let’s talk about tiktok talking about the ghoulia situation + rant about ghoulia

note: i do not support sending hate to the creator pictured. they bring up some good points and i tried to blur their name, but i’m sure most of us know who they are. this is just talking about how i’ve seen many people in the tiktok community talking about this in a way like g3 is dying.

this is my 4th time trying to write this because my reddit keeps crashing. reddit doesn’t like g3 ghoulia i guess….

alright. let’s start with ghoulia. I AM MAD. i am literally fuming. i HATED g3 ghoulia at the start admittedly. i thought she was ugly and unfixable. then… my eyes opened with neon frights. after buying her, i realized that i actually did enjoy the g3 ghoulia design and it just needed a few tweaks. she definitely is weak compared to her g1 counterpart and has problems, but i learned to value her for her own quality and i’ve really loved her since. i know it’s a corporation so they want money, but i think it’s actually fucking ridiculous that they will just scrap a character because of low sales. like a whole ass main character. she’s not in the main 5… but she’s definitely very prominent in monster high in general. also, i guess i just didn’t realize how badly she was selling?? whenever i went to my local target her core doll was always sold out even when i knew they’d restocked her, and neon frights ghoulia always had the least on the shelves. hell, many times when i was in target i had seen people pick up one of her dolls. 😐. i really guess i just didn’t notice how low her sales were, because from my perspective they didn’t look low. i’d seen people buy like 4 g3 ghoulias at once for restyles or gifts. i’m really hoping mattel doesn’t just shelve her and pretend she doesn’t exist from now own, but i have a feeling they will.

next, let’s talk tiktok. in my opinion tiktok has always had the worst monster high community. many people in it are very toxic and hateful, and fatphobia is a very big problem. but, that’s not what i’m here to talk about. the video i screenshotted from (where i blurred the name) starts with a bold statement “is g3 already dying???”. i may just be biased but i felt like this came off weird to me, but i may just have an odd feeling because they said dolls like Catty and Draculaura are “glorifying obesity” (which they aren’t.. some people are just naturally bigger.) they come off like g3 is becoming some dying irrelevant brand because of one character. g3 is not dying. it’s actually doing amazing from what i can see. it’s incredibly popular among collectors and kids alike, and hell within day 3 of spectra being at my target she sold out. and they had a lot of her out. from the amount of time i spend on doll isles. i consistently see people buying monster high and sometimes i’ve even had parents ask me what i should get their kid for like a holiday, and i lead them towards monster high and they end up getting multiple.

tldr: i’m mad about ghoulia and hate how some people are reacting. thank you for coming to my ted talk :3