I read something a few years ago about Elvis Presley memorbilia plummeting in value due to his demographic dying off. IIRC, it all plummeted pretty suddenly, and hard.
That’ll happen to just about every single one of these collections. So many kids born after 2010 are going to be throwing away enormous collections passed down from their parents/relatives.
This shit reminds me of all the elderly people with ceramic glassware that they've kept for generations. Nobody wants that shit in 2021, so the best time to sell it was about 10-15 years ago when some dumb fuck would pay through the nose for the speculative value.
In 2021 pick literally anything of historical value and you could get a cheap Chinese replica of it to display in a cabinet and nobody would be any wiser. It's not like you're getting it out every week to feel that it's actually plastic and not bone china.
I guess what i am getting at is that the modern age has stuff like more product available, more leisure, mass media, advertising, psychology, etc that allows for more consumption and for corporations to have better tools to milk the most out of it, the behaviour itself is as old as humanity. Even monkeys start forming social cliches if you introduce some shiny toy into their society, its been observed with aboriginal tribes how insane they get about material shit too, tribes might kill each other over stupid colored beads. We humans are retarded like that but at least we have the ability to learn to control our most dumbfuck impulses.
It probably is our monkey brain that makes us want to hoard things to look better. Like you mentioned those stone age tribes, they go apeshit over beads because historically it's a pain in the ass to make a single bead when all you have to work with are sharpened stones, sticks, and bones. When the white men dumped their own beads in the market, the market went insane. It's like if aliens dumped a bunch of gold and diamonds on our planet because they could easily get it from asteroids.
Whenever I'm in Reno it's common to see small shops and casinos that have Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne or even Betty Boop memorabilia. Granted most of the people who visit casinos to gamble are middle-aged or elderly. But it's crazy that there are baby boomers who are still fans of something that was relevant in the 50's or 60's. In a way this has harmed popular gambling towns like Reno because of their reliance on tourists who are dying and younger generations that are more interested in social networking and video games than gambling.
It's difficult to connect to younger generations because the majority of them don't have a chance to experience what their own parents or grandparents had done as kids and teenagers. How many young gamers today have to blow on a cartridge to make it play or how popular the Kiss Army was in the 1970's. That's why I feel someone like Elvis, who's marketed as the King of Rock & Roll, would lose popularity, while franchises like Star Wars are still popular enough with fans of all ages.
That's why boomer consoomers are amusing, since we've all encountered that weirdo old guy/gal with the Betty Boop, Elvis, KISS, Harley Davidson, etc. memorabilia. I'm sure there's plenty of people from their generation laughing at them for that just like how people like posters in this thread will laugh at their fellow millennials in 40 years about how no one wants stupid ass funkopops anymore.
Maybe I should be glad my grandparents never were consoomers. Okay, sure, my grandmother has a nice set of novelty spoons, but it's a single set she keeps in one cabinet and she didn't fill her whole kitchen with them. Not much different than my grandfather buying all his favorite 50s/60s Westerns on DVD. It's all a generational thing, like you mentioned Star Wars for instance, that will be like Elvis in 50 years because Disney Star Wars (unlike Lucas's maligned Prequels) absolutely failed to gain a young audience, so the bulk of your youngest Star Wars fans, even the soyboys, would have seen at least Revenge of the Sith in theater in 2005.
is gonna be brutal for Retro videogames. Outside of few exceptions (stuff like Earthbound, Panzer Dragoon Saga) videogames are not rare items at all, they were mass produced mainstream products and so there's way more old games in the market or in people's attics collecting dust than there are people interested in buying them. Price increases don't correlate with rarity, only increased hype, and you can actually see the age of collectors just by looking at the games that are increasing in value, like N64, ps1 and ps2 games going up because more millenials are all gay for them.
A big burst is bound to happen eventually and a lot of people who though Duck hunt and a jizzed Silent Hill 3 copy they paid 400$ for for would put their kids trough college are gonna be left carrying the bag. In fact all this stuff is still extremely cheap in Japan, retro games are still easy to procure for cheap in bargain bins, maybe jews do fear the samurai.
There's a lot of fuckery going on with "graded" games.
tl;dw it's a scamola and it's people buying the same games in between each other to raise value
People don't want to learn Japanese to play JRPGs so that's why say, a bare cart of Final Fantasy III on SNES goes for so much money now, while you could get the complete set in Japanese for about the same price. (Or you could just emulate/run pirated copies on the original hardware, but that's not shelf candy.)
