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In every ''Animal Crossing'' games except {{DnM}}, players have grown a hatred against the [[sea bass]], a common ocean fish typically large enough to fool players with other rarer fishes. Many games in the {{SER}} typically joke about the ire of catching of a sea bass, such as {{CF|short}} featuring the [[catch quote]] ''"I caught a sea bass! Not you again!"''. {{PG|short}} and {{NH|short}} are the only games not to feature this joke, the latter's catch quote, ''"I caught a sea bass! No, wait-it's at least a C+!"'' is often memed by ''Animal Crossing'' fans. A popular ''Animal Crossing'' animation by Vannamelon, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awnS7-5wLQg "I AM THE LAW!"] places emphasis on the player asking Isabelle to ban the sea bass.
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In every ''Animal Crossing'' games except {{DnM}}, players have grown a hatred against the [[sea bass]], a common ocean fish typically large enough to fool players with other rarer fishes. Many games in the {{SER}} typically joke about the ire of catching of a sea bass, such as {{CF|short}} featuring the [[catch quote]] ''"I caught a sea bass! Not you again!"''. {{PG}} and {{NH|short}} are the only games not to feature this joke, the latter's catch quote, ''"I caught a sea bass! No, wait-it's at least a C+!"'' is often memed by ''Animal Crossing'' fans. A popular ''Animal Crossing'' animation by Vannamelon, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awnS7-5wLQg "I AM THE LAW!"] places emphasis on the player asking Isabelle to ban the sea bass.
  
 
=== Space buns ===
 
=== Space buns ===

Revision as of 10:20, April 21, 2021

Memes

The following are notable memes in the Animal Crossing community that are not endorsed by Nintendo themselves.

Bunny Day

The player catching a Water Egg in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

From April 1 to 12, 2020, there was a notable complaint from the Animal Crossing community over the abundance of eggs during the Bunny Day event in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Many had a harder time obtaining necessary materials to build Nook's Cranny, their first bridge, or the campsite as many materials were overridden by Wood Eggs and Stone Eggs. Others had a harder time obtaining fossils or April fishes for their museum or in the process to obtain the museum as those were being overrun by Earth Eggs and Water Eggs respectively. For players wanting to obtain DIY recipes featuring Cherry-Blossom Petals, players also had to deal with Sky Eggs or Bunny Day recipes in the way as those balloons also spawned frequently and often fool players auditorily. Reports also spread about Leaf Eggs randomly choosing to remove the Bells on Money Trees.[1]

Likely in response to the complaints, Nintendo lowered the rates of eggs that appear during the preparation days of Bunny Day in version 1.1.4.[2] Despite this, Bunny Day in Animal Crossing: New Horizons became widely hated for the abundance of eggs that players had no control over on their island.[3] Many ended up joking over the situation, with an animation by Pringus McDingus called "BUNNY DAY" that featured Animal Crossing characters being overrun by eggs caused by Zipper T. Bunny. Zipper himself also gained notoriety among the fanbase over his mysterious background, joking that he would fit perfectly in the popular-culture phenomenon Five Nights at Freddy's.[4]

DOOM × Animal Crossing

On October 8, 2019, the developers of DOOM Eternal, the 2020 action shooter title released by Bethesda Softworks and part of the DOOM franchise, announced a delay from its original November 22, 2019 date to a new date of March 20, 2020, putting it against the release date of Animal Crossing: New Horizons.[5] While this did little to impact the sales of both titles, the coinciding release dates resulted in the communities of both titles collaborating together, often featuring Doomguy and Isabelle, the mascot of both franchises, working together in certain instances.[6] DOOM's official Twitter even participated in this meme, as when the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct was announced on February 18, 2020, DOOM's Twitter account replied to the official announcement with: "will Isabelle be there[?]".[7]

Froggy Chair

File:Froggy Chair NL Model.png
The Froggy Chair in New Leaf.

Close to New Horizons's launch, the Froggy Chair became a meme throughout the Animal Crossing community.[8] The meme originated as a Tumblr post featuring the Marvel Comics character Thanos desiring to buy a Froggy Chair, and quickly spiraled from there.[9] Despite the massive popularity the chair received, the Froggy Chair did not return in New Horizons, resulting in many making memorials and tributes to the chair itself, desiring for the chair to return in the game.[10]

Isabelle's island announcements

K.K. Slider remixes

Psycho Villager

The Psycho Villager meme's take on the "Here's Johnny!" scene

Villager was confirmed as a newcomer in Super Smash Bros. 4 in the game's E3 2013 reveal trailer, in which they receive an invitation letter before capturing Mario in a net while he is fighting Bowser.[11] Both the Animal Crossing and Super Smash Bros. communities almost immediately began portraying the Villager as a psychotic serial killer, citing their constantly stoic and sinister expression and use of items commonly associated with murder. Within days, posts characterizing the character as such were trending on various social media platforms, and one of the earliest notable examples was a Tumblr post by the user El Sato.[12] It features an image based on the famous "Here's Johnny!" scene from The Shining, with the Villager as Jack Torrance and Mega Man as Wendy Torrance.

