Best on I had was someone putting a build a sound in a hear that said "Help Help. I'm trapped in a Build a bear let me out," was a bit jealous I didnt think of it first.
The first story was actually pretty sweet. And as for ashes: You cannot get anything more sterile than cremated humans remains. A body is cremated at 1800 degrees F. Nothing can survive that. Make families seal the ashes in a plastic or glass vial though, lest it blows out and leaks all over the stuffing as in story 7 - and you should be OK. Edit: And a store demanding people dye their hair "because it is their policy" should bear (no pun intended) one thing in mind: They are dealing with school kids who want to make a few extra dollars. Nobody is gonna shave off their hair or dye it because some self important store manager demands it. Especially not for some summer job that they will be happy to walk away from in a few months. Stop being so self-important. If you see fit to police how people look, I wouldn't want to work for you anyways because there is a chance that you will try to be a LOT more invasive and / or a micro manager in other areas.
I mean, there has to be some guidelines on appearance. Would you want an employee to just be standing there in a bikini if they like work at McDonald’s or something? Some dress requirements or just for safety reasons. When I was working at waffle house, they didn’t let me go behind the counter without black pants because of the oil.
I put a voicemails of my dad's in a build-a-bears. I got them right before he passed and I gave it to my mom the night he was passing away. I am debating going on his death anniversary and getting a voicemail that was much more cheerful and him in another bear
For the story of the girl who was rated a '1' for her interview based on her not dying her hair black, I would have retorted "I'll leave my review of your interview on google.1 star, 'insert name' told me my hair color (blonde) wasn't natural enough and I had to dye it black in order to work there. When I refused, she condescendingly told me my interview was a 1/10 in order to make me feel bad for not complying with her demand. Don't apply."
@@A--AudraMJani i’m sorry but you guys are taking the story too seriously…😭😭😭 dogs don’t care if there’s a hole on a teddy, they just do it… and you don’t even know if they have a dog
No, that's definitely a human. I doubt the universe would line up that much to the point that tye dog bit a hole in the bears crotch, and then humpel that hole to the point tye fur was matted... it's definitely a human. Stop trying to sugar coat it. The horny level of humans can get to that point. Trust me
“Your daughter can give the bear a tiara and call it Micheal Jackson if she wants” hilarious “MOM I KNOW WHAT I WANT FOR MY BIRTHDAAAAAAYYYYYYY” ✨Micheal Bearson✨
That was me, I'm not kidding. I went to build-a-bear once when I younger; and I literally did exactly that. My dad's name is not Kyle tho, so I'm glad to know I was not the only kid like that 😂
@Blueness1230I *do* know what that word means. This is a very private situation that shouldn’t have been handled in such a public, aggressive way. Especially not in front of young children and their parents. How do we even know she really cheated? She could’ve just been doing something innocuous with another guy and the customer could’ve been insanely jealous and abusive. If he has no problem yelling about her in a crowded store, what could he be doing behind closed doors? Frankly, I find your comment condescending and insulting.
When we moved to our new home, my husband took me to Bulid-A-Bear. So it's two bigger guys, one of whom is perpetually anxious and is on the spectrum, doing all the Build-A-Bear stuff together.
Story 19 did me in. Hopefully things have improved for that poor woman and her son. Good on the employee for helping to ease the burden of fresh grief and may that drunk driver never forget what they did.
For around 9:30, idk why parents freaking out about hair color are a thing. I worked at a summer camp, and I had a co-worker who would die his hair a new funky color every week, and the kids absolutely loved it. I mean the cartoons kids watch have people with blue/green/pink/etc hair.
Regarding the story about people who don't want anything: My [adult] sister went with her friend to get one of the axolotls. They decided it looked so funny unstuffed that they put in the bare minimum of fluff, the heart, and had it stitched up like that. Said blue axolotl's name is Foreskin. Yep. I really wonder what the employee's reaction(s) was/were.
Do they play kids bop 24/7? No it's worse. They play pop music build-a-bear parodies that are still sung by kids. Someone actaully thinks of ways to turn lyrics into things related to build-a-bear and then children sing it. And it plays constantly. Also i can add to the weird thing request i've had. Not too long ago i had a costomer come in and ask me to put a full bag of hair into a bear. They said that the person was in chemo and this was all their fallen-out hair, which yeah sure that happens but i feel like there are other ways to keep your hair if you want it.
@@a-s-greig ua-cam.com/play/PL10534EE19480CDBA.html here's a playlist I found of the build a bear music. I didn't listen to any of them but it seems to be what you're looking for.
Years ago, but once I got the Ewok plushie they had and put a Star Trek uniform on it and named him Doctor Who. The employee who was handling my bear looked like they were internally screaming.
I'm currently a manager at Build-a-Bear, and I recently got a phone call that was BY FAR the weirdest thing anyone has ever requested. This guy asked if I could fill him up with stuffing. When I told him no, he made me explain why. I told him that we can only stuff our bears, so anything else is off limits...especially people. He then asked me "If I paid you, would you do it?" Once again, I told him no, so he hung up. This happened barely a couple days ago... I love my job, and I've only been working at the store for 8 months, but this was weird...
I have only been in a Build a Bear once as an adult, to get the werewolf last year. I walked in and was anxious about what to say since the bear-making process freaks me out and I just wanted to get the werewolf out and stuff it myself at home. Trying to rehearse what to say in my head, I ended up saying “Hi can I get a werewolf skin”... lol
Idk I went into a build a bear when i was like 15 ish, but i probably looked older and they never had me say anything other than my name for the tag and stuff
I'm infamous at my local BaB for being "the frog guy." Whenever they release a new frog I always show up to get one. The day I brought in the 36 inch frog was very fun. A kid asked how mine was so big and I responded "I feed it well." For Christmas I got my mom a frog that looks like me, because when I was 2 she had me make a bear with my voice in it and I was nearly 18. She hugged me really tight when I showed it to her and was so happy when she realized it talked. The weirdest thing I've done is probably wander in near closing time after my shift elsewhere in the mall and show the employees a video of an axolotl "barking" they all thought it was adorable and I used it to help me test how the mic worked.
The one about the woman who lost her husband to a drunk driver made me weep. My heart aches for her. I work at a hotel next to a hospital and we regularly have guests staying because their loved ones have been admitted there. Every time I work a late shift and see people come back looking devastated only to tell me that their family member/partner didn't make it I have to go in the back and cry.
