from animal crossing on gamecube through wild world, city folk, new leaf, and finally new horizons. Someone tell us why the villager isn't human ok bye.
Star island Summer shell isle Maple leaf isle Spring bamboo island Mushroom island Cherry blossoms ahoy Snowy cap isle@ so i was playing animal crossing late at night, and i finished for the day and decided to listen to 5 am. apparently i fell asleep. i didn't really wake up at first, and was in a dream about the new minecraft mobs (i already kinda thought of them) that were small. The important thing is there was this familiar animal crossing music in he background but I couldn't comprehend it. After thinkig about epic music that could play with the mobs like the Minecraft head that looks like a pufferfish or a kawaii ish cute ish looking like swimming thing that was also a mob head shape. There was a modern house too…. Ok now to my point. I was like I will wake up, and then I realized that music oddly sounds like Animal Crossing: New Horizons Official ost - 12 pm sunny. I touched my face and realized how weird it was I had headphones on. And then I realized the switch was still next to me charging for like 6 hours. And yes it was 12pm (in game), and I missed the 6 am greedy cheater. He just stood in the campsite for 6 hours… SIX HOURS. IG luckily the switch is fine. But now I have a headache 11 am on a Sunday hungry and tired. Hey… at least I woke up early for my type like the crankies and nooks is offering double money for the hay fountain and clay bed. Few!
I just want to point out that Harriet’s apron is probably not the French flag. Given the context of her being a hairstylist, it’s more likely supposed to look like a barbershop pole like this -> 💈
@@pinkdarkboy7127 I suppose that’s possible, but considering the slant on the apron and the fact that there’s literally nothing else french about her*, it’s likely just a barber’s pole. French poodles are a very specific type of miniature poodle. The breed as a whole originated in Germany *ETA: her English name has French origin, my bad
I was thinking an ancient not alien race to the animal crossers like 30000 years ago got the prehistoric animals from earth and did genetic experiments and made stronger dinosaurs and weird creatures. The main thing is they made a species of creaties that couldn't reproduce. More like multible. And that's you and the villagers. Luckily they might live for a very long time depending on game meaning they can build funds to reporducs artificially.
@@timohara7717 That makes no sense. The Animal Crossing characters aren't that old (Redd is 35 years old) and they clearly CAN reproduce, as there are characters who are kids of other characters.
The way I see it is that humans do in fact exist and the animal folk are akin to like a beast man race you might find in a fantasy series they both exist in the animal crossing world but live in separate parts of the world with some mixed communities spread about like any of the towns we as player move to in each iteration
Fun fact about Porter : It is said on his e-reader card that he sometimes switch places with his brother who is the train's engineer. He also doesn't share his birthday with Champ so maybe Champ is the unknown brother? He doesn't show up in other games because he is the engineer. Maybe a bit of a reach but I found it interesting ! Thank you for this video, it's great !
My Katrina theory: She's actually psychic but she doesn't know that. Meaning she's a scammer that's unaware of her abilities. She says what comes to mind, but she's doing that simply to scam so she doesn't consider where those thoughts come from. Maybe she doesn't even believe it's possible to have the powers that she has. Shoutout to my gram for requiring an explanation of why I wanted her so much in ACNH. I didn't think about it much before saying it out loud but that's kinda just been my assumption since Population Growing not sure why but it makes sense to me lol
the evolution statement shows that the fossils on display are different branches of the evolutionary tree, not ancestors of the final results on the window at the top. it's quite clear that the Australopithecus (and every other fossile on display) is on it's own branch, not an in-between point between origin species and humans. (and animal crossing anthro animals)
Yes! I kind of brought that up and worded the branch part a little briefly in my explanation towards the 2nd half, but isn’t it sus that the distance between the branch-off for what the Australopithecus is based on is way bigger…and we have skeleton display😳
@@RocketElijah yeah and to expand on it further that means that all of the animal villagers are not descended from the animals they're based on but rather evolutionary branches of a common ancestor, meaning that both deer people and regular deer exist which explains the existence of frogs and frog people
@@TheMegaMarshtompthe theory of gravity by that logic is just a theory. Yet we are still on the ground are we? Scientific theories are different than conspiracy theories.
