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

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whitepumpkin said:
I asked her why she simply couldn't make her own merchandise of her favourite franchise instead of buying soulless plastic demons and "official mugs" which just has the show logo on it.

And I was basically told it's "too hard".
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I want to make my own figures of my favourite unpopular characters. I'm creative enough to do stuff like this and I can even make money off my work.

I won't say what I sell because you can easily find me but if you make decent art of series that don't get much merch, you can tap into a niche market.

But if you really want to tap into a great market, learn how to make plushies because so many unpopular characters have fans and those fans want to cuddle a plushie of them.
I would like to learn how to make plushies but the minkie material quality plushies have isn't cheap.
I've made my own plushies with fleece and felt but they're not ideal cos they get bobbly bits on them in a month or so. I wish I can share pictures of them but can't powerlevel.

The most important thing that goes into handmade merch is love and effort.
 
Minx95 said:
£4000 for a Piquet helmet, sheesh. Historical, but that's just insane.
I don't know whats worse, the scale helmets being over £100 or that.
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The scale models are definitely worse, they're most likely made out of pure Chineseium at pennies a piece. At least Piquet's helmet is a genuine artifact of the time which there are only a few of. That justifies the price, which a normal person would wince at, but to a wealthy collector is relatively normal.
 
TheBeanz said:
The scale models are definitely worse, they're most likely made out of pure Chineseium at pennies a piece. At least Piquet's helmet is a genuine artifact of the time which there are only a few of. That justifies the price, which a normal person would wince at, but to a wealthy collector is relatively normal.
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Yeah you have a point there.
If I was to go for F1 stuff I'd at least get a few scale models of cars I actually like, books, DVDs and maybe a couple of souvenirs or artefacts. Why buy a scale model front wing for that amount when you could buy a number of scale model cars for far less.

Sports stuff is more collectors stuff, a personal museum, but it can go into consoomer tier.
If a room has genuine artefacts its more collector, if its all just toys then we have a problem.

The question is whether or not wall units are consoomer tier.
I'd say a wall unit filled with pop culture toys is too far, but with sports I'd say that's less jarring.
With pop culture, you need to spread it out over the house so it doesn't stand out.

A neighbour was into pop culture and star trek but she had old pictures and personal items mixed with it.
I'd say that isn't consooming. Most people do that and consoomers aren't most people.
 
Seeing massive piles of cheap paraphrenalia about a specific franchise has actually made me LOSE interest in them.

Over saturation makes the best of things “feel” tacky and hollow. Or maybe they always were, come to think of it…
 
Save the Loli said:
So what's your thought on custom Funkopops then? Like this Tony Soprano Funkopop?
Or for those into more vintage TV, how about this absolutely horrifying Barney Fife Funkopop?

A part of me is impressed that for whatever licenses Funko couldn't grab to churn out another soulless abomination, the fans did for them.
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I view them the same way I view Munny's and Dunny's.

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While I personally don't like these, they are blank canvases for someone to use to create something. I can appreciate them for the work put onto them, but in no way would I ever buy one myself. If someone wants to get a funko pop and paint it into a character they like, all the more power to them.
 
This advert makes me conflicted. Its a nice ad, I usually don't care for ads but this one is really nice.
It's kinda consooming but I'm not sure.
Would this guy be an enthusiast or consoomer?
Part of me says enthusiast but the flexing of "new car" is consooming and the treating brand as religion

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Pissmaster said:
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Ayy yo. Sign me up for that Niles Pop. The repainting potential is infinite.
Arnold7834 said:
Consooming bear stuff
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That's old school Glass Menagerie consumption. I honestly have no problem with collections like those, they're adorable and charming - Yet they rarely reach Amiibo-tier/Funko Pop bad. The old women who would have terrifying collections have all passed on and their ungreatful kids/grandkids either shoved them all into boxes or sold them for pennies at a thrift store.
 
Starved Artist said:
Ayy yo. Sign me up for that Niles Pop. The repainting potential is infinite.

That's old school Glass Menagerie consumption. I honestly have no problem with collections like those, they're adorable and charming - Yet they rarely reach Amiibo-tier/Funko Pop bad. The old women who would have terrifying collections have all passed on and their ungreatful kids/grandkids either shoved them all into boxes or sold them for pennies at a thrift store.
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There's no problem with that collection.
@Arnold7834 you go on about having cars stuff and how to store it for numerous pages, then you say that's consooming?

That's a harmless collection, if you want to keep your stuff, use something like that for displaying it.
 
Minx95 said:
There's no problem with that collection.
@Arnold7834 you go on about having cars stuff and how to store it for numerous pages, then you say that's consooming?

That's a harmless collection, if you want to keep your stuff, use something like that for displaying it.
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Don't fucking start this again, I've barely recovered from last times' second-hand autism
 
In the spirit of the thread I started a collection of Small Booktube Channels from 2015 and 2016. Please admire my collection and shower me with good stickers out of respect for my accomplishment.

Enjoy the mindless consumption of people who buy books to virtue signal to strangers on the Internet that they are super smart and read books and that the looove reading. Watch and enjoy as the facade falls apart when they inevitably reveal that :

1) They don't actually read 99% of the books they purchase or already own
2) They know enough to indicate that their mindless consumption is shameful but they can't and/or won't stop
3) They literally judge books by the cover
4) They buy books that are next in a ** series ** despite never actually reading the preceding books
4) They buy books that are intended for grade school children, comic books or extremely short books just so that they can brag that they actually finished something for once








 
I find books for adults (at least the ones I read) to often be difficult to read through, as chapters are usually quite long, and it takes time to digest the more advanced language and subtext. I guess I’m not a ‘speed-reader,’ and coupled with other obligations, it can take months to get through a book.

In short it’s very likely these books are either infantile or they’re not digesting the contents of the books properly.
 
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