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

[Moguro Fukuzou]

Personally it feels like a lot of the popularity for things like cottagecore or similar are from people that don't have easy access to nature in their daily life, which I do think is quite sad. Feels like people get a bit wonky when they're in a location almost entirely disconnected from nature. That said, a lot of them also develop unrealistic expectations and seem really unprepared for actual nature when faced with it.

There's a lot of anime that focuses on interacting respectfully with nature that does help people actually go outside and experience it for themselves which I do think is nice, but you also have a number of people that attempt it and get pissy it isn't just like their animu. I think Yuru Camp is a good example where it did get people interested in camping and finding a new hobby, but it also lead to a number of people not understanding the realities of camping getting upset at the experience or in the more extreme causing forest fires.

Spoiler: Legendary /out/ thread

 

[Vingle]

Spoiler: Legendary /out/ thread

It's really bad, but at the same time. I hope it was him.
Its a mixed feeling situation

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

I can't really see how consoomers in Venezuela or North Korea would be a thing

Why don't you ask the upper class there.

 

[whitepumpkin]

I think Yuru Camp is a good example where it did get people interested in camping and finding a new hobby, but it also lead to a number of people not understanding the realities of camping getting upset at the experience or in the more extreme causing forest fires.

People not understanding forest fires drives me a bit crazy because that's related to my job. But what drives me even crazier is those idiots who START them, either due to negligence or just plain ol' ignorance. Most fires I've logged in my career have been human-related. So cigarettes, campfires, ATVs (hot exhaust + grass = wildfire), burn barrels, etc. It goes on. And every single time it's been a pain in the ass to deal with. A couple hectares isn't too expensive, maybe about... $50,000+, but if gets way out of control?



1.4 million acres, baby. And $9.9 Billion.
Soak your campfire, stir the ashes with a stick, and soak it again. It takes a 2 second google search to know that.

Fun fact, though. Well, for my area. If you're convicted for starting a wildfire, you have to pay the full cost of the fire, which usually exceeds millions of dollars if it gets out of control. And I don't think anyone has a funko pop collection worth that much to cover it.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Food & Lifestyle,

Lifestyle branding is the beginning of Consumer Culture.

God, the Devil and Bob was right. Martha Stewart is worse than Satan.

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

People not understanding forest fires drives me a bit crazy because that's related to my job. But what drives me even crazier is those idiots who START them, either due to negligence or just plain ol' ignorance. Most fires I've logged in my career have been human-related. So cigarettes, campfires, ATVs (hot exhaust + grass = wildfire), burn barrels, etc. It goes on. And every single time it's been a pain in the ass to deal with. A couple hectares isn't too expensive, maybe about... $50,000+, but if gets way out of control?

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1.4 million acres, baby. And $9.9 Billion.
Soak your campfire, stir the ashes with a stick, and soak it again. It takes a 2 second google search to know that.

Fun fact, though. Well, for my area. If you're convicted for starting a wildfire, you have to pay the full cost of the fire, which usually exceeds millions of dollars if it gets out of control. And I don't think anyone has a funko pop collection worth that much to cover it.

The map you show is in Canada, so I assume this paying for the entire cost is regional Canadian thing? Since Canada is pretty liberal and loves identity politics more than it’s Southern Neighbor, if the fire is started by a gender reveal party, do you still have to pay or do you get a signed congratulations letter from Ottawa?

 

[whitepumpkin]

if the fire is started by a gender reveal party, do you still have to pay or do you get a signed congratulations letter from Ottawa?

You'd probably have to pay because you disrupted China's resource siphoning, and as we all know, that's who truly runs the country.

Better hide your Winnie the Pooh collections if you're canadian. They will not be tolerated.

 

[Haffhart]

The villagers were my favorite part of the old games and one of the reasons New Horizons was so dissapointing, not only were they just, better in the older games, but they had more than 5 lines of dialogue.

Also @whitepumpkin cuz no reply button

Some more good ol fashioned AC rudeness:

Spoiler

And this is just from Wild World, mind.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

That's why medium and above sized towns are unironically kino. You get the community element of a town where it's small enough for people to know you, have most of the perks of living in a city (fast broadband, delivery services etc.) and typically you're in a decent position to drive to somewhere scenic whenever you want. It's like when people go on holiday and their place is magical and decide they want to live there, but the longer you stay in a place the more the illusion breaks as you realise conveniences don't exist.