I definitely think Champ and Porter are the same character, but i think it's a little silly to call it a theory, because it really feels like Nintendo is very explicitly saying they're the same character with Champ's interest in trains. I think his name is Champ, and Porter is his profession.
Porter is said to have a brother who is the train's engineer. Champ is very likely said brother, but him and Porter are definitely not the same person.
I don't think Animal Crossing is purgatory, but a digital simulation similar to Ready Player One or some such. In New Horizons, I even had a Lazy villager say as much before laughing it off as a joke, but not before my player character started sweating and panicking that the NPCs were catching on.
oh and one more thing a pescatarian diet does make sense since there are literally no villagers that are fish, so it's an ethical thing. no cannibals are allowed in animal crossing, animal or human.
Actually, the person over the phone is confirmed to be Rover in Animal Crossing City Folk! I don’t know about other games though, but I do have City Folk 😅
In New Leaf, most of the shop owners were all on main street, and in New Horizons, most of them live on Harv's Island. In New Horizons, I was always wondering if you could go up that stairs in Nooks Crannys.
I think Champ is Porter's brother. In Porter's animal crossing e-reader card, it says "Despite being stuck at the station rain or shine, Porter always seems to be in a chipper mood. Rumor has it that he and his brother, the train's engineer, switch places sometimes!" which confirms he has a brother that looks just like him. Champ has a different birthday than Porter, which makes me think it is not Porter. It has to be his brother. This would also make sense because Porter's brother also works at the train station, so him appearing as a villager when there is no train station all adds up. The choo choo catchphrase would also still be fitting of Porter's brother.
That’s actually really cute if they switch places. That would mean Champ works at the station too tho, which would make sense that he’s just hanging around when there isn’t a station to work at
the turtle you catch in acnh is a snapping turtle, and tortimer is a tortoise, which are very different animals. not sure about the frog though, maybe there is a "human" animal version and a normal animal version of every animal? though that wouldnt explain the pescatarian food.
I think it's a human/chimp type situation. Chimpanzees look very similar and are closely related to humans, but are obviously different. Maybe the animal villagers in AC are like that, they share a common ancestor with the actual animal and evolved sapience like we did, so for example the frog you get by fishing would be the chimpanzee to the sapient villager frogs' human.
About Champ, you completely forgot to mention that when you start a new town in New Leaf, after you created your face after talking to Rover, there's another monkey (Speaker, but that's not his real name) who announces the town destination. He is very similar to Porter with the suit and the hat. This could potentially mean that it's Champ, Porter's long lost brother ? We'll never know.
There's another disembodied voice NPC in the original gamecube verion when you use the "lovely phone" item. I just dont know if it's in aminalese or if it's in bebelese.
In New Leaf it is in bebelese, since the lovely phone returns in that game, I can confirm this since I have the phone on my save file. However, it says it is automated and gives you fortune telling advice, which basically boils down to the lucky item you should wear, which is the exact same as Katrina's in that game for example if Katrina tells you to wear boots as a lucky item, the phone will tell you to wear boots
the buildings in animal crossing are like in harry potter. you go into a tiny mouse hole and ending up being in a big castle. there is magic in animal crossing.
the "is Champ Porter" theory has been debunked. In Animal Crossing Plaza for the Wii U, it was revealed they have different birthdays. My headcanon is that Champ is actually Porter's younger brother, and his love of trains is because of his admiration for Porter. As far as the caged hamster and hamster villagers, things get weird when you look at Flurry's house. Flurry, a white hamster villager, has a white hamster in a cage on her dresser. Why.
also there are “normal” humans on tv. like doing panel/game shows and presenting the (accurate and live in-game) weather. so there are also normal humans in the AC world…and if the human newscasters know, and are presenting, the weather for YOUR small getaway island….where tf are they?!
