the Raymond hype is incredibly hilarious because people who know the incredibly huge (and even wholesome at times) discord for animal crossing know that Raymond has always been a special case for everything involving trading for him. in a particular case, he, out of 400+ villagers have a rule catered to him because of the chaos it wroughts to put him up for free
And you can get insta banned for failing even ONE of these steps
he’s for sale on eBay and apparently there’s rumors of faked/hacked Raymonds with inaccurate rooms that can brick your game going for $20, and even listed ones hitting an upwards of $1,000
what even gets me is the last listing here says “amiibo” when there isn’t an amiibo for him
things Raymond has also been on sale for and I’ve seen is:
>400 nook mile tickets. yes. 400. Sometimes 800.
>100 golden crowns (yes, the one that’s 1,000,000+ bells)
>150 MILLION bells, you can’t even carry that on your person. doing the math I’m pretty sure you have to go on and off someone’s island over 20 times
>40 pagodas, many, many, lucky cats
>and again, legitimate money for possibly hacked Raymonds
this one business “sexyman” cat you can get for free in a game supposed to be for wholesome interaction with animals has exposed the hubris of human greed in under 2 months and I am living to watch it down
as a friend, you are allowed to say “i would really love to help you right now, but i cant push back my own issues to help you. im going through my own problems right now, and thats what i need to focus on”. it is NOT selfish. you arent going to be of any help to the people you care about if youre in bad shape and not taking care of yourself. its only going to make you worse for wear.
this is how yall end up going around calling every ex-friend your abuser. its nice for your friends to be able to drop everything for you when youre having a bad time, but its literally NOT mandatory. your friends should not have to ignore their own problems to fix yours. get some therapy.
