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

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AnOminous said:
The first computer I actually owned, back in the '80s, was built out of semi-defective parts removed from other computers I repaired as part of my job, and was in a pizza box. I don't mean the kind of case called that, I mean a literal box from a delivery pizza.

It had shit like a motherboard with a burned out ISA slot, a modem that failed to connect half the time for unknown reasons, a CPU that was so overheated you could cook an egg on it, a graphics card with weird glitches, a drive practically made of bad sectors, etc.

Over the course of a couple years I Ship of Theseused into an actual computer, but even in its worst version it still functioned just fine, so long as you could cope with its quirks. I never spent a dime on it.
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Between Obvious Plant and Death by Toys, It's hard to pick a favorite
 
I watched a video essay on Funko Pops a few years back. Part of their appeal is being able to have a collection of pieces of your various interests that all "go together". Looking around my room at the stuff I have on display and the amount of bastardization required to make Big Time Rush, Bratz, and Hitman "go together" would strip away any desire I have to display those things.

The best use case for Funk Pops is this:
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Just a cheap little surprise toy that comes packaged with candy or cereal. Not their own product. Just a little add-on.
 
These videos are so obliviously hypocritical:

Youtuber: "This is why you need to stop using Shein/Temu/TikTok Shop now."
also Youtuber: *drops $100+ on Shein/Temu/TikTok Shop and shows of their purchases on camera*

They're actively participating in the consoomerism they claim to be "exposing" and making an advertisement for their followers. They are paying to advertise these services.

I get recommended a video like this at least once a week. I'd kill for the actual numbers for how much has been spent on these sites for the sole purpose of making videos ads like this.
 
My cravat doesn't flutter said:
I get recommended a video like this at least once a week. I'd kill for the actual numbers for how much has been spent on these sites for the sole purpose of making videos ads like this.
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They're probably paid and just not disclosed, tbh. That or they're sending them shit for free.

Same thing when they send teenage girls all those freebies and you wind up with a pile of "sheer bodysuit haul" videos with models of "questionable" age barely covering up getting barfed up by the algorithm. They fucking know why those videos in particular seem to get "unusually high" view counts given the alleged content.

It actually amazes me how little YT cares about genuine underage naughtiness on their platform so long as the money's flowing and at least a token effort is being made to hide the nipples and camel toes. Even Pornhub paid it more lip service (god that was a bad, albeit unintentional pun) than Youtube seems to be.
 
The Potatomatic 2000 said:
It's so weird how offensively fast these people excuse women's abhorrently stupid habits because well, girls are UWU and they were targeted by the ads.
The fact he compares men collecting football merch or vintage cars to Labubu and Stanley is especially funny
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This dude is egregiously retarded. Women make up most of consumer spending, are more likely to end up in debt, view shopping as a recreational activity, and are prone to impulse spending on ‘death by 1,000 cuts’ cheap tiktok garbage. A report by Mylo Financial Technologies found that men had set aside nearly twice as much money for their long-term goals as women. Women are more likely to use predatory installment payment service apps. None of that should be excused it’s just statistics, and a good indicator that they should change their behavior
 
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