This famous theory of the post-apocalyptic world works with that. According to the theory (im not the one who invented it btw, i just read about it once), there was a war in the AC universe, where humans genetically modified animals to make greater armies. Those animals became the villagers, and the ones that were not modified stayed the same (which explains why there are regular hamsters or frogs, why the insects or fish are still the same etc) After the war, the humanoid-animals hid from the humans on small unknown islands. Thats why we are the only human in our town We can even go further and say that we are part-animal and that explains why we are accepted in the town where animals hide from humans and why we don't look like the humans on the TV, paintings, sculptures or the anatomy models.
What about the theory of who was supposed to be the mayor in New leaf. I know most people think it's Isabelle but I always held the belief that it's Rover. He was on the train reminiscing about traveling and then talking to you who happens to be going to the same town he was. He suddenly decides to back out of being mayor and let's you take over. I mean Isabelle says they knew you were coming cause you'd sent a letter saying what time you were coming. How would she have known that someone was coming without the letter? Idk something that I always thought was interesting
I've always thought this too! The way he talks about the town you're going to makes it seem like he was either somewhat familiar with it or he was planning on visiting it.
In one of William Gibson's short stories he wrote about a teenage hacker who instead of computer software and hardware, worked with generics. The kid creates a virus that modifies animals into near human level of intelligence. While it doesn't end (in the little that I remember) in a destroyed world, it creates a massive mess for everyone. I like to think the Animal Crossing world is somewhat based on this short story. The smart animals branch out to create their own land.
hey I know what's behind the door in the resident services, basically it's a room that people who don't have a tent go into to live it's proven by making a new account and not making a house then check the map and it'll show you in resident services
I actually did that when I made a new account to take advantage of the free NSO trial to go to treasure islands. I never actually put the tent down and I was wondering what would happen and I just spawned in the plaza
So answer for one: I’m pretty sure the answer to why there’s the animal villagers like say a frog villager and also a frog you can collect is prob the same reason Disney has both Pluto and Goofy and why Minnie Mouse is afraid of mice. There’s the human animals that are anthropomorphic. They evolved into what they are now. But not all did and that’s why you can have a hamster in your house given to you by a hamster villager. Also why Hello Kitty has a pet kitten named Charmmy y’know?
Also talking how about the Hello Kitty analogy is very interesting, I always hear people talk about the goofy Pluto thing but never the Hello Kitty and her pet cat thing
@@brogamin179 there's actually a lot of confusion in terms of if Hello Kitty is cat or not, but Sanrio confirm that she is like Mickey or Kermit where they have animal appearances yet act like humans. That's what anthropomorphic means.
I thought the phone “character” was a prerecorded automated system. Never even considered it was a character, let alone human or an animal. I still stand by this
As a real railroader, it's quite possible that Porter got fired because of a discipline issue or a disability because of an injury. Both very real issues that confront irl railroders. Since Nintendo and Animal Crossing are Japanese, and the Japanese are bigger train fans (foamers in USA parlance), this seems to be a realistic situation. Also Porter could have gotten laid off, and rehired when people in front of him in seniority retired. Of course, in ACNH, there is also the train set available iin the four seasons.
That branching between australopithecine and human in the museum does still line up with the real world family tree. It's just overly simplified and straight forward between two species excludes all other species of the family tree. If you did the same with focusing only between two species at the real family tree, you will get the same result. If you look closer, the australo branch is also branched early right after the hominid line branched from the monkeys/apes just like the real family diagram. They are the closest to humans than any other apes or monkeys. They stayed accurate to show these prehistorical animals aren't direct ancestors but close relatives sharing the common ancestor with the modern animals.
