Sims Revolution Info Page

The Sims Revolution originated on Twitter in late January of 2021, around the release of Paranormal Stuff Pack for The Sims 4. This was due to the fact that with Paranormal Stuff Pack came the return of the NPC Bonehilda, a skeleton maid who has been in the series since The Sims: Makin' Magic. The Bonehilda Twitter account had been advocating for her return since April of 2019 by role-playing as the beloved skeleton maid. Bonehilda's return seemed to indicate that advocating for certain features by giving those features Twitter accounts may just actually work. Leading up to the release of Paranormal Stuff Pack, the Grim Reaper account appeared, commenting on one of Bonehilda's posts.

Around that same time, the original Agnes Crumblebottom account appeared, the creation of this account seems to truly mark the beginning of the Sims Revolution. The Agnes account grew fairly quickly, and more Twitter accounts for Sims Features started appearing. Accounts for everything from non-object babies, to police officers, to burglars, to cake dancers, to a color wheel, to the heart shaped bed from The Sims. We're going to call this, "The First Boom."

The Second Boom came after the popular Sims YouTuber Plumbella posted a video about the whole affair on February 8th, 2021 entitled, "SIMS TWITTER IS STARTING A REVOLUTION i'm luvin it x." Plumbella soon made a follow up video that was posted on February 10th, 2021 entitled, "Raise your hand if you've ever been personally victimized by The Sims," where she talked about some of the accounts more in depth. After seeing Plumbella's videos, many simmers were seemingly inspired, leading to another huge surge in Sims Revolution accounts. This led to the Grim Reaper account creating a masterlist of all of the accounts (this list is still available but it has not been thoroughly updated in quite some time, so accounts may be inactive, have changed names or @'s, and there may be accounts that aren't included on the list).

The majority of these accounts were made to express their criticisms of The Sims 4 as well as advocate for features, items, and characters from past games that simmers would like to see implemented in The Sims 4. Specifically more lore, which brought along many accounts staying in character for whichever character, feature, or item their account was for, which eventually evolved into the role-play.

The hashtag for the Revolution, #SimsRevolution, started on Twitter on February 8th, 2021. The hashtag was started by another Grim Reaper account (there are multiple, the one that started the hashtag is different from the one discussed in previous paragraphs). The #SimsRevolution came to be at the same time that the Sims community was engaged in discourse surrounding EA yet again failing to meet standard expectations of simmers, with many features in the Sims 4 either lacking or flat out missing in The Sims 4. Discourse is ever present in the community, but it tends to spike up at times, and the revolution came around one of those spikes.

This sparked a lot of conversation surrounding previous games and how players consider them to be vastly superior in terms of both gameplay and lore compared to that of the Sims 4. #SimsRevolution served as a way for simmers to voice their concerns, discuss lore, and ultimately hold EA accountable for their choices in the Sims timeline, as well as the way they have handled the franchise in the last seven years.

As the simming community developed it's voice with #SimsRevolution, accounts depicting sims from earlier games began popping up. Additionally, anything that was seemingly related to the Sims was now eligible to be an account, from Bella Goth to the Sims cars. These accounts are heavily associated with the #SimsRevolution on Twitter, and are the backbone of the #SimsRevolution RP.