>>9719625He also benefits from the same social media hype machine yet he came from before it reached its peak. All the memes brought up his value and put him into the public consciousness, getting more people into the Fate franchise. Despite using the same tactics of Squishmallow, he never got as big due to being from Japan and anime plushies are always less common and niche. He started the system and squishmallows took it over. The key difference between Astolfo and squishmallows is that squishmallows arose in the time of the influencer and the pandemic. With their audiences of manipulatable children and desperate adults they extended their reach massively. People craved a coping mechanism and Squishmallow came in with their garbage pillows to fill the void.
You may ask, why do I hate squishmallows so much? I'll tell you why. They're basically all everyone talks about, along with the build a bear frog. I suppose I could be fine with that. I'll find my niche and enjoy what I like and they can enjoy what they like. But then those bastards made it personal. With their corrupting hands, they made a Disney princess plush. A wretched, flat, hideous, contemptible, diabolical abomination of a Disney princess plush. The beauty and detail of the official product was cast aside when they put it into their horrid formula. There's no arms or legs to play with and 3d hair to pet. There is no life in the eyes or beauty in the smile. It is a destruction of everything that makes the princess plushies enjoyable regardless of whether you care about the character or not.
What angers me most is that due to squishmallows' popularity and the lack of attention given to official princess plushies, people will see this CRETIN and presume that this is what a princess plush is meant to be. The notion disgusts me.
