A Deep Dive Into The Furby Fandom

[@plushiepath]

Hey! Some people in the comments recommended that i could add art credits for drawings/furby images. I am so sorry that I missed that, please let me know if I used your content, so I can credit you in this comment! Furby Tumblr accounts I used images from: tarotfurbyandchill Furby Rocker furbysnowleopard gorelectronic FurbyFuzz (original.long.furby on instagram) lucadoodle (@lucadoodlez on twitter) plushieshrine Furbae

[@thebeokonma7644]

you have 3 videos and almost 9k subs... smells fishy

[@electronicgore8646]

@@thebeokonma7644 3 videos, which are all nearly or more than 1 hour in length, one of which has almost 200k views. Not so fishy to me! I respect the effort they put into these videos

[@Jacqikill]

I also spied an Item Label Peepy image used during the bootleg portion. Peepy is an original character that has a similar beak.

[@electronicgore8646]

@@Jacqikill Peepy is heavily based on a bootleg furby by the name "hoody pet" which was created pre-2000s ! So it counts as a bootleg of a bootleg more than anything XD

[@Bee8467]

52:10 where did you get this image from? It seems interesting!

[@apollosartz4487]

The fact that parents were concerned by the personality changing feature and thinking its too hard to change is kinda funny to me since six year old me who was obsessed with my furby knew him like my own son and changed his personality every other hour

[@plushiepath]

that's really funny hahah i guess it's the same as with some parents getting overwhelmed by games or ipads while their kids are super proficient tech wise

[@zebraloverbridget]

Pretty sure the parents didn't like it since it could teach their kids that abuse leads to bad behavior. Which could make some kids realize that their parents are abusive. That is the only somewhat logical reason I can think of as to why it wouldn't be liked. I'm sure some people were Karens though and didn't have any real reason

[@yumark5800]

My father is scared of them. I had a 1998 version of one growing up because duh, I was born 1996. He said one day he was walking down the hall at 3am and heard the furby talking to himself LOL. He has been scared of them since LOL. Today, I have 14 of them from different generations and even a Japanese speaking one 2005 version(was expensive 😳). That one is absolutely adorable haha. He had nightmares 🤣.

[@PWNDON]

@@yumark5800 bring them all over for halloween /joke

[@mystii8134]

Whenever my furby would change into the viking mode, I'd get my mum to change it back into the "princess mode", she'd shove it under a pillow and do a whole changing ritual which always worked

[@lamibonxd]

“to prevent furbies from hijacking planes” is one of the most insane ways to start a sentence

[@ImdefinitelynotCobaltion]

Why this like the top comment and there’s no replies

[@crispy_crunchies]

I got a peepy some months ago, and I'm pretty glad you included it in here. It's honestly a hilarious little guy, and when you get one it comes with its own mugshots and a small label-like thing where you can put their crimes and which prison they went to-

[@plushiepath]

that's so cool! peepy and itemlabel as a whole are amazing

[@cognizant3252]

@@plushiepath I own a peepy and a sucklet! I would literally kill for them. They have some really cool lore and a huge modding community, you should check them out!

[@nightlust]

HAH I knew they were prepping some stuff behind our back, THE NSA KNEW 😂

[@citrusune]

man I can't get my hands on one yet 😔😔I'm so sad

[@captain_cassidy]

hehe....my peepys crime will be burgling your hams >:)

[@mantiswizard2617]

People back then were terrified of all forms of electronics and kids entertainment because they didn't understand technology. People today are 100% fine with having home assistants, Ring doorbells, unsecured bluetooth cameras, and other devices that listen to and watch us because they still don't understand technology.

[@plushiepath]

yeah i feel like connivance and seeing a lot of people in different agegroups adopt stuff really makes people forget about safty. not all home assistance/cameras are bad, but it's a bit worrying how people demonize toys, but then don't think twice about smart devices.

[@EpicFurbynerd76YO]

Lil bro gets called a demon but mr spy the camera is completely ok

[@PhoenyxV]

Furbies are a weird thing for me, because I definitely had one as a child, but not because I *wanted* one. It was a gift and it was neat for like a month and then relegated to the back of my closet. But now as a fully grown adult I almost want one again. Mostly for the modification trend, making a custom furby sounds like a fun project.

[@plushiepath]

yes! i feel like a lot of people got them as presents when they were kids and either got bored or didn’t want them, but love them as adults. the modifications look so fun and are extremely unique! i completely get their appeal and honestly, i’ll probably make an oddbody one day haha please tell me how it went if you go through with it!

[@Sluggadome_Rotunda_Bernardson]

Omg same.

[@JossCade]

I got one on kijiji and skinned it + turned it into a long furby! It was well worth it my monstrosity is perfect. His name is Sock Johnson, he's a Pisces. Highly recommend going through the process of making one if you have a sewing machine. I bought some long furry pillows for fabric.

[@SpectacleSpark]

@@plushiepath I had one as a child, I loved them for a long while, still do even as an adult!

