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

[Dambusters' Dog II]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=a_1UEAGCo30Kind of random but did anyone else remember when Ted talks were "the thing" that everyone was consuming. It seemed like it happened overnight, every forum (I was at SA at the time) was jizzing themselves over the latest Ted talk, everyone tuned in to watch. Then just again over night it was gone, no one cared anymore.

I'm sure there's good ones out there. But yeah it turned into a real circlejerk of we are so smart and you are so smart for watching us, now let's save the world through idealism on a stage

The onion had some pretty good parodies of it.

I think moot's TED talk should be mentioned, as it's a time capsule of how attitudes to the internet were changing:

At about 5:30 the story of Dusty the cat begins, and the audience actually applauds doxing at about 6:00.

Moot's talk happened before I saw my first TED talk, which was Kirk Sorensen's 2011 TEDx talk on molten salt reactors (I think I was referred to it by an online discussion about the Fukushima reactor meltdown), and it's exactly of the kind parodied by the Onion, just like the earlier self-driving car one and Aubrey de Grey's talk on preventing aging (in the meantime, Aubrey hasn't cured aging, but he has raised the best known lower bound from 4 to 5 in a completely useless mathematical problem).

It seems in the earlier TED talks they had a higher proportion of Nobel laureates or equivalents from other walks of life talking about things they actually had done. But bullshitting about stuff that's going to become real in ten years time is more exciting, so they put more of those in (probably because they got more views online).

The reason professors like TED talks is that they want to give one so they can put it on their CV to help them get promoted, more funding etc. Eventually there were far too many people wanting to give one and nobody could pay attention to them any more.

Coda: you used to be able to say nigger in a TED talk, though the speaker is quoting a nigger troubled inner-city youth:

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

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They must not also care that the value of the American dollar is slowly but surely plummeting to the point that you’ll be broke and useless without anything meaningful to spend on.

 

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this made me so angry my stomach spasmed

 

[Judge Dredd]

Kind of random but did anyone else remember when Ted talks were "the thing" that everyone was consuming. It seemed like it happened overnight, every forum (I was at SA at the time) was jizzing themselves over the latest Ted talk, everyone tuned in to watch. Then just again over night it was gone, no one cared anymore.

@Dambusters' Dog II beat me to it, but the peak of TED talks were interesting. Smart people giving long form opinions on whatever subject they knew about.

It was when it got popular people starting demanding they get a TED talk too. So TEDx was made to placate these people and the quality dropped dramatically. I remember one YouTuber calling TEDx "make believe TED".

Consumerism now is way different then consumerism 77 years ago or even 123 years ago because back if someone bought something they liked that was the end of it they didn't have people going around covering there rooms with merchandise of there favorite products sure they liked entertainment but it would have been rare to find a person with a hardcore three stooges obsession back then my point is nowadays it is socially acceptable to buy 3000 plastic toys then it was back then

You don't even have to go back that far. Even the 80s and 90s people could be fans of things. Nintendo, Pixar, Disney, and various game and movie series all had their fans who would buy product sight unseen. But back then it wasn't a problem.

To me it turned around with the nostalgia tards complaining that any game made after the N64 was shit. The difference between retro YouTubers like LGR, and lolcows like MovieBob is that LGR loves old computers, but Moviebob hates new games.

What gets me about a lot of modern consoomers is that the thing they claim to love doesn't bring them joy. They are often soulless husks, or raging tards. They people that waited in line outside of GAME for 9 hours and booked a few days off work to play the (then) new Halo might be cringe, but at least they're really hyped to play Halo.

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

A shop-with-me youtuber was at a Homegoods store and there was a Tom and Jerry Rae Dunn cookie jar she wanted to go back for. As she went around filming other nearby items, an extremely large white woman takes it and puts it into her cart filled with other Rae Dunn products. The video creator turns her camera towards the woman and literally points at her.

