Daeneira Boivin I got my doll for a dollar at a garage sale, they don’t actually sell them anymore, but yes. It was marketed as Barbie’s friend Midge, and she was painted with a ring on her finger
I bet what really happened was some closeted gay man at Mattel was about to leave the company and he decided to see how far he could get away with making a gay Ken.
brilliant. i hope this was it. "yeah, you see this alllll over raves, clubs, MTV. Madonna's back-up dancers even wear these awesome necklaces. it actually symbolizes their love for Jesus." *snickers quietly*
I didn’t have any male dolls so my Barbies were lesbians, although ten year old me didn’t know that homophobia existed and never understood why my parents didn’t like when my barbies kissed.
I had a couple Barbies, and they were lesbians, and I had loads of Ken dolls, and they were all in gay relationships. And the guys wore dresses, and the girls would wear masculine clothes.
Yeah same. My parents are homophobic though. I think having a gay doll would great influences to kids, they’ll see nothing wrong with gay men and women and accept them as normal. You guys know Lelo and Stich and how Pleakley cross dresses? I used to watch Lelo and Stich all the time, and I see nothing wrong with cross dressers. See? Great thing to be exposed to, I don’t cross dress but I say it’s completely normal.
My own headcanon is that Ken is straight, but incredibly clueless. He just saw a bunch of cool people at a party having fun and wearing awesome clothes and decided to join without realizing the context of the situation. Then he goes on and on about how fun it is to finally hang out with the guys, and even though he loves barbie, it's nice to get away from her for awhile and just have a guy's night out, and the poor dudes around him are just confused about the weird mixed signals they're getting from him.
My wife told me about this. She flat out said "I would have totally bought it too! Look at it. He actually does look cooler. The oops gay bit is just a bonus."
My Ken doll was actually gay with my Red Power Ranger (this was before anyone had explained gay relationships to me in the '90s, I legit thought that I'd invented a new type of romance). My Barbie's boyfriend was a Gundam that my brother gave me, it was fucking rad.
My parents never bought me any male dolls as a kid, thinking id use them for inappropriate stuff like gasp *kissing?!* so all my dolls ended up being big lesbians and oops so did i
Well, little girl do love soft color like lavender and their clothes do have a lot of mesh, also they dont understand about gendered clothing that adult enforced.
Everyone’s talking about how they had lesbian Barbies but I had one Barbie who was a single mother with two daughters and they all owned a horse farm.. it was great
Finishing on mine my grandma got me a max steel and ninja turtle toys so the dog transformed into max steel and teamed up with the ninja turtles and saved Barbie
To be honest I never felt Ken had his own character when I was a kid. He has always just been Barbie's sidekick, just in the background to fill the BF role. I guess that's why so many people here (including me) are sharing instances in their childhood having Barbie date other toy characters (who DO have their own personality). I guess Ken as a single just seem boring, without Barbie, Ken is nothing (sad but true lol).
shiningdreamsGOGO I don’t understand that logic lol “he’ll turn gay if he likes playing with a miniature woman” Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Lolol
I didn't have Barbie's but my best friend did. We put her Ken doll in a shoe box and had all the other Barbies fold a funeral for him before shoving him under her bed for several years. Our barbies were always either lesbians, single, or girls who had boyfriends that went to a different School lol
+5Rounds Rapid Correct. As they couldnt call him GI Joe, and definitely not A Real American Hero, he was simply "Action Man" in the UK. His file card was changed to (I think) SAS from RA and his name and vitals altered. The character has since evolved down a different path than GI Joe and they are basically the toy equivalent of two species with a common ancestor at this point. And yes, as he is an American soldier and Mattel is an American Company, Action Man is indeed the foreign release.
Alita Hargrove pansexuality is about being attracted to people without caring about their gender identity. Also the difference between bi and pan people is that bi people have a preference wether it be 25% this and 75% that, or even 50/50. Pan people are just attracted to whoever they are attracted to regardless of preference. They aren’t the same thing, but they fall in a similar category.
Alita Hargrove it’s not a matter about being attracted to just masculine/feminine bodies. yes people do have masculine/feminine bodies, but a pan person is attracted to someone and they find whatever body they have attractive regardless of gender. And like I said bi people have a preference, and pan people do not.
My solution: Make ken gay, introduce two new male dolls one boyfriend to ken and a new more... uh... cool boyfriend for Barbie. (As a doll collector- we need more male dolls)
Ken is a boring white-bread Strait Dude, but his Cousin "Earring Magic" Ken (Ken is a Family Name, lots of Ken's in that family) is a successful Gay Rave Club Promoter.
I would say more bi. Plus why can't Ken secretly be bi? Why does it have to be just gay to be interesting? I'd find him more interesting if he was still in love with Barbie but went through a rave phase where he explored his bisexual side and was kind of conflicted. Thus keeping it a secret and moving on with his life, happily married to Barbie.
You’re missing the middle Amarica bible jackasses freaking out about how the devil is subversively sneaking homosexuals into their houses... and the company going “ahhhh 😬 fuck it, it never happened!!” Corporations like to sell things, being boycotted by the sort of trash that shops at Walmart would have would have resulted in a net loss, so they appeased the trash and kept their customer base intact.
I mean... it is hard ok. They already had enough trouble telling their parents that they worked at the Barbie division. Half of them lied and claimed they made hot wheels cars.
I had two ken dolls and like twenty barbies so me, lesbian who didn't realise I wasn't straight yet, had the barbies cycle through dating the kens and constantly dump them for another Barbie doll until I had a poly lesbian utopia and the kens found love in each other. I also, unrelatedly, had some small plastic baby barbie toys and I had a trench coat accessory so yknow. Had a lot of storylines of them babies fooling adults that they're one very tall, lumpy adult in a trench coat.
Carys Nevard I once made one of my babies pretend to be in a fashion show and she couldn’t walk properly. Needless to say, since this doll was old, her legs fell off in an hour...
Carys Nevard Also, one of my Barbies’ heads fell off, and me and a friend used her for a character we made called The Crazy Cheeseburger Lady. We made up a story that she got so fat that she died. Her head was salvaged and placed on a “robotic body” aka a Monster High doll stand.
Well my "Barbie" never dated Ken. I always made her date my bothers Batman doll (I ended up stealing him) and Batman always beat up Ken because he was super annoying.
I had Popstar Paul as Barbie's boyfriend. But even he was way too vanilla for my taste. In a tale as old as time, here was a brilliant woman being dragged down by fuckboys. But Barbie just kept being her badass self, trying to hold down the million jobs she had.
This was my thought...maybe Ken doesn't sell because small children aren't super interested in dating. It appears as an afterthought (I have these dolls, now what relationships could they have to each other), not an interest a child seeks out a new toy for.
The father of a little girl was shopping for a Barbie for his daughter. At the toy store, looking for a good deal, he asked the clerk if Barbie came with Ken. Without missing a beat, the clerk replied, "No, Barbie comes with G.I. Joe. She just fakes it with Ken."
