Weird question/request(s) you got about your dolls

That's really creepy. Sounds like someone was, uh, very invested in seeing those pictures. Perhaps monetarily but probably for another reason...

I've never gotten any creepy or weird messages about my dolls thankfully. I have had people request doll comparisons, and I'm happy to do them!

 

The weirdest requests I’ve had:

1. Former coworker wanted to look up my girl’s dress, and wanted me to prove my boy was actually a boy.

2. Random person on Etsy wanted me to send them clothes for free to promote/model on their YouTube channel. I told them they were doll clothes, and apparently they were asking other people to send them free dolls. Definitely scammy.

3. Somebody wanted me to role play my doll with them. I do role play my dolls regularly with friends’ dolls/characters, but this person wanted me to play my character with them as a person, not with their doll/character. That weirded me out because I keep my life and my dolls’ stories totally separate. Having my doll interact with a real live human is out of my comfort zone, and made me feel like they wanted my doll to fulfill some sort of personal need for them.

 

With all love and respect for people's weird proclivities (and significantly less of the same for people who won't take no for an answer) there's a very funny joke in here somewhere...

"I keep trying to get someone to show me their feet, but no one will do it! Ugh... Wait a second! That's it! A doll! This solves all my problems! I'll just... try to get someone to show me their dolls' feet."

 

Mymother does graphics for signs, so she googles stuff to look for free or cheap images to use, like one time she found a collector of US license plates that was seriously obsessive with such and such state's plates each time they changed, in high definition.

She told me never, absolutely never google "pretty feet"

 

I guess I'm missing out on all the weirdness. I NEVER take my dolls out anywhere. I can't imagine walking around in public with a doll, or going into a store with one. I would be terrified something would happen.

The only weird comment I ever got was a friend who saw my dolls in my room and was not convinced that my male dolls were not females. The friend didn't ask for proof, but kept calling him "her".

 

The weirdest thing that happened to me so far with my BJD, is that some people apparently think my Limhwa Limho Mano is an actual person (outside of this hobby/forum). I used to get one person to PM me to stop posting photos of myself and tagging them "BJD" when I was positing photos of myself, according to them. Then Tumblr would block or flag my Mano's posts as "adult" content when I posted semi-or-completely-nude (but censored) photos of him. I thought it was weird, because I always came across full-frontal nude photos of other BJD, mostly female ones, some in very suggestive poses; so I found it weird that my flat-chested male BJD, was being flagged as adult, but the full-frontal female dolls weren't. Then a few years ago, one person publicly (not in a PM) commented on one of my posts containing photos of my Mano, that they always thought he was a male model I used as reference, and thought it was cool he was actually a doll and not an actual person. I was confused as how I used him as reference, because all I do is post photos of him? I don't draw, or paint portraiture of my dolls so I wasn't sure how I was using him as reference (in which way?), but then it all made sense to me. I guess on Tumblr, he can be seen to some as realistic as an actual person, despite him looking like a doll to me. AND, me tagging him as a doll, BJD, plastic toy, etc, makes some angry because they think I'm posting photos of myself instead of one of my dolls. DX

I haven't posted photos of my Mano anywhere in a long time, because I have lost interest in BJD and customizing them further (I did try, but old age and laziness wins over every time!). It has nothing to do with Tumblr, or people leaving their comments for me on there. But it was really funny to me, that somehow, he was confused for an actual person. So much so, that my photos of him semi-nude, with obvious joint everywhere (few photoshopped to have the joints removed), were mistaken for a real person and flagged as adult. Not as creepy as the feet thing OP shared (I hate human-feet, so it's even creepier to me or even gross!), but mind boggling, nonetheless. More so because I never take "sensual/sexual/suggestive" photos of my dolls, I am very much 1000% non-sexual, so it was a freaking puzzle to me how my photos of my Mano specially, always got flagged as "adult." Almost made me want to photograph him next to real life objects, but then again, I am lazy. (:

 

That's pretty amazing actually that he's apparently so realistic that both humans and AI can't tell the difference! And it's surely a testament to your photography and photoshopping skills!

 

I take horrendous photos actually, and that's to say the least. I always thought someone (perhaps the person who thought I was posting photos of myself, instead of a doll) was reporting my photos as "adult content," as a way to annoy, because I stopped replying to their messages after a while. However, it also happened a few times with scale figures and fashion doll bodies without a head, and there are other toys in the same photos because I hoard and post mostly hauls of toys on Tumblr. I don't unbox the bulk of my figures, so most are of figures still in box or packaging (like with a Toy Works Free! Iwatobi Swim Club figure of Makoto Tachibana in his clothes, albeit wet clothes, there was no nudity and he clearly has a cartoony face). Maybe their AI is not as reliable as they might think, or I'm a paranoid nutjob (it was just frustrating, mostly because I saw stuff on there that I wish I could pour acid on my eyes after having seen those, that just about anyone including youn children could have seen. Yet, my photos of plastic toys that were sometimes semi-nude, were being flagged. An actual human dude doing "who knows what" with his pants halfway down to a figure/doll, that's perfectly fine!). lol! DX

 

The weirdest I got was some years ago when I got a message when I still used Photobucket, asking how much I was selling my dolls for.

When I replied, genuinely puzzled, that they weren't for sale, they were my own collection, and asked what gave them the idea my dolls were for sale, I got the angry response that if they aren't for sale why had I put pictures of them online...?

Presumably, in their world, the only reason to put puictures of anything online is for the purpose of selling it...?

Teddy

 

That's horrendous, and some of it is downright silly^^ Also, your pictures (and dolls) are stunning, period.

But it is true that the software big internet platforms use for cleaning up their images cannot tell human and doll nudity apart, at least not at the moment. That's what started all the doll censoring when really they were only out for human nudity. It's a shame, really.

 

Y’all, I wish someone would ask to buy feet pics of my dolls! That would be easy money to buy more dolls! Lmao

the only ones I’ve ever received were literal children on Instagram demanding I send them my doll for free because “I’m an adult and have a lot of them,” and “they don’t have any.”

 

I would be suspicious that they were actually adults pretending to be children, so they could get dolls for free. So weird either way.

It is SO true that on line, people know they can say or do anything and remain anonymous, so they behave in ways they would never do in person.

 

Weirdest doll related message was a guy who said he would give me his MDD Cirno if I kissed him.

I personally would block anyone who would ask that regardless of age

 

You're not the only one.

Teddy

 

I had an adult ask me that once. She told me it "wasn't fair" that I had so many and she only had one, so I should give her a few. I worked hard and budgeted for all of my dolls, nobody was just giving them to me, so why should I be obligated to give them to someone else?? I kind of slowly cut ties with her after that.

 

Omg, the feet pics thing is so creepy! But also really funny

Not a weird request, but a weird comment-
My father-in-law came to visit since he hadn't seen our apartment since we moved. I was at work, but my spouse said that FIL looked into my room, saw my dolls, and said, "That's wild!" and then walked out. LOL.

 

Reading this thread I sort of feel thankful I haven’t had any weird comments on my Instagram yet; the only request I’ve gotten so far is from my bf and it’s basically if I’m not using them to keep the dolls in a box or something as they freak him out