Hong Kong democracy protesters spreading messages of Animal Crossing. Now it passed by a large Chinese e-commerce site

popular Nintendo Animal Crossing: Wild New Horizons has become the largest e-commerce site in China, and many social media blame on Chinese players in Hong Kong passed, the game uses to spread pro-democracy messages. The seller on Taobao, the Chinese equivalent of eBay found that Friday morning he went Animal Crossing from their online stores, according to independent Chinese media outlet Caijing. Search Animal Crossing on Taobao does not return results for the Friday game, Animal Crossing-themed merchandise only. The rate of New Horizons was published on March 20 and was an avid audience among the protesters in Hong Kong, who took advantage of the game’s customization features to create anti-government messages found. On their virtual islands, sing protest slogans and hang posters criticizing their leader. shared on Twitter in a video far as to suggest players networks using bug images of the unpopular leader the city, Chief Executive Carrie Lam. Players have also held “monuments” to Lam, portrait standing next to a stone tomb and the burial of her while dressed all in black. Chinese social media users were quick to do the disappearance of the game over protesters in Hong Kong responsible. In particular, have posted angry comments on the prominent democracy activist Joshua Wong, who last week shared a screenshot of its virtual island at stake protesters, “take their cause” they were. “To politicize a beautiful game like this, you can go and die?” Read a tweet to him. Similar comments were posted on Instagram account of Wong. Animal Crossing is that only three switch Nintendo games, all of them in the series Super Mario Bros. split-formal not officially released in China, where a strict the video market adjustment tool. Instead, buy the overseas Chinese players versions of the game informally, relying on platforms such as Taobao or other game stores. It is unclear if the game was directed by Chinese officials, but the apparatus of the Communist Party censors to ban everything from Winnie the Pooh (due to confrontation with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping) to the NBA broadcasts after the general director of the machinery Houston Rockets were expressed support for pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
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