Is it just me or does clapping to Kapp'n's song get you to "rare" islands?

[Mr.Fox]

I'll try anything. I need a winter island with the Frozen Fence recipe. I have seen a lot of good rare islands without clapping though. I think it's just RNG, sigh.

Don't get your hopes up...I went to the winter island yesterday and the DIY I found was for a traditional straw coat

 

[stitchmaker]

Clapping didn't improve 7 of my players luck. Just a couple of rare island.
Yesterday I found out you could skip the dialog. 3 out of 6 players landed on the Glowing Moss Island. Another landed on Maple Leaf island.
Today 2nd island main player landed on the January Snow Island. Repeat DIY recipe but another player needs it.

 

[EtchaSketch]

So both times I did I got a rain island, and a glowing moss island! Other than that nothing too interesting besides a tomato island

 

[heartdrops]

I clapped today and got a winter island with a Frozen floor tile DIY. Previously I skipped the songs and got normal islands plus one potato island.

 

[Red Cat]

Maybe the devs were aware of the original dodo clapping myth and decided to actually implement some reweighting of the island probabilities as a nod to the myth, but I think it's pretty unlikely. However, the dataminers discovered some hidden references in the update such as the 69% roll for flower reproduction with the beautiful island ordinance, so I wouldn't entirely rule out the possibility of them having a sense of humor with the island mechanics.

 

[LambdaDelta]

I've been skipping the past couple days with all 8 of my characters and my island luck has been a healthy mix of rare, mediocre, and all the stuff in between. meanwhile clapping gave me a mix of good/bad islands as well, with one day just having dud islands for all 8 characters

so I'm gonna say that no. the interactions are just for fun and the old adage that 'correlation does not equal causation' still rings true as ever

 

[PPUAlchemist]

Not sure clapping works, but I swear skipping his song makes you get a bad island, or else every time I pressed ‘B’ I got unlucky.

I prefer to picture Kapp’n getting annoyed at me though and being like “Yeah, ye be in a hurry? Okay. Enjoy an island o’ absolutely nothin’.”

 

[Underneath The Stars]

This. I have been on the boat cutscene and it is snowing ahead of a winter island. It is clear that the island is selected by RNG prior Kappn’s song.

yeah. i don't feel like the weather would change just because of the clapping, it must've been already generated before then.
it make happen to a lot of people but i feel it's a coincidence. i didn't learn about the clap until the last few days, and since then i don't really notice getting better islands. if anything, it's been normal islands. i do arrive to islands with different weather but it's not really that rare. like the rain.

also my second character has better luck than my main ⚰

 

[Snek]

I tried this a few minutes ago when I saw this. I got a regular island with a DIY for jail bars. Just pure coincidence. Its all in the hands of the RNG.

 

[Sholee]

i always clap and he's never brought me a rare island :'(

 

[Queenno]

I tried this morning and I got a regular boring island... I don't TT and so far the only "rare" island I got was an island with wheat... I'm not very lucky I guess.