I personally have managed to make over £300 just selling on pop funkos I get given as gifts, had this loot crate exclusive one that netted a solid £50 alone once. For an ugly as fuck little vinyl toy that'll never be taken out of the box and doesn't even have any rarity value. This fucking world.
It's specifically that tumblr screeching that causes gamergate and every other problem setting the internet on fire in the Great Autism War. Self-important oppressed babies vocally decide that every "real" nerd sides with me on everything and if you disagree you don't get to be a real nerd anymore even though you were doing this 20 years before Sony's marketing team decided social justice and sheldon's catch phrases might be a profitable mix. It's always the same whether the nerddom in question is about video games or comics or warhammer or whatever.
I don't understand Funko Pops. They have them for many regular franchises, like Lost, so the market is I guess "nerds that like nerd stuff and other stuff too"? And are there that many people that want one of Dolores Umbridge? And why? My Barnes & Noble has several of those, even it's a purposely unlikeable character last seen in movies that are several years old now, like that's something people will want to buy at the mall...
I saw some image that said something like "why do Americans have a fundamental misunderstanding of cute?" with this:tl;dr: REEEEEEEEE NORMIES
The last thing I want is to stray into complaining about my cultural appropriation because I'd be a raging hypocrite if I did. But it is pretty offensive when I've had a hobby for however many years that doesn't hurt anyone else and a bunch of try-hard heroes waltz in and tell me I'm having fun incorrectly because my hobby is really about a social movement and I'm the bad guy for not praising them.
GAH goth/metal elitists are the same kind of bullshit in a different packaging and they fucking muller my rage button.
