What does DL think of the Labubu doll craze?

Total and utter nonsense is what I think.

I wouldn’t mind being inside that reporter’s labubu.

I'll trade in three of my $2000 beanie babies for it!

My introduction to these was on Today last week. I thought times were tight, having to listen to everyone bitching about the financial burdon of having to pay back student loans. Apparently not, since all the people profiled & waiting in line to spend $$$ on these things were of that demographic...you know, young upstarts who can afford the cost of living but have all frills that look like impressive on the socials.

I wonder if some European countries will regulate the blind box thing like they did with the video game version of this business model.

*who CAN'T afford the cost of living...

This place needs a fucking edit option!

More Chinese trash to keep stupid obese Americans preoccupied while China continues to bloat into an overwhelming tyrannical military power and challenges us on the battlefield, likely on American soil.

Wake the fuck up America. Seriously.

R7 MARY!

Really R7.

I imagine you got that idea because the size of their fleet is close to or has surpassed ours. That doesn't mean it's as capable. For example, unlike our nuclear powered carriers, China's air craft carriers still have to refuel.

There won't be any Chinese invasion of America for quite some time.

R9 The idea that they would even remotely want to mount a land invasion of the US in the event that they did have a superior military is insane. Did you just get done sucking Tom Cotton's cock?

R10 Not you, I mean the other guy.

Labia dolls

Jeff Lewis is obsessed with them!

They're meaningless and stupid, but yes, they are sort of cute. They're like the Gen Z version of Kewpie dolls (which I also think are cute—I own a couple vintage ones of those).

beanie babies

Ugly crap. At least Beanie Babies had some variety and could be sort of cute. Or Funko Pops. Not my thing, but at least I could see the appeal. These creepy things make no sense to me.

Wait til Black Friday.

Oh good - we need more landfill.

I think, There's One Born Every Minute.

It won't be long before reiligious groups will consider them as satanic.

Make it stop, make it go Labyby.

They remind me of the hideous 1960s era dolls with plush cloth bodies and plastic faces.

It's a silly fad.

Burn them.

Buck never would have had a Labubu doll.

Oh god what Frau is going to go viral this holiday for having a completely meltdown and some fight over this shit in Target.

R25 Buck would have invented the Labubu doll had the right son drowned.

Monchichi’s walked so labubu’s could run.

They're my distant relatives just a softer/cuddlier version. Notice the teeth?

Please make a Gremlins 3.

They are the demon Pazuzu from The Exoricst (1973), disguised as cute dolls.

Look closely. And don't let them in your house.

Cheap plastic crap that social media has jumped on - and so every idiot on social media wants to buy one to say they have one or to show how much they paid for it.

It's disgusting - some of these are going for multiple thousand dollars. Just like Beanie Babies.

Don't under-estimate the stupidity of the average person.

Cabbage Patch was one thing - because they were FOR KIDS and had their own unique names and backgrounds. OK. And they weren't crazy expensive.

But some of these are insanely priced. I'll never understand it.

I trade my 5000 Gold Guilders Tulip bulb for it!

I don't know if R31 is joking, but that sentiment has long been out there as R20 brought up. I actually don't know what the fuck people are talking about though, because these things look absolutely nothing like Pazuzu, which is depicted as a slender, tall winged creature with scaly skin, a serpent bound around its groin, and with a massive erect cock.

r29, making it look like an African or Amazonian warrior instead of an actual Zuni doll just gives it that chef's kiss of generalized racial paranoia.

This blind box gimmick is an insidious form of gambling that is designed to hook children. The boys will graduate to sports betting, and the girls will continue on with “designer” blind box accessories and dolls. They’ve already been grooming boys to become gamblers with “loot boxes” - the most popular online games all have blind boxes of random in-game items that can be purchased with real money.

Made in China.

Are they stuffed with Uyghur cartilage and bone fragments like the other dolls and plushes the Chinese crap out?

I think they're creepy and blind boxes are a huge ripoff.

It only works in conjunction with Dubai chocolate and an iced matcha latte.

Did you people learn nothing from Beanie Babies?

[quote] It only works in conjunction with Dubai chocolate and an iced matcha latte.

And a Stanley cup

When I think of Orwell's 1984 and the distractions the party would put in place to keep the proles entertained and psychologically anaesthetised, I think of programmes like Love Island and dumb product crazes like Labubu dolls.

Asian culture seems infantilized.

It’s woo woo shit.

Stupid

I remember when Pokemon were all the rage and dumbasses were saying they were satanic and evil. Will the same thing happen with these things?

I had sufficient with beanie babies.

Is this going to be the new Elmo doll for Frau cunts.

It’s cute, harmless, if not a bit obnoxiously consumerist, fun if it’s actual children obsessing over these toys… When it’s grown men in their 30s or older… I’m not sure what to make of that

They'll go the way of Peteena...

I only watched the video because of R2! I like Brian Cheung. The guy at the end on the right comes off as a dick..

I remember when women thought it was the most ridiculous thing in the world that men often thought about the Roman Empire.

And then they rush out and buy these things.

Isn’t that French for “The Bubu?”

R46 the demonic/supernatural theorists started the bandwagon with these almost immediately

I have a grey one attached to my day bag. The asian store near me sells them unboxed for $22, so that worked for me.

South Park went after Labubu, all the kids start doing satanic rituals with them.