There are plenty of great Animal Crossing social media accounts, like the Twitter account dedicated to Roald the penguin. But I think I’ve finally found my favorite one of them all: an Instagram account dedicated to extremely good socialist and communist memes called Animarx Crossing.
Named Animarx Crossing in honor of none other than socialist revolutionary Karl Marx, the account was opened up in January 2020 and has steadily provided leftist memes since then. Sometimes, they’re as simple as putting renders of villagers on a background with text; sometimes, they’re edits of screenshots from Animal Crossing: New Leaf or Animal Crossing: New Horizons; other times, they’re more elaborate posters with information.
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One of my favorites has to be this one of Katrina, the series’ fortune teller. The original quote is, “And remember that bad times…are just times that are bad.” It’s been a quote that has actually been personally inspiring for me because it’s so simple in its essence and truth. We all will have good times and bad times, and they’re all temporary.
But the Animarx Crossing iteration, which reads, “And remember that bad times…are probably capitalism’s fault” is 1) entirely as poignant and 2) true.
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This one made me think, “This one’s for J.K Rowling” before I even saw the caption.
O’Hare kind of snapped, to be honest.
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And this is my favorite Isabelle daily greeting. I truly love it when she says this every time I turn the game on.
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The owner of Animarx Crossing absolutely has her pulse on the latest that’s happening, especially since the most recent uprising of global Black Lives Matter protests. On May 25, white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes, even after Floyd cried out that he couldn’t breathe. Floyd later died in police custody. His tragic death is only the latest in a long line of unjust deaths at the hands of police brutality—a systemic issue that disproportionately affects the black community. (Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people and were 24% of those killed in 2019 despite being only 13% of the population.)
On June 7, videos of anti-racism protestors in Bristol, Britain taking down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston quickly went viral on Twitter. It’s estimated that Colston put 84,000 African men, women, and children, who had been traded as slaves in West Africa, on ships. It is also estimated that around 19,000 of them died on their journey to the Caribbean and the Americas. In an act that can’t be described as anything besides poetic justice, after toppling the statue, protesters rolled it into Bristol Harbour.
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— uwu colston (@boringdystopian) June 7, 2020
As Cherry canonically says, the feeling of watching the video above is worth more than a million Nook Miles Tickets.
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The Animal Crossing: New Horizons community using the game for political expression isn’t anything new. In the age of COVID-19, it quickly became a new way for Hong Kong protesters to fight for democracy. Animarx Crossing doesn’t just post witty, scathing screencaps; the account also has Instagram stories with slides of information on protesting, education, donations, and more.
The screencaps are incredibly witty and scathing, though. We all know the sea bass joke gets old real fast, but this one? This one never does.
This one’s for all of you who get on Twitter to crusade for Elon Musk.
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and if you try hard enough then one day *you* can be the one to exploit others!!
Speak it. Fuck our landlord, who’s forcing us to move in the middle of COVID-19. Also, yes to speaking the truth about Tom Nook in the caption.
Just to drive that point fully home, Tom Nook is an ally.
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As the daughter of a grocery store employee, I can confirm this to be extremely true.
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Be sure to check out the Animarx Crossing account for more incredible edits of the cute villagers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons encouraging all of us to dismantle the systems of oppression that exist to enact violence upon us on a daily basis.
ACAB. Black Lives Matter. Tear down the system. Fuck capitalism. Fuck Donald Trump. Fuck Jeff Bezos. Fuck white supremacy. Defund the police. Justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, and every black person whose life has been robbed by the police, caught on film and otherwise.
