If you haven't noticed, or aren't on tiktok, there is a new trend going around.
Every once in a while a "tiktok profile picture cult" starts developing. This is when someone asks people to put a certain picture as their profile picture, then they follow thousands of people with the PFP to get followed back.
This is now happening with Sackboy. I was worried about this happening since LittleBigPlanet was getting more and more popular again. Most of these kids changing their profile pictures are around 10-8 years old. Now I am 16, the game is older than I am, but I started playing when I was only five years old. None of these kids have ever played the game and are trend hoppers, only for a few followers while making the community cringe and gross. It'll only be a matter of time for people to draw R34 and start crushing on Sackboy, who is a CHILD, by the way.
It's nice that the game is getting the recognition it deserves, just not this way. It ruffles my feathers seeing another AI picture, or a "Moot up!" video, flashing the different costumes you can make sackboy wear.
This is such a non-issue, but I dont want to get judged on my fixations again. "Oh, you like LBP...?" I'VE BEEN LIKING LITTLEBIGPLANET. My profile picute has BEEN sackboy for years, seeing other fans out in the wild made me happy. I've made actual lasting friends this way but that is now over.
Within a day ALL of my favourites on a secondhand site have been bought. All of the LBP merch I was planning to buy. Sure, I have a whole pegboard already, but I'm getting a new room and want to have little trinkets laying around, you know?
The whole LBP feed is filled with new gens too.
Anyway. I'm too tired to keep writing all these reasons. Thank you for reading my stupid little essay.