[@ClownieFace]

@@JossCade Ooh! I plan to get some faceplates and make a plush Furby named Beverage

[@Pushing_Daisies]

I don’t have to imagine hearing horrifying furby glitches at night, because that’s what happened to my furb when he was dropped on the ground in the middle of the night. I went to go grab some water and found him garbling like a demon

[@plushiepath]

OH NO that's extremly scary.

[@MrLauraq12]

This also happened to my sister. She was scared to even get near her Furby after that.

[@albatross4920]

I hope you locked it in a cage so it couldn't do any harm

[@petrichorbones]

i had a furby for years as a kid too and it lived in my closet when i wasn't playing with it and when it ran out of batteries it would wake up and make horrible sounds and it did that in the middle of the night the first time and it was definitely terrifying before i figured out what it was lmao sadly my cousin took a bat and smashed my poor childhood furby and the adults did nothing about it rip poor furby i still miss you

[@RachelScalfani]

This happened to me to, I dropped my Furby while taking them on a walk and he made weird noises and sounds then became a mute. Definitely acted possessed before never talking again.

[@Pushing_Daisies]

Finally, someone covering the wonderful world of Furbies. I am beyond happy

[@Bee8467]

Ikr

[@bejeweledwalrus]

29:24 that's my original long furb sales post!! Back then I had no idea how popular my furbs would be, I've honestly lost count of how many long bois I've made at this point. My favorite part of making them was seeing how happy they made their new owners. The furby fandom is honestly a really wholesome community and I really like being part of it!!

[@jackthesmoltangerine]

Hey, I’m a collector of furbies, and I wanted to get a Long Boi that still functions lol

[@icarusclark1653]

i went from being a furby hater to a full blown furby lover. i'm not really involved in the community, but i like to admire from afar. i have 13 furbies of my own currently and am working through customizing all of them :)

[@plushiepath]

that's amazing! and oh wow customizing all of them is a cool but also huge undertaking! my uttermost respect for that! do you follow any theme for all of them or will they have separate styles?

[@icarusclark1653]

@@plushiepath they all have separate styles! im excited to try out different techniques on them

[@plushiepath]

@@icarusclark1653 that's so cool!

[@CaptainSoftboy501]

Literally me!!! I hated them but now I own 6 furbies and even made my own long furby XDDD

[@illmikumikuyou3661]

Pls tell me you're only customising broken furbys or else you're wasting perfectly good furbys considering the 1998 ones are getting expensive

[@patientzero.]

when i was younger someone donated a furby to my after-school care and the kids there brutally took it apart. it would scream nonstop and absolutely horrified younger me, and knowing this the other kids would chase me around with it. i developed a phobia of furbies, but i actually really enjoyed this video, so thank you for giving me some nice things to associate with furbies :)

[@plushiepath]

i am so sorry 😞 that sounds awful. kids are sometimes really inconsiderate. i am happy the video helped a tiny bit 😊

[@patientzero.]

@@plushiepath it definitely helped! you make great content :))

[@biancaj2311]

I work in afterschool care and I believe the brutal ripping apart bit, it's weird how violent kids are with toys that aren't personally Thiers.

[@princeapoopoo5787]

I knew about the Furby presence on Tumblr, but I didn't realise how seriously they took it. I thought it was just a few "unhinged" people who really leaned into the Furbies being "scary", like the famous "Long Furby". I assumed that Furby customisation was a thing, but didn't realise how deep it goes! And I've *never* seen an anthro Furby before. Sooo cute. Edit: I take back every mean thing I have said about Furbies. I have changed my mind. I am now a part of the Furby hive mind.

[@plushiepath]

antrho furbies are the best! welcome to the hive mind :D

[@cheeseconnoisseur8192]

As an ItemLabel collector, I will add that ItemLabel is generally a novelist plush company. Their first product was actually sucklet, not peepy :)

[@plushiepath]

thank you! there stuff is extremely cool and i am sorry i misrepresented them a bit in the video!

[@kososka]

I wanted a Furby so bad as a kid. My parents never got me one and I'm still kinda mad about it.

[@Rockinashy]

my furby terrified the crap out of me but i miss it so much 💔

[@zebraloverbridget]

I think I got one but then it was thrown out without my knowledge not long after. Since I only briefly remember it and that was a thing my shit parents would do

[@isabellamorris7902]

Why not get one now? I've seen mini ones make really cute desk companions

[@Pushing_Daisies]

It’s never to late to acquire your first furby

[@shiorisakurag]

Same

[@maiapawley8757]

I'll admit, I was one of those people who only thought of furbies as something really creepy. But this video gave me a new perspective. They are pretty cute when you ignore the garbling in the middle of the night. Excellent video! I hope your channel continues to grow!

[@plushiepath]

thank you! and yes! i always liked them as a kid and then went through a short period where i thought the 2005 were a bit scary. but now i love all of them haha

[@MaryDan]

Furby was one of my first fandoms! Shout out to Bah-Zoo-Kah the all pink bubble blowing Furby for teaching me what a ‘seance’ is! ETA: OMG FURBY AUTOPSY!

