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

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GentlemanFaggot said:
As much as I like laughing at people who are unquestionably Consoomers, there is kind of a gray line between being one and being someone who collects bullshit but is otherwise normal. Plus I can't help but feel sad for a lot of them because I feel that there's a lot of people who get caught up in the mentality that all they need is one more purchase and they can be happy. A lot of people buy into that and they're not necessarily the kind of person who gets a gazillion views breaking down watching a Star Wars trailer or a repugnant oaf like MovieBob.

Oh well, either I laugh or I cry.

Incidentally, we should probably keep an eye on anti-consoomers or people who are adamantly miserable about people enjoying things. I don't think there's really an organized enough community of them but when I see them, they definitely exhibit lolcow tendencies.
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Naturally either extreme is gonna have embarrassing people, but I imagine the majority of the hardcore “anti-consoomer” posts are just people fronting for superiority points.

I do know what that bargaining tactic of “just one more and I’ll be happy” is like, though. Warning - if you suffer from that don’t get into music production unless you’re rich.
 
Save the Loli said:
I also notice that boomer consoomers seem more well-adjusted than your Funko Pop obsessed soyboys. This guy might be a fat bald guy who looks a decade older than he is, but according to the article he's well-adjusted enough to have a kid. I wonder if your soyboy types will ever evolve into something like this?
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Well, one can say that most boomer consumers are still functional adults with real jobs and families, so they treat their collections about X or Y thing as a expensive hobby and nothing else, while most consumers treat their brand loyalty to Marvel/Disney/Nintendo/Apple as their sole reason to exist, like someone mentioned before, it's like James Rolfe and his basement full of old games and consoles, and still, i wouldn't put him in the same category as your average Funkopop collector.
 
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Medafag said:
Well, one can say that most boomer consumers are still functional adults with real jobs and families, so they treat their collections about X or Y thing as a expensive hobby and nothing else, while most consumers treat their brand loyalty to Marvel/Disney/Nintendo/Apple as their sole reason to exist like someone mentioned before, it's like James Rolfe and his basement full of old games and consoles, and sill, i wouldn't put him in the same category as your average Funkopop collector.
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It's probably because those boomer consumers remember the time when companies hyped up competition for the sake of driving sales (Marvel vs. DC, Nintendo vs. Sega) so they've got more experience with company hype and all that crap. Younger consumers barely even know those days and are more susceptible to brand hype because it's what the cool kids of their age are doing.
 
I found this chart and I think its a pretty good indicator of where the biggest consoomers are. I don't think theres any real surprises here, especially with Pokemon and Star Wars, though the ones after that are arguably a bit more notable. They're all big names, but I don't think I would've guessed they were top 5 necesarily.
 

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Demonslayer1776 said:
I found this chart and I think its a pretty good indicator of where the biggest consoomers are. I don't think theres any real surprises here, especially with Pokemon and Star Wars, though the ones after that are arguably a bit more notable. They're all big names, but I don't think I would've guessed they were top 5 necesarily.
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I'm surprised Marvel in general or Spider-Man in particular aren't on that list.
 
I think the difference between a consoomer and a collector is that you could point to a piece in a their collection, and they’d be able to tell you a story about it - be it how they acquired it, what it means to them, some things they like or dislike about it compared to the other pieces in their collection... something that shows a personal connection with the piece. I’ve watched videos from collectors of various things and the one unifying theme seems to be that they actually tend to regret impulse buys because after coming down from that initial dopamine hit of consooming, they realize they now have something they never actually wanted in the first place that’s now taking up precious shelf space.

Consoomers don’t care, they’ll consoom for its I have a morbid curiosity for Funko pop videos and the one thing that always sticks in my head is the thought that there’s no fucking way they’ve even consoomed the media of even a tenth of the shit they’re putting on their shelves. Frankly I can’t comprehend the idea of buying merch for something I have no emotional attachment to.
 