19:50 Oh wow, that's...something. In the German version she says "And remember: bad luck is just good luck that's playing dress-up", which I think is actually pretty cute.
regarding the human theory, it could always go the Hatoful Boyfriend route. In Hatoful Boyfriend, the pigeons evolved into higher intelligence beings while living alongside humans. However, humans being prejudiced against the birds, they separated societies. In the midst of a cold war, the humans sends the protagonist to form personal bonds with the birds and live in their society. Doesn't have to be 1-to-1, but the idea of living alongside could be plausible
there are some meat items in pocket camp including an actual turkey. franklin barely appears, he had an event named after him in 2021, but other than that i don't think he's been in it. i'm concerned
While I don't mind being left in the dark about the animal crossing universe, and simply enjoy designing my island and interiors.... a part of me would really like a game that has more story to it. I don't expect a full blown story to the game ever, but just more substance than basically a tutorial would be really cool. To be honest, after such a jump to having your own island to design with terraforming, I have NO IDEA what the next game will end up being. Like they could always give us a way larger space, with more villagers able to come to your town, or add a separate city like they have in past games... but as for the theme, and whether or not it would be a deserted island, is a mystery. I would love to see theory videos on what they could possibly do next! The next console is coming (hopefully) soon afterall :)
As for your first argument, that entire wing of the museum is a phylogenetic tree. It is actually touted in the real life scientific community as being accurate to real evolutionary progress (counting the anthropomorphic animal silhouettes as their real life equivalents). The Australopithecus is about exactly as close to humanity on that tree as it is supposed to be on a phylogenetic tree of the magnitude as seen in the fossils wing of the museum.
17:42 this point could hold a similar explanation to Splatoon’s discussion on how it seems like the sentient characters rat seafood. It is explained as the food they eat being less evolved versions of the seas creatures, similar to pets in our world, they just happen to share similar traits to the humanoid sea creatures. the humanoid ones are much differently evolved than the ones still in the ocean, one major difference being the ones on land cannot enter the water anymore, so I’d say it’s an evolutionary difference thing for animal crossing as well
1:15 considering this and dialogue by the turkey dude "i know its turkey day, but you wont BELIEVE what they do to turkeys in some parts of the world" maybe half of the ac earth is animal crossing and the other half is basically real life like my brother said that as a joke when i showed him the turkey day dialogue but like if theres another thing in the franchise hinting to it like who knows
Man, I need to complain, so sorry in advance, but this video keeps popping up on my side bar for me to watch, but the half cut villager model with the muscles keeps putting me off my lunch.
Hey there! First off, huge fan of your videos - your content is always on point! However, I couldn't help but notice a tiny detail at 2:50 that I thought I'd share my thoughts on. It seems like there might be a bit of confusion regarding the Animal Crossing phylogenetic tree. Just to clarify, the tree isn't necessarily depicting a linear progression, and interestingly, Australopithecus on that same tree does share a common ancestor with humans (it's not implying that they are our ancestors). It's all about checking out the underlying connections beneath the different acnh animals. Keep up the great work!
10:13 we also get flip in new horizons who also looks just like porter and in nh hes once again replaced by wilbur and orville.... what if he changed his name once again when he was fired again and made it not champ because people caught on
Did you guys notice the dear shadow line connects to the 4th animal in the museum and some of the other shadows do the same to another animal in the museum but the australopith does not have a shadow but it has a line connecting to it and when you go under the last light it shines on you and makes a sound that's cool. Also why are we the only human in the animal crossing world it's so strange why?
to touch on the topic of food, there is an item for a barbeque griller or something like that in acnh which when opened shows smoked sausages, cheese, and something else i think, i was stunned when i first discovered it by accident
I’m willing to believe that the sausages aren’t actually sausages, but a vegan substitute. If it was actual meat, some of the villagers would basically be eating themselves, and I don’t want that thought in my head.
