Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Sparks Meme Explosion with Creative Tools
Nintendo's Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream for the Switch has become a meme factory due to its extensive customization options. Players can create Miis, draw objects and faces, and place them in the game, leading to viral trends like recreating cigarette packs (e.g., Marlboro Reds) and gifting them to Mii children. The game's sandbox nature allows for hyper-detailed pixel art, large structures from custom cubes, and pop culture references including Death Note with a romantic twist, Challengers scenes, and the return of 'Thanks, Obama.' Players have also introduced references to Ea Nasir's copper, Jennifer Coolidge drinking Hennessy, and love triangles with Walter White. The game functions like a social media platform, subject to internet memes and Kirkification.
Key facts
- Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is a life sim for Nintendo Switch.
- Players manage an island with customizable Miis that have personalities and relationships.
- The game expands on the original 3DS version with more creative tools.
- Players can draw objects and faces to replicate pop culture icons.
- A trend emerged on launch day to recreate cigarette packs, starting with Redditor Spirited_Gene_2633.
- Players gift cigarettes to Mii children, create cigarette cakes, and build cigarette-shaped houses.
- Users recreate scenes from Challengers and Death Note with romantic twists.
- The game brought back the 'Thanks, Obama' meme and references Ea Nasir's copper.
Entities
Artists
- Spirited_Gene_2633
Institutions
- Nintendo
- Forbes