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

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Raging Capybara said:
But then how will you tell the whole world you are a DQ ambassador?
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I do believe this is the reason many of these people collect what they collect

It's not because they love the item or the thing it represents and wanna look at it, it's purely for others'
>"I'm a fan, so I GOTTA own fan stuff to show how much of a fan I am!"

Ironically that's usually a sign of a fake fan
if you're a fan of something and you don't find something you like, you don't get it, because why own a weird, lumpy looking funkopop of your favorite character if you don't like the look of it? "I don't liiiike funkiewunkies, but they don't make any merch of my favorite character!" Well then why would you wanna taint something you love by owning something you dislike?
But the logic here is that they gotta own SOMETHING, and if all they can own is trash, then trash is better than nothing.
 
AskeDead said:
Brother, you ain't lying. My wife would be a fucking Squishmallow hoarder if I wasn't telling her no to new ones all the time.
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Look I get that they're cute, but they take up so much room. There are better, smaller things to collect
 
I don't have any funny images to share, but something related to this thread I don't really get.

People getting hyped for the announcement of the debut for a trailer. A discord server I'm in someone is excited that Nintendo has announced a date when they'll be showing the first trailer for the new Mario game.

This isn't a new thing either. Squaresoft back in the day would have announcement promoting when they'd be announcing some bit of news.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Now I'm sad.
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I know what will make it better!
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I finally convinced one of my tenants to sell his Funko Pop collection. It's been a good week guys 8). Allegedly he can get hundreds for some of the figures? Is this true? Or is it like when people would post Disney VHS tapes on eBay for $200 and it would never sell?
 
Do secondhand funkos even sell? at all? i cant imagine they would unless its something rare you cant find in stores anymore, otherwise, i can't imagine a superfan would buy some bog standard superman funko secondhand when they can pick it up at the store fresh off the line

no matter what these people say, there's no way ANY funkos except the super rare bumfuck edition ones have ANY resale value
 
bliblblblbbllb said:
I know what will make it better!
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I kind of disagree with the digital photo album idea on the basis that it could all disappear with a fatal computer mishap.
 
Cuntspiracy Man said:
Do secondhand funkos even sell? at all? i cant imagine they would unless its something rare you cant find in stores anymore, otherwise, i can't imagine a superfan would buy some bog standard superman funko secondhand when they can pick it up at the store fresh off the line

no matter what these people say, there's no way ANY funkos except the super rare bumfuck edition ones have ANY resale value
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Every nerd shop I've gone to always seems to have a glut of the things, honestly no, not unless you're a turbo CONSOOMER.
 
Cuntspiracy Man said:
Do secondhand funkos even sell? at all? i cant imagine they would unless its something rare you cant find in stores anymore, otherwise, i can't imagine a superfan would buy some bog standard superman funko secondhand when they can pick it up at the store fresh off the line

no matter what these people say, there's no way ANY funkos except the super rare bumfuck edition ones have ANY resale value
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The Funko Pop lunatics usually don't even open the packaging, so it's probably not that much of a difference.
 
bliblblblbbllb said:
I have met my fair share of women who were not pagan but still thought rocks had magic properties, but more in the same way they had opinions on what color of clothing is flattering. They'd tell you quartz has clearing properties but if you asked literally why and how, they'd just kinda say I dunno it's got a ~~~vibe~~~ to it. They'd get facial massagers made of solid rose quartz because "rose quartz is good for your skin." How??? "I dunno, something about the resonance frequencies."
This is coming from "normie" people, not tumblr wiccans or lolcows.
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I knew a girl who got into the crystal shit, she had gotten kicked out of school (at least the dorms, and then just dropped out) for being busted with LSD and a bunch of other shit , she worked at a gas station and I think at a strip club (dont know for sure if she was a stripper or just a bartender or some shit), went nuts 'in love' with her boyfriend and got way into 'rave culture'. Im kind of convinced like half of these girls who get into it just partied too hard for a while and put holes in their brain dropping acid or MDMA like every other day instead of once a week or every other week or however long. She stopped after a while and you wouldnt know it looking at her because now shes just one of those 'sensitive' quiet girls who has made 'her autism' a part of her identity.
 
306h4Ge5eJUJ said:
The Funko Pop lunatics usually don't even open the packaging, so it's probably not that much of a difference.
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true, not physically at least, but you have to remember theyre also funko pop lunatics
if a slightly dented package makes the toy worthless, even so much as knowing someone else "owned" it before taints the whole thing

these people value the virginity of their plastic bibblybobbies more than their own women
 
John Titor said:
I kind of disagree with the digital photo album idea on the basis that it could all disappear with a fatal computer mishap.
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I honestly agree and taking pictures of my things has never made them easier to part with.

However in some cases a digital version is probably nicer.
For instance there was a giant, ratty, moldy wooden rocking horse that my parents kept in my closet because they had the notion it would get passed on to my kids.
It would be a lot better to keep a nice picture of when I was a kid playing with the rocking horse when it was nice, than that rotting zombie corpse that was eventually dragged to the curb when I needed someplace to stick my rucksack.

Another example would be people who tend to collect trinkets from every vacation or trip. Keeping a digital photo album is a lot nicer than having a house coated head to toe in Made In China destination keychains and magnets.

You can stick things in a google drive/dropbox/etc backed up on your computer, and then also backed up to an external drive in a safetybox or buried someplace if you're that scared.

It hits close to home because my grandmother left me over 100 photo giant albums that I'm in the process of digitizing because 1) they are rotting away and 2) they take up an entire wall and if I don't do this, they're just going to be trashed. I'm gonna put it into the Internet Archive: a lot of it is historical, photos from wars and landmarks being built.
 
bliblblblbbllb said:
This is coming from "normie" people, not tumblr wiccans or lolcows.
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There is no clear distinction between "normies" and wiccans, lolcows, anti-vax types because science education is way bellow what it should be and pseudo-science has invaded everything. Most people have a certain level of dumb alternative beliefs on top of the pre-existing ones tied with religious beliefs. Women are usually the most obvious ones because of beauty culture, astrology and celebrity bullshit, and at least the gurus pretend to have solutions to their problems that doctors and husbands tends to ignore. But men are almost equally crappy.
 
bliblblblbbllb said:
It hits close to home because my grandmother left me over 100 photo giant albums that I'm in the process of digitizing because 1) they are rotting away and 2) they take up an entire wall and if I don't do this, they're just going to be trashed. I'm gonna put it into the Internet Archive: a lot of it is historical, photos from wars and landmarks being built.
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Yeah, definitely. Digitize it then keep all the precious photos in a sealed box that's water proof. Collect annotations from your family and layout the pages with the annotations alongside the photos. Print it all in C2S and bind it in hardcover.

Oh, and have someone particularly sentimental in your family write an introduction.
 
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