 I'll be honest folks. I wasn't that excited about Joe Biden's campaign, but this really does change everything This is from the verge. Biden campaign launches official Animal Crossing New Horizons yard signs It's the campaign's latest foray into online organizing. Well, sir now I am enthusiastic about Joe Biden's campaign Listen as someone who put more than 200 hours into Animal Crossing New Horizons Let me just say that um If I was visiting somebody's island and I saw Joe Biden yard sign I'd think What a clown? How effective is this like if you create like maga hats for your characters to wear or some sort of like flag that says Joe Biden like Why waste your time. This is a game. You're supposed to like try to escape reality So like this this as an Animal Crossing player myself Wouldn't necessarily encourage me to be more enthusiastic about any political campaign because when I'm in Animal Crossing I am you know living on my own island in my own world where all of the bullshit That you know, I don't want to be reminded of kind of just like fades into the background But you know what makes this story particularly bad is that they're actually thinking that this is going to be a Real strategy when I saw this and I saw the picture I thought okay, you know, that's fine Like this isn't as bad as Hillary's Pokemon go to the polls moment because they're just kind of doing this to be like Tongue-in-cheek, but they literally according to the campaign think this is going to be conducive to like spreading the message I don't know why they believe that but nonetheless Here's what McKenna Kelly of the Verge writes starting today September 1st Animal Crossing New Horizons players will be able to deck out their island homes with official Joe Biden yard signs as part of The campaign's broader initiative to organize voters online this fall since the start of the coronavirus outbreak in the US earlier this year Campaigns like Biden's have been forced to entirely rethink how they organize voters instead of in-person rallies Biden's team has opted for live-streamed events and fundraisers along with socially distanced productions and interviews the entire Democratic National Convention was held virtually earlier this month with most guests streaming in over video software like zoom to deliver speeches The Biden Harris campaign released four sign designs for players to download Featuring the official Biden Harris logo team Joe logo the Joe pride logo and an image of Aviator sunglasses shaded in red white and blue Players will be able to access the designs in game by scanning the design QR codes through the Nintendo switch online app Millions of people have picked up Animal Crossing New Horizons since its initial release in March And the Biden campaign is hoping to engage that large base with their new merch Animal Crossing is a dynamic diverse and Powerful platform that brings communities together from across the world It is an exciting new opportunity for our campaign to engage and connect Biden Harris supporters as they build and decorate their islands Christian Tom director of digital partnerships for the Biden campaign said in a statement to the Verge as we enter the final campaign Stretch towards November. This is one way We are finding new creative and innovative ways to meet voters where they are and bring our Supporters together as part of the Biden Harris campaign's plans to get the signs in front of voters The team is seeding the designs with a handful of gaming influencers who will be sharing their gameplay with the merch throughout the day on Tuesday This is just the start of how we plan to engage players ahead of November as we're already looking forward to rolling on more digital swag voter education tools and Organizing efforts on Animal Crossing and other platforms Tom said dude. Just give us Medicare for all You don't have to do all this just give us health care Give us something talk about the policies that you have that are good. I mean, I think he supports a $15 minimum wage It's on his platform on his website, but he's not talking about it like what do you expect? This to produce if somebody sees a Biden yard sign in the island of the influencer that you're watching Is that gonna make them more inclined to like get out and vote for Joe Biden? Like what are you expecting? They call this a communication tool that's effective like really it's Animal Crossing You can have eight players on an island at once So I mean I guess that if someone is streaming their gameplay and a lot of people see the Joe Biden sign You know, that's one way to get the message out. But how is that going to translate into votes? How many people will actually be encouraged to get out and vote because of this the answer is zero Zero this isn't gonna change anything and you know, you can make the case that this it's harmless It's not gonna hurt But I think it could have the potential to hurt Biden more than anything because it comes off as disingenuous pandering We get it. They want to appeal to young voters, you know enthusiasm among the youth is low But you do that with policy not by pandering to them Hillary Clinton should have taught us that young voters respond to policy not pandering So when you hello fellow kids as to death, what do you expect that to produce? It's not gonna translate into votes So it's just like people are going to see That he's more out of touch by doing this whoever is getting paid to like orchestrate this strategy It's embarrassing like if something like this were to emerge organically That would be a story that I think wouldn't be harmful But the fact that they're like trying to drum up support in animal crossing as if that's going to make young people excited It's just it's insulting. It's embarrassing. It comes off as disingenuous Now I will say that if they created fall guys costumes and we had a Joe Kamala costume of some sort. I don't know what that would look like in fall guys if I saw that I Would be excited To run up to that person and push them off of the platform that they're standing on It just I Don't I don't know what they're thinking. I don't know what they're thinking if Bernie tried to do this I would make fun of him. We just want healthcare Just give us healthcare