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

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Nekromantik said:
What the fuck are they doing to that thing? You'd think that they'd want to keep it in good condition.
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I know, it was cracking me up. Motherfucker looks like it's been in Operation Desert Storm and got blown up by an IED or some shit. Shit get him to the VA Office, stat.

emspex said:
"The Furby Brotherhood" just made me lose it again
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Theyre all the white furbies and they all have like swaztikas carved in them and shit. Fuck this thread is great.

Ive read on and off about people doing weird or funny shit with furbies the past couple years or so but I always thought it was like a throwback joke, I didnt know they brought them back. I wish I could remember them, people get up to weird shit with furbies that they never did with any other toy for whatever reason.

I thought they were universally reviled as a kid because theyre kind of creepy--I remember reading some op ed or a letter to the editor in a kid's magazine when I was 7 about how some dude thought they were CIA listening devices, so furbies have always been autism magnets.

This throwback got me thinking, @Vyxenn do you know if there is a beanie baby community? I remember it being just as crazy as when furbies came out. That might have just been "collector shit" in general though.
 
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DuckSucker said:
Theyre all the white furbies and they all have like swaztikas carved in them and shit.
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heil furbler
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Hold up: how in the ever-loving fuck did Furbies of all things spawn a wretched hive of SJW bullshit with paedophilia mixed in? I know the depths of the Internet are pretty damn deep but surely there must be a rock bottom eventually...
 
Rikka Takarada said:
Hold up: how in the ever-loving fuck did Furbies of all things spawn a wretched hive of SJW bullsgbu with paedophilia mixed in? I know the depths of the Internet are pretty damn deep but surely there must be a rock bottom eventually...
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This is the internet. There is no rock bottom, only an endless fall.
 
Some thoughts
1.) wow this was once a thing, my aunt bought me two of them when I was a kid.
2.) LOL goddamn I love the farms.
 
Holy fucking shit. I have seen people get all high and mighty about some dumb stuff before, but this is something else.
 
Tumblr is a magical place

who would have even thought there was a furby community, let alone one full o troons
 
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Glad this thread was made. It continues to amaze me that these things are still relevant, and I love that people will make drama out of the most innocuous bullshit. Furbae is definitely leaning into cow territory, though. She has a history of driving herself into debt because she thinks she's entitled to own as many Furbies as she can, has harassed other collectors for buying Furbies she thinks she "deserved," and she grossly outbid so many people on these things that she actually increased the prices of Furbies on eBay. She also has a lot of shady selling practices including withholding money from buyers and then demanding more money before she sends out their purchases. There was a notorious case where a buyer was sent to the hospital before their Furby could be shipped out. When they asked if Furbae could give the money back to pay for the hospital bill, she refused and told them to pay more for shipping. This is really just the tip of the iceberg, but this is a great primer on her shenanigans. Furby drama is the last thing I would have ever expected to find this hilarious.
 
Damn. I remember having one or two of those back when they were SUPER popular in the late 90's. Don't remember playing with them a lot though, I just happened to have them because my friends did.

And of course there's a community around these things. Why am I not surprised?
 
I can't really say I'm surprised about this because I've seen furby ocs and animation memes floating around, but I had no idea the autism went this deep, nicely written OP and introduction to this.

Cho Chan said:
There's lots to cover, but my favorite tidbit you didn't mention is furbae's favorite furby, Swampy, who's been very poorly kept and deterorated heavily over the course of about five years.

Swampy circa 2013:

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Swampy last month:

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"Swampy".
Well at least it fits its name, motherfucker looks like it was dredged out of a swamp.
 
Two of my cousins had furbies growing up. They broke them by beating each other with them during a family gathering after one made his furby "fart" on the other. *yawn*

I love that this community exists and that it is just as autistic as I would imagine it to be.
 
2018 expectation: personal jetpacks and Moon colonies
2018 reality: people forming drama filled "communities" over now obscure toys
 
:powerlevel: One of the newer Furby's was given to me as a gift. I named him Ed Kemper. He sits on my book shelf without batteries and acts as a book end - I think it's cute but creepy as fuck:autism:

Other than that, I got nothing. These people are nuts.
 
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