Frustrations With Labubu: The Labubode Problems

 Okay, so at this point Labubus are mostly an ironic thing as far as I can tell. Actually, I tend to be a terrible judge as to whether my tendencies towards irony are able to be properly telegraphed. Ironic or not, Labubus are kind of frustrating

 Like, for one, the plural of Labubus is weird. Labubode? Labuben? Labubor? Dwarrow? For the purpose of this article I will be pluralising Labubu as "Labubode"--due to my own penchance towards interests in cephalopod 

Lack of Creative Usage

 "Clouds! They are planning something. I know it! Look at them up there--they are totally scheming, thinking we don't know. WELL I KNOW! I KNOW YOU ARE UP TO SOMETHING UP THERE! CLOUDS!" -- Frigyth The Grumpy, Musings Before Ketchup 

 So, I'm a creative person. I'm not going to be interested in opening up a box, and be done with that. I want to be able to know I can do some crafting stuff. Make a sweater or clothes for the thing in the box. Paint unique colour schemes for the thing in the box. Do weird surgeries or customisations of the thing in the box. Maybe some kind of game

I mean, the ttRPG rule book of "Car Wars" (or the Car-Fu GURPS book) is something that hits various happy brain chemical producers/receptors all nice and stuff

I want to be able to paint these Labubode and put them onto a hexagonal map and have them get close enough to each other to hit the others with swords. The red ones should be able to move faster than the others

I mean, sure, I could act out various soap operas with each of them being given a personality. Maybe set up some kind of play set--where the SHEER DRAMA of the Labubode can play out

 Our play starts out on my bed, Labubode and Squishmellen, two houses the same in reputation

I mean, with the Squishmellen (the pluralisation of Squishmellow--totes legit) they have all kinds of weird custom versions of them. They also can be used as pillows. Because my last pillows have been torn up via the same methods that would have me waking up covered in cuts, scrapes and bruises, I've not bothered to get new pillows. I've also been opting to repair my various plushies and Squishmellen with the various holes they end up getting. I've noticed a reduction of these slash wounds around where I sleep via trimming my nails (finger and toe) three times a week. Though, not a removal of these premise: they still happen--just less of it

I even made a custom backpack out of a Squishmellow. It is freaking awesome. It is kind of broken right now, and I need to do some repairs on it. But I love the crap out of that one 

 Like... where are the people who have made a game where they have a Labubu armed with a rocket launcher--going at other Labubode

I mean, TECHNICALLY BattleTech is miniature agnostic.  However, the Labubode require a custom scale map to be made in order to use them with that ruleset

I've also noticed that it doesn't seem to be a common expectation to have a personal soap opera being made using them with a good chunk of the people into this Labubode craze. Which is weird. With Beanie Babies you definitely saw people playing with those. Though--maybe if I did not have the same social interactions, the Beanie Baby thing might have looked similar with how many people are playing with them, as with these Labubode

There just seems to be a lack of creativity in the world of Labubu

I mean, I'm not on TikTok--that whole platform bores the crap out of me. I find it boring. Also: I'm not convinced anybody on that platform is actually enjoying being on that platform. I've seen people using TikTok, all y'all look miserable for the most of it. With maybe just a small minority of the time cracking something that could be called a smile if I have the boundries of that lowered enough. Honestly, SNL has a better rating for how often it isn't completely awful to watch

Maybe some people on TikTok are doing something creative... but from what I can see, those are statistic anamolies, and should not be counted

Lack of Guides

 "Now some people in various departments will claim that Glossies are not proper documentation. These people are never allowed anywhere near sales or upper management, so you don't have to worry about their grumblings at all. You don't even have to pretend to shame them into acting like Glossies are proper documentation" -- Johnathan Wernstrum, Business Blogs for Success

 Okay, so I have a creative project that I want to do with a Labubu--so heavily baked in irony, that nobody I've mentioned it to seems able to come close. A level of irony that makes every human be akin to the Fae Folk with their ability to come even near it. I've stated it a couple of times--and it has mostly just confused the crap out of people

I want to convert a Labubu into Ozymandias. Complete with the quote, "Behold my great works and despair"

So far, anybody I've mentioned it do seems to fail a SAN roll to follow what I am suggesting. Even though, it seems to be extremely straight forward to my own person. I mean--I am making a direct refrance to 19th Century Literature in a direct accusation as to the lasting nature of Labubode

Maybe this project is TOO straight forward and easy to understand--and that is what is throwing people off. Everybody is familiar with the poetry and prose of the 19th Century and thus my allusions would be completely transparent here 

Further more, I want to do this to one of the most common Labubode out there. One, because if it was a rare, I'd draw in a large amount of ire from crowds of angry online villagers (with online torches and online pitchforks). I do that just by breathing for the most part--and I mostly can show how dumb those crowds are better, when I don't do anything that can be argued as putting an effort to garner more crowds of angry villagers with pitchforks. I mean, they'd be being dumb in this case... but I've noticed most people are too stupid to recognise how dumb these fools would be being here

Two, because if it is extremely common, I'd have so many extra layers of irony to apply onto this silly little creativity problems

Soooooo

Why do the guides on different commonality of Labubode suck so terribly much?

