Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

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HerrKlicks said:
I guess this falls under consoomer culture as well?
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It's amazing how they all have the same format, same monotone voiceover, same empty lifestyle portrayed...
...is this some kind of "recruitment campaign" by big tech or just bugpeople being bugpeople?
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I believe they are all telling the truth, and the third one shows pictures inside the Google NYC office, though they will be broke at their salary levels and spending shown in those videos. $167 per day is $61k per year in post tax dollars, not including rent, utilities and other things. A recent grad at Goldman Sachs, a “consultant” at a big consulting firm, and a recruiter at Google (what you thought she was a programmer? She talked about recruiting two people who followed her (on TikTok/Twitter?) to a diversity program) do not make enough much money to support their lifestyles.

Using levels.fyi as a source (pretty accurate for jobs I have firsthand knowledge of):
Investment Bank Analyst at GS pays $145k and a Recruiter at Google pays $133k. After taxes, rent, student loans, and the aforementioned spending they have no money left over.
Both of those companies have large portions of their compensation as stock or bonuses. These people in the video are literally spending more than their salary on daily life and relying on getting a good bonus or their company’s stock doing well to not go bankrupt. If they got promoted they’d make more money, but I’m sure their spending would rise to match. This is what “living paycheck to paycheck” looks like for a lot of people.
 
quaawaa said:
I believe they are all telling the truth, and the third one shows pictures inside the Google NYC office, though they will be broke at their salary levels and spending shown in those videos. $167 per day is $61k per year in post tax dollars, not including rent, utilities and other things. A recent grad at Goldman Sachs, a “consultant” at a big consulting firm, and a recruiter at Google (what you thought she was a programmer? She talked about recruiting two people who followed her (on TikTok/Twitter?) to a diversity program) do not make enough much money to support their lifestyles.

Using levels.fyi as a source (pretty accurate for jobs I have firsthand knowledge of):
Investment Bank Analyst at GS pays $145k and a Recruiter at Google pays $133k. After taxes, rent, student loans, and the aforementioned spending they have no money left over.
Both of those companies have large portions of their compensation as stock or bonuses. These people in the video are literally spending more than their salary on daily life and relying on getting a good bonus or their company’s stock doing well to not go bankrupt. If they got promoted they’d make more money, but I’m sure their spending would rise to match. This is what “living paycheck to paycheck” looks like for a lot of people.
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That's what I figured.
All show, no substance.
Weird flex tbh - going broke for the Insta/TikTok likes
 
If you think dark academia is stupid, then you should see darker academia. There's an entire wiki about aesthetics (which probably has their own lolcows if the Nazi chic page is any indication). Yes, there's a page about dark academia and it's as dumb as it sounds.
 
Versace grifting it again, and it's really tacky.
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LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
Has corpo PR stench all over. Those D-girls might not even work where they say but either way what they are doing is so souless.

Reminds me of the Dark Academia meme, they are trying so hard to make a glamorous larp but is just stuck up, shallow and pretentious. Its being a fucking poser.



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These fashions don't even read academia. More like Nursing Home that only receives Medicaid. And hell at least those ladies pick clothes that fit properly.
 
HerrKlicks said:
I guess this falls under consoomer culture as well?
consoom.mp4

consoom2.mp4
consoom3.mp4

It's amazing how they all have the same format, same monotone voiceover, same empty lifestyle portrayed...
...is this some kind of "recruitment campaign" by big tech or just bugpeople being bugpeople?
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Valkorion said:
So, it's best to just go to, I don't know how to phrase it better, a real restaurant instead of the fast food chains. I mean, American cuisine is great when it is made with higher quality ingredients
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Eating local fast food is a way to actually experience a country more than the sanitized tourist traps. If you think about it, it's surprisingly authentic experience.
Valkorion said:
This whole "dark academia" thing basically amounts to "tell me you study a useless humanities subject without telling me you study a useless humanities subject". Side note: "sticky sweet drops of vodka". Clearly, someone has never touched vodka before.
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Zubrowka (the Polish vodka with the grass in the bottles) gets sticky if you don't wash out the shotglass, which is probably related to whatever they put in it that gives it that almost sweet taste. At least I think, haven't had it in a while and maybe I had put something else in the shotglass that made it sticky. Is that what the poster meant? Is it cool and romantic to be drunk enough you don't remember exactly what you drank? Sounds like a different aesthetic lol
REGENDarySumanai said:
If you think dark academia is stupid, then you should see darker academia. There's an entire wiki about aesthetics (which probably has their own lolcows if the Nazi chic page is any indication). Yes, there's a page about dark academia and it's as dumb as it sounds.
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Is there a darkest academia? Is that like the goth chicks on a college campus?
 