[@plushiepath]

aww that's cool :D i think it's cool that hasbro makes the ouija board and includes references/occult topics in other toys too haha and yesss furby autopsy is a blast from the past haha

[@cinder6775]

As a parent and owner of a long furby, I approve this video

[@plushiepath]

thank you 🥺 (also pls say hi to your long furby from me!)

[@Pushing_Daisies]

Really curious about what your kids think about the long furby

[@cinder6775]

@@Pushing_Daisies the kids are the long furby

[@Pushing_Daisies]

@@cinder6775 understandable, have a nice day

[@maxiwaxipads]

@@cinder6775 would that make your spouse a long furby?

[@captaincaptain2674]

The fact you only have 7.7k subscribers is a crime. Your videos are so high quality it's crazy. Serious kudos, all your stuff is great. Cheers to the road to 1 mil!

[@plushiepath]

thank you so much 😊

[@gingerjessietalks7685]

This is the Furby equivalent of Jenny Nicholson's My Little Pony/Brony video. Well done! I am thoroughly educated.

[@plushiepath]

thank you so much 😊

[@pencilstreak9]

Wow! I was not expecting to see this on my timeline. I'm tarotfurbyandchill, as well as pur-ugliest from some of your screenshots. But I'm probably better known as Bumbleweed's mom. Thank you for covering our fandom with respect. Many of these videos devolve into bashfests on fans and controversy, and it's quite tiring. Though, I know I've been involved for too long when I would hear you say a certain fact and think "well, no, that's not how I remember it!!" I'm glad my fandom drama post was a helpful tool for this video, too. How strange it is to see such old posts of mine again! I've been relatively hands off in the fandom due to graduate school (I can now safely say from personal experience that, no, no furby fan over the age of 25 is normal!). But seeing this again actually drove me to tears. Furbies got me through a really difficult time in my life, and it was nice to take a trip down memory lane. If you ever want to hear the account of someone who lived and breathed furby fandom for a few years, I'd be happy to talk. Thanks again!

[@plushiepath]

Thank you so much for watching and writing the summary posts! (Those are amazing, and I also love your blogs, and furby family - they are all SO cute) I am really happy to read that I managed to be respectfuly! I was worried that some parts might come off wrong, but I truely love furbies and the fandom. (And I always feel weird about commentary videos that make fun of fandoms or things people like, so I am trying my best to not put stuff like that out.) Please correct me about anything (even the tiniest stuff) that I got wrong! I'd love to learn more :) Good luck with grad school! I am currently in a program too and it can be tough... I am so gald to hear that Furbies helped you a lot! I would love to talk to you more! I messaged you on reddit :)

[@isabellaprusse]

Hi I am 22 I am danish and I’m blind and have autism I think the community is great! However I never knew about all the drama because I’ve only been involved with the community through comments on KZbin also I hope the little dude is doing well!

[@yoodle.mp3]

My day was already rlly good- but you made it 100x better!!! also skinless furbies are terrifyingly funny and I love it

[@plushiepath]

thank you! 😊 and yes! they look so funny and cute haha

[@quechl2508]

i am. shocked on how new you are. i thought you were like. one of those people who've been in the business for years. absolutely excellent content. i look forward to more.

[@aFand0mCollect0r]

Same

[@plushiepath]

aww thank you!

[@strayiggytv]

Man the statement that there's "no normal furby fans over 25" is absolutely buck wild to me. I had an original furby as a child and am quite a bit over 25 years old. I'd wager a lot of furby fans are 90s kids too :/

[@asmrtpop2676]

Most Furby owners that were 90s are not “Furby fans”. We just had a Furby? Hence the statement lol.

[@strayiggytv]

@asmrtpop2676 I am a furby fan in her mid thirties and am by all accounts pretty normal lol. Me and the other classic collectors don't hang out on furby discord with kids or whatever but we're here. And just to be clear I had a furby in the 90s when I was a kid.

[@asmrtpop2676]

@@strayiggytvFandom is supposed to be abnormal lol, it’s not bad. I was normal about Furby, I wasn’t normal about Pokemon. Also cool life you’ve had!

[@azure-mist]

You know, I’ve always sort of absently wondered why it was neurodivergent LGBT+ people who seemed to naturally gravitate towards the Furby fandom. But your explanation about relating to how they were rejected and seen as “creepy”, when all they wanted was to be your friend, REALLY made it click into place.

[@ThungStudios]

the furby fandom discourse/drama is insane oh my god

[@sapphire26]

My friend had a furby and it's voice got super distorted which sounded super creepy, but also really funny. That and the long furby were my only experiences with them, so I had no clue how much went down in the fandom, and this video was super interesting! You did a great job!

[@plushiepath]

thank you! i feel like the glitches are super fun when you see them happening during the day or in a non scary setting, but when you are alone at night and you are not prepared for it, it can be scary!

