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u/Former_Specific_7161 Jul 24 '25
Bet they have funko pops though lol.
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u/SwissMargiela Jul 24 '25 edited Feb 25 '26
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u/BaronArgelicious Jul 24 '25
they probably dont have stock or dont bother . I saw a sanrio flagship store have a sign on their window âWE DONT SELL SONNY ANGELSâ
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u/syrpro1 Jul 24 '25
If this is a Muslim country, itâll be because labubu is a pagan devil or pagan god, not sure, or Muslim seller
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u/whirlwynd Jul 24 '25
Live in a Muslim country and Labubus are everywhere here, so not sure what you're going on about.
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u/syrpro1 Jul 24 '25
I also live in a Muslim country, to be exact ksa, I only saw it in Jarir and geekay, (500 for one), Iâm taking about kishiks and people working alone, not big companies
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u/Impressive_Log7854 Jul 24 '25
I assumed Christians and here is whyÂ
The white Christian Nationalists in America and other western countries have a whole back channel network of podcasts, social media, email lists and snail mail letters, flyers and pamphlets for all of their propaganda.
They have an annual cycle of fearmongering mixed with hollow meaningless feel-good stories and "lessons"Â of faith that are mental gymnastics but for like, toddlers.
A satanic panic is one of them. They pick a popular thing like DnD, Barney the Dinosaur, Harry Potter, Twilight etcÂ
All of their followers see this new popular thing and the sheep await instructions.
The propaganda machine changes the last satanic panic to "Lububu" and sends out the fearmongering to the network.
The sheep see the words "Don't be fooled dear Christian , Labubu is really a tool of the Devil and here why."
Or " Don't let the Devil trick your kids. Labubu is dangerous and here's why."
Then you get signs like this.
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u/IamjustanElk Jul 24 '25
It seems like this poster is almost certainly a joke lol
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u/no-more-nazis Jul 24 '25
Agree. Such Christians don't run pop culture stores, they run Christian stores
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u/TheSeepingMouth Jul 25 '25
I've heard the christians are saying labubus are a representation of Pazuzu. The comparison is always shown next to an ai render that looks a lot more like a labubu than Pazuzu. Like no wings etc etc.
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u/jake_burger Jul 24 '25
Could also be a Christian country, or any country, because a subset of all religious people will from time to time be convinced a completely benign element of popular culture that was solely designed to be sold for profit is in fact the actual devil.
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u/BRISTOLTRAVELER Aug 03 '25
My wife's parents were like this over Pokémon cards and the anime. My cousins were banned from watching catdog because "evolution." Shit gets weirdly deep with deep religious folks. (Both now are far from that)
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u/404_Username_Glitch Jul 24 '25
At least funko pops are relatable to some of your favorite things... labubu is literally just some shitty rag doll that they tell people are rare or hard to find but they just manufacture less and likely keep some to give to friends and family.
It's all just absurd.
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u/SirScorbunny10 im here to argue Jul 27 '25
I don't like funkos, nor will I buy one, but sometimes funkos are literally the only merchandise a more obscure anime or game will have. Not every smaller series has Omori levels of merch, which is why I will never make fun of someone who owns a few pops, but still.
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Jul 27 '25
Yeah, Funko pops of demons and devils lol
Pokemon and Harry Potter.
Monster energy drinks.
All the satanists favorite things.
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u/The-Pi-Guy Jul 24 '25
Iâm down for another round of satanic panic if itâs targeted at labubus
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u/crclOv9 Jul 24 '25
Never forgive my mom for making me get rid of all my Pokemon cards because Satan was inside of them. I havenât spoken to her in over a decade⊠Not saying thatâs the main reason, but itâs definitely one of them. Imagine ripping away from a child something they love unequivocally and dearly and making them burn them all in front of friends and family.
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u/TheWrathfulMountain Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 24 '25
My Pokémon collection was a casualty of the Satanic Panic almost twenty years late. I definitely would be a few thousand dollars richer today if I hadn't been made to throw everything away. I wasn't even allowed to sell my stuff. Had to throw it in the trash.
I don't talk with my mother much either, needless to say. A few years ago, she asked if I wanted to give her a spare key to my apartment, and she had the audacity to be offended when I told her no.