Maybe I should be glad my grandparents never were consoomers. Okay, sure, my grandmother has a nice set of novelty spoons, but it's a single set she keeps in one cabinet and she didn't fill her whole kitchen with them. Not much different than my grandfather buying all his favorite 50s/60s Westerns on DVD. It's all a generational thing, like you mentioned Star Wars for instance, that will be like Elvis in 50 years because Disney Star Wars (unlike Lucas's maligned Prequels) absolutely failed to gain a young audience, so the bulk of your youngest Star Wars fans, even the soyboys, would have seen at least Revenge of the Sith in theater in 2005.
Original Star Wars figs will probably keep their value if in the original packaging. I saw Phantom Menace merch in stores marked down as late as 2008, and for all I know it's still there unbought under a pile of Rey packages.
Happy to be of service! It gives me genuine enjoyment to be able to share the exhibits of the human zoo. Allow me to offer you a nice video in this trying time:
I figure that's because that's around the time the Boomers we're little kids. So it's their version of a millennial listening to Enya or a zoomer who likes Backstreet Boys.
In 2021 pick literally anything of historical value and you could get a cheap Chinese replica of it to display in a cabinet and nobody would be any wiser. It's not like you're getting it out every week to feel that it's actually plastic and not bone china.
I did post earlier about TOREBA, and if we're going to believe the subplebbit for it. They're seriously hooked on it, and it's gambling.
Young people still gamble, but they do have to change stuff up. Like gacha and stuff
Happy to be of service! It gives me genuine enjoyment to be able to share the exhibits of the human zoo. Allow me to offer you a nice video in this trying time: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qz1kkGSL4kI
I figure that's because that's around the time the Boomers we're little kids. So it's their version of a millennial listening to Enya or a zoomer who likes Backstreet Boys.
Ohhh, this is a Bowerbird, I've never heard of them, they're adorable:
I like the bird's nest better. It's, honestly, more pleasant to the eye due to color coordination and looking less chaotic.
Don't put figurines all over your shelves so that you'd have to manually move them every time you want to get out a book. A sure-fire sign that you've shifted into being a hoarder is that you have to move stuff to access anything on your shelves. Even the bird knows that if I need one of his bottlecaps, I can just pick it up without shifting a bunch of foliage out of the way.
I had to dedicate part of one of my fig.shelves to books that were too huge to fit book cabinet (as it is for small formats, keeping them, even vertically, was impossibly hard), but I simply bundled them all at one side, and the only trouble is dusting them since there is no glass.
This always makes me laugh. It's always an apple product, not some no-name or custom made laptop running Linux or something, and it's always Starbucks not some local indiependence place.
These fuckers are the biggest consoomers, got to love it. I get that everyone needs some kind of pc in modern times, but an Apple product lol.
That bowerbird actually made an aesthetic nest. What a chad. But seeing that damn bookshelf... Has it been brought up here about the ultimate book Consoomer garbage known as the Young Adult genre? I just remembered it's a thing when I saw all those dead-eyed Harry Potter funkos surrounding their books.
Now, I will fully fuckin' admit, I have a small collection of Tolkien books. So I can't actually call these girls out when I have copies of the same book since I'm just as guilty.
The one thing I don't get is what youtube Book reviewers do - or "Booktube". Which is buy every item including custom etsy stuff just to set in front of my books to show off. Every Booktube girl has these white shelves with fairy lights, funko pops and fandom crap they set up with their books, and sometimes their coveted ARCs - Advanced Reading Copies. Which just means they whined and cried to a publisher they gush about YA books and they got sent a copy.
And Subscription boxes have caught on to only increase the consoom autism.
This is unironically on a damn website.
What if the book sucks...
Ah yes, gotta have those low-quality plushies.
Pay $34 USD for a crappy book, a bunch of paper and cheap jewelry, and some generic magnets. What a bargain!
You can go on etsy and buy expensive (and ugly) bookmarks of characters, candles, bath bombs, tea, whatever. All meant to show off how you're such a big fan of this YA book, despite most girls who do this being well out of their teens. And Book Youtubers love all this shit to show off what a fan they are of the series, consooming stuff even more worthless than Disney/Starbucks stuff. Because outside of a niche group of girls, no one would want this.
I only hope they recycle the paper products. Otherwise this is all landfill material.
That's the best part. This made the rounds on some commie sub and of course people were making excuses about how there is nowhere to go at the airport except for Starbucks and maybe it's a used older laptop. But that little logo showing tells you everything you need to know.
I have this thing that I'm not sure how to really talk about or describe, so if someone knows what I'm talking about and has any reading suggestions or a direction to point me, please let me know.
