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

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So basically a Western equivalent to lolis. They got lingerie when dipped in ice water. This feels even more pedo than anime lolis.
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Back with another Chinese consoomer vid:




Yes because everyone needs an automatic glasses cleaner and tomato washer, jobs which can be done in 20 seconds

Also why is everything just so... ugly? From the tacky marble walls and flooring, to the ramen slop she's eating, to the cheap plastic and rubber 'kawaii' stuff. A lot of money and not a lot of taste.
 
celebrityskin said:
Also why is everything just so... ugly? From the tacky marble walls and flooring, to the ramen slop she's eating, to the cheap plastic and rubber 'kawaii' stuff. A lot of money and not a lot of taste.
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Chinese, Pakistanis and Turks seem to love this "aesthetic". Fake marble, fake chandeliers, European fashion brands everywhere.

Whenever I was flying for work, you always bump into bored Chinese housewives on solo vacations - Burberry bags, Gucci iPhone cases, and every other kind of braindead purchase you can conjure up. They've no idea what they're doing, they're just emulating successful white people (and failing).
 
celebrityskin said:
Also why is everything just so... ugly? From the tacky marble walls and flooring, to the ramen slop she's eating, to the cheap plastic and rubber 'kawaii' stuff. A lot of money and not a lot of taste.
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I find it funnier that she comes home to all these gadgets that are single use for the most part, then she makes instant noodles (which didn't look appetizing) and watched a show on her tiny phone screen. It reminded me of that jook's to go where she dumps a bunch of sugar into a bowl and shoves one of her pink phones into a mini plastic TV to pretend like she's not pathetically staring at a phone screen eating garbage.

Embrace the cheap plastic chinese life, comrades.
 
Save the Loli said:
I know by the 50s, the time that boomers were kids, you can already see adults spending money on odd trinkets like my 80-something grandmother and her collection of those little spoons which according to this thread is pretty common among people her age. Baseball cards might be the male version since those were often targeted toward adults (nominally) since they usually appeared in cigarette packets until too many players decided they didn't want to promote cigarettes so they switched to putting cards in gum packets instead.
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Maybe stamp collections too, but idk if that counts as I guess there's some history behind some of those. My grandfather has some from Ottoman era Syria (where his family are from) which are very rare nowadays

My grandmother (born in 1942) was your typical glamorous elderly Arab woman who had so much shit in her house- gold clocks, vases, ornaments, rugs, gold rings, gold chains, etc. But after she died we found out it was all fake and none of it was antique so not really worth anything.
 
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celebrityskin said:
Back with another Chinese consoomer vid:


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Yes because everyone needs an automatic glasses cleaner and tomato washer, jobs which can be done in 20 seconds

Also why is everything just so... ugly? From the tacky marble walls and flooring, to the ramen slop she's eating, to the cheap plastic and rubber 'kawaii' stuff. A lot of money and not a lot of taste.
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That feels like a video a serial killer would make. Everything seems so regimented
 
celebrityskin said:
Back with another Chinese consoomer vid:


chinesesinglewoman.mp4

Yes because everyone needs an automatic glasses cleaner and tomato washer, jobs which can be done in 20 seconds

Also why is everything just so... ugly? From the tacky marble walls and flooring, to the ramen slop she's eating, to the cheap plastic and rubber 'kawaii' stuff. A lot of money and not a lot of taste.
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Remind me of:
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The shots are so fast it's hypnotic. You can't really "watch" it because of you try to think about what you're actually seeing you get overwhelmed. You have to sit there and passively consume it by nature of how it's been directed.
Fish Fudge said:
Chinese, Pakistanis and Turks seem to love this "aesthetic". Fake marble, fake chandeliers, European fashion brands everywhere.
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Got any info on "actually rich" aesthetics? Most of what I've seen online is just this stuff.
celebrityskin said:
My grandmother was your typical glamorous elderly Arab woman who had so much shit in her house- gold clocks, vases, ornaments, rugs, gold rings, gold chains, etc. But after she died we found out it was all fake and none of it was antique so not really worth anything.
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Dang. That's pretty sad, actually. Wasn't the whole point of jewelry back in the day that it was a firm of wealth women could legally own?
 
Save the Loli said:
Ads were targeted toward all groups, although housewives were the largest demographic for radio and later TV since they'd have the TV/radio on all day at home. In the evening/prime time slot there'd be advertising toward men like the infamous Flintstones cigarette ads (which was primetime TV at that point since it was basically like the Simpsons of its era). Advertising toward men would usually be seen in newspapers and magazines with a male reader base.

And I'm not sure if boomer consoomers really started it. While people hoarding useless things probably goes back to some caveman's bone collection, the modern mentality is probably a late 19th century thing which unsurprisingly is when the advertising industry and mass media started taking off. I can't think off the top of my head any examples, but I'm sure if you look through lists of bizarre trivia you'd read about people 125 years ago with a similar mentality we see today. I know by the 50s, the time that boomers were kids, you can already see adults spending money on odd trinkets like my 80-something grandmother and her collection of those little spoons which according to this thread is pretty common among people her age. Baseball cards might be the male version since those were often targeted toward adults (nominally) since they usually appeared in cigarette packets until too many players decided they didn't want to promote cigarettes so they switched to putting cards in gum packets instead.