A Build-A-Bear customer once. I made a Build-A-Bear plush for my step-mom as a present for her. I got it a doctor's coat, stethoscope, and doctor's bag with a plunger needle, eye checker, any medical instrument that they had because my step-mom was a pediatrician and I wanted the bear to be a doctor like her. She loved it and she still has it to this day.
My father passed away June 2022...I wanted to get a build-a-bear bear for my mother for christmas...I ordered it online and brought a pair of brown boots so they resemble my dads steel nosed boots...I had a friend made a orange coverall suit out of the ones my dad had worn...it still has the stains when he was working at his job...mom and I loved it...best money well spent
i feel bad for the kid in story 15, he probably did not know about the comic and just named the eevee that because he liked the name or whatever, sam IS a pretty popular name after all
I'm really surprised about the ashes thing. I mean "must be in a sealed container". I think the biggest thing I learned was "if you want to put ashes in it, DON'T tell the employees what's in the container." But the company Cuddle Clones have an option for a zipper FOR putting ashes in them! They are great at dogs, the cat I got for my wife doesn't look good, but tabby fur is probably a bitch.
I actually went to Build-A-Bear for my birthday so I could get a Tom Nook plush, take it apart, and use it as a pattern to make a plush of a character I made (it’s unnecessary I know, but I actually have another of the same Tom Nook plush sitting on my bed). So, I went to the store, picked up the skin of the Tom Nook, skipped the whole stuffing and certificate thing, and just took the skin to the cashier. The woman working there did not seem fazed by the fact that a person was buying just the skin of a stuffed animal, and she never even asked about it.
If it makes you feel better, it’s actually not uncommon to get the “skin” and bring it (and the kid you’re surprising) back to the store at a later date so they can do their own heart ceremony and dress and name it themself, so if you just want the skin for patterning or to stuff yourself, the employees aren’t really going to think twice about it
The break up one was amazing but like… should I be ashamed that I understood the “Sam” one and know EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE REFERENCING?! Fun Fact: that “comic series”ended/was rebooted with regular animal characters because they decided to sell a physical version of the comic and got slapped with a cease and desist by the Pokémon Company. Ah the wonders of the Furry community. Look Up Rainfurrest if you ever get the chance… we aren’t all degenerate weirdos but from what I’ve heard, Rainfurrest was… bad. Like MULTIPLE DOCUMENTARIES ON THE SUBJECT BAD!
@@le9038 OwO I have no shame. I was being Rhetorical. Also it was my non-Furry girlfriend who told me about Rainfurrest. She thinks I’m weird too but somehow she tolerates my eccentric madness. Not all furries are degenerates. Like most fandoms (yes it’s by definition a fandom of people who like anthro characters in art and media) we’re mostly just shy geeks who like to hide behind a mask, be it actual or metaphorical, in order to step outside their bubble to socialize with people, or just simply like the art and aesthetics. There’s a vocal minority of freaks and pervs like all fandoms but hey, we actively shun those who do anything to real animals and the proceeds to a lot of Furry conventions go to charities, including sick children charities. So maybe not be so judgmental towards people for their hobbies. You wouldn’t like it if someone treated you as lesser for doing something you enjoy. 😁
@@zeniththetoaster9712 glad to know I’m not alone. I showed my girlfriend that comic and she was like: GF: ok this isn’t so bad, the art is pretty nice. I Don’t get why you were saying this was so rough. Me: turn safe search off GF: OOOOOH GOD! Now I see it! WOW! Why?!
8:01 This actually sounds like a good idea, My dog passed (WHO WAS HERE BEFORE ME.), and he was practically my older brother, I think this would be a nice grieving plush, especially if we can put a beating heart inside. I still won't forget the moment I heard the vet say "And his heart stopped beating." after those few seconds.
Not a worker but one time I was at build a bear I overheard a couple arguing with an employee about why 1: the store did have bras for the bears and 2: why they couldn't leave the store with the bears only in underwear I'm honestly scared to think of what they did for their bears voice because the woman said and I quote "we have been able to customize our bear why can't we customize it's underwear to match its voice" I didn't know what it all meant at the time but now I wish I had never heard it
Ah, a fellow man of culture, Karma is best boy. Lol my friends on instagram to this day still call me sloth, because that's what my account was until like earlier this year
You do too well, based on that profile pic. (sidenote here, I was going to use Miso Souperstar's Regigigas drawing's face as my profile pic for the lolz, but figured it would looks like Pokemon Shuffle so I decided against it.)
I’m 19 and I went to build a bear for the first time to celebrate me getting my GED, a nice paying job, and an apartment all by myself. I always wanted one as a kid, but they were too expensive. I went as soon as the mall opened because I didn’t want anybody I knew seeing me in a build a bear. Turns out one of my friends works there in the mornings. It was nice to talk to her after so long. This was a few months ago. It was really awkward though. Seeing one of your friend who randomly disappeared from school with no explanation just show up at your job to buy a bear and hear she (me) is not dead
😂the dude screaming obscenities into a mic in a store full of kids, he probably thought he was slick about it too. 😅I saw a middle age woman do something similar but about her husband and was cussing him out into the mic and calling his (male anatomy and family jewels) small shrivels and the like. Me and a friend were right behind her and my friend who is a bear of a man (think buff Santa with a marine haircut in a kilt) tapped her the shoulder, told her in an exaggerated thick Scottish accent to be quiet as there were kids present and no one needed to hear about a man’s small package, especially not toddlers. She shut up and left real fast.
4 years ago I had a miscarriage. It was my first pregnancy and it happened very early on. My husband and I decided to go to Build a Bear to get a memorial Bear for our lost child. I wrote a letter to our child and put it in the Bear. It helped us a bit to do that.
That Sam Eevee one reminds me when my friend named his gift Eevee in Pokémon Heartgold Sam cause that's what he had named his dog, thing is, the Eevee was male, and he evolved it into a JOLTEON. I'm unsure if my friend truly didn't know the comic or said that to mess with me.
That’s gotta be one hell of a coincidence if he didn’t know, and if he did and didn’t think you knew, he probably silently laughed to himself that you’d never get the reference.
Sometimes it really is funny, the same way you might silently laugh to yourself when that one aunt starts talking about a weird conspiracy at the dinner table.
