PETA is protesting 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Animal Crossing: New Horizons once again - and this time, they're back wi🌺th a full-on PR stunt with a TikTok video, plenty of Twitter hashtags, and some very bizarre mo🐠tivations.
When New Horizons launched back in March, the animal rights organization took to the interwebs to release their own "" which was filled with ridiculous rules (e.g. no fishing, no bug catching, no digging up clams, etc.). Apparently, they believed in-game anthropomorphic renderings comprised of cod🦩e equated to real-life animals. Alright.
However, it𝔉 appears The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals didn't think their guide was enough, and that more vocal action needed to be taken.
Yesterday, the group released a TikTok, both on their official account as well as on Twitter, showcasing their in-game protest at Blathers' museum. The "protesters" gathered outside of the museum, calling out the o𝕴wl museum curator for his unfair encaging of fish. The protest was filled wi🔴th loud and excitable villagers, custom shirts, and signs that read "FISH BELONG IN THE OCEAN" and "EMPTY THE TANKS."
During the video, protesting villagers can be seen running through the museum, spamming their text boxes with angry messages. At one poꦐint, the video displays the following caption: "Blathers encourages villagers to take fish out of their natural habitats so he can trap them in tiny tanks - CANCELLED." PETA even created their own hashtag to accompany the protest, #BlathersIsOverParty.
The reasons why this company decided to dedicate their time, money, and energy into this absurd stunt are currently u💃nknown - but if they were hoping to cause a social media stir, they sure have accomplished that goal. (Though, it probably has the opposite effect than what they💖 were hoping for.)
Reactions to the strange video have mostly consisted of some very confused, and a couple of co🐭ncerned, followers💮.
A number of people have pointed out the almost hilarious hypocrisy in PETA's stunt, noting that, for a company who claims 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Animal Crossing is "unethical", the amount of time and money all of these protestors had to have given up in order to pull off this "pr🎉otest" is signifanct.
A number of people have al🥂so pointed out that Blathers, himself,🔴 is also an animal, which just raises even more concerns and questions about PETA's endgame.
Regardless of how you feel about the situation, note that, no matter what you do to the in-game animals in New Horizons, it truly has no effect on animals ♊in the real-world.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is av🌠ailable now, exclusively for the Ninte✱ndo Switch.
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