[TheOtherHobbes]

I wonder if there are more recent examples?

[ocdtrekkie]

Labubu was last year:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/21/us/labubu-doll-plushie-pop-ma...

https://nypost.com/2025/08/02/us-news/this-is-the-most-expen...

It burnt out much faster than Beanie Babies did.

[renegade-otter]

Everything has faster cycles. Also, Labubu is ugly. It's a bad knockoff of the Soviet character Cheburashka.

[AussieWog93]

A guy I work with bought a couple of Pokemon card boxes for $100 a decade ago just because he liked the characters. Now with $12,000 each.

[dalben]

NFTs

[renegade-otter]

I think NFTs were this niche thing only crypto people were dealing. It was not a wide cultural phenomenon. I bet the majority of the population don't know what it is.

[some_random]

I'm not sure if I'd call it culture wide, but a significant number of non-tech people in my life were not just aware of it but actively considering "investing".