If you didn’t know, I’m a lady, born and raised. So that means I was exposed to a lot of dumb pink bullshit in the 80s and 90s. In a way, those old cutesy toys and cartoons (not just MLP, but more than that) are the basis for fluffies as a product in-universe and a writing concept IRL. Fluffies are a twisted nightmare of consumerism in that regard. But the cutesy horse toys still continue today, and there’s more fluffy-ish unicorn pony crap out there than ever. Sometimes LITERALLY.
Not gonna lie, the image looked like the dick/balls of the first one was a wall socket and i thought they had be surgically altered into a plugin. ~Chuckle~
RQ you are both responsible for my first knowledge of Pupcorn then and for renewing it in me now. I could have forgotten it in the intervening years. Forgotten it forever. That was something you denied me.
I thought of making a cartoon from this toy, but I couldn’t think of anything because it’s already terrible enough. There’s nothing I can add to make this any more horrible.
Omfg I can still hear the sound of the Squinkies commercials. Squishy squishy squashy… SQUINKIES…!!!
Yyyyeah, there are so many things where it’s clear they tried so hard to make them “cute”, especially “GIRLLL…!!!” toys, that it ends up not being cute because it often becomes visually so sickly-sweet you can practically smell the marketing. It’s gotten to a point where a lot of this stuff is straight up creepy. xD … which means it’s enjoyable, but in a ironic way.
There’s the colorful crap, then the colorful crap… when something is colored so awfully (and caked with glitter as if that will redeem anything) that my artist brain can’t focus on anything aside from the disrespect of color hues. Then it’s another level of ‘thanks-I-hate-it’.
I work in a dept store and there’s a whole line of shit themed toys, including a line called unicorn poop. it’s like they’re trying to raise a generation of fecal-philiacs.
Oh man I remember they had this shit (heh) all the way back in the late 90’s/early 2000’s and even in the single digits I thought this stuff was fucked up
I don’t get the whole “horses are for little girls” thing. Horses are badass. Knights rode horses. Cowboys rode horses. And unicorns are horses with big sharp horns, making them even more badass.
