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glimse ,

This isn’t a TIL post

ohmyiv ,
@ohmyiv@lemmy.world avatar

*Today you learned that random Chinese companies on Amazon sell fidget guns.

Congrats, you have now learned that cheap manufacturers will market anything in anyway that they can to make money.

Glytch ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d0b3a71c-d958-4026-bc38-f1f069eec569.jpeg

Aw he looks so… happy? Excited? Frightened? Hungry?

Nikki , (edited )
@Nikki@lemmy.world avatar

transgender fidget gun toys what a time to be alive

post is gone now but for anyone on my profile i was commenting on the colors of the toy guns being pink blue and white lol

HEXN3T ,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Amazon has fidget toy guns. You can buy them (almost) anywhere.

dual_sport_dork ,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

We know?

Toy guns have existed basically as long as guns have. I’ll blow your mind by further pointing out that so have toy swords and toy bows and arrows.

All of us grew up with cap guns as kids. Or suction cup dart guns, or airsoft guns, or those little plastic disk shooter guns, or battery powered M16’s with a little light bulb in the muzzle that went rat-a-tat-tat-tat through a tinny little speaker when you held down the trigger. When I was a kid, one friend of mine had a battery powered minigun like Arnold had in the Predator movie, and in addition to mock gunfire noises it would spin all the barrels and it had a motorized knocker in it that simulated recoil. For an eight year old kid, it was the best thing ever short if something that fired an actual projectile.

Varyk OP ,

Nah, those are all pretty common, not wowing the way you assumed.

Sound fun though.

peopleproblems ,

My parents didn’t let my brother or I have nerf guns or the good 90s super soakers.

As an adult with my own son, I can confirm we enjoy some nerf guns, but those are pretty meh compared to the non-nerf-brand Darth blasters they have now.

We got 10 shot semi-auto blasters, we got 6-shot pull back revolvers, a giant ass automatic yellow machine gun, we got two fully automatic (and loud as fuck) 20 dart blaster rifle things, and he got a fully automatic mini gun dart blaster from Santa.

My ex hates nerf blasters with a passion, and I still haven’t gotten those back at my place yet

smokin_shinobi ,

Jesse Ventura had the mini-gun in Predator. Ol’ Painless.

dual_sport_dork ,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

You’re right. I had him mixed up with Arnold using the minigun in Terminator 2.

Miarolitic ,

I’d say toy guns are different. There’s active intent and imaginative play.

A fidget toy is supposed to be something that we use unconsciously to help us focus on other stuff.

It’s odd, to me, that one can squeeze a trigger as a fidget.

I’m someone who needs fidgets so I imagine the action and feedback is satisfying. But I’m uncomfortable with the idea of unconsciously squeezing a trigger.

I also live in a country where guns are not common which probably influences my perspective.

Filibuster_Rhymes ,

As an American who had every kind of toy gun growing up, this ad still rubbed me the wrong way, and I wasn’t sure why until I read your comment. I think realistically, this is just a toy gun maker that has slightly modified their product so they can use the word “fidget” for marketing. Can’t say I blame them, but it’s still weird and a little too subliminal.

masquenox ,

Good thing the people in the ad is white… if they weren’t they would have been shot before the ad team could take the photo.

Voyajer ,
@Voyajer@lemmy.world avatar

America

*39 reviews

elliot_crane ,

What’s in the box

  • NO

Seems like a quality product to me.

Varyk OP , (edited )

What’s in the box NO is probably my favorite item description ever though.

Company description is pretty gold, too.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/380d9474-fa01-426a-9b14-46da084ea111.png

sexy_peach ,
@sexy_peach@feddit.org avatar

Wanted to buy it in pink after seeing this post but it seems to be bad quality. Looks nice in the renders though.

Varyk OP ,

Any time the company name is a random mix of consonants and vowels, quality suffers

delirious_owl ,
@delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

Isn’t that just random letters?

Varyk OP ,

Yes!

amio ,

What a weird overtone of moral outrage this has, considering your comments. But admittedly, the user reviews are fucking gold as a non-American.

notnotmike , (edited )
@notnotmike@programming.dev avatar

Also how is this being exclusively associated with the US?

I mean I get it, we like guns and this is the US version of Amazon, but it’s not like we have these toys in every household. And it’s not like other countries don’t have guns present in their culture (video games, movies, etc.).

They are most likely produced in China and are definitely going to be uncommon.

It’s like making a post “the US has 80-gallon drums of lube no joke”. It just feels like rage bait with an anti-US agenda

Edit: Got home and did the most rudimentary search on the U.K., France, and Swedish version of Amazon. An identical or closely similar product is available on all of them.

Anyolduser ,

“Rage bait with an anti-US agenda” describes a lot of shit on Lemmy.

amio ,

Who'd'a thunk a bunch of angry (self-styled-)commie trolls who got punted off Reddit and decided to make their own, with Marxist blackjack and Marxister hookers, would eventually deteriorate into this shit.

Varyk OP , (edited )

If you’re looking at it morally, I think I understand your confusion.

This isn’t so much a comment on the moral horror(that does fundamentally exist) as it is utter shock at the reckless marketing of pretty toy guns that children will like in a country with such a horrifying real problem of children and adults shooting each other.

All this gun does is make you comfortable pulling a trigger.

It’s entirely absurd to market cute toy guns as anxiety relievers to the children living in the worst gun violence circumstances in the world, where they are literally a constant risk of being shot in a supermarket or library or school.

It’s the height of practical insanity and cultural irresponsibility that these are being sold.

amio ,

Yeah, I'm sure these toy guns are the real reasons shooting sprees are routine in the US

Varyk OP ,

Eh, doubt it.

Interesting take, though, I’m sure they don’t help.

randomdeadguy ,

Relieve anxiety or Re-live anxiety?

Varyk OP ,

Solid catch.

For you?

Depends on how you became a random dead guy, I guess.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Paper cap guns represent

Varyk OP ,

Cap guns pop pop

Sparkles ,
@Sparkles@fedia.io avatar

I ordered a box of fidgets for my kids and it came with like a fidget switchblade.

Varyk OP ,

Insane

www.amazon.com/…/B0CM64XX54

Insane

ryven ,
@ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Much safer than fidgeting with your actual switchblade, which is extremely tempting, lmao.

dual_sport_dork ,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

I’mna go ahead and drop the following two shameless plugs for some of my own content at this juncture.

The first one is this.

The second one is this.

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delirious_owl ,
@delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

Thank you for your order! Please enjoy these fidget matches as our free gift.

Please leave a 5-star review, and well send a free bottle of fidget gasoline!

Evotech ,

That terrible Photoshop job lol

Varyk OP ,

Haha yea it’s the best, I couldn’t not use it.

But the fidget guns are real.

That’s why I linked the Amazon thing too.

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