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

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Heather Mason said:
Regarding B&J since I'm a sucker for ice cream: I only buy their overpriced frozen milk when it's on sale, and I only buy the really gluttonous flavors like Americone Dream (fuck Colbert) and Peanut Butter Half-Baked. It would be a huge pain in the ass to buy all the ingredients separately and make it at home so I'll pay the $2.50 for a pint of ice cream. If the generic brands stepped up their game and made really deluxe flavors I'd have no reason to stick to B&J

Moving on, for some reason the absolute shittiest games and products have the most fervent consooomers behind them. Maybe these people were bullied in the past and felt left out, so now they think they can be a cool-kid early adopter of something that nobody understands yet?

For context, EA announced Anthem is officially aborted after they pledged to fix it earlier last year. This was posted hours before the announcement
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"Being a fan of a mediocre Google product is stressful. I could never have known Google would shutter a service immediately after launch because it's not like they haven't done this 100 times already. We also wish you'd just leave us alone and stop laughing at our horrible financial decisions and taste in entertainment."
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But by far some of the worst consoomers have to be "fashion" enthusiasts. They don't have closets full of Rick Owens or Yohji Yamamoto pieces, they have garages full of cheap Chinese slave-labor basic-bitch fast-fashion label garbage. Never question any hypebeast, sneakerhead, or streetwear kid about the absurdity of paying a 10,000% markup on mass-produced "luxuries" or they might call you poor and have sex with your mother.

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Stadia backed ass its fucking latency was insane might as well been
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LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
Chris Chan once again becomes the canary in the coalmine of what lunacy will become trends in the near future. He was into believing cartoons are real before it was cool.
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That reality shifting stuff is strange I had a friend who had a mental
Break down over it because she thought she shiftedto another reality
 
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Konax said:
That reality shifting stuff is strange I had a friend who had a mental
Break down over it because she thought she shiftedto another reality
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That sounds more mandela-ish timeline fuckery than subliminal clickbait-ish. I think at least one in every 6 people these days has that kind of feel minus the mental breakdown bit. Shit doesn't feel real half the time lately in more ways than one.
LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
Like every anime now is an isekai. Seems no one wants to live in this world anymore.
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Yeah, that genre of story always kind of existed but it's gotten extremely saturated now the last 8 years.
 
The Lawgiver said:
Yeah, that genre of story always kind of existed but it's gotten extremely saturated now the last 8 years.
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The nu isekai feels very different than classic stories with that trope. Usually in the old isekais the protagonist is trying to get back to the real world or their presence in the second world is played as a necessary sacrifice. Even not too old stuff like labyrinth. Escaflowne, inuyasha or spirited away take it very different than the new "i am an otaku looser neet irl but in fantasyland i am a genius warrior king scientist and every girl wants my penis" that you flooding the homepage of any anime site today.

The oldest example i can think of is the neverending story and in the book (unlike the movie) the story gets darker after Bastian has his 15 minutes of power fantasy. Him refusing to leave the the fantasy world makes him loose his identity, he turns into a paranoid megalomaniac and starts shitting the same world he just saved. Even back then the author had the forethought to explore the side b of that scenario and the dangers of escapism


Since then the trope has completely reverted to making the real world be shit and loosing yourself completely in thy isekai realm a good thing, iseaki mcs don't even spare two seconds to even remember their own mother once they transport to the dicksucking land. (Like troons)
 
Also I'm pretty sure that everything Star Wars is rapidly becoming unsellable and worthless, so anyone that wasted their life on 1970s Luke Skywalker shit and so on will soon realize it went from gold to shit. Just a though
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It's not even just Star Wars. I understand that the whole market for hermetically sealed "investment" comic books has recently gone bust. I'm sure that's just the start. Star Trek merchandise has already been in free fall at least 20 years. American pop culture has been so completely raped, and the economy is in such a shitty state, I think the secondary market for most old pop culture shit will be prematurely eviscerated.
 
Sometimes, a bad breakup really sets you back. What's important is that you pick yourself up and keep consuming.
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Keep your chin up. Here's someone who weathered the storm, and found his consumer sweetheart.
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Lemon-Lime Turpentine said:
Sometimes, a bad breakup really sets you back. What's important is that you pick yourself up and keep consuming.
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Some of these look kind of neat with the color schemes, but the way it's phrased and the protectors tells me it's going to end up being RNG funko wall eventually.
 
American grown ass women/TikTok users are currently going insane over some halloween-themed Hello Kitty merchandise released by Marshalls. More specifically blankets. They're cutting each other, yelling and swearing, and there's people fighting over who can get a specific product, all for a kids character and a holiday that's not happening until the end of the next month. Plus they were lining up to get that merch since 9:00. Some people are already reselling these blankets for over 70 dollars, and much like funko pops, some people don't even want to open them because it would "devalue" the product.

Apparently, the cops were called over that last month.
 