Save the Loli said:
Can't think of any other similar shit boomers obsess over, aside from Harley-Davidson. I have no idea why some boomers obsess over overpriced motorcycles.
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Harley-Davidson is the king shit of boomer-bikes because they really have marketed themselves as a bike of faux-rebellious americana and will actively sell a lot of merch to those who'd never be on a bike. I also blame Hollywood, but especially Easy Rider for the popularization of the whole commercialized chopper culture, along with people really wanting to larp as big bad biker types when they're just fat old dudes who're better off on a Goldwing that's made for their volumetric assage.

Same types also are the reason why muscle cars and hot rods are so fucking expensive. They really want that 1969 stoplight dragster with a lumpy cam from their youth, when they were children envying the teens who actually had the money for these back in the day. Power of Nostalgia is quite the thing.
 
Let me try to save this thread.

I made people mad because I said phonemakers should stop wasting their time on dumb gimmicks and make a phone that doesn't die in two years. Someone told me to stop whining and I told him to "not ask questions and consume product". I was promptly downvoted to hell. :story: I was also in a foul mood because my phone died without warning and couldn't extract my data in time so I didn't need some mindless consoomer to tell me to step in line.
 
John Titor said:
Let me try to save this thread.

I made people mad because I said phonemakers should stop wasting their time on dumb gimmicks and make a phone that doesn't die in two years. Someone told me to stop whining and I told him to "not ask questions and consume product". I was promptly downvoted to hell. :story: I was also in a foul mood because my phone died without warning and couldn't extract my data in time so I didn't need some mindless consoomer to tell me to step in line.
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I mean you’ll need a battery replacement around the 2.5 year mark - there’s no getting around that, it’s just an inherent limitation of the tech we have - but phones nowadays are easily powerful enough to use for 4-5 years at least. Hell, I know some people still using iPhone 5s’s and those things are running on 8 years old now and still perfectly functional, though understandably a bit sluggish.
 
I think it's a bit weird to collect things you have no intention of using that take up massive amounts of space. I can respect a guy who collects something like beer mats because at least every one would have some personal relevance to when and where it was picked up. Having a giant room full of childrens toys in glass cases is consoomering imho.
 
DungeonMaster said:
Really? How?
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It's typically used as a response to people saying Pokemon is for kids. Yes, Pokemon is for kids. A mature adult wouldn't care and just enjoy it, not use someone else's words to defend what they like.

They aren't entirely misusing it. Just making themselves look insecure.
Gar For Archer said:
I mean you’ll need a battery replacement around the 2.5 year mark - there’s no getting around that, it’s just an inherent limitation of the tech we have - but phones nowadays are easily powerful enough to use for 4-5 years at least. Hell, I know some people still using iPhone 5s’s and those things are running on 8 years old now and still perfectly functional, though understandably a bit sluggish.
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Good thing phones have removable batteries. Right?
 
How about instead of arguing about consoomerism we just make fun of it? Wandavision just ended so that should be good material.

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I mean Jesus christ, they even got their funko pops to appear in the background, you can't even make this up. :story:
ed: The first dude is even wearing AirPods and consooms weed on the regular, dear lord.
 
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PozzedByCoronachan said:
How about instead of arguing about consoomerism we just make fun of it? Wandavision just ended so that should be good material.

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I mean Jesus christ, they even got their funko pops to appear in the background, you can't even make this up. :story:
ed: The first dude is even wearing AirPods and consooms weed on the regular, dear lord.
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You know, a few pages ago some made the argument that rich people can't be consoomers but Kevin Smith is the definitive proof of how fucking wrong you are.
 
Saxxon said:
You know, a few pages ago some made the argument that rich people can't be consoomers but Kevin Smith is the definitive proof of how fucking wrong you are.
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Look man before he lost the weight, he single handedly kept the denim industry alive by ordering a single pair of jorts each year.
 
Demonslayer1776 said:
I found this chart and I think its a pretty good indicator of where the biggest consoomers are. I don't think theres any real surprises here, especially with Pokemon and Star Wars, though the ones after that are arguably a bit more notable. They're all big names, but I don't think I would've guessed they were top 5 necesarily.
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I'm more surprised Marvel isn't in there and well over Batman.
 
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