Story #4 really concerns me. No mentally stable individual would yell about such a private affair for the whole world to hear, especially in a store full of young children. Was his girlfriend really cheating on him? Or could he just not handle his girlfriend being friends with another guy?
I mean, when you’re mad, you’re really mad. Was it the best thing to do? No but I think it’s amusing about the idea of him giving the bear to his ex and she hears all that. And I’ll be honest kids will likely hear far worse things at school than in public.
@@japanesejackalopeThat doesn’t excuse his lack of self control. If he has such a problem with controlling his temper, imagine what his ex had to go through. A lot of domestic abusers use their partner’s unfaithfulness to justify their abuse. I’m not saying he was abusive, but his behavior raises some red flags. I hope they both got the help they clearly needed.
@@avalasialove i never said it justified his behavior I was just saying people do crazy things when they’re mad. He for sure shouldn’t have done what he did. It’s hard to speculate on what the relationship really was from such a short bit of story though. It sounds like he caught her cheating and wanted to reveal to her that he found out in a way that would shock her. At least that’s what I gathered from this. Which if that is the case I don’t blame him but I’m bias as I’ve been cheated on several times with different partners. I never had that kind of reaction but I can see where he’s coming from.
Yeah I took it as a dangerous misogynist tbh. Even if someone was cheating that wording isn't something a man who. is safe for women to be around would say.
@@PrettyLesbian maybe but I don’t think it’s good to speculate on someone we don’t know with so little context. For all we know he could be a great guy but then his gf was caught cheating on him. Or he could be in the wrong but we don’t know either way it’s not good to label someone an abuser on limited context, man or not. I never understand why people in comment sections jump to say a man is abusive because he yelled.
Step 1. Go to Build-A-Bear. Step 2. Make bear with a top hat and bowtie. Step 3. For the musicbox, get the song "1905 Regina Music Box: Classical Overture" Step 4. Freddy.
Me, a Build-A-Bear employee: we actually do have an animatronic bear in stock. Don’t believe me? They’re called the Bearlieve bear. They wiggle their ears, respond to your voice, blink, and more! Just look them up and give them a bow tie and top hat and I’ll get you situated!
I was expecting wild stories, but the very first one made me tear up. They wanted to remember their grandfather in the sweetest way so much. That employee should’ve been Employee of the Month for going out the way to help a special Build-A-Bear request.
As someone who went into build a bear just to get a stuffed Eevee, yes.... they play kidz bop non stop. I skipped all the other extra steps just to get out of there. The employees made it less awkward thankfully as they also admitted they made a stuffed pokemon for themselves.
I got a pair of bears a while back to represent two characters I was writing a lot about at the time. Each one had a tumbled stone in the middle of their fluff representing my wishes for their future literature journeys. ^^;
Back in 2008 I was working at a mall at the “fruit stand” that sells computers and phones. One time, a manager finished her shift and went home - only to get home and realize she forgot her keys at work. She had to open the store the next day, so she had to return to get them. In the meantime, the other managers took a photo of the keychain, applied the x-ray filter to it, and then printed it out. Then they went to Build-a-Bear and had them sew the keychain inside a bear. When the manager returned to get her keys, she found on her desk a teddy bear clutching an x-ray of the keys to its chest. 🤣 She then had to go to BaB to have the employees extract the keychain! (They were expecting her, of course.)
Last year my group of friends and I decided to build a bear to attend our college classes with us; for fidgeting, hugging, just to amuse our classmates when they walk in and see a bear with his own desk. So that's how 5 19-22-year-olds (and a 25-year-old in spirit, the worker let us grab an extra heart for the friend that couldn't come) made our beautiful son, Fredrick, and gave him six hearts (the employee insisted one for each of us). And this was a build-a-bear kiosk (full store closed years ago in that mall), so there's just normal mallgoers walking by, watching this group of college students rub fabric hearts in all the spots they tell you to. Awesome day; little man still sits at my desk in my room. He turns 1 on November 28th XD
I was watching while my little cousin (aged 11) was playing Hollow Knight, and I laughed so hard he asked me to replay that part, I paused right before the Adult Comic part, and he repeatedly asked me what was so funny, I told him he'd get it when get grew up lol
I have a build a bear. I used to have them a lot when I was little from grandparents, but I only have one now, ans Ironically, Ive made it within the last two years and it was maybe one of the most special and needed experiences I had in a while. I was in the middle of applying for Graduate school over seas. Decisions were being handed down in a matter of days, and I was so high strung and stressed I was finding it hard to breathe sometimes. My family took a trip into a major city near us for a few nights. And inside the mall we went to, there was a build a bear! A build a bear that, for some reason, had this very specific alien style bear. I asked the staff about it, and they said "Oh, yeah, thats supposed to be online and UK exclusive but a box of ten or so just like. Showed up one day." Better believe I snatched that baby up. They gave me a silver heart. And for a lot of the little ceremony it was like "Think of flying so high, and going so many new places!" And in my very stressed and emotional state, I just started to cry. These very sweet people had no idea what this meant to me, all the factors that had to randomly come together for me to get this cutie. And Ill say, Im happily writing this from overseas now, with Andromeda, my bear, on my bed ❤
That Eevee one; as soon as the guy said Sam, I was like "ohhhhhhhhhhhh". Interesting to know the employee and the poster knew this as well. It's a furry world, and you're all just living in it XD
Honestly i dont think we should call putting a family members ashes in a build a bear weird. It is their way of honoring and remembering their deceased family member
9:08 I would of also wrote a number 1 and passed it to the interviewer. "If you aren't willing to care about something which took me months to achieve then I don't want to work for you as you clearly don't care for your employee's time". My blunt self would of said something like this and then walked out.
@@genericname2747 but for an eevee? Hell no + it’s not just one comic there’s like 7 volumes with like a kajilion pages each and a spin off with regular animals because of a cease and desist after the owners tried selling physical copies
That little kid is a brat. Don't get her the gay bear, give the gay bear to a nice family, and shove some stuffing and a different gay heart into her hands and tell her to deal with it.
My mom used to work at Build A Bear in OakPark Mall in Kansas, and she always wore this giant bear costume for a mascot that they had there in the 1990s and 2000s. So she was working there, and a group of women (probably 19 or 20) went to my mom's friend and asked, "Hey, is there a cute boy in there?" while touching the costume's ears and such, so my mom's friend told them, "No, but there is a lovely, nice lady in there." She said that as my mom was waving at them in a funny manner and the women left the store.