"Raymond in boxes"

One of the many pictures taken of Raymond surrounded by cardboard boxes.

Due to his heightened popularity yet extreme rarity thanks to no amiibo card being released and small odds to appear on Mystery Island Tours and from the Campsite, Raymond is often sold at higher margins of Nook Miles Tickets or Bells.[13] On some occasions, Raymond is sold on sites like eBay for real-world currencies.[14] Scams have also occurred in the process of trading Raymond, such as a notable incident on Discord where one person had managed to scam a user of 500 Nook Miles Tickets for a "Raymond viewing session".[15] This has lead to many community members of the Animal Crossing fandom calling out against the black market for Raymond on places such as Nookazon, and many prominent Animal Crossing Discord servers now require a photo to be attached for whoever is trading a villager. Attempts to break the Raymond market had been done with hackers such as PokéNinja, who managed to give away Raymond to 50 users using a save editor.[16]

Nevertheless, the "Raymond in boxes" meme[nb 1] has been incorporated within the Animal Crossing fandom, mocking the black market situation with Raymond. Often, internet users would take screenshots with Cardboard Boxes surrounding Raymond or an impersonator dressed as Raymond; or photoshopping images with Raymond and boxes, before posting these images on social media sites.[17] Artists participated by painting the perspective of Raymond being sold on the black market, including an artwork drawn by Sara showing two players trading Nook Miles Tickets in front of Raymond.[18] YouTube creators have also tried to hunt Raymond using their Nook Miles Tickets and publishing their own journey on the site, the most popular of which being TreeckoBro's video "Spending 100x Nook Miles Tickets For RAYMOND". Some creators had mixed feelings, including DannTheMan, a notable YouTube creator, who felt that Raymond's popularity and rarity should not be factors to appreciate him as a villager, clarifying that "the best villagers to have are the ones [people may] feel a...connection with".[19]

Other notable memes surrounding Raymond included him dressing up in a Maid Dress, having him sing Bubblegum K.K., and anti-Raymond posts, the latter of which grew in tandem with the "Raymond in boxes" meme.[20][21][22]

Reggie Fils-Aimé

In a promotional video for Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Reggie Fils-Aimé, the president of Nintendo of America at the time, released a video showcasing his house in New Leaf. Near the end of the video, Reggie tells the viewers "that's all the time [he has] got", and has "to get back playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf on [his] Nintendo 3DS".[23] The clip has been used by the Animal Crossing community starting around summer 2018, when internet users began taking the clip and posting their own commentary, commonly in situations where one wanted to escape or evade their current situation.[24] Others took the meme literally to tell the Internet that they have no time left and have "to get back playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf on their Nintendo 3DS"[25]

Sea bass

In every Animal Crossing games except Doubutsu no Mori, players have grown a hatred against the sea bass, a common ocean fish typically large enough to fool players with other rarer fishes. Many games in the Animal Crossing series typically joke about the ire of catching of a sea bass, such as City Folk featuring the catch quote "I caught a sea bass! Not you again!". Animal Crossing and New Horizons are the only games not to feature this joke, the latter's catch quote, "I caught a sea bass! No, wait-it's at least a C+!" is often memed by Animal Crossing fans. A popular Animal Crossing animation by Vannamelon, "I AM THE LAW!" places emphasis on the player asking Isabelle to ban the sea bass.

Space buns

The original "Space buns" tweet

The 1.6.0 Free Winter Update of Animal Crossing: New Horizons featured the addition of the Top 6 Stylish Hairstyles set that included various hairstyles that had been highly requested through petitions.[26][27] One of the hairstyles requested was that featuring two puffs on the sides, often referred to as Odango in Japan and called Afro puffs within the Western world. Despite the praise from players of color for inclusion of these hairstyles, concerns over the inclusivity of the hairstyles grew to the point that, on November 20, 2020, when Twitter user @stardewleaf published a tweet featuring their player donning the double puffs hairstyle with the description "Cute space buns :3", the Animal Crossing community were thrust in controversy over whether or not she should wear that hairstyle.[28] Many took this as an opportunity to poke fun at the situation, either joining the bandwagon alongside the girl by wearing the puffs hairstyle and referring to it as "space buns", or using images depicting anything of buns or puffs telling internet users to retweet in order to "scare Animal Crossing fans".[29][30]

Notes

  1. ↑ "in boxes" refers to a common term to denote if a villager is packing up and moving out.

