Animal Crossing: New Horizons Tops Tumblr’s 2020 Year in Review

Markiplier was the top web celebrity on the platform

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With the coronavirus preventing people from traveling to islands in 2020, the alternative was to create islands of their own, which vaulted Animal Crossing: New Horizons to the No. 1 spot in the top 20 of 2020 list in Tumblr’s annual Year in Review.

Staying at home also led Tumblr users to focus more on their homes, as the year’s most popular trends on the platform included cottagecore, farmcore and naturecore.

The 2020 Year in Review also showed its dark side, as Witchblr was the No.

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