I've been in a Build-a-Bear and I think my ex may in fact be one of the weirdest customers to have been in that store. The first time we went there we left with a bear dressed in a shirt and underwear with no pants. Plus I'll never forget the look on the employee's face when she realized the bear was not for our son but was actually for herself. We did also get another bear that was specifically for him. He has Cerebral Palsy and is totally non-verbal but we did help him pick out what he wanted. We basically just hold up options for him and see which one he tends to stare at more. An employee kept coming over to see if we needed help but it actually ended up being more of a distraction cause he'd end up looking at her instead of the Build a Bear options. Funny enough the girl who was working actually had blond hair with dark roots AND tattoos weird how that one store in the video was so strict about appearance but the one we went to didn't seem to care about their employee's appearance. There was another woman with dark hair who stayed at the stuffing machine and sewed up the bears, she also had tattoos. The only real rule they had about their appearance was no dangling piercings which was more of a safety issue because kids will try to pull at them so they have to take off any jewelry before they step out onto the floor.
My boyfriend made me a Pompompurin build-a-bear for me, named him Attorney Purin, dressed him like Pheonix Wright and put a voice box in the paw, where when you pressed it it played a recording of my boyfriend saying "smooth brain." He got it for me as I tend to have nightmares at night when he's gone at school for more than 3 weeks. I love him so incredibly much.
For the rainbow heart one? Honestly I wonder if she had a bad experience involving a gay person because I can't even think of a reason a child would say something like that because if it was religious reasons there would be different verbiage entirely.
@@catandrobbyfloresI’m more inclined to believe she’s probably around a family member (or even a friend who has a family member) who is homophobic that makes more sense to me
Story 15, did not expect to hear that certain eevee get referenced. That sure was a surprise, to hear of that certain comic. Though nowdays "sam" is some random type of canine, not an eevee anymore.
I have an Eevee Build-A-Bear too! He was gift from my younger sibling for my birthday and his name is King after one of the main characters from The Owl House, which we were finishing watching at the time.
So what I'm getting from this is there needs to be Adult only build a bear stores or Adult only hours at Build a Bear stores.
There is an after-hours build a bear. It's called Bear Cave
Fluids though
Cuz them kids are strong...
Or a memorial aisle.
True
Look for Build A Bear At Night
I think story 1 was cute and build-a-bear should offer it more.
Yeah! I think it’s a good way to mourn
Same
They turned him into a bear 🥺
Pottery in a soft toy???
@@LoganPAILLL I think they where talking about the ashes of the person
Imagine going to a toy store and seeing that they have a "No Deceased Remains" policy
similar when u go to the store and there’s sign like “do not hug the pillows” like what happened there for them to have to put up that sign 😭
Awwwwwwwww mannnnn
*drags the black bag back to my car*
Ashes aren't human remains though
@@28AccountsRemovedthey are when they’re from a cremated human????
@@Praise-Algoritmi carbon isn't "remains" if it's even carbon. Ashes don't follow the same principles
Best on I had was someone putting a build a sound in a hear that said "Help Help. I'm trapped in a Build a bear let me out," was a bit jealous I didnt think of it first.
I love this so much.
This kind of things make me smile.
I have a nearly permanent poker face lol
The next time I go to build a bear, I will scream at the top of my lungs to make that voice in my build a bear
The first story was actually pretty sweet. And as for ashes: You cannot get anything more sterile than cremated humans remains. A body is cremated at 1800 degrees F.
Nothing can survive that. Make families seal the ashes in a plastic or glass vial though, lest it blows out and leaks all over the stuffing as in story 7 - and you should be OK.
Edit: And a store demanding people dye their hair "because it is their policy" should bear (no pun intended) one thing in mind:
They are dealing with school kids who want to make a few extra dollars. Nobody is gonna shave off their hair or dye it because some self important store manager demands it. Especially not for some summer job that they will be happy to walk away from in a few months. Stop being so self-important. If you see fit to police how people look, I wouldn't want to work for you anyways because there is a chance that you will try to be a LOT more invasive and / or a micro manager in other areas.
Plus hair is apart of the body and they shouldn't have legal rights to tell someone how there hair should be done
I mean, there has to be some guidelines on appearance. Would you want an employee to just be standing there in a bikini if they like work at McDonald’s or something? Some dress requirements or just for safety reasons. When I was working at waffle house, they didn’t let me go behind the counter without black pants because of the oil.
@@blackqweenmars hair I different than clothes hair is apart of your body so...
I put a voicemails of my dad's in a build-a-bears. I got them right before he passed and I gave it to my mom the night he was passing away. I am debating going on his death anniversary and getting a voicemail that was much more cheerful and him in another bear
For the story of the girl who was rated a '1' for her interview based on her not dying her hair black, I would have retorted "I'll leave my review of your interview on google.1 star, 'insert name' told me my hair color (blonde) wasn't natural enough and I had to dye it black in order to work there. When I refused, she condescendingly told me my interview was a 1/10 in order to make me feel bad for not complying with her demand. Don't apply."
off topic but nice username and pfp
@@remilililia Thanks! Guessing you're also a V Flower fan
VFLOWER
@@Arc_Carnes V Flower is best girl!
Wtf is a v flower?
recently, I bought a Tom Nook build-a-bear and for the name on the certificate, I wrote 'capitalist.' they must have been so confused.
Eh? ..."Capitalist"...
..."Capitalist"...
Do I have that right? (Yes!)
(Wait, no...)
@@a-s-greig Yes!
LMFAO
i got the isabelle one lol
Story 5: It could've been a dog. They are known to hump stuffed animals and it can be hard to keep them away.
i really doubt it… dogs don’t rip holes RIGHT on the crotch just to hump…
@@doagii2649 But what if the dog was playing with it and chewed on the crotch area before deciding to hump on it?
