Meet the Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan who went on a round-the-world in-game art trip that started out as a joke
The Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan that traveled across 3 continents to see all of Redd's artwork in real life has revealed it started out as a joke.
Back in 2022, Mayplaystv - Animal Crossing fan and TikTok creator - began their travel series after posting a video to TikTok which saw them visiting 27 out of 43 of the artworks available from con-man Redd's Treasure Trawler in the game. By August 2023, they had managed to see all 43 by visiting 10 different countries.
If you didn't know, all of the art in the game is based on real-life pieces of art (eg: the Mona Lisa = Famous Painting, Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers = Flowery Painting,etc.) What this means is that you can go see the Animal Crossing artifacts in the real world, where they existed for many, many years before Nintendo ever released its island getaway game.
Originally, the series started out as a bit of a joke, May tells GamesRadar+: "I live in London, and in April 2022, I was walking down the Strand and saw a poster for an exhibition for one of the artworks. [...] I decided to tweet a dumb joke that it was an Animal Crossing exhibition and then I started to wonder where all the artworks actually were."
The Animal Crossing fan continues: "I knew the Rosetta Stone was in London and the Mona Lisa was in Paris, which was near, but when I made a spreadsheet of them all, I found out most were in Europe and it might be possible to see them all in real life." So, like any dedicated fan would, they set off on the several-month-long adventure.
May's travels took them across the UK, to France, Japan, Germany, the United States, and more. By searching for these pieces of art, this Animal Crossing fan actually experienced more countries and cultures than they
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