Plush toys have long been seen as children’s toys, but recently, from Ikea Shark, To Star lulu and Lulabelle, and jelly cat, the latest fuddlewudjellycat, have become popular on social media. Adults are even more enthusiastic about plush toys than children. In Dougan’s “Plush Toys Also Have Life” group, some people take the dolls with them to eat, live and travel, some adopt abandoned dolls, and some restore them to give them a second life. Visible, the reason of fanaticism is not in the toy itself, in their eyes, plush toys also have life, but also given the same emotion as people.
Why are these adults obsessed with plush toys? There’s a scientific explanation: Psychologists call plush toys “transition objects,” an important part of a child’s development. As children grow up, their dependence on plush toys will not decrease, but increase. The study also showed that the association between this group and the comfort toy could still help these people better adjust to life even after they grow up.
Emotional attachment to and personification of plush toys is not a new phenomenon, and you can trace your own childhood experiences more or less to similar experiences. But now, thanks to the rallying effect of the Internet community, anthropomorphic plush toys have become a culture, and the recent explosion of plush toys such as Lulabelle suggests there may be more to it than that.
Plush toys, most of which have lovely shapes and fuzzy hands, are in line with the current popular “cute culture” attributes. “Keeping” stuffed animals has the same natural healing effects as keeping pets. However, compared with the level of appearance, the emotion behind the plush toy is more precious. Under the fast pace and high pressure of modern society, emotional relationship has become extremely fragile. With the prevalence of “social disorder”, basic social communication has become a barrier, and it becomes very difficult to place emotional trust on others. In this case, people have to find more emotional comfort outlet.
The same is true for the paper people who are highly sought after in the two-dimensional culture. Unable to accept the imperfect and insecure emotional relationship in reality, many people choose to put their feelings on the paper people who are always perfect. After all, in paper people, emotions become something you can control, as long as you want, the relationship will always be stable and secure, and the security is guaranteed. The relationship seemed more secure when it was attached to a plush toy that could be seen and touched than when it was a piece of paper that could not be touched. While plush toys are often subject to natural damage over time, they can still extend the life of emotional carriers through constant repair.
Plush toys can help adults return to childhood and create a fairy-tale world in reality. There’s no need to be surprised or surprised that adults who think a stuffed animal is alive, but it’s a cure for loneliness.
Post time: Jun-09-2022