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

[moocow]

Well, I do like the idea of winning random prizes. My complaint is, and you already mentioned this, the prizes look cheap. Add that multiple were household or health. Like if I spent a lot of money for an eye mask or electric toothbrush no thanks. At least when you spend money on a pack of Pokemon cards you get cards; not your mom's personal items.

My mother (bless her heart) is hooked on watching these obnoxious bitches unboxing "advent calendars" to expose how overpriced they are:

I don't know how she can stand watching this shit, because in this (a typical example) video, the dumb broad takes 52 minutes to say "I paid $150 for this and it's only got $80 worth of stuff in it (at retail)," and she didn't actually say those words and I had to deduce from her incessant babbling that was her final conclusion.

But it does highlight a major issue with stuff like you describe (cheap rewards) and this crap too -- you're overpaying a fuckton for practically worthless shit.

I won't even get into how this cow can afford to buy all these fucking things for her videos, because I don't want to think about it (she's probably just getting that much fucking ad revenue, probably paid by the same companies she's shitting on).

 

[glass_houses]

My mother (bless her heart) is hooked on watching these obnoxious bitches unboxing "advent calendars" to expose how overpriced they are:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5ly3PRwol7UI don't know how she can stand watching this shit, because in this (a typical example) video, the dumb broad takes 52 minutes to say "I paid $150 for this and it's only got $80 worth of stuff in it (at retail)," and she didn't actually say those words and I had to deduce from her incessant babbling that was her final conclusion.

But it does highlight a major issue with stuff like you describe (cheap rewards) and this crap too -- you're overpaying a fuckton for practically worthless shit.

I won't even get into how this cow can afford to buy all these fucking things for her videos, because I don't want to think about it (she's probably just getting that much fucking ad revenue, probably paid by the same companies she's shitting on).

I've watched a couple of her videos. I don't even know why I did, I am not at all into make-up or skin care. Her voice is grating as hell, and she can't seem to decide what her accent is. As for the calendars, they're probably tax write offs.

 

[moocow]

As for the calendars, they're probably tax write offs.

I'm sure they are, but that doesn't conjure cash out of thin air. She's still got to have the money to pay for the damned things. Meh. It's probably just ad revenue. That's just depressing to me. But so is most of Youtube.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Don't know if its been mentioned but there's a new consoomer craze, this time is an ugly looking chinese plushie called Labubu, that got viral when kpop stars started shilling them. this gen's new beanie baby.

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[Cuntspiracy Man]

Don't know if its been mentioned but there's a new consoomer craze, this time is an ugly looking chinese plushie called Labubu. Gen Z's beanie baby.

its always fucking china now
i'm so goddamn sick of china

anyway i looked them up and i'll give them this, they're not ugly the same way everything else nowadays is ugly

[had to remove pic because null pissed on the website again]

i expect boring modernist generic-ness from everything that gets popular now, especially it's some artificial chink trend just trying to get big, like the sorta faces you'd see on a squishmallow, safe, featureless...but these don't have that. these, if anything, seem to try and emulate older toys of past centuries which i actually quite like

 

[Soso]

Don't know if its been mentioned but there's a new consoomer craze, this time is an ugly looking chinese plushie called Labubu, that got viral when kpop stars started shilling them. this gen's new beanie baby.

The entire idol industry is one of the most consumerist industries with the amount of fans waiting to buy anything. Some even spend hundreds of dollars so they can give gifts to an idol (which gets thrown out) at a fansign. Besides that, those dolls just look so bland. Nothing appealing about them besides another collect them all gimmick

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

those dolls just look so bland.

if anything, seem to try and emulate older toys of past centuries which i actually quite like

Reminds me of the troll dolls from the 80s, which was its own mania, remember all my female cousing had lots of those, its almost like these things are always the same format.

its always fucking china now

China is not only manufacturing western junk now, they are also playing the soft power game as well same as south korea and japan have been doing so this is only going to become more common.

 

[stupid frog]

if anything, seem to try and emulate older toys of past centuries which i actually quite like

They look like those things girls say Kai Wilcher's boyfriend looks like. Some old Japanese(?) toy. Soft body, with a plastic face, hands, and feet. Momosomething.

