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

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Not if they’re pro-cop stickers. That’s how you get out of speeding tickets, parking tickets, etc. Plus, if anyone ever vandalized your car because of this (hasn’t happened to me so far), you just tell the cops they victimized you for supporting them and they’ll actually bother showing up and helping you out.

Making the cops feel like special little boys has a lot of perks. Definitely I recommend slapping some on your ride.

That's just not true man, what gets you out of speeding tickets is not driving like a dipshit. The cops around here do not give a shit one way or the other.

 

[ZipDisk]

Cops hate car stickers. They don't give a fuck if it's a pro-cop sticker.

 

[Jeff_the_Thriller]

They think those stickers make liberals angry and rage at their steering wheels

They might inspire a couple of angry Reddit posts if you're very lucky and live in a big city, but you'd never see them, and it's not worth the risk of getting your car keyed in the middle of the night by some bored teenagers anyway

I think you are nuts if you put any political stuff on your car, especially with how fucking nuts people are now. I know there was someone in my area who got their car fucked up because they had Biden shit on their car. It was a little more than keying. I hate to victim blame but the dude was a college professor in a rural part of the country. He should have know better.

A buddy of mine wanted me to put a libertarian party sticker on my truck and I said no way because of that kind of psycho shit. Not that anyone is out there hunting libertarians. We're part of the small percentage of libertarians that don't do drugs or consider hentai high art, by the way.

But to loop it back to consoomerism, politics is another thing that has the consoomer mentality attached to it. It's worse than Marvel vs. DC. They are both mediocre and kind of shit. That's why I stick to movies made 40 years ago.

 

[Pissmaster]

A video from a channel I otherwise like reminded me of a part of consoomerism that's low-key annoying: celebrating the anniversary of a product or brand. The original Xbox was released in North America 20 years ago today, so get ready for videos like this:

and then you get comments like:

Good God, I can smell the bad breath emanating from the soyface behind that comment. Imagine being that excited to own nothing and be "happy".

By the way, there aren't any free games to pick up on the Xbox's download store or anything for the anniversary. The storefront doesn't acknowledge it.

 

[Jeff_the_Thriller]

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Not an internal hard drive or integrated NIC but old games that Microsoft was kind enough to bestow the software license unto you. I have Playstation so I'm assuming it's similar to PS Plus but somewhat better because Microsoft are slightly less greedy scumfucks than Sony. I swear some of these soybitch consoomers are grown in tubes and were born yesterday.

 

[Pissmaster]

Not an internal hard drive or integrated NIC but old games that Microsoft was kind enough to bestow the software license unto you. I have Playstation so I'm assuming it's similar to PS Plus but somewhat better because Microsoft are slightly less greedy scumfucks than Sony. I swear some of these soybitch consoomers are grown in tubes and were born yesterday.

Microsoft also still does their monthly games thing that PS Plus ripped off of, with "Games with Gold", where you get two Xbox One and two Xbox 360 games monthly. Except the 360 games are for keeps on your account, while the XBOne games only work while you have an active Gold account.

Game Pass uses a video streaming model, where there are something like 100 games on the service you can download and play while your sub's active, and they switch games out a lot. The big selling point is that anything Microsoft owns gets released on Game Pass the day of release, so you can decide whether you want to buy the game outright for $60, or spend $15/month and play it there. It's an aggressive business model that's currently in its halcyon days, but it's very concerning to anyone who isn't an NPC and can see further than a few minutes into the future. It both promotes not being able to own your games in any capacity, but also subsidizes garbage, so customers can't even vote with their wallets.

Remember how Netflix put up Cuties last year, a movie that straight up has legally-defined child pornography, and just... got away with it? Well, it was subsidized by every single person with a Netflix subscription, so, technically, everyone paid for it, because of just how that model works. It's terribly dystopian, but that's just what happens when wokies trick the public into subsidizing all of their shit.

But to Microsoft's credit, at least they're not as greedy as Sony when it comes to their back catalog. If you have an old-ass copy of Morrowind you bought at launch 19 years ago, you can put that same disc in a Series X, and it'll download the whole game, and work, and run better than ever. No paid account required. That's smart.

Sony, on the other hand, outright sells "PS2 Classics" on their storefront, but that doesn't mean your PS3/4/5 can run them from the disc. Did you buy PS2 games on your PS3, and now you want to play those on your PS4? Tough shit. Do you have a copy of Psychonauts on-disc for PS2, and you see that it's on the PS4 storefront? Tough shit. You wanna play it on your new thing? You gotta re-buy it.

And that just causes negative perception towards the PlayStation brand, and makes Xbox that much more appealing. It's a stupid petty thing to lose customers over, but at least Microsoft's the smart evil megacorporation now.

