I'm a "professional" contact juggler and I was around during the inception of the fushigi. Here's some extra background from someone in the community. In the last video I made a comment on it so I'm going to copy and paste it here. Later today I'll add some stuff about this particular video. Fushigi is just a brand of ball used for contact juggling, and it was a horrible contact juggling ball. I was a contact juggler years before Fushigi existed (the creator came to our forums and even asked us for advice, he didn't actually take it) and Fushigi just killed contact juggling on the spot. The problem you can see in this video. Contact juggling is HARD, very hard, it takes hundreds of hours of practice to make it look good (the people in the commercial were doing beginner moves, and some not that well). Before fushigi I would contact juggle in public and people would be amazed. They'd stop in their tracks with their jaw dropped, come over, ask questions. I'd hand them the ball and they couldn't believe it was just a very heavy ball. Then fushigi came and the reactions were "oh that's just a fushigi" and keep walking. Because they thought the ball was doing all the work, it's a magic trick. Nevermind the years it took to nail these moves, stuff 100 times more complicated and smoother then what you see in the commercial, it was all reduced down to a party trick. Other members of our forum were street performers and they had it even worse. They'd contact juggle in their acts and had a very noticeable decrease in tips because people thought it was a "magic ball" which did the work for them. People thought they just bought the ball and hit the streets a week later, instead of 5+ years of practice. You can see all the people in this comment section who were disappointed that they got a fushigi and it was just a ball. Also, it's a terrible contact juggling ball because it's actually too small and light. Real contact juggling balls are solid acrylic and very heavy, easily twice as heavy as a fushigi. The hollow chrome ball in the center was so it doesn't start fires. I've seen people light campfires with their acrylic balls, or melt the plastic in their car if the ball was in the open and in direct sunlight. The fushigi people didn't want that problem when advertising to kids so they put the chrome ball inside. The problem is that chrome ball was never centered perfectly, so you can always see it wobble around and ruin the illusion. Plus the chrome ball had a big seam on it that you can see. The illusion only works when you have a perfectly round ball with no markings so you can't see it rolling, rather you see it floating. In short, fushigi killed contact juggling and all of us in the community hated it even more than all of you who opened it up on Christmas morning.
@@whOmega_lol I didn't even scratch the surface of the lore, like I could go into how one of the guys in the commercial was part of our forum and didn't know the direction the commercial was going to go and regrets his involvement. And Kenny himself was basically shunned from the entire juggling community because even after this aired he was still defending it. And then there's the creation of the ball itself where we "approved" the idea of the chrome ball inside to prevent fires under the condition that it's perfectly centered. He did not deliver on that promise, which makes it a terrible contact juggling ball. We were actually excited over the idea of contact juggling going to the masses, but we didn't know of the name change to "fushigi" or "magic gravity ball" until it aired. He pitched it to us as a mass market contact juggling ball, yet he never mentioned contact juggling except in small print.
honestly the most influential comerical for me as a kid was those bathtubs that come with a chair and you can "walk into" it designed for senior citizens. bro me and my sister genuinely thought that was the height of luxury and we would beg our parents every year for one. (we got a wii instead so we called it even.)
the real reason Kurtis made this video is to prepare us for his new hairstyle which is a ponytail so no one will talk shit because its the fushigi that made him do it, no one can prove me wrong
I HAD ONE I begged my dad to get me a Fushigi and we couldn’t figure out what it was and we all waited for it to come in the mail and when it arrived it was just this big heavy glass ball. To show my excitement I suggested we pop the dvd in and try it out and I tried the first exercise and the ball rolled off my forearm onto our coffee table and broke the glass table top
I actually had a friends that got one of these. She left it sitting on her dresser one day and the sun was shining into her room. The fushigi literally focused the sunlight and started a little fire on the carpet
My grandmother gave me one of these, and let me tell you, as someone who never learnt how to use it, the property damage comes from launching the 2 pound rock hard ball into your parents stereo system.
As a child who had blo pens, rainbow art, that magic rainbow blackboard, bead magic, and that hair string wrap tool... I'd say that yeah... Those commercials really got me too.
i used to watch the magic bullet commercials and think of how useful that would be in my life. I thought that that blender would seriously change the trajectory of my 7 year old life
i didn’t watch the magic bullet commercial, but I DID watch other kitchen appliance ads, and I likewise thought I NEEDED to have them. like if not because they are worth the money, simply because they looked mesmerizing and easy
i distinctly remember forcing my parents to buy a fushigi and when i finally got it i literally did not know what to do with it so it ended up sitting on the floor for a few years, don’t know where it is now actually
my sweet grandmother overheard my cousins and I talking about how badly we wanted fushigis and got us all bouncy balls for Christmas because she thought that they were the same thing
Lmao. When I was about 8, I got Pokémon Blue for Christmas. My Gradmother said "now, I just need Pokémon Red." I told her, don't worry about it. It's literally the exact same game, just with slightly different Pokémon in it. Pokémon Yellow comes out, we go through the same thing. Pokémon Gold & Silver comes out & I actually go to her & say, "OK, this one actually is a completely different game this time." I never got it. Skipped over the whole 2nd generation because of that. Lol
Childhood friend and I were equally obsessed with the magic bullet advert when we were ~8, and 20 yrs later I finally got one when she gave it to me as a wedding present
the thing that absolutely infuriated me as a child is that they kept bringing up that it “floats” but it clearly doesn’t float. oh every shot they say it floats it shows them literally holding it. it made me so mad as a kid.
Remeber the Hover Boards that didn't actually hover? That was so obvious but so annoying that they just went with it as if it didn't have wheels -or burst into flames.-
KURT the Magic Bullet commercial was SO important to me. The product too, but mostly the feature length infomercial. The grumpy hungover uncle who is cured by a smoothie? I relate more and more to him every day. Idk but I feel really seen rn
Same!!! Early Saturday morning infomercials we’re my SHIT. My parents told me I used to run into their room and wake them up after watching them and practically could recite all of the buzzwords and jargon from the commercials. 😂 I used to slightly memorize the super fast disclaimer/side affects from these infomercials and drug commercials also. Life of 5 tv stations to chose from lol
This was a minor rage as well back in 1986 after Jim Henson's _Labyrinth._ The contact juggling was done by Michael Moschen who basically invented the modern form and introduced it to the world in that movie. It's really quite mesmerizing to watch. The movie is awesome too.
my younger sibling got one and there was a big warning about how you should NOT, under any circumstances, drop your fushingi on an uncarpeted floor. not because of the damage it might cause to the fushigi, but because The Fushigi Will Break Your Floor
@najwa orajawa You're obviously a spambot but I like to think that this is an honest citizen of Kurtistown talking about his curvy body. I read this and legit thought "wait was he actually wearing a garter belt during his Fushigi demo" and got a little chub, NGL. Edit: typos cuz I can't type-o
so brave of Kurtis to follow through with this video after realizing he was 16 and in fact, not a child, when the fushigi dropped. All the respect for my Mayor.
The fushigi coming out in 2010 is REALLY throwing me off… I graduated high school in 2010 and I could have sworn I saw those commercials in middle school. Lol I think Kurtis uncovered a new Mandela effect.
Honestly really happy that the people behind Fushigi actually went out and found someone who was genuinely interested and passionate about contact juggling to make the tutorial DVD. +RESPECT
As a kid watching these commercials, it never occurred to me that "fushigi" could be a real word. But then, one day in Japanese class, it was right there on our vocab list. So for anyone who wants to know, "fushigi" is an adjective that basically means a mixture of miraculous, marvelous, and mysterious. This video has shown me that the real fushigi ball is not so miraculous, marvelous, or mysterious, though, haha
FUCKING FINALLY. I was talking about this stupid ball with my friends last night and I couldn’t remember what it was called for the life of me. Thank you Kurtis
im actually pretty sure the reason you have to "store the fushigi properly" is because it's essentially a huge reflective crystal ball, which means it's subject to the magnifying glass effect. if you leave it out in the sun, it can concentrate the light to a point and start fires.
@@h0rriphic I’m pretty sure it’s a problem indoors more than out bc indoors there’s more draperies and cloth elements (curtains, rugs, upholstered furniture) that is flammable whereas outside. Sure it’s rare, but no one wants to get sued so of course if there’s even a chance of it happening they have to include it in the pamphlet or be at risk for liability lawsuits
as a flow artist thats really involved in the community its always fun to see takes on stuff like this. contact juggling is so cool, and like he said, it is kind of a dance. There are so many other really cool flow arts like poi, contact poi, buugeng, hoola hooping, staffs and dragon staffs, etc etc, that are dances but also prop manipulation. it takes a lot of practice and trial and error to find your style and flow (hence the name flow art). And being in flow state is a type of meditation once youre practiced enough, hence the "therapeutic" claim. Many flow artists find their craft an extention of their regular meditation practices. To anyone interested, definitely look into different flow art props! I was never any good at contact poi, but hoola hooping and poi resonated heavily with the way i like to move my body. xo
i was strangely attatched to the ‘bathtub with a door’ (for old people) commercial - i would come into the room anytime that commercial was on just to watch it, i wanted a bathtub with a door so bad
Professional contact juggler here: I was doing a show earlier today and let a guy in my audience feel the ball. He yelled "WOW! IT FEELS LIKE A BOOB!" to which somone else in the crowd immediatly yelled "Wow! This guy has never touched a boob!". That filled my heart with joy. 7 years ago they all would have chanted in unison with their eyes rolled back, "THAT IS A FUSHIGI" Edit: Professional Ponytail Man here
@@worstusernameintheworld9871 I personally think my boobs remind me of steamed dumplings 💀 Not solid at all. Edit: Steamed dumplings, with an added water balloon effect. 🥴 I’m really out here with steamed dumplings filled with water attached to my chest… Should I add that to my résumé? 🤔💀
My father was SO into this thing when I was a kid. He'd freak out every time he saw the commercial, just like he was a big kid. He finally got one and demanded I watch the "cool tricks" he learned 😂. He passed last year, this video was a really nice reminder of him 💗
my dad was the same way with stupid commercials like this, he got so excited when he saw them and loved laughing at the absurdity. he passed nearly 16 years ago, every little thing reminds you of them and sometimes it's really nice to have something to hold on to like this. im sorry for your loss, but im glad you have such a fond memory like that. ♥️
for me it was. no joke, the worm on a string. i saw a commercial for them as a child and i wanted one for ages. i did end up getting one once i had my own money, and it was a novelty for a very short time and then spent the rest of its days in a drawer of my jewellery box.