Personally I'd love to live the rest of my life in Prague but understand that there's a LOT of things I take for granted that would be lost if ever I moved there, and that's a European capital city, imagine trying to move to some Hawaiian island or some tropical beach resort?

Yout won't get any 'community element' in fucking Prague, it's full of bugmen and green khmers. The best you could do is some neighborhood that's not been annexed for too long, but it's just a question of time till the bugmen and the retards that move there because they want to be in ~ the city ~ ruin it too. But only if your family already lived there for generations. If you're new you're scum and will only socialize with other new-scum. Property prices are already through the roof. Fuck this shit

 

[Medicinal Molduga]

Useless accumulation of stuff, pet edition:

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Useless accumulation of stuff, pet edition:

Why bother? The cat's just gonna love playing with the box and the packing material better anyways.

 

[melty]

(This once includes the Pokemon oreos, and "the aesthetic" at 2:52)

The all white cooking utensils made me cringe. Somebody has never cooked tomato sauce.

Useless accumulation of stuff, pet edition:

Most cats don't like clothes or being put in those stupid bubble backpacks. Stop pretending your cat is a dog and get a dog or a kid if you want something to dress up and take everywhere.

 

[Pirx]

Personally I'd love to live the rest of my life in Prague but understand that there's a LOT of things I take for granted that would be lost if ever I moved there, and that's a European capital city, imagine trying to move to some Hawaiian island or some tropical beach resort?

Out of curiosity, what do you have in mind in terms of things that you think you would miss out on in Prague?
I come from a city 1/4th the size of Prague in a "poor" par of Europe and I can not come up with anything it's "missing". From high speed Internet and Amazon prime, through higher education and entertainment (restaurants, theatres, full size concert/opera hall with really good local symphonic orchestra) up to and including a proper airport, everything seems to be here? Hell I picked up my yankee car from a local dealer. And it only took 30 mins on the (fantastic) public transport to reach the lot despite it being on the other side of the town.

Granted if you wanted to buy a Porsche or a Chanel bag in person then you'd need to drive to the next major city over which is about 3 hours... Or 2 hours if you can stand sitting with the proles on the high speed direct train (which in turn I heard a lot of the US is missing).

Circling back the topic, I've seen several tiktoks of people taking that 4hr round-trip by train just to film themselves *browsing* in the Chanel or Vuitton store... Sure they must know now one is believing they're buying bags worth their yearly salary but it must be that the ~~sugar baby aesthetic~~ has arrived here as well.

 

[dirtydeanna96]

For those unfamiliar:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wC6NiZsPtCUSee also, Liziqi:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QHTnuI9IKBA
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Lmh7KTmpR4

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There it is again, that weird "This doesn't count" feeling.
I had to look it up (thanks Yandex) and found this thing is a "Diane Husson faux bois whirlwind chair" and it's made of concrete.
Here's how the artist herself describes her work: "In my world, each piece of furniture tells long forgotten tales of distant mountains, mysterious seas and secret gardens yet to be discovered."
Which, great, and I'll admit a lot of care clearly goes into her pieces, but there's this niggling feeling under my eyes that it's all wrong. There is no place where there exists a "real" version of that chair. The chair is a copy of an idea of a thing that doesn't exist, or never existed.

been reading Tolkien? yeah, her chair exists in færie, a platonic chair.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Out of curiosity, what do you have in mind in terms of things that you think you would miss out on in Prague?

Tbh I mean more in the way of moving entirely out of the country basically puts a nice red line between me and dozens of friend groups I've built up over the years because I can't just hop on a train to go meet them. Also as a britbong I'm actually kinda fond of the NHS and cheap prescriptions. Then there's the whole culture shock in the differences of wages between the pound and the krona. There's lots of first world things (sorry europoors) that I take for granted that would immediately be cut the moment I moved there and the effects wouldn't come into play for a few months.

If I won the lottery and was fully 100% autistic and didn't care about anyone but myself I'd be on a plane there before you could say Dobry den.

