I’m new to Dollfie dream in terms of collecting them, but I have been seeing them around on various socials for a long time. Before I actually joined this community, I was under the assumption that the vast majority of the dolls out there were custom mods of the sculpts, rather than the original heads.
After joining this community and starting to see them on sites like Tiktok, that doesn’t seem to really be the case. It seems twitter and instagram lean custom and sites like here, reddit, and tiktok lean original.
What do you think? Which seems to be the most popular way to collect? Leaving the original sculpts as is, or customs?
Also curious since I seem to see a lot more “character” dolls from anime/games rather than original characters (I came from BJDs where original characters are definitely the majority). I even see a lot of people using various sculpts to “shell” video game or anime characters for which there was no official release by DD. Which do you think is more common generally: oc’s or using the dolls to represent non-original characters?
Basically I’m just curious about whether this site is more representative…or maybe there is a big difference between western collectors and otherwise.