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How did you discover bjds?

Aug 4, 2020

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    1. Nicoles dreams faceup stories.
       
      #181 Elliobjd, Mar 27, 2022
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    2. A friend of mine found them on accident while looking up antique bisque dolls (I think for a school paper?), and then they showed them to me. Looking back I now know that what we'd found was a doll eye website (either a custom shop or some kind of gallery), but I became mildly obsessed and had to find out what they were.
       
      #182 BlackSheep, Mar 29, 2022
    3. I'm honestly not sure, this was over 15 years ago. Somebody probably posted a picture on Livejournal or a forum, and I had to learn more. Knowing me, it's also very possible that I was researching an anime on Google and came across a BJD altered to look like a certain character.
       
      #183 elvenmoon, Mar 29, 2022
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    4. Stumbling down a Flickr rabbit hole about Lego. Someone had pics of a bjd or had favourited some pics of a bjd and I was like :aeyepop:
       
      #184 Errantry, Mar 29, 2022
    5. Hmm, it's a little bit hard to remember now since it was when I was in middle school ^^', I think I had found dollfie dreams via my anime phase in middle school (I pined over pictures of someone's custom miku foreeeever!)
      Eventually I started seeing resin bjds more and the overall style and aesthetic grew on me, and the rest is history.
       
      #185 VoxCanem, Mar 29, 2022
    6. Dollightful, actually. I'm not really sure HOW I didn't know about BJDs before she did that unboxing video of MYOU's Verna
       
      #186 MagicantAce, Mar 31, 2022
    7. #187 Amakai, Mar 31, 2022
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    8. I discovered BJDs when I was about 13, when I discovered Emilie Autumn. I was looking on DeviantArt at wingdthing’s(once upon a time a porcelain/mixed medium artist) art, and someone compared them to the artist and the BJDs. I got curious, and was obsessed right away
      My other exposure to them was finding Chobits-related content, around the same time as the other scenario, and stumbled upon the SD Chi. She is still tippy top of my tier list of grail dolls.
       
      #188 tiedyeventi, Mar 31, 2022
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    9. I saw pictures of them posted to Tumblr. Not sure how they escaped containment because I mostly followed people that posted memes and such back in the day... but I didn't think much of them until I encountered them again through fashion doll YouTube! I was so intrigued by how different they were from what I was used to - how detailed, how articulated! :aeyepop:
       
      #189 electrospecter, Mar 31, 2022
    10. Instagram! I started seeing them on my timeline and made an account just to look at bjd, then I finally got my own doll and the rest is history.
       
      #190 sagearella, Apr 4, 2022
    11. Huh, I don't even remember how they first came into my sight. I think an anime-related character search brought up bjd photos too and I got interested. Then a friend of mine started to dig deeper into the topic and we started a bjd blog on LiveJournal together. And in about half a year the first doll arrived, then the second and the rest is history. :-)
       
      #191 Broken Garden, Apr 5, 2022
    12. I randomly came across soom's instagram account on my explore page. If I'm remembering correctly, I think it might've been a post about their Grey & Ace little gem that I instantly fell in love with! (the red hair, the ears ahhh so cute!!) For a while I was dead set on buying a little gem (I almost bought the Hya & Ralis) but then soon found other companies I love such as mystic kids and doll leaves that are less than half of the price.The gems are gorgeous but so expensive :((
       
      #192 maryw13, Apr 5, 2022
    13. I saw a BJD in a comic convention once, I thought it was really pretty but I didn't want to know more.
      A couple of years later, among my classmates in highschool was this girl I became friends with and, the first time I went to her house, I learnt that she had a few fairyland dolls. I recognized the same features and she was the one who taught me about different companies and the sizes and everything.
       
      #193 Yami_Hanako, Apr 6, 2022
    14. One of my favorite writers published a book, which most pages are photos of her dolls and dialogue and stories she wrote for them, when I was about 10 years old. How could a child resist a fancy kingdom with beautiful creatures:whee: At least I can't
       
      #194 Crescent, Apr 6, 2022
    15. Honestly just playing around on Instagram. I follow a lot of fashion accounts so i guess it's not far stretched that bjd fashion came up. The dolls were just so cute i kept coming back to look at more
       
      #195 Iceymelody, Apr 7, 2022
    16. Dating myself here, but I was really into 1/6 Volks Dollfies around 2002-2004. I was so inspired by a blog called Milkshake Melody. I knew that Super Dollfies existed from browsing Volks’ website, but nothing really caught my eye until I saw MM’s Unoss Aika. She was the first BJD that I thought looked mature, and I eventually found my way to DOA.
       
      #196 mustbemissa, Apr 11, 2022
    17. As a teenager, probably some pretty photos on Tumblr. As an adult, rediscovered through doll customizing videos on YouTube!
       
      #197 _goblincat, Apr 14, 2022
    18. when i was around 8 i found videos of pullip dolls, wanted one so badly and my obsession lasted for years. they led me to discovering BJDs when i was around 10, and i have been obsessed with them ever since as well! could watch unboxing vids for hourssss XD
       
      #198 vojta, Apr 16, 2022
    19. I started doll collecting with Monster High because my younger sister and her friends were collecting and customizing them and that seemed like so much fun so I joined in on the fun.

      Then I came across Pullip dolls in some doll blogs and absolutely disliked them at first but found myself looking at them everyday so I started collecting Pullips:XD:. During my pullip collecting a friend of my sisters showed me bjds on a site called mint on card and I thought they were cool but way too expensive, so I just stuck with pullips.

      I used to have a doll blog with my sister and her friends, and when the blog world kind of died due to people losing interest and Instagram coming along, I eventually bit the bullet and made an IG account for myself. Dxgirly liked one of my pullip pictures and I adored her pullip videos and photos:D.

      Then life stuff happened and I stopped the hobby and sold most of my dolls.

      Several years later I came back to the hobby and saw Dxgirlys bjd's and fell in love with her minifee army! I then slowly started to look more into them and here I am now, slowly but steadily expanding my collection:whee:
       
      #199 Cyberdollie, Apr 16, 2022
    20. I saw them for the first time on fotolog in a profile of a girl from spain and it was a dollzone migi that I saw for the first time but I had no idea what it was, the names of those dolls or anything else.
       
      #200 JennyProxy, Apr 18, 2022
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