• cfgaussian
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    2 months ago

    I don’t get the whole Labubu thing. I’m totally out of the loop on this. Can someone explain it to me? Is it a character from a game or an anime or what? Why did it blow up so much? Was it just viral marketing? What’s so great about them? Do they do anything?

    I feel like an out of touch grandpa when it comes to some internet culture stuff. The consequence of not being on the big social media platforms i guess.

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      2 months ago

      i’m not an enthusiast either, but i see them as “chinese furbys”…some people consider them “chinese funkos”

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        2 months ago

        Furbys did things though.

        Labubu feels like these naked troll dolls, but somehow they blew up and the trolls didn’t

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          1 month ago

          looking about labubu, it seems like he makes part of a collection of “cute evil creatures” but he’s the most popular

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      2 months ago

      I think they’re supposed to be “things that are cute because they’re intentionally ugly” like in a gremlin sort of way. They’re sort of just meaningless trinkets akin to a thousand of others that you collect, akin to funkos or furbys or whatever else. They are just kinda easy to like for The Average Joe™ so all they needed was a strong social media push which I think they got. But this is just my take on it.