My theory that I 100% believe in is that the world of Animal Crossing and the World of Sonic the Hedgehog are the same place. Think about it, sometimes we see humans in Sonic, often we don't. They've been recently revealed to live on continents, while animal people typically live on islands ( and guess what, seems like small isles and islands are bountiful in Animal Crossing too ). The settings in Animal Crossing just seem to follow normal civilians in peacetime, while in Sonic we follow the special folk going on extraordinary adventures. There's just not much to disprove that they're the same world, the lore fits together rather nicely.
I think it’s more likely the comment about the tire is just a jokey reference. Gracie already having a nice car is probably just because she’s living large from her work in fashion, and her having a nice store later is just the result of her company growing. I’m happy for her :)
Dreamlight Valley addressed the meat issue with the Eternity Isle update. Gaston has meat stales and it’s stated that the meat in that game comes from the freezer of infinite meat. So maybe animal crossing is the same way and they found a scientific solution to the meat problem
I like to bekive Champ and Porter are the same character! Like, while he's working, he uses his last name and while not he uses his first. So his full name might be "Champ Porter"! :)
15:02 on this topic (not the topic of the exact timestamp just the one of imageless characters), theres also the lady at the very start of new horizons who announces the flight boarding, and the one when you're on the plane who transitions into the little movie intro thing! they might be the same character? idk since that doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but then again it's animal crossing and we eat fruit to dig up trees lmao
From someone who literally grew up in a small town airport because that’s where my dad worked: yeah there’s usually sleeping quarters (in my experience, in the basement), and the observation deck is usually real LMAO I imagine they are making it work 🤣
they actually do the family tree right, you see a line that leads to the Australopith skull, but that line does not continue up the wall, it splits from the line that continues up the wall, showing that the Animal Crossing human is not descended from the Australopith, but it is a relative that has long since gone extinct.
the evolution thing kind of makes the “frog villager vs realistic frog” thing make sense to me. I’m guessing if they evolved from the much older skeletons shown at the museum, then they probably at some point also resembled the animals we have today, and now coexist with these animals in the way humans coexist with monkeys, even catching them and putting them on display for entertainment purposes. but idk i just overthink everything XDD
I believe that Animal Crossing exists on Disney logic. By this measure, yes, frogs and anthro frogs can exist side by side. In Disney, this is most evident in Pluto and Goofy: Pluto is a dog, but Goofy is a Funny Dog (this being the apparent official name for the anthropomorphic species - “Funny _____”.
Rocket Elijah can you confirm that the music at 19:00 was like a trumpet cover of Life Will Change from Persona 5. please i need answers are you a persona fan?
there's absolutely no proof for this, but my brain immediately assumes that the turkey day casserole in new horizons is a sweet potato casserole every time i see it because of the default swatch's lid color. idk, something about the shade of orange screams sweet potato like, i know logically that the lid is probably a painted ceramic lid, but it does look a lot like the shade of cooked sweet potato (at least in the default swatch)
The museum tree of life very clearly shows that the Australopithecus is a separate evolutionary branch from current humans. And the distances in branches just indicate how long ago the split happened.
i think the game intends for the players to be the human population in animal crossing, and i think there's dialogue that builds canon outside of just your town (letters from your parents, characters acknowledging that you can visit your friend's towns, etc) to back that. common animal crossing worldbuilding dub
Lyle is not really a scammer. He talks you into buying the insurance, yes. And you can't say no. But it is an actual insurance. When you get stung by a bee, he'll pay you. After some time it actually pays out.
Also my thought was where not humans cause our hands are shape like spheres and we don't have eyebrows and remember that the sisters label,sable and Mabel had parents? I know we don't see them in any animal crossing game cause they passed away it's sad for them and i hope they have a good life😔
I like to think that the humans we see in art and skeletons are "pure" humans that don't live on earth anymore and the characters we play as is a human with mixed DNA of other animals. Either due to breeding or scientific experiments
They literally ONLY show that the skull, apes and humans have the same ancestor somewhere down tha line. The skull is branched off its NOT a branch that directly does tho the money villager or us. You can literally see thats its branch ENDS with that head!!
