Like seriously, who buys this stuff? Just such a cheap and cliche way of displaying your interests or values. Funkos are just the nerd shut in version of a middle-age white woman’s “live laugh love” wooden sign.
I absolutely get why they became popular, you know your Nephews favorite video game character is Claptrap… its a $15 stocking stuffer that shows you pay attention to their interests and care. Then when I saw people displaying their “Collection” and it was literally just people trying to buy them all and taking up whole rooms in their house I knew that they would monetise it to death licencing every property they could worming into every niche in existence to the point where there was absolutely no scarcity and no collector could keep up and eventually go bust.
I mean I have a few. But I’m not interested in more. I have one little (well smallish) hanging shelves thing that I put them on, and it’s full. But I’m not making it my place’s identity.
One of my former housemates went crazy with em. Not quite hoarder level, since he kept them in his room and not throughout the house (just like I do mine). But he bought enough that he was on a rotating basis of selling them at garage sales while buying different ones. I don’t think he was trying to profit, as he sold most at $5-10 I believe, but he has a phase. I think I’ve got like 10 with 10 amiibo on that shelf, and yeah it’s kinda cringe, but I’ve made my peace with it.
Like seriously, who buys this stuff? Just such a cheap and cliche way of displaying your interests or values. Funkos are just the nerd shut in version of a middle-age white woman’s “live laugh love” wooden sign.
I absolutely get why they became popular, you know your Nephews favorite video game character is Claptrap… its a $15 stocking stuffer that shows you pay attention to their interests and care. Then when I saw people displaying their “Collection” and it was literally just people trying to buy them all and taking up whole rooms in their house I knew that they would monetise it to death licencing every property they could worming into every niche in existence to the point where there was absolutely no scarcity and no collector could keep up and eventually go bust.
They’re not that bad. They’re nerd Hummels. When their mom dies and they move out of the basement there will be a display cabinet waiting for them.
You nailed my husband.
You can’t just accuse someone like that in public without proof.
Can I nail him too ?
people who like to ‘collect’ stuff.
for some people owning physical representational/memorabilia is a hobby/life goal
I mean I have a few. But I’m not interested in more. I have one little (well smallish) hanging shelves thing that I put them on, and it’s full. But I’m not making it my place’s identity.
One of my former housemates went crazy with em. Not quite hoarder level, since he kept them in his room and not throughout the house (just like I do mine). But he bought enough that he was on a rotating basis of selling them at garage sales while buying different ones. I don’t think he was trying to profit, as he sold most at $5-10 I believe, but he has a phase. I think I’ve got like 10 with 10 amiibo on that shelf, and yeah it’s kinda cringe, but I’ve made my peace with it.
I have coworkers all over the floor with some Funko or its derivative on their desks.