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Yeah, if the symbol was just "shark plushie" I'd understand, but specifically saying the products name?
Cute plushie makes brain go brrrr
Deforestation is incredibly tragic though.
My paranoia brain says reddit astroturfed marketing.
I get that impression too
I've always felt like it was some viral marketing trick tbh. Like I understand the reasoning people have given me for why it became a symbol but it feels forced? I'm not much of a stuffy person though so idk, maybe there's something I'm missing.
The main one is that it being a shark (a more "masc" animal, apparently) gives closeted transfems who want stuffies plausible deniability when buying it. And then people just noticed that a lot of trans people had them/some trans people would meme about them.
This explanation just feels very ad hoc to me, but I also wasn't trans yet when blahaj started to become a trans thing so idk maybe this is actually just what happened.
We don't have :sweden-cool: ???
Sweden is a NATO member now so they have to have a burning flag
It's literally just the fact it's the same colors as the trans flag. At some point the Internet noticed and it became a meme
I keep ironic detachment from caring about things too much, but also, I’ve never liked the Blahaj too much anyway.
Yes I’m privileged. Yes, don’t let things I care about intellectually burden me emotionally.
Yeah, the emotions I don’t have can rarely hide, so it’s kind of fortunate I don’t have emotions when I think I should care about things. It’s all out of my control and that’s ok. I like having emotions when I do tbh.
I try not to support companies I personally disagree with. I don't see anything in the blahaj plushie, I don't associate my identity with it personally. I'm also autistic and my empathy and worldview is a lot different to the "norm" so I do have difficulty with relating to things in general.
I would assume it is just because it is a cute toy for many others
Seems like a good enough reason to dislike it. I don't think there's anything about the plushie itself that leads to it being seen positively, but just the internet meme culture.
Slightly related, but was at a different furniture store yesterday and the sales rep introduced some piece of furniture as being from some meme (maybe specifically mentioned tiktok? idr). No clue what meme they were referring to, but companies won't hesitate to profit off of memes. I'm curious how many of the Ikea workers know the shork-plush = trans meme.
My brother and roommate certainly didn't, so I assume that means if guests come over and see it, then either they don't know why I'd own one or they know but they're either trans or happen to spend a fair bit of time in online trans spaces.