This is hilarious. It is either a tragic coincidence where they accidentally made Ken look gay, or they researched what was "cool" Not realizing that it was all part of the gay community.
Broken Inkwell. Its not impossible that it was entirely accidental. Supposedly Robb Halford despite being gay had no idea that the studded leather getup he chose for his band had anything to do with gay club culture. He just thought it looked badass.
The crazy thing about this entire "Gay Ken Doll" fiasco is the basic gimmick of the long forgotten (and quite lame) Earring Magic line. The dolls all had hoops on them like that. Each doll came with a set of clip on earrings for girls. The gimmick was that those earrings could double as fashion accessories once they are clipped onto the rings. It looked like 80's rap bling bling. On the girl dolls it made sense. On Ken it looked kind of odd... of course Ken had to be a club kid to fit into that genre, because there was still a social stigma of men wearing earrings back then. The crazy thing was the way that doll was so over the top with the fashion and all.... it just screamed GAY! I bought it the day I saw it, because it was so campy! When I heard about the cockring connection I laughed so hard, because I think the secret gay mafia pulled a fast one on homophobic Mattel!! All the queens got the joke and Mattel got scared. The fact that the entire earring gimmick is ignored is just a way to make the story more dramatic telling it years later, but the truth was that old clueless people were slipping out of power.... a year later Ken had real hair and was hyper-masculine when Mattel unintentionally released an even gayer version of Ken that nobody even cared about.... "Shaving Magic Ken".... he had a beard, but you shaved it with hot water and a doll sized "razor".... Barbie wasn't even considered in this release. It was just Ken dressed like he was going on a hike in the mountains all alone with a big duffle bag full of accessories! So naturally I jumped at the chance to get him.... Earring needed a husband! They have been together ever since! The funniest moments are the ones that are unintended!
The shaving magic ken doll was the one my mother got me as a kid cause she thought ''finally a male barbie doll that had real hair'' I loved that guy. Never had another male barbie doll either, my ken dated definitely Action Man though, lmao.
Growing up if my barbies weren’t dating the 12 inch GI Joe my brother had.... she was dating the other barbies. I had some epic gay weddings with those dolls! That basically explains my adult life lol
@@chopsuymatus9349 Both ears being pierced is normal for females ... the sexuality thing only applies to men since men weren't intended to wear earrings initially.
Ken has always been Barbie's gay best friend and Barbie is just kinda lowkey asexual and aromantic and more interested in having 10+ jobs with a fashion hobby at the same time. At least that was the impression I always got. Would be cool if Ken was made officially gay and given a boyfriend though.
I only had 3 male dolls so came up with this story for my dolls that all the men were off fighting in this huge civil war while the women stayed behind and ran the government
@@bananasplitlady3045 while not a barbie or doll, when I was young, I was playing with a toy, and chewed his hand off. I decided his hand was eaten by a velociraptor.
I never used ken as Barbie’s boyfriend. I had a black male Bratz doll that I used as Barbie’s boyfriend, and if not him, I used the brown haired dude from Princess and the Pauper.
They could easily bring this back and just say that he found his sexuality. Like, especially now that so many little boys are trying to repress themselves. COME ON, PEOPLE! GET OT TOGETHER!
nah nah straight good, gay bad, big company can’t milk the conservatives of money if they make a gay doll. it was a big deal for my grandparents to get me a black barbie, i couldn’t imagine the literal fighting i would have to do to get a gay barbie-
@@thotrot8262 That's so true, and that hurts so much. I'm sure Mattel would genuinely be sued by some homophobic parent that thinks the toy is going to make her child gay. I can't believe homophobic people still exist, I swear. Especially those who treat homosexuality as some disease that can be caught, instead of someone finding their own individuality and being happy with someone.
@Tum Tum EXACTLY! I am SOOO for more bi representation! I just... this whole video and the idea of a gay doll toy has reminded me so much (as if my life hasn't already, being a gay guy living in an unaccepting family) that there's still so much homophobia in the world, and it's causing so many people to be so depressed because of it. It breaks my heart, honestly.
My Barbies totally dated Action Man. He could really grip her wrists, which was important for my disturbing exploration of the human psyche as a preteen. make of this statement what you will.
I was (and still am) very very into the Volkswagen Beetle, and when the Barbie New Beetle came out I got one for christmas, but my family made sure to package it with a few G.I. Joes to make sure I didn't "turn gay" from playing with "a girls toy"... That backfired spectacularly, lol.
Me and my sister used to make Ken the dude in distress while making a group of Barbies his saviour but instead of pairing Ken with any of the Barbies, Ken has a bro dinosaur who he spent time with until my brother broke him.
My friends and I made Ken get a career and a separate house since he always seemed to be mooching off of Barbie-living in her Dream House and driving her cars. Basically we hated Ken.
My Barbie was always married to her job. She was some sort of Indiana Jones type of thing, because I’ve always been androgynous with a slight preference for the masculine side of things (even though I’m born a female). The Ken doll, I ever had, actually belonged to my dad. But he wasn’t Ken, he was Agent 007 - James Bond. My dad and I bought one of those Barbie cars to paint it black, just so he could have an Aston Martin. My sisters Barbie was married to Ken and had loads of children. In a way, I guess that’s how we are irl now.
dude that sounds awesome meantime lol i barely played with any of my barbie stuff before getting lost in naruto, pokemon, and etc. but for the brief time i did play around with ken i always had him as the flaming gay fighting type gym leader in my own made up pokemon region
@@jaykaylin177 I packed away mine pretty late, in comparison to my classmates back then... But, yeah - I left Barbie for Naruto, Pokémon and other Nintendo games. I never left Indy and Jim behind tho - They´ll always be my favourite film boys.
Tomboy ... you're a tomboy ... like me ... I'm a tomboy ... it's a female that likes boyish stuff and isn't girlie ... seriously, why do ppl forget Tomboys exist....?
Speaking as someone who has worked for a large company (and been in contact with several others), it is amazing how little each department actually knows about what they're doing. The problem with a representative stating that "We didn't send researchers to raves, we worked with 5 year olds to design the doll" is that they can't KNOW that unless they actually were in the room during this. Now, I'd love to meet the 5 year old girl who suggested "mesh shirt", but I think it's more likely that the girls were shown different photographs or drawings of people wearing various outfits and asked if they thought it looked "cool". Asking a 5 year old "What does a cool person look like" is not gonna get you a straight answer, if any. It's way less time consuming to just show them something and ask if they like it or not. So yes, in that regard, Mattel DID indeed work together with 5 year old girls to make the doll. But someone in the design department had to come up with the design first, and if there were raves nearby at the time, then it's not that farfetched to guess where the inspiration might have come from.