[@dragonfruit5293]

I hope you know I was tripping balls when I watched this, and in the same day that I watched your video, I ordered 5 furbies. Thank you for unlocking a love for furbies I never knew I had. I'm excited to be a furby mother

[@mozzarellakrunccy5655]

I loved my 2005 furby. I’m dying to know what direction that voice actress was given

[@plushiepath]

now that you mention it... me too

[@pastelprincesss]

haven't started the video yet but judging by the length i can tell you've put alot of effort into it !! i can't wait to see you grow as a creator :)

[@plushiepath]

thank you 😊

[@uhoh2017]

21:39 😭😂 This is my partner in their fursuit and I'm the one who made the custom furby for them!! I'm dying, I didn't expect to see that at ALL. Great video!

[@plushiepath]

that's so cool! I love your custom Furby and your partner's fursuit is awesome!

[@Mango_Crochet]

Oh my gosh I can't believe I just watched a 1hour and 20 minute video about furbys and enjoined it. Keep doing what you do.

[@plushiepath]

thank you so much!

[@omppul]

28:22 HodgePodge!! I actually got my oddbody, Missy, from the same creator as a gift! Also it's hilarious (and sort of enraging) how the whole "possessed" and "swearing" furby controversy was way back in late 90s and early 2000s and still carries to this day hah

[@plushiepath]

hodgepodge is sooo cute! root's creations are amazing. yeah there have been a bunch of possesed furby videos even in the past 2 years alone. the one that (wrongly) used bumbleweed as an example of an abandoned furby was super recent haha

[@omppul]

@@plushiepath NOT BUMBLEWEED 😭😭😭

[@michaeldavis7767]

Didn’t realize I needed a furby deep dive in my life, but as a new favorite content creator of mine I’m here for it. Let’s go!

[@strawbrryblood]

23:19 this is one of my favorite things about the furby fandom. I used to make up backstories for all my toys with broken or missing parts. Dog chewed the hands off a barbie? She's an amputee. Eyes fall off a teddy bear? He's blind and this smaller dog plushie is his guide dog. Honestly I have more fond memories playing with my damaged toys as a child than my undamaged ones. I still love the feeling of finding neglected toys in thrift stores or on the side of the road, cleaning them up and repairing them.

[@zoeplayz8674]

I've had two furbies, a 2012 and a furby boom, and even though I liked them, I agree that the personality changes are really creepy. The diva and baby changing are 'particularly hard to watch: the diva visibly struggles not to change while the baby sounds completely terrified. It didn't scare younger me exactly, I mostly just felt bad for the poor thing. Also, this video has Undertale and Deltarune music in the background, which is awesome.

[@mims7649]

as someone who knew absolutely nothing about furbies besides witnessing their popularity when i was a kid, this video was incredibly fascinating! i was genuinely excited to get back home to watch the rest of this. i love little rabbit holes like this, it's so wonderful to see the kinds of wacky stuff you can find on the internet if you look in the right places :)

[@hildevandijk2066]

I have never owned a furby, but I always wished I did, they are so cute and weird and I had no idea there was such a big fandom surrounding these furballs. I was hoping someone would make a video like this and today you popped up in my recommendations! You did a great job, this video was so interesting and fun :) Subscribed, can't wait for more of your content

[@plushiepath]

thank you so much! 😊

[@mavohq]

love this video! way before the furby fandom became popular in 2019 me and my friends made furby videos on youtube in 2013-2014. i was 11-12 years old and was, as an undiagnosed autistic kid, a walking encyclopedia for furbies much to my parents’ dismay. i was also known as the weird furby kid at school and was ostracized and bullied harshly but thankfully i had an online community around the same age as me to back me. furbies weren’t that expensive to buy in bundles on ebay and at thrift stores back then so i had over 30 at my peak and would take the fur off of some of them and try to fix/mod them. i was able to obtain a kid cuisine furby a couple of years ago and it’s my pride and joy lol

[@plushiepath]

i am so sorry that you were bullied for liking furbies. it's so cool that you got a kc furby and that the community helped you! 😊

[@isabellaprusse]

You are far from the only autistic person in the community take me for instance I’ve only ever been involved with the community through watching their KZbin videos and commenting on them but I am autistic as well as being blind also as soon as I started watching the community on KZbin a bunch of my friends in my autism special class got interested because I tried to keep it a secret but one of my other friends named Martin walked in on me while watching community videos and he was like oh my god what is that and I told him and I thought he would keep quiet about it because I was afraid of being bullied but he started spreading the word and instead of being bullied I became one of the most popular kids in my class of only six send the word spread to the rest of my schools special Ed department and believe it or not I am sure every autistic individual in my hometown knows about the community fine now and we are all loving it! maybe not every individual in my hometown but at least all the guys in my class and the neighboring class room which is approximately 15 of us I don’t know if they spread the word to the rest of my schools special Ed department as well but I secretly hope they did! because this community is truly amazing! also I am sorry about the typos those are caused by my speech to text software which I use because I have trouble with manual typing

[@NormOttdeer]

I've never really considered myself a member of the Furby fandom, I've had a passing interest in some modified/long Furbies. Learning about how rich the history really is was pretty interesting. Great video!

