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This article was posted on May 16th. I discovered it by accident, but now it's got me thinking.
It goes on to talk about players who are deleting their islands, and specifically, one woman named Christina Lau.
"Christina Lau spent well over 200 hours working on her Animal Crossing: New Horizons island. She rebuilt majestic mountain ranges again and again. She made her island a New York-style city, then a pastel-colored cotton candy garden. She time-traveled for maximum efficiency, crafted hundreds of fish bait so she could catch rare fish like the elusive Stringfish, and paid off all of her loans with millions of Bells to spare.
But she still wasn’t happy. One night, she was struggling to get a cliff to round off just right. After 10 minutes, she told Polygon, she started to “uncontrollably bawl.” So she decided to reset her game and start all over again."
The article explains the premise of Animal Crossing. It brings up social media and its effect on players of the game, such as Kaitlyn Molinas, who states,
“My ideas that I tried never felt cute, especially compared to images I’d see on Twitter, and it made the game very stressful to play, and see people talking about constantly online,” she told Polygon. “I ended up feeling like wanting to go back and play New Leaf, as that game was just, always chill, due in part to not being able to tear everything up and decorate whatever.”
The conversation switches to the pressures of trying to 'meet expectations' and the stress of both joining the conversation and showing off your island. The article ends on a note of being kind to yourself- and that restarting can be a way of self-care.
It goes on to talk about players who are deleting their islands, and specifically, one woman named Christina Lau.
"Christina Lau spent well over 200 hours working on her Animal Crossing: New Horizons island. She rebuilt majestic mountain ranges again and again. She made her island a New York-style city, then a pastel-colored cotton candy garden. She time-traveled for maximum efficiency, crafted hundreds of fish bait so she could catch rare fish like the elusive Stringfish, and paid off all of her loans with millions of Bells to spare.
But she still wasn’t happy. One night, she was struggling to get a cliff to round off just right. After 10 minutes, she told Polygon, she started to “uncontrollably bawl.” So she decided to reset her game and start all over again."
The article explains the premise of Animal Crossing. It brings up social media and its effect on players of the game, such as Kaitlyn Molinas, who states,
“My ideas that I tried never felt cute, especially compared to images I’d see on Twitter, and it made the game very stressful to play, and see people talking about constantly online,” she told Polygon. “I ended up feeling like wanting to go back and play New Leaf, as that game was just, always chill, due in part to not being able to tear everything up and decorate whatever.”
The conversation switches to the pressures of trying to 'meet expectations' and the stress of both joining the conversation and showing off your island. The article ends on a note of being kind to yourself- and that restarting can be a way of self-care.
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I would like to know about other people's opinions on this subject. What do you think?