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  • caesaravgvstvs@feddit.org
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    16 hours ago

    “Is reportedly in the works”

    How hard is it to develop a recipe with basically three ingredients (it better not have soggy knufe) for a small local grocery chain?

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      There is never “a deal” with this sort of thing. It is all hype all the way down, this time combined with gambling. In some not so distant future thriftstores will be flooded with these things.

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      20 hours ago

      They are ugly (apparently in a cute way) and they come in those blind packages like trading cards. There are different colors, some of which are supposedly rare.

      There are a million of these stupid blind box toys now, and this one just happened to get popular on tiktok or something.

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          You’re not the only one.

          Now, as a skeptic myself, I say you don’t have to really take much stock into what I’ll say next, but multiple people I know who claim to be psychic (9), of different ages (18-56), if different religions/spirituality, all eerily said the exact same thing when I asked them (first jokingly, then out of curiosity) what they thought of Labubus.

          And each one, first thing they said was “the creator made a deal with a demon”. Not necessarily that the thing itself was evil (although they all got bad “vibes” from them), just that the popularity was a result of that, specifically.

          I did inquire if they thought the same about previous fads (such as garbage pail kids) but they said no, just this one.

          Now obviously correlation doesn’t mean causation, and this sample size is tiny. I only thought it was a peculiar anecdote.

          But, if there were to be a Faustian bargain to be had, fueling the climate and plastic pollution crisis via plastic figures sold in a gambling and predatory capitalistic manner does seem like something a demon would do lol.

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              I’ve always thought that interesting too. And I don’t find out until we’ve been friends for awhile, although 3 are family (I have a very large family though, over 60 people I think if we combine both dad and mom’s sides).

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            I do not exactly know what psychic means but I am an atheist and do not think that I actually have any brain issues just that I am kinda dumb and that I have a high chance if dying from brain related issues as not if my grandparents died from brain issues. And the cabbage patch is also pretty bad, but this has teeth things on the bottom of its head that’s what makes it belong in horror.

    • Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I think its all manufactured hype. Likely no one is actually buying these things, not even the influencers. Market your product as the new craze and watch people cattle along.

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    The eldertubbies gonna be pissed when they find out one of their children is being used to sell shitty coffee…

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      the travis scott (popular rapper) x (in collaboration with) erewhon (LA county upscale grocery chain) dubai chocolate (chocolate with a significant filling of pistachio, kadayif and tahini) labubu (chinese plush toy brand) matcha (finely ground green tea) latte (coffee drink made out of espresso and steamed milk) is reportedly in the works.

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          to be fair apparently they’re only in los angeles county, but I didn’t know whether to write LA grocery chain, LA county grocery chain or californian grocery chain. now the middle option looks best, but i was mildly brain deficient at the time (as well as all the time).

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        erewhon (californian upscale grocery chain)

        In this case “upscale” means “ripoff”, it’s $15 for orange juice, or a plain bagel.

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      People who are slaves to trends will happily be giving away more of their money because 3 trends are merging for a limited time thing

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      Shitty rapper who was popular years ago and a shitty piece of Chinese consumerist crap mixed with a shitty chocolate named after a shithole country.

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      You don’t know what Dubai and chocolate are? I didn’t know Lemmy had literate toddlers!

      /s please don’t kill me

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        I will have you know we’re literate seniles, not toddlers! 🤬

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    This doll looks so hideous. It’s the manifestation of those creepy dolls from your grandma’s house you get nightmarea from.

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    I thought the “Labubu Dubai Chocolate” was a meme, but I should’ve known better they’d merge the two in a heartbeat.