Who would have thought the business who's only business plan was to get people to keep buying slightly different versions of tacky plastic tchotckes would eventually implode?
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I honestly think this might be about how dogshit culture has become. Funko Pops are a hyper-commodified form of memorabilia for fans of pop culture. The market for such a thing has growth limits, but there should be a steady market as new pop culture gets made. If the braindead pop culture tchotchke company is struggling to stay afloat, it might mean that we’re running low on pop culture worth remembering.
Do they have a skibidi pop? What about a 
pop?
im still waiting for my Real Housewives of Grand Rapids Season 8 Funko Pop Collector's Edition.
honestly, idk why anyone would buy slightly tacky plastic figures when you can get like oh idk, like a toy or something you can use or show off..?
Or like gunpla that you build and style yourself
Labubu is ascendant.
This is good news until you realise they're just being replaced with the equally cringe Labubu
Are people buying 6000 labubus and lining the walls of the winter palace with them?
OK OK geez, didn't expect Hexbear to be so pro Labubu 
Oh no, I hate labubus as well, more just noting that they're (thankfully) nowhere near as widespread yet. That or maybe I just never see them because I'm not the target audience. 
I'm sorry if this is me not being sympathetic to manipulated and brainwashed people, but... How the fuck to people have money for this shit? Like I understand gambling and drug addiction better than I understand a compulsion to buy a plastic toy and leave it in the box in your house? How does that fit into any person's budget? How is the quota in one's house for these any greater than zero?
$27.99??????
Edit: I wrote this about halfway through the article but just finished it, very interesting, thanks for sharing, still too broke to even imagine buying into this shit
I'm the wrong person to ask, I don't mind ugly things but I still find those things repulsive.
These people could bankroll most of the mutual aid requests on hexbear.
I think their too expensive to do that but im sure some people's are on their way
I think Labubu is far less cringe, but I am a long term Funko hater. Even at my treatlovingest time I thought Funko Pops were trash. :funko-cool:
Saaaame they're so ugly.
Forgive if im wrong but I dont think they make Labubus that are based on popular IPs? I think there will be something else that fills that treat niche
Labubu looks like capitalist version of Cheburashka and they already have done popular IP's haven't they? But who can even afford a place to store physical goods anymore? We're going digital now, everything's computer.
I just meant "plastic collectable that all look the same to me"
Help, my son has finally had enough of that plastic crap. What do I get him now
Receiving a funko pop was the one time I genuinely felt offended by a gift.
Do you have any idea how hard it was to find a Funko Pop of Trotsky?
Take your subsumed critique and shove it
They didn't even get the hair right
hell yeah, with scarcity poised to go up, now's the time to invest in Funko Pop futures
Looks like they popped their last funko
Also funko popn't
US economy is cooked
SELL SELL SELLLLLLLL
Funko better reinvent slurp juices, quick, or they're finished!
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Nature is healing
is there a chance trump would bail them out if they made an official trump funko pop?
There are already politician funkos, including Trump.
ah ok i thought those were unofficial / bootleg
The west has fallen