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Comment by mikepurvis

4 days ago

Adam Conover argued that the craze is an indicator of economic nihilism, that people who can’t afford these things buy them anyways as an expression of hopelessness that they’ll ever have a pathway to legitimately changing their station: https://youtu.be/l1O6bN2zWSM?si=QGd51tfmh8lOjezk

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quickthrowman  3 days ago

That accurately describes the one person I know in real life who collects Labubu.

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