Fukubukuro 5: #MehDay

  • A mystery bag of inscrutable enigmas
  • Or, you know, leftover consumer junk
  • Bigger than usual - and even more disappointing
  • BYOLow Expectations
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Fuku #MehDay to us.

Holy crap! It’s our birthday! We did it! We kept the lights on! We actually launched a sale every day! For an entire year, you guys. You can count the number of daily-deal sites who’ve made it to their first birthday on one fireworks-mangled hand. And you don’t even need that many fingers to tally up the ones who still just offer one daily deal. Come party in the forum with us all day today!

365 stories. 365 videos. 365- er, more like 362 Meh faces, because we repeated a few. They Might Be Giants wrote not one but two songs for us. Somehow, we’ve enticed more than 3 million people to visit our site over the past year. And we managed to not drive away a fraction of those. We’d point out that this makes us the fastest-growing daily deal site in the history of Earth, if that didn’t make us sound like conceited d-bags. So forget we said anything.

Yes, it’s been an eventful year with a lot for us to be proud of.

So what?

When you’re a year old, a year seems like a long time. But this is just the beginning. We’re going to be doing this for a long, long time. Someday, we’ll look back at our primitive origins with a mixture of nostalgia and embarrassment and wonder at how much we didn’t know. And as we said yesterday, you were here to see it all! Hell yeah!

So, to celebrate, we’ve tweaked a few things to make our Fukubukuro mystery bag experience even more aggravating. If we’re being honest, a lot of the fun of the fuku comes from the variety of colorful curses, threats, and denunciations hurled at us by outraged customers.

Please direct those comments to our complaint department via Twitter with the hashtag #screwyouMeh. Maybe our servers crashed. Maybe the CAPTCHA did its whole “decide to break today” thing. Maybe we just ran out before you could get one. Infinite varieties of misery and frustration await!

Vent your rage with #screwyouMeh. We will address all complaints promptly as soon as #screwyouMeh becomes a worldwide trending topic.

As for you “lucky” ones, why not crow about your “good” fortune with the Twitter tag #MehDay? It’s a sure-fire way to tempt fate with your hubris, leading inevitably to the ironic justice you’ll receive when you open your package of mystery junk and find out the joke’s on you. Because make no mistake: this bag will be full of stuff you probably don’t want and definitely don’t need. You can’t say we didn’t warn you.

Whether you get the big fuku or you wind up saying #screwyouMeh, thanks for being around for our drooling, colicky, dirty-diaper phase. As we grow and walk upright and learn to talk and develop body hair and get surly and withdrawn over the coming years, may we all get the garbage we deserve!

So far today...

  • 52373 of you visited.
  • 28% on a phone, 6% on a tablet.
  • 5044 clicked meh
  • on this deal.

And you bought...

  • 619 of these.
  • We sold out at 12:01am.
  • That’s $3477 total.
  • (including shipping)

Who's buying this crap?