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The new Animal Crossing has developed a black market based on real money
This is a repost. I am not the original author (see disclaimer at the bottom).
Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out a couple of months ago, and (as you are almost certainly aware) it was a massive hit. It's a life simulator where you live on an initially deserted island and slowly build a community of cartoon animals, with several hundred to choose from. It's designed to be a peaceful, calm experience where you do nothing but hang out, so of course people have built a greedy, brutally efficient underground economy.
Getting new villagers can be difficult, since your island can only have ten of them at any one time. There are only two ways to replace them once you've hit that limit: the first is to wait until a visitor arrives at your island, then invite them to stay, at which point you can replace one of your current villagers with the new one. The second way is to wait until one of your villagers randomly decides to leave on their ow