 

[Toolbox]

A video from a channel I otherwise like reminded me of a part of consoomerism that's low-key annoying: celebrating the anniversary of a product or brand. The original Xbox was released in North America 20 years ago today, so get ready for videos like this:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fz-B0JOPjjk
and then you get comments like:
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Good God, I can smell the bad breath emanating from the soyface behind that comment. Imagine being that excited to own nothing and be "happy".

By the way, there aren't any free games to pick up on the Xbox's download store or anything for the anniversary. The storefront doesn't acknowledge it.

MVG at least has reason to care about the brand, seeing as he was one of the original system hackers back with the first xbox. But yeah he's a bit obsessed and he actually had a tribute to byuus totally real death in a video from around the time that drama started.

 

[Great President of McHell]

Let me introduce you to organizing Tik Tok. Gamble with the freshness of your food with excess plastic!

Spoiler

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6FJSJUE83oshttps://youtube.com/watch?v=gvHyeAzUwck

Sorry for being Late and Gay but can someone explain to me while all these exceptional women are buying bottled water? Clearly they live somewhere where tap water would not be an issue.
Is this just an american thing?

 

[Vingle]

Sorry for being Late and Gay but can someone explain to me while all these exceptional women are buying bottled water? Clearly they live somewhere where tap water would not be an issue.
Is this just an american thing?

American thing, but to their defence. Their water is chlorinated and has fluor added. Don't know how much fluor alter the taste, but I've been places where the water is technically drinkable. But even the natives don't drink it, cause it tastes like a pool-water.

But they have this retarded thing where they flex which brand of water they drink. Like Fiji, Voss, something from an ice glacier.

Fragrance reviewers is something else, this one has probably more perfume than his lifespan. But I do admit they're fine to get some info about fragrances myself. But hoarding fragrances the way that you don't have space in your cupboards, and have to use it as "decor" is tacky.
And he began hoarding in 2012.

 

[Yeeted Teet]

Fragrance reviewers is something else, this one has probably more perfume than his lifespan. But I do admit they're fine to get some info about fragrances myself. But hoarding fragrances the way that you don't have space in your cupboards, and have to use it as "decor" is tacky.
And he began hoarding in 2012.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oyDaQEwl37M

You can't even trust reviews from people like this because they can't possibly use the things enough to have an opinion on them. The guy in that video could use a different perfume every day and go months without repeating any, maybe close to a year. There's no way he knows what he likes beyond a handful that he uses all the time and the rest sit on the shelf gathering dust.

His house definitely stinks too.

 

[Vingle]

You can't even trust reviews from people like this because they can't possibly use the things enough to have an opinion on them. The guy in that video could use a different perfume every day and go months without repeating any, maybe close to a year. There's no way he knows what he likes beyond a handful that he uses all the time and the rest sit on the shelf gathering dust.

His house definitely stinks too.

People are really powerleveling in the comments, about going into debt from spending to much on fragrance

I'm surprised he even has a gf. Sure, he is a goodlooking young man, but man. He comes off as more and more autistic the more I find out about him. And he is really young to have this much of a hoard, so how he gets the money is beyond me. Aside from having a huge credit card debt. I have a hard time he earns much, as he is a small channel.
He collects cigars too, but video about that is behind a paywall.

This is typical for all hoarders, but his organisation is horrible. Get some glass cabinet door on those shelves, it keeps the dust out. It really isn't classy to whine about it on camera and throws chunks of it on the floor.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

Sorry for being Late and Gay but can someone explain to me while all these exceptional women are buying bottled water? Clearly they live somewhere where tap water would not be an issue.
Is this just an american thing?

Because they are coonsoomers. I live in an area where the water gets exceptionally gross a couple times a year. I learned that the best way to buy drinking water was in the cheap gallon jugs. Less than a dollar a jug, instead of 0.25/0.50 for a tiny bottle. Around here they have dispenser vending machines that for a quarter or so will give you a gallon of reverse osmosis filtered water.

I got tired of going to the dispenser every few days, it sucks when it's 35F and windy or 105F, and bought my own reverse osmosis system. Probably not saving any money with how much the filters cost, but boy is it handy.

But this means I can't flex about drinking ~fancy~ water. I don't see the point of fancy water. Water is water. It should taste like nothing, more or less, and be ice cold. If I want ~flavor~, well that's why God invented Diet Coke!

I wonder if they realize that if they spent less on water or other frivolous things like Starbucks Coffee that they'd have more money for coonsooming the stuff they really love? I suspect these people are the demographic for those "save ten thousand a year by drinking coffee at home" articles.

