{"id":176544,"date":"2025-09-17T06:15:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=176544"},"modified":"2025-09-17T06:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:15:35","slug":"the-frenzied-gamified-chase-for-labubus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=176544","title":{"rendered":"The frenzied, gamified chase for Labubus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night, I toggled endlessly between a TikTok Live stream and a shopping app in anticipation of 9:30PM. For 30 minutes, I hunted for an available listing; many expletives were uttered. I exhibited bot behavior and got iced out of the app multiple times. I tapped so many times my thumbs got sore&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/analysis\/710047\/labubu-pop-mart-blind-boxes-scarcity-marketing\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night, I toggled endlessly between a TikTok Live stream and a shopping app<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176544-the-frenzied-gamified-chase-for-labubus.jpg",1200,624,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176544-the-frenzied-gamified-chase-for-labubus-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176544-the-frenzied-gamified-chase-for-labubus-300x156.jpg",300,156,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176544-the-frenzied-gamified-chase-for-labubus-768x399.jpg",640,333,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176544-the-frenzied-gamified-chase-for-labubus-1024x532.jpg",640,333,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176544-the-frenzied-gamified-chase-for-labubus.jpg",1200,624,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176544-the-frenzied-gamified-chase-for-labubus.jpg",1200,624,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176544-the-frenzied-gamified-chase-for-labubus-1024x532.jpg",1024,532,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176544-the-frenzied-gamified-chase-for-labubus-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176544-the-frenzied-gamified-chase-for-labubus-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/176545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}