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

[Vingle]

Versace has a bad habit of not bothering to list new items in their online store, even checked the Italian store and nah. So found this on ebay, and yea. It's real, with matching cups and everything

 

[fenny]

Do boo baskets count, or am I just a joyless cunt? My first thought on seeing them was wow, another way to get adults to spend on Halloween (and fuel conflict when you don't like whatever dumb shit you get enough to show off on social media.)

 

[Vingle]

Do boo baskets count, or am I just a joyless cunt? My first thought on seeing them was wow, another way to get adults to spend on Halloween (and fuel conflict when you don't like whatever dumb shit you get enough to show off on social media.)

Definitely consoomer.
It would be a sweet gift if you knew the preferences of the person you give to really well, but if something is a Tik tok trend. It is the most impersonal thing ever and it would be less offending to not give it.
Retards would whine about someone being a joyless cunt and ungrateful, but being ungrateful for something you never wanted? Sounds more like gaslighting to me. Expecting people to be happy about something you really didn't think through is really shitty.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

Do boo baskets count, or am I just a joyless cunt? My first thought on seeing them was wow, another way to get adults to spend on Halloween (and fuel conflict when you don't like whatever dumb shit you get enough to show off on social media.)

what the hell are "boo baskets"? when i look it up, all i get is buckets people put together and fill with candy to gift on halloween? if thats the case, i dont see whats so bad about them, since it seems theyre mostly assembled by the gifter, not a commercial product, and are the equivilant of a goodie bag for the holidays

is there some kinda culture surrounding these that im not aware of?

 

[Creative Username]

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"They who must be named."

not the best thing to put there because chuds will have a field day

 

[Twinkie]

what the hell are "boo baskets"? when i look it up, all i get is buckets people put together and fill with candy to gift on halloween? if thats the case, i dont see whats so bad about them, since it seems theyre mostly assembled by the gifter, not a commercial product, and are the equivilant of a goodie bag for the holidays

is there some kinda culture surrounding these that im not aware of?

It's a trend that perpetuates mindless consumerism. It's wasteful and shallow. Buy a bunch of junk and wrap it in a big stupid bow just to make this silly thing to show off on social media so that you can garner pointless attention (or even monetize the content i.e. commercialize it).

And it's not good to teach children that holidays are about getting stuff. It's healthier to celebrate with experiences, but people are so busy and so atomized nowadays. So many people aren't social in the same way they used to be. Fewer schools are putting on awesome Halloween carnivals/haunted houses. Fewer parties, and more controlled (read: lame) trick-or-treating. These baskets of crap are like a consolation prize.

I'm not clutching my pearls about boo baskets, but I am rolling my eyes at them. Look at these piles of indissoluble plastic shit going straight into the landfills and oceans after the photo-op.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Israeli war propaganda in 2023 everyone.
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Getting strong Ghost of Kiev vibes here. I think I can safely say Tel Aviv can get bombed for a reason completely separate from my(justified) anti semetism: Anyone who puts out propaganda this cringe simply does not deserve to exist as a sovereign country, period. Same goes for Ukraine, they were the ones who gifted us with NAFO, after all

 

[Creative Username]

Getting strong Ghost of Kiev vibes here. I think I can safely say Tel Aviv can get bombed for a reason completely separate from my(justified) anti semetism: Anyone who puts out propaganda this cringe simply does not deserve to exist as a sovereign country, period. Same goes for Ukraine, they were the ones who gifted us with NAFO, after all

Keep in mind that this propaganda is targeted at normies and consoomer Redditors to get them to say "My FAVORITE CHARACTER said he SUPPORTS X? I must CONSOOM."

 

[cybertoaster]

Keep in mind that this propaganda is targeted at normies and consoomer Redditors to get them to say "My FAVORITE CHARACTER said he SUPPORTS X? I must CONSOOM."

Yeah too bad that sector of the population has gotten extremely lefty lately and they believe in colonization and white man bad so seeing a bunch of actual white(ish) colonizers in a mostly brown non-christian land its a big no-no for them, no amount of consoombait will change that.

And the kids of neocons are extremely soured on israel and despise consoom culture, so no-go there.

 

[I am Jack's dead arm]

It's a trend that perpetuates mindless consumerism. It's wasteful and shallow. Buy a bunch of junk and wrap it in a big stupid bow just to make this silly thing to show off on social media so that you can garner pointless attention (or even monetize the content i.e. commercialize it).

And it's not good to teach children that holidays are about getting stuff. It's healthier to celebrate with experiences, but people are so busy and so atomized nowadays. So many people aren't social in the same way they used to be. Fewer schools are putting on awesome Halloween carnivals/haunted houses. Fewer parties, and more controlled (read: lame) trick-or-treating. These baskets of crap are like a consolation prize.

I'm not clutching my pearls about boo baskets, but I am rolling my eyes at them. Look at these piles of indissoluble plastic shit going straight into the landfills and oceans after the photo-op.
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Also there are companies like McDonald's that specifically make baskets (Happy Meals are served in them currently) and consumers that will buy 10 of them to try and get the "right" one.

 

[Yaks]

Also there are companies like McDonald's that specifically make baskets (Happy Meals are served in them currently) and consumers that will buy 10 of them to try and get the "right" one.

I don't know why. You literally just have to ask and the McDonald's workers will usually give the one you want to you.

 

[Scoia'tael]

. This one is a cross made from the body of christ.

I will not lie this gave my goth ass a good chortle.

Those boo baskets are stupid and make me mad. Let your kids run wild and unsupervised all hopped up on sugar through the neighborhood. It's a fundamental part of their development.

For those of you with kids, is this death of Halloween driven more by anxious helicopter parents or by neighborhood HOAs?

