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Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!
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wait a minute
when i made my original post about this looking interesting this video had a completely different thumbnail and title
i didn't take a screenshot not thinking it's necessary, but the thumbnail was just the guy sat in his room and the title read more like he's doing an honest expiriment to see if it's possible to tell what's inside the boxes
why did he changed the title and thumbnail to come off like some kinda EPIC CHALLENGE CAN I DO IT? clickbait video
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this is standard youtube creator algorithm stuff.
A and B thumbnail to get all the audiences clicking at some point
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I hope their next move is to produce giant versions of them to see how
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Fuck you. Bernardo isn't a consoomer. He's a man with a passion. A love that far surpasses anything any of us could ever experience. He's the only one truly living, and people like you mock him out of jealous and spite.
You, sir, are the Goofy Goober. Not he.
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Those other ways -- which likely do not involve the use of x-rays (pffft ... "visible spectrum" package inspection ... lightweights) -- suck donkey balls compared to this method, because x-rays are cool.
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One blind box company even manufactures plastic weights in order to make it impossible to find specific figures by weight. Some companies do mark their packaging in traceable ways, but others take the blind box concept very seriously.
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Just order the specific figure you want off of Aliexpress, then.
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The bootlegs usually look like shit. It's hit or miss.
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You're usually fine if you're ordering a newish series of middling popularity. Older figures from the most popular lines are definitely a risk.
A ways back I got one that was definitely fake/factory seconds, but it was cheap and displays well enough. As a rule, if something looks too good to be true on websites like Aliexpress, it is. It would have been a nice surprise if the figure I got was genuine, but I wasn't expecting it to be.
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A streamer I follow bought a Minecraft Dr. Squatch soap on clearance at Walmart for a future gag he wanted to do. He put it in a closet with the rest of his props and said after just that weekend the entire closet smelled like shit (that soap) and even leaving the closet doors open for days barely made a dent in fumigating it.
Dr. Squatch also makes antiperspirant and deodorant, which I've tried because I thought the outdoorsy scents were a nice change. They do not work at all and wear off in less than a few hours. Garbage products, but that's what to expect when their entire brand identity is MAN SOAP BECAUSE YOU'RE A MAN.
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Tl;dr - Klarna, a buy now pay later service, partners with doordash.
Maybe I'm missing a practical use for this but it feels so dystopian to pay your food in installments.
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Catering an event in a retarded way, maybe...?
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Zoomers are slightly wary of credit cards nowadays, but really love "buy now pay later", which is probably worse in many ways than your basic credit card. Unlike owning credit cards responsibly, BNPL/installment plans can hurt your credit and drown you in fines and fees, but you won't even get cashback or a good credit score if you do it all correctly.
https://www.businessinsider.com/millennial-gen-z-travel-debt-affirm-klarna-credit-cards-2024-8 (Archive)
https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-prefers-cash-buy-now-pay-later-survey-says-2025-2 (Archive)
Daily Pay and paycheck advance programs are also growing in popularity due to more and more employers using online payroll products like ADP that easily support them and may even mislead zoomers new to the workplace into thinking it's normal/they have to sign up.
https://fortune.com/2022/07/05/gen-z-wants-daily-paycheck-pros-cons/
People who run out of money between paychecks use these sorts of tools to spend more money without feeling like they're going broke. Then they are usually shocked beyond belief when their paycheck is a pittance because they took it all out early, or it immediately needs to go to all their installments. They spend next month's grocery money to pay for this month's and don't see the problem.
Also please enjoy this scary "your therapist wants to talk about this" bedroom that scared r/Maximalism. I think this person smokes weed in this room. Just imagine. No, I don't want to....
(Archive) (this link has more pictures too)
I think the limit to maximalism, for me, has to do with utility. It's not really so bad to have drawing as a hobby for pleasure, even if as an adult you want to draw with crayola markers and sticker sheets or whatever. But where could they even sit at a desk and have enough room for that shit? Their organizers are balanced on top of stacks of random shit. There's no way you could pick half the stuff off the shelves without knocking a bunch of other stuff around. And if you can never reasonably use your markers.... why have five sets of them?
From another thread they posted this list of her collections, however I think (not sure) this is a teen so I won't post the other cringe stuff they're putting on reddit. It seemed like most people agreed this was not really a good thing and goes beyond normal maximalism and collecting. I hate the sin not the sinner.
I would not allow teenagers to do this. I think I'd introduce the rules we have at work, like for the fire marshal. Nothing obstructing cords like lamp cords and charging cables. Clear path to the door and window. Your shelves should not be able to trigger an avalanche. You should be able to live in the room, sit at a desk or have a second person in the room without needing to move shit out of the way.
