Elijah Wood Visited a Fan’s Animal Crossing Island
One of the many reasons that Animal Crossing: New Horizons has blown up so much during the quarantine is that you can visit your friends’ islands. It’s a way to be a social at a time when we can’t get near each other, and in an adorable cartoon world full of painfully cute animals—so one that’s much better than our own, even when it’s not dealing with a pandemic.
Nintendo, as usual, tries to keep online interactions strictly between friends, but social media has made it easy to share your info for anybody to come for a visit. And the game’s turnip-driven “stalk” market—with prices fluctuating every 12 hours, and occasionally spiking to absurd heights—has given rise to a secondary economy where players basically barter or sell access to their island on high-price days. People touting their turnip prices and inviting others over is a regular sight on social media, and there are entire web sites devoted to connecting players to maximize turnip profits.
Earlier today an Animal Crossing player named Jessica tweeted that her turnip price had reached 599 bells. That’s a really good price, so she was inundated with DM requests to visit her island. Only one of them, though, came from the beloved star of one of the biggest film franchises of all time.
guys I tweeted my turnip prices and elijah wood just came to my island and hung out this is the best day in quarantine yet pic.twitter.com/H3mYJWnvgR