It's been Four Years since Animal Crossing: New Horizons released 

Hope everyone enjoys the new little avatar, it will absolutely be appearing in future content when I feel like using it. A massive thanks to Shenpai for the wonderful job on it www.youtube.com/@AeroViro

And it's also four years since Doom Eternal released as well

“She’s my best friend we haven’t spoken in months.” Is very relatable content now that I’m 30

You know that Animal Crossing fans have been starved of new content since the Happy Home Paradise DLC released over 2 years ago when people are making cursed Jerma designs to IKEA itself

Seeing Dan and Shen interacting a bunch recently makes me so happy my two fav creators :)

Its hard to believe that it has been 4 years already, time really *does* fly.

I haven't thought about Dan playing Animal Crossing since his last video on it, yet the moment I saw this my mind immediately thought "I wonder if Boone's grave is still there"... Suffice it to say, that Dan has made a very wholesome impression when it comes to associating this game with him

This game is so wholesome. Give a villager some weeds and they say thank you for the gift that keeps on growing!

Wealth, Fame, Power, the Drift King RTgame acquired this and everything else the world had to offer, and his dying words gave life to a new era "You want my channel? You can have it! I left everything I had in One Piece, now you just have to find it"

Funny thing is あ is literally the only hiragana that I know, so imagine my surprise when the only thing on this island I can read is screaming.

As someone who hasn't messed with dream islands at all since New Leaf I'm glad people are upholding the tradition of continuing to create weird unsettling shit for no reason other than to freak out whoever visits

Thank you, RT. Just thank you for being a continued source of entertainment and representation of drive for a passion.

Remember the Doom x ACNH memes? Good times…

I’m genuinely convinced that the IKEA island is an abandoned item trading market island from back in the game’s prime. If it is then it’s a fascinating look into how those places ended up after most part stopped playing the game.

"That guy from One Piece" RT is confirmed smart enough to not have sunk 3000 hours into a Japanese cartoon.

I remember how much this game genuinely helped me through a tough period in life and I appreciate it so much.

The Ikea island makes me think of my first and only experience with the dream feature, I just had it choose a random island and it sent me to "DIGIMON". EVERY SQUARE INCH of the island was covered in random furniture and the lag was unlike anything I have ever seen in Animal Crossing, especially since my game crashed after looking around in pure confusion. This island has and will occupy some part of my brain for a long time.

I love the cozy direction your content has been going in lately. The last three videos you've posted have been some of my favourites of yours. Also, I love the new avatar so much!

The fact that Daniel can put 600+ hours into a game before leaving it for 3 years is crazy. Truly an Irish born man 😂

“She’s my best friend! We haven’t spoken in months!” as someone who has adhd AND has a best friend with adhd this sounds about right

RTGame you always make me feel old. This Came out 4 Years Ago? Animal Crossing New Leaf Came out 12 Years ago? Animal Crossing City Folk came out 16 Years ago? Daniel Your community is old, I'm old, your old. Love your content thanks for the daily dose of Age anxiety

26:06 "there just seems to be a lot of empty space" I can't believe they authentically translated a large part of the Ohio travel experience into the medium of animal crossing

im still upset that nintendo just dropped this game, there was so much potential to keep adding stuff from the earlier entries :(

i got this game just as lockdown hit (like most people) and my mum got it as well. i couldnt see her in person for months but this game kept us both sane. we would visit each others islands, go round the museum, and of course hit each other with nets... it sounds silly now but i really dont think i would have made it through without this game! so nice to see everyone else that has great memories as well :)

During the minecraft sessions someone mentioned this game when Dan was picking flowers. Must've triggered something

seeing the japanese "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" when you talked to the player npc during the ikea one was very funny as someone who knows a little bit of japanese.

I feel bad for my villagers, they havent seen me for years at this point lol

start running

Rt and Shenpai seem to be talking with each a lot more. I had the two in my subscription for ages, but it always felt like they were both of their own spheres, so it feels weird to see them in each other's streams. Not complaining, definitely not, it's nice they are talking to each other.

Man I was always jealous for people who could do their islands up nice. You have a knack for designing RT

Dude it feels like that was yesterday. Existential crisis time

Are we not gonna question that the tune to the Tesco island was just All-Star?

oh no RT has renounced his flesh again everyone PANIC

This game came out right before my dad passed away, it helped a lot with my grieving. He died on Easter morning of 2020, this upcoming sunday is Easter, so he's on my mind. For everything people have said about this game, it will always have a special place in my heart.

Don't worry, Shen. Rascal has been doing fine. He has taken to eating the couch for sustenance.