You folks saying academics don't dress like that have clearly never fucked around with the girls who do full time lab work. It's either this shit or they look homeless, possibly both at the same time. Perils of having a PI who almost literally owns your ass.
 
Mike Stoklasa said:
Why would I spend 100 bucks on a dog toy? That guy literally rolls around in shit and chews on driftwood and is thrilled.
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retard strength said:
Because BRAND.

Ninety-eight cent frisbee from Walmart is exact same? But where is BRAND?!
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The funny part of why Donatella Versace sold the brand to the owners Michael Kors. Is so it could reach its biggest potential.
I don't know, it has gone down drastically since then.
If you actually use it, it's going to fade and get scratches. So it's more for the larpers.
 
Valkorion said:
Just :story:. I love how the first two start off by saying "I'm in my early twenties and I work a fancy job in a fancy company", and then mention having classes in passing, also the first girl's notes clearly looked like a student's notes. No way in hell you have such a job at such a company in your early fucking twenties. They are student interns at best.
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The whole video just feels like its them play-pretending to be adults. "First, heres me eating my sophisticated adult breakfast, Next, I commute to work with other adults to do my important big girl job while dressed in my fancy adult clothes. Then I do my adulting at work..."
These girls understanding of the world comes from shitty romantic movies where the young woman moves to the big city to find love.
 
Is there a hard line standard, dollar value, or percentage for officially a "Consoomer"? I've been referred to as one simply for having my old Game Boy I've had since I got it as a Christmas present in 89 and a miniature Joust arcade cabinet game I won in a White Elephant game at a party.
 
Valkorion said:
So, it's best to just go to, I don't know how to phrase it better, a real restaurant instead of the fast food chains. I mean, American cuisine is great when it is made with higher quality ingredients.
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Generally, yes. The one exception is food trucks. Look for one with a decent queue and you'll rarely be disappointed. Had the best fish and chips of my life from a food truck in Texas, and I'm from an area where the fish and chips is treated as an art.
It's fun to mock Yank food from time to time, but done well it is amazing.
 
MT Foxtrot said:
Is there a hard line standard, dollar value, or percentage for officially a "Consoomer"? I've been referred to as one simply for having my old Game Boy I've had since I got it as a Christmas present in 89 and a miniature Joust arcade cabinet game I won in a White Elephant game at a party.
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Its a mindset where you need to own X thing because Y brand is on it. Idk who called you a consoomer for owning a few retro consoles.
 
MT Foxtrot said:
Is there a hard line standard, dollar value, or percentage for officially a "Consoomer"? I've been referred to as one simply for having my old Game Boy I've had since I got it as a Christmas present in 89 and a miniature Joust arcade cabinet game I won in a White Elephant game at a party.
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Do you not ask questions, consume product and get excited for next product?
 
Save the Loli said:
Zubrowka (the Polish vodka with the grass in the bottles) gets sticky if you don't wash out the shotglass, which is probably related to whatever they put in it that gives it that almost sweet taste. At least I think, haven't had it in a while and maybe I had put something else in the shotglass that made it sticky. Is that what the poster meant? Is it cool and romantic to be drunk enough you don't remember exactly what you drank? Sounds like a different aesthetic lol
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To be honest, I only thought about Russian vodka, and that shit might as well be gasoline.

Vivec said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U
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A video showing a bugman doing bugman things. I know it's a parody, but people like this exist (bonus points if they have a bullshit job that only costs money, but doesn't generate anything).

FILTH Tourist said:
The whole video just feels like its them play-pretending to be adults. "First, heres me eating my sophisticated adult breakfast, Next, I commute to work with other adults to do my important big girl job while dressed in my fancy adult clothes. Then I do my adulting at work..."
These girls understanding of the world comes from shitty romantic movies where the young woman moves to the big city to find love.
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So it's "Look at me, I'm a big girl now!" This is some of the most vapid shit I've ever seen.
 
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