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Summertime said:
American grown ass women/TikTok users are currently going insane over some halloween-themed Hello Kitty merchandise released by Marshalls. More specifically blankets. They're cutting each other, yelling and swearing, and there's people fighting over who can get a specific product, all for a kids character and a holiday that's not happening until the end of the next month. Plus they were lining up to get that merch since 9:00. Some people are already reselling these blankets for over 70 dollars, and much like funko pops, some people don't even want to open them because it would "devalue" the product.

Apparently, the cops were called over that last month.
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Consoomers are subhumans.
 
Summertime said:
American grown ass women/TikTok users are currently going insane over some halloween-themed Hello Kitty merchandise released by Marshalls. More specifically blankets. They're cutting each other, yelling and swearing, and there's people fighting over who can get a specific product, all for a kids character and a holiday that's not happening until the end of the next month. Plus they were lining up to get that merch since 9:00. Some people are already reselling these blankets for over 70 dollars, and much like funko pops, some people don't even want to open them because it would "devalue" the product.

Apparently, the cops were called over that last month.
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Halloween women are another breed of crazy
 
Summertime said:
American grown ass women/TikTok users are currently going insane over some halloween-themed Hello Kitty merchandise released by Marshalls. More specifically blankets. They're cutting each other, yelling and swearing, and there's people fighting over who can get a specific product, all for a kids character and a holiday that's not happening until the end of the next month. Plus they were lining up to get that merch since 9:00. Some people are already reselling these blankets for over 70 dollars, and much like funko pops, some people don't even want to open them because it would "devalue" the product.

Apparently, the cops were called over that last month.
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Hello kitty is not a cat drawing, is a demonic sigil
 
LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
Hello kitty is not a cat drawing, is a demonic sigil
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on her own she's a cute mascot, i have to admit, i'm fond of her

but explain to me why on god's good green earth is it such a BPD bitch magnet
i know they love their cute shit, but what is it about sanrio in particular? is their shit somehow scientifically designed to be the ideal "type" of cute to attract these loonies? is it just one of the more popular pop culture cute things so the girls who are attached to it don't really like it, they just pick it and pretend they do? i'm sure the latter is true for some, but if there's one thing i learned of these kinda whores is that they genuinely do, honest to god, love cute things, maybe even love them a bit too much to the point where they have the urge to purge anything that isn't adorable
maybe a bit of both?
maybe it's their well documented nature of desperately trying to control the way they're perceived leading them to neurotically trying to design and maintain their perception and thus gravitating towards the brands that do the job best?
 
Tali Tali said:
Spend money decorating the inside of your fridge
That would just be so annoying thankfully no one in my house is that crazy
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see i think this is where the divide between appreciating beauty, and having an unhealthy obsession with it, stands
some things need to be utilitarian
i will go for miles expressing my respect for people who love beautiful things, the world is too damn ugly and wanting to decorate your surroundings is nothing if not admirable- but beauty should inspire, it shouldn't be an obsession, and once you attempt to make utilitarian objects all pretty is the moment maintaining that beauty becomes a neurotic practice

because you're gonna have leftovers, you're gonna be have half drank bottles, half used jars with sauce or whatever smudged up onto the side of the interior, you're gonna have days where you're left with two leaves of salad, half a cucumber and a small bunch of grapes that doesn't look all pretty in your fridge, or buy those "ugly" looking veggies that are kinda lumpy and malformed but are still perfectly usable yet you'll forego them because they won't look 'aesthetique' in your little shrine to self absorbance

this is my main issue with most modern decorating trends, is that they don't come about naturally nor stay of their own volition, they have to be obsessively maintained
"cottegecore" used to be a result of people finding and creating whatever old furniture they could, old beautiful pieces of art were found and collected over time, great gifts and memorabilia were displayed as they came into your life, but now you have to deliberately go out of your way to seek them out, find them, make SURE every piece you own is whatever"-core" enough
there's a huge difference between "oh what a lovely statuette, i'll put it on my empty shelf" and "that shelf is empty, i NEED something for it, anything, quick, to the cheap dollar store to find any ol piece of junk to stick there, anything, just as long as the overall display is maintained!"

a good type of collection in my eyes is one where every piece of the collection is loved for itself, not for whatever it does to the group it's apart of, not as another number within the collection
 
Maggots on a Train v2 said:
It's not even just Star Wars. I understand that the whole market for hermetically sealed "investment" comic books has recently gone bust. I'm sure that's just the start. Star Trek merchandise has already been in free fall at least 20 years. American pop culture has been so completely raped, and the economy is in such a shitty state, I think the secondary market for most old pop culture shit will be prematurely eviscerated.
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Buying something not because you actually need or want it but just because you want to pawn it off to some other retard later on has always been very baffling. There's no guarantee that you'll ever profit from your "investment," and you could end up just stuck with a bunch of useless shit you have no attachment to.
 
AnOminous said:
It's one of the most valuable IP franchises in the world in terms of pure money. Tens of billions of dollars.
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Not just one of the most valuable IPs, it's the No. 1 biggest IP on the planet. If I remember correctly, Pokémon was second. Hello Kitty and Sanrio all around are a level of popular that I really can't conceive of, especially just for nice little Japanese characters.
 
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