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The Great Citracett said:
To be honest, I completely forgot about that like 5 minutes after I posted it. It was dumb and amusing. Good for a quick laugh. Just hoarding for the sake of hoarding, and hoarding something he's never seen, and probably never intends to just made it seem even more like a cry for attention. Not even particularly fun.

It was kind of the opposite of the autistic Perfect Dark girl from reddit I also posted. Sure, she's got hundreds of copies of Perfect Dark Zero for Xbox, but she plays it, enjoys the game and character, and does a pretty great cosplay of her too. She's also self-aware that she's consooming and has actually built a bit of a fanbase because she has a sense of humor about it and likes to talk to people. It makes her happy. She's definitely a consoomer, but seems pretty cool and harmless.

Troon, on the other hand just has DVDs. Tons and tons of DVDs. And it's not even for a goofy joke like the guy with thousands of copies of Shrek on VHS, or the guy who used to have a website where you could mail him copies of Shaq Fu and he'd send you like $2 each, supposedly to contain them from shitting up the world any more.

Troon guy is just kinda sad and weird.
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Troons are narcissistic, that is their main character flaw and unfortunately only defining trait in one neat package. I used to be tolerant of them like in the early 2010s, but realized that they not only out there to colonize everything, it's not even about "gender dysphoria" it's basically just getting their narcissistic supply and license to bully people.

The Real Slim Shady said:
I'm sure he was tipped off, neither google nor other engines do not index the farms as much and as fast as this. Or he has an account here. Hello!
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I am sure they can't look away. They are in need of constant validation and are always monitoring whenever that could be used to farm attention in their community. Being mentioned on KF must be like a sort of street cred, just for troons.
 
this person finds out you guys are talking about them and gets a big ego and you immediately go on talking about them more, this monkey shitflinging fight doesnt end because everyone here is a monkey
>ook ook i was mentioned
you both say in unison
 
Cuntspiracy Man said:
this person finds out you guys are talking about them and gets a big ego and you immediately go on talking about them more, this monkey shitflinging fight doesnt end because everyone here is a monkey
>ook ook i was mentioned
you both say in unison
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Monkeys are fucking cool. I like monkeys.
 
Cuntspiracy Man said:
this person finds out you guys are talking about them and gets a big ego and you immediately go on talking about them more, this monkey shitflinging fight doesnt end because everyone here is a monkey
>ook ook i was mentioned
you both say in unison
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You're making the same mistake that he made.
  1. Kiwifarmers see him and laugh at his antics.
  2. He misinterprets mockery as being offended and posts about us.
  3. We laugh at him some more for being so retarded.
  4. You misinterpret mockery as being offended and shit out a pile of "muh both sides" retardation.
 
The Great Citracett said:
To be honest, I completely forgot about that like 5 minutes after I posted it. It was dumb and amusing. Good for a quick laugh. Just hoarding for the sake of hoarding, and hoarding something he's never seen, and probably never intends to just made it seem even more like a cry for attention. Not even particularly fun.

It was kind of the opposite of the autistic Perfect Dark girl from reddit I also posted. Sure, she's got hundreds of copies of Perfect Dark Zero for Xbox, but she plays it, enjoys the game and character, and does a pretty great cosplay of her too. She's also self-aware that she's consooming and has actually built a bit of a fanbase because she has a sense of humor about it and likes to talk to people. It makes her happy. She's definitely a consoomer, but seems pretty cool and harmless.

Troon, on the other hand just has DVDs. Tons and tons of DVDs. And it's not even for a goofy joke like the guy with thousands of copies of Shrek on VHS, or the guy who used to have a website where you could mail him copies of Shaq Fu and he'd send you like $2 each, supposedly to contain them from shitting up the world any more.

Troon guy is just kinda sad and weird.
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The thing that differentiates this troon from the other autists you mentioned, is that the autists are passionate about what they're collecting, whether it's passionate love or passionate hate. They are connected to what they consoom, either because they enjoy it or because they want to destroy it.

