2025-12-15
26 分钟This is The Guardian.
Hi it's Lucy Hoff here just to let you know that this edition of Today in Focus was recorded before the shocking terrorist attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach but we will be bringing you the latest on this in our afternoon edition and you can of course read live updates at The Guardian online throughout the day.
Today, how East Asian culture conquered modern childhood.
You guys look fantastic.
I look like a floating head in the darkness, which is what I am right now, actually.
It's atmospheric.
Yeah.
All right.
I think we're good.
I think we're good.
Let's go ahead and Jeff Yang is a journalist and the author of a pop history of Asian America.
He's in Hong Kong when we speak on video call and he is a foremost expert on the region.
So naturally, my first question is about one of the most inescapable trends of 2025.
Can you start by telling me about labubus?
Of course.
The Labooboo.
We call her Labooboo.
All my friends are like Labooboo.
The soft-bodied vinyl-faced fluffball taking the market by...
Labooboos are these odd-shaped troll doll type creatures.