 

[NoReturn]

Most cats don't like clothes or being put in those stupid bubble backpacks. Stop pretending your cat is a dog and get a dog or a kid if you want something to dress up and take everywhere.

Holy christ yes. The people who think cats are like some weird variation of a dog drive me up the wall. That goes for people who like cats, and those that don't. If you don't like cats on their own merits that's fine, just a matter of personal opinion; but if you don't like cats because you compare them to dogs, that's dumb.

Spoiler: Cat product sperg

Most cats will not enjoy the bubble backpacks because they feel trapped and exposed. If you really want to get your cat a bubble backpack, get the ones with a porthole.

It's still not ideal, but I do know some cats who prefer them to a normal carrier if they just need to go to the vet or something. They're softer than a plastic carrier, and because they're taller than they are wide, it can make the kitty feel like s/he has the option of standing up or lying down.

been reading Tolkien? yeah, her chair exists in færie, a platonic chair.

 

[whitepumpkin]

Holy christ yes. The people who think cats are like some weird variation of a dog drive me up the wall. That goes for people who like cats, and those that don't.

Cats are a consoomable animal, just like birds, small dogs, and exotic pets. Idiots get them because they think it'll be like their animes - little responsibility, cute times 24/7, and toe beans. When the reality is this is a living being dependent on you not to be a selfish, lazy prick. I despise people who get these animals (just as much as I hate the Puppy Mill places that breed them) and once they grow up and they're no longer cute, it's to the pound with them.

Bless those people who adopt older/senior animals from shelters and genuinely care for their needs, but seriously fuck those who get animals because a tiktok told them or a tumblr post and you can tell they're not setup for it at all. The fluffy chicken comes to mind.



This is the first instance I recall of "If we get this to X, my parents will do Y!" that infected tumblr for a while. Did she actually want the chicken as a genuine pet she would care for during its lifetime, or was it for social media popularity? My guess is the latter.

Anyways, back to consoooooom. Look out for the Hello Kitty Funko Pop!

I saw some of that Hello Panda and YamYam snacks today. That shit is expensive. I was honestly baffled it was like, $3 for a box of flavourless strawberry junkfood.

 

[NoReturn]

Bless those people who adopt older/senior animals from shelters and genuinely care for their needs, but seriously fuck those who get animals because a tiktok told them or a tumblr post and you can tell they're not setup for it at all.

The fluffy chicken comes to mind.
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This is the first instance I recall of "If we get this to X, my parents will do Y!" that infected tumblr for a while. Did she actually want the chicken as a genuine pet she would care for during its lifetime, or was it for social media popularity? My guess is the latter.

I got curious and looked into it.

Spoiler: The deets

Turns out her name is Peyton Lee, and while she's still online, her tweets (including the original chicken ones) are now protected.

Here she's interviewed about it: https://thatsmoderatelyraven.tumblr.com/post/44096847511
The mom did say she could have one:

But ultimately, no chicken (this is from her Instagram - @leytonpee):

She does have a fluffy white dog now, though.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

I saw some of that Hello Panda and YamYam snacks today. That shit is expensive. I was honestly baffled it was like, $3 for a box of flavourless strawberry junkfood.

japanese candy is not worth it, its sold more expensive than other imported goods and is always super bland, tastes like nothing. i believe they actually try really really hard on purpose to remove the flavour from food.

 

[Fialovy]

Cats are a consoomable animal, just like birds, small dogs, and exotic pets. Idiots get them because they think it'll be like their animes - little responsibility, cute times 24/7, and toe beans. When the reality is this is a living being dependent on you not to be a selfish, lazy prick. I despise people who get these animals (just as much as I hate the Puppy Mill places that breed them) and once they grow up and they're no longer cute, it's to the pound with them.

Funny you mention that because there is this line of small rodent cages that Petsmart has released called Tiny Tales and they are really colorful and meant to appeal to kids, but they are extremely inappropriate for hamsters, gerbils, or mice which they are marketed for because they are way too small and it is a special problem for gerbils because they will chew through any plastic and need significantly more depth to burrow. Still, it reinforces the idea that small rodents are toys rather than living beings and encourages impulse buying;.

An example of one. This dinosaur just looks like a nightmare to clean.