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1 day ago

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I made a chrome extension game where your goal is to find a daily labubu hidden in world labs' marble worlds. Github: https://github.com/akdeb/world-labubus

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ge96

22 hours ago

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The Labubu phenomenon is interesting not even sure where they came from but now they're just everywhere

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syntaxing

22 hours ago

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Guessing you’re younger. Beanie babies and trolls were the same thing for millennials.

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Insanity

21 hours ago

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I'm a millenial (early 90s) and only barely remember trolls and have no idea what beanie babies are. Homogeneous generations ("millenials, genZ,..") are kind of meaningless, there's too much variation within generations especially as you cross regions. :)

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colechristensen

21 hours ago

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Beanie Babies peaked in maybe 1998 and were at one point 10% of sales on eBay. If you were an American above the age of 5 in 1998 I'm not sure it's possible to be unaware of them.

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syntaxing

21 hours ago

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Agreed…not owning one is understandable. Not hearing about it at all in the US if you’re a millennial is perplexing (I’m an early 90s kid too).

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Insanity

19 hours ago

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Yup that is my point - OP just mentioned millennial which includes non-US

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fusslo

21 hours ago

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yeah, and were at tag sales until like 2006

other examples are like Tamagotchi and Furby

They had to ban Tamagotchi from my elementary school. I remember Furby's but never had one. It would be interesting seeing how those phenomenons spread over time

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colechristensen

21 hours ago

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I did a big road trip this year and beanie babies were back in a bunch of truck stops and such

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nextworddev

21 hours ago

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Basically a manufactured China-backed scheme leveraging TikTok

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contagiousflow

20 hours ago

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[citation needed]

Why is a national conspiracy to sell toys more plausible than a harmless fad?

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hackable_sand

19 hours ago

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"scheme" lol

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asimovfan

20 hours ago

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have you ever heard of Hello Kitty? Sanrio has 13B market cap.

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avree

20 hours ago

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Not following the connection between Popmart (Labubu) and Sanrio (Hello Kitty), other than the fact that they've done some licensing deals together.

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stronglikedan

20 hours ago

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> The ~~Labubu~~ Hello Kitty phenomenon is interesting not even sure where they came from but now they're just everywhere

The point is, it's the same sentence for a different time.

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qingcharles

22 hours ago

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I had to go find the Marble thing. Looks interesting itself:

https://marble.worldlabs.ai/

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qoez

21 hours ago

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This is one thing you can spend your limited time on earth building

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stronglikedan

20 hours ago

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Like spending money, if it makes you happy, it's not a waste.

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colechristensen

21 hours ago

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Commenting with this self-superior attitude is what you're spending your limited time on earth doing, have a little joy in your life or at least leave people who are alone.

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teddy-smith

22 hours ago

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Does anyone want Labubu in the real world?

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n8cpdx

21 hours ago

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My local family donut shop now sells them and reports that they are doing well. I have seen them attached to at least one backpack out and about.

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colechristensen

22 hours ago

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Roughy the same crowd that is excited for new pop music releases.

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lawlessone

17 hours ago

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>Roughy the same crowd that is excited for new pop music releases.

So a large amount of children and young adults?

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hooverd

21 hours ago

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that's like what, a dozen people?

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colechristensen

21 hours ago

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Projecting a $1B in sales this year

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hooverd

21 hours ago

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I see them about. Clearly somebody wants them or else nobody would buy them. I think they're adorable little figures. I don't get the hype around them though.