The thing with Boomer Consoomers is that's when consoomerism started merging with pop culture. Like now it wasn't just a celebrity endorsing chewing gum or cigarettes or whatever, now he had his own TV show. Then you had shit like Elvis and the Beatles where it wasn't just music but an entire cultural trend (way more than like Frank Sinatra or whoever) and shit like the Monkees (corporate Beatles but meant to sell merchandise and advertisements to kids/teenage girls). Action figures came out in the 60s too which gave all sorts of new incentive to buy entire sets of things and keep them hanging around. The earliest trading card collections that weren't just bonuses like the cigarette cards or gum cards came out in the 50s and 60s too, promoting popular shit at the time.

This all set the scene for the 70s where consoomerism as we know it emerged. All of your favorite products would have a cartoon, toyline, and by the end of the decade a video game in arcades or Atari (i.e. Halloween, the band Journey, etc.). Movie-based toylines took off thanks to George Lucas and Star Wars. You had KISS deliberately encourage marketers to put their faces and name over everything to get this effect. Product placement really started to show up in movies where the characters would be eating or drinking some popular brand that paid for it, although this is probably most famous in ET (which was the 80s granted) which is why Reeses Pieces as a product took off at all.

Enough of a history lesson, here's some random boomer consoomer shit.

Reddit user buys largest Elvis collection in the world:

Wall to wall, floor to ceiling Elvis collection:
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A much smaller Plebbit Elvis collection:
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KISS ate this Redditor's room:
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Funkopop crossover. I guess KISS is a little too boomer for Funkopop's target audience so there's only four KISS Funkos.
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Some boomer stuffed a room full of Harley-Davidson memorabilia that added up costs as much as several bikes. There's more where this came from (https://archive.md/CpjOF).
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I feel grossed out every time there is junk stacked on the floor. It's going to get dirty and ruined unless the room is sealed up with an air filter running. And it makes it impossible to do basic cleaning, because nobody wants to move all that shit twice to clean under it.
 
Hoi Polloi said:
Why are they shaped like toddlers but dressed like prostitutes?

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Every single person who's bought one of these things need to be on a list.
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Because they fall in that grey area where toys for kids that their parents will enjoy are stored: they must be plausibly childish but at the same time appeal to adult women and wear dresses and makeup that a mother/young woman would love.

Imho it’s not necessarily a pedo thing, it’s just another facet of modern, raging infantilism.
 
NoReturn said:
Remind me of:
View attachment 2897062The shots are so fast it's hypnotic. You can't really "watch" it because of you try to think about what you're actually seeing you get overwhelmed. You have to sit there and passively consume it by nature of how it's been directed.

Got any info on "actually rich" aesthetics? Most of what I've seen online is just this stuff.

Dang. That's pretty sad, actually. Wasn't the whole point of jewelry back in the day that it was a firm of wealth women could legally own?
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You’re not going to find ‘actually rich’ stuff online. Nobody’s selling Picassos on Amazon.

Rich people stuff is either bought boutique (think Rolls-Royce, artist commissions) or bought in an auction somewhere. Strangely, it’s not necessarily about price. Custom clothing isn’t actually that expensive, while a Persian rug can cost more than a house.
 
NoReturn said:
Got any info on "actually rich" aesthetics? Most of what I've seen online is just this stuff.
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Depends. For the most part, you're just looking at 'classical' architecture styles - European country houses, New York town-houses, etc. It has to be genuine though, new constructions are a fairly obvious indicator of someone pretending to be richer than they are, or just lacking taste. Japanese/Scandinavian styles seemed to get a lot of traction with more modern developments.

A lot of it can be dependant on how the person made their money - seen a few Americans with "log-cabin" aesthetics for a place the size of a mansion. That can be tacky as hell too, though.

Either way, unless you're building a throne room, or a fancy bathroom, there's no good reason to be using marble.
 
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George Lucas said:
Rich people stuff is either bought boutique (think Rolls-Royce, artist commissions) or bought in an auction somewhere. Strangely, it’s not necessarily about price. Custom clothing isn’t actually that expensive, while a Persian rug can cost more than a house.
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Why would I want a Persian rug?
Not being facetious. I've actually have a chance to check them out in-person, and they just seem like a white elephant.
 
Fish Fudge said:
Depends. For the most part, you're just looking at 'classical' architecture styles - European country houses, New York town-houses, etc. It has to be genuine though, new constructions are a fairly obvious indicator of someone pretending to be richer than they are, or just lacking taste. Japanese/Scandinavian styles seemed to get a lot of traction with more modern developments.

A lot of it can be dependant on how the person made their money - seen a few Americans with "log-cabin" aesthetics for a place the size of a mansion. That can be tacky as hell too, though.

Either way, unless you're building a throne room, or a fancy bathroom, there's no good reason to be using marble.
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I’d say marble is useful for kitchen stuff. Not whole countertops, but coasters, pot holders, stuff like that. As a countertop it’s substandard to granite, but for the small stuff I think it’s actually cheaper(?) and it makes a nice contrast with granite which is usually dark.
 
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