When I wanted my barbie to have a boy friend I took a metal nail file and filed away her bosom the made boy clothing for her and cut and styled her hair of another doll that is
So here's a fun story: My brother is 8 years older than me and my sister is 10 years older. When I was little I would rip the heads off of mine and my sister's Barbies and then my siblings, being the sadistic 12 and 14 year olds they were, would put the Barbie doll heads in cups filled with water, stuck em' in the freezer, and come back a day later. When we'd come back to get them, the water would have been frozen and we would have ice cubes with Barbie doll heads inside them :)
I bet what really happened was some closeted gay man at Mattel was about to leave the company and he decided to see how far he could get away with making a gay Ken. -BooDoug187
You wold be surprised how outdated some toy companies can be, a bit still to this day but way more so at that time(and by proxy a bunch of old guys). Most likely they sent Jerry from the third floor to go around and take some photos, aiming for what 'irl ken lookalikes' are wearing these days, what 'actual cool ken-like guys' wear.
I love the idea of Mattel being so out of touch that they went through all this trouble to find a way to make Ken "cool" when that whole problem could probably have been solved simply by giving Ken a plain leather jacket and some washed out jeans ^^
[chuckles] As a kid, when I would go to my neighbor's, Ken Did have a bf. And we didn't even Know he was gay... We had just run short of fem dolls and he was about the right height compared to the other male dolls we had. XD He was usually with G.I.Joe villain, Destro. X1
I had the Pocahontas and John Smith dolls as well as a Barbie and a Ken....Barbie was usually on the bottom of the toy box, and Ken and John were a couple while Pocahontas took care of her animal friends and went on adventures.
They've definitely improved since the early days... Now the fashionista fashion packs have things like flannels and jeans, hoodies, Chuck Taylor's (Barbie's version, anyway)... Ken went from twink to fashionable man-bun.
STORY TIME!! I accidentally outed my Uncle and my Tio Because of this doll. So when I was like 3 my uncle brought this doll home. I wasn’t into dolls at the time and my uncles collected lots of items so nobody questioned it really. When I turned 8 I started getting into barbies and Bratz dolls and “studied” them lots. I began growing my collection and going after the rarest dolls. When I turned about 12 my uncles started trusting me with their collectibles and antiques. So imagine my excitement when I visit my uncles that thanksgiving and realized they have an Earring Magic Ken mint condition in the box with no scratches or dents on the box! I scream “TIO YOU HAVE A PERFECT GAY KEN!!” Everyone just stared in shock and began connecting the dots that my Tio and my uncle had been living in the same house together for nearly a decade, both had never dated women, and they took many vacations together. Nobody really said anything after that and I got instructed to sit down and eat my dinner but 18 months later we were invited to their wedding. So yeah thanks ken :) Btw Tio means uncle in Spanish.
My Mom got me this doll for Christmas 1993 trying to get me to start playing with my sister and it was this exact doll! I have a home movie of me opening it.
Ah, so that's were the Navy guys who were hunting for Dorothy ended up being employed after the Navy ! I'm pretty sure many people at Mattel knew perfectly what they were doing and just tried to see how far they could push it without management and executives catching on.
I used to steal my brothers action men to play with my dolls, I didn't know it was such a popular thing. I did it because he was ripped, had a cool face tattoo and could hols barbies hand because his hands were open. Didn't get a ken doll until I was thirteen as a joke.
It would actually be pretty cool if they made Ken Barbie's gay best friend instead. It would make him a lot more interesting and dynamic instead of "Ken is Barbie's handsome boyfriend :))))))) His only personality trait is that he loves her :)))))"
The thing is, if this ever happened nowadays, Mattel would have so gone with the gay Ken thing and been crowing about how progressive and inclusive they were. I have a feeling that all the marketing people who let it through would have thought Mattel did just that!
Does anyone remember the Ken doll from the Fashion in Paris or whatever movie? With his silver satin suit and glittery pink tie? Mine looks kinda like a stripper vampire now.
This was honest-to-god the only Ken doll I had as a kid until I got a Phoebus and Hercules doll later on (and my Barbies had orgies with the latter two because they were fully pose-able)
it's kinda funny to me how he puts the b before g in lgbtq+
I’m trying my best.
@@FactFiend and you're still doing great :)
@@FactFiend and we appreciate that.
Well, isn't it a grand touring event?
@@FactFiendwhy would you wear a shirt with green color on it, knowing too well you're going to use a green screen???
"Why isn't there a pregnant Barbie doll?"
"Because Ken came in another box"
Simon West There is one
I owned one!
Not really a r/woosh here. Pregnant Barbie isn't common knowledge
Joke is invalid. There is a pregnant barbie doll xD
Daeneira Boivin I got my doll for a dollar at a garage sale, they don’t actually sell them anymore, but yes. It was marketed as Barbie’s friend Midge, and she was painted with a ring on her finger
I bet what really happened was some closeted gay man at Mattel was about to leave the company and he decided to see how far he could get away with making a gay Ken.
brilliant. i hope this was it. "yeah, you see this alllll over raves, clubs, MTV. Madonna's back-up dancers even wear these awesome necklaces. it actually symbolizes their love for Jesus." *snickers quietly*
That guy would deserve an award
I didn’t have any male dolls so my Barbies were lesbians, although ten year old me didn’t know that homophobia existed and never understood why my parents didn’t like when my barbies kissed.
I had a couple Barbies, and they were lesbians, and I had loads of Ken dolls, and they were all in gay relationships. And the guys wore dresses, and the girls would wear masculine clothes.
thank you for awakening the memories of doing this that i completely forgot about
I did that too with my poly pockets and my little brother made his Batman and Joker kiss
Peony Tea considering some of the versions of the joker actually “need” Batman I feel that’s fitting
Yeah same. My parents are homophobic though. I think having a gay doll would great influences to kids, they’ll see nothing wrong with gay men and women and accept them as normal.
You guys know Lelo and Stich and how Pleakley cross dresses? I used to watch Lelo and Stich all the time, and I see nothing wrong with cross dressers. See? Great thing to be exposed to, I don’t cross dress but I say it’s completely normal.
My own headcanon is that Ken is straight, but incredibly clueless. He just saw a bunch of cool people at a party having fun and wearing awesome clothes and decided to join without realizing the context of the situation.
Then he goes on and on about how fun it is to finally hang out with the guys, and even though he loves barbie, it's nice to get away from her for awhile and just have a guy's night out, and the poor dudes around him are just confused about the weird mixed signals they're getting from him.
I... I love that headcanon
I love this
this is an amazing headcanon I support it
Lmao that's the same headcannon I had for Ken
That’s how my fashion sense evolved.
Fun fact. Apparently, the position of the ring means that Ken is actually a bottom.
Well. without a penis you don't really have much of a choice.
haze no ki lol!
we been knew
Imperfect Apollo are we supposed to be surprised???
*William Belli voice* that. boy. is. a. BOTTOOOOOOOM
My wife told me about this. She flat out said "I would have totally bought it too! Look at it. He actually does look cooler. The oops gay bit is just a bonus."
