{"id":181038,"date":"2025-10-06T23:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T23:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=181038"},"modified":"2025-10-06T23:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T23:57:17","slug":"so-the-labubu-and-dubai-chocolate-fads-what-was-that-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=181038","title":{"rendered":"So the Labubu and Dubai chocolate fads \u2014 what was that all about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re not quite sure why everything is suddenly Dubai chocolate or what exactly a Labubu is, you\u2019re not alone. Trends have such a tenuous connection to our culture at large that posters online have started to identify the phenomenon with word salad: \u201clabubu matcha dubai chocolate crumbl cookie benson boone \u2026\u201d You get the [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/podcasts\/463795\/labubu-dubai-chocolate-matcha-social-media-consumerism\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re not quite sure why everything is suddenly Dubai chocolate or what exactly a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uae"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181038-so-the-labubu-and-dubai-chocolate-fads-what-was-that-all-about.jpg",1200,623,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181038-so-the-labubu-and-dubai-chocolate-fads-what-was-that-all-about-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181038-so-the-labubu-and-dubai-chocolate-fads-what-was-that-all-about-300x156.jpg",300,156,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181038-so-the-labubu-and-dubai-chocolate-fads-what-was-that-all-about-768x399.jpg",640,333,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181038-so-the-labubu-and-dubai-chocolate-fads-what-was-that-all-about-1024x532.jpg",640,333,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181038-so-the-labubu-and-dubai-chocolate-fads-what-was-that-all-about.jpg",1200,623,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181038-so-the-labubu-and-dubai-chocolate-fads-what-was-that-all-about.jpg",1200,623,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181038-so-the-labubu-and-dubai-chocolate-fads-what-was-that-all-about-1024x532.jpg",1024,532,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181038-so-the-labubu-and-dubai-chocolate-fads-what-was-that-all-about-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181038-so-the-labubu-and-dubai-chocolate-fads-what-was-that-all-about-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=32\" rel=\"category\">United Arab Emirates<\/a>","tag_info":"United Arab Emirates","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181038","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=181038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/181039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}