I was a part of the BJD community from 2005 to 2010 and left the community due to people attacking me because my dolls were all hybrids and not "pure brand" dolls. I decided to look at the community again after getting a few recasts. The majority of my dolls are legit, but I was told I was a horrible person because I have two recasts (a Volks doll and a DoD doll). I'm not going to overpay for a limited edition Volks doll or hope for an old DoD doll to pop up used and probably in horrible shape.
And you did well, anon.
I almost forgot in my decades of being in the hobby that hybrids were also a reason why people would get shamed back in the day before recast...
New generations will never understand that before rejecting recast, there was a lot of reasons why elitists shamed and bullied others.
I'm glad I got into this on my 30s then and during the start of the pandemic; last year.