BOBY LORE
boby /bobi/
(noun) – a word of endearment used for small and big creatures who poses a certain boby energy. Something a little silly and somewhat soft.
In order to detect a boby ask yourself this simple question: Do I want to squeeze them lovingly into a tiny ball and place them in my pocket?
In my experience I have found that many can be deemed bobies, including my cats, some drawings, animals, bugs and loved ones. I encourage you to find the bobies in your life and tell them how much you love them and how silly they are.
Now I will get real and tell you how exactly I came up with this genius term. Once upon a beautiful day in Rotterdam I was discussing one of my cats with my partners. While referring to the cat I said that they had a very small boby. The word I actually tried to use, as you might have caught on, was body. And this is how though a simple mistake a beautiful new term was born.
Soon enough my loved ones carried this word into their lives, making the world better and sillier – one boby at a time.
P.S. Hereby (below), I offer you some shinny boby examples, found in my own work.
Meet the Bobies!
My biggest commercial project where bobies really came to shine was creating Collectible Avatars for Reddit. My first drop of these three guys (see below) has sold out quickly after being released!
Since then I have dropped more avatars for the Reddit community and have really enjoyed creating these characters with their strange and whimsical backgrounds.
Character creation has been one of my favourite parts of storytelling, the Reddit project really helped me focus fully on the character and improve my hand at this task.