So not only is Ken gay, he's a rare gay?
He's Mew from the original pokemon of Dolls. The rarity consumes you.
@@oH_._ yes
hes a limited edition gay
Abrilla 2 M
I don’t know man, seems kinda gay to me.
@Abrilla 2 M mhm suuuuuuure
My Ken doll was actually gay with my Red Power Ranger (this was before anyone had explained gay relationships to me in the '90s, I legit thought that I'd invented a new type of romance).
My Barbie's boyfriend was a Gundam that my brother gave me, it was fucking rad.
Can I be your Barbie
No gays didn't exist until you invented them
Calvin Pope yeah
no no thats where youre wrong you truly bestowed a gift upon us, created a new romance and presented gay to us thank you our lord and saviour
can I just be your friend 😂 I actually love you like omg
My parents never bought me any male dolls as a kid, thinking id use them for inappropriate stuff like gasp *kissing?!* so all my dolls ended up being big lesbians and oops so did i
I’m beginning to see a trend in all of these comments
Happen to me. Played with power ranger and some knock off military dude toys. All grown up and i love seeing sweaty muscluar men.
I played with my friend’s boy and girl dolls as a kid, now grown up me loves both. There is definitely a pattern here somewhere.
I just took one of my Barbies and cut her hair off.
🤣🤣
mattel really expects me to believe that little 5-year-old girls came up with the idea for a lavender mesh shirt? ok.... sure.... lol
Little girls love lavender too!
It's true, and it worked very well for Lego!
Maybe the little girl had a gay raver brother :P
And a cock ring necklace
Well, little girl do love soft color like lavender and their clothes do have a lot of mesh, also they dont understand about gendered clothing that adult enforced.
My Barbie married Optimus Prime and they were very happy together.
my barbie married yoda-
@@berrytsai That's a woman of culture right there.
@@berrytsai I spit out my food in surprise but I approve
My Barbie married John cena 😂
Mine was killed by the monster high girls because they were cooler
The best thing about it is that the placement of his “necklace”indicated he’s a bottom
Shelby Creed the stereotype fits how he looks, too.
hell yeah
Power bottom
How did tops position it?
From what I've read, the ring that indicates his position is actually the one attached to his vest. It'd be on the other side if he were a top.
I had this Ken as a kid. Damn am I disappointed I donated him years ago.
Could've had alot of money if you sold it aswell.
Nah, I actually played with my toys so he wasn’t in good condition.
@@qwinlyn 😂😂😂
I drew all over my Barbie dolls. Their faces EVERYWHERE
Are you a boy who plays whit Barbie dolls
I find it hilarious how Mattel forgot they broke Barbie and ken up in the 2000s and have Barbie a way cooler Aussie surfer boyfriend
I remember freaking out learning that as a kid. I was heavily confused, if this was a big joke and why are they still dating.
Random Girl I also heard they’re related, but I don’t know if that’s real
@@sdolli616 i think the creator of barbie named barbie and ken after her 2 kids
we stan Ken and wholesome masculinity
@@strawberry_cosmosss ..... and they're bf/gf? That took a creepy turn.
Everyone’s talking about how they had lesbian Barbies but I had one Barbie who was a single mother with two daughters and they all owned a horse farm.. it was great
This here is so fucking adorable :-)
Your Barbie’s are out living their best lives.
That was exactly me and my sister. Except it was Bratz Dolls
My sister had 3 Barbie dolls and one Barbie dog and I used the dog so 3 Barbie sisters and a dog
Finishing on mine my grandma got me a max steel and ninja turtle toys so the dog transformed into max steel and teamed up with the ninja turtles and saved Barbie
If they made ken gay officially im pretty sure ken would get a huge surge in popularity
And a lot of rule 34
And many yaoi fangirls (they’re disgusting)
@@riza3165 Yes they are.
Erza Sakurashi
Oh definitely
But they have buying power and from a business standpoint its actually a great idea
Not in Iran.
what do you mean accidentally... *stops pouring wine*
*DAMN* WHAT’S THAT A REFERENCE TO
Was this a reference to r/noahgettheboat ?
If it’s a different reference, I’m sorry, that was just the last thing I could think
Nice profile picture I love Ranma!
*jazz music stops*
To be honest I never felt Ken had his own character when I was a kid. He has always just been Barbie's sidekick, just in the background to fill the BF role.
I guess that's why so many people here (including me) are sharing instances in their childhood having Barbie date other toy characters (who DO have their own personality).
I guess Ken as a single just seem boring, without Barbie, Ken is nothing (sad but true lol).
shiningdreamsGOGO
I don’t understand that logic lol “he’ll turn gay if he likes playing with a miniature woman”
Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Lolol
Someone gave me a ken and I left him in a box and made Barbie exclusively into Frankie stein and the black haired chick from the online series.
I didn't have Barbie's but my best friend did. We put her Ken doll in a shoe box and had all the other Barbies fold a funeral for him before shoving him under her bed for several years. Our barbies were always either lesbians, single, or girls who had boyfriends that went to a different School lol
i like the new barbie vlogs. ken has a personality in those.
Barbie has all these cool jobs and hobbies and Ken just boyfriend man
Idk about y'all saying "well my babies dated ____" don't lie to me you know damn well your barbies were being sacrificed and decapitated
yea I sacrificed mine to satan
I never... Played with my dolls like that... I just dressed them up and tried to make clothes... D;
I cut my barbie's legs and arms off
That was my baby dolls my Barbie's were lesbian
i had a fucking strip club cuz i saw my dad playing gta
“You put Ken next to Action Man and that’s basically you vs the guy she tells you not to worry about.”
Action Man was the shit xD
Isn’t Action Man the foreign version of GI Joe?
5Rounds Rapid Foreign to who?
+5Rounds Rapid Correct. As they couldnt call him GI Joe, and definitely not A Real American Hero, he was simply "Action Man" in the UK. His file card was changed to (I think) SAS from RA and his name and vitals altered. The character has since evolved down a different path than GI Joe and they are basically the toy equivalent of two species with a common ancestor at this point.
And yes, as he is an American soldier and Mattel is an American Company, Action Man is indeed the foreign release.
Mattel: He's straight
Fact Fiend: He's gay
Me: So he's bi then
or maybe he's pan
HELL YEAH BI RIGHTS
@Genevieve If Bi isn't real then what is it when a person is is attracted to both male and female genders? 🤔😕
Alita Hargrove pansexuality is about being attracted to people without caring about their gender identity. Also the difference between bi and pan people is that bi people have a preference wether it be 25% this and 75% that, or even 50/50. Pan people are just attracted to whoever they are attracted to regardless of preference. They aren’t the same thing, but they fall in a similar category.
Alita Hargrove it’s not a matter about being attracted to just masculine/feminine bodies. yes people do have masculine/feminine bodies, but a pan person is attracted to someone and they find whatever body they have attractive regardless of gender. And like I said bi people have a preference, and pan people do not.
