I was from New Horizons Items the Twitter animal crossing community around the time this happened. I remember reading a huge twitter thread"exposing" Fifi of being a problematic animal crossing participant, changing usernames always after being prohibited, and screenshots along with testimonies of racist and other problematic behavior. If I recall properly, minimal evaluation was required to prove that the entire thread was a lie and also evidence was fabricated to fuel the mob against her. The new bunch of hairs introduced into the game were meant for cultural inclusion for AC fans, imo. I think the buns look like afro puffs instead of space buns, but a hate mob was not necessary. I basically unfollowed all creature crossing accounts and checked out of Twitter for a while from that. Too much play for such a simple and wholesome game.

The thing I find especially odd about this whole thing is that people seem to think that it matters what the in game hair model is supposed to be.

In minecraft, if I use a single fence block to hang a glowstone from the ceiling, then it is not a weapon, it's a chandelier chain/rope. Even if the hairstyle has been named'Afro Puffs' in match and presented unambiguously as such, If I needed to make a character with space buns and there was no closer hairstyle then I would use that one. The article is not ambiguous at all concerning the intentions animal crossing items new horizons of the plan, so they're unquestionably space buns.