The Terrifying Baby Goblin on the New York Subway That the Internet Thinks Is a WerePup Is Not a Real WerePup, Says the Creator of WerePups

Earlier this week on Twitter, a user posted pictures of a man who sat down inside a New York subway car and “pulled a fucking goblin in a matching outfit out of the nike bag.” As the retweets piled up, other Twitter users cut in to speculate about the so-called goblin, deciding before long that it was something called a WerePup, a (very lifelike) type of baby werewolf doll. This is not so, according to WerePup creator Asia Charity Eriksen, or at least, not exactly. The thing in question is indeed a werewolf baby doll—look at those adorable lupine features—but not an official WerePup, because it was not made by Eriksen. Eriksen spoke to Slate to clear up what exactly constitutes a WerePup, where they come from, and why.

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