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Re:50% of vinyl buyers don't own a record player by Gigachad on Saturday April 29, 2023 @12:44AM (#35750099)
>a Funkopop like crash.

Could you explain this?

Re:50% of vinyl buyers don't own a record player by atdrummond on Saturday April 29, 2023 @01:05AM (#35750197)
Funkopop collections are a 2010s/2020s Beanie Babies. They released so many licensed lines that eventually the demand waned and collectors had ‘lost’ thousands.
Re:50% of vinyl buyers don't own a record player by ftxbro on Saturday April 29, 2023 @12:57AM (#35750164)
FunkoPop is a popular line of vinyl figurines that depicts various characters from pop culture, including movies, TV shows, video games, and comic books. The FunkoPop company produces figures with big heads and small bodies, which give them a distinctive appearance.

In this context, "a Funkopop like crash" refers to a vinyl figure that resembles the character Crash Bandicoot, a popular video game character from the 1990s. Such a figure would have a big head and a small body, similar to the FunkoPop style. It would likely be a collectible item for fans of the Crash Bandicoot franchise.

Re:50% of vinyl buyers don't own a record player by kugestu on Saturday April 29, 2023 @01:17AM (#35750254)
This answer doesn’t explain at all what a "Funkopop like crash" is and sounds straight from ChatGPT.

Particularly the jump from "crash" to "Crash Bandicoot like figurine".

I am really sad that even high quality discussion platforms are flooded with low quality, non-content AI comments like this.

Re:50% of vinyl buyers don't own a record player by artificial on Saturday April 29, 2023 @01:13AM (#35750236)
Crash as in they made too many and nobody is buying them. Funkopop has more vinyl characters than demand resulting warehouses full of inventory that isn’t moving.
Re:50% of vinyl buyers don't own a record player by vertoc on Saturday April 29, 2023 @01:21AM (#35750271)
This sounds like a gpt bot almost exactly?
Re:50% of vinyl buyers don't own a record player by anigbrowl on Saturday April 29, 2023 @03:07AM (#35750738)
Don't go throwing your weights around here
Re:50% of vinyl buyers don't own a record player by AlbinoDaffy on Saturday April 29, 2023 @07:55AM (#35752093)