The Biden campaign recently came under fire for overtly politicizing a video game, which was intended to remain non-political. In an attempt to encourage young voters to head to the polls, the campaign created a political island within Nintendo’s hit game Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
The video game has been a massive success, becoming the Nintendo Switch’s second-best selling game within its first year of release. The premise of the game is that players create customizable islands. The game’s popularity inspired the Biden campaign to design its own island, based on former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign messages. The island is named “Biden HQ” and includes avatars of Biden and Senator Kamala Harris (D., California). According to The Verge, the island features a campaign headquarters, along with a train room dedicated to “Biden’s favorite mode of transportation.” In addition, the island includes Biden signs with standard logos for “Team Joe” and “Biden Harris,” along with a Biden pride sign and an aviator sunglasses sign. The island also includes a large advertisement for the Democratic Party’s “I Will Vote” website, which is dedicated to voter mobilization.
After months of silence on the topic, Nintendo recently came forth and condemned the Biden campaign’s use of the game in new guidelines, created specifically for businesses and organizations using the game. In addition to other guidelines, Nintendo now asks players to “refrain from bringing politics into the Game.” While it does not appear that Nintendo has removed the Biden campaign’s island from New Horizons, the new guidelines strictly forbid the campaign’s use of the game for political purposes.
Nintendo’s guidelines follow a torrent of mockery for Biden’s use of the game. The Hill’s Krystal Bell quipped that “[i]nstead of Medicare for All and Green New Deal, how about Animal Crossing yard signs? That’ll excite the youths!” Zach Parkinson, the Trump campaign’s deputy communications director, taunted that “Joe Biden’s campaign…spent more time in an alternate reality than they [did] in Wisconsin.” The Biden campaign’s use of the game has also been compared to Hillary Clinton’s “Pokémon Go to the Polls,” which was part of her 2016 campaign in which she encouraged voting during the height of Pokémon Go’s success. POLITICO’s Tina Nguyen lamented that “[it was] the 2020 version of Pokémon Go To The Polls.”
I fail to see how updating the guidelines (which happened after the election was decided) amounts to a “condemnation” of the Biden campaign’s use of the game. Plus, this is old news, and all this happened like two months ago anyway. Why write about this now? Go enjoy New Year’s.
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This is actually the best article published on this site so far. To the best of my knowledge there are no logical fallacies and no horrible sources. No argument is made (implicitly or explicitly), but that is all to the author’s advantage. I didn’t actively lose any respect for the author or conservatives while reading. Only comment is that there was the *occasional* keyword exaggerated by bias (such as “torrent”) but it was very slight, and to pretend that anyone is capable of true objectivity would be so fallacious that I would only expect it from a lesser article on this site. Regardless, I commend you on your work Chad. May we all pray that the Thinker sticks to this model for future reporting, as they’ve finally got it right.
Grade: A-
Now this is just a weak article! Seriously! Thinker, for the asinine content you churn out weekly, I thought better of you! To quote Tyra Banks, “I was rooting for you! We were all rooting for you!” This is shameful, Thinker. You have dignity! Why did you waste it all on this dribble?! This is the worst article, by far. How will you outthink the mob with this garbage?! Step it up!
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