The interest you've accrued on those Bells is obscene and Tom Nook WILL take your bladder.

I'm noticing that some players are slowly returning to New Horizons, either through a complete restart, continuing where they left off or just for a moment of nostolgia. It pretty cool to see😊. Now that the virus is gone and updates are complete, I think players can play this game and its DLC at a bit of a slower pace now. Its honestly a great, relaxing time when you don't have to rush and take your time.

when RT was talking about the Present Wall I heard "Prison Wall" and accepted it without question

It’s so weird seeing Dan have a normal world that actually looks beautiful and not weird and demonic

They used to call Daniel young back in college

He has abandoned his flesh and become eternal

It’s so fun seeing how creative people are. Those little model trains on Dan’s island have to be my favorite thing.

I’m really sick right now so seeing this video pop up in my recommended is a blessing. Love your videos, man!

I posted this comment on the archive channel but I wanted to repeat it here cause I think it's worth sharing. That Ikea that Dan went to looks like it might actually be a dupe/or treasure island; islands that contain an infinite number of every item in the game, desired villagers that you can get to move to your island, glitched money so you can get 999,999,999 bells, etc. I assume that because it's a dream that's why the glitched items aren't visible, and that's why it looks so empty. There's usually a lot more items on display as well so you can see what you're picking up, but I guess they took them all down? It could also be an early save/version of the island with most stuff not placed yet.

Excellent observation, thank you, RT!

22:08 Also RT may be having a goof here, but I do think this touches on an interesting point that a lot of big, hardcore AC fans often overlook - for casual players, coming back to a town after a long hiatus can seem almost intimidating, rather than welcoming. Like, New Horizons isn't actually like that very much. It's easily the coziest and most reassuring of all the games (which is probably why I've played it the most of any AC game), and it really tries its hardest to avoid those pitfalls the rest of the series falls into. But the series spent so long being built on that notion of "it's playing, even when you're not!", that the intimidation factor still exists mentally for most regular people. I know more than a few people who have thought about going back to NH, only to talk themselves out of it when they think about 'picking up all the weeds' and 'hearing villagers talk about how long they've been gone'. Despite the laid-back atmosphere, AC can seem like a pretty big time investment for the average player. It's one of those casual/"hardcore" disconnects that I always find really interesting. It's similar to how hardcore players think NH has "less content" than NL; there's only "less" content because most of NL's big town projects (which were only unlocked via random villager-suggestion) became normal furniture pieces to buy or craft. And speaking as someone who unlocked very few interesting NL projects, I think NH's system is way more fun.

Your animal crossing new horizons videos were the videos that got me into your content! I can’t believe that was 4 years ago

You inspired me to go check out my village again, thank you (: Also if Shenpai sees this, great work on the little Avatar for RT!

love ankha, hate what the internet has done to her reputation

Your videos and streams were the reason I got a Switch and Animal Ccrossing. My island is now a blossoming island paradise that I love dearly. Thank you so much for these wonderful chill videos.

11:05 definitely turned into Luffy

For some reason, hearing animal crossing was 4 years ago makes the most sense in the world to me. But 2020, being 4 years ago, is insane.

Everyone else: ITS BEEN 4 YEARS!?!?! Me: oh it’s only been 4 years? I thought it came out 6 or 7 years ago.

I still can't get over how adorable RT's pngtuber is. Shenpai did an incredible job!

Even though this game has its issues I appreciate so much for helpin me cope with 2020 Thanks so much for playin it RT!!

this video has been a DELIGHT. I met some incredible friends through this game- friends that i was doing stardew stuff with right before watching this. thank you for the animal crossing video rt :)

This video is gonna inspire me to finally get back to ACNH and finally finish my island, something about seeing Daniel's island and him talking with all of his villagers is so sweet to me. Hearing K.K. Soul when he was at Mint's house reminded me that was my favourite song in the game, seeing all of the pretty builds and decorations,, I haven't touched my island in over a year but now I finally feel motivated to finish it

My wife doesn't really play games, and never really did before we got married. The sole exception was animal crossing, where she has more hours on that one game than I have across my entire switch and steam library

I got back into this game literally this week! I want to finally fix up my mess of an island, little at a time but all the ideas I have literally vanish as soon as I open the game lol

That's nice. Thanks for your video, Dan. And nice art.

Not even 50 seconds in and I'm already cracking up. I haven't visited my town in about 18 months and know I have talked to all my neighbors in a single day more than Dan has. Also, that area with the fountain was very cozy.

Happy Birthday to New Horizons!!!🥳🎉 awesome video! I only played New Horizons for 45 hours sadly.

This was the most wholesome stream

26:42 Aurora Borealis

I just watched all of your other videos on this game so this is an awesome upload.

