The Furby Community - Because robots in fursuits are serious business.

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Stoneheart said:
dont make fun of me FFS
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Awww. I actually wasn’t. I was looking forward to your input and insights as an insider. Our OP was once in the community, but I was genuinely excited to see we had a present member joining us.
 
AnxiousRobin said:
So back to the Furbae drama- how does someone own 400 plus Furbies? Aren’t most of them going to end up in storage? And what makes Swampy such a special Furby?
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By scamming. Just searching the name Swampy brings up a lot on Furbae herself instead of the furby. What makes Swampy different is it's her favorite. She has a longer history of scams in the furby fandom if this redit post is to be believed. Even at one point claiming she deserved to own every single furby. Going beyond just patterns in her clarification to every furby made ever.
 
GayDemiBoy said:
By scamming. Just searching the name Swampy brings up a lot on Furbae herself instead of the furby. What makes Swampy different is it's her favorite. She has a longer history of scams in the furby fandom if this redit post is to be believed. Even at one point claiming she deserved to own every single furby. Going beyond just patterns in her clarification to every furby made ever.
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The scamming makes sense but still. It’s such a niche market—how does she justify the cost and assume she can make returns on scamming people? :story:
 
AnxiousRobin said:
The scamming makes sense but still. It’s such a niche market—how does she justify the cost and assume she can make returns on scamming people? :story:
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By causing the shortage. Furbae is known to buy any and all furbies she can. Causing a scarcity that increases the value of all them artificially even the most common ones. She's then able to say that the furbies are worth over three times what they should be due to her own demand. Regardless if they are in the best condition or not.
 
GayDemiBoy said:
By causing the shortage. Furbae is known to buy any and all furbies she can. Causing a scarcity that increases the value of all them artificially even the most common ones. She's then able to say that the furbies are worth over three times what they should be due to her own demand. Regardless if they are in the best condition or not.
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they sold 20m+ good luck with that...
 
Stoneheart said:
they sold 20m+ good luck with that...
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It doesn’t seem like a lot get sold secondhand, most people donate or just trash the furbies once their kid is done with it. She could create an artificial shortage by buying all the ones available on eBay.

On a totally unrelated note, time to go dig my old furby out of the basement and sell it.
 
AnxiousRobin said:
So back to the Furbae drama- how does someone own 400 plus Furbies? Aren’t most of them going to end up in storage? And what makes Swampy such a special Furby?
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Theories revolve around Furbae being a financially impulsive hoarder. Mental illness is my guess about the ever progressively moldier Swampy, and that illness is probably also related to the hoarding tenancies.
 
I actually was aware of the furby community on tumblr because I am interested in robots such as Aibos and they overlap quite a bit. I thought I'd share some things here.
Tracerthefurby, the one who sniffed us out, has a bit of a history with Furbae. She is one of the more popular furbspergs.
 

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I wonder if this nonsense happens in every fandom and subculture. Like flyfishing circles.

Are there guys in waders out there typing away in some forum, saying “Oh sure, I MAY be into #lewdlures and have even drawn a few tasteful pieces of mermaid-lure art, but do NOT compare me with RandyReeler69! That guy is a total stain on the community! He has NO problems commissioning art of lures that haven't even been in continuous production for at least 18 years. 16 if manufactured in certain countries. His fetishes are not “harmless reelplay between consenting adults.” He is an out and out pedoflier and needs to stop ruining the safe spaces of this community!!” #banrandyreeler
 
So basically it's typical toy collecting wank combined with typical tumblr gender and snowflake nonsense?

Add me to the pile that unironically loves the longfurbs and other weird custom furbies. They're great in a surreal way.
 
uncensoredhentai said:
I actually was aware of the furby community on tumblr because I am interested in robots such as Aibos and they overlap quite a bit. I thought I'd share some things here.
Tracerthefurby, the one who sniffed us out, has a bit of a history with Furbae. She is one of the more popular furbspergs.
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Tracer actually makes a good point when she says not to idolize people to the point where they can do no wrong. A lot more people need to follow that logic.
 
The saddest part about this thread is that it’s not even that bad for tumblr hobby subcultures. This is a nice, universal laugh compared to the vulture culture wolf scandal and the toe necklace grave robbers.
 
ComputerWife said:
The saddest part about this thread is that it’s not even that bad for tumblr hobby subcultures. This is a nice, universal laugh compared to the vulture culture wolf scandal and the toe necklace grave robbers.
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A little off topic but do we have a thread on those toe necklace/bone hoarding tumblrites? I'd love to binge read that sometime.
 
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