Lmao when I played with barbies they'd always just murder Ken
He had it coming, he had it coming, he had it coming all along.
Gianna’s wonderful world - vlogs and games if you had been there, if you had seen it, i bet you would have done the same!
I had a ken doll and he raped my barbie dolls. I was a weird kid
Nebel Foxy THE DUCK?
I’m wheezing i-
My solution: Make ken gay, introduce two new male dolls one boyfriend to ken and a new more... uh... cool boyfriend for Barbie. (As a doll collector- we need more male dolls)
MiotaLee yeah we do need more male dolls there aren't alot.
Giver her boyfriend many tattoos. So many tattoos
MiotaLee, that's a perfect idea. They should make one of the new dudes have facial hair. That would be cool.
Agreed.
They should also put in a lesbian.
Isn't Max steel Barbie's boyfriend , I mean for mine he was
If you had told that to 5 y.o. me I would've cried.
Thats 10x better than Prince Charming! (aka what my Barbie dated)
My sister's always took my Max steel doll.. er.. action figure
When I played with barbie it was like game of thrones but they’re lesbians.
I'm 17 and never had a max steel..are they still being made? 👀
Ken is a boring white-bread Strait Dude, but his Cousin "Earring Magic" Ken (Ken is a Family Name, lots of Ken's in that family) is a successful Gay Rave Club Promoter.
We all need a healthy dose of Earring Magic Ken in our attitudes.
YAS!
I would say more bi. Plus why can't Ken secretly be bi? Why does it have to be just gay to be interesting? I'd find him more interesting if he was still in love with Barbie but went through a rave phase where he explored his bisexual side and was kind of conflicted. Thus keeping it a secret and moving on with his life, happily married to Barbie.
SCREAMILLUSION Bit of a deep narrative for a toy's backstory. Are you in the wrong thread?
This is CaNNoN
Mattel literally went into FULL NO HOMO DAMAGE CONTROL
😂😂😂
When an entire company is insucure about its sexuality
*W h e e z e*
XD
You’re missing the middle Amarica bible jackasses freaking out about how the devil is subversively sneaking homosexuals into their houses... and the company going “ahhhh 😬 fuck it, it never happened!!”
Corporations like to sell things, being boycotted by the sort of trash that shops at Walmart would have would have resulted in a net loss, so they appeased the trash and kept their customer base intact.
I mean... it is hard ok.
They already had enough trouble telling their parents that they worked at the Barbie division. Half of them lied and claimed they made hot wheels cars.
I had two ken dolls and like twenty barbies so me, lesbian who didn't realise I wasn't straight yet, had the barbies cycle through dating the kens and constantly dump them for another Barbie doll until I had a poly lesbian utopia and the kens found love in each other.
I also, unrelatedly, had some small plastic baby barbie toys and I had a trench coat accessory so yknow. Had a lot of storylines of them babies fooling adults that they're one very tall, lumpy adult in a trench coat.
I loved doing that with the baby dolls, along with my barbies going on adventures that usually ended with them all getting decapitated
Carys Nevard I once made one of my babies pretend to be in a fashion show and she couldn’t walk properly. Needless to say, since this doll was old, her legs fell off in an hour...
InkBlackShadow my Barbie got decapitated from my friend brushing her hair
Can you just marry me lmao
Carys Nevard Also, one of my Barbies’ heads fell off, and me and a friend used her for a character we made called The Crazy Cheeseburger Lady. We made up a story that she got so fat that she died. Her head was salvaged and placed on a “robotic body” aka a Monster High doll stand.
Well my "Barbie" never dated Ken. I always made her date my bothers Batman doll (I ended up stealing him) and Batman always beat up Ken because he was super annoying.
Dimas Mejia Haha, a wife-beating joke
Good job Batman.
Be like Batman
my action man dated batman
Rhys Waites you win❤
/ Snow don't we all wish that?
My barbies never had boyfriends though, they were too busy 'shopping' and and having 10+ jobs 🗿
Mel M same and I basically used the ken dolls as their dance partners or secretary’s 😂🤣
Do they regrer putting career ahead of family now?
I had Popstar Paul as Barbie's boyfriend. But even he was way too vanilla for my taste. In a tale as old as time, here was a brilliant woman being dragged down by fuckboys. But Barbie just kept being her badass self, trying to hold down the million jobs she had.
Mine were to busy being kidnapped and .... uhh dang was I okay when I was a kid
This was my thought...maybe Ken doesn't sell because small children aren't super interested in dating. It appears as an afterthought (I have these dolls, now what relationships could they have to each other), not an interest a child seeks out a new toy for.
The father of a little girl was shopping for a Barbie for his daughter. At the toy store, looking for a good deal, he asked the clerk if Barbie came with Ken.
Without missing a beat, the clerk replied, "No, Barbie comes with G.I. Joe. She just fakes it with Ken."
Charlie Ellis well thats messed up
Why THANK you! ;)
Charlie Ellis Wasn't a compliment.
I have no control over your intent. But I *do* have control of how I respond. Have a blessed day!
Im dying of laughter
i guarantee that researcher did that intentionally as a laugh thinking they wouldnt actually do it
Ken:
Mattel: hey kids this is what you'd define as hip and groovin right?
This is hilarious. It is either a tragic coincidence where they accidentally made Ken look gay, or they researched what was "cool" Not realizing that it was all part of the gay community.
Lol they wanted to make Ken cool and they succeeded : D
Broken Inkwell. Its not impossible that it was entirely accidental. Supposedly Robb Halford despite being gay had no idea that the studded leather getup he chose for his band had anything to do with gay club culture. He just thought it looked badass.
Broken Inkwell it IS cool
Broken Inkwell How do you look gay? I thought your sexuality isn't a fashion statement. I mean GI Joe can be gay since manly gay dudes exist.
In early 2000s kids wore rings around the neck I guess we didn't know gay men wore cock rings around their neck at gay clubs now it's funny
The crazy thing about this entire "Gay Ken Doll" fiasco is the basic gimmick of the long forgotten (and quite lame) Earring Magic line. The dolls all had hoops on them like that. Each doll came with a set of clip on earrings for girls. The gimmick was that those earrings could double as fashion accessories once they are clipped onto the rings. It looked like 80's rap bling bling. On the girl dolls it made sense. On Ken it looked kind of odd... of course Ken had to be a club kid to fit into that genre, because there was still a social stigma of men wearing earrings back then. The crazy thing was the way that doll was so over the top with the fashion and all.... it just screamed GAY! I bought it the day I saw it, because it was so campy! When I heard about the cockring connection I laughed so hard, because I think the secret gay mafia pulled a fast one on homophobic Mattel!! All the queens got the joke and Mattel got scared. The fact that the entire earring gimmick is ignored is just a way to make the story more dramatic telling it years later, but the truth was that old clueless people were slipping out of power.... a year later Ken had real hair and was hyper-masculine when Mattel unintentionally released an even gayer version of Ken that nobody even cared about.... "Shaving Magic Ken".... he had a beard, but you shaved it with hot water and a doll sized "razor".... Barbie wasn't even considered in this release. It was just Ken dressed like he was going on a hike in the mountains all alone with a big duffle bag full of accessories! So naturally I jumped at the chance to get him.... Earring needed a husband! They have been together ever since! The funniest moments are the ones that are unintended!