References

  1. ↑ u/ChargeTheSeas (April 1, 2020). "Money trees replaced by Eggs?". Reddit. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  2. ↑ "How to Update Animal Crossing: New Horizons". Nintendo Customer Support.
  3. ↑ Dave Thier (April 2, 2020). "It’s Only Been One Day, And Already Everyone Hates Animal Crossing’s Bunny Day Event". Forbes. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  4. ↑ u/_m-a-r-e-n-a_ (April 19, 2020). "I know that Easter is long gone, but since Jack has mentioned how much Zipper looks like animatronic i had to make this.". Reddit. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  5. ↑ @DOOM (Bethesda) (October 8, 2019). "An update on DOOM Eternal:". Twutter. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  6. ↑ Julia Lee (February 24, 2020). "How did Animal Crossing’s Isabelle and the Doomguy become best friends?". Polygon. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
  7. ↑ @DOOM (Bethesda) (February 18, 2020). "will Isabelle be there". Twitter. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  8. ↑ Patricia Hernandez (February 21, 2020). "Animal Crossing ‘froggy chair’ fever captures everything that’s great about fandom". Polygon. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  9. ↑ a human is a type of automobile (@garbuge) (November 12, 2019). "https://garbuge.tumblr.com/post/189025756460". Tumblr. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  10. ↑ Nicole Carpenter (March 23, 2020). "Froggy chair may not be in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but players are making do". Polygon. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  11. ↑ Nintendo (June 11, 2013). "Super Smash Bros. for 3DS/Wii U 1st Trailer". YouTube. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  12. ↑ El Sato (@el-sato) (June 11, 2013). "https://el-sato.tumblr.com/post/52723657612". Tumblr. Retrieved April 20, 2021].
  13. ↑ Patricia Hernandez (April 22, 2020). "Raymond is blowing up the Animal Crossing villager black market". Polygon. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  14. ↑ https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=animal+crossing+raymond&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=12
  15. ↑ @nishisenku (May 10, 2020). "imagine lying 500 NMT to view raymond im". Twitter. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  16. ↑ Patricia Hernandez (May 21, 2020). "Animal Crossing hacker gives out free Raymonds to fight black market". Polygon. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  17. ↑ Patricia Hernandez (May 12, 2020). "Animal Crossing fans keep joking about ‘Raymond in boxes’". Polygon. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  18. ↑ @Rinkibu (May 12, 2020). "Moving again... crisp #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons". Twitter. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  19. ↑ DannTheMan (May 21, 2020). "The problem with "rare" Animal Crossing Villagers...". YouTube. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  20. ↑ @mirwae (March 25, 2020). "I DID IT I GOT RAYMOND TO WEAR A MAID OUTFIT". Twitter. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  21. ↑ doctorsteen (June 23, 2020). "SING FOR ME RAYMOND #foryourpage #animalcrossing #raymond". TikTok. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  22. ↑ @malach_te (May 12, 2020). "theres the people that like raymond too much and make comedy gold and then theres the people that hate the people who like raymond and theyre the anti comedy of this scenario". Twitter. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  23. ↑ Nintendo of America (June 21, 2013). "Reggie's Animal Crossing: New Leaf Home Tour". YouTube. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  24. ↑ @saltydkdan (June 30, 2018). "MOM: Hey honey, can we talk for a minute? ME: Yeah sure ma what’s up? MOM: It’s just... I was just wondering when you’ll be moving out— ME:". Twitter. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  25. ↑ @MarioIsBroken (July 14, 2018). "Okay, that's all the time I've got. I gotta get back to playing Animal Crossing New Leaf on my Nintendo 3DS. #AnimalCrossingNewLeaf #Nintendo #3DS". Twitter. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  26. ↑ Lauren Rearick (August 18, 2020). "Animal Crossing: New Horizons Players Want More Inclusive Hairstyle Options". Nylon. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  27. ↑ Alexandria Turney (November 18, 2020). "Animal Crossing Finally Adds More Inclusive Hairstyles". ScreenRant. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  28. ↑ Patricia Hernandez (November 30, 2020). "Why Animal Crossing fans are arguing over ‘space buns’". Polygon. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  29. ↑ u/ShinyZekrom220 (November 25, 2020). "Cute space buns :3". Reddit. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  30. ↑ @royalman1999 (November 22, 2020). "#AnimalCrossing space buns retweet this image to scare fans". Twitter. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
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