Kurt the editing of that fushigi montage was unironically beautiful. I was so transfixed that I got jumpscared by my boyfriend walking over to me. I’m lost in that sweet, sweet fushigi sauce.
i remember watching a video years ago called “trying to break a fushigi” and it was a guy throwing a fushigi off the roof and shooting it with a bb gun until it broke. it never did.
For those who don't know. The warnings at 5:21 refer to when sunlight hits the FUSHIGI it turns your funny magic balls into an mega death laser. As you would expect that can be quite... Dangerous. I hear the same situation can also happen with magic 8 balls.
Also, my wife let me in on a fun fact: the church she was forced to go to as a young adult, banned the Fushigi ball as they thought it was actual “Magic” and deemed anything described magic as anti-Christian/witchcraft. That’s The South for you.
my buddy is from backwoods MO and his wife went to a girls school that taught housework instead of academics and they were burning Harry Potter books when it first came out
Ayo, is no one gonna talk about the fact that Kurtis actually looks kinda good with the ponytail? It's such a different but cool look! Especially with the glasses.
this wasn’t a commercial necessarily, but i remember SO clearly learning about debit cards for the first time, and just becoming obsessed with them. i literally asked my parents for a debit card for christmas when i was like 7, and they had to sit me down and explain why i couldn’t have one
You could too have one, they make bank accounts especially for kids and you could just have one with like $5 on it just so you could go to the store and buy some candy with your little debit card! Unless you only wanted it because you thought it would have unlimited money or something.
this reminds me of when i was a kid and begged my mom to let me help her pay bills, cuz i was learning about money managing and thought finances were the most exciting thing ever
I got somewhat interested in cards and stuff as a kid after seeing the aluma wallet ad (if you've ever seen that one before). I remember really wanting that cool wallet and filling it up with cards.
Honestly the costuming at 15:48 was spot-on. You looked like you were in a high-school stage performance of The Matrix, which was exactly the kind of energy the bit needed.
I understand the fact that the Fushigi looks harmless, but the outer layer is just really thick glass, when I was a kid a friend had one of these, left it out in the sun, and when we came back there was a black mark on the ground and the part of the ball facing up had started to puddle up. They look like they couldn't do any damage, but after I saw that fucker start to melt, I never watched the commercial again.
When I was a kid in the UK we had these thing called yo yo balls (like a hollow rubber ball filled with glittery fluid on a rubber string?) which were HUGE for literally only a few months until pretty much all schools banned them for multiple reasons-- 1 it was possible to throttle yourself or other kids with the rubber string (main reason), 2 some kids were apparently drinking the fluid out of them and they pierced really easily 3 this was the only one I experienced-- the way the rubber string stretched made it easy to hit yourself in the face with the ball at HUGE velocity, I was dizzy and saw double for like an hour after. Kids' toys and fads which quickly turn out to be insanely dangerous (in multiple ways in the case of yo yo balls!!) are obviously bad but something about it is so funny in retrospect lmao (you can find something called yo yo balls now I believe but they're totally different, not made of stretchy rubber so I suppose lack all the associated risks)
I legit never understood what the fushigi was as a kid, and even now... Like they're literally just doing tricks with a ball. It doesn't look like magic. It looks like something that some kid named Justin would do with like a baseball at recess when everyone else was just trying to play a game and ignore him.
I actually met Kenny in California about a year before the commercials came out. Dude was super nice and willing to teach kids how to do everything. I bought one of those stupid balls.. I never used it.
I BEGGED my parents for a Fushigi ball when I was little. That thing is ridiculously heavy and tough as shit, it's been a decade and the thing is still solid. It's my most prized posession to this day.
I love how the comments range from people reminiscing on what they wanted from as seen on TV ads to “my fushigi broke several bones and set my house on fire”
I don't remember how old I was when that Magic Bullet infomercial came out, but I was OBSESSED. My mom would tell me when it was on, and no matter what else I was watching, I would switch over to watch that infomercial. It even won out over episodes of Avatar the Last Airbender
Kurtis you've seriously gotta do a video on how badly the movie Stuart Little aged. My wife and I decided to rewatch it the other night and oh my lord I cannot believe this movie was actually created. A family walks into a orphanage, see all these kids who want families and are like yeah we want the mouse. You could seriously have a field day with this movie.
@@NanaShaCrash In the book do that make it known that they just live in a world that animals can speak? Because the humans didn't seem surprised at all that Stuart could talk. Plus all the other animals also talk, plus its made known that cats don't talk around humans so they can be pets.
I believe the storage warning and bag is so important because it acts like a crystal ball in the sense that sunlight at the right angle can literally burn your house down haha
My grandma got these for a lot of my younger cousins for Christmas circa 2010-2011. I think they were selling them at Walmart in the As Seen on TV section around that time, and that's where she got them. Everyone was pretty excited initially, but the disappointment soon set in. But the kids did a good job at still pretending to be hyped about it in front of grandma, which was good.
The first and last thing I wanted from those toy infomercials was an early A.I. doll called Amazing Amanda. She could wake you up at a certain time, identify foods for certain meals (if you fed her a cookie in the morning, she would say, “Silly mommy! Cookie not for breakfast!”), and just essentially act like a furby that could talk. I begged my mom to get one, and she later told me that she had to get to Toys R Us super early in the morning to meet the shipment truck to get the doll for me because they were so popular around Christmas. She was fun for about two days, and then we realized that she was exactly like those babies they give teens for home economics classes that require you to attend to them at all hours. She couldn’t distinguish between school mornings and weekends, so she’d wake me up at six in the morning on Saturday screaming to be fed. I was like 8 or 9 at the time so I was definitely not cut out for taking care of a robot. Eventually I ended up taking her batteries out because she wouldn’t shut off otherwise. Then, around four or five years later, she suddenly croaked back to life in the bottom shelf of my play area to scream, “Happy… Easter… Mommy!!” (It was Halloween). She went to Goodwill not long after that.
This was the creepiest thing I have read. Dolls never usually scare me but this was just creepy... how dare she come back to life and say Happy Easter on Halloween. Disgraceful.
@@fluorescentgreys yes! I had an amazing allison and i swear she was so annoying w that fake valley girl accent. my parents were mad bc i played with her for maybe 5 minutes before moving on to something else. i also don’t remember it ever waking me up but i also turned it off immediately
As a huge fan of the movie David Bowie lead movie Labyrinth, I wanted the Fushigi so dang much. It was almost exactly like Jareth’s magic crystal ball in the movie and I was obsessed. Admittedly, I was 23 when the thing came out & I was way too excited about these. I got one & ended up dropping it onto my glass top coffee table & my girlfriend, latter wife, ended up going nuts on me. Worth it
I always had that exact association from the commercials that made me want it too. Especially when he rotates the four balls around together, which looked so similar a scene from the movie. Oddly enough, I also ended up getting one and dropped it on my glass coffee table😁
I'm 29 and I agree with Kurt when he says being an adult is just all about healing your inner child. As a child I loved bratz, faires, mermaids horses, and pink And now I'm a 29 Yr old wearing pink everyday buying bratz dolls and anything cute, kawaii and pretty I can get my hands on. ^-^
Kurtis, your FUSHIGI *performance* was therapeutic - life changing even. I suddenly feel at peace with myself and the universe, I can talk to plants now (they're always thirsty) and the only downside is that levitating makes it easy to hit my head on low archways. 11/10 would recommend, I may have overcome my mortality now thanks to FUSHIGI.
6:00 genuine answer to what was probably a joke question: If you store it near a window, it can refract sunlight like a magnifying glass and set your house on fire. Also, some of the tricks involve moving it in such a way that it's easy to drop it, hurting your toes or pets, or lob it through a window. So that warning is actually completely justified
Fun fact: fushigi is actually originally a Japanese word (不思議 literally fu-shi-gi) that means wonderful/marvelous with a hint of mystery. Whenever I see it I can't help but think of the ball lol
My grandmother, who is rather disconnected from what my siblings and I actually enjoy, gifted my older brother a Fushigi for Christmas sometime during his teenage years. We'd seen the ads (and mocked them extensively) and my brother attempted a few tricks, but we immediately tired of the rather disappointing fad. It's been sitting on the windowsill for maybe ten years, and we only ever use it as a threat, since it's so heavy and could honestly be weaponized.
