Well these people are just the gaming manifestation of "cottage people", who have always been all kinds of extra in meatspace -- there's no reason virtual cottage people would be different https://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1329115725156462593

What Animal Crossing has revealed is that there's millions of millennials who only aren't cottage people because they can't afford to be, and if they had the money would end up just as fucking insufferable as their parents are

The slow realization that I actually did grow up to be surrounded by annoying couples where all they talk about is the husband sanding and varnishing his deck and the wife weeding her chrysanthemum beds only now it's worse because these things don't actually physically exist