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

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moocow said:
People fill entire rooms with stacks and stacks of Funko Pops -- useless hunks of plastic with zero resale value and no functional purpose. Of course people are really that stupid. :story:
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You know, back in a day these exact people would scratch that itch by collecting leaves, wings, coins, bones and numerous other things that would contribute to fields like animal taxonomy or archeology. I think Funko Pops exist to monetize that exact craving. I wonder if prominence of collecting such items is gonna lead to consumerist archeology decades down the line, like a sort of physical metric on how pop culture had evolved and evaluating which franchises were the most venerated by counting which kinds of toys or mini-statues from which franchise appeared in peoples collections the most.
 
femboy fart huffer said:
The even smarter choice is to buy just one and fucking kill yourself if shit hits the fan that hard.
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My personal opinion is unless I had some specific reason to do that, I'd want to just go down shooting. This isn't some edgy I'm so brave shit, it's more if I had absolutely nothing left to lose, and the SHTF so hard the world was basically over, why not go out in a blaze of glory?

It's not like you'd have some cowardly cushy option where you could just wimp out, so why not just do it? If that option were there, I'd take it, I'm a pussy. Most of the time. But if you're going to die anyway? Lmao, have some fun.
 
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LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
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yeah because collecting is an inherently human trait
nay, an intelligent animal trait even
and that's why there's a clear distinction between hyperconsumerism, and just the act of collecting things that one likes, and people not getting this is why this thread regularly devolves into people begging others to tell them if theyre le cooooonsuimers or not, or bragging that they live in a big barrel with nothing but a bowl to their name whackin their chicken all day
 
Cuntspiracy Man said:
yeah because collecting is an inherently human trait
nay, an intelligent animal trait even
and that's why there's a clear distinction between hyperconsumerism, and just the act of collecting things that one likes, and people not getting this is why this thread regularly devolves into people begging others to tell them if theyre le cooooonsuimers or not, or bragging that they live in a big barrel with nothing but a bowl to their name whackin their chicken all day
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What qualifies for this thread or not is purely down to whether it's cringe or not. Simple as. If somebody is into collecting retro video game cartridges and create videos where they shove in unnecessary political takes, brag about selling off their liver or sacrificing familial ties for the sake of such hobby, asslicking nintendo at every opportunity and start throwing hissy fits at every minor inconvenience, you can be guaranteed that will show up in this thread. But if the same kind of collector is some sort of Japanese businessman, that feels obligated to preserve his culture, what made it popular globally, wanting for his children and future generations to appreciate those games while continuing the project started by their dead relative... Yeah, there wouldn't be anything entertaining or worthwhile to poke fun at. On contrary, you'd probably feel like a piece of shit for doing so, even if the cartridges that businessman collects would be the exact same as the American Nintendo stan's.

Even in regards to stuff like funko pops, you can interact with them in a non-hyperconsumerist manner. There were probably countless parents that bought these for their kids to play with, having no idea about the audience this product is marketed towards. I'm not gonna advocate being so anti-consumerist, that you start A-Logging, snatch a funko from a little girl's hand and tear it to pieces. That's lolcow behavior.

Again, focus isn't on consumerism itself, it's the consoomers, people that let it define them to an unhealthy degree. If you're in this thread in the first place, you most likely don't qualify for the latter by default. Rewatching old episodes of AVGN doesn't make you a consoomer.
 
Skylavijas said:
Even in regards to stuff like funko pops, you can interact with them in a non-hyperconsumerist manner. There were probably countless parents that bought these for their kids to play with, having no idea about the audience this product is marketed towards.
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Back when they first came out, they were a great gift for people you only had a loose relationship with.

There’s collecting things that have sentimental value, either because they’re a rare toy from your childhood or someone gifted it to you and then there’s filling your room with plastic toys that you’ll forget about until realizing they have no resale value because millions of them were made.
 
I'm a recovering consumerist who wants to become a minimalist. For context, I used to collect Funko Pops and all kinds of easily replaceable junk, but recently, after moving my junk into storage and seeing how all the natural disasters could affect my stuff, along with seeing my mother's ridiculous consumerism and materialism, I'm ready to make a change. Should I just give my junk away, or should I wait until I eventually move, then try to sell it? I'm not sure how many people want generic dusty Funko Pops.
 
Hulkster said:
I'm a recovering consumerist who wants to become a minimalist. For context, I used to collect Funko Pops and all kinds of easily replaceable junk, but recently, after moving my junk into storage and seeing how all the natural disasters could affect my stuff, along with seeing my mother's ridiculous consumerism and materialism, I'm ready to make a change. Should I just give my junk away, or should I wait until I eventually move, then try to sell it? I'm not sure how many people want generic dusty Funko Pops.
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Start selling it today. Get on eBay. Take a loss. Do it one box at a time to not overwhelm yourself.