Troon just picked a random movie. Hasn't even watched it, but he thinks that accumulating copies of it will make him seem kind of quirky and maybe a little bit interesting. He's trying to use it as a stand in for having his own personality. Rather like someone who keeps books because they think that owning a copy of War and Peace makes them look smart even though they've never and will never so much as crack open the cover.

I can quite understand someone who has multiple copies of their favourite obscure movie/book/miscellaneous piece of media so that they can inflict share their passion with potential victims friends. And different editions of same, absolutely. I personally or may not be guilty of one or both of these things.

But just buying the same mediocre film over and over again just to feel like you have a personality when you haven't even seen the film...

Sad. Really, really sad.
 
Book Hauls man, every social media based community will end up degrading into endless consumerism. Because it's easier to buy a metric ton of stuff than actually do things when it comes to regular content.

So booktube/booktok ends up buying 20-100 books per haul. I mean sure, I am glad somebody is buying books, but I have an inkling that none of them will be read.
 
Sarcastic sockpuppet said:
The secret for Temu's success seems to be that the app comes with free phone games where you can win gift cards. People open their phone without the intent to buy anything, just to play the game and maybe win something. The games recreates a mini-casino experience that fries their synapses and makes them addicted.
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Chinese marketing is addicted to selling westerners stuff with this gambling shit. An example I've encountered is a seller of flashlights, their entire thing is headlamps, flashlights, those lamps that mount onto guns. And they implemented a wheel to spin for prizes into the site. I wonder if they're allowed to do this to Chinese citizens or if it's exclusively when they export sales to the west.
 
Verpa Teutonica Ingens said:
You're making the same mistake that he made.
  1. Kiwifarmers see him and laugh at his antics.
  2. He misinterprets mockery as being offended and posts about us.
  3. We laugh at him some more for being so retarded.
  4. You misinterpret mockery as being offended and shit out a pile of "muh both sides" retardation.
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no, i'm saying that
1. you're celebrating being noticed by a nobody
2.
 
glass_houses said:
But just buying the same mediocre film over and over again just to feel like you have a personality when you haven't even seen the film...
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Troons skinwalk women, he's skinwalking a woman he knows and it was her favourite guilty pleasure or romcom or something (haven't seen it).
 
Blamo2000 said:
So booktube/booktok ends up buying 20-100 books per haul. I mean sure, I am glad somebody is buying books, but I have an inkling that none of them will be read.
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I would understand that if these books were worth anything. But booktok and similar groups on other platforms buy exclusively the most basic, cliched pulp fiction known to man. The books they are crazy about are the cheapest crime, haters-to-lovers, or harlequins, written by authors who produce 10-12 books per year. In recent years publishers started to reprint amateur writing from ao3 to keep up with the demand. And the books are awful too. The lack of any valuable content is made up by flashy soft covers. Some of the booktokers brag about their reading backlog which can be measured in feet, because they literally have a stack of unread books.

I might make a post about the booktok/booktwitter of my native language and how funny it is for me to read the passages they share.
 
Profile bio of a film reviewer for Nerds of Color is basically a post-parody consoomer.
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The Real Slim Shady said:
I would understand that if these books were worth anything. But booktok and similar groups on other platforms buy exclusively the most basic, cliched pulp fiction known to man. The books they are crazy about are the cheapest crime, haters-to-lovers, or harlequins, written by authors who produce 10-12 books per year. In recent years publishers started to reprint amateur writing from ao3 to keep up with the demand. And the books are awful too. The lack of any valuable content is made up by flashy soft covers. Some of the booktokers brag about their reading backlog which can be measured in feet, because they literally have a stack of unread books.

I might make a post about the booktok/booktwitter of my native language and how funny it is for me to read the passages they share.
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Well, they have never graduated the YA novels. Unfortunately this influences what get published.

Bubble Ba'ath said:
Profile bio of a film reviewer for Nerds of Color is basically a post-parody consoomer.
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This is what a soyjak would say.
 
Bubble Ba'ath said:
There is a reason I included the hotlink to his author page lol.
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Joshua Ryne Goldberg had tons of author pages, too.
Blamo2000 said:
This is what a soyjