That would be because babies are very easily amused and/or it’s giddy because it knows the Teletubbies are coming. Either way, it’s not because of Laughing Baby Syndrome.
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True, but the fact that it isn’t Laughing Baby Syndrome doesn’t mean the baby doesn’t laugh, in this metaphor.
Honestly I don’t know enough about Teletubbies to know when the baby does or doesn’t laugh. And yeah, the baby does laugh! Just like smarties exist and can be jerks. But saying the baby only laughs because it has Laughing Baby Syndrome is like saying all smarties are jerks because of Smarty Syndrome, is the metaphor I’m trying to say here, in that there are many many reasons to laugh/be a jerk and most of them are better than saying it’s a hard-wired genetic thing.
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The five main personality types HasBio engineered to target little girls:
Subservient (shy, takes orders well)
Brave (tough, a protective mindset)
Inquisitive (explorer, seeks new experiences)
Entertaining (performer, aims to please)
Intelligent (leader, solves problems)
Additionally, there are five basic “quirks”. Quirks are negative traits but they exist only to make a fluffy seem more life-like. The owner can nurture these traits or correct them. In most cases, they are just little speedbumps. In a non-HellGremlin universe a Fluffy stomping its little hoofs is actually kind of cute as long as its sweet nature always comes through.
Vain (preening, value in beauty)
Bratty (combative, provides the illusion of challenge)
Flighty (clueless, easy to mislead)
Tricky (dishonest, creative in a self-serving manner)
Bully (pushy, quick to back down when confronted)
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I wasn’t aware of ‘enfie babbeh syndrome’, but with regard to the other two, I partially agree with you; if the author just sticks the label on them and then not describe that behaviour in appropriate or adequate detail, then yes, it’s pure lazy writing.
If the author describes the behaviour in a suitable manner, then the label is relevant and can be stuck on.
I went on a mini rant about the ‘wan die’ cycle for much the same reason; lazy writers wanting to demonstrate that their abusers are expert torturers, but having not the imagination, effort or talent to describe the torture well enough to demonstrate this. Show, don’t tell.
That said, my ‘syndrome’ comment was in response to Za complaining that not everything should be a syndrome; fluffies can just naturally be arseholes. I agree with that, but if a fluffy starts exhibiting symptoms of sociopathy and narcissistic personality disorder, then it’s ‘smarty syndrome’; the author just needs to write those symptoms well enough.
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Never, my smarties are better
Mix both kinds for the ultimate chaos
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You are a lunatic
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its a good thing you’re not a mod anymore
FUCKING LAWL dude you were so salty over this argument you had to come back after I left? That’s so sad actually lmao
I’ve been around since 2015 and am I the only fucking one that thinks it’s ok to have fluffies that are actual shitheads? And that it’s normal people would try to “justify” abuse?
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It is okay to have fluffies that are jerks and justified abuse can be done alright, but when near 100% of the content paints them as baby rapists who bawl apologies the moment you frown at them but go back to baby-raping as soon as your back is turned, they’re not really fluffies anymore. They’re evil monsters nobody would ever keep as a pet and that no child should be within 500 yards of. So, completely lore-breaking on a basic level.
The reason for this guide wasn’t “mean fluffy = bad never do it”, but “people think all smarties would want to rape and murder children and pregnant women and encourage their herd into doing the same, and every fluffy will become a smarty if given any kind of opportunity, which means it’s justified abuse to skin newborn foals alive (they’ll become smarties if they grow up) and that is just not correct”. The word has become synonymous not with “clever leader”, but with “evil asshole”, to the point that I think we’ve had community posts asking if clever leaders can exist at all and if so what they’d be called.
So basically, it’s fine to have them but don’t have every fluffy be one. At their core most fluffies are supposed to be kind and sweet, not rotten and evil.
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Re: “Dis Smawty wand!” and other modern smarty things:
The way that I see it, “Smarty” doesn’t say anything about the fluffy itself, but rather its own and others’ perception of said fluffy. It’s an honorific. The smarty is the leader of the herd; all “dummehs” (another honorific) must submit to the smarty whether or not they’re from the smarty’s herd or even a fluffy at all. Of course, when a being with neither maturity, wisdom or a fuctioning moral compass is given that much power, things can go wrong fast.
Maybe these words meant something different when they cropped up, but as fluffy culture slowly developed among feral herds, this is what they came to mean.
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just read that comment recently after scrolling dont flatter urself
I just haven’t been seeing them treated any different lately than they have for the last 9 years. I’ve seen periods of all fluffies being hellgremlins but they don’t last. I don’t remember anyone complaining or rebuking the syndrome shit when gr1m was drawing arguably the most popular comic ever back on the booru
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For a headcanon explanation of why there are periods of hellgremlins and periods where they’re not so prevalent - maybe some generations just suck.
Yanno, like millennials.
I use Smarty Syndrome on the premise that the humans are stupid. Everything from “this fluffy is smart enough to notice that I’m being a dick” to “this fluffy is legitimately fucked up and would have a severe personality/behavioral disorder if it were human” will be lumped in under the label, because if you label a problem, you can market a cure.
To the extent that it’s accurate, you do kinda have to be a Smarty to get Smarty Syndrome, since your average fluffy isn’t really neurologically complex enough to have a clinically antisocial personality.
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take your meds kanye
well stab my guts
I remember those
It’s a retarded thing somebody came up with to explain why nobody wants to buy a foal that’s been raped until its ass is 6 inches wide, because I guess the obvious isn’t enough. Apparently, fluffies just instinctively know when another fluffy has been dicked at a young age, and feel an instinctive need to make fun of them for it. It’s completely stupid.
yes
what a stunning and brave indictment of modern society
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