Maybe HasBio would sell sickly “poor colored” foals to get sympathy form buyers then stick them with the costs to keep them alive? Or swap out that one for a “higher value” one.
THEy pull an EA!
3 Likes
Boo boo juicie babbeh when?
4 Likes
I feel like it’s one of those things that trickled out of fluffy culture to human culture (no one will ever admit it) the fluffy stupidity of brown equals poop leads ordinary people to think lesser, or it could be that they come in so many colours that people pick their favourite (they mostly have the same personality anyways).
I mean why buy a ‘normal’ fluffy when you can buy a cool one? If you want a brown one you would buy a hamster not a BioToy.
Going back to culture people often see grown and greens as snake food for 50𝇍 - 99𝇍 thus compounding peoples distaste in truth most people won’t buy the browns but will adopt mistreated browns out of pity from feral (maybe they’ll punish the mom. But I use Turboencabulator cannon where mares who have foals before 6 months develop behavioral problems so mostly wild fluffies suffer from hating runts.
4 Likes
You guys remember Bionicles? They used to have brown ones but in later years they phased them out and turned them orange or tan cuz they just weren’t as appealing to kids. Not because there’s anything inherently wrong with brown on its own, but because when put next to all the other bright colors, it’s easily the least appealing and eye-catching. There’s your real-life example of brown not being as marketable when the same product is offered in other colors.
From the fluffy perspective? I like to imagine that they have terrible vision and rely heavily on bright colors rather than shapes to identify objects, so they literally think brown babies are animate turds because they’re just fuckin retarded like that.
4 Likes
If you want buy a GMO pet you want a GMO pet that dont look like a normal pet, this is becuase brown/normal colors foals are discarded.
2 Likes
In my head cannon brown or darker colors are extremely common in the beginning. Mares eventually learned that the bright color foals got them more favorable treatment from humans who in turn could sell bright colored foals for more money. Selective breeding caused bright colors to become more common but the stigma never faded from the mare’s mind. At least that’s the premise for a story I’m writing.
3 Likes
Disclaimer: this is largely drawn from my own headcanon.
I think the color hierarchy is really a matter of fluffies reacting to the reactions of their owners, which means that how the hierarchy shakes out is going to depend on what the owners value.
In the case of PETS, more colorful, or more elaborately colored, means more value. So owners will react better to more colorful babies → mummahs will pick up on this → mummahs will love more colorful babbehs more.
In the case of MEAT FLUFFIES, color is irrelevant, and mummahs will love babbehs more or less the same, with the goal of raising them all to be healthy and strong with lots of well-developed muscle.
In the case of FUR FLUFFIES (fluffies grown and harvested primarily for their fur), owners will value whichever fur color is most profitable/fashionable for the time, and mummahs will value the babbehs with the most profitable or fashionable fur colors accordingly. The fact that fur color fashions literally change every three months might ingrain those trends into the mother’s psyche, or might drive them mad. Alternatively some fur colors (white, black, brown) might be fashionable on a permanent basis, putting those babbehs at the top of the hierarchy.
And so on.
If Hasbio is still in control of the fluffy market (which is not the case in my headcanon) then I could see their marketing team driving these choices. Otherwise the market is going to be highly subjective and taste-driven. Anyone who’s worked in the fashion industry can tell you how unhappy-making THAT is.
5 Likes
It’s hard to come to a one, clear objective truth about this, even if it can be supported by psychology and marketing-mix strategies. By talking about colors, we’re basically talking about taste, and that never ends well.
Every individual person has their own specific taste and trying to predict that “statistically brown fluffies won’t be bought as much” is just a one giant bet by Hasbio and nothing else. To me, this entire color hierarchy turn child abandonment is just a cynical storytelling gag - using science to push sales, ending up with a domino effect of suffering and contradictions.
4 Likes