 

[Airbrushed Van Art]

I heard somewhere that Canada has some of the most clean tap water in the world yet Canucks buy the most bottled water (not per capita, flat amount despite population). I hope that’s not really true, but after browsing this thread… who knows…

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

Because they are coonsoomers. I live in an area where the water gets exceptionally gross a couple times a year. I learned that the best way to buy drinking water was in the cheap gallon jugs. Less than a dollar a jug, instead of 0.25/0.50 for a tiny bottle. Around here they have dispenser vending machines that for a quarter or so will give you a gallon of reverse osmosis filtered water.

I got tired of going to the dispenser every few days, it sucks when it's 35F and windy or 105F, and bought my own reverse osmosis system. Probably not saving any money with how much the filters cost, but boy is it handy.

But this means I can't flex about drinking ~fancy~ water. I don't see the point of fancy water. Water is water. It should taste like nothing, more or less, and be ice cold. If I want ~flavor~, well that's why God invented Diet Coke!

One of the best things to do if you don't want to deal with gross tasting water is to buy a Britta filter (or similar) and if you know you'll be needing water when going out, just fill up a reusable metal water bottle from home to take with you. People might complain that the initial up front cost is too much, but it'll save you a bunch in the long run, along with not making a bunch of waste with all the plastic bottles you'll be throwing out drinking only bottled water.

I find there's a weird subset of consoomers that can't bother to spend a little more money up front for things that'll make up the cost through it's longer usage, yet spend a bunch on crap that while cheaper won't last. They talk about it being 'cheap hacks' or similar typically, while also promoting things for 'aesthetic' over substances. Like the whole gaming chair or 'gaming' anything really that is usually just a worse thing of something else. I see people scoff at spending a bunch on a nice office/task chair in favor of buying a slick looking gamer chair, when in the long run that 'expensive' office chair is probably going to last much longer and be far more comfortable to sit in (while being less likely to fuck up your back/posture).

I wonder if they realize that if they spent less on water or other frivolous things like Starbucks Coffee that they'd have more money for coonsooming the stuff they really love? I suspect these people are the demographic for those "save ten thousand a year by drinking coffee at home" articles.

Those same people would probably also save a bunch of money if they just bought their own beans to grind at home in the morning, yet they probably never will because of bullshit reasons like "don't have enough time!" or "costs too much!" when both aren't true. You don't have to be a coffee snob that spends thousands on the right equipment, just buying a cheap grind and picking up a French press will be good enough to make a decent cup of coffee as long as you pick up decent beans. Bag of whole beans might be expensive but a single normal sized one can last a while depending on how much you drink a day, the actual cup you can just make during your morning routine while doing other things. With the extra cash you save you can probably pick up one of those fancy coffee makers the automates it more.

Hell you'd probably even save money using a Keurig and that's literally just 1) select coffee pod 2) fill with water 3) place cup 4) hit the button levels of easy.

 

[NoReturn]

People might complain that the initial up front cost is too much, but it'll save you a bunch in the long run, along with not making a bunch of waste with all the plastic bottles you'll be throwing out drinking only bottled water.

Hell if they're going to be buying something bottled anyway, why not buy one that they can reuse like a Voss?

I find there's a weird subset of consoomers that can't bother to spend a little more money up front for things that'll make up the cost through it's longer usage, yet spend a bunch on crap that while cheaper won't last.

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.​

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.​

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.​

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”​

― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms​

They talk about it being 'cheap hacks' or similar typically, while also promoting things for 'aesthetic' over substances.

That's how I feel about things like "Do it on a Dime" too. They're promoting all this shit as being "thrifty" but it's just a waste of money.

 

[I'mma real anime gurl]

That's how I feel about things like "Do it on a Dime" too. They're promoting all this shit as being "thrifty" but it's just a waste of money.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mS7lzjH4jD8

You don't go to Walmart for luxury, you go there to get household items and food not to get Gucci and Versace.

 

[Vingle]

You don't go to Walmart for luxury, you go there to get household items and food not to get Versace.

The quality has drastically gone downhill in recent years. It was bought up by Michael Kors in 2018. As everybody know, everything MK touches becomes horribly cheap, tacky and gaudy. Versace was always on the point to gaudy, but even people that doesn't like the style. Could say it didn't look cheap.

In 2019, they released 6 perfumes under the name from their most exclusive line Atelier Versace. A dress from it is always tailor-made and starting price is about 100k usd. So it's more of a line reserved for celebrities. Even though their dresses look bland and when they try something unique, it's horribly ugly.
Anyway. the perfumes were nothing unique and costs 300 usd for each 100ml.
Worth mentioning, is that they had debt and sold their perfume department or something to someone (haven't bothered to look into it that much). Which is intriguing, because Versace doesn't have many fragrances. They have 3 fragrances that are mainstream, so yea. Anyway, they are milking the fuck out of Eros. Because last year, it was released an Eau de Parfum for it. The parfum was released about 2 months ago. Of course did they water down the Eau de Toilette-version of it, gotta force people to buy the more expensive bottle.