Ladies and gentleman, a Rae Dunner in the wild:

"Her"

For some clarification, Rae Dunn is a famous female potter from California. Since all of the pieces sold by this brand are limited, crazy white deadeggers have sworn to buying all of them up then scalping them or collecting them. Rae Dunn products can be identified by vertically-elongated font on completely white, generic ceramicware all seemingly catering to Alzheimer's sufferers due to excessive labeling.

Vice article explaining Rae Dunn:

Behind the Live-Laugh-Love Cult Following of Rae Dunn

Why there's a feeding frenzy for the Maxxinista brand on a GameStop-meets-wine-mom trajectory.

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Archive: https://archive.ph/BLwJu

 

[Judex Meus]

I wonder what the value of this collection will be in 10-20 years when none of the devices will turn on without modification.

Probably not very much. Even if you just plop them in a closet somewhere and do nothing with them (which is what I imagine this guy probably does), you'll eventually have to contend with the lithium ion batteries expanding/exploding:

Which means that if you want to sell it for any substantial profit, you'll need to replace the batteries...which costs money and effort, possibly as much or more than the phone will even be worth at that point, not to mention the bitch and a half it is to even do anything when it comes to opening and repairing Apple's devices.

 

[Andrew Neiman]

For some clarification, Rae Dunn is a famous female potter from California. Since all of the pieces sold by this brand are limited, crazy white deadeggers have sworn to buying all of them up then scalping them or collecting them. Rae Dunn products can be identified by vertically-elongated font on completely white, generic ceramicware all seemingly catering to Alzheimer's sufferers due to excessive labeling.

I'd seen this before but never knew what it was. I guess it's like Supreme for white people.

 

[Vingle]

I'd seen this before but never knew what it was. I guess it's like Supreme for white people.

 

[NoReturn]

You'd think the "haul" stuff would cool down a bit as people are becoming aware we're in a recession.

 

[The Feline Solution]

A shop-with-me youtuber was at a Homegoods store and there was a Tom and Jerry Rae Dunn cookie jar she wanted to go back for. As she went around filming other nearby items, an extremely large white woman takes it and puts it into her cart filled with other Rae Dunn products. The video creator turns her camera towards the woman and literally points at her.

Ladies and gentleman, a Rae Dunner in the wild:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xFgeF5YL_5U:547
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"Her"

For some clarification, Rae Dunn is a famous female potter from California. Since all of the pieces sold by this brand are limited, crazy white deadeggers have sworn to buying all of them up then scalping them or collecting them. Rae Dunn products can be identified by vertically-elongated font on completely white, generic ceramicware all seemingly catering to Alzheimer's sufferers due to excessive labeling.

Vice article explaining Rae Dunn:

Behind the Live-Laugh-Love Cult Following of Rae Dunn

Why there's a feeding frenzy for the Maxxinista brand on a GameStop-meets-wine-mom trajectory.

www.vice.com

Archive: https://archive.ph/BLwJu

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I just looked up prices on Amazon and holy shit! Truly a perfect fit for this thread, tacky, tasteless and expensive.

 

[Dambusters' Dog II]

You'd think the "haul" stuff would cool down a bit as people are becoming aware we're in a recession

Maybe they're trying to spend their way out of the recession like FDR. "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." And everyone losing all their money.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

You'd think the "haul" stuff would cool down a bit as people are becoming aware we're in a recession.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EBoNLR5BAMohttps://youtube.com/watch?v=o5KHwsLRjnQhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=UsakMDj9FOs

There’s a strong chance that much like the women with the dyed hair and expensive looking make up, that they didn’t keep everything that was used for this ”haul” social experiment.

They probably just threw most of it away as an inconvenience to keep.

