Animal Crossing’s turnips are bringing the internet together

Alex Castro / The Verge Slack was designed to be a place for co-workers to collaborate productively, but now, it’s been converted into a turnip forum. Tom Early, a customer service employee at fintech startup Curve, participates regularly in his company’s growing Animal Crossing: New Horizons turnip channel on Slack, which has 34 people in it this week. It’s become a place to, obviously, discuss turnips, but ideally, also get everyone rich.
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