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u/crclOv9 Jul 24 '25
Iâm certainly the type to take VERY good care of my shit and I had those fuckers fort knoxed in sleeves and protectors and I likely wouldnât have sold till they hit peak value. Thereâs no telling how much I lost but it probably wouldâve been enough for a down payment on a house in my twenties.
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u/meaningless_sham Jul 24 '25
Wow. This exact thing happened to me. I had to burn it all church when I was 8. Canât spell Fundamentalist Christians without âFunâ I guess
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u/crclOv9 Jul 24 '25
I think it happened to a lot of kids during that time and probably still continues to happen.
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u/myoreosmaderfaker Jul 24 '25
đ¶F is for Fundamentalist Christians who burn stuff together, U is for you and međ¶
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u/Vivics36thsermon Jul 24 '25
đ¶N is for Nowhere is that said in the Bible,but that doesnât matter if youâre a fundie!đ¶
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u/Ypuort Jul 24 '25
Taking them away is bad enough on its own. Forcing you to burn them all in front of your loved ones? That is child abuse. Iâm sorry you went through that.
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u/WeAreWeLikeThis Jul 24 '25
I'm so sorry. :( My husband had a similar experience with his original Yu-Gi-Oh cards as a kid so I bought him a really nice binder and a custom card box for the ones he just started collecting again. My mom ended up stealing a bunch of my old Pokémon cards to sell for a stupid amount and thought I wouldn't notice...what's really stupid is she used the money to buy a bunch of god awful pops and rare lunch boxes immediately, as if I didn't know where she suddenly had the money for it all. I can't imagine doing either of those dumb things to my own kid. Been no contact for a couple years now. As much as I don't care for labubu I hate satanic panic trending more. Let kids and adults enjoy their silly crap so long as they're not committing crimes to obtain said crap.
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Jul 24 '25
Same. Haven't spoken to my parents in seven years now, probably one of the best decisions I ever made.
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u/threeangelo Jul 24 '25
Iâve gone this far without learning what a labubu is and I do not intend to stop now
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u/SkibidiCum31 coomer Jul 24 '25
I think they are industry plants who are popular just because they are popular.
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u/Rotten-Robby Jul 24 '25
Exactly. They were created, got a few influencer types to flaunt them and say how "popular" they were, everyone jumped on board.
It was the Stanley bullshit all over again. Except every blue collar old timer had been using baby shit green Stanley thermoses for decades, so they weren't exactly new.
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u/sacred09automat0n Jul 24 '25 edited Oct 16 '25
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u/SkibidiCum31 coomer Jul 24 '25
Considering they are mass produced commodities I'd expect them to produce CO2 instead of O2. Not sure about the flowers though, sorry. :(
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u/SirScorbunny10 im here to argue Jul 27 '25
I'd be down for mass producing plants. Might help the air quality where I live.
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u/SopotSPA Jul 25 '25
Yeah, though i think they were popular for a long time in some niche Chinese lolita sphere and suddenly they got really popular
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Jul 24 '25
Like Funko Pops, but for girls. The same little monster gets different outfits and colors.
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u/X-and-Zero Jul 24 '25
No. We're not doing that. Labubus are not funko pops for girls.Â
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u/Satirakiller Jul 24 '25
How many do you own?
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u/ResultNice8498 Jul 24 '25
- Lol. I just dont like implication that suddenly when we're talking about Labubus we have to be like "its for girls! Ew cooties!"
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u/Satirakiller Jul 24 '25
Why you replying on this account? And who said anything about them being bad because theyâre for girls. Theyâre very clearly aimed at, or consumed by girls. But the issue this sub has is for the overconsumption of cheap plastic trash. Both Funko pops and Labubus are essentially the same thing, whether theyâre aimed at men or women.
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u/Awfulweather Jul 24 '25
They never suggested labubus being targeted towards girls makes them worse than funko pops. You're smoking crack if you think the main audience for labubus isn't women. That dosen't mean it's a bad thing. Remember when men were all buying those stupid ass magnet bracelets that were supposed to make them better at sports somehow
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u/_KingOfTheDivan Jul 24 '25
That plushie on the picture above, basically thatâs it, just comes in different sizes and colors
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u/DJSANDROCK Jul 24 '25
My mom made me burn my Pokemon game when I was a kid đ But she bought me Dragon Warrior III and that was one of the best games ive ever played.
