Ankha Zone
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About
Ankha Zone is the colloquial name of a pornographic, Rule 34 animation created by ZONE-sama in tribute to an animation by minus8 featuring Ankha from Animal Crossing having sex with Villager. Interest in the video spiked in September of 2021, months after it was first created, as the animation's backing song, "Camel by Camel" by Sandy Morton, appeared in numerous parodies on TikTok.
Origin
It appears ZONE first posted the animation on January 28th, 2021[2] in a now-deleted tweet. ZONE claims the tweet was deleted by Nintendo.[4] References to the video on Twitter [1] and reposts of the video on websites such as Rule34video.com began to appear on January 29th, 2021.
Spread
On February 2nd, 2021, YouTuber Brad R. Lee uploaded a video in which CatJAM played over the video's music, gaining over 1.1 million views in eight months (shown below).
The video remained relatively obscure over the following months until "Camel by Camel" began growing popular on TikTok in September of 2021. On September 3rd, user inousukessweatyfeet posted the sound to TikTok, gaining over 409,000 likes (shown below, left). After their post, the sound was used in 17,000 videos over the following two weeks, with many videos joking about discovering the sound's pornographic origins. For example, user littlevmills posted a TikTok about how they looked up the original video before launching into a heavy metal cover of "Camel by Camel" on September 12th, gaining over 624,000 likes (shown below, right).
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7003840843534699782
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7007140621756468485
In the wake of the song's popularity on TikTok, several YouTube videos promising to be the "original" animation cropped up on YouTube, as well as some bait-and-switch parodies. For example, user Blaba posted a video in which the pornographic bits of the original video were blocked out by a jpeg of Jeremy Corbyn (shown below).
"Merry Merry Christmas" Video
On December 25th, 2021, Zone posted two original animations to their TikTok[3] page showing Ankha and other Animal Crossing characters dancing while singing "Merry Merry Christmas" by Sandy Marton, gaining over 7,400 and 12,400 views respectively in five days (shown below).
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7045753483001122054
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7045804489437203718
The full video was also posted to Zone's YouTube channel on Christmas day, gaining over 556,000 views in the same span of time (shown below).
Various Examples
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7006920553315536133
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7006966987712679170
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7007181655630826758
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7007182669607881989