[@atomiicos]

the furby community is personally one of my favourite communities that im a part of. in alot of other collector or enthusiast spaces, alot of people avoid or dislike broken stuff. I get alot of more negative comments about how i treasure broken or faulty toys in other communities, but the furby community is so much more accepting

[@TheThunderRabbit]

Now I need a bunch of Furbys so I can make a "demonic" Ritual like in Tattletail!😂

[@plushiepath]

YES!

[@GuardianOfMoon]

This was a fun listen. I was a high schooler who was terrified by her Furby still talking when the batteries were removed. This was also during the "Blair Witch is totally real" era, so let's not take chances with a talking toy with no batteries. I remember tossing it in a drawer in the dining room, where it probably still is 20 years later. Look forward to more content from you, subscribed. :)

[@BloodGuppy]

the entire long Furby thing reignited my love of Furbys that I had as a kid. My mom used to have a friend who got me into some of my interest in digital pet games and Furbys, which I still come back to to this day. This video brought back some memories at the mere mention of circuit bending. I used to watch videos about circuit bending toys for hours. I've always wanted to try it but 8 year old me wasn't allowed to play with Dad's soldering iron :(

[@radwalt3944]

I'm a pretty active member of the furby fandom and freaked when I saw you made a video on it. Your videos are so good!

[@plushiepath]

thank you so much! if i used any of your pictures (or of people you know), i'd love to credit them. someone pointed out in the comments that i should credit furby images - and i agree with them. (i just lost track of where i saved them from, but i will make a pinned comment with all the credits i wrote down tomorrowish)

[@Rockinashy]

i remember when my friend and i got furbies for christmas and they would sit and talk to each other and it freaked us out even tho it was supposed to do that 😭 also it would constantly turn on in the middle of the night so i shoved it in a drawer. it would wake me up and i would legit just cry in my bed because i would be too scared to get up

[@plushiepath]

oh no. i get how it can be scary. i put mine in the living room at night because of that! the communication feature really made them feel alive. i saw a post that discussed how even now people sometimes think that the original furbies were extremely advanced or had some elaborate AI because of the way they reacted to each other. but it was just clever signal processing.

[@Rockinashy]

@@plushiepath for sure! i just watched too many scary furby videos when i was a kid lol. but yeah, i think i got so scared from our furbies talking to each other because they would learn each other’s names and would talk about each other when they werent together. even though it’s just doing what its supposed to, i got it in my head that furbies were obviously possessed!

[@strawberry641]

OK YO i havent watched the entire video yet bc my friend sent me a link to this to the timestamp where you're talking about the furby cake at the end, but UH YEAH HI thats my post! im onemillionfurries/furbies! sent that bit of the video to my mom too, she didnt know the cake went so viral lmao its rly cool to see the cake still being shared around even 3 years later, and thanks for having it as a positive endnote on the video :] i rly hope it continues to bring joy and laughter to others 💜 edit: only 30 mins in now and my GOD i remember basically every single furby u talked about in the longfurby/oddbody section. one TINY correction/nitpick i wanna make: stuffed furbies arent furbies that just have a bit of extra padding put in them, they are furbies with their robotic parts completely removed and replaced with stuffing

[@plushiepath]

your cake was amazing (and your mum is amazing too!) i loved the cake so much (especially the candle picture) that i had to include it - it's so perfect! thank you (and your mom) for making and positing it! ❤️ also, thanks for pointing the stuffing practice out! honestly, that explains a lot!

[@MrMarxy]

Ever since I was a child I loved furby! My older sister owned a special edition racetrack furby and I owned several babies and a halloween witch furby myself!

[@plushiepath]

omg the halloween witch furby is amazing!

[@marianasobrenome3316]

The "i will slam you on the table" comment lives rent free in my head

[@plushiepath]

i think about it almost every day.

[@Rattline]

This video astral-projected me back to being in sixth grade and really wanting a furby but I was scared to ask my parents for one, so I asked Santa for one and never told them I put it on my santa list 😭 Santa did not pull through :(

[@raptorfurby1169]

Love the video but as a furby customiser myself it is a bit of a shame most of the customs in the video are posted without credit which is a little disheartening since people reposting images of what is a form of art without credit is one of the most frustrating things that happens because people don’t tend to consider the amount of work that goes into them! Also I feel like you’re missing a huge part of the fandom! After the tumblr fandom died down a little 2018-2021 saw a huge fandom boom on Instagram! The Furby fandom was huge on Insta and had a lot of drama and trends etc. there was a lot of development especially for the customisation side of the fandom!💖 but I do get that it’s harder to research fandom history on Insta than tumblr!

