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Abstract With the rise of user-generated content through social media, the sharing of diverse interests has led to various online communities that different users resonate with. Among these interests are blind boxes, which refer to toy collectibles sold in sealed packaging that conceal the specific item or design the consumer will receive. Blind boxes have become an online phenomenon with users publishing their own unboxing and collection videos. This paper examines ways in which blind box toys …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":5200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[1303,1298,1468,1304,1313,1315,1781,1422,1310,1289,1783],"class_list":["post-5194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csm","category-ioa","tag-communities","tag-community","tag-consumption","tag-identity","tag-influencers","tag-instagram","tag-k-pop","tag-self-expression","tag-social-media","tag-tiktok","tag-toys"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5194"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5475,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions\/5475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}