 

[Pina Colada]

ugly looking chinese plushie called Labubu

Crybaby: “Hold my beer”

Spoiler

 

[stupid frog]

China makes too many naked baby toys. It's not innocent if they don't have a cloth garment, at least.

 

[cyber insecurity]

Crybaby: “Hold my beer”

who is this made for? who in their right mind thinks "damn i wish i could spend 17 dollars on a plastic corporate artstyle figure of a topless brown baby crying gross-looking opaque tears and wearing nothing but a diaper/underwear(?), a yellow beret and black shiny boots and gloves?"

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

who is this made for? who in their right mind thinks "damn i wish i could spend 17 dollars on a plastic corporate artstyle figure of a topless brown baby crying gross-looking opaque tears and wearing nothing but a diaper/underwear(?), a yellow beret and black shiny boots and gloves?"

Women are a different species, man.

 

[stupid frog]

who is this made for? who in their right mind thinks "damn i wish i could spend 17 dollars on a plastic corporate artstyle figure of a topless brown baby crying gross-looking opaque tears and wearing nothing but a diaper/underwear(?), a yellow beret and black shiny boots and gloves?"

I'd only seen these ones before. At least two people in my city bought it.


The Chinese big blind box company is called Pop Mart https://www.popmart.com/

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

i just know, nay, i can visualize the type of BPD woman that wants these
the same type that loves cutesy pastel pink aesthetics while calling herself a sleepy little sensitive angel and then threatens to shank you with her pink pocket knife, the type that makes those "hello kitty has a mental breakdown in an abandoned parking lot" type of images

 

[stupid frog]

i just know, nay, i can visualize the type of BPD woman that wants these
the same type that loves cutesy pastel pink aesthetics while calling herself a sleepy little sensitive angel and then threatens to shank you with her pink pocket knife, the type that makes those "hello kitty has a mental breakdown in an abandoned parking lot" type of images

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They both wanted the green girl, if that means anything.

 

[Argos]

Acquaintance of mine started collecting Labubus. Today she told me her boyfriend sent a link to a video about how they're demonic and she has to get them out of the house.

She told him to pay her the money she spent, first.

 

[stupid frog]

She told him to pay her the money she spent, first.

She can get x2-3 value reselling lmao.

 

[Climate 4C]

who is this made for? who in their right mind thinks "damn i wish i could spend 17 dollars on a plastic corporate artstyle figure of a topless brown baby crying gross-looking opaque tears and wearing nothing but a diaper/underwear(?), a yellow beret and black shiny boots and gloves?"

The type of gals who are in and out of the psych ward a couple times a year. If you can't figure out who is buying something retarded, it's always either children or women with BPD.

 

[moocow]

Reminds me of the troll dolls from the 80s, which was its own mania, remember all my female cousing had lots of those, its almost like these things are always the same format.

Ah, trolls. Those were funny. It cracks me up that their most prominent use today is as good luck charms by those crazy fucking old bats who haunt bingo halls and will fucking kill you if you so much as talk to them during a game, even by accident.

 

[Abella]

Don't know if its been mentioned but there's a new consoomer craze, this time is an ugly looking chinese plushie called Labubu, that got viral when kpop stars started shilling them. this gen's new beanie baby.

edit- images aren't attaching for some reason.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rDeiOO1Ni-4:8

My wife was offered one of these that someone pulled and was unhappy with. She gave it to our dog because she thought it was disgusting looking. I didn’t know what they were until I saw a video about people scalping them like pokemon cards. Just like those, it seems there’s some kind of susceptibility to fomo that these people have. They’re expensive as shit for plastic crap, but you’re willing to pay 2, 3 or even 5 times what they’re worth to some fat Mexican in flipflops that cleared out the store and is selling them from the back of his car in a Lane Bryant parking lot? I have zero sympathy for these retarded consoomers, and just like the retards camping out outside of GameStop, Walmart, Target or Best Buy, I hope they get stuck with bulk they can’t pawn off on someone.