That's so cute, thank you for sharing!
So glad they are happy together bless
The shaving magic ken doll was the one my mother got me as a kid cause she thought ''finally a male barbie doll that had real hair''
I loved that guy. Never had another male barbie doll either, my ken dated definitely Action Man though, lmao.
As a smol gay bean I used to make any male dolls I had date and any female dolls I had date.
I was a weirdly progressive seven year old
Everyone saying their Barbie dated Max Steel and other cool action man while I made my sister's Barbie date my t-rex
And their love defied all expectations I'm sure.
Lol
I hope the relationship worked out
LOL!!!!!!!
my barbies were raging lesbians
You say LBGT but I've only ever heard people saying LGBT and it's warping my brain
It's a spectrum of gay
LGBT stands for Luigi Gots Big Tiddies
Ayy, bisexuals get higher billing than gay people. XD
A Person It’s when you’re sexually attracted to the Beegees.
@@hijohn3808 soo what's LBGT?
did anyone else stack Lego heads on other Lego heads and make a 8 headed Lego character
bro i had like 14 heads 😎
Hell yeah
Why are you like this?
HEHEHEEEE
Pathetic *looks at Lego with 16 heads*
“What’s this giant blip in the 90’s?”
“We don’t talk about that.”
That has the same energy of "We don't go to Ravenholm,"
Growing up if my barbies weren’t dating the 12 inch GI Joe my brother had.... she was dating the other barbies. I had some epic gay weddings with those dolls! That basically explains my adult life lol
My Barbies would have orgies in the GI Joe tent my uncle left at my grandpas house, or they would jump to their deaths off of the mountain (the sofa)
I knew I wasn’t the only weirdo! GI Joe’s kung fo grip fits perfectly around Barbie’s neck, 50 shades of pink in my imagination.
Cassandra Darby damn that's kinky.
iN a bAg Yeah it is! That is me though🤷🏽♀️
Cassandra Darby I have gay barbies
And the one ear ring on the left ear, also is a gay signalling thing.
TheJadeFist right ear is gay. Left ear is straight. But nobody lives by this standard these days lol
**loud sigh**
..MOM I NEED MY EAR PIERCED
This is some nice information I really needed today 😊
*Both my ears are pierced*
(female bisexual undercover)
Chopsuy Matus *fingerguns* ayyyy
@@chopsuymatus9349 Both ears being pierced is normal for females ... the sexuality thing only applies to men since men weren't intended to wear earrings initially.
When I was a kid I didn’t have any male dolls so I’d make my female dolls kiss each other by smashing them into each other...
same-
Ha ha,me too
same
I only had male dolls lol
Chaos Obligation Gacha lmao I’m straight 🤣
Ken has always been Barbie's gay best friend and Barbie is just kinda lowkey asexual and aromantic and more interested in having 10+ jobs with a fashion hobby at the same time. At least that was the impression I always got.
Would be cool if Ken was made officially gay and given a boyfriend though.
barbie is ken's beard.
Filipa Maria Costa what beard?
it's slang. beard: any opposite sex escort taken to an event in an effort to give a homosexual person the appearance of being heterosexual.
I've always thought he was bi in my mind
Barbie gives me aro vibes but not ace.
My Barbies never dated anyone. They got got their hands chewed off by a 5 years old me instead.
Same
(Shane Dawson voice)
ME!
Eloize Aubin same
Mine were just staying at their house while being single as well
Saaameeee
if they actually made ken gay and introduced another male doll to be his boyfriend- now that would make the dolls sell. id buy 10
Purple Demon omg I can do that now. I’m ordering 2 male dolls.
I'm sure you two would
Yes ,Action man is his man. That why his show got can .
Definitely not back then, but it would sell now for sure.
Conservatives would probably bomb mattel
Make him bi problem solved he can go both ways
Yeeeees
@Squeezably Soft Omg goals💗
Maybe pan ?
@@Ep1-kh1gh Yessss Bi or Pan Ken 😍 Barbie next step is to turn in to a LGBT inclusive franchise.
make ace. lol
My sister actually did raid my toys and had Barbie dating my GI Joes
I stole my brothers power ranges lol
Same
BahhahaHhahaha I'd just take my brothers wrestling toys and make my barbies date them-
Did the same to my brother---your sacrifices were appreciated.
The shirt is hilarious. If you dyed your hair green for one of these vids, that'd be epic.
Rik Rikonius Wearing a green wig would work too, and be way less permanent! :D
No, a green morph suit would be way better
Well, his shirt kept bleeding into the green screen.
I used to have green hair and went into a photo booth at a party with my kids, when we got the picture half my head was gone 😂
You can also find non-permament dye! It's not as 'professional' as actual hairdresser dye but I think it would be funny for him to do that.
I only had 3 male dolls so came up with this story for my dolls that all the men were off fighting in this huge civil war while the women stayed behind and ran the government
Brilliant!
My Ken's arms came off, so I decided he lost them in a war.
That’s so much better than the
“gUeSs I bEtTeR mAkE hIm A sAnDwIcH”
commercial.
@@bananasplitlady3045 while not a barbie or doll, when I was young, I was playing with a toy, and chewed his hand off. I decided his hand was eaten by a velociraptor.
@@dexeronstarsurge Hahaha cool
Lmao all they could've done is just say, "Ken's Bi."
Back in the 90s? Impossible.
@@falconeshield Bi guys didn't exist in the 90s
MannyJazzcats have you heard of freddie mercury, mate?
@@Niop_Tres It didn't seem like a joke
Gay Ken was great but the spikey dinosaur had me rolling on the ground
mr Ruiz
Did you mean: Big Spiky Dinosaur?
Eva Marias heck yes!
mr Ruiz Z
I never used ken as Barbie’s boyfriend. I had a black male Bratz doll that I used as Barbie’s boyfriend, and if not him, I used the brown haired dude from Princess and the Pauper.
Nakia11798
lol I never made them date. They fought to the death.
all my barbies were lesbians anyway, why would they date a man when they could date each other?
Nakia11798 sorry, hit by accident
My cousin used our max steel and a cyborg
I made ken as a evil bad guy trying to kidnap my monster high dolls XD
They could easily bring this back and just say that he found his sexuality. Like, especially now that so many little boys are trying to repress themselves. COME ON, PEOPLE! GET OT TOGETHER!
nah nah straight good, gay bad, big company can’t milk the conservatives of money if they make a gay doll.
it was a big deal for my grandparents to get me a black barbie, i couldn’t imagine the literal fighting i would have to do to get a gay barbie-
@@thotrot8262 That's so true, and that hurts so much. I'm sure Mattel would genuinely be sued by some homophobic parent that thinks the toy is going to make her child gay. I can't believe homophobic people still exist, I swear. Especially those who treat homosexuality as some disease that can be caught, instead of someone finding their own individuality and being happy with someone.
