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

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Randy Butternubs said:
EDIT: As an aside on Pops, nothing encapsulates the last decade of existence than is monstrosity that came in to work. What an appropriate totem.
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truly real life is a marvel movie
we even have a twist villain mascaraing as a hero in plain sight

as for the tiny funko pops
tiny stuff has been a trend since forever, dollhouse props and miniatures, and it's understandable, there's a certain appeal in seeing something real emulated on a small scale that we as people are oddly drawn to, there's a reason intricate dioramas are so popular

but miniature versions of brands are especially a trendy recently and to me personally that seems to take out a lot of the appeal of miniatures since it strips away all creativity, not to mention they're cheaply made and thus lack any sculpting detail and look like ASS
but people are drawn to them

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i imagine it's just a way to scratch that primal itch we have to create a little world, but without actually putting in the effort to create anything, combined with the all too well known 'i recognize it therefor it good' draw
the average normie doesn't wanna fiddle around with train tracks or tiny houses they just wanna look at things they recognize and enjoy recognizing them in another form
"it's.. the shampoo i use.. but it's not a shampoo bottle? i recognize it, but it's something else! woaaaaaah, monkey brain impressed, monkey brain like!"
 
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Cuntspiracy Man said:
truly real life is a marvel movie
we even have a twist villain mascaraing as a hero in plain sight

as for the tiny funko pops
tiny stuff has been a trend since forever, dollhouse props and miniatures, and it's understandable, there's a certain appeal in seeing something real emulated on a small scale that we as people are oddly drawn to, there's a reason intricate dioramas are so popular

but miniature versions of brands are especially a trendy recently and to me personally that seems to take out a lot of the appeal of miniatures since it strips away all creativity, not to mention they're cheaply made and thus lack any sculpting detail and look like ASS
but people are drawn to them

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i imagine it's just a way to scratch that primal itch we have to create a little world, but without actually putting in the effort to create anything, combined with the all too well known 'i recognize it therefor it good' draw
the average normie doesn't wanna fiddle around with train tracks or tiny houses they just wanna look at things they recognize and enjoy recognizing them in another form
"it's.. the shampoo i use.. but it's not a shampoo bottle? i recognize it, but it's something else! woaaaaaah, monkey brain impressed, monkey brain like!"
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Yeah. I agree I think. I know tiny shit has been a thing for awhile and never really gave it too much thought because chotchkies and whatnot are around for reasons. I have a bunch of friends that have small shelves on their walls with nicely organized and displayed tiny knick-knacks. Going "Hey look at this little shampoo bottle" is novel fun and I can see that. I won't begrudge someone their fun. I may heckle them but whatever. Mini Pops strike a chord that feels like it's doubling up on the consoom. You can either be tiny, or you can be a funko pop. You can't be a tiny funko pop, that's double the alotted consoom space we've set up.
 
Randy Butternubs said:
Mini Pops strike a chord that feels like it's doubling up on the consoom. You can either be tiny, or you can be a funko pop. You can't be a tiny funko pop, that's double the alotted consoom space we've set up.
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i think its the brand recognition thing, i feel similar about mini brands because the fact that BRANDS, not even high end or elegant things but shit like pizza and toilet paper, are so focal in our lives that they recieve little statuettes just bothers me on a primal level
whats worse is that mini brands is targeted towards kids, i believe its the same company that makes LOL surprise, those toys that try and get kids hooked on shopping
 
Cuntspiracy Man said:
not even high end or elegant things but shit like pizza and toilet paper, are so focal in our lives that they recieve little statuettes
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Here's some ancient Greek examples. Most cultures seem to have made tiny every day objects from the mesoamericans to the indus valley. "For ritual purposes" but i am leaning towards they just thought they were neat
 
He should be forced to watch The Phantom Menace on repeat. Both because it sucks just like him and his censorship-loving party (this is the same bitch who had people arrested for calling him a blockhead online) and because he might notice he's closer to all the talking head bureaucrats that help make the movie boring rather than anything actually interesting or exciting.
 
Critical Raxx Theory said:
Here's some ancient Greek examples. Most cultures seem to have made tiny every day objects from the mesoamericans to the indus valley. "For ritual purposes" but i am leaning towards they just thought they were neat
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Before mass industry, when all this stuff was hand-made, I believe it was also for practice/bragging rights, cause you do have to be really quite good at sculpting and painting to make something so small and detailed, so it'd make for great advertisement in your jug shop in 400B.C. Greece.
 