@@A--AudraMJani i’m sorry but you guys are taking the story too seriously…😭😭😭 dogs don’t care if there’s a hole on a teddy, they just do it… and you don’t even know if they have a dog
Best possible ending
No, that's definitely a human. I doubt the universe would line up that much to the point that tye dog bit a hole in the bears crotch, and then humpel that hole to the point tye fur was matted... it's definitely a human. Stop trying to sugar coat it. The horny level of humans can get to that point. Trust me
Ok, that native family putting a real bear tooth inside the bear is really damn cool! ❤
“Your daughter can give the bear a tiara and call it Micheal Jackson if she wants”
hilarious
“MOM I KNOW WHAT I WANT FOR MY BIRTHDAAAAAAYYYYYYY”
✨Micheal Bearson✨
That was me, I'm not kidding. I went to build-a-bear once when I younger; and I literally did exactly that. My dad's name is not Kyle tho, so I'm glad to know I was not the only kid like that 😂
RESPECTTT
Micheal Jackbear.
cringe
MiClaw Bearson
Ok, that guy using a build a bear for the breakup is incredible
Really? Because he sounds pretty unstable to me.
@@avalasialovebro got ratio'd 💀
@Blueness1230I *do* know what that word means. This is a very private situation that shouldn’t have been handled in such a public, aggressive way. Especially not in front of young children and their parents. How do we even know she really cheated? She could’ve just been doing something innocuous with another guy and the customer could’ve been insanely jealous and abusive. If he has no problem yelling about her in a crowded store, what could he be doing behind closed doors? Frankly, I find your comment condescending and insulting.
Fr I love it
@@avalasialoveI'd be pretty pissed if I found out my date was cheating on me, it's better than doing something far worse
When we moved to our new home, my husband took me to Bulid-A-Bear. So it's two bigger guys, one of whom is perpetually anxious and is on the spectrum, doing all the Build-A-Bear stuff together.
Story 19 did me in. Hopefully things have improved for that poor woman and her son. Good on the employee for helping to ease the burden of fresh grief and may that drunk driver never forget what they did.
Ikr, almost had me crying
For around 9:30, idk why parents freaking out about hair color are a thing. I worked at a summer camp, and I had a co-worker who would die his hair a new funky color every week, and the kids absolutely loved it. I mean the cartoons kids watch have people with blue/green/pink/etc hair.
Probably because people think dyed hair means you’re gay and being gay is wrong apparently
Regarding the story about people who don't want anything: My [adult] sister went with her friend to get one of the axolotls. They decided it looked so funny unstuffed that they put in the bare minimum of fluff, the heart, and had it stitched up like that. Said blue axolotl's name is Foreskin. Yep. I really wonder what the employee's reaction(s) was/were.
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Do they play kids bop 24/7? No it's worse. They play pop music build-a-bear parodies that are still sung by kids. Someone actaully thinks of ways to turn lyrics into things related to build-a-bear and then children sing it. And it plays constantly.
Also i can add to the weird thing request i've had. Not too long ago i had a costomer come in and ask me to put a full bag of hair into a bear. They said that the person was in chemo and this was all their fallen-out hair, which yeah sure that happens but i feel like there are other ways to keep your hair if you want it.
Please provide an example. I wish to acquire the accursèd bear music for personal use. ʘ‿ʘ
@@a-s-greig ua-cam.com/play/PL10534EE19480CDBA.html here's a playlist I found of the build a bear music. I didn't listen to any of them but it seems to be what you're looking for.
@@a-s-greigWho are you terrorizing?
Had one where they wanted a lion’s head, with six goat legs protruding from all around the edges of it like a pinwheel. They wanted to name it “Buer”.
I personally would've asked for a wolf with wings and a snake tail with the name Marchosias
the teen that got the troll doll with a butt is either really into homestuck or a little questionable
'S-what I was thinking. Give it a long nose, single color.
Years ago, but once I got the Ewok plushie they had and put a Star Trek uniform on it and named him Doctor Who.
The employee who was handling my bear looked like they were internally screaming.
I'm currently a manager at Build-a-Bear, and I recently got a phone call that was BY FAR the weirdest thing anyone has ever requested.
This guy asked if I could fill him up with stuffing. When I told him no, he made me explain why. I told him that we can only stuff our bears, so anything else is off limits...especially people. He then asked me "If I paid you, would you do it?" Once again, I told him no, so he hung up.
This happened barely a couple days ago...
I love my job, and I've only been working at the store for 8 months, but this was weird...
TBH Im kinda shocked more BABs dont get similar calls (that we know of)
What are they filled with then if not Stuffing?
@@growlie2676the person asked for himself to be filled with stuffing not the bear
I have only been in a Build a Bear once as an adult, to get the werewolf last year. I walked in and was anxious about what to say since the bear-making process freaks me out and I just wanted to get the werewolf out and stuff it myself at home. Trying to rehearse what to say in my head, I ended up saying “Hi can I get a werewolf skin”... lol
Idk I went into a build a bear when i was like 15 ish, but i probably looked older and they never had me say anything other than my name for the tag and stuff
I'm infamous at my local BaB for being "the frog guy." Whenever they release a new frog I always show up to get one. The day I brought in the 36 inch frog was very fun. A kid asked how mine was so big and I responded "I feed it well."
For Christmas I got my mom a frog that looks like me, because when I was 2 she had me make a bear with my voice in it and I was nearly 18. She hugged me really tight when I showed it to her and was so happy when she realized it talked.
The weirdest thing I've done is probably wander in near closing time after my shift elsewhere in the mall and show the employees a video of an axolotl "barking" they all thought it was adorable and I used it to help me test how the mic worked.
The one about the woman who lost her husband to a drunk driver made me weep. My heart aches for her.
I work at a hotel next to a hospital and we regularly have guests staying because their loved ones have been admitted there. Every time I work a late shift and see people come back looking devastated only to tell me that their family member/partner didn't make it I have to go in the back and cry.
A Build-A-Bear customer once. I made a Build-A-Bear plush for my step-mom as a present for her. I got it a doctor's coat, stethoscope, and doctor's bag with a plunger needle, eye checker, any medical instrument that they had because my step-mom was a pediatrician and I wanted the bear to be a doctor like her. She loved it and she still has it to this day.
I was expecting to be horrified, NOT crying as much as I was.
My father passed away June 2022...I wanted to get a build-a-bear bear for my mother for christmas...I ordered it online and brought a pair of brown boots so they resemble my dads steel nosed boots...I had a friend made a orange coverall suit out of the ones my dad had worn...it still has the stains when he was working at his job...mom and I loved it...best money well spent
The people with the Lion King one are so chaotic, I love it
“It’s a teddy bear, Kyle, your daughter can give it a tiara and call it Michael Jackson if she wants.”
