The Animals in Animal Crossing Aren't Animals! (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)
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Game Theory
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🗓️ 30 April 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Animal Crossing is PEOPLE! No, really! Theorists, this may be one of the most unexpected theories I've put out recently, but once you see it, you will never unsee it. I have gathered TONS of evidence that our player character is only SEEING the villagers of Animal Crossing as animals. They are not, in fact, ACTUAL talking, anthropomorphic animals. Have I said the word animals enough yet? Well get ready Loyal Theorists, I am about to blow your mind! Animals!
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| 0:00.0 | No man is an island entire of itself. |
| 0:03.4 | Each is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. |
| 0:06.9 | Each man's death diminishes me, |
| 0:09.0 | or I am involved in mankind. |
| 0:11.2 | Therefore, said not to know for whom the bill tolls. It tolls for thee. |
| 0:17.0 | meow. |
| 0:18.0 | Bills? Did someone say bills? Here's a bell toll for ya. Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory. Literally the only show you will ever see |
| 0:49.8 | that's able to get away with inserting a John Dunn poem into an online video about |
| 0:54.0 | animal crossing. Two months in and I am still doing my daily chores. Are you? |
| 0:58.4 | Picking weeds is just therapeutic, dang it. But beyond the thrill of catching Tranchlas, |
| 1:02.4 | the thing that's most exciting about this game is how the current world situation has changed the way that it's being played. |
| 1:07.5 | A company in Singapore made their own branded island getaway to lure in Animal Crossing Tourists. |
| 1:12.9 | The Getty Museum has made their collection of classic artwork available for you to download and |
| 1:17.5 | print right now so it can be displayed in your own home. |
| 1:20.0 | Now, you too can hang a $54 million Vincent Van Gogh painting right next to your toilet |
| 1:25.4 | corner. My favorite though has got to be the Monare Bay Aquarium which recreated itself in the game and is giving real |
| 1:31.6 | tours. |
| 1:32.6 | Anyway, today's theory isn't about any of that. |
| 1:34.2 | It's about something much more serious and much darker. |
| 1:37.8 | Today's theory takes a stake and drives it into the beating heart |
| 1:41.9 | at the center of animal crossing. |
| 1:43.5 | Because you see, I don't think this game is exactly what it appears to be. |
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