 

[moocow]

For those of you with kids, is this death of Halloween driven more by anxious helicopter parents or by neighborhood HOAs?

Of all the things my HOA bitches about at regular intervals, they've been mysteriously silent on the subject of Halloween. Grass length and trash cans are apparently more pressing matters than controlling the larvae in their eyes, I guess.

I suspect the real cause of the "decline" of Halloween is a combination of people finally realizing they're just buying cheap plastic costumes every year that get thrown away after one use and the tendency for suburb dwellers to take their kids to group events (at churches or the big commercial ones that shopping centers throw these days).

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

Fewer schools are putting on awesome Halloween carnivals/haunted houses.

this made me think, what are school events like for the holidays nowadays? i imagine in today's highly safe and protective world, kids arent allowed to be spooked or have any kinda fun, so yeah.... i figure buying things really IS the most fun you can have

i was never at a proper hunted house because poorfag but i recall the dark rooms our school would put on
you had every chance to slip, fall, walk facefirst into some fake cobwebs or have worms thrown on your head.... imagine the mental breakdowns our overprotected and coddled kids would have from being in one of those, and if not them, then imagine their parents when they find out little billy was allowed to have a bit of crude childish fun

 

[moocow]

i was never at a proper hunted house because poorfag but i recall the dark rooms our school would put on
you had every chance to slip, fall, walk facefirst into some fake cobwebs or have worms thrown on your head.... imagine the mental breakdowns our overprotected and coddled kids would have from being in one of those, and if not them, then imagine their parents when they find out little billy was allowed to have a bit of crude childish fun

All the various "big name" theme parks (like Seaworld, Universal, Six Flags, etc., but not so much Disney) run their own Halloween stuff now and to their credit they do a decent-to-good job at it. But I happened to be at Seaworld last week and saw the funniest, most cynical fucking thing I've ever seen at a theme park.

So get this. You pay a separate admission fee to get into Seaworld specifically for the Halloween spooky-mc-scarefest event, right? You can then spend an extra fifteen bucks to buy a specially-shaped glow-in-the-dark widget you can wear that instructs their actors not to scare you.

I'll repeat that to clarify. People deliberately pay to attend a horror-themed event hosted by professionals with the explicitly-stated intention of scaring you, then pay extra to not actually be scared at the event.

Personally I found it utterly delightful to roam a spooky theme park at night being randomly accosted by dudes in awesome costumes dragging chainsaws across the pavement, but it felt so backwards knowing I was enjoying more of the show at a lower price than the pussies wearing their glowing pink spiders.

I ain't even mad at Seaworld for coming up with that. It's fucking brilliant.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

All the various "big name" theme parks (like Seaworld, Universal, Six Flags, etc., but not so much Disney) run their own Halloween stuff now and to their credit they do a decent-to-good job at it. But I happened to be at Seaworld last week and saw the funniest, most cynical fucking thing I've ever seen at a theme park.

So get this. You pay a separate admission fee to get into Seaworld specifically for the Halloween spooky-mc-scarefest event, right? You can then spend an extra fifteen bucks to buy a specially-shaped glow-in-the-dark widget you can wear that instructs their actors not to scare you.

I'll repeat that to clarify. People deliberately pay to attend a horror-themed event hosted by professionals with the explicitly-stated intention of scaring you, then pay extra to not actually be scared at the event.

Personally I found it utterly delightful to roam a spooky theme park at night being randomly accosted by dudes in awesome costumes dragging chainsaws across the pavement, but it felt so backwards knowing I was enjoying more of the show at a lower price than the pussies wearing their glowing pink spiders.

I ain't even mad at Seaworld for coming up with that. It's fucking brilliant.

I can see the need for a "don't spook me" sign, perhaps for people who have some kinda medical condition but still wanna expirience the atmosphere, or people who are just chaperoning someone and don't really care for the event themselves
What I find absurd is the need to PAY for that decision
That's like if you had to pay EXTRA for a peanut-less variant of a food item so as to not expirience an allergic reaction.... Those should be free

 

[Vingle]

That's like if you had to pay EXTRA for a peanut-less variant of a food item so as to not expirience an allergic reaction.... Those should be free

Gluten and lactose-free options are usually more expensive than regular food. So it isn't even farfetched.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

This person apparently has a Gran Turismo collection, which I don't understand why someone would go consoom mode for a racing game, but it goes to show that someone out there will consoom for a franchise, no matter how big or small it is:

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That whole collection, if mostly organic and bought at launch value, is less than 8-10 40k products. Collecting games isn't really all that bad, even if just on Steam. The fact games are so easily used and consumed doesn't mean it's not a value-wise alright thing to collect. All of Resident Evil is what, $50? That's barely one 40k mini.

 

[Dead Wife]

I’m sorry that I’m so late in this but the boolying and eventual radicalisation of poor Shoppy in this thread is brilliant.
Boo baskets are like Christmas Eve boxes, a pile of junk given before the event. Idk, doesn't it take away from the magic of the day itself when you’ve already received a load of stuff? We always got new pyjamas on Christmas Eve, probably for the pictures the next morning. Poor kids are being trained to consoom from birth.

 

[NoReturn]

I’m sorry that I’m so late in this but the boolying and eventual radicalisation of poor Shoppy in this thread is brilliant.
Boo baskets are like Christmas Eve boxes, a pile of junk given before the event. Idk, doesn't it take away from the magic of the day itself when you’ve already received a load of stuff? We always got new pyjamas on Christmas Eve, probably for the pictures the next morning. Poor kids are being trained to consoom from birth.

Buzzfeed has changed the "Shopping" part of their menu to "Gift Ideas"


Let's see how Shoppy is holding up.