If I were to relapse into various cardboard crack addictions out there, there is no end to guides on which Magic and YuGiOh cards are rare or common. With a lot of those guides not going along with the various marks on the cards themselves. The marks on the cards for rarity tend to be close to what the guides suggest... but are not the same. Even then, of the common cards--there are several different levels of common

If I want to know what cards are the Zubat of Magic and YuGiOh... there are ways to find that out. Mostly by cross comparing card buying guides with lists of cards from each set--and looking at which cards are not listed in the buying guides

From what I can tell, all the guides for Labubode are glossy nonsense, that exist largely as advertising placards for Big Labubu. With them trying to play up how "creative" each series makes a person who purchases the box. Turns out, creativity is something you buy in a box--and then do nothing beyond just having the contents of the box handed onto you

At least it is not as bad as Funko Pops. Labubu, at least, have some artistic personality to their stuff. Funko Pops are a lesser version of those Dutch Ceramic Figurines that people use to collect in the 1960s/1970s. As at least those Dutch Ceramic Figurines had personality. Funko Pops are designed to be allergic to creativity or personality

One of the big memes around the Labubode craze is "getting a rare Labubu". With me fairly certain it is similar to the "Shiny Pidgey" meme from two decades ago... but not completely certain. With me finding assuming irony too quickly is a very good way to get people upset with me 

I just want to be able to find a decent buying guide to quickly look for what the Zubat of Labubu is, so that I can be ironic AF with them. Pick up the cheapest most common Labubode, and do stuff with them

My Contrary Nature Tends to Upturn Silly Nonsense 

"Question nothing. Purchase everything. You are what you purchase--and nothing else" -- Old Smorking Ads 

 This is a case where something that is clearly nonsense mostly seems able to continue to move along via everybody doing what they can to "behave correctly"

The thing is that I've noticed, is stuff that is not silly dumb arbitrary nonsense tends to deflect me doing weird contrary shullbit. There is a bunch of extremely legit systems--to even just "somewhat legit" or "middling legit"--that I've done silly contrary shullbit, and they've just waited for me to get it out of my system. With these other areas no-selling me being excessively ironic about crap. These groups tend to give a common quote of, "are you done yet?"

This is actually part of why I try to approach things from odd angles. It is a way to measure legitimacy of various happenings and going downs

The whole thing with Labubode seems to be full of a bunch of people doing what they can to "behave correctly" when dealing with it. With people either not engaging with Labubode (who view it as illegitimate) or people doing what they can to fit in best they can with all the Labubode stuff

The thing is, these two types of behaviours also exist for various other systems out there. However, legit social interactions treat being oddly ironic like water running off of... whatever it is that has a back that water runs off really good. Well either that, or they have an avenue for people to do silly nonsense

Maths, Linux, CompSci, Physics, Sociology, Baking, Cooking, Crotchet, etc., all have very easy to locate "look at the dumb nonsense being done here by contrary douche bags" that people can laugh at. I mean, just imagine opening up ChickenChickenChicken.pdf on Hannah Montana Linux to figure out how to encode it into a Crotchet Pattern. Sure... none of those are legit examples of anything right there--but by being contrary, it works to justify noncontrary usages of fields that get involved in that example

Improper Behaviour can generally be incorporated into any field of varying levels of legitimacy above "illegitimate". Think of all the various crimes against coffee that show up in the field of Barristas. Their nonsense mostly works to validate being a Barrista more than anything else

Capitalism tends to incorporate stuff that runs contrary to it. The main reason why the concept of "Culture Jamming" was shown to have been a failure, is because Culture Jamming just became how Capitalism sold stuff to people. It just turned into how stuff was marketted for the last part of the 1900s and the start of this Century 

Funko Pops does not have the contrary behaviour being able to be incorporated into Funko Pops. It is specifically designed to not allow it. You know... like how Cults work to control the behaviours of their flock. Well... the less effective cults. The more effective cults will anticipate such crud and have plans for it. Though, my completely rigorously factual statement that Mormonism is more correct than Scientology will need to wait for another blog post

There are hints that Labubode have methods to take in weird contrary nonsense to how they do their stuff. Maybe the algorithm has me walled off from the correct communities on these things. I mean, algorithms do tend to start looking like the Hall of Fame in Gen 1 Pokemon after you view Missingno. for how they hand content to me

The Hall of Fame in Gen 1 Pokemon after viewing Missingno. is also another refrance that everybody completely knows and understands--and thus not an element of how my cadence confuses people when I write correspondances  

There has GOT to be people do weird customisation jobs of Labubode out there. Usually with various weird social groups that I am not a part of--I run into that sort of stuff by now. So it is weird it has not shown up. Has the algorithm managed to do more to contain me and my corrupting influence as an Emissary of Chaos? To contain my madness from being experienced by humanity? Maybe? Perhaps? Perchance? Mayhaps? Perby? Maychance? Dwarrow?

Another set of projects is to connect a large amount of Common Labubode, like a Rat King, Voltron and River Crossing Army Ant Colony. Labubu Voltron is something that exists on the collective unconscious--and is working various hands to bring it into the real world. Will my hands be the one that grasps Labubu Voltron from the collective unconscious and grant it a physical body in this realm of existence? Meh--I dunno? Prolly?

Mostly just venting here