Lobster Cult High Priest
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Feb 11, 2021
I’m sure we would all be shocked by Googling the early life section on the Founders of Funko Pops
Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!
- Thread starter Spez
- Start date
-
Want to keep track of this thread?
Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
Create account
nigga that crab pollack
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Nov 13, 2021
i think the 'people can't experience a childhood game' angle is kind of melodramatic and the reason that old discs are getting more expensive is because they legitimately are worth more in value, there is a legitimate scarcity. hoarders aren't the reason the price of stuff is going up, the price of old shit will always go up. but just because it's not being manufactured doesn't mean its a commodity whose VALUE is going to go up. consoomers freak out once they realize how scarce something is but that doesn't mean anybody is gonna buy it at the "market rate". look at every antique store in the country, they're full of overpriced junk.
you aren't wrong that people do have weird pathologies about hoarding things that end up running contrary to their stated intention though. there were some really nice stainless steel and aluminum computer cases made by Lian Li like fifteen, twenty years ago that are near unobtanium because they get hoarded by 'collectors' that don't realize that market forces are not purely dictated by scarcity. there was some guy on 4chan who kept posting pictures of an entire room filled with stainless and aluminum early 2000s pc cases and i legitimately offered to buy one off of him. he told me that 'he had build plans for all of them' which is such a crock of shit. but i don't think he put two and two together that they are no longer the hot trendy commodity they were in 2007. the ebay listings aren't by idiots who don't know how much it's worth, nobody is buying the listing for $110. they legitimately aren't worth $400 anymore. he missed the gravy train. tech hoarders LOVE to drive the price of scarce shit up without selling it and end up missing the peak value of the commodity so badly that they end up fucking the price of these things without even profiting
Honka Honka Burning Love
In Clown World, the only god is the one who Honks.
True & Honest Fan
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Aug 29, 2019
Are they Pedos?
- Joined
- Jul 15, 2016
This is so unnerving to me. Your bedroom should be a comfortable spot build over time with the experiences and hobbies you've had. Where are the photos of family and friends? The old instruments and art projects? The souvenirs? Everything has been meticulously placed to be social-media perfect, a reflection of current trends that will change when the next "-core" becomes popular. It doesn't look lived in. Everything is crisp and spotless, like a furniture catalog. And, of course, the only way you too can achieve these perfect aesthetics is through copious consumption of random plastic shit.
- Joined
- Aug 28, 2019
I'd argue thy already kinda are, I only have to change two words below:
Cargo cults are marked by a number of common characteristics, including a "myth-dream" that is a synthesis of indigenous and foreign elements, the expectation of help from the ancestors brands, charismatic leaders influencers, and lastly, belief in the appearance of an abundance of goods.
We even have people who teach the secrets arts:These are consoomers we're dealing with here. This aesthetic is their source of comfort.
“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
- Joined
- Jul 15, 2016
So many plants, so much shit on the wall. Albums and art from series they'd never watch themselves, but it's for the aesthetic. I'd feel cramped by all that clutter. It's sad that even something as personal as your own bedroom needs to be manicured to the perfect tastes of the masses.
- Joined
- Aug 28, 2019
Plants, to me, are fine as long as you don't go into hoarder territory (as we saw earlier in the thread) but what gets me is all the fake plants. It really sets off my "this is fake" feeling because it's such a perfect example of it.
Whenever I bring up how I dislike fake plants, the response I get is "I like how they look but I don't want the responsibility." Well, ok, but I'm still allowed to dislike them. You can buy all the plastic you want.
Here's the exact listing for the fake ivy you see in all those rooms:
The posters come in kits, no need to go searching for individual pieces yourself.
Also, lol
Disposable clutter. You have to stay on-trend or you won't be cool anymore:
I don't know how many of you guys knew about this already, but Amazon literally has a "Viral" section of their website now:
- Joined
- Jun 17, 2018
Not strictly related to consoomers themselves, but more to the logistics of the companies.
What exactly are the sizes of the production runs on these guys? I can’t imagine that there’s a huge target audience for giant $3400 statues of Devastator. Are we talking like, 50 being produced where each one is more or less hand-crafted and painted? 500? Surely not 5,000?
What exactly are the sizes of the production runs on these guys? I can’t imagine that there’s a huge target audience for giant $3400 statues of Devastator. Are we talking like, 50 being produced where each one is more or less hand-crafted and painted? 500? Surely not 5,000?
- Joined
- Dec 16, 2019
Surprised no one has done this with Sonic 06. That game is pretty cheap for something so infamous. Think you could get it for less than a dollar a few years ago.
- Joined
- Jun 29, 2016
Having a parrot has reduced my soomerism, because there's an excellent chance that any junk I buy will get chewed to pieces.
- Joined
- Oct 3, 2018
That's the thing that always urked me about pops.
They ALL look the same except for a handful that actually are unique.