I'm pretty sure they sell underwear at places like Walmart. The only things normies tend to have from Versace, is the darn underwear, bathrobe, or a perfume. I cringe hard when I see people flex that they have 50 usd underwear, made of cotton. Try their silk boxers of real silk to 400 usd, and silk dressing gown to 1300 usd. Since the fucking bathrobes to 300 usd are being used to flex too.

Even Jeffree Star and Trisha Paytas have the fucking bathrobes, which was shown in one the clips shown in this thread.




Consooming of soaps, and there is a soap called Baked Alaska in there. The guy in the IP2-universe that got arrested for livestreaming the riot on Capitol Hill. Just found it funny they haven't removed it from stock.

 

[Pina Colada]

You can't even trust reviews from people like this because they can't possibly use the things enough to have an opinion on them. The guy in that video could use a different perfume every day and go months without repeating any, maybe close to a year. There's no way he knows what he likes beyond a handful that he uses all the time and the rest sit on the shelf gathering dust.

His house definitely stinks too.

Not to mention that everyone's skin and pheromones are different, and a given fragrance isn't going to smell the same on a group of women. Testers are a thing for a reason!

 

[Vingle]

Not to mention that everyone's skin and pheromones are different, and a given fragrance isn't going to smell the same on a group of women. Testers are a thing for a reason!

I see a lot of people just buying old fragrances for the nostalgia, but not even use it. Or just to complete the collection from that one brand.

It's bizarre, because fragrances was reserved for the rich. Everything goes to shit, when it becomes available for the commoners.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

One of the best things to do if you don't want to deal with gross tasting water is to buy a Britta filter (or similar) and if you know you'll be needing water when going out, just fill up a reusable metal water bottle from home to take with you. People might complain that the initial up front cost is too much, but it'll save you a bunch in the long run, along with not making a bunch of waste with all the plastic bottles you'll be throwing out drinking only bottled water.

That's what I did for decades. I had a large filter I'd fill up, except for the times when the lake was turning over and the Brita didn't cut it (according to 23andMe I taste bitter things more than average, my husband couldn't taste a difference but I could!).

The refillable cups is another Avenue for coonsooming too. There's tons of insulated mugs, most of which are crap if you like your water to stay ice cold. But coonsoomers don't care about quality, so they'd collect them all.

I find there's a weird subset of consoomers that can't bother to spend a little more money up front for things that'll make up the cost through it's longer usage, yet spend a bunch on crap that while cheaper won't last. They talk about it being 'cheap hacks' or similar typically, while also promoting things for 'aesthetic' over substances. Like the whole gaming chair or 'gaming' anything really that is usually just a worse thing of something else. I see people scoff at spending a bunch on a nice office/task chair in favor of buying a slick looking gamer chair, when in the long run that 'expensive' office chair is probably going to last much longer and be far more comfortable to sit in (while being less likely to fuck up your back/posture)

Most people don't realize that chairs are rated for a certain number of hours of use per day and a certain number of pounds. Most affordable chairs at Staples are rated for 2 hours a day. And I think 200 pounds. Maybe 250. Which means using them for longer periods of time or as a heavier person the chair will break faster, the cushioning will wear out faster, etc.

Those same people would probably also save a bunch of money if they just bought their own beans to grind at home in the morning, yet they probably never will because of bullshit reasons like "don't have enough time!" or "costs too much!" when both aren't true. You don't have to be a coffee snob that spends thousands on the right equipment, just buying a cheap grind and picking up a French press will be good enough to make a decent cup of coffee as long as you pick up decent beans. Bag of whole beans might be expensive but a single normal sized one can last a while depending on how much you drink a day, the actual cup you can just make during your morning routine while doing other things. With the extra cash you save you can probably pick up one of those fancy coffee makers the automates it more

Hell you'd probably even save money using a Keurig and that's literally just 1) select coffee pod 2) fill with water 3) place cup 4) hit the button levels of easy.

You don't even need whole beans to make decent coffee. Since decent is at the mouth of the drinker and all. Granted I haven't tried the really expensive coffee at my grocery store ($15-20 a pound) but I was using one brand that I liked that was about $7 a pound. I go through two pounds a month, and I have a small budget, so it added up. I found that the ground coffee at Aldi was just as good as that more expensive brand for half the price. I have used beans but I didn’t see much difference, personally. Perhaps because I use creamer in my coffee, I know that covers up a lot.

You just have to play with brands until you find one you like.