"it’s a teddy bear dude, your daughter can put a tiara on it and call it Michael Jackson"
i feel bad for the kid in story 15, he probably did not know about the comic and just named the eevee that because he liked the name or whatever, sam IS a pretty popular name after all
no 👁👁
yea... wouldn't count on that
Knowing the Internet well, I strongly disagree
i have a eevee named samual i got from build a bear that was my dads name i havnt gotten to that story yet but whats it about?
oh its not as bad as I thought it would be
I'm really surprised about the ashes thing. I mean "must be in a sealed container". I think the biggest thing I learned was "if you want to put ashes in it, DON'T tell the employees what's in the container."
But the company Cuddle Clones have an option for a zipper FOR putting ashes in them! They are great at dogs, the cat I got for my wife doesn't look good, but tabby fur is probably a bitch.
I actually went to Build-A-Bear for my birthday so I could get a Tom Nook plush, take it apart, and use it as a pattern to make a plush of a character I made (it’s unnecessary I know, but I actually have another of the same Tom Nook plush sitting on my bed). So, I went to the store, picked up the skin of the Tom Nook, skipped the whole stuffing and certificate thing, and just took the skin to the cashier. The woman working there did not seem fazed by the fact that a person was buying just the skin of a stuffed animal, and she never even asked about it.
If it makes you feel better, it’s actually not uncommon to get the “skin” and bring it (and the kid you’re surprising) back to the store at a later date so they can do their own heart ceremony and dress and name it themself, so if you just want the skin for patterning or to stuff yourself, the employees aren’t really going to think twice about it
The break up one was amazing but like… should I be ashamed that I understood the “Sam” one and know EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE REFERENCING?!
Fun Fact: that “comic series”ended/was rebooted with regular animal characters because they decided to sell a physical version of the comic and got slapped with a cease and desist by the Pokémon Company. Ah the wonders of the Furry community. Look Up Rainfurrest if you ever get the chance… we aren’t all degenerate weirdos but from what I’ve heard, Rainfurrest was… bad. Like MULTIPLE DOCUMENTARIES ON THE SUBJECT BAD!
I may not know what the Sam comic was but yes, you should be ashamed because of your relations to the furry community according to your comment.
I too understood as soon as they said Sam
@@le9038 OwO I have no shame. I was being Rhetorical. Also it was my non-Furry girlfriend who told me about Rainfurrest. She thinks I’m weird too but somehow she tolerates my eccentric madness. Not all furries are degenerates. Like most fandoms (yes it’s by definition a fandom of people who like anthro characters in art and media) we’re mostly just shy geeks who like to hide behind a mask, be it actual or metaphorical, in order to step outside their bubble to socialize with people, or just simply like the art and aesthetics. There’s a vocal minority of freaks and pervs like all fandoms but hey, we actively shun those who do anything to real animals and the proceeds to a lot of Furry conventions go to charities, including sick children charities. So maybe not be so judgmental towards people for their hobbies.
You wouldn’t like it if someone treated you as lesser for doing something you enjoy. 😁
@@zeniththetoaster9712 glad to know I’m not alone. I showed my girlfriend that comic and she was like:
GF: ok this isn’t so bad, the art is pretty nice. I Don’t get why you were saying this was so rough.
Me: turn safe search off
GF: OOOOOH GOD! Now I see it! WOW! Why?!
Soooooo, my instagram for years was Sloth, and my friends still call me that, I think you understand why this was so funny to hear in a random video
8:01 This actually sounds like a good idea, My dog passed (WHO WAS HERE BEFORE ME.), and he was practically my older brother, I think this would be a nice grieving plush, especially if we can put a beating heart inside. I still won't forget the moment I heard the vet say "And his heart stopped beating." after those few seconds.
I think Build-a-Bear needs private recording booths.
I legit thought that you were a Build-a-Bear employee for half this video😂😅
Not a worker but one time I was at build a bear I overheard a couple arguing with an employee about why 1: the store did have bras for the bears and 2: why they couldn't leave the store with the bears only in underwear I'm honestly scared to think of what they did for their bears voice because the woman said and I quote "we have been able to customize our bear why can't we customize it's underwear to match its voice" I didn't know what it all meant at the time but now I wish I had never heard it
Funny, my cousin got a Build-a-Bear with just underwear once, and no one minded when he left the store with it.
"I know what you did" I did it too don't worry.
Ah, a fellow man of culture, Karma is best boy. Lol my friends on instagram to this day still call me sloth, because that's what my account was until like earlier this year
Oh hey that profile pic looks *Awfully* Familiar but I don't know why ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
You do too well, based on that profile pic. (sidenote here, I was going to use Miso Souperstar's Regigigas drawing's face as my profile pic for the lolz, but figured it would looks like Pokemon Shuffle so I decided against it.)
That’s a nice pfp you got there :3
I’m 19 and I went to build a bear for the first time to celebrate me getting my GED, a nice paying job, and an apartment all by myself. I always wanted one as a kid, but they were too expensive. I went as soon as the mall opened because I didn’t want anybody I knew seeing me in a build a bear. Turns out one of my friends works there in the mornings. It was nice to talk to her after so long. This was a few months ago. It was really awkward though. Seeing one of your friend who randomly disappeared from school with no explanation just show up at your job to buy a bear and hear she (me) is not dead
😂the dude screaming obscenities into a mic in a store full of kids, he probably thought he was slick about it too. 😅I saw a middle age woman do something similar but about her husband and was cussing him out into the mic and calling his (male anatomy and family jewels) small shrivels and the like. Me and a friend were right behind her and my friend who is a bear of a man (think buff Santa with a marine haircut in a kilt) tapped her the shoulder, told her in an exaggerated thick Scottish accent to be quiet as there were kids present and no one needed to hear about a man’s small package, especially not toddlers. She shut up and left real fast.
I once went to a build-a-bear, they were playing 2 different songs at the same time and the employee had no clue where it was.
4 years ago I had a miscarriage. It was my first pregnancy and it happened very early on. My husband and I decided to go to Build a Bear to get a memorial Bear for our lost child. I wrote a letter to our child and put it in the Bear. It helped us a bit to do that.
Imagine dying and being ready for your family to spread your ashes in nature and finally free you only for them to lock you in a teddy bear
I find BaB plushies at good wills, and I and a friend rescue them when we find them.
So by the sounds of it, no one is too old for Build A Bear
Bro that teddy bouta be possessed by their father
Most of the stories are just people struggling with death and basically making their own tulpa💀
The first one was so wholesome, I’m happy that the worker could do it for the family.