RT is the sole reason I picked up Animal Crossing and spent 800 hours into this god damn amazing game. So many wholesome memories. Thank you RT.

This is amazing!!! RT you make my day :DD (make sure to look after yourself)

I love you visiting dream addresses on stream, I hope you do more of this in the future :)

It was watching this stream that i realized I hadn't ever touched Niko's little sidequest to get those recipes so thank you for going over there because otherwise I would've been oblivious for the rest of my life

VESTA!!:D Vesta and Nan are, hands down, my favorite neighbors😍 Seeing Vesta gave me all the best nostalgia, thank you!❤

i sooo missed your ac content this is amazing

IM SO HAPPY YOU BROUGHT THIS BACK

Ah, yes, another Existential Crisis stream! I love these! It’s always a pleasure watching RT psychologically deconstruct himself!

Glad to see another Bluebear fan! She’s been my bestie since wild world too 💙

Dan it’s been 4 years since I started my transition which also so happens to be that same 4 years since I started watching you I just want to say thank you for everything and sometimes being the only laugh I got on a hard day ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

I was not expecting to hear rt talk about shen, that’s awesome!

Thank you so much for the tour of your island! Hope you don't mind if I copy it exactly for my own island. (I'm not creative at all...) Update: In order for the IKEA dream island to have had those cardboard boxes in the empty room at 30:34, the resident would have had to have never set foot in their home a single time. Those cardboard boxes only show up when you first move onto the island while your home is still a tent and they disappear when you interact with them, which makes them the rarest items in the game.

Dannnnn... there's been a lot of revisiting lately Dan... Do you have something to tell us Dan?

Dan calling Luffy "That guy from One Piece" must have offended so many OP fans across the globe lol

Everytime Dan says 'Back in the day', I feel like I'm getting older by centuries

Such a comfy video, brought back many memories much like the Minecraft streams, honestly the best games to go through the pandemic with, including Doom Eternal.

The dynamic tank top realy does make him look like Luffy tho.

I’d love to see just more random exploration of dream islands lmao

Man, watching Daniel's animal crossing videos and seeing the island and the really cool villagers really wants me to buy a switch, and this....but the grind for it

Dude your island and house are beautiful

Man what a trip. When NH first released I was in a friend group that had more or less existed for over a decade. Several of us played NH on release and loved exploring each other's islands. Now that group has grenaded. Miss them sometimes but at the end two people sent me the most toxic messages ever and cut all IRL contact. Think it was a good thing in the end, looking back it was a toxic as fk relationship with most of them and they were not good people, was really a life lesson for me. Those that loudly scream "love and tolerance" are often full of hate and vitriol.

Maybe the One Piece was the Animal Crossing friends we've made the whole time...

Oh my gid this video reminded me what i turned the town bell into on my island. Its the intro to welcome to the black parade

Am I the only one who thought Isabel was going to come crashing through town hall with the doom slayer when the heavy metal started playing?😂😂😂

This video actually made me download again Animal Crossing to greet my neighbours and maybe re decorate some stuff, then I remembered my SD card stopped working so I had to free up some space in my switch and now with my bad wifi and waiting for animal crossing to finish downloading in about 2 hours Thanks Dan, loved it, love u

13:18 I was in a similar position with not knowing what to do with my basement. It eventually became a place to dump all my Gyroids and I realised they sounded really nice together with K.K. Dub and my basement became a cute little place to relax when I'm leaving my game idle (ADHD, woo!). Still trying to figure out what to do with my left side room though, maybe I'll hop on at some point in the next few years and figure it out. XD

Bro that takes me back. It almost feels nostalgic for some reason. Waking up. Hearing new covid numbers, not allowed to leave home, firing up new horizons. Sleep. Repeat.

Your island and house is so beautiful 😍😍

this is so coincidental but a few hous ago i checked how old a song was and it said four years ago, my mouth literally dropped at the thought that it's been fours years since 2020. thanks for reminding me once again

RT stop dropping so many good videos I can’t keep up

Dude, I just recently restarted animal crossing and playing daily and you post this? fucking magical

This video made me want to replay Animal Crossing ! And while i don't have New Horizon, imma go open up New Leaf and start a new save

this video really sent me right back to playing this game during quarantine in my room. dang lol

I remember going HAM on HHA to customise villager houses. I only ever did two of them in the end, Tybalt and Roswell ^^; I was so invested that I ended up making Class 3-E from Assassination Classroom as the HHA school build.

I just recently found this channel. The RU-vid algorithm finally did something right. Dude, you’re awesome. Stay spiffy 🤙🏻