[@plushiepath]

you are completely right, and i am so sorry. i sadly lost track of a lot of image credits, but i'll add a pinned comment with credits from my notes and as i collect them via comments! also thanks for pointing out the insta fandom! all the accounts i followed were either more oddbody focused or stopped posting. i focused a bit too much on tumblr, but i'll check out the rest of the community!

[@raptorfurby1169]

@@plushiepath thank you so much for your response! As I said it’s honestly pretty impossible to track timelines of trends on Insta so I totally get why it wasn’t really talked about 💖 thank you for your understanding with the credit! It’s nice to a see a creator understand where we’re coming from since most people don’t really bother or care. :] 💖

[@Deismir]

This video has confirmed it for me. I love furbies. I'm scared of the fandom. I'm scared of the haters. My wife is confused why I'm suddenly obsessed with furbies.

[@nannecakes]

super in depth and i can tell you put a lot of time into researching this!!! i grew up adoring furbies so it was fun to learn so much more about them. wish i kept my 2005 furby bc he’s be worth a mint today 😭

[@pinkiepie1]

I'm quite involved in the furby community (on tumblr) and i actually recognised some of the furbies showcased

[@lane6216]

Furbies were a cool part of my children’s childhoods. My oldest, 21 now, had two. My twins, 13 now, had two as well. By the time my twins got them, you could feed them and care for them using an iPad. Loved that feature. The first re-released Furby my oldest got, glitched out and turned mean. It was some sort of common problem, apparently. We sent them a form, and customer service helped us send his back, and he got a new one. Done through ToysRUs at the time. I just remember how the guy treated my child, who was maybe 6 at the time. He spoke mostly to him over the phone. My son, who was very mature always, just loved that and never forgot that interaction. My nephews will be getting my twins’ old ones for their birthdays soon. We believe ever child should have a Furby. Sorry for running on….this brought back good things for me. 😌

[@lemoniieeee]

I almost thought this was a izzzyzzz video from the thumbnail

[@aspennntree]

an hour and 30 minute video on furbies is exactly what i need to watch instead of studying

[@faithhopkins5856]

Those audio clips you played of a 2005 furby glitching just re-traumatized me hahaha. I woke up multiple nights to those sounds and to the "I can see you" and "feed me!" and a high pitched "WAAAAA" (like a baby crying.) I ended up begging my mom to let me keep it on the couch at night instead of my room. She said no and just thought I was playing with it in bed when I wasn't supposed to, so I buried it in the bottom of my toybox. Next time I looked for it, it was gone. I've never seen it again. To this day my mom says she doesn't know what happened, but I think she got spooked and got rid of it when I was at school one day

[@DoomyGloomy]

If furbies come back I want to see an emphasis on the animal cuteness and less on the electronic dullness.

[@dandelionsoup9678]

Today I bought a 50 quid furby out of a charity shop. It’s a 2005 grey one that’s a bit scruffy and the beak’s a little worn, but the battery spring things are completely corroded (someone clearly left a battery in there, it’s battery acid corrosion) and I suspect it’s made it’s way into the circuitry. He probably won’t ever work (I’ll still try to restore him at some point) but I love him nonetheless. Best purchase I’ve ever made and I named him Pedro :)

[@Jackamo6200]

Wow I am so excited for a new video from you! I find your voice so comforting and calming, so I’m glad you’ve posted another video!

[@plushiepath]

thank you so much! ❤️ this one took a bit longer to make than i expected haha

[@Jackamo6200]

@@plushiepath I’m sure it’s worth the wait! :)

[@dylanking7403]

My grandmother got all the grandkids (me, my brother, and my 2 cousins) furbies for Christmas the year they debuted and was so proud of herself for having bought them before stores were sold out. I don’t think any of us had even heard of them but rather enjoyed it. This video was so fun and made me long for a furby friend ❤

[@Siahnette]

My parents were extremely against any battery operated toy when I was a child (game boy included sadly) and I was SO stoked when I got a Furby on Christmas Day. Little did I know that the poor thing would be banned from the house and had to stay permanently at my grandparents' place, they hated it so much 😆 Also anyone else remembers having to lock it inside a cupboard to finally get it to shut up, only to be greated by a joyous "C'est la fête!" ("Party time", yeah french girl over here) when you randomly open the door again ?

[@plushiepath]

OH NO. i am so sorry. i wish they'd let you keep it at home. (but it's cool that your grandpa gave it a new home!) my mum was paranoid about batteries leaking so she never allowed me to put my furby on my bed or near food. mine was stashed away in the living room at night so it wouldn't wake anyone up haha but i've heard a lot of people say that their furbies were dorment up until they opened their closets/cupboards months later!

[@thesneppurd]

What a good documentary! I mainly collect fake furbys and they definitely feel very unique in their own imperfections. Hope this gets the recognition it deserved in the community! Also the hoody pet at 49:19 is mine so I was thrilled to see him.