Just adding in the videos in its own comment, because I do watch them all. But it's a hassle to delete everything that I'm not going to comment on @NoReturn.
Brands should really slap down on this, it's distasteful at best of jewtube to allow counterfeits on their platform. I know that plebbit have a sub that's called Fashionreps for counterfeits, and of course. That's not being shut down.
This is a disgusting poor people-thing, because this kind of luxury was only meant for a few. Not like H&M-shit. And I suspect designer bags is worse quality than before, because people buy fakes and don't see the difference to a real one. Brand get this idea to make bags more on par with fakes, because people won't notice it anyway
This troon-lookalike really said Sia is problematic. The song is painfully overplayed, and dance is cringe/shit. When the heck did she become "problematic"?
This troon-lookalike really said Sia is problematic. The song is painfully overplayed, and dance is cringe/shit. When the heck did she become "problematic"?
It gets worse, there's a whole subculture around designer superfakes that themselves can cost hundreds of dollars, though still less than the thousands that the real ones cost. It was a while ago and I don't know if I could find it again, but I swear I saw superfake Birkins selling for three grand.
Most of the expensive ones seem to be here but there's other grotesquely priced fake merchandise on the other replica subreddits.
RepLadies is a happy place for discussion about women's replica (and authentic) designer bags, clothing, and accessories. This subreddit was...
old.reddit.com
This person spent $4000 on a gigantic ugly Louis Vuitton trunk, $1500 of which was to ship it by sea because it's so huge there was no other way to do it.
Fairycrate. Faecrate. Owlcrate. Tiktokers. It's all the same garbage.
It doesn't help that books now have gone towards this shallow A E S T H E T I C COVER mentality as well. Not just YA but romance too. So if you're going to buy a book, it should be "pretty" so you can snap photos of yourself with it on a macrame rug "reading" like a "bookworm uwu".
The 2020 Romance Book Cover syndrome. Bright, popping covers, especially with BLACK PPL on them, to show you're inclusive. Except YA which needs to have Strong Wymyn on the covers or some regal theme if it's a "fantasy".
Most of these books are garbage - I don't even need to read them to know - but publishers really push for girls to buy them because their dying industry needs the money. And these girls do instead of taking them out at the library. Then they buy trinkets and junk to scatter around the book with its pages open, get some fandom crap for it off etsy or out of a subscription box, and glamorize the entire aesthetic.
Would you do this with a book you loved? Or would you just read the damn thing and stick it on your shelf after?
This person spent $4000 on a gigantic ugly Louis Vuitton trunk, $1500 of which was to ship it by sea because it's so huge there was no other way to do it.
But why though? That one is extra weird because it seems like it's a knockoff of one of their old steamer trunks that they don't even make anymore.
...
and I see this subculture is on TikTok as well. I just need to start assuming anything stupid like this has an active TikTok tag. It's Zoomer-reddit.
Selections from #repladies #dhgate
Fairycrate. Faecrate. Owlcrate. Tiktokers. It's all the same garbage.
It doesn't help that books now have gone towards this shallow A E S T H E T I C COVER mentality as well. Not just YA but romance too. So if you're going to buy a book, it should be "pretty" so you can snap photos of yourself with it on a macrame rug "reading" like a "bookworm uwu".
The 2020 Romance Book Cover syndrome. Bright, popping covers, especially with BLACK PPL on them, to show you're inclusive. Except YA which needs to have Strong Wymyn on the covers or some regal theme if it's a "fantasy".
Most of these books are garbage - I don't even need to read them to know - but publishers really push for girls to buy them because their dying industry needs the money. And these girls do instead of taking them out at the library. Then they buy trinkets and junk to scatter around the book with its pages open, get some fandom crap for it off etsy or out of a subscription box, and glamorize the entire aesthetic.
Those collages are fucking uncanny.
And while we're on the subject of the above, some from: #bookAd #yabooks #fyp #bookhaul #booktok #bookworm #bookclub
Anyone else work at retail here? I hate dealing with customers who don't know how to fucking read. I'm a cashier, and I'm going back to school next year, but I want to fucking quit, man. These "consumers" are fucking brain dead. It's easy to deal with them on the internet, but the fact that I have to deal with these people who will scream at you for asking them to follow store policy is insane.
I asked a customer to put on his mask because if my manager sees it, he'll fire me for not saying anything. The customer threatened the law against me and told me its illegal to do that to him.
I deal with impatient customers who constantly asks me questions about the products, when they can just read it themselves.
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