• TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I was deep into the youtube rabbitholes late one night and watched a minidoc about them. Labubus actually came from picture books that the owner made a long time ago when he spent his childhood in the Netherlands. It was called “Monsters” and these labubus are magical creatures that look freaky but are actually good little guys.

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      5 days ago

      This is good information to know. I honestly chalked their popularity up to an advertising/media blitz combined with influencer clout thing.

      We didn’t have influencers in the same way back in the 90’s but that’s a lot of why Furbies got popular back then (from what I recall). I also clearly don’t know how to spell Labubu.