Now, an alleged email from the Nintendo UK Customer Support shared to twitter by Stardewleaf, who originally posted their character with the hairstyle, has responded to the controversy. Related: Report: China Bans Animal Crossing: New Horizons After Users Began Supporting Hong Kong Protestors This represents BLACK PEOPLE, please stop using them. These are for POC NOT for people that are NOT POC. Honeydew_OwO wrote, “why are you using these as ‘space buns’ these are puffs, or I call them bom-boms. Library_fae wrote, “thats not space buns… thats afro puffs… for black people, not you.” Related: Nintendo Officially Bans Use of Animal Crossing: New Horizons For Political Purposes Could you please stop rascit with the new hair topic and be thankful that we have new things?! This is a KIDS GAME and LITTLE ONES do not need to see this content.” They wrote on Twitter, “Hey, these are not called space buns these are actually called Afro puffs, not buns. ”Īnother user accused stardewleaf of racism. In response to other users, schrutehorizons declared, “she shouldn’t be wearing the hairstyles if she’s white, simple as that. us white girls cannot use them so i advise you to change them before its too late…” ma’am they’re not space buns they’re afro puffs (not sure the correct name!) and they are meant for black girls. Twitter user Schrutehorizons wrote, “i – uh. Related: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Player Faces Wave of Harassment and Accusations of Racism Over In-Game ‘Bun’ HairstyleĪfter posting this screenshot, Twitter activists quickly went after Stardewleaf because of their choice of hairstyle in the Nintendo Switch video game. The Nintendo UK customer support team has allegedly responded to the “racist” space buns controversy in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.įor those, who aren’t up to speed on this internet “controversy,” back in November Twitter user Stardewleaf shared a screenshot of their Animal Crossing: New Horizons character with the caption “Cute space buns.” Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window).Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window).Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window).Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window).Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window).Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window).Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window).

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