#this stuff's still in circulation but scalpers are insane

[mollysunder]

Fenty this, ponies that, is Arcane bringing back those special boutique chocolates or what??????

Yes they do exist. Vi got dark chocolate with sea salt and edible gold, and Jinx got matched and strawberry chocolate swirl.

I wonder what Silco’s flavor would be? Or Mel? Or Jayce? Or Vander?

[finsterhund]

I hate how prevalent blind boxes are in kids toys these days.

Don't get me wrong. The occasional little gachapon keychain or figure is fun and all. But I'm seeing blind boxes of toys that are like, 20 dollars or more. That's insane to me. You can't pick out a toy at that price.

I went to Walmart today and there was so much "surprise toy" stuff. I'd say like over half of the stuff in the toy aisles had some sort of blind box and/or rarity aspect to it.

A fidget toy I've been interested in because someone told me it's therapeutic for guys like me who experience self harm thoughts is apparently a viral popular on the internet thing and looking it up, they heavily advertise the surprise aspect and the rarity despite there being like, only two versions of each of them. They still gotta go "okay so this one is rare" when there's only two versions for each model like come on. Additionally because of this they're sold out everywhere, price gouged due to scalpers, and ultimately not worth the amount you'd need to pay to get them online. They're essentially dollar store quality but are selling for like 15 dollars.

Add to the fact that gaming especially mobile gaming and games aimed at kids are getting increasingly more gambling heavy, and as a gen Z I am already well aware of how gameified the algorithm runs social media sites are, I can't imaging how hard this is impacting gen alpha. Corporations are trying to raise them into gambling since birth.

Gotta force an increasingly poorer middle class into circulating money and stimulating the economy somehow. Oh I know! Gambling addiction!

Good news is I'd imagine for popular toys in the elementary school circuit there's still trades going on. Until the stupid adults decide to ban specific toys because heaven forbid the youth care about anything outside of being trained to work a 9 to 5. My elementary school actually banned those fucking jelly bracelets. Remember those? Thinking about it now my elementary school also attempted to ban Halloween costumes. Moments like this growing up made me into the cynical rule breaking smart ass who hates The System I am today. So thanks I guess 🙄

So I know it's going to be extremely popular to hate on gen alpha in the coming years, but please remember it's not their fault they're cooked. This world is actively hostile if you're a child.