Are Furbies Creepy?

[Cognisant]

Apparently this is a thing and I just don't get it, surely it's not human enough to provoke an uncanny valley response?

Maybe its the overly wide eyes, an expression indicative of excitation, agitation or shock.

I dunno you tell me.

 

[Lazy Vulpes]

Its a thing?

Idk, I think people are just being lame tbh.

Edit: let me try and elaborate on that. Furbies are cute, therefor they are creepy. Very funny joke, ha ha...

 

[nanook]

it's like those banana figures with only one eye.

there is an area in the brain that specialized on perceiving eyes and teeth and in demented people it happens that this area becomes more active, than other areas that perceive other areas of the face. this leads to hallucinations or subjective perceptions of enlarged eyes and teeth, sort of. that brain area is also the source of a lot of spiritual art. in buddhist art you will find a lot of entities that look like that.

 

[RaBind]

Eye balls are creepy and their unnatural exposure is uncanny if not just as creepy.

Spoiler

 

[Lot]

I only found them creepy, because of the creepy stories I heard about them as kids. My parent's wouldn't get us one, because they could have demons. Kids would tell stories about them doing stuff without batteries and that sort of thing. It probably goes back to the same thing that made dolls creepy to older generations. Same kinds of stories.

 

[Teffnology]

Yes I had a few friends growing up who claimed they had a possessed Furbie. Those were also the same kids that taught it cruse words and tried to corrupt the doll. I had no sympathy for them.

 

[Kuu]

Seriously Cog? This is like.. 15 years old.

Furbies were creepy because they had no off switch, and it was nigh-impossible to get them to sleep, so they made random noises in the middle of the night. Removing the batteries was complicated too. A friend who had one needed to stuff it in a drawer drowned with blankets to stop it from waking up with any street noise and scaring the shit out of him.

Besides they had terrible jerky movements and noisy actuators, and the fact that they "talked". Non. Stop.

Cute: 0% Creepy: 100%

Like an infernal cross between Chucky, Gremlins and the terminator.

 

[TheScornedReflex]

My little sister had a furbie for all of five minutes before it was introduced to curb and stomp. I mean I tripped.

I still despise those annoying fuckers to this day.

*Edit: Not creepy and definitely not cute. We should totally have a witch hunt on them though. Just to be sure the devil isn't inside them.

 

[Nanith Omicron]

Those things aren't creepy.
From my perspective, those glorious novelties shall be adored by mankind and should become our sole and unique master. Thou marvellous gaze shall conquere thy sinners.


Joke Aside, they're intensely creepy. I even wonder why they're created.

 

[Alias]

I just found them annoying as a kid. I think I once worked with my neighbor to beat one of his brother's Furbies to death. I forgot, but I think we used a metal baseball bat. They aren't creepy so much as deathly loud and obnoxious. Maybe they're creepier at night.

 

[Yellow]

I was on the fence about their creepiness until I saw one without the fur.

 

[Hadoblado]

My only exposure to them is without the batteries, and I find them way the fuck creepster. Something about how they try to emulate cuteness in a cold calculated way (see pic above).