Labubu? Lafufu? LaTime Has Come To Stop This Nonsense
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
We're addressing the elephant kids toy in the room - the Labubu craze. You've definitely seen these monsters everywhere from exclusive brand collabs to Gemma Collins' Instagram reels to hanging off handbags while you wait in line at the cocktail bar. But where did they come from? And why is everyone going absolutely mad for the Pop Mart blind box item?
This week, our hosts Ione and Gina go head to head about the validity of Labubu collecting, the Lafufu fakes populating the market and why nobody is seeing the proliferation of this plush for what it is - just another trend in a long legacy of popular toy collecting.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi, everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor-in-chief of Pollyester. And I'm Ioni, |
| 0:05.5 | the founding editor-in-chief of Pollyester, and this is the Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast |
| 0:10.6 | dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. Please make sure to like, rate, subscribe and review. |
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| 0:35.3 | in our description do we have new reviews, Ione? |
| 0:46.5 | We do! Five stars from Flamingo. Flamingalgo. Yeah, I was excited for you to pronounce how. |
| 0:52.6 | In the UK, saying perfect in every way, which is gorgeous. Very succinct. And then over on Spotify, we have Eva Baby 98 saying, ah, not me getting a shout out. Literally ran to this episode because I knew you all would get it. I'm tired of being called a loser, Christian Puritan because I want to think critically. Tell them. Tell them, Eva. Tell them is my adding. And then Sage said, thank God for you two, holding my sound tea together with nuanced feminist takes. Oh, thank you, sir. |
| 1:11.1 | Very kind. |
| 1:12.7 | Well, it's not very much a nuanced feminist take this week. |
| 1:15.9 | I will bring the nuanced feminist takes. |
| 1:17.8 | I'm going to bring the unabashed love of capitalism to the table. |
| 1:22.7 | So today, as you may have inferred from the title and the episode description, we're talking |
| 1:30.0 | about Labibos. La Huboos? |
| 1:32.7 | Lafoufus. |
| 1:33.9 | I'm a Lafoufou fan. |
| 1:35.6 | Obviously, in December, we did a Trinkets episode, and the heights that we have reached with |
| 1:41.4 | Labibu fever are dizzying. |
| 1:43.5 | I know, when I literally had a Lubu back in December, so everyone... |
| 1:46.1 | Gina's a innovator. |
| 1:47.9 | I love foo foo. Have you said, I think it's in that book I made you get the subculture one. What? The TED, that subculture book I made you bite the carbide. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, it's a theory of trend adoption and there's loads of different ones. |
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