{"id":113134,"date":"2020-05-19T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/random_animal_crossing_new_horizons_player_recreates_an_iconic_video_for_the_internet"},"modified":"2020-05-19T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T17:30:00","slug":"random-animal-crossing-new-horizons-player-recreates-an-iconic-video-for-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/19\/random-animal-crossing-new-horizons-player-recreates-an-iconic-video-for-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Player Recreates An Iconic Video, For The Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e50f8559808a1\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e50f8559808a1\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e50f8559808a1\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Some things never get old. Other things get <em>so very old<\/em> that they somehow circle around and become new again, and we&#8217;d argue that Twitter user <a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/Withnailmarwood\/status\/1262637864522625024?s=20\">Withnailmarwood<\/a>&#8211;perhaps better known as man behind <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GAMETelford\">GAME Telford<\/a>&#8216;s fantastic social media output&#8211;has made this classic meme fresh once more by recreating the video to &#8220;Never Gonna Give You Up&#8221; using <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a><\/strong> avatars.<\/p>\n<p>You could always watch the video straight, but personally we think the best way to appreciate this fine work is to watch it side-by-side with the original video for Rick Astley&#8217;s hit. Fortunately, the maker has provided that very option in the tweet below:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Have a side by side comparison. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kNR6AbtGX9\">pic.twitter.com\/kNR6AbtGX9<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Withnailmarwood (@Withnailmarwood) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Withnailmarwood\/status\/1262705274848247809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>When you watch it beside the original, you get a much better feeling for the sheer effort that has gone into this video &#8211; from the background details to the costumes and extras, not to mention the attempts to capture the iconic dance moves from Stock Aitken &amp; Waterman&#8217;s &#8217;80s smash. And now it&#8217;s available for the whole internet to throw surreptitiously into links for unsuspecting victims!<\/p>\n<p><em>Yes, it took effort not to slide this into another article under the guise of a tempting, juicy little link: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Withnailmarwood\/status\/1262637864522625024?s=20\">F-ZERO FOR SWITCH SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT, COMING AUGUST 1ST<\/a>, something like that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You didn&#8217;t, did you?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things never get old. Other things get so very old that they somehow circle around and become new again, and we&#8217;d argue that Twitter user Withnailmarwood&#8211;perhaps better known as man behind GAME Telford&#8216;s fantastic social media output&#8211;has made this classic meme fresh once more by recreating the video to &#8220;Never Gonna Give You Up&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}