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

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I never underestimated the disposable income that Australian turned Japanese weebs have on Japanese society.
 
albert the programmer said:
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I never underestimated the disposable income that Australian turned Japanese weebs have on Japanese society.
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I run in some circles with a shit ton of old-school weebs in it and they are probably the biggest consumers I've ever met. I somewhat feel like they're worse than the Marvel and Star Wars people. I pretty regularly watch them celebrate and congrats each other for buying the Blue-ray release of an anime, as an example.
 
Yaks said:
I run in some circles with a shit ton of old-school weebs in it and they are probably the biggest consumers I've ever met. I somewhat feel like they're worse than the Marvel and Star Wars people. I pretty regularly watch them celebrate and congrats each other for buying the Blue-ray release of an anime, as an example.
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Streaming anime makes the anime industry somewhere in the ballpark of jack shit in annual revenue. Buying the official blueray releases of the series you like is one of the (exceedingly) few ways to actually directly financially support the studios that create the series, blue ray releases are also something that generally dries up quickly and isn't often reprinted and so jumping on them when you can ain't a bad idea if you're really into that sort of thing since they tend to sell secondhand infrequently and at no real discernable markdown, they often go up in price.

Anime is a weird hobby my man, it's rife with consoomerism and weeaboos will absolutely waste money on retarded shit they don't really need but anime merch isn't all that westernized and is still relatively insular to the Japanese market, it's even worse for Euros than Americans.
 
Vingle said:
Same sort of thing with animu figurines, you have to pre-order it. Or you have to pay a lot more to scalpers.
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Like I said, it's something that is easy to go overboard with and some people really do, but at the same time it's also a genuinely limited market for what are almost exclusively foreign produced goods, or goods produced under license to foreign companies who are notoriously draconian when it comes to things like IP law and brand image.
 
albert the programmer said:
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You underestimate sponsorships. The extreme cases are xQc playing a game for 30 mins at high end 5 figures, even 6 sometimes for several hours at launch etc.

You'll see 200 viewer streamers get sponsorships of high-end 3 digits easily. If you can promise 2800 viewers? Easily $6k for a few hours of your stream. That's ignoring patreon, youtube revenue etc. He can also write this off as company spending, if the money wasn't already donated by the sponsor straight up. In fact, him spending $10k is the low end lol
 
b0x said:
Kpop is another consumerist culture all it's own. For example, if you are a big fan and want to get the invite to the exclusive fanmeets to hold hands with the idols. You need to buy somewhere around 50 of the idol(s) albums. Because theres a chance that one of them may have an invite for the fanmeet inside. Also, at the fanmeet, sometimes there will be exclusive merch to buy.

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On top of this, inside each album will be a photocard, so you also have to buy multiple albums to get the whole set.
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Then if you end up buying a ticket to a concert, there are certain exclusive items only available for sale at the merch shop at the concerts.
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You also have the official lightstick of each group or soloist to shake in the air at concerts to show your support.

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Finally you have the corporate approved fanchant to shout at stages or concerts, recorded by the group so you know what to shout.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7keeaZEFGhg

Thats just the official stuff. Fans have been known to pay for all sorts of information just to get closer to their idols. There are information brokers that deal in stuff like candid photos, schedules, bookings, Flight Manifests, mobile phone numbers, email addresses, family addresses etc

You can even pay money to ensure your idol gets the most votes on music shows in Korea.
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Oh I almost forgot, the cross promotion. In SK, Idols endorse everything. School Uniforms. Fashion. Food. Drinks. When they are old enough, alcohol, lingerie etc etc.
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They even create music videos exclusively for the bigger deals.
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How bad is the K-Pop consoomerism, compared to J-Pop, i.e. the entire Love Live! franchise?

And here's a few more examples of Nesoberi consoomerism:

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Some people get multiple Nesos of the same character, just to do things such as stack them in a tower.

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When Nesos and JDM meet...

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Ditto.
 
albert the programmer said:
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Nathaniel bought all of the Player’s Choice™ Editions for the Nintendo GameCube, and gave an almost 20 minute video explaining why.
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Gamecube Player's Choice releases don't actually have any differences in the instruction manuals or on the discs. Like, he could have just printed out scans of the Player's Choice covers for his existing copies, and voila.

But I know game collectors, and that's cheating.
 
Thiletonomics said:
How bad is the K-Pop consoomerism, compared to J-Pop, i.e. the entire Love Live! franchise?

And here's a few more examples of Nesoberi consoomerism:
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That is so unsafe if they drive like that. Did you know that a box of facial tissues (Kleenex) on the ledge behind the back seat can kill a person if they get into a collision going only 55 mph/88 kph? Think about how light a box of facial tissues is and then think about the stuff you see in the back windows of cars on the road.

It does look like that car is at a convention or something, so that's not an issue, but damn.
 
Accept Only Substitutes said:
That is so unsafe if they drive like that. Did you know that a box of facial tissues (Kleenex) on the ledge behind the back seat can kill a person if they get into a collision going only 55 mph/88 kph? Think about how light a box of facial tissues is and then think about the stuff you see in the back windows of cars on the road.

It does look like that car is at a convention or something, so that's not an issue, but damn.
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Also, because Tera Jumbo Nesoberis are ~15-20 pounds, I can see those becoming a projectile in a car crash.
 
Thiletonomics said:
Also, because Tera Jumbo Nesoberis are ~15-20 pounds, I can see those becoming a projectile in a car crash.
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That's what makes even tissues so deadly. They become a projectile going the speed you were going and if they hit the back of your head: game over

Humans are both incredibly sturdy and incredibly fragile at the same time. It's both amazing and horrifying.
 
albert the programmer said:
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To clarify a little, the $10,000 one was split between 3 people, paid for through a combination of patreon and cooperate sponsership, and used as set dressing for their podcast. The videos heavily advertised 4 differnt stores. They didn't pay anything for these, used it for studio props, and made money off of it.

This was just good marketing lol.
 
Donttouch2323 said:
To clarify a little, the $10,000 one was split between 3 people, paid for through a combination of patreon and cooperate sponsership, and used as set dressing for their podcast. The videos heavily advertised 4 differnt stores. They didn't pay anything for these, used it for studio props, and made money off of it.

This was just good marketing lol.
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Yeah, people who are only tangentially aware of them likely aren’t aware that they didn’t just randomly decide to move to Japan together and start a podcast - they were scouted by a subsidiary of one of the big manga publishers, and despite operating independently are actually employed by Bookwalker/Kadokawa. For them, this is just a business expense that will generate more profit.
 
Yaks said:
I run in some circles with a shit ton of old-school weebs in it and they are probably the biggest consumers I've ever met. I somewhat feel like they're worse than the Marvel and Star Wars people. I pretty regularly watch them celebrate and congrats each other for buying the Blue-ray release of an anime, as an example.
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I am always surprised seeing how much money first world weebs throw at the hobby. The most money i've ever spent in 30 years being into anime is 10$ on an Akira Poster.

Latinamericans weebs mantra: always be pirating.



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Now you can buy Funko Pops that come with Funko props...

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Or maybe it's the other way around.

I see it says "Pop Town" so maybe you're supposed to buy a whole set and the buildings all link together to make a little town for the pops to hang out in front of.

Of course, nobody will ever know, because that would involve opening them.
 
Gutpuke said:
I'm starting too feel like reddit is cheating.
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They should be grateful they're being forced to sell them now. Ten years from now they'll fill thrift stores and flea markets for a fraction of the price and they can just rebuy them all. But they won't.

Because when they're worthless they won't have the same appeal.
Just like you don't see people "actively" collecting beanie babies or pogs.
 
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