I had a fushigi! That thing was not what I expected. I didn't know what contact juggling was, or that I'd need actual skill to use it lol. Used it in a Jareth Halloween costume though. I also used to watch the Magic Bullet infomercial every single morning for like 8 months. Then my grandma got the set and I was so happy. As a teenager I rescued a disabled hamster (born with no teeth) and the Magic Bullet was my go-to for grinding up her food. ♥️
So I think what you were struggling with is something that they mentioned in the commercial called Isolation. Isolation, when referring to dance and such, refers to moving one part of the body while every other part remains completely still, as if the moving limb is almost disconnected. The art of the Fushugi relies on a version of Isolation, where you move your hands and body, but make sure to move in a way that allows the Fushigi ball to seemingly remain completely still in one place, or glide effortlessly, as if it's moving on it's own. Isolation is a horribly hard skill to master, and a lot of professional dancers see it as a mark of mastery because of how hard it is to do right.
Yeah it's common in every physical art pretty much. You see it in pretty much every kind of juggling, poi, staff, even yoyoing, although isolation tricks aren't the most prevalent for that
Yeah, I think the commercial relied on kids having no idea about that. As a kid I knew it wasn’t magic but I expected it to be way less hard than it was
Yep you summed it up pretty well, though Kurtis definitely had the right idea by comparing it to dance. I've been dancing for a few years now and I got pretty good at basic isolation just from being on a hip hop team but it's still really difficult to do smoothly and well and requires lots and lots of practice
As someone who has flung a contact juggling ball by accident, they stress being careful because they hurt like hell if you get hit. I could easily see it injuring someone or going right through drywall.
I got something sticky on mine yrs ago and was washing it off. Long story short it slipped out of the towel, dented the metal bathtub, and scratched my ball so the illusion was ruined. Better to just use a wipe ig XD
@@Firestar_notthecat I tried to transfer it over the top of my fingers and followed through too fast. lol Luckily it missed anything important. I've also dropped it on my toes.
The magic bullet thing makes me laugh because my little sister never asked for birthday/christmas presents. For her 4th Christmas she asked for one and only one thing, the Magic Bullet blender lol. Fastforward 18 years I was struggling on what to get her for Christmas and sure enough walking through target I see the Magic Bullet.
@@CasualVFlowerEnjoyer I did get it! I couldn't pass up the opportunity. She definitely loved it although it cracked us all up. She even uses it now for shakes. Turns out the gag gift had a use!
Me and my friends used the word Nicerdicer (I think something similar to the Magic Bullet) like a lot! We never bought it, but nicerdicer is still in my vocabulary :')
I’m embarrassed to say I convinced my parents to get me this as a kid. It was really heavy actually so I understand the property damage risk. I used it for literally one day then realized it was just a glass ball that did nothing
I got it for xmas and was immediately disappointed too. I also only used it for one day b/c my mom told me to stop using it after I kept dropping it while trying to learn. The thud was so loud and she was afraid it'd damage the floor, plus I'd been crying b/c I dropped it on my toe twice.
a long time ago my parents bought my siblings and i a fushigi after watching the sick commercial. once we realized it was just an 8lb glass ball with a big metal marble in it, we brought it to the lake and threw it in the water for fun. we would swim around the bottom of the lake and look for it but eventually the fushigi was fushiged
2000s toys had some of the wildest marketing tactics. I have a distinct memory of going to the mall as a kid, and seeing this booth set up for the Squirmles toy (ya know, the worms on a string). My family was baited. Like even my mom and her boyfriend thought they were the coolest things in the world. Like the booth had a video playing showing all the "cool" thing you can do with the worm on a string. And of course my 8 year old brain thought that the worm really did move on its own. The worst was that they were like $10 for one. Everyone ended up getting one (including the two adults). I just remember the car ride home was just a bunch of white people playing with their worms.
Fun fact: TV commercials targeted towards kids are illegal in Quebec. Meaning that my only nostalgic cartoon-interrupting advertisement memories are of a laser epilation tool, "wonder bras" and that one green steam vacuum
@@advokatie it’s called « no no » and I’m pretty sure it still exists but you could also probably find a brand with better quality and prices if you looked. Also it’s branded towards cis woman who don’t like that they have a tiny bitty bit of blond hair practically invisible to the naked eye on their face lmao so I’m not sure how efficient it actually is-
@@advokatie My friend has been epilating for ages and I tried it as well and it worked great for me (we both have pretty thick hair). It hurts a tiny bit since it is ripping your hair out but honestly not that bad and you get used to it. Plus this way you don't have to shave for way longer.
As a kid, I always thought the 'illusion' was that the glass outer sphere was to look 'invisible', so it looks like a smaller, floating chrome ball. So I actually hated these commercials because I thought it was a bunch of adults pretending they couldn't see the glass lol
let's give a quick shoutout to Jenna's mad interior design skills, you guys. those Patrick Nagel/80's lady masks on the wall had me laying a towel on the floor
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when i was little i was obbessed with the shamwow infomerical and my parents got me them for Christmas, i was genuinely thrilled and messed around soaking up a bowl full of water with them and then squeezing it out for hours. those were the days.
I also remember wanting this SO BADLY after watching the commercials on my Box TV… I was about 7 yrs old and I never got it cause my parents never thought it was as cool as I did… disappointed… However growing up yo-yos was what was popular! At one point at school, everywhere u looked there would be multiple kids being freaking yo yo masters! They were in elementary too!! Still don’t know how they did some of the tricks and I’m 18 now…
kurtis's videos are so timeless. the way he speaks, the type of edits, the comedy, everything, no matter how old the video they all feel like this, actually my favourite youtuber, keep doing what you do man
Fun fact! ‘Fushigi’ (不思議) means strange and marvelous in Japanese. There’s also a saying - fushigi da ne - which means ‘it’s strange, isn’t it?’ Which is also Bulbasaur’s name in Japanese (playing off the word for seed)
A side note- my mom recently bought me an off brand fushigi ball, no cap. She told me to leave it in the box when I'm not messing with it- if you let it sit in the sun, it can reflect onto surfaces in your home, aaand set them on fire... 👍🏻 10/10 product
Actually fushigi is the off-brand funnily enough. Like he mentioned, contact juggling already existed, and the fushigi ball just tried to market it to a broader audience
Idk the specifics of what you're saying, but a reflective sphere should be no more likely to set things on fire than direct sunlight. Cause it diverges the rays and such. If it's a lens on the other hand, you're in trouble
@@orinblank2056 very true! Im not sure, but maybe they were the first to patent the "clear" design. I also have no clue what I'm talking about really 😅
@@rianantony Fushigi balls _have_ set things on fire though. It's not the exact same thing, but crystal balls for fortune telling and stuff always have to be covered by a cloth for this exact reason.
I DESPISE the Fushigi. I was so disappointed when I found out it had no special floating abilities. I read that people wanted to file a class action lawsuit against the Fushigi creators for false advertising
Why those people are stupid. Literally in the commercial it shows people having to touch it for it to move the way it does those people trying to get a lawsuit out of it are dumb asf
unfortunately i was a victim of the fushigi hype and my brother, to this day, will not let me live it down. The glow in the dark fushigi still stands on my desk, and it was never used. Though somehow i was disappointed i got the glow in the dark one and not the original. I was a fool nonetheless.
I got the glow in the dark one and my cousin got the normal one! I swear the glow in the dark one was heavier. Combined with the fact that mine had a black mark on the surface that destroyed the illusion a little, I would've rather had the regular one, lol.
We still had a Fushigi from childhood laying around and my Doberman discovered it one day. Boy howdy, lemme tell ya, that is her favorite toy ever. She will carry it everywhere with her. She loves it. She looks like she’s just waiting to tell you your future with that orb in her mouth. We also have to watch our feet when she’s running around with it. Because she will drop that solid ball directly on your feet if you aren’t careful and just sit there like: Roll it for me pls :) My dog is Fushigi’s biggest fan.
This is extremely funny because I have a fushigi, but i literally ACTIVELY refused to get into that trend and even told my dad not to buy one, despite my cousins going crazy for it. Because I knew it was a scam (i dont remember why i knew but i must've heard it somewhere). But then my grandmother bought TWO for me and it was those "glow in the dark" ones for my birthday. Lemme tell you that was the saddest birthday experience. I felt so bad, like I'm never picky with gifts but just the emotion i felt knowing my grandma bought me a useless scam ball, byt i CAN'T let her know. It's pretty funny looking back.
Sounds pretty rad! I'd be happy for a Fushigi glow in the dark. I mean if it's dark u don't need to b good at it. And It's not rly a "scam", just manipulative advertising like wt everything else (to some degree). And from granny... Guess u rly didn't like them balls ;)
I draw a lot so the default present my family members pick is usually a pack of coloured pencils. But I am the *worst* at coloured drawings, I can only draw with grey lead, so I’m just sitting there thinking “Thanks, I’ll add it to the pile”.
I could see someone at a rave trading their glo-stick for a fushigi ball. Also, Kurtis, you can always go the "David Bowie in Labyrinth" route to fushigi ball mastery: Have someone else who actually knows what they are doing pretend to be your arms while they remain otherwise out of frame.
My husband got one of these as an unasked-for Christmas present, the second he unwrapped it and tried his first trick, he dropped it on the edge of the fireplace and scuffed it so badly that the "illusion" didn't work anymore 😂 I have had to hear about this for 9 years
I had one as a kid and decided when I was traveling internationally this was important to bring with me. I got stopped by customs and had tsa agents everywhere wondering wtf this metal ball was. Thankfully I watched the dvd and was prepared with some tricks that blew their minds so much they let me keep it. Still have it to this day.
it’s okay, Kurtis. i also remember seeing these commercials. i’m 26 and refuse to believe i was only 14, when this thing was advertised. i thought i was like 6, when it happened
Weirdly, that aligns with when Kurtis said he remembered it, if you were 14 then, and thought it was when you were 6, then Kurtis, at 16 then, -8 years, that's 8, like he said. I feel like this is untapped Mandela Effect kinda shit-
I’m a proud fushigi ball owner. Ever since I bought my first ball, my life improved, I got a girlfriend, job, and even ran a marathon. Using this magical orb all my dreams have come true. I love you kurtis but if you dare tease or make fun of this life changing device I will throw a fushigi ball at you.
