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I wonder if there are more recent examples?
by TheOtherHobbes 5mo ago
I wonder if there are more recent examples?
- dalben 5mo agoNFTs
- renegade-otter 5mo agoI think NFTs were this niche thing only crypto people were dealing. It was not a wide cultural phenomenon. I bet the majority of the population don't know what it is.
- some_random 5mo agoI'm not sure if I'd call it culture wide, but a significant number of non-tech people in my life were not just aware of it but actively considering "investing".
- ocdtrekkie 5mo agoLabubu was last year: https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/21/us/labubu-doll-plushie-pop-mart-dg https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/21/us/labubu-doll-plushie-pop-ma... https://nypost.com/2025/08/02/us-news/this-is-the-most-expensive-labubu-on-ebay/ https://nypost.com/2025/08/02/us-news/this-is-the-most-expen... It burnt out much faster than Beanie Babies did.
- renegade-otter 5mo agoEverything has faster cycles. Also, Labubu is ugly. It's a bad knockoff of the Soviet character Cheburashka.
- AussieWog93 5mo agoA guy I work with bought a couple of Pokemon card boxes for $100 a decade ago just because he liked the characters. Now with $12,000 each.