 

[NoReturn]

I'm behind in appreciating this thread because my brain dropped the phone at "... Adult Happy Meal..." and refuses to return to the conversation. I Googled, and yes it's an actual real thing. I am baffled. I mean, I understand that McDonalds is trying to plug into presumable adult nostalgia regarding the excitement of getting a Happy Meal as a child, and I know they're skilled at marketing so it's more likely to be successful than not, but I just don't understand -- and I swear it's not the language barrier. (I am not a native English speaker, for those who might be wondering. I am reasonably fluent, but if I make an error please do point -- and laugh if you want -- as it helps me improve.) Bread and circuses perhaps? That's the only way I can explain it.

Cross-quoting to this thread so we don't go too far off-topic there.

/the "Adult Happy Meal" is a marketing stunt, and a failed one at that. Most consumers seem to think it's something McDonald's is doing on their own, but it's actually a "collaboration" with some streetwear brand I'd never heard of before.

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There’s a strong chance that much like the women with the dyed hair and expensive looking make up, that they didn’t keep everything that was used for this ”haul” social experiment.

They probably just threw most of it away as an inconvenience to keep.

She used it for another video:

More from her:

 

[Ginger_beer]

What makes you say that the Adult Happy Meal thing was unsuccessful? People have been mentioning that it is sold out in a number of those videos, and it makes me certain that Tess was given one for promotional reasons which really makes me shudder. I mean, I understand that they don't care about her objectively, and that they only want product placement on Tiktok and Instagram to generate business, but I still can't make the ethical leap to giving that woman free food. It's like handing someone suicidal a vial of poison.

 

[D.Angus]

The "Adult Happy Meal" is called "The Artist Box" in all internal McDonalds documentation and there's going to be more collaborations with different brands.

The next set is due around the end of October, no word yet on what it is, but from what I've been told, everyone really hates these adult meals, crew and operator wise. Some operators are comparing the demand for the Adult Happy Meals as bad as the "Szechwan Sauce" incident, but my local operator said it was not as bad as that, but did price the boxes absurdly more expensive then the regular 10-Piece and Big-Mac meals (3-4 dollars more).

 

[MirrorNoir]

TED talks are such a good idea on paper, but it generally devolves into the speaker huffing his own farts. That said there are some great ones, like the Gwar TEDx talk, and the Dan Bell one.

TED Talks were popular in the beginning because the company that organized them were VERY VERY VERY picking on who they let speak at their events.

This pissed off a lot of people who applied but were rejected by the company. So much so that rival companies started popping up with similar names to TED Talks running rival speaking events and unlike TED Talks proper, they had ZERO standards for speakers save for one: if you could pay these rivals the required fee they demanded to speak at their events. As far as a reverse situation where instead of paying speakers to talk/give presentations, you had speakers PAYING PROMOTERS to give TED Talk-style speeches and presentations.

This flooded the market and worse, caused major brand confusion and caused people to stop giving a shit. Especially after TED Talks and their rivals started exclusively going after SJW speakers almost exclusively for their events.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Spoiler

You guys have any old pizza boxes that need to be taken away? Because this guy could help you with it.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Consumerism now is way different then consumerism 77 years ago or even 123 years ago because back if someone bought something they liked that was the end of it they didn't have people going around covering there rooms with merchandise of there favorite products sure they liked entertainment but it would have been rare to find a person with a hardcore three stooges obsession back then my point is nowadays it is socially acceptable to buy 3000 plastic toys then it was back then

They've existed since time immemorial, in the long ago days of our parents and grandparents they were known as hoarders. The terminology changes, the behavior remains constant.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=l_lkiPjXS3M

Spoiler

You guys have any old pizza boxes that need to be taken away? Because this guy could help you with it.

A lot of these boxes aren't going to be that interesting beyond the address on it and maybe the mascot. At least someone collecting bottle caps could use them as post apocalyptic currency.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

A lot of these boxes aren't going to be that interesting beyond the address on it and maybe the mascot. At least someone collecting bottle caps could use them as post apocalyptic currency.

Only for the first game though, at least until a new company buys the IP and proves they have few original ideas.