I'm a "professional" contact juggler and I was around during the inception of the fushigi. Here's some extra background from someone in the community. In the last video I made a comment on it so I'm going to copy and paste it here. Later today I'll add some stuff about this particular video.
Fushigi is just a brand of ball used for contact juggling, and it was a horrible contact juggling ball. I was a contact juggler years before Fushigi existed (the creator came to our forums and even asked us for advice, he didn't actually take it) and Fushigi just killed contact juggling on the spot.
The problem you can see in this video. Contact juggling is HARD, very hard, it takes hundreds of hours of practice to make it look good (the people in the commercial were doing beginner moves, and some not that well). Before fushigi I would contact juggle in public and people would be amazed. They'd stop in their tracks with their jaw dropped, come over, ask questions. I'd hand them the ball and they couldn't believe it was just a very heavy ball.
Then fushigi came and the reactions were "oh that's just a fushigi" and keep walking. Because they thought the ball was doing all the work, it's a magic trick. Nevermind the years it took to nail these moves, stuff 100 times more complicated and smoother then what you see in the commercial, it was all reduced down to a party trick. Other members of our forum were street performers and they had it even worse. They'd contact juggle in their acts and had a very noticeable decrease in tips because people thought it was a "magic ball" which did the work for them. People thought they just bought the ball and hit the streets a week later, instead of 5+ years of practice.
You can see all the people in this comment section who were disappointed that they got a fushigi and it was just a ball. Also, it's a terrible contact juggling ball because it's actually too small and light. Real contact juggling balls are solid acrylic and very heavy, easily twice as heavy as a fushigi. The hollow chrome ball in the center was so it doesn't start fires. I've seen people light campfires with their acrylic balls, or melt the plastic in their car if the ball was in the open and in direct sunlight. The fushigi people didn't want that problem when advertising to kids so they put the chrome ball inside. The problem is that chrome ball was never centered perfectly, so you can always see it wobble around and ruin the illusion. Plus the chrome ball had a big seam on it that you can see. The illusion only works when you have a perfectly round ball with no markings so you can't see it rolling, rather you see it floating.
In short, fushigi killed contact juggling and all of us in the community hated it even more than all of you who opened it up on Christmas morning.
Damn that actually hella sucks.
Holy shit there's actual lore to this shitty ball, that's wild 😂
since the fushigi has since fallen out of fashion, is that stigma still present or are you able to juggle once again?
thanks for the info!!
@@whOmega_lol I didn't even scratch the surface of the lore, like I could go into how one of the guys in the commercial was part of our forum and didn't know the direction the commercial was going to go and regrets his involvement. And Kenny himself was basically shunned from the entire juggling community because even after this aired he was still defending it.
And then there's the creation of the ball itself where we "approved" the idea of the chrome ball inside to prevent fires under the condition that it's perfectly centered. He did not deliver on that promise, which makes it a terrible contact juggling ball. We were actually excited over the idea of contact juggling going to the masses, but we didn't know of the name change to "fushigi" or "magic gravity ball" until it aired. He pitched it to us as a mass market contact juggling ball, yet he never mentioned contact juggling except in small print.
honestly the most influential comerical for me as a kid was those bathtubs that come with a chair and you can "walk into" it designed for senior citizens.
bro me and my sister genuinely thought that was the height of luxury and we would beg our parents every year for one. (we got a wii instead so we called it even.)
I loved going to my great grandparents just to sit on the chair in their bathtub
Nooo same 😭 I thought those things were THE FUTURE of bathing.
I wanted one of those too 🤣 I remember asking my mom why ours didn't have one 💀 that, and the little door/gate one
I'm 35 now and I still kind of want one. 😂
@@Mckinley-mick It will indeed be, when you're 70 or so.
the real reason Kurtis made this video is to prepare us for his new hairstyle which is a ponytail so no one will talk shit because its the fushigi that made him do it, no one can prove me wrong
you are absolutely correct
he slayed the pony
LOL
🤣😂
I wouldn’t dare to try and disprove your 100% factual statement
I HAD ONE I begged my dad to get me a Fushigi and we couldn’t figure out what it was and we all waited for it to come in the mail and when it arrived it was just this big heavy glass ball. To show my excitement I suggested we pop the dvd in and try it out and I tried the first exercise and the ball rolled off my forearm onto our coffee table and broke the glass table top
Somehow very poetic
!!!*FUSHIGI*!!!
Childhood is an adventure
Property damage
@@katyinajam Emotional damage...
I actually had a friends that got one of these. She left it sitting on her dresser one day and the sun was shining into her room. The fushigi literally focused the sunlight and started a little fire on the carpet
thats fucking hilarious
looks like your friend didn’t follow storage and usage instructions and it led to property damage and bodily injury
the power of fushigi is immense
that's actually so funny-
LOL OH NO. And now we know why you never use them outside...
My grandmother gave me one of these, and let me tell you, as someone who never learnt how to use it, the property damage comes from launching the 2 pound rock hard ball into your parents stereo system.
the mental image of that was so fucking funny thank you for this
i’m so sorry about your parents’ sound system 🤣
LMAO
😂😂😂
I’m so glad the “BALLS” soundbyte has become a recurring gag because I already quite it all the time lmao.
@@melly5416 they want to act smart lol
@niddg viiut that’s just how things are in Kurtistown, and if you don’t like it, you still need to be nice. It is the law, after all
@niddg viiut do you understand the person you are watching lmao… don’t be so uptight it’s dumb and funny
@niddg viiut balls (slowed and reverbed)
Heres one of my fav videos using it lmao ruclips.net/video/_HAuSkW-1ek/видео.html
As a child who had blo pens, rainbow art, that magic rainbow blackboard, bead magic, and that hair string wrap tool... I'd say that yeah... Those commercials really got me too.
Blow pens were cool .
@@kingofthekingsjabrilDefinitely, I used to love blo pens!
i used to watch the magic bullet commercials and think of how useful that would be in my life. I thought that that blender would seriously change the trajectory of my 7 year old life
Yep. Kitchen appliances and vacuums.
YES FR
They got us with the ✨MAGIC✨ part😂😂
As a twenty seven year old woman who now has a bullet type blender, you can never get all those years without smoothie back.
i didn’t watch the magic bullet commercial, but I DID watch other kitchen appliance ads, and I likewise thought I NEEDED to have them. like if not because they are worth the money, simply because they looked mesmerizing and easy
i distinctly remember forcing my parents to buy a fushigi and when i finally got it i literally did not know what to do with it so it ended up sitting on the floor for a few years, don’t know where it is now actually
@Don't read profile photo 🤓
It's probably still there bro! Go look...and.... FUSHIGIIII!!!!!!!!
this is my exact same experience with it lmaoo
this is very accurate
Same, i got one as a gift and realized it was just a ball, i felt bad so i showed my mom one trick and never touched it again.
my sweet grandmother overheard my cousins and I talking about how badly we wanted fushigis and got us all bouncy balls for Christmas because she thought that they were the same thing
That is so cute 😭😭
that's so sweet 😭😭
Bouncy balls are better and please protect her at all costs
Lmao. When I was about 8, I got Pokémon Blue for Christmas. My Gradmother said "now, I just need Pokémon Red." I told her, don't worry about it. It's literally the exact same game, just with slightly different Pokémon in it. Pokémon Yellow comes out, we go through the same thing. Pokémon Gold & Silver comes out & I actually go to her & say, "OK, this one actually is a completely different game this time." I never got it. Skipped over the whole 2nd generation because of that. Lol
@@MrChristianDT her poor confused brain must have been going crazy 😂
Childhood friend and I were equally obsessed with the magic bullet advert when we were ~8, and 20 yrs later I finally got one when she gave it to me as a wedding present
Sweeeeeeet im lowkey jealous
as in you got married to her? i need my head canon fulfilled here
This is the most adorable thing I’ve read on the internet. Awesome that you stayed friends. Hope the wedding kicked ass.
the thing that absolutely infuriated me as a child is that they kept bringing up that it “floats” but it clearly doesn’t float. oh every shot they say it floats it shows them literally holding it. it made me so mad as a kid.
i’m glad u could see thru the bullshit little me thought it was magic😭😭😭
Right? My whole family thought this was weird.
Remeber the Hover Boards that didn't actually hover? That was so obvious but so annoying that they just went with it as if it didn't have wheels -or burst into flames.-
It floats?!? 🤨
Seriously! I remember the Fushigi ball being a gift one of my cousins got for Christmas and we were all like “Wtf why did your parents buy you this.”
KURT the Magic Bullet commercial was SO important to me. The product too, but mostly the feature length infomercial. The grumpy hungover uncle who is cured by a smoothie? I relate more and more to him every day. Idk but I feel really seen rn
Damn I guess it’s finally here then
I hope that uncle is doing well and is not hungover
Same!!! Early Saturday morning infomercials we’re my SHIT. My parents told me I used to run into their room and wake them up after watching them and practically could recite all of the buzzwords and jargon from the commercials. 😂 I used to slightly memorize the super fast disclaimer/side affects from these infomercials and drug commercials also. Life of 5 tv stations to chose from lol
@@HilTheMill your message to kurtis had me laughing. Your response to the spam made me cry laugh. Thank you, it was needed.
@@austinrenner9568 omg that makes me so happy!! Hope you have a great weekend!
The ponytail actually centers your energy and gives better balance to manipulate the orb
LMAOOOOOOO
The 9th chakra is in the ponytail
the orb 💀
@@missxspencer1538 this comment made me laugh so damn hard omg
🤣🤣🤣
This was a minor rage as well back in 1986 after Jim Henson's _Labyrinth._ The contact juggling was done by Michael Moschen who basically invented the modern form and introduced it to the world in that movie. It's really quite mesmerizing to watch. The movie is awesome too.
Thank god, I was about to lose my mind without the mention.
my younger sibling got one and there was a big warning about how you should NOT, under any circumstances, drop your fushingi on an uncarpeted floor. not because of the damage it might cause to the fushigi, but because The Fushigi Will Break Your Floor
@dolita windo I think I read all of the comments this one was auto generated from lmaooo
Girl if you drop it on your toe.. you be limping for days. Happened so many times for me
I Love How You Typed The Last Sentence Like This Lmao
it’ll also break ur teeth, not like i’m speaking from experience or anything…
Someone’s just holding up a store with a fushigi
Every single time, without fail, the Barbie “balls” reverb will make me laugh. It will always be funny
𝕓𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕤
It’s funny EVERY SINGLE TIME
I was hoping for more than one in this video!
Literally same
I reference it a lot and I know nobody will ever get it :/
It’s hilarious that Kurtis doesn’t realize that he has always looked the part of someone who can Fushigi
He also looks like he can out-hackeysack anyone on the planet
@najwa orajawa You're obviously a spambot but I like to think that this is an honest citizen of Kurtistown talking about his curvy body. I read this and legit thought "wait was he actually wearing a garter belt during his Fushigi demo" and got a little chub, NGL.
Edit: typos cuz I can't type-o
that’s just the vibe
With the Penn Gillette ponytail it hits different.
@@tonywebert8326 this checks out. We don't know there's no garter belt underneath, after all. 😳
Kurtis' mustache looks like two Yorkies kissing
ohmygod
I was going to say they look like capybaras but yeah Yorkies too lmao😭
I don’t know if this means the candy bar or the dog but it works either way
i read that as two newyorkers and imagined schlatt kissing spiderman becouse they are the only newyorkers i know
Now I can’t unsee it 😩
so brave of Kurtis to follow through with this video after realizing he was 16 and in fact, not a child, when the fushigi dropped. All the respect for my Mayor.
As a 16 year old, i admit, I to want a fushigi magic gravity ball
I'm 16 and i am in fact mesmerized by that commercial and is in love with the balls of fushigi religiously
Shit I’m 26 and I want a fushigi ball even after watching this video
That year is most definitely wrong tho. I was 20 in 2010 🤣🤣🤣
These commercials were on when I was a child
@@cpcks18I was 20 in 2010 as well & I definitely remember the commercials from childhood
The fushigi coming out in 2010 is REALLY throwing me off… I graduated high school in 2010 and I could have sworn I saw those commercials in middle school. Lol I think Kurtis uncovered a new Mandela effect.
Agreed!!! Aint no fuckin way!
Same.
The Fushigi floats in time as well as space
I distinctly remember being like middle school aged when this came out and I'm damn near 40 😂😂😂
It couldn't have tho, I'm so confused , it was in that one David Bowie movie that came out in 1986…?
I'm embarrassed to say I literally laughed out loud when you described the carrying case as a "ball sack"
@Jesus Gonzalez what is this? Some sort of judging of our major kurtis?
@@Pussibericus Only God and @Jesus Gonzalez can judge me.
Don’t be embarrassed bro, I laughed so loud at that part 😭
@@Pussibericus Does that guy not know that we have to be nice to Kurtis because he's the mayor of Kurtistown and that's the law?
@Jesus is coming. Read the Gospel. nah, I'm good
Honestly really happy that the people behind Fushigi actually went out and found someone who was genuinely interested and passionate about contact juggling to make the tutorial DVD. +RESPECT
As a kid watching these commercials, it never occurred to me that "fushigi" could be a real word. But then, one day in Japanese class, it was right there on our vocab list. So for anyone who wants to know, "fushigi" is an adjective that basically means a mixture of miraculous, marvelous, and mysterious.
This video has shown me that the real fushigi ball is not so miraculous, marvelous, or mysterious, though, haha
Hushigidane~
fushigi da ne, ima no kimochi 🥺✨
🌿🌿🌿
The real fushigi ball is the friends we made along the way
FUCKING FINALLY. I was talking about this stupid ball with my friends last night and I couldn’t remember what it was called for the life of me. Thank you Kurtis
yea
Lmao love when that happens
How could you ever forget Fushigi??!
this goes in the list of things that never fucking happened : )
@@schanzay18sohail calm down
im actually pretty sure the reason you have to "store the fushigi properly" is because it's essentially a huge reflective crystal ball, which means it's subject to the magnifying glass effect. if you leave it out in the sun, it can concentrate the light to a point and start fires.
Fushigi: Arson magic
@@cursed-cat9126 lol
Came here to say this… the fushigi will light your house on fire
@@h0rriphic I’m pretty sure it’s a problem indoors more than out bc indoors there’s more draperies and cloth elements (curtains, rugs, upholstered furniture) that is flammable whereas outside. Sure it’s rare, but no one wants to get sued so of course if there’s even a chance of it happening they have to include it in the pamphlet or be at risk for liability lawsuits
people not knowing that property of glass balls is so morbidly interesting to see, like its insane that a shape did that
as a flow artist thats really involved in the community its always fun to see takes on stuff like this. contact juggling is so cool, and like he said, it is kind of a dance. There are so many other really cool flow arts like poi, contact poi, buugeng, hoola hooping, staffs and dragon staffs, etc etc, that are dances but also prop manipulation. it takes a lot of practice and trial and error to find your style and flow (hence the name flow art). And being in flow state is a type of meditation once youre practiced enough, hence the "therapeutic" claim. Many flow artists find their craft an extention of their regular meditation practices. To anyone interested, definitely look into different flow art props! I was never any good at contact poi, but hoola hooping and poi resonated heavily with the way i like to move my body. xo
i was strangely attatched to the ‘bathtub with a door’ (for old people) commercial - i would come into the room anytime that commercial was on just to watch it, i wanted a bathtub with a door so bad
Me too
I still want one :(
SAME part of me still wants one
I’m 25 now and with the trouble I’m having getting into my tub lately it has reawakened my need for a shower with a door. 😂
I seriously wanted one so bad. …why though wth 😂
Professional contact juggler here: I was doing a show earlier today and let a guy in my audience feel the ball. He yelled "WOW! IT FEELS LIKE A BOOB!" to which somone else in the crowd immediatly yelled "Wow! This guy has never touched a boob!". That filled my heart with joy. 7 years ago they all would have chanted in unison with their eyes rolled back, "THAT IS A FUSHIGI"
Edit: Professional Ponytail Man here
THAT IS A FUSHIGI
as someone who is born a woman, are b0obs *not* a solid round ball like a fushigi??
@@worstusernameintheworld9871 I personally think my boobs remind me of steamed dumplings 💀 Not solid at all.
Edit: Steamed dumplings, with an added water balloon effect. 🥴 I’m really out here with steamed dumplings filled with water attached to my chest… Should I add that to my résumé? 🤔💀
@@worstusernameintheworld9871 second base is now just contact juggling
Idk why at first I read it like BOB
My father was SO into this thing when I was a kid. He'd freak out every time he saw the commercial, just like he was a big kid. He finally got one and demanded I watch the "cool tricks" he learned 😂. He passed last year, this video was a really nice reminder of him 💗
This is so sweet. Sorry for your loss
@SМL Shorts 🅥 jeez, stop
my dad was the same way with stupid commercials like this, he got so excited when he saw them and loved laughing at the absurdity. he passed nearly 16 years ago, every little thing reminds you of them and sometimes it's really nice to have something to hold on to like this. im sorry for your loss, but im glad you have such a fond memory like that. ♥️
i’m sorry to hear about ur father, what a sweet memory of him 💗💗
AWWW RIP
for me it was. no joke, the worm on a string. i saw a commercial for them as a child and i wanted one for ages. i did end up getting one once i had my own money, and it was a novelty for a very short time and then spent the rest of its days in a drawer of my jewellery box.
Omg yes I would lose my mind over the fuckin worm I thought that it moved on its own was very disappointed when I aquried it
the phrase “this has definitely been fushiged before” has not left my mind since i first heard it
Oh man, same
I think about it during school idk why
I replayed that part like 3 times lmao
i love saying it to people
Kurt the editing of that fushigi montage was unironically beautiful. I was so transfixed that I got jumpscared by my boyfriend walking over to me. I’m lost in that sweet, sweet fushigi sauce.
Your boyfriend caught you cheating on him with a video of a fushigi 😔
I'm watching while high and it blew my mind
bro i cried
how’s the relationship going
I rewatched it several times
As someone who just saw Kurtis on tour, I’m sad to say he didn’t do Fushigi I paid to see Fushigi and all I got was stand up 😔
you could say you got…. STOOD UP 🫣🤌🏻
@@BlahBlah-hb8wk I guess you could say.. HE WENT "BLAH BLAH".
ok it was bad sorry
@Swatch I guess you could say he got…SWATCHed.
Ahem, I’ll see myself out.
this is good to know so I won't waste my money at future kurtis shows
@@calowenby1654 LOL i laughed
I saw the ad for a Fushigi, had no doubt it was real magic, and wanted one desperately as a eight year-old.
i remember watching a video years ago called “trying to break a fushigi” and it was a guy throwing a fushigi off the roof and shooting it with a bb gun until it broke. it never did.
fushigi doesn’t break, it breaks you
@@alyssap3590 best comment ever
But Mac can scratch it 5 seconds after taking it out of the box...
I dropped mine on some pavement and it broke
I had a fushigi and it fucking cracked when it fell off my dresser
For those who don't know. The warnings at 5:21 refer to when sunlight hits the FUSHIGI it turns your funny magic balls into an mega death laser.
As you would expect that can be quite... Dangerous. I hear the same situation can also happen with magic 8 balls.
i've never heard that about magic 8 balls but i dont doubt it ! it's the same with crystal balls as well. who new magic orbs could all be so dangerous
Kurtis wasn't joking when he said those men were dangerous I guess.
If you say no, you get blasted by a death laser.
Also crystal balls. LOL
@@ardentulent Mages knew. They cast fireballs with those things
Also if I remember correctly they’re surprisingly super heavy. My brother dropped in on his toe and it fractured it lmfao
Also, my wife let me in on a fun fact: the church she was forced to go to as a young adult, banned the Fushigi ball as they thought it was actual “Magic” and deemed anything described magic as anti-Christian/witchcraft. That’s The South for you.
Hilarious
I'm imagining a really funny sermon about the dangers & satanic temptation of the Fushigi.
my buddy is from backwoods MO and his wife went to a girls school that taught housework instead of academics and they were burning Harry Potter books when it first came out
I've been yelled at by street preachers for contact juggling so yeah, can confirm
Yeah, I wasn't allowed to watch Harry Potter
Ayo, is no one gonna talk about the fact that Kurtis actually looks kinda good with the ponytail? It's such a different but cool look! Especially with the glasses.
this wasn’t a commercial necessarily, but i remember SO clearly learning about debit cards for the first time, and just becoming obsessed with them. i literally asked my parents for a debit card for christmas when i was like 7, and they had to sit me down and explain why i couldn’t have one
I bet youre great at monopoly and are an investment banker or something
this is so fucking funny
You could too have one, they make bank accounts especially for kids and you could just have one with like $5 on it just so you could go to the store and buy some candy with your little debit card! Unless you only wanted it because you thought it would have unlimited money or something.
this reminds me of when i was a kid and begged my mom to let me help her pay bills, cuz i was learning about money managing and thought finances were the most exciting thing ever
I got somewhat interested in cards and stuff as a kid after seeing the aluma wallet ad (if you've ever seen that one before). I remember really wanting that cool wallet and filling it up with cards.
Honestly the costuming at 15:48 was spot-on. You looked like you were in a high-school stage performance of The Matrix, which was exactly the kind of energy the bit needed.
@Jhonny D. Hi johnny depp
The Fushigi: Revolution
I understand the fact that the Fushigi looks harmless, but the outer layer is just really thick glass, when I was a kid a friend had one of these, left it out in the sun, and when we came back there was a black mark on the ground and the part of the ball facing up had started to puddle up. They look like they couldn't do any damage, but after I saw that fucker start to melt, I never watched the commercial again.
Pretty sure that's why the manual says not to use it outdoors. It's basically a big lens
i like how this comment implies you used to watch the commercial regularly (intentionally)
@@joaobenin they use it outdoors in the commercial 😭😭
When I was a kid in the UK we had these thing called yo yo balls (like a hollow rubber ball filled with glittery fluid on a rubber string?) which were HUGE for literally only a few months until pretty much all schools banned them for multiple reasons-- 1 it was possible to throttle yourself or other kids with the rubber string (main reason), 2 some kids were apparently drinking the fluid out of them and they pierced really easily 3 this was the only one I experienced-- the way the rubber string stretched made it easy to hit yourself in the face with the ball at HUGE velocity, I was dizzy and saw double for like an hour after.
Kids' toys and fads which quickly turn out to be insanely dangerous (in multiple ways in the case of yo yo balls!!) are obviously bad but something about it is so funny in retrospect lmao
(you can find something called yo yo balls now I believe but they're totally different, not made of stretchy rubber so I suppose lack all the associated risks)
@@SolScribbles You didn’t have certain infomercials you watched on purpose as a kid? Or are you just too young to have done that? 🤔
I legit never understood what the fushigi was as a kid, and even now... Like they're literally just doing tricks with a ball. It doesn't look like magic. It looks like something that some kid named Justin would do with like a baseball at recess when everyone else was just trying to play a game and ignore him.
I actually met Kenny in California about a year before the commercials came out. Dude was super nice and willing to teach kids how to do everything. I bought one of those stupid balls.. I never used it.
What in the ever-loving fuck are these replies
@Jesus Gonzalez ??????? 😭
I BEGGED my parents for a Fushigi ball when I was little. That thing is ridiculously heavy and tough as shit, it's been a decade and the thing is still solid. It's my most prized posession to this day.
Thats so sweet!
Omg yes Literally, I had one too and it was so dense
It is a precious heirloom, to be passed down from generation to generation
@najwa orajawa WTF??
I love how the comments range from people reminiscing on what they wanted from as seen on TV ads to “my fushigi broke several bones and set my house on fire”
they obviously didn’t store it right
I don't remember how old I was when that Magic Bullet infomercial came out, but I was OBSESSED. My mom would tell me when it was on, and no matter what else I was watching, I would switch over to watch that infomercial. It even won out over episodes of Avatar the Last Airbender
Kurtis you've seriously gotta do a video on how badly the movie Stuart Little aged. My wife and I decided to rewatch it the other night and oh my lord I cannot believe this movie was actually created. A family walks into a orphanage, see all these kids who want families and are like yeah we want the mouse. You could seriously have a field day with this movie.
YAAASSS PLEASSSEEE!!! I ALWAYS thought it was just FUCKED that they picked a fucking MOUSE over an actual CHILD... PLEASE COVER THIS KURTY BOII!!!
KURTIS DO YOUR THING!!! 🐁
Well it is a book. But, why they would make it into a movie was kind of a weird decision.
@@NanaShaCrash In the book do that make it known that they just live in a world that animals can speak? Because the humans didn't seem surprised at all that Stuart could talk. Plus all the other animals also talk, plus its made known that cats don't talk around humans so they can be pets.
You are saying that you’d see a talking mouse in an orphanage and adopt a CHILD?
I believe the storage warning and bag is so important because it acts like a crystal ball in the sense that sunlight at the right angle can literally burn your house down haha
Not just that, it can get REALLY hot and burn stuff this way too.
yeah from someone who watched a fushigi ball almost melt in direct sunlight I can testify they had a storage warning for a reason.
Fun fact- the storage disclaimer was because if you left the ball out and sunlight hit it, it could ✨burn down your house✨
Also the usage disclaimer - it's a heavy ball. If a kid lobs that at your head, it would not be pleasant
so could furby, but they never gave ME a DISCLAIMER
✨indirect arson✨
@@skrtskrt22 I didn't know I could be any more terrified by those little things, but here we are...
@@MissDraiha they hurt if you drop it on a toe. They are really good at seeking the same one, too.
My grandma got these for a lot of my younger cousins for Christmas circa 2010-2011. I think they were selling them at Walmart in the As Seen on TV section around that time, and that's where she got them. Everyone was pretty excited initially, but the disappointment soon set in. But the kids did a good job at still pretending to be hyped about it in front of grandma, which was good.
If I showed up to a Kurtis Conner show and he just started doing Fushigi, I wouldn't be disappointed
Same honestly, hoping he wasn’t kidding bc at this point I might be disappointed if he doesn’t give me a fushigi montage mid stand up 😂
Imagine if you went to a Kurtis Conner show and he got on stage and started telling jokes 😔 that's some disappointment right there
The first and last thing I wanted from those toy infomercials was an early A.I. doll called Amazing Amanda. She could wake you up at a certain time, identify foods for certain meals (if you fed her a cookie in the morning, she would say, “Silly mommy! Cookie not for breakfast!”), and just essentially act like a furby that could talk. I begged my mom to get one, and she later told me that she had to get to Toys R Us super early in the morning to meet the shipment truck to get the doll for me because they were so popular around Christmas. She was fun for about two days, and then we realized that she was exactly like those babies they give teens for home economics classes that require you to attend to them at all hours. She couldn’t distinguish between school mornings and weekends, so she’d wake me up at six in the morning on Saturday screaming to be fed. I was like 8 or 9 at the time so I was definitely not cut out for taking care of a robot. Eventually I ended up taking her batteries out because she wouldn’t shut off otherwise. Then, around four or five years later, she suddenly croaked back to life in the bottom shelf of my play area to scream, “Happy… Easter… Mommy!!” (It was Halloween). She went to Goodwill not long after that.
You just wrote an amazing real life creepypasta.
This was the creepiest thing I have read. Dolls never usually scare me but this was just creepy... how dare she come back to life and say Happy Easter on Halloween. Disgraceful.
And the batteries weren’t in it?!
Ugh, I had Amazing Ally from the same line and she was barely functioning in like 2 days.
@@fluorescentgreys yes! I had an amazing allison and i swear she was so annoying w that fake valley girl accent. my parents were mad bc i played with her for maybe 5 minutes before moving on to something else. i also don’t remember it ever waking me up but i also turned it off immediately
As a huge fan of the movie David Bowie lead movie Labyrinth, I wanted the Fushigi so dang much. It was almost exactly like Jareth’s magic crystal ball in the movie and I was obsessed. Admittedly, I was 23 when the thing came out & I was way too excited about these. I got one & ended up dropping it onto my glass top coffee table & my girlfriend, latter wife, ended up going nuts on me. Worth it
I always had that exact association from the commercials that made me want it too. Especially when he rotates the four balls around together, which looked so similar a scene from the movie. Oddly enough, I also ended up getting one and dropped it on my glass coffee table😁
That movie is exactly what I associated that with as soon as I saw the commercial.
@Adelise no thank you...
I wasn't the only one!
worth it.
I'm 29 and I agree with Kurt when he says being an adult is just all about healing your inner child.
As a child I loved bratz, faires, mermaids horses, and pink
And now I'm a 29 Yr old wearing pink everyday buying bratz dolls and anything cute, kawaii and pretty I can get my hands on. ^-^
Why don't pick up artists just teach fushigi? That was unironically a mad sexy display of alpha energy
There is no doubt in my mind that at least one PUA considered the fushigi as part of his peacocking routine
Big agree
True
@@carebear3120 oh I guarantee it was rampant around the time these things came out
I mean, who doesn't get hot over some fushigi and light negging?
Kurtis, your FUSHIGI *performance* was therapeutic - life changing even. I suddenly feel at peace with myself and the universe, I can talk to plants now (they're always thirsty) and the only downside is that levitating makes it easy to hit my head on low archways.
11/10 would recommend, I may have overcome my mortality now thanks to FUSHIGI.
Woke up to the matrix bruh
My plants have been screaming at me for days now that the type of water I'm giving them isn't good enough. Absolutely privileged plants I have
FUSHIGI!!!
6:00
genuine answer to what was probably a joke question:
If you store it near a window, it can refract sunlight like a magnifying glass and set your house on fire.
Also, some of the tricks involve moving it in such a way that it's easy to drop it, hurting your toes or pets, or lob it through a window.
So that warning is actually completely justified
A bunch of my friends who got it also broke their tiles by dropping it
it was so heavyy !
Fun fact: fushigi is actually originally a Japanese word (不思議 literally fu-shi-gi) that means wonderful/marvelous with a hint of mystery. Whenever I see it I can't help but think of the ball lol
My grandmother, who is rather disconnected from what my siblings and I actually enjoy, gifted my older brother a Fushigi for Christmas sometime during his teenage years. We'd seen the ads (and mocked them extensively) and my brother attempted a few tricks, but we immediately tired of the rather disappointing fad. It's been sitting on the windowsill for maybe ten years, and we only ever use it as a threat, since it's so heavy and could honestly be weaponized.
Weaponised 🤣
LOL my grandma is the exact same way and got me one of these for christmas as well
"dont make me get the fushigi"
Having that in a window is really tempting fate. They start a lot of fires from the sun reflecting off them like a magnifying glass.
I had a fushigi! That thing was not what I expected. I didn't know what contact juggling was, or that I'd need actual skill to use it lol. Used it in a Jareth Halloween costume though.
I also used to watch the Magic Bullet infomercial every single morning for like 8 months. Then my grandma got the set and I was so happy. As a teenager I rescued a disabled hamster (born with no teeth) and the Magic Bullet was my go-to for grinding up her food. ♥️
i got so worried at the end there you have no idea 😭
@@claudiam1324 Was looking for this comment, lmao. "My go-to for grinding"
Me: oh... oh no...
"Up her food"
Phew!
I love that
Aw that’s so cute! Hydro hamsters are adorable.
Omg I thought you were going to grind up the hamster. I need to get off the internet more
So I think what you were struggling with is something that they mentioned in the commercial called Isolation.
Isolation, when referring to dance and such, refers to moving one part of the body while every other part remains completely still, as if the moving limb is almost disconnected. The art of the Fushugi relies on a version of Isolation, where you move your hands and body, but make sure to move in a way that allows the Fushigi ball to seemingly remain completely still in one place, or glide effortlessly, as if it's moving on it's own.
Isolation is a horribly hard skill to master, and a lot of professional dancers see it as a mark of mastery because of how hard it is to do right.
I'm a dancer and I've been practicing for years, and still haven't got it that good
Yeah it's common in every physical art pretty much. You see it in pretty much every kind of juggling, poi, staff, even yoyoing, although isolation tricks aren't the most prevalent for that
Yeah, I think the commercial relied on kids having no idea about that. As a kid I knew it wasn’t magic but I expected it to be way less hard than it was
Yep you summed it up pretty well, though Kurtis definitely had the right idea by comparing it to dance. I've been dancing for a few years now and I got pretty good at basic isolation just from being on a hip hop team but it's still really difficult to do smoothly and well and requires lots and lots of practice
I liked the the part when he said “it’s fushigan time” and fushiged everywhere
As someone who has flung a contact juggling ball by accident, they stress being careful because they hurt like hell if you get hit. I could easily see it injuring someone or going right through drywall.
I- what did you do???
I got something sticky on mine yrs ago and was washing it off. Long story short it slipped out of the towel, dented the metal bathtub, and scratched my ball so the illusion was ruined. Better to just use a wipe ig XD
@@Firestar_notthecat flung a contact juggling ball by accident
@@Firestar_notthecat I tried to transfer it over the top of my fingers and followed through too fast. lol Luckily it missed anything important. I've also dropped it on my toes.
I put a hole in my drywall while contact juggling! It happens!
The magic bullet thing makes me laugh because my little sister never asked for birthday/christmas presents. For her 4th Christmas she asked for one and only one thing, the Magic Bullet blender lol. Fastforward 18 years I was struggling on what to get her for Christmas and sure enough walking through target I see the Magic Bullet.
Did you get it for her? Did she love it?
@@CasualVFlowerEnjoyer I did get it! I couldn't pass up the opportunity. She definitely loved it although it cracked us all up. She even uses it now for shakes. Turns out the gag gift had a use!
@@bluerolex that's wonderful! I'm glad she got her wish after so many years lol
My sister also got me one for Christmas last year and it’s honestly pretty great!
Me and my friends used the word Nicerdicer (I think something similar to the Magic Bullet) like a lot! We never bought it, but nicerdicer is still in my vocabulary :')
I’m embarrassed to say I convinced my parents to get me this as a kid. It was really heavy actually so I understand the property damage risk. I used it for literally one day then realized it was just a glass ball that did nothing
I got it for xmas and was immediately disappointed too. I also only used it for one day b/c my mom told me to stop using it after I kept dropping it while trying to learn. The thud was so loud and she was afraid it'd damage the floor, plus I'd been crying b/c I dropped it on my toe twice.
@@hunterlanius6526 slay all day
@Jesus is coming. Read the Gospel. Shut up
same here and we somehow got TWO. after my thorough disappointment they turned it into a lesson for me 💀
only kurtis could make a 21 minute long video about a ball from 2010 that i'd watch the whole way
a long time ago my parents bought my siblings and i a fushigi after watching the sick commercial. once we realized it was just an 8lb glass ball with a big metal marble in it, we brought it to the lake and threw it in the water for fun. we would swim around the bottom of the lake and look for it but eventually the fushigi was fushiged
Oh no, it's fushigone now #RestInFishgi
so you we're fushing for the fushigi?
That definitely sounds like more fun
2000s toys had some of the wildest marketing tactics. I have a distinct memory of going to the mall as a kid, and seeing this booth set up for the Squirmles toy (ya know, the worms on a string). My family was baited. Like even my mom and her boyfriend thought they were the coolest things in the world. Like the booth had a video playing showing all the "cool" thing you can do with the worm on a string. And of course my 8 year old brain thought that the worm really did move on its own. The worst was that they were like $10 for one. Everyone ended up getting one (including the two adults). I just remember the car ride home was just a bunch of white people playing with their worms.
Who up playin w they worm
I played with those too!! I loved my worms on a string. 🥺🥺🥺🥺
That’s so cute. What a amazing family memory
yeah now i just made em into earrings
@@charlottetigchelaar8993 same
Fun fact: TV commercials targeted towards kids are illegal in Quebec. Meaning that my only nostalgic cartoon-interrupting advertisement memories are of a laser epilation tool, "wonder bras" and that one green steam vacuum
as a trans person trying to remove body hair i def could use some laser epilation
@@advokatie it’s called « no no » and I’m pretty sure it still exists but you could also probably find a brand with better quality and prices if you looked. Also it’s branded towards cis woman who don’t like that they have a tiny bitty bit of blond hair practically invisible to the naked eye on their face lmao so I’m not sure how efficient it actually is-
That’s lowkey sad 😔
@@advokatie My friend has been epilating for ages and I tried it as well and it worked great for me (we both have pretty thick hair). It hurts a tiny bit since it is ripping your hair out but honestly not that bad and you get used to it. Plus this way you don't have to shave for way longer.
quebec is smarter than the rest of the world
12:11 should’ve put a ponytail on the baby 😂
I love to imagine Jenna having to film Kurtis in the matrix costume and holding her laughter to make a steady shot
Looking for this comment…🤣🤣🤣
As a kid, I always thought the 'illusion' was that the glass outer sphere was to look 'invisible', so it looks like a smaller, floating chrome ball. So I actually hated these commercials because I thought it was a bunch of adults pretending they couldn't see the glass lol
Me too 🤣 i used to rant about it
*pretty mad that they convinced the American Public that Contact Jugglers were all frauds.
DUDE LITERALLY SAME
let's give a quick shoutout to Jenna's mad interior design skills, you guys. those Patrick Nagel/80's lady masks on the wall had me laying a towel on the floor
@flower has eaten wtf is this
Towel on the floor denotes (sexual) excitement?
@@kingayy9267 yes
I thought this said Jerma and that you were implying Jerma designed kurtis's room
Flicking the bean to masks?