That first one was so sweet 😢
That Sam Eevee one reminds me when my friend named his gift Eevee in Pokémon Heartgold Sam cause that's what he had named his dog, thing is, the Eevee was male, and he evolved it into a JOLTEON. I'm unsure if my friend truly didn't know the comic or said that to mess with me.
Im not even gonna defend myself here, I re-read the comic 8 times
@@broken_dagger we're all degens.
@@broken_daggeralright what the flip….
That’s gotta be one hell of a coincidence if he didn’t know, and if he did and didn’t think you knew, he probably silently laughed to himself that you’d never get the reference.
The first one was pretty wholesome ngl
5:43 homophobia is scary
and funny
@@N0RTAGEM-thh-debatable
And it should be illegal
@@alicebthegachaweirdo8378 correct
Sometimes it really is funny, the same way you might silently laugh to yourself when that one aunt starts talking about a weird conspiracy at the dinner table.
I love the face description of the live action Pumba!🤣🤣
LONG LIVE CHARLES ENTERTAINMENT CHEESE!!! HE WILL PLAY THE SUPER MARIO THEME AS OUR WORLD PLUMMITS INTO DARKNESS
Story #4 really concerns me. No mentally stable individual would yell about such a private affair for the whole world to hear, especially in a store full of young children. Was his girlfriend really cheating on him? Or could he just not handle his girlfriend being friends with another guy?
I mean, when you’re mad, you’re really mad. Was it the best thing to do? No but I think it’s amusing about the idea of him giving the bear to his ex and she hears all that. And I’ll be honest kids will likely hear far worse things at school than in public.
@@japanesejackalopeThat doesn’t excuse his lack of self control. If he has such a problem with controlling his temper, imagine what his ex had to go through. A lot of domestic abusers use their partner’s unfaithfulness to justify their abuse. I’m not saying he was abusive, but his behavior raises some red flags. I hope they both got the help they clearly needed.
@@avalasialove i never said it justified his behavior I was just saying people do crazy things when they’re mad. He for sure shouldn’t have done what he did. It’s hard to speculate on what the relationship really was from such a short bit of story though. It sounds like he caught her cheating and wanted to reveal to her that he found out in a way that would shock her. At least that’s what I gathered from this. Which if that is the case I don’t blame him but I’m bias as I’ve been cheated on several times with different partners. I never had that kind of reaction but I can see where he’s coming from.
Yeah I took it as a dangerous misogynist tbh. Even if someone was cheating that wording isn't something a man who. is safe for women to be around would say.
@@PrettyLesbian maybe but I don’t think it’s good to speculate on someone we don’t know with so little context. For all we know he could be a great guy but then his gf was caught cheating on him. Or he could be in the wrong but we don’t know either way it’s not good to label someone an abuser on limited context, man or not. I never understand why people in comment sections jump to say a man is abusive because he yelled.
imagine being called "charles entertainment cheese" after chucky cheese's and have the "Super mario bros" world 1 - 1 in your mind for all of eternity
The best build a bear employee I've ever worked with, the employee who helped at my daughters birthday, had blue hair. Literally no one cared.
Step 1. Go to Build-A-Bear.
Step 2. Make bear with a top hat and bowtie.
Step 3. For the musicbox, get the song "1905 Regina Music Box: Classical Overture"
Step 4. Freddy.
YES
xd
I might have to do this for my son!
Me, a Build-A-Bear employee: we actually do have an animatronic bear in stock. Don’t believe me? They’re called the Bearlieve bear. They wiggle their ears, respond to your voice, blink, and more! Just look them up and give them a bow tie and top hat and I’ll get you situated!
I was expecting wild stories, but the very first one made me tear up. They wanted to remember their grandfather in the sweetest way so much. That employee should’ve been Employee of the Month for going out the way to help a special Build-A-Bear request.
As someone who went into build a bear just to get a stuffed Eevee, yes.... they play kidz bop non stop. I skipped all the other extra steps just to get out of there. The employees made it less awkward thankfully as they also admitted they made a stuffed pokemon for themselves.
I got a pair of bears a while back to represent two characters I was writing a lot about at the time. Each one had a tumbled stone in the middle of their fluff representing my wishes for their future literature journeys. ^^;
i named my Eevee sam too.... this was before i found special websites and found sam the Eevee
cough cough e621 cough cough
5:26 I swear if some little girl said that to me that shit would be too funny
Back in 2008 I was working at a mall at the “fruit stand” that sells computers and phones. One time, a manager finished her shift and went home - only to get home and realize she forgot her keys at work. She had to open the store the next day, so she had to return to get them. In the meantime, the other managers took a photo of the keychain, applied the x-ray filter to it, and then printed it out. Then they went to Build-a-Bear and had them sew the keychain inside a bear. When the manager returned to get her keys, she found on her desk a teddy bear clutching an x-ray of the keys to its chest. 🤣 She then had to go to BaB to have the employees extract the keychain! (They were expecting her, of course.)
the pumba story made me laugh so hard.
Collectors weird me tf out. They’re always weirdly aggressive about it. I love build a bears but chill out.
"hey bro can you build freddy fazbear"
The heart I have in my old Build-a-Bear is built like a button and and when you press it, it beats like a heart beat :)
Last year my group of friends and I decided to build a bear to attend our college classes with us; for fidgeting, hugging, just to amuse our classmates when they walk in and see a bear with his own desk. So that's how 5 19-22-year-olds (and a 25-year-old in spirit, the worker let us grab an extra heart for the friend that couldn't come) made our beautiful son, Fredrick, and gave him six hearts (the employee insisted one for each of us). And this was a build-a-bear kiosk (full store closed years ago in that mall), so there's just normal mallgoers walking by, watching this group of college students rub fabric hearts in all the spots they tell you to. Awesome day; little man still sits at my desk in my room. He turns 1 on November 28th XD
“I will rip it out and feed it to the wolves”. 😮
As someone who has seen the comic in question of the eevee one i died laughing
heh, Normal McNormalpants
yeah same
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I was watching while my little cousin (aged 11) was playing Hollow Knight, and I laughed so hard he asked me to replay that part, I paused right before the Adult Comic part, and he repeatedly asked me what was so funny, I told him he'd get it when get grew up lol
@@Regigigas_YTwhat?? When he grows up???
