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Travis Scott and Chris brown remind me daily that people will worship and cheer a complete piece of shit
As a child, I remember, one of my friends had asked me to get into “GoGos”, some small plastic figurines that were absolutely worthless. Well, I used my pocket money to buy two figurines. Same loot box/playing cards trash. You didn’t know what you were buying unless you take the plunge.
After having saved up for two weeks, I finally bought them, only to hear my friend giggling while saying saying: “Oh you’re still into GoGos, they are so out!”
Two weeks ago, this guy hyped them so much up for me and all of the cool things that we could do with these worthless injection molded plastic figurines and now, he pretended as if it was silly to have them. Ever since then I have participated in exactly zero fads. Luckily I was vaccinated against these types of scams as a very young child.
Pogs > GoGos > Funko Pops > NFTs
I think this is satire.
That’s the toy people are so obsessed with? Call me old or something but wtf is the deal with this shit.
There is never “a deal” with this sort of thing. It is all hype all the way down, this time combined with gambling. In some not so distant future thriftstores will be flooded with these things.
They are ugly (apparently in a cute way) and they come in those blind packages like trading cards. There are different colors, some of which are supposedly rare.
There are a million of these stupid blind box toys now, and this one just happened to get popular on tiktok or something.
It is probably just me but that shit belongs in a mascot horror game, it is terrifying.
You’re not the only one.
Now, as a skeptic myself, I say you don’t have to really take much stock into what I’ll say next, but multiple people I know who claim to be psychic (9), of different ages (18-56), if different religions/spirituality, all eerily said the exact same thing when I asked them (first jokingly, then out of curiosity) what they thought of Labubus.
And each one, first thing they said was “the creator made a deal with a demon”. Not necessarily that the thing itself was evil (although they all got bad “vibes” from them), just that the popularity was a result of that, specifically.
I did inquire if they thought the same about previous fads (such as garbage pail kids) but they said no, just this one.
Now obviously correlation doesn’t mean causation, and this sample size is tiny. I only thought it was a peculiar anecdote.
But, if there were to be a Faustian bargain to be had, fueling the climate and plastic pollution crisis via plastic figures sold in a gambling and predatory capitalistic manner does seem like something a demon would do lol.
The real question is why you claim to know so many people that claim to be psychic?
There are three different people who claim to be “sensitive” just in my workplace of like 20 people, I stg like 1/3 Americans believes themselves to have psychic ability of some kind
That’s hilarious. Never knew it was such a thing in the States.
Americans are never taught human empathy or body language, so when we experience a basic critical thought, it must be magic and gods.
The US is probably the last foothold christianity really has, where people don’t even question wether religion and superstition make sense (ofc not everyone, but there are so many devout believers, cults, split off religions and so on, especially in rural areas like appalachians or rocky mountains
I’ve always thought that interesting too. And I don’t find out until we’ve been friends for awhile, although 3 are family (I have a very large family though, over 60 people I think if we combine both dad and mom’s sides).
I do not exactly know what psychic means but I am an atheist and do not think that I actually have any brain issues just that I am kinda dumb and that I have a high chance if dying from brain related issues as not if my grandparents died from brain issues. And the cabbage patch is also pretty bad, but this has teeth things on the bottom of its head that’s what makes it belong in horror.
I don’t see the appeal but to each their own ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Gambling.
Nor do I. Beanie Babies were cuter and at least you knew what you were buying.
I think its all manufactured hype. Likely no one is actually buying these things, not even the influencers. Market your product as the new craze and watch people cattle along.
I’ve seen the lines, people do buy this junk.
The eldertubbies gonna be pissed when they find out one of their children is being used to sell shitty coffee…
Looks like the godhand
SLaa-laan.
Who is gonna be 5th one?
The Elder Labubu made from darkness, despair and Dubai chocolate
No idea what i just read and also no desire to
the travis scott (popular rapper) x (in collaboration with) erewhon (LA county upscale grocery chain) dubai chocolate (chocolate with a significant filling of pistachio, kadayif and tahini) labubu (chinese plush toy brand) matcha (finely ground green tea) latte (coffee drink made out of espresso and steamed milk) is reportedly in the works.
Great job. I’ll compound this with I live in California and I’ve never heard of erewhon lol
to be fair apparently they’re only in los angeles county, but I didn’t know whether to write LA grocery chain, LA county grocery chain or californian grocery chain. now the middle option looks best, but i was mildly brain deficient at the time (as well as all the time).
erewhon (californian upscale grocery chain)
In this case “upscale” means “ripoff”, it’s $15 for orange juice, or a plain bagel.
But like, do they put the labubu in the chocolate?
that’s for you to do, otherwise you’d get no joy out of it.
People who are slaves to trends will happily be giving away more of their money because 3 trends are merging for a limited time thing
Same tbf
“Is reportedly in the works”
How hard is it to develop a recipe with basically three ingredients (it better not have soggy knufe) for a small local grocery chain?
I permanently lost 1 HP from reading that.
I gained a stack on my brainrot debuff
I passed my con save. I only took half psychic damage. But damn that was a doozy.
So like he just attaches his name to the product? That’s dumb af
Wibbledy wobbledy
Remember when he refused to stop his concert while people were literally being trampled?
Who x Who what what what coffee
Shitty rapper who was popular years ago and a shitty piece of Chinese consumerist crap mixed with a shitty chocolate named after a shithole country.
Shitty rapper who kept on performing on stage while 10 people in the audience were dying.
Watch your mouth! Dubai is an emirate and a city, not a country, m’kay?
Not even, I fear - Matcha Latte is tea.
You don’t know what Dubai and chocolate are? I didn’t know Lemmy had literate toddlers!
/s please don’t kill meI will have you know we’re literate seniles, not toddlers! 🤬
in the works
Like it’s some sort of 7th gen fighter.
Tbqf this shit sounds like some GenZ MK-ULTRA project being worked on in skunkworks
Next up, the skunk joins that unholy LSD trip fusion
can it be stored in a stanley cup?
Sure, if you’re a member of the National Hockey League’s Florida Panthers.
This doll looks so hideous. It’s the manifestation of those creepy dolls from your grandma’s house you get nightmarea from.
It’s like the Furbies have reawakened to haunt us once again
Nightmarrhea, a more advanced and terrifying form of diarrhea
“Me looking at the man-made horrors beyond my comprehension (I don’t get it)” - the Victorian child
I thought the “Labubu Dubai Chocolate” was a meme, but I should’ve known better they’d merge the two in a heartbeat.
