
What is it with Animal Crossing: New Horizons and surprise nudity? Whether it's the accurate portrayal of classical statues (junk and all!) or the weird glitch that made villagers lose their clothes, we're starting to wonder if this is some plot of Tom Nook's to generate interest in some kind of nudist vacation spot.
Anyway, there's more nudity to come, and this time it's in the form of everyone's favourite purple cat villager, Bob:
This glitch has existed for a while — possibly even from the start, as the first instance we could find was from June 2020, just months after the game's release. So, how does it happen? Why is Bob naked? For that matter, why is it always Bob?
Bob is the first regular villager card in the amiibo series, and he's also got a January 1st birthday. This isn't coincidence — Bob (or Nikoban, as he's known in Japan) was actually the first villager created for Animal Crossing, as confirmed in this Famitsu interview. Since he's number one (or zero, because computer programming always starts at zero) of many, it's likely that the game defaults to him when something goes wrong — which it obviously has here.
Interestingly, Bob doesn't actually say his name when he appears, nakedly, instead saying something like "Hi! It's !" or "I'm !" with a space where the name would be. And he's naked because...
...well, we don't fully know how Nintendo's systems work, so we can only speculate. But let's say that an amiibo card provides the game with a string of numbers — one number says which character it is, what they're wearing, what their name is, and so on. If there's a glitch that gives the number as "000000", then the game finds what is matched to "0" for each case — which would be Bob's model, no name, and no clothes.
Well, either that, or Bob's going through a midlife crisis.
Have you seen Naked Bob in your game? Please call the police if so.
[source reddit.com]
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When I saw this headline I was worried It would also work with other villagers. Not today internet, not today.
NO NO NO NO NO I'M GETTING FLASHBACKS.

AGAIN?!? HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN TWICE???
My man Bob rocking his birthday suit you go dude show the world your goods
Hey Bob is that a turnip in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me!? Bobs a big ol creep.
Finally giving what the fans want.
My pure eyes! 😦 Gotta change the rating of both ACNH and NintendoLife to M for Mature now.
Scandalous. Unacceptable.
On the American TV series "How I Met Your Mother", a character suggests a seduction technique wherein one just appears nekkid before the target of their attentions with no hints of their disrobing, and assesses its chance of success as "two-thirds of the time, it works every time".
Going by Bob's expression, he must feel confident about his prospects.
"Reymond used Naked Bob Glitch!"
"It's super effective!"
I can see what Bob needs.
Bob is everything
Woohoo...!
ACNH the nudist club. 🤣
Dialing 911 right now
@HotGoomba So Amiibo cards are essentially a version of ‘only fans’. 😉 Bob just takes it to another level.
Gasp! Hide your children!
One day, there's gonna be a way to replicate this.
And I don't know if I'd want to be in that timeline.
Now, censor the cat. You've done it with a duck before, remember?
Funny how people still could possibly get upset at nudity of any sort in 2022 while the world is destroying itself and nukes are about to start flying any day now.
Weird creatures these humans.
I love that his facial expression doesn't help the fact that he is naked
Nintendolife!? Think of the children!!
Removed - inappropriate; user is banned
”Naked Bob isn’t real. He can’t hurt you…”
Surely most animals are in effect naked, the fact they wear clothes in this game is far more strange.
Cool............. Awesone
BAN THIS FILTH!!!
Can we get Amiibo nudity glitches for other games. I'm asking for a friend!
Seriously, this is news?
oof saying I'm inappropriate when they are also being inappropriate humans are dumb
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