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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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…

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.

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!

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!

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

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... 🙄

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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).

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

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.

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

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

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

I just KNOW I'm gonna see Baabara on here

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

PLEASE DO A PART TWO!!

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

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

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!

I love Barold Fight me

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Empty the tanks is funny

I’m fishing and donating stuff to the museum rn

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

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

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

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.

The ifunny villager

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.

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

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

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

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

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. :(

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

Look! The cat is dancing!

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

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

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 😂

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Mom I made it!! 9:17

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.

Tortimer noooooo 😂😂

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

Timers for saving you time : Real controversies : 0:50 : Animal Crossing players got their game destroyed by Nintendo 14:24 : Hong Kong citizens trying to protest their opinion against an oppressive dictature in Animal Crossing NH Funny mentions : 10:43 : Americans be American but in a creative way Rest of the video : Americans being Americans but it's not original

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

an NPC could be a criminal

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

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

as a vegan: H U H ? !

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.

the news report is right because games like this could have bad people wreaking havoc in the community. there was a controversy involving pokemon go where you collected pokemon stuff scattered all over your town and involved going onto private properties and caused a stir over trespassing a game needs to have gender indicators like in the 80s mis pacman had a bowtie in her hair. i guess sticking to the theme here men could be dogs and women could be cats.

i hop you don't get mad at japan language called "run alway" (Nigeru 逃げる)

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.

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