tech bubble v5.4: !whoops!

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Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

Roosevelt posted:

lol

these fuckers just dumping a bunch of plastic in the ocean instead of giving them away to kidults. i suppose that would further saturate the market and hurt the value of kidult collectibles though

presumably it will actually wind up in landfills and not just dumped in the ocean so this is a net positive for the environment you see

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# ? Apr 28, 2024 05:58

Roosevelt: Jul 18, 2009; I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

FrozenVent posted:

nobody wants them, they�re useless as toys

if i saw those things at the kwik-e-mart and they were free with any purchase i'd probably get one and give it to my nephew

# ? Mar 6, 2023 02:17

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; a medium-format picture of beeftweeter staring silently at the camera, a quizzical expression on his face

Roosevelt posted:

if i saw those things at the kwik-e-mart and they were free with any purchase i'd probably get one and give it to my nephew

good news, they supposedly have over $200 million worth of inventory

# ? Mar 6, 2023 02:18

Internet Janitor: May 17, 2008; "That isn't the appropriate trash receptacle."

a much better tweet would be:

"The maker of the Funko Pop! collectibles plans to toss less than $0 worth of its inventory, after realizing it has more of its pop culture figurines than it can afford to hold on to."

# ? Mar 6, 2023 02:20

Roosevelt: Jul 18, 2009; I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

Beeftweeter posted:

good news, they supposedly have over $200 million worth of inventory

as of August 1st, i am only allotted $30 per week on purchasing Funko Pops

# ? Mar 6, 2023 02:21

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; a medium-format picture of beeftweeter staring silently at the camera, a quizzical expression on his face

well this can only make your existing funky plops more expensive, so its good really

# ? Mar 6, 2023 02:22

Pythagoras a trois: Feb 19, 2004; I have a lot of points to make and I will make them later.

exe cummings posted:

tangentially related to tech bubble, there are too many funko pops so they�re skipping the collector step and putting them directly in the landfill:

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1632441427698253832?s=20

if so much as one horrendous man in a fedora goes digging through a landfill for those junko fucks, it will all have been worth it

# ? Mar 6, 2023 02:25

Internet Janitor: May 17, 2008; "That isn't the appropriate trash receptacle."

future archaeologists will excavate landfills and use sedimentary strata of funko pop figurines to piece together the timeline of the marvel cinematic universe

# ? Mar 6, 2023 02:25

LieutenantFrost: Aug 9, 2009

i hope they bury them in the desert next to the E.T. Atari cartridges

# ? Mar 6, 2023 02:28

FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

I want a list of which pop culture figurines are getting worried

just so I can go �no idea who that is� at all of them

# ? Mar 6, 2023 02:28

Archduke Frantz Fanon: Sep 7, 2004

Shame Boy posted:

presumably it will actually wind up in landfills and not just dumped in the ocean so this is a net positive for the environment you see

it will form a base for Funko Gardens, a multi-unit community of 3,4, and 5 bedroom homes starting at 700+

they will eternally smell like offgassing vinyl

# ? Mar 6, 2023 02:45

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

so will collectors figure out which landfill this is and break in to dig them back up

# ? Mar 6, 2023 02:57

exe cummings: Jan 22, 2005

Internet Janitor posted:

sounds like they aren't worth 30 million dollars, then

thats the tax break they�ll get for writing them down!!

# ? Mar 6, 2023 03:00

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; a medium-format picture of beeftweeter staring silently at the camera, a quizzical expression on his face

hopefully it's a waste-to-energy facility

# ? Mar 6, 2023 03:05

FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

loving lol

how are these fucks still in business, who buys this crap?

