Over the weekend, a new art challenge began to circulate around Twitter. Slowly but surely, my feed was seeing artists taking various album covers and putting an Animal Crossing twist on them. This meme was inevitable to appear after New Horizons’ release, as K.K. Slider returns in Animal Crossing’s latest adventure. Plus, for every K.K. song, there’s an album cover to go with it.
Funnily enough, this recent art challenge rendition didn’t start on Twitter, but on TikTok. User annqell posted a video outlining the art challenge on April 11th. Showing a timelapse of her piece, she then made a call for people to create their own and share it. When the challenge made it onto Twitter it grew, but didn’t have an “official” hashtag yet. Terms like “kk slider” and “kk slider redraw album” were initially used, but now artists are tending to use #kkslider and #kkslideralbumredraw along with the official Animal Crossing hashtags when sharing their pieces.
Here’s a sampling of what happens when you give artists a simple topic with almost endless possibilities while dealing with quarantine orders.
LET’S ROCKKKKKK #kkslider pic.twitter.com/RQtAgeGR8m
— 🥟 87 🥟 (@bonaneh) April 21, 2020
kk album sales soar during christmas#acnh #AnimalCrossing #kkslider pic.twitter.com/mr085PIpZw
— yuu 🍍 @ac (@ko_yuue) April 21, 2020
ok goodnight lmao #kkslider pic.twitter.com/ByTph2y3CA
— DevilBombers @ NIER 👀 (@DevilBombers) April 21, 2020
kk nostalgia is the name @DUALIPA #acnh #kkslider #FutureNostalgia pic.twitter.com/7TiD76y5fi
— Akira (@ruinedplains) April 21, 2020
【ｓｕｃｈ ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ】#ACNH #AnimalCrossing #KKSlider #KKSlideralbumredraw pic.twitter.com/gs0DQ4du3d
— Jupiter Doomsday (@JupiterDoomsday) April 21, 2020
That dumb KK Slider album meme except WHAT THE HELL HAVE I DONE
I'm so fucking sorry, Bruce Springsteen, I'm so sorry, everyone. #kkslideralbumredraw pic.twitter.com/mzeWXp8rmD— W💥wzaDawg (@WowzaDawg) April 21, 2020
KK Slider When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? #acnh pic.twitter.com/IYLVu9OUnd
— Elsa Chang (@ElsaSketch) April 20, 2020
Can’t believe kk slider invented pop music pic.twitter.com/pR4IGoXcnf
— han✨@ charity commissions (@Hvnnart) April 21, 2020
everyone is making cool kk slider album covers. and then theres me making these pic.twitter.com/nj3RS8ywDc
— Jackie Lee 🍓💐🎁 (@_itsjackielee) April 20, 2020
So. I redrew an album cover but with kk slider on the front. Behold. pic.twitter.com/csTXBJ2wu7
— sarah.g 🐯🌊 (@sarahg_draws) April 20, 2020
I couldnt choose one but I jumped into the bandwagon anyways! #daftpunk #beck #kkslider pic.twitter.com/v4LlYMfYzf
— Ale Carrasco (@alephammers) April 21, 2020
wrestle with jimmy! …ʲᶦᵐᵐʸᵎ #kkslider pic.twitter.com/DoMbq3sRK9
— Chelsea (@cheltron3030) April 21, 2020
K.K. T pic.twitter.com/FAaO2JZn88
— ByronB 🐸⑁ (COMM CLOSED) (@YukaOmatic) April 21, 2020
K.K. Slider album redraw.
Rush – Fly by Night#Rush #AnimalCrossing #kkslider pic.twitter.com/Xn9EnOrFvB
— Eto (@eto2d) April 21, 2020
kk slider album but promare. this is what my life has come to #promare #kkslider pic.twitter.com/jfsvrejhRN
— c y l u s t . (@arkiniac) April 21, 2020
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Written by Jennifer Burch
Illustrator, designer, writer and big Nintendo geek, you can find Jennifer with an N3DS within reach 24/7. As the oldest of three, she has survived many Mario Party, Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart sessions intact in addition to getting her brothers hooked on some really weird games. (Cubivore anyone?)