The teen in question said money hasn't been an issue because most of the collections are acquired very cheapy through thrift shops or stuff being given away for free over Facebook, or gifted from people IRL. She seemed to think that was a point against her being a hoarder.... any knowledge with hoarding will tell you it's the exact opposite. Hoarders acquire things regardless of money, and often are drawn to free shit because it's so easy to acquire other people's junk, I mean "treasures that they're saving/limitless potential/hidden value/"etc.
https://www.businessinsider.com/millennial-gen-z-travel-debt-affirm-klarna-credit-cards-2024-8 (Archive)
However I found other articles saying this is overblown, and the primary users of BNPL like Affirm, Klarna, and Paypal Credit (I think Amazon, Walmart, and Ulta offer installment plans too) are more in their 30s+ and that zoomers got wise to Klarna being scammy very fast.
https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-prefers-cash-buy-now-pay-later-survey-says-2025-2 (Archive)
Daily Pay and paycheck advance programs are also growing in popularity due to more and more employers using online payroll products like ADP that easily support them and may even mislead zoomers new to the workplace into thinking it's normal/they have to sign up.
https://fortune.com/2022/07/05/gen-z-wants-daily-paycheck-pros-cons/
If you have young people in your life entering the workforce, or you are unaware of what buy-now-pay-later, installment plans, and advance pay products are, you should learn to avoid the traps.
People who run out of money between paychecks use these sorts of tools to spend more money without feeling like they're going broke. Then they are usually shocked beyond belief when their paycheck is a pittance because they took it all out early, or it immediately needs to go to all their installments. They spend next month's grocery money to pay for this month's and don't see the problem.
Also please enjoy this scary "your therapist wants to talk about this" bedroom that scared r/Maximalism. I think this person smokes weed in this room. Just imagine. No, I don't want to....
(Archive) (this link has more pictures too)
I think the limit to maximalism, for me, has to do with utility. It's not really so bad to have drawing as a hobby for pleasure, even if as an adult you want to draw with crayola markers and sticker sheets or whatever. But where could they even sit at a desk and have enough room for that shit? Their organizers are balanced on top of stacks of random shit. There's no way you could pick half the stuff off the shelves without knocking a bunch of other stuff around. And if you can never reasonably use your markers.... why have five sets of them?
From another thread they posted this list of her collections, however I think (not sure) this is a teen so I won't post the other cringe stuff they're putting on reddit. It seemed like most people agreed this was not really a good thing and goes beyond normal maximalism and collecting. I hate the sin not the sinner.
(Archive)
I would not allow teenagers to do this. I think I'd introduce the rules we have at work, like for the fire marshal. Nothing obstructing cords like lamp cords and charging cables. Clear path to the door and window. Your shelves should not be able to trigger an avalanche. You should be able to live in the room, sit at a desk or have a second person in the room without needing to move shit out of the way.
The teen in question said money hasn't been an issue because most of the collections are acquired very cheapy through thrift shops or stuff being given away for free over Facebook, or gifted from people IRL. She seemed to think that was a point against her being a hoarder.... any knowledge with hoarding will tell you it's the exact opposite. Hoarders acquire things regardless of money, and often are drawn to free shit because it's so easy to acquire other people's junk, I mean "treasures that they're saving/limitless potential/hidden value/"etc.
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Do we have a Maximal thread, cause those people are nuts too.
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Came across this guy on youtube. He has this weird anime character that's plastered across all his thumbnails (spoiler alert, I clicked on a video hes bald and looks like hes in his 40s). It's all gaming consoom content but I didn't see anything particularly interesting. His bluesky on the other hand......
This thread is filled with rooms just like this but I can never get over just how tacky and gross it all looks. Plus he's got the place lined with thousands worth of gaming merchandise but still has that cheap folding chair?
I hope the cat is okay. Can definitely see this man trooning out.
This thread is filled with rooms just like this but I can never get over just how tacky and gross it all looks. Plus he's got the place lined with thousands worth of gaming merchandise but still has that cheap folding chair?
I hope the cat is okay. Can definitely see this man trooning out.
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I will say compared to other gamer dens, his is probably the cleanest and least cluttered I've seen in a while and he actually has space to work on stuff on his desk.
It does make me sad though how many people's homes are just starting to look like a store.
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I mean you can only do so much to organize things on a shelf. This seems generally lke a personal game library with some shelf decoration gaming tat stuff but it just reminds me more of rooms with large DVD/book shelves in one corner that friends and family had way back in the 2000s.
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