# ? Mar 6, 2023 03:55

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

FrozenVent posted:

loving lol

how are these fucks still in business, who buys this crap?

enough people love brands

# ? Mar 6, 2023 03:56

Jabor: Jul 16, 2010; #1 Loser at SpaceChem

ten times the price and less utility than an actual slurpee, what a deal

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:00

BMan: Oct 31, 2015; KNIIIIIIFE
EEEEEYYYYE
ATTAAAACK

they really did it, they made a pop of every character that ever existed and are moving on to inanimate objects

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:04

mystes: May 31, 2006

FrozenVent posted:

how are these fucks still in business, who buys this crap?

I think the problem is their whole business model is just trying to sell infinite funko pops to a relatively small number obsessive collectors or people who think they'll be able to sell them on ebay for more money later, so they just have to keep churning them out

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:06

Jabor: Jul 16, 2010; #1 Loser at SpaceChem

Somewhere there's somebody designing injection molds for this crap, and they're probably gonna be out of a job soon.

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:07

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

they are about to be not still in business because no one�s buying this crap

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:10

Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

just like beanie babies are now worth a millionty billion bucks, these will be too one day, just you wait

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:13

fart simpson: Jul 2, 2005; DEATH TO AMERICA

mystes posted:

I think the problem is their whole business model is just trying to sell infinite funko pops to a relatively small number obsessive collectors or people who think they'll be able to sell them on ebay for more money later, so they just have to keep churning them out

sounds like the monkey nfts

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:14

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

haveblue posted:

they are about to be not still in business because no one�s buying this crap

but but who could say no to such tasteful objects d'art as this?

its the joker - but hes also a gamer!!1! #totallysick #twisted

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:18

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

remember, they made a funco pop of laura palmer, wrapped in plastic

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:19

kdrudy: Sep 19, 2009

haveblue posted:

so will collectors figure out which landfill this is and break in to dig them back up

They absolutely will

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:19

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

you know, the teenager who was sexually abused and then murdered by her father?

her dead body, as a funco pop. you could put it on your knickknack shelf

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:19

FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

holy gently caress they did

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:20

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

FrozenVent posted:

holy gently caress they did

the cyanotic blue lips are a nice touch

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:21

mystes: May 31, 2006

fart simpson posted:

sounds like the monkey nfts

I guess at least the monkey nfts are just causing co2 emissions or whatever and not zillions of tons of plastic waste

edit: I guess I'm not factoring in GPUs

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:22

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

FrozenVent posted:

holy gently caress they did

there's tasteless and then there's tasteless

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:26

fart simpson: Jul 2, 2005; DEATH TO AMERICA

FrozenVent posted:

holy gently caress they did

lol

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:29

fart simpson: Jul 2, 2005; DEATH TO AMERICA

surely you gotta at least do the smiling portrait laura palmer, you know, the image that appears at the end of every episode of the show. instead of the dead body

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:32

MononcQc: May 29, 2007

mystes posted:

I guess at least the monkey nfts are just causing co2 emissions or whatever and not zillions of tons of plastic waste

edit: I guess I'm not factoring in GPUs

plastic waste is technically carbon storage, it�s just that the carbon already came from underground initially

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:35

AnoHito: May 8, 2014

FrozenVent posted:

loving lol

how are these fucks still in business, who buys this crap?

picture the kind of nerd who obsessively collects anime figures. now, and i know this may be difficult to conceptualize, picture someone two or three steps below that.

that's the kind of person who may buy a single funko pop

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:39

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

fart simpson posted:

surely you gotta at least do the smiling portrait laura palmer, you know, the image that appears at the end of every episode of the show. instead of the dead body

market research shows that the people who collect our products would prefer the child's corpse

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:40

Jabor: Jul 16, 2010; #1 Loser at SpaceChem

true crime enthusiasts are in fact total weirdos

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:41

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; a medium-format picture of beeftweeter staring silently at the camera, a quizzical expression on his face

FrozenVent posted:

holy gently caress they did

lmao

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:46

FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

you can get it on eBay surprisingly cheap

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bob dobbs is dead: Oct 8, 2017; I love peeps; Nap Ghost

54 cad is not surprisingly cheap, christ

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