>>9735429Articulated figures are immune to hypebeasts. So is gunpla because of the high barrier to entry.
"Cool" also means accessible. AKA buying a shoe, rapping (don't even need instrument), watching a show, being an influencer, using words. Its not like the 90's when skateboarding was cool and you actually had to take a few weeks to learn it.
Anything over the bare minimum gets labeled as cringe because normies don't want to learn it, thus why japanese toys are generally safe except bearbrick (5poa simple design attracts normies).
There is no exception to this rule about normie laziness. Try to find one normie thing thats cool and hard.
