white background image with three heavily vertically spaced-out elements: a double–gif-compressed image of a rose-colored luobubu—a menacing chinese "cute" fluffy doll that vaguely resembles chucky; at the top is white text on grainy grey background "Edition Preview"; and at the bottom is clear sans-serif text saying "Happiness". You will find happiness here, dear customer.
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

Fuckin TikTok trends. The cycle of "check out this cool thing" to "omg we must all buy this thing, I will literally murder you if you get between me and this thing" to "no-one cares about that thing any more" has reached an absurd pace now.

It's just like beanie babies but that whole cycle took years to mature, now it takes weeks. I remember being stopped by a teenager, while I was driving past, to ask if I had any Prime, now they can't give that vile shit away.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You're just describing fashion.

    It's just like beanie babies but that whole cycle took years to mature, now it takes weeks.

    Labubu released 2015.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but no one gave a shit until about a month ago now people are literally fighting in the street over them and in another month no one will care again.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago*

    I'm fairly sure they started being hyped at least in January, when the Labubu subreddit (created last September) first showed up in the internet archive, where it also had quite a bit of activity. Thus I also heavily doubt it'll fade in a month.

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