Meet LongFurby, the next step in the Furby's terrifying evolution
Our world’s collective fear of Furbys is born not from the stout, fluffy bodies of these ostensible “toys,” but rather their dead, piercing eyes, the likes of which promise to emerge dimly from the dark when one turns off a light. There’s some comfort, perhaps, in knowing their whirring robot brains can be reprogrammed to our liking, but it’s undeniable that they find power in numbers. This has prompted the frightened to destroy every Furby they can find, be it via water jet, hydraulic press, or a blistering hot ball of nickel.
The threat of destruction, however, has simply prodded the Furby to evolve. Like a Resident Evil zombie, the humble creation is taking on new, stranger forms. There’s FattyFurby, for example, but more prominent is LongFurby, who seems to be enrapturing Twitter’s Furby cognoscenti while instilling a simmering dread in outsiders with its twisted, Cronenbergian riff on the Furby form.