PM me if you need more help.
 
Hulkster said:
I'm a recovering consumerist who wants to become a minimalist. For context, I used to collect Funko Pops and all kinds of easily replaceable junk, but recently, after moving my junk into storage and seeing how all the natural disasters could affect my stuff, along with seeing my mother's ridiculous consumerism and materialism, I'm ready to make a change. Should I just give my junk away, or should I wait until I eventually move, then try to sell it? I'm not sure how many people want generic dusty Funko Pops.
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Good luck on your recovery brother
 
Hulkster said:
I'm a recovering consumerist who wants to become a minimalist. For context, I used to collect Funko Pops and all kinds of easily replaceable junk, but recently, after moving my junk into storage and seeing how all the natural disasters could affect my stuff, along with seeing my mother's ridiculous consumerism and materialism, I'm ready to make a change. Should I just give my junk away, or should I wait until I eventually move, then try to sell it? I'm not sure how many people want generic dusty Funko Pops.
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Asap. You will regret paying for storage for them. Hope you get back on your feet fast. I had the same realization about natural disasters and the following storage journey myself. It can take a while to get back to where you were. Sell now, sell at a loss, but sell.
 
Duiker said:
Buckle up buckaroos, a new female "Must Have" is getting its 15 minutes of fame. Weck Jars. Appearantly an old style of glass jar in europe for canning. Now people are treating it like Mason jars 2.0. Cant wait to see all the cheap plastic accessories theyll sell for it.
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I can't go back to jars, man. I'm 3 years clean!

We actually used them, but gradually lost interest after moving into an apartment. Big mistake, if preped and stored correctly food can last a hell of a lot longer this way. Now we wait for $3 14 packs of chicken legs and buy a bunch of discount veggies to throw in a pot. Lasts two weeks.
I miss the good shit we could pull off the shelf. And having free space in the fridge for gallons of water.
 
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Hulkster said:
I'm a recovering consumerist who wants to become a minimalist. For context, I used to collect Funko Pops and all kinds of easily replaceable junk, but recently, after moving my junk into storage and seeing how all the natural disasters could affect my stuff, along with seeing my mother's ridiculous consumerism and materialism, I'm ready to make a change. Should I just give my junk away, or should I wait until I eventually move, then try to sell it? I'm not sure how many people want generic dusty Funko Pops.
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You have my best wishes. It's not going to be easy, the sooner you get it done the better. Even though I wasn't a consoomer, I sold most of my DS games and my DS lite (I had a shit ton of DS games). It took a while, but I found it if I did it sooner, it would have been much better. If there's something you can't sell or worth very little, and it's not damaged, donate it to a thrift store. That's what I did with some things I could not sell like shovelware games. Just use common sense, and you'll be fine.
 
The other day I went to a shopping mall with a friend, and he pointed out a stream of people leaving a Pop Mart store with bags and bags of figures. We wandered in, and he told me that watching all these randoms frantically buying plastic crap was giving him FOMO, even though none of this stuff is normally to his style. People are weird.
 
Hulkster said:
I'm a recovering consumerist who wants to become a minimalist. For context, I used to collect Funko Pops and all kinds of easily replaceable junk, but recently, after moving my junk into storage and seeing how all the natural disasters could affect my stuff, along with seeing my mother's ridiculous consumerism and materialism, I'm ready to make a change. Should I just give my junk away, or should I wait until I eventually move, then try to sell it? I'm not sure how many people want generic dusty Funko Pops.
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Don't let the pendulum swing too far in the other direction. I'm pretty sure it's come up in this thread before, but the extreme minimalists are about as cringe as the consoomers.
 
Road Work Ahead said:
Don't let the pendulum swing too far in the other direction. I'm pretty sure it's come up in this thread before, but the extreme minimalists are about as cringe as the consoomers.
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If he has a storage he's renting, he needs to downsize. Whatever that ends up being. Having a storage is a constant loss.
 
NoReturn said:
I found this interesting:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QePRsGrKcP8
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Interesting take, but he's using a problem to push his shitlib leaf socialism without addressing how his system solves any of this. Homes aren't affordable because you imported millions of jeets, and let chinks buy up all your land while your veterans got MAID'd. You can't blame corporate greed and scarcity economics when you doubled the denominator.

Edit: Ignore my take on shitlib leafs, i got him confused with another similar looking creator.
 
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