Industry analysts are describing it as ‘completely unprecedented’ and ‘genuinely baffling from a retail data standpoint.’ Origami paper — which previously moved about as fast as you’d expect origami paper to move — is now backordered at every major craft retailer in North America. One Michael’s store manager in Ohio told a local news outlet, ‘I’ve been working here eleven years and I’ve never had a man in his thirties urgently ask me where the washi paper is while making zero eye contact.’ Eleven years. Never.