Osha Hott 10/10 would buy that and I don’t even like Barbie dolls. Always hated them.
@Tum Tum EXACTLY! I am SOOO for more bi representation!
I just... this whole video and the idea of a gay doll toy has reminded me so much (as if my life hasn't already, being a gay guy living in an unaccepting family) that there's still so much homophobia in the world, and it's causing so many people to be so depressed because of it. It breaks my heart, honestly.
@Tum Tum He could be pan. Or maybe bicurious
My Barbies totally dated Action Man. He could really grip her wrists, which was important for my disturbing exploration of the human psyche as a preteen.
make of this statement what you will.
I.... I love this entire statement
Mine too, Ken was too soft.
my barbies dated ninja turtles, talk about disturbing explorations
I can only imagine what your dolls got into... And I'm enjoying it.
Didn't have any Ken dolls growing up, or any action figures. Sooo... All my barbies were either gay or single mothers.
I was (and still am) very very into the Volkswagen Beetle, and when the Barbie New Beetle came out I got one for christmas, but my family made sure to package it with a few G.I. Joes to make sure I didn't "turn gay" from playing with "a girls toy"... That backfired spectacularly, lol.
Me and my sister used to make Ken the dude in distress while making a group of Barbies his saviour but instead of pairing Ken with any of the Barbies, Ken has a bro dinosaur who he spent time with until my brother broke him.
My friends and I made Ken get a career and a separate house since he always seemed to be mooching off of Barbie-living in her Dream House and driving her cars. Basically we hated Ken.
My Barbies dated my Sailor Moon dolls when I was a kid. That probably should have been a bigger hint to my family that I was lesbian, lmao
I was hanging my dolls and doing abortions (i had pregnant doll) :l
Maybe Ken could date Tuxedo Mask. He seemed kinda gay anyway.
@Eseercam Naaah, they were cousins. Them gays to fabulous for us mericans
Mine dated Monster highs lmao
@@thefluffyneko4450 this is late but they were lesbian originally in Japan but in other places they made them cousins.
My Barbie was always married to her job. She was some sort of Indiana Jones type of thing, because I’ve always been androgynous with a slight preference for the masculine side of things (even though I’m born a female). The Ken doll, I ever had, actually belonged to my dad. But he wasn’t Ken, he was Agent 007 - James Bond. My dad and I bought one of those Barbie cars to paint it black, just so he could have an Aston Martin. My sisters Barbie was married to Ken and had loads of children. In a way, I guess that’s how we are irl now.
dude that sounds awesome
meantime lol i barely played with any of my barbie stuff before getting lost in naruto, pokemon, and etc. but for the brief time i did play around with ken i always had him as the flaming gay fighting type gym leader in my own made up pokemon region
@@jaykaylin177 I packed away mine pretty late, in comparison to my classmates back then... But, yeah - I left Barbie for Naruto, Pokémon and other Nintendo games. I never left Indy and Jim behind tho - They´ll always be my favourite film boys.
Tomboy ... you're a tomboy ... like me ... I'm a tomboy ... it's a female that likes boyish stuff and isn't girlie ... seriously, why do ppl forget Tomboys exist....?
Nicoline Hovmand Tomboy. Female that likes male stuff.
Speaking as someone who has worked for a large company (and been in contact with several others), it is amazing how little each department actually knows about what they're doing. The problem with a representative stating that "We didn't send researchers to raves, we worked with 5 year olds to design the doll" is that they can't KNOW that unless they actually were in the room during this. Now, I'd love to meet the 5 year old girl who suggested "mesh shirt", but I think it's more likely that the girls were shown different photographs or drawings of people wearing various outfits and asked if they thought it looked "cool". Asking a 5 year old "What does a cool person look like" is not gonna get you a straight answer, if any. It's way less time consuming to just show them something and ask if they like it or not.
So yes, in that regard, Mattel DID indeed work together with 5 year old girls to make the doll. But someone in the design department had to come up with the design first, and if there were raves nearby at the time, then it's not that farfetched to guess where the inspiration might have come from.
Does Barbie come with Ken?
No, she comes with Stacie. She fakes it with Ken.
TGITFH isn’t Stacie her sister
Lucy Cox
*_SWEET HOME ALABAMA INTENSIFIES_*
Dream Catcher wait its barbies sister and its not incest,.. i think lmao
Lucy Cox stacie is her niece
@@iliasstergiou958 Keeping it in the family.
Mattel: Ken is straight.
The rest of the world: KEN IS GAY!!!! He needs a boyfriend!
He needs a Gareth.
memespace
He needs action man lmao
Also Barbie could have a goth sweetheart man
"What's this giant blip in the nintetes?"
*"oh we don't talk about that."*
I had three different Kens growing up, two were dating and the third was pining after one of my barbies. Most of my barbies were lesbians though
Vixen Fox same
Your one messed up indivudiual
Same here lmao
@@feliciaross985 peepee poopoo
Felicia Ross ok boomer
I actually had one of those when I was a little girl. Had NO idea it wasn't an ordinary Ken.
I never had a ken doll, so my Barbie dated Max Steel
When I wanted my barbie to have a boy friend I took a metal nail file and filed away her bosom the made boy clothing for her and cut and styled her hair of another doll that is
My barbie doll and elsa literally dated John Cena.
Mine dated another Barbie
My skipper doll dated my belle Barbie
my barbie dated a bottle of lotion
8:11 "[Mattel] sent a representative called Lisa McKenDoll" .... well, with a name like that what else are you gonna do with your life?
So here's a fun story:
My brother is 8 years older than me and my sister is 10 years older. When I was little I would rip the heads off of mine and my sister's Barbies and then my siblings, being the sadistic 12 and 14 year olds they were, would put the Barbie doll heads in cups filled with water, stuck em' in the freezer, and come back a day later. When we'd come back to get them, the water would have been frozen and we would have ice cubes with Barbie doll heads inside them :)
Caleb Bessler Yes
@Caleb Bessler exactly
@Caleb Bessler 😆LOL
Rosebud how did your parents feel we’re the like “Damnit they’re freezing the barbies again”
ice ice barbie
Not sure if this was said before, but making Ken a rave-queen rentboy puts him more in line with Barbie's origins as a German sexdoll.
What? :D
What?? ':D
Wow. What??? :-D
What???? :'D
LMAOOOO EVERYONES SAYIN THE SAME DAMN THING "What?"
Honestly Ken just screams Gay Bottom, i always used to make Barbie and Ken just best friends (time to time, i also made Ken wear Barbie's clothes)
"My big spiky dinosaur." Sounds like a euphemism for something.