I have a build a bear. I used to have them a lot when I was little from grandparents, but I only have one now, ans Ironically, Ive made it within the last two years and it was maybe one of the most special and needed experiences I had in a while.
I was in the middle of applying for Graduate school over seas. Decisions were being handed down in a matter of days, and I was so high strung and stressed I was finding it hard to breathe sometimes. My family took a trip into a major city near us for a few nights. And inside the mall we went to, there was a build a bear! A build a bear that, for some reason, had this very specific alien style bear. I asked the staff about it, and they said "Oh, yeah, thats supposed to be online and UK exclusive but a box of ten or so just like. Showed up one day."
Better believe I snatched that baby up. They gave me a silver heart. And for a lot of the little ceremony it was like "Think of flying so high, and going so many new places!" And in my very stressed and emotional state, I just started to cry. These very sweet people had no idea what this meant to me, all the factors that had to randomly come together for me to get this cutie.
And Ill say, Im happily writing this from overseas now, with Andromeda, my bear, on my bed ❤
That Eevee one; as soon as the guy said Sam, I was like "ohhhhhhhhhhhh". Interesting to know the employee and the poster knew this as well.
It's a furry world, and you're all just living in it XD
lol
Yup, lol
Honestly i dont think we should call putting a family members ashes in a build a bear weird. It is their way of honoring and remembering their deceased family member
9:08 I would of also wrote a number 1 and passed it to the interviewer. "If you aren't willing to care about something which took me months to achieve then I don't want to work for you as you clearly don't care for your employee's time". My blunt self would of said something like this and then walked out.
So... can people not name their eevee "Sam" anymore because some porn comic exists on the internet? story 15 makes so much sense.
It’s not that people can’t name it that it’s that it’s weird to base a plushie off a porn character
@@SpunchbubandfriendsSam is a very common name though
@@genericname2747 but for an eevee? Hell no + it’s not just one comic there’s like 7 volumes with like a kajilion pages each and a spin off with regular animals because of a cease and desist after the owners tried selling physical copies
@@Spunchbubandfriends why does bro know this
@@Freddy_Fazbear_Yo “research”
The first one was so wholesome tho ^^
If I ever go a Build-a-Bear again I would put the Castle town theme from Deltarune in as the recording.
Omg stolas pfp!!!!
Yessssss
:0 Another Stolas pfp!@@GloobiaGloobdo
with the eevee story, as soon as they said "Sam" I knew what they were talking about
ok maybe... just maybe i might be hiding something
*We're all degens here* ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Same
0:02 rip sobble lmao
I’m literally laughing to tears at story 13. Dear god that is beautiful xD
That little kid is a brat. Don't get her the gay bear, give the gay bear to a nice family, and shove some stuffing and a different gay heart into her hands and tell her to deal with it.
Not the damn "Sam" eevee 😭
Lol
I was kind of zoning out then I heard "eevee" then I heard "sam" and I was like "oh; oh no"
I’m surprised at how many people want to put ashes in their bears
My mom used to work at Build A Bear in OakPark Mall in Kansas, and she always wore this giant bear costume for a mascot that they had there in the 1990s and 2000s. So she was working there, and a group of women (probably 19 or 20) went to my mom's friend and asked, "Hey, is there a cute boy in there?" while touching the costume's ears and such, so my mom's friend told them, "No, but there is a lovely, nice lady in there." She said that as my mom was waving at them in a funny manner and the women left the store.
Number thirteen caught me off guard wtf
I've been in a Build-a-Bear and I think my ex may in fact be one of the weirdest customers to have been in that store. The first time we went there we left with a bear dressed in a shirt and underwear with no pants. Plus I'll never forget the look on the employee's face when she realized the bear was not for our son but was actually for herself. We did also get another bear that was specifically for him. He has Cerebral Palsy and is totally non-verbal but we did help him pick out what he wanted. We basically just hold up options for him and see which one he tends to stare at more. An employee kept coming over to see if we needed help but it actually ended up being more of a distraction cause he'd end up looking at her instead of the Build a Bear options.
Funny enough the girl who was working actually had blond hair with dark roots AND tattoos weird how that one store in the video was so strict about appearance but the one we went to didn't seem to care about their employee's appearance. There was another woman with dark hair who stayed at the stuffing machine and sewed up the bears, she also had tattoos. The only real rule they had about their appearance was no dangling piercings which was more of a safety issue because kids will try to pull at them so they have to take off any jewelry before they step out onto the floor.
The homophobic lil girl took me out 😭😭
I bet a surprising amount of young adults are customers, making bears ironically or unironically.
Me and my aunt nearly did that, and we're 21 and 29, respectively.
Build A Bear is awesome
I hate to say that as soon as he got done explaining the sam the Eevee story. I got war flash backs to when I stumbled upon that comic.
My boyfriend made me a Pompompurin build-a-bear for me, named him Attorney Purin, dressed him like Pheonix Wright and put a voice box in the paw, where when you pressed it it played a recording of my boyfriend saying "smooth brain." He got it for me as I tend to have nightmares at night when he's gone at school for more than 3 weeks. I love him so incredibly much.
That little girl who didn't want a "gay heart" should be taken away from her parents.
damn i hope that little girl gets a life lesson later
For the rainbow heart one? Honestly I wonder if she had a bad experience involving a gay person because I can't even think of a reason a child would say something like that because if it was religious reasons there would be different verbiage entirely.
@@catandrobbyfloresI’m more inclined to believe she’s probably around a family member (or even a friend who has a family member) who is homophobic that makes more sense to me
@@catandrobbyflores true, children most usually have to hear it or see it from somewhere before they believe it.
Story 15, did not expect to hear that certain eevee get referenced. That sure was a surprise, to hear of that certain comic. Though nowdays "sam" is some random type of canine, not an eevee anymore.
The first one makes me happy inside :)
Dude, you gave me a great gift idea for my mom. I lost my stepfather almost two years ago and the bear she got for grief was torn up by pets. Thanks
Filling a stuffed animal with the voices of the dead and actual human remains... I'm pretty sure this is how horror movies start.
I have an Eevee Build-A-Bear too! He was gift from my younger sibling for my birthday and his name is King after one of the main characters from The Owl House, which we were finishing watching at the time.
"Wait, why does an Eevee named Sam sound famil- OH"
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5:37 That’s honestly sounds like something I’d do back in my cringy werewolf phase 😂 Ahh, good times, but I’m glad it’s over lol