TIL Garbage Pail Kids were created out of spite for Cabbage Patch Dolls

I'm responding to you because I have seen this same question posted over and over. I'm not OP, but I"m using myself as an example. I was a kid. I was a kid in a house full of trauma. That trauma has diffused a lot of pop cultural moments because I was honed in on survival. When you have compounded trauma, it tends to make your memory of pop culture a lot fuzzy. For example, I was aware of GPK (hate them, they were disgusting to my child like brain) but I wouldn't have ever been able to tell you anymore information that that. I was 4/5 when the CPD were super popular. Around that time, I was also moved through 3 different household and the center of a very nasty divorce battle. What do you think my brain held on to? So, now that we have that settled, maybe we just assume that other people had different upbringings and backgrounds instead of assuming everyone should have the same experience as you.