Ok
I used to wake up when I was younger just to watch teleshopping, I had the 5 in one mop on my Christmas list 3 years in a row
I love the “just hold the ball weirdly while moving my hand around” tricks the most.
As a legend has said time and time again, "Those are rookie numbers!"
@@damienearl8302 bot
@@Cobalt985 Y'know...I might have to watch this video again, because I genuinely don't get why I used that GrayStillPlays reference here either
“It comes with a carrying case, a ball sack if you will” sent me 😂
Please don’t make sexual jokes or advances God wouldn’t like that and there are children here and there are children here May God bless you and your family and help you Give your life to Jesus Christ and repent. I pray this in the mighty name of Jesus Christ I pray Amen.Jesus Christ loves you. Give your life to Jesus Christ and ask for forgiveness for ALL OF YOUR SINS. Even the ones committed in the past and repent. He’s coming soon. Please pray and repent.
@@angelemeana2754 okay I’ll repent.
@@angelemeana2754 religion has made you so brainless that you can’t even form a coherent sentence
@@angelemeana2754 no balls?
@@Jen_U lmfao
15:55 kurtis is giving some strong “hey kid you wanna buy a fushigi?” Vibes
when i was little i was obbessed with the shamwow infomerical and my parents got me them for Christmas, i was genuinely thrilled and messed around soaking up a bowl full of water with them and then squeezing it out for hours. those were the days.
I also remember wanting this SO BADLY after watching the commercials on my Box TV… I was about 7 yrs old and I never got it cause my parents never thought it was as cool as I did… disappointed… However growing up yo-yos was what was popular! At one point at school, everywhere u looked there would be multiple kids being freaking yo yo masters! They were in elementary too!! Still don’t know how they did some of the tricks and I’m 18 now…
"I wanted to be a yo-yo man," I cried, "make me a yo-yo man!" But the yo-yo man did not answer. He just kept on yo-ing.
lol loved yoyos too but could only do "walk the dog"
My brother was one of those kids who had a yo-yo!
Straight up had a yo-yo professional come to my elementary school and do a performance
Oh ya, I forgot how everyone used to be obsessed with yoyos
kurtis's videos are so timeless. the way he speaks, the type of edits, the comedy, everything, no matter how old the video they all feel like this, actually my favourite youtuber, keep doing what you do man
@mijuo roui huh???
I actually had a fushigi. My grandmother always got us “as seen on TV” type stuff and one year she bought all the grandkids fushigis.
she’s iconic
bro my child self would’ve been so jealous of you bc my grandma always bought us mexican jumping beans instead💀
Bruh my grandma did the same thing
Dude you just give off such good energy, and you are so entertaining. Thanks for the laughs, especially during times of depression.
Fun fact! ‘Fushigi’ (不思議) means strange and marvelous in Japanese. There’s also a saying - fushigi da ne - which means ‘it’s strange, isn’t it?’ Which is also Bulbasaur’s name in Japanese (playing off the word for seed)
oh cool!!!! was it made by a japanese company?
A side note- my mom recently bought me an off brand fushigi ball, no cap. She told me to leave it in the box when I'm not messing with it- if you let it sit in the sun, it can reflect onto surfaces in your home, aaand set them on fire... 👍🏻 10/10 product
Actually fushigi is the off-brand funnily enough. Like he mentioned, contact juggling already existed, and the fushigi ball just tried to market it to a broader audience
Idk the specifics of what you're saying, but a reflective sphere should be no more likely to set things on fire than direct sunlight. Cause it diverges the rays and such. If it's a lens on the other hand, you're in trouble
@@orinblank2056 very true! Im not sure, but maybe they were the first to patent the "clear" design. I also have no clue what I'm talking about really 😅
@@rianantony Fushigi balls _have_ set things on fire though. It's not the exact same thing, but crystal balls for fortune telling and stuff always have to be covered by a cloth for this exact reason.
@@orinblank2056 Which is ironic as it apparently killed any hype contact juggling had.
I DESPISE the Fushigi. I was so disappointed when I found out it had no special floating abilities. I read that people wanted to file a class action lawsuit against the Fushigi creators for false advertising
What kind of "special floating abilities" did you expect? They're still bound by the laws of physics lmao.
Why those people are stupid. Literally in the commercial it shows people having to touch it for it to move the way it does those people trying to get a lawsuit out of it are dumb asf
And how can you still be mad that it didn't literally float 10 years later??
I have never wiped my head around so fast when listening to a RUclips video. This damn commercial just brought back so many memories. 2:50
unfortunately i was a victim of the fushigi hype and my brother, to this day, will not let me live it down. The glow in the dark fushigi still stands on my desk, and it was never used. Though somehow i was disappointed i got the glow in the dark one and not the original. I was a fool nonetheless.
I got the glow in the dark one and my cousin got the normal one! I swear the glow in the dark one was heavier. Combined with the fact that mine had a black mark on the surface that destroyed the illusion a little, I would've rather had the regular one, lol.
We still had a Fushigi from childhood laying around and my Doberman discovered it one day. Boy howdy, lemme tell ya, that is her favorite toy ever. She will carry it everywhere with her. She loves it. She looks like she’s just waiting to tell you your future with that orb in her mouth. We also have to watch our feet when she’s running around with it. Because she will drop that solid ball directly on your feet if you aren’t careful and just sit there like: Roll it for me pls :) My dog is Fushigi’s biggest fan.
@Don't read profile photo This joke is overdone and unfunny
that's so cute oh my gosh
holy fuck the bots
that's so wholesomeee 🥺
When you just wanna share a cute story about your weird dog but the bots find your comment. 🥴
This is extremely funny because I have a fushigi, but i literally ACTIVELY refused to get into that trend and even told my dad not to buy one, despite my cousins going crazy for it. Because I knew it was a scam (i dont remember why i knew but i must've heard it somewhere). But then my grandmother bought TWO for me and it was those "glow in the dark" ones for my birthday. Lemme tell you that was the saddest birthday experience. I felt so bad, like I'm never picky with gifts but just the emotion i felt knowing my grandma bought me a useless scam ball, byt i CAN'T let her know. It's pretty funny looking back.
AW LOL sorry about your bday 😭 bless your grandma tho, that’s too cute. she tried.
@@strwbymlk it was years ago lmao, but you are right, she always does try to give a good gift, even when she doesn't understand what she's buying lol
Sounds pretty rad! I'd be happy for a Fushigi glow in the dark. I mean if it's dark u don't need to b good at it. And It's not rly a "scam", just manipulative advertising like wt everything else (to some degree). And from granny... Guess u rly didn't like them balls ;)
@@embryonic7692 lol
I draw a lot so the default present my family members pick is usually a pack of coloured pencils. But I am the *worst* at coloured drawings, I can only draw with grey lead, so I’m just sitting there thinking “Thanks, I’ll add it to the pile”.
i’ve had one in my house as a sort of junk drawer staple object and it’s genuinley one of the most nostalgic random stupid objects ever
I could see someone at a rave trading their glo-stick for a fushigi ball. Also, Kurtis, you can always go the "David Bowie in Labyrinth" route to fushigi ball mastery: Have someone else who actually knows what they are doing pretend to be your arms while they remain otherwise out of frame.
Was looking for this comment
I’ve most def seen ppl w a fushigi at festivals😭
"Someone else" - obviously it would be The Amazing Kenny. It can't be anyone else
But he has to wear spandex pants with his junk very clearly presented for everyone to see.
I KEEP SAYING THIS I THINK IT WOULD COMPLETE A KILLER KING JARETH COSPLAY
My husband got one of these as an unasked-for Christmas present, the second he unwrapped it and tried his first trick, he dropped it on the edge of the fireplace and scuffed it so badly that the "illusion" didn't work anymore 😂 I have had to hear about this for 9 years
You know, this marriage sounds great!
@@corneliahanimann2173she didn’t say she was the one to give him the gift or that they were even together when it happened
I didn't know gifts were anything but not-aaked-for Xmas present.
I'm guessing your family dynamics are very tight.
I had one as a kid and decided when I was traveling internationally this was important to bring with me. I got stopped by customs and had tsa agents everywhere wondering wtf this metal ball was. Thankfully I watched the dvd and was prepared with some tricks that blew their minds so much they let me keep it. Still have it to this day.
Customs wasn't ready for your Fushigi magic
And then everyone clapped
As a current 16 year old, I can say for sure that if I saw an As Seen on TV ad for a fushigi before this video, I would've wanted it too.
are u still 16? if not what r ur thoughts on it now at 17 amigo snotbrain
16:09 the lines of code in the reflection of the picture frame is legitimately a nice touch
it’s okay, Kurtis. i also remember seeing these commercials. i’m 26 and refuse to believe i was only 14, when this thing was advertised. i thought i was like 6, when it happened
Weirdly, that aligns with when Kurtis said he remembered it, if you were 14 then, and thought it was when you were 6, then Kurtis, at 16 then, -8 years, that's 8, like he said.
I feel like this is untapped Mandela Effect kinda shit-
I was actually 8 years old and spent my money…
i would have been 19 when they came out and i swear to you i saw those commercials way earlier too. i literally cant believe it
I wonder if maybe the brand was sold and revived in 2010 because I know i had one of these in elementary/middle school.
Same.
I’m a proud fushigi ball owner. Ever since I bought my first ball, my life improved, I got a girlfriend, job, and even ran a marathon. Using this magical orb all my dreams have come true. I love you kurtis but if you dare tease or make fun of this life changing device I will throw a fushigi ball at you.
But very importantly, do you have a ponytail?
@@bloop6111 growing my first one! Excited to see it fully grown!!
kurtis's fushigi outfit actually looks awesome. the ponytail works