18+ only.
Good you're 18. So, is it a
Dildo?
I mean, they could have just made Ken look like a stereotypical "bad boy" instead of whatever that is.
At the time, that would have been black leather, stubble & tats. Kinda like now. This Ken was WAY more kid-friendly...
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 kid friendly??? How the hell is that more kid friendly?
@@ancermet6734 Cos he's shiny and pastel and who really knows what that thing is he's wearing round his neck lol?
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 shiny and pastel is kid friendly
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 leather stubble and tats is pretty gay too tho lol
This Ken kinda looks like Mr. Clean before he went bald.
I always knew Mr. Clean went to raves
I bet what really happened was some closeted gay man at Mattel was about to leave the company and he decided to see how far he could get away with making a gay Ken. -BooDoug187
You wold be surprised how outdated some toy companies can be, a bit still to this day but way more so at that time(and by proxy a bunch of old guys). Most likely they sent Jerry from the third floor to go around and take some photos, aiming for what 'irl ken lookalikes' are wearing these days, what 'actual cool ken-like guys' wear.
I had a surfer Ken and I absolutely hated that he has "real" hair. So I cut it all of and he was Barbie's man servant
Make him part of the femdom
He look like a lavender scented billy idol
This, here, is weirdly appealing...
I love the idea of Mattel being so out of touch that they went through all this trouble to find a way to make Ken "cool" when that whole problem could probably have been solved simply by giving Ken a plain leather jacket and some washed out jeans ^^
i’m glad everyone had lesbian barbies
Mine were asexual, which is fitting since I'd end up Ace 20 years later.
Me and my sister actually used max steel action figures and gi Joe's instead of Ken. We had like 2 Ken dolls and five to six max steel ones
Im glad im not the only one that used max steel. I had like 100 barbies and 5 max steels
I used to have him. He was the absolute star of a charity auction we threw that year. thanks cockring Ken!
Episode 69 of "Why the hell is this in my recommended?"
Speedy_Boi3000 nice
nice
Nice
Nice
Nice
In the last picture, you can see he actually has a second ring on his vest.
Aidan H ken got freaky in his rave days
LET👏KEN👏HAVE👏A👏BF
[chuckles] As a kid, when I would go to my neighbor's, Ken Did have a bf. And we didn't even Know he was gay... We had just run short of fem dolls and he was about the right height compared to the other male dolls we had. XD
He was usually with G.I.Joe villain, Destro. X1
nice icon let mondo oowada have ishimaru as a bf
I had the Pocahontas and John Smith dolls as well as a Barbie and a Ken....Barbie was usually on the bottom of the toy box, and Ken and John were a couple while Pocahontas took care of her animal friends and went on adventures.
kstormgeistgem when I used to play with monster high dolls I only had females but even when I got a male doll I still paired females with females
kstormgeistgem I ship it
Is no one going to talk about how TH-cam suddenly recommended this a year after it was posted ?
- celesstea nope. We're just going to enjoy the bizarre, ridiculous, and titilatingly gay in our recommended.
Virgin ken vs. Chad action man
v i r g i n v s c h a d
They've definitely improved since the early days... Now the fashionista fashion packs have things like flannels and jeans, hoodies, Chuck Taylor's (Barbie's version, anyway)... Ken went from twink to fashionable man-bun.
I never liked Ken's fashion choices, TBH.
STORY TIME!! I accidentally outed my Uncle and my Tio Because of this doll. So when I was like 3 my uncle brought this doll home. I wasn’t into dolls at the time and my uncles collected lots of items so nobody questioned it really. When I turned 8 I started getting into barbies and Bratz dolls and “studied” them lots. I began growing my collection and going after the rarest dolls. When I turned about 12 my uncles started trusting me with their collectibles and antiques. So imagine my excitement when I visit my uncles that thanksgiving and realized they have an Earring Magic Ken mint condition in the box with no scratches or dents on the box! I scream “TIO YOU HAVE A PERFECT GAY KEN!!” Everyone just stared in shock and began connecting the dots that my Tio and my uncle had been living in the same house together for nearly a decade, both had never dated women, and they took many vacations together. Nobody really said anything after that and I got instructed to sit down and eat my dinner but 18 months later we were invited to their wedding. So yeah thanks ken :)
Btw Tio means uncle in Spanish.
My Mom got me this doll for Christmas 1993 trying to get me to start playing with my sister and it was this exact doll! I have a home movie of me opening it.
Treasure that video like the relic of awesomeness that it is :-)
I'll bring the popcorn! Lol
My Barbie dated Woody and Buzz lightyear was jealous because he liked Woody. I'm a shipper since day one.
Hi I'll read an 800 page fanfic about that please
“Better fix Ken a sandwich”
*GO BACK TO SLEEP, AND STARVE*
The way he wears the rings indicate he's a bottom. Btw.
John Gault I read random articles for fun but w/e
Ah, so that's were the Navy guys who were hunting for Dorothy ended up being employed after the Navy !
I'm pretty sure many people at Mattel knew perfectly what they were doing and just tried to see how far they could push it without management and executives catching on.
THAT would be genius
I'm glad Magic Earring Ken made the movie. Fantastic. And yeah. The gay implication is right there in the movie. Just great.
He looks like Spike from Buffy, The Vampire Slayer.
meow Jesus he does
but with more pink :D
OH MY G OD HE DOES
Spike, from an alternate timeline where pastel colours were badass.
If Spike were gay, yeah I would say he looks like Spike. Too colorful to actually look like Spike
I used to steal my brothers action men to play with my dolls, I didn't know it was such a popular thing. I did it because he was ripped, had a cool face tattoo and could hols barbies hand because his hands were open. Didn't get a ken doll until I was thirteen as a joke.
HappyPotato
It would actually be pretty cool if they made Ken Barbie's gay best friend instead. It would make him a lot more interesting and dynamic instead of "Ken is Barbie's handsome boyfriend :))))))) His only personality trait is that he loves her :)))))"
Madison Kopchinski yeah but no, it makes the "gay best friend" fetish accepted. Because I fancy dudes doesn't mesn i'm into fashion and makeup🤦♂️
@@liamii5603 you arnt but some dudes are...
Liamii having a lesbian best friend is a thing guys do unconsciously
The thing is, if this ever happened nowadays, Mattel would have so gone with the gay Ken thing and been crowing about how progressive and inclusive they were. I have a feeling that all the marketing people who let it through would have thought Mattel did just that!
Does anyone remember the Ken doll from the Fashion in Paris or whatever movie?
With his silver satin suit and glittery pink tie?
Mine looks kinda like a stripper vampire now.
It's amazing that this version of Ken was included in the Barbie movie.
This was honest-to-god the only Ken doll I had as a kid until I got a Phoebus and Hercules doll later on (and my Barbies had orgies with the latter two because they were fully pose-able)
I- how old were you