[@plushiepath]

your hoody pet is soooo cute! and thank you so much! i hope it's ok that i used your images - i'll pin a credit comment tomorrowish

[@isabellaprusse]

Remember me? I believe I am subscribe to your channel and we were talking during the comment section on one of your videos!

[@GoldenPerception]

I have a friend who made a ton of long furbies for commissions, as well as one in a very elaborate Lolita style dress. I forever associate long furbies, or furbies in general, with this friend. EDIT: You showed her Etsy page at 42:27 😅

[@jujuoof174]

I like how I IMMIDIATLY spotted Sans' mhsic even this low in the loud medium, WOW

[@TheEerieMaster]

I had no clue there was a whole furby community 💞 furdsonas sound so cool... But naturally, when there is something bright, colorful and wholesome, people try to ruin it or make it look bad cuz it's different... I say that no matter what you're going through, you have a right to express and vent that in your own way💞

[@plushiepath]

couldn’t agree more. i wish people wouldn’t judge others for expressing themselves 🥲 as long as you’re not hurting anyone and happy, you should be able to do whatever you want! fursuits are honestly so fascinating and super intricate.

[@SpookyDeerArt]

not *quite* a creepypasta, but right when you said "low voices" my phone randomly lowered the volume. considering you were talking about glitches at the time, it's pretty funny.

[@plushiepath]

that's really spooky! (and cool!)

[@jayflamestar]

its really a shame your channel's so small, your videos are really good to listen to in the background!

[@plushiepath]

thank you so much!

[@zakucat1894]

Despite this already being a behemoth of a video, i'm surprised the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Furby parody episode was never mentioned

[@saylormoon8608]

I've been into furby for years and this is so cool to have a deep dive into them like this, I do still want one really bad tbh, maybe a damaged one would be easier to get

[@plushiepath]

some people in the comments mentioned that goodwill online is great for finding them for a good price! also some ebay sellers or furby discords are good places to find them. i felt like etsy is a bit on the expensive site but they have good deals too sometimes!

[@DeathbyProxy]

I remember my little sister had furbies, there was one that she wasn't fond of though and ended up giving him to me. He was weird, an official product but looked more like a knock off. He was like a furbling in size, maybe a little bigger, but he had a beak like a duck and wings instead of ears. I think they were called "rocker furbies" or something. Anyway I named him Way-Tah and drew him a lot and would make him sing along to Call Me Maybe

[@AnvilApricot]

I really wish we kept one of my family's childhood furbs. My aesthetic is super creepy friendly and i'd love to make a furby hand spider or something

[@Elijah_Kujo]

I love the more modern furbies cuz I grew up with them, but I'm so sad that so many of the toys from those years are stuck to apps that devs can just decide to stop updating

[@plushiepath]

i agree. i think connective toys or apps are cool but i wish some toys like furbies would still be offline haha

[@jadenr_11]

I’m so glad you uploaded about furbys this is exactly what I wanted

[@plushiepath]

i am glad! thank you so much

[@jadenr_11]

Your welcome :)

[@jellohshots1911]

I swear to god. I had a all white furby that said “ be scared leave town” as a kid. There was a handful of employees that would record messages in the furbies. As a kid I was scared of them because of that. But as an adult I’d give it a second try. Wish I still had that one.

[@plushiepath]

oh no that sounds horrible. i’d be scared too 😭 if you follow auctions/the fandom, there’s some good deals sometimes

[@Rexdrinksredbull]

The community labeling certain Furby glitches or malfuctions as disabilites or chronic illnesses such as MSA and blindness is really interesting to me - I imagine a not insignificant portion of the Furby community have disabilites and chronic illnesses similar to some Furby malfunctions, and maybe having a Furby that has one of those traits and showing it love and care helps those struggling, and helps them realize that they themselves are deserving of care and love.

[@Pixelodyloid]

Was very glad to see the notification ^^. Really well done. I found it a very interesting watch to make my time working on songs better. I actually kind of made a outro tune for you. It was a nice little composition.

[@plushiepath]

thank you so much! i'd love to hear the song! your stuff sounds so cool!

[@skorupiis9980]

Ok, this video fully got me into the furby fandom. My first furby just arrived today!!! :)

[@YvngKrishna]

This video is whats making me buy a furby to customize, i have a love for making gorey, horror based or otherwise unnerving art but making things from scratch can be hell alot of the time. These guys would be perfect as a start! I plan on making one based on the film youre next once i get my hands on one

[@DrKoneko]

One day I want to make a video on the tech inside furbies. I get why they have IR but it's still creepy when it turns off TVs and stuff. And one of the most unexplainably creepy things about furbies is when they pick up radio signals. That is really freaky to me.

