Is your hatred of Funko Pops for purely ideological reasons?

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Aunt Carol

Aunt Carol

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I feel bad because mine is not.

The first time I saw a Funko Pop, I thought: "yuck."
Then I saw more of them and I thought, "so that's the style of this whole toy line? Yuck."
Then I just ignored them.

Only later did I realize that they were Beanie Babies for Redditors, and the pressure valve for ignored fandoms. If there's only one piece of official merch for your obscure blorbo, it's a Funko Pop with no thought at all put into the design. And after that I saw the Funko Pop walls and rooms.

But my first feeling was just "yuck." If I hadn't had that emotional reaction, would I be a Funko person now?

I've read Kafka's "A Hunger Artist" and I think about it a lot.
 
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Squanto Airi
Even just calling them ugly and sovlless is ideological, as it pertains to the hollow, sovlless mass consumerist ideology modern nerddom is in. Owning a funko shows you care more about looking like you enjoy a work and showing it off to people rather than simply enjoying the work.
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No, I agree. I reserve the right to hate anything for no reason. I just don’t like ugly plastic tat whose only purpose is to be purchased. At least beanie babies were cute, funko pops and labubus or whatever are just ghastly.
 
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Haloperidol said:
funko pops and labubus or whatever are just ghastly.
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Sidebar: am I crazy, or are Labubus a remake of Monchichis? The name has the same rhythm and Monchichis were little monkey monsters from the 1970s-1980s.
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Tell me I'm wrong. IIRC they were Mattel in the US.
 
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I just think they’re ugly, expensive for something that looks like a cheap Chinese knock off product and the only people I see collecting them are stunted manchildren in their 30s. If you plan on collecting something, at least collect something that doesn’t make people think you’re terminally autistic.
 
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if you look at it objectively they are just the westernized version of superior japanese figmas
but just like Japanese animation has lots of quality works while inferior western animation is shit the funkopozz are also shit, the difference in artstyle is the same aswell
maybe the hatred for funkopops is heightened by the fact they coincide with western media ruining all their beloved franchises, as well as pumping capeshit that was always bad
of course only the soyboys who actually enjoy the ruination franchises and capeshit will buy funkopops

so all in all funkopozz are hated both for ideological reasons, and reasons of artistic quality
Jason Wynn said:
at least collect something that doesn’t make people think you’re terminally autistic
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best i can do is collect things that dont make people think im a soyboy
its knives, i kinda collect knifes, just like me a good knife is all
i like swords too, but cant call it a collection yet
 
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Even just calling them ugly and sovlless is ideological, as it pertains to the hollow, sovlless mass consumerist ideology modern nerddom is in. Owning a funko shows you care more about looking like you enjoy a work and showing it off to people rather than simply enjoying the work.
 
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Solomon Bundy said:
The lack of effort in the design kills me. They actively take away personality from every character that gets made into a FunkoPop.
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its a very smart design choice, that way characters from vastly different settings look similar enough so they dont bite each other on the redditors display
thus the redditor has the desire to collect them all
SofondaCox said:
they're like an insult to toys
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its important that they dont look like toys, as they are supposed to be a collectible for adults

they are supposed to be inoffensive, similar, collectible
 
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Solomon Bundy said:
The lack of effort in the design kills me. They actively take away personality from every character that gets made into a FunkoPop.
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Oh, this did remind me of some enjoyment I got from Funko Pops. Stuart Ashen ran a quiz where the Barshens gang tried to guess which character Funkos were representing, when they were no longer labeled.
 
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