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🇰🇵 North Korea’s Labubu! made in the DPRK. (video.twimg.com)
submitted 1 month ago by rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml to c/korea@lemmygrad.ml
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Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/2005433340527304704/pu/vid/avc1/720x1280/kUMUmeIgw7FAtbB0.mp4?tag=12

Source -> https://xcancel.com/JustCherry__/status/2005433628273357286#m

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[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[-] Obamakitten@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago

My Labubu just did a major 67

[-] big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

i'm not an enthusiast either, but i see them as "chinese furbys"...some people consider them "chinese funkos"

[-] DonLongSchlong@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Furbys did things though.

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

[-] big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 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

[-] Envylike@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month 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(tm) so all they needed was a strong social media push which I think they got. But this is just my take on it.

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