[@plushiepath]

that would be cool! i like how creative the inventors got with their limitations

[@kaijufurby]

My first ever furby i got back in late 2018. A mute frog furby which i named FootLettuce. I saw how people were customizing them and giving them personalities and wanted to get into it! Now it's 2022 and I have 75 including 2 long body ones ^w^

[@firefliesinajar_]

as a furby collector, this video was very cool i know a lot about furby, but learning more about my fandom is very interesting and fun :)

[@themoonlitfurbling7104]

The most ironic thing about this whole video is that most of the furby drama had something to do with Discord in it. Typical Discord tbh. Besides that I love this video, it shows the positives and negatives of the fandom even though in my POV the fandom has definitely healed from the drama and I don't see any popping up recently!

[@plushiepath]

thank you so much! i feel like discord amplifies stuff a lot because people post stuff quickly and very reactionary (like on twitter).so a very small thing can be super public quickly

[@LilyLewis771]

So excited about this. I never had these as a kid so I’ve always been creeped out by them, not surprised there’s some drama there!

[@atmosphericentry0]

The thought of a Furby reciting an Italian opera song is so fucking funny to me

[@chaotic.content]

owning a furby was one of the most exciting thing to happen to me as a child. I vividly remember the excitement of wanting one and anticipating getting one, and I even used to draw them all the time. I even tried to learn Furbish. ahh good times also your accent is really cute

[@plushiepath]

that's so sweet and learning furbish was so much fun! as a kid i thought furbies were pets so whenever i saw one i reacted like i just saw the cutest dog/cat thank you so much!

[@skidmarkz_]

i keep coming back to this video when my furbish needs arise- just wish there was more content for you to go over so i could have more to watch!!!

[@PrincessOfPink]

Woahhhhh only 7k subs? Your content is worth so much more then that! Your editing style is awesome and I can tell there must have been so much research too with the length of the video!!! Totally underrated! 💕

[@plushiepath]

thank you ❤️

[@commentpal101]

This was an awesome video summary of a bigger topic than I would have thought! When you mentioned the furby with the rubber mouth, I realized, "Hey, I think I still have one of those!" and went to dig in the old cardboard boxes in my closet to go find her. Within the timespan of the rest of the video, I found her, one of those little plastic ones from Burger King, and a furby that looks more like the originals with a trademark year of 1999 on it. I remembered the kids meal toy one already, but I'd totally forgotten I have two robotic ones! Now I'm tempted to clean them up and see what I can do with them. ^u^ I mean, I'm a little scared to fully mod them or anything, but a not-deteriorated mouth for the one would be nice. lol

[@lord_alex12]

I have a specific appreciation for Furbies with human medical conditions as I am the proud parent of a long Furby with autism & scoliosis who I love more than life itself

[@jrightly]

for a new content creator you do a heckuva job editing. looking forward to more from you!

[@lovezozo13]

love that you're talking about furbies!! i was a huge furby lover as a kid. my friend and i really saw them as our babies and (i'll admit its weird but) we made a series of videos pretending to be in one of those teen pregnancy tlc type shows but with furby babies 😳 to be fair it was a lot of fun!

[@plushiepath]

awww that's so cute! i think it's creative and honestly, a show about teen pregnancy sounds fantastic. i'd watch it!

[@whatever9097]

I kinda love that some Furbies just wake up and immediately going “me sleep again” and go back to sleep. That’s hilarious.

[@hawktalon7890]

I mean....me too tbh.

[@vaimantobe3034]

Great video! I came in having little knowledge of furbies or any kind of fandom. And I left entertained and informed. It's always fun to see someone talk with that much passion for a subject. Btw, before this I had mostly heard of current furby trends by Matt Rose, a guy who does voiceovers and because of his furby horror story readings also various extents of ehm... modifications (he made a long furby. But he also made furby risotto once. It was a fan's request).

[@Lurr91]

My grandma loved my Furby, its "weee" sounds made her laugh lol

[@plushiepath]

that's so sweet! mine thought it was funny and told me to look after it better when it was loud haha

[@mc.gemstone]

I never expect the drama like that in the furby community on tumblr. But overall learning the history of how things came to be was really interesting and would love to own a furby one day.

[@circusyeet4118]

I used to have two furbies at my grandma's house. I would feed them, pet them, talk to them and tickle them. I think one of them died or broke while the other one's batteries died. The second furby also woke up in the middle of the night complaining about the dark and then it never spoke again afaik. tbh I miss the old furbies. I think "sentient toys" or "toy pets" are very interesting and cool. I love when electronics have personalities attached.

[@plushiepath]

i am sorry your furbies died. But yes! Toys that are sentient and have personalities are extremely cool. I wish they'd make more of them.

[@tootyfrooty3072]

22:30 THAT'S MY FURBY! I made that tumblr post! I nearly screamed when i saw my post in the video omg

[@MedioPlague]

Lol I was not expecting to See Peepy in the thumbnail! I have a bunch of stuff from itemLabel

[@sublimespices]

im one of the original mods of a discord server centered around oddbody furbys!! we love them lots and while the community isnt nearly as active anymore, its still a nice server that i can hang out with my fellow mod friends in. im good friends with several furby creators and have some handmade furby related creations from them as well!