NoReturn said:
That's archeology-speak for "We don't fucking know."
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The majority of archeology is guesswork, putting the pieces of info we DO have with our modern understanding of how humanity works as a whole, archeologists go "we don't know but maaaaybe-" and then the people tasked with presenting it to the public go "OK SO WE *DEFINITELY* KNOW THIS-" and it results in us oftentimes believing older cultures were practically the same as us in terms of morals, values, sensibilities and so on, just simpler and dumber
That's what created a lot of idotic myths that people still believe today, like everything in the medieval era being just dark and terrible and sucking all the time, the greeks/romans being super homosexual, and nobody bathing before the 1800's
 
Save the Loli said:
He should be forced to watch The Phantom Menace on repeat. Both because it sucks just like him and his censorship-loving party (this is the same bitch who had people arrested for calling him a blockhead online) and because he might notice he's closer to all the talking head bureaucrats that help make the movie boring rather than anything actually interesting or exciting.
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Watto, Boss nass, Nute gunray, and Darth maul are four shining lights in that movie. I would not allow him even that level of joy and whimsy.
Cuntspiracy Man said:
The majority of archeology is guesswork, putting the pieces of info we DO have with our modern understanding of how humanity works as a whole, archeologists go "we don't know but maaaaybe-" and then the people tasked with presenting it to the public go "OK SO WE *DEFINITELY* KNOW THIS-" and it results in us oftentimes believing older cultures were practically the same as us in terms of morals, values, sensibilities and so on, just simpler and dumber
That's what created a lot of idotic myths that people still believe today, like everything in the medieval era being just dark and terrible and sucking all the time, the greeks/romans being super homosexual, and nobody bathing before the 1800's
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The romans/greeks and egyptians are infamous cases where more andmore bullshit keeps getting spun despite us having LOADS of written records of stuff from that time period that kind of show what people were like, and went through a big part of history where we were just digging up all kinds of wacked out ancient texts going "oh shit they tried erasing history when the people in charge changed but it stayed intact due to random shit people had around, cool".
 
Negev said:
There is some brand of "manly" soap called Dr. Squatch and the people who seem to use it are obsessed with it and will collect the soap and other products. I assume they arent actually using it because they will have hundreds of bars of different scents and keep limited edition scents just to have them.
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They also do this weird scents and collabs with major brands that redditors love so I assume that must have at least something to do with it. I saw some of the scents they posted and thought it was some kind of joke edit thing they had going but it is apparently real, I can't imagine wanting to smell like hot cheetos unless you are a fat mexican woman.
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I know of Dr.Squatch because it competes with the definitly IS A SPONSER soap of KingCobraJFS.
 
New & Improved Username said:
I know of Dr.Squatch because it competes with the definitly IS A SPONSER soap of KingCobraJFS.
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there's something decidedly un-manly about advertising your masculinity with products "for men"
i understand liking these things, with how often a lot of products are made with women in mind it's nice to have something that smells more rough or earthy or has a more masculine aesthetic, but the guys who go absolutely nuts over "grr i ONLY drink MAN COFFEE and use MAN SOAP" always seem to be doing it because their girlfriend doesn't let them do the stuff they actually wanna do
"alright you have to get rid of your hobby stuff and let me redecorate the house with florals and live-laugh-love signs, but i wiiiiill let you use MAN SOAP" "y-yes dear, thank you dear"

same thing with women designing their partner's "man cave" to look like it came out of an ikea catalog
the man cave was born out of the fact that women commonly had a say in how a house looks and a guy's belongings and interests were relegated to one room that he had total control over, turning into his private space
when you let your wife come in and dictate where the fairylights go, how is it still 'your' 'private' space anymore? just give up at that point
 
Rome's rightful successor said:
Consooooooom movies. Real life politics is totally like this movie I saw.
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God dammit, They should add an S into the alphabet cult for Star wars fans an extra G for germans to

Critical Raxx Theory said:
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Here's some ancient Greek examples. Most cultures seem to have made tiny every day objects from the mesoamericans to the indus valley. "For ritual purposes" but i am leaning towards they just thought they were neat
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they most likely were for rituals but made small for light travel usually cities and sacred places were separated, like I dont need to carry a large stone amphora stocked with alcohol to a necropolis on top of a mountain 20 miles away
The Lawgiver said:
The romans/greeks and egyptians are infamous cases where more andmore bullshit keeps getting spun despite us having LOADS of written records of stuff from that time period that kind of show what people were like, and went through a big part of history where we were just digging up all kinds of wacked out ancient texts going "oh shit they tried erasing history when the people in charge changed but it stayed intact due to random shit people had around, cool".
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there were a couple of instances of that happening we wouldn’t know about certain civilizations if it wasn’t for a couple of runaways or hiding cultures, egypt specifically has been a victim of constant iconoclasm from arabic forces, we still know so little about them luckily we found the rosetta stone, one of the most important document burried under sand near a city, people shit talk french conquest of Egypt but they happened to be the ones to basically revive the whole culture forgotten by time

but back to this topic so glad I found this thread I hate the. “Dis liek starwars or marvel” people but there’s a lot of people that go unchecked in the horror genre too.
 
Saw this vid and thought it would be somewhat relevant here. A Youtuber uses an X-ray machine to see if it's possible or even profitable to determine the contents of those mystery toys you can buy.

TL: DW: Possible? Yes, but only with certain kinds of them. Profitable? Not really.

 
Bowman Dan said:
A Youtuber uses an X-ray machine to see if it's possible or even profitable to determine the contents of those mystery toys you can buy.
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This is pointless, because there are already ways to find out what's inside just by inspecting the packaging.
 
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