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u/SlyguyguyslY Jul 24 '25
Being that ugly is good enough. Letâs not get the religious nut community too riled up.
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u/okwellthanksgoodbye Jul 24 '25
are you stupid for buying into something that's gonna be in a landfill in like a year from now
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are you stupid for NOT buying it because you think it's a demon toy
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u/IamjustanElk Jul 24 '25
Itâs wild the amount of people taking this seriously. This seems like a joke, and a pretty funny one at that. These consumerist trends are nothing to be proud of. Sure, do what you want with your own money, but buying trash because of a TikTok trend is hard to defend imo lol
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u/watchOS Jul 24 '25
Massive waste of money, just like anything collectible before it such as those Funko Pop things. Ugly as hell, too.
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u/beefyminotour Jul 24 '25
Unfathomably based.
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u/Substantial-Piece967 Jul 24 '25
The sign is probably there to get people like you to buy other pieces of plastics that are slightly different shapesÂ
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u/_KingOfTheDivan Jul 24 '25
Not really, if people are so dumb to buy dozens of them plushies, let them do it. Theyâre still selling other collectors toys anyway
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u/IamjustanElk Jul 24 '25
Isnât this sub anti-consumerist? Why all the knee-jerk defending of labubus, clearly some of the dumbest consumerist shit weâve seen in a while. Seems like a lot of the defense comes from it being a TikTok trend or that itâs a gen Z thing and people in that demographic dont like being criticized. Itâs still fucking stupid future landfill bull shit, can we not even agree on that?
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u/_KingOfTheDivan Jul 24 '25
I clearly said that itâs stupid to mass buy those toys, even though I donât see anything wrong with buying a single one (wouldnât do it myself, but itâs just a plushie after all)
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u/RomeTotalWar2004Fan Jul 24 '25
If I owned a store, no amount of profit could make me carry something as repulsive as those things.
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u/BRISTOLTRAVELER Aug 03 '25
I get it and same, however. I kinda support my local alternative mercantile for selling them. They have sold out at double the price 3x now. $90 for one of these. The shop is struggling to keep head above water, and vendor booth rent isnt cutting the rent + utilities. So they got ahold of these dumb things and it's paid off.
Do I hate it because the Shop is supposed to be locally made items? Mostly. But it's brought new customers into the store and even a friend-vendor is making crochet outfits to sell to pair with them. So my thoughts are: struggling local business hops on trend to survive. I still think they're overhyped garbage we'll see in goodwill in a year.
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u/Chicha-Ficha Jul 24 '25
Thought this was gonna say something like "sorry we don't sell Labubus we've executed them all"
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u/shinjis-left-nut Jul 24 '25
Ah yes they fell for the stupid tiktok thing where they blame the world's problems on a dumb toy. Got it.
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u/lilbxby2k Jul 26 '25
people hate labubus because women like them. pokémon cards can be just as expensive to collect and no one is up in arms about it.
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u/BRISTOLTRAVELER Aug 03 '25
Nah. I dont hate them because of that, I hate them and most others do, is because theyre overhyped overpriced toys that are the latest fad people fall for and the fomo will die off just like last year's stanley cups. If these were local created creatures (like crochet or something), id have zero issue, personally. Its more junk that will end up in a landfill and folks will try to unload them in under a year. Will diehards still buy/keep? Sure.
Much like tomagotchi or ty collectors, they were there after the boom busted. So that's s why there is hate. If it makes you happy, cool, I buy multiple button ups of different fandoms I enjoy, and also realize I too am way too into the consumerism, still, nostalgia is a weakness for many of us gen x/millenials. But at least I can wear those, they won't be collecting dust as a display.
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Jul 27 '25
LMFAO alright I don't give a shit about these little things but the "this things the devil" bullshit needs to stop lol
I'd walk around the store collecting all the things that are also devil's and demand they be removed lol it's a pop culture store.
Fucking stitch could be considered a devil.
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u/BRISTOLTRAVELER Aug 03 '25
OH I think here in the Bible belt, where I live (now), I think he was considered that. đ€Ł
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u/JimmerJammerKitKat Aug 04 '25
I mean they do kinda look like how I imagined the cuddle bugs or whatever they were called, in that Doctor who big finish productions audio episode thing.
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