yzzami]

The ifunny villager

[@AboveOverlords]

16:33 Then in Splatoon 3 they were like: you don’t need a gender option

[@izzymaedavidson1974]

I hope rocket Elijah is a trans ally . The trans community loves animal crossing and I love their videos .

[@tunegirl203]

I had this creepy glitch in new horizons where k.k. got stuck and wouldn't sing and I got stuck in my seat I couldn't even save and turn off so I had to turn my actual switch off. DON'T GET ME STUCK AGAIN MR K.K SLIDER

[@MichealMechanical]

PeTA: BLATHERS IS AN FISH ABOUSER HE SHOULD GE ARRESTED SIMEONE CALL BOOKER AND COPPER TO TAKE HIM AWAY HE IS ABOUSING ANIMALS BLATHERS: is an owl who makes sure the fish are comfortable

[@tuna000000000]

peta is the trisha paytas of the activism world doing shit for attention but still famous for some reason

[@mizosis]

Japan still has a huge problem with racism, colorism and xenophobia. While i’m glad game devs like Nintendo are finally trying to let players better customize themselves by removing gender options, adding more skintones and giving us diverse characters to interact with in their other games (for example, Marina and Frye from Splatoon) it’s still a shame it took long enough. Western games have had these options for longer, despite our still obvious racism, but the gaming industry is dominated by Japanese companies with people who believe in a beauty standard and do things with complete oversight. I feel they knew what they were doing when they made blackface characters, which is a shame. Japanese people see these things as a joke or sometimes cute. I’m glad they haven’t really done anything like this since then, but the fact it took until New Horizons, the fifth mainline Animal Crossing, to get poc/black friendly hairstyles and more than one skintone (other than tanning, which is insensitive, takes a while to achieve, and fades away in five days) is rather annoying… Because tan east asian people exist too! Plus, their options are still limited. Some black people complain of having the same few types of hairstyles in games and Nintendo continued this stereotype of pretty much giving black players four options while players with straight hair get the rest. The titular afro (and afro buns), shave and locs. Not all black people have these hairstyles and I have friends who feel left out by the lack of options for their hairstyles and hair textures. :(

[@Alakrio]

Look! The cat is dancing!

[@ChicagoMel23]

There was also the seeding issue with hackers using hacked items that are normally used to place buildings to wreck Wild World towns. And you did forget Jane with the black face thing. Also Chip got a redesign before the western release. You also forgot about the space buns controversy. Really thought it would come up here. Also, people saying other players weren’t fit to have Raymond was a thing briefly. Peta also complained about how we tend to go to mystery islands and strip all the resources…said it told kids that stuff was ok. It’s just a game lol

[@camillewheel]

17:38

[@fairlydanni5303]

he did talk about the space buns controversy... you didint watch the video and he also mentioned jane.. you werent listening💀

[@ChicagoMel23]

I probably shouldn’t multitask while watching. Thanks

[@ChicagoMel23]

@@fairlydanni5303 when did he mention Jane? I just rewatched the Jynx segment and it’s not there. Rewatched everything and no, there’s no mention of Jane. I did too watch the video, just like I said, too much doing other stuff at the same time.

[@TheMalkavianmadman]

Peta thing doesn't surprise me given they have had issues with Games Workshop for their use of animal pelts on their models (plastic animal furs). Peta will use any excuse to try get attention.

[@terracottagecheese2767]

I personally think the gender thing just isn't that big of a deal. Back when the earlier games came out most people didn't care about that sort of thing. And I think the people who make a big deal about it in New Horizons are kind of ridiculous. Or, should I say, silly. Getting so worked up over being able to wear a dress or have a perm in a cute little video game, no matter what side of the argument you're on, is kind of silly. Though, that's just my opinion of course. Edited for clarity.

[@princesspixel3151]

I honestly think people are just so discontent, they’re just gonna keep fussing about whatever lame excuse they can think of… even if it was already resolved

[@blacktiger4410]

Kapp'n is so weird. His comments on my female character give me the ick..

[@ClaraLemlichRules]

People should wear and present any way they wish regardless their biological sex. What is gender identity? What "gender" means. Im actually more bothered that now everybody seem to be nonbinary in AC because now, everybody is "they" in AC lmao 😂

[@souptoonart]

regarding the gender presentation stuff, i find that acnh is a good outlet for my gender identity issues, i can present however i want and none of my friends are gonna be upset about it

[@paicemaster6855]

That was honestly my favorite part of acnh; wearing cute dresses and hair accessories stress free... i got bored of the game but none of the other entries in the series come anywhere close when it comes to gender expression.

[@Retr0ver4]

Imagine your parents saying you can't play Animal crossing 😭

[@livelollobotomy]

Tortimer noooooo 😂😂

[@EmikoTheYandere]

Mom I made it!! 9:17

[@MidnightWildspirit]

The News Reporters are Pathetic, NPC's are not controlled by Players. 🙄

[@ellaacrilic1623]

Wisetortoisetortimer36 requested pictures: snd noots

[@bracedgod4505]

5:26 ah yes, the other "Big N"

[@weewooweewoo906]

🎉

[@how-togamer]

I guess the virus was doing something to PETA 😂

[@EUAN1400]

I played animal crossing city folk and I was a teen I saw it I said why you dumbie lol 😂

[@athenamartin3442]

as a vegan: H U H ? !

[@benjaminsurname5584]

PoPPC (People of Poo Poo Color) need to stop complaining so much

[@RedRubyDaSleezeee]

an NPC could be a criminal

[@jaclyndesforges]

I wanna see a game where the protagonist is a girl and you have to save a boy!

[@schnitzelesser.]

Besides the tulip thing we once again saw how stupid people are

[@EpicBrody-cf4hl]

a good idea in my opinion to not be woke but still not have gender stereotypes is to just say nothing about it at the beginning of the game, but with a mirror you can set it to male/female, so you still have the option.

[@terepipipes2675]

personally, the gender issue in animal crossing seems so bizzare to me. Like, I was playing AC when I was 6 and most of us werent talking about gender like how we are now. I also just think it is bizzare because having an gender ambiguos or queer character is mostly indie game territory as of now. Unless this was an outdated problem that only nintendo was doing, then yeah it would be weird, but no. there is only a handful of games that address this and to make a big deal out of one game out of thousands not following these 10 or 20 indie games is dramatic.

[@BoopSnootAndTroubleshoot]

The spacebun hairstyle was not that big of a deal. It was 2020, and people were scared, frustrated, and needed an outlet. That does not, however, account for people blurting out racist remarks to "protect" the space buns. It's a game, and that time really uncovered a lot of racist people.

[@Shiba_Draws]

I really appreciate the freedom to change the gender and appearance in new horizons. Being genderfluid its something I struggle with when playing videogames

[@Shiba_Draws]

And its not even just me being like "oh tomorrow I'm going to be a boy". Because Its not just about HOW I identify,but how me or my character looks. I'm just glad I can make my character look more femenine while having my Character be male and viceversa,and I hope they continue doing so in Future games!