I cannot buy a POP that looks like you could transform it into another pop with some paint and a hot knife. The whole thing repulses me. That said. Between my wife and I, we own 10 pops. The sailor moon set, the resident evil set and I have a lone Laura Paulmer. Why? Because so few pops cross the line that turn them from shitty consumer products to statements of depravity that should label you as a sociopath and as well as a terminal consumer.
Laura Palmer, a murdered girl wrapped in plastic.
Alex Delargo, a killer and a rapist.
All immortalized into shitty plastic form, because someone at Funko has a sense of humor and knows how truly bad things are.
Instant Personality in a box. God. Are the days of sitting around and clipping your own posters or heaven forbid, making your own poster serial killer style/ tween girl style really a speck in the distance?
Is this why everyone calls me bland? Because I keep my excessive video game collection neatly in a cabinet in the corner and my entire being isn't splashed with vidya references and memes?
I' think I prefer the MadTV sketch where personality is available in bottle.For those too young to get it.
- Joined
- Jun 9, 2021
I’m very tired and stressed today so I can’t articulate my thoughts as well as I would like but... something something YOU become the products. We could call it commodification of the soul.
You’re a product or better: you’re the base of a product. You’re like a Pandora bracelet without charms and you need to buy all the charms and accessories to look your best and express a personality. A well equipped bedroom is just one of the many many things you need.
- Joined
- Oct 15, 2018
Oh, fuck off Amazon. The only thing I buy from there is books I legitimately cannot find anywhere else and half the time they come from a third party distributor or bookstore anyway, which ticks me off but I can't do much about that. Now they want to really force you to consoom crappy plastic MADE IN CHINA shit for clout? Like actually fuck off.
- Joined
- Oct 3, 2018
The 10 Consooments.
1. Popularity is thy goal and thou shall have no other goals before thee.
2. Thou shall not take thy franchise in vain.
3. Remember to Overnight express all goods.
4. Honor thy likes and followers
5. Thou shall not pirate.
6. Thou shall not live stream virtual events. Physical attendance only.
7. Thou shalt not bear bootlegs or reproductions. First edition only.
8. Thou must covet thy neighbor's belongings.
9. Thine lover must also covet thy neighbor's belongings.
10. No price is too great for popularity.
Amen.
- Joined
- Jan 15, 2018
The only positive about them is they are very fun to plink at with a pellet gun.
- Joined
- Aug 28, 2019
I personally first noticed it when you weren't considered "goth enough" unless you could shop at Hot Topic. It's only accelerated ever since, but it probably started long before then.
This YouTube channel is literally named "Annazon Queen" (to avoid copyright) and all they post is shit like the compilations I've been sharing. There are hundred of channels like this.
- Joined
- Oct 15, 2018
I really despise how all of these tiktoks are basically [Vocal fry/Text to Speech or Peppy voice] "Hey Gais So I just bought this NEEDLESS THING off Amazon and its SO amazing and SO useful. The OBJECT is crisp and clean and SO cute and fits perfectly in PLACE for when you need it. It's honestly a must-have for everyone! I highly recommend it as a SHIT GIFT FOR PEOPLE or for yourself~! Don't forget to check me out for more Amazon finds!"
Sounding like a walking commercial is tacky, not cool.
The only thing I thought was interesting was the rice dispenser but again, I can open my bags of rice and just divide them into 2 cup servings using ziploc bags, which I then reuse again. It costs $3 for bags instead of $80 for a dispenser which will probably break after a year.
- Joined
- Aug 28, 2019
I agree, but I'm also at the age where I remember things like the Home Shopping Network and the transition into shit like micro-infomercials with Billy Mays. Kids these days didn't grow up with them, and if anything they're only really familiar with parodies thereof (get off my lawn), so the presentation style kind of circled back around to being novel again.
Rice dispensers are very handy if you actually eat a lot of rice, but there's no reason to get some dumb Instagram aesthetic one just for the hell of it if you aren't eating that way. They're also all over Asian markets for super cheap.
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2020
Faggots place is basic bitch-tier and I would argue some of the places he "roast" is looking better.
And god, nooo. Don't recommend light grey sofa, it's horrible. Don't recommend tearing down walls to make them more open either. Open solution everything is horrible, and tearing down the partition wall in the video would lead to style crash. since the living room and the hallway had different flooring.
This is a good reference, mainly the walls and roof. And the fact it's not filled up with Ikea.
I have yet to see these ornaments in poor people-places. They used to be made of ceramic and expensive as fuck, but they are made of acrylic or something and way cheaper nowadays
nigga that crab pollack
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Nov 13, 2021
the big novelty of social media that got like 90% of people to sign up for facebook was the premise that celebrity status was now attainable for normal people. instagram and tik tok are basically roach motels for the people who feel like they should be famous. they look at people like seth rogen or sarah silverman and go 'wow, if these chucklefucks are famous for talking into a camera, why can't i be?' and unfortunately all they're doing is providing exceptionally cheap advertising to big corporations who send them $10 worth of shit