“Let people enjoy things” was always bullshit. Good things can stand up to criticism, good critique can even help you appreciate them more. Someone saying “Shakespeare sucks” is just going to make themselves look dumb, while a well-written dissection of Shakespeare just proves that Shakespeare is worthy of critique even if everything it says isn’t positive. I don’t think funko pops can stand up to criticism, because there’s nothing there.
It's kind of the "free speech" argument in microcosm. Sure you can enjoy/say whatever thing you want but at the same time other people have a right to call your thing/idea dumb and you can't stop them from saying it.
I remember seeing a Tumblr post (I think) about the rise of vinyl figurines, and how they went from being a kind of underground alternative art movement to being extremely commodified by Pop! into the funkos we know today. Made me hate them even more.
Anyway Funko Pops always remind me of the scene in THX 1138 where the main character, who has been feeling depressed and the government-issued antidepressants aren't helping, buys a plastic cube in the hopes that consumption will make him feel better.
buy your cube today to feel better!
buy it together with "the bitcoin standard: the decentralised alternative to central banking"
holy shit the only one in stock is $764
edit: okay there's other sellers going down to $200, but damn that's an expensive cube.
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I had to create a "Pop-tract" between my wife and I due to my excessive collecting of pops.
same guy: A bunch of people asked, so here it is: My Funko Pop! Collection as of 1/1/2018
dude is still posting about funko pops
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same guy: A bunch of people asked, so here it is: My Funko Pop! Collection as of 1/1/2018
Man that is a pretty fucking extreme collection, but it's not as bad as I-
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what the fuck
Pffft, that contract would never hold up in court!
Seriously though, there's no consideration from the wife.
People arguing over the most trivial shit is a meme for lawyers. Dumbest I've ever witnessed is a couple almost going to court and spending 100k+ because they can't agree on who gets the big frying pan from a set of pans.
I dunno, I think collecting stuff with actual use value - like action figures or playing cards or even stamps - has some merit, even if you never actually engage with them in that function, just as an appreciation of that use value, like a little museum. The thing about funkopops is that they have no use value. They have the bare minimum of design that makes them visually distinguishable from each other. They are strictly meant to be a commodity and literally nothing else. That's what makes them so odious to me.
Yeah, they're lazy and boring and I hate them too.
And this is coming from someone who has Pokemon cards and even some Amiibos so I'm pretty bazinga brained and even I hate Funko Pops.
speaking of pokemon cards I had a dream one time where you, specifically you, were looking for one of those shiny holographic cards of Charizard, which, in my dream, I happened to have.
i used to collect plenty of stuff so have no problem with that as a concept.. just find funko pops really, really boring and samey.
i just think of it like collecting old coins, to someone it’s really cool, to most it’s like, nerdy at best
"I buy things and define myself by those purchases" this is all western culture
also i was using nerdy to refer to coins but it also works for funko pops tbh. like the average person sees that and thinks "nerd"
my only experience of them is ashens videos
aren't they all exactly the same molding and only differ in paint job?
One of my relatives is friends with someone who works for funko, and so every Christmas for the past few years I've gotten a pop.
I own an ed sheeran funko but I only got it because I went one a drunken night out with some girls I'd literally just met one a quest to go around in the woodland near my uni at two in the morning without any torches and also to make a sacrificial pyre for an ed sheeran funko pop that one of the girls had that she didn't like. When we got there we realised that maybe starting a fire in the middle of a forest was a bad idea so the girl just gave it to me because I happened to be holding it when we got back.
Also I get to make fun of my friend because the funko looks more like him than it looks like ed sheeran
I genuinely hate this trend of "Plastic Bullshit - For Adults! :so-true:". it's all worthless and nobody is gonna give a fuck in 20 years, exactly like beanie babies did
exactly. it commemorates an occasion. it's a symbol of a connection. funko pop collecting is just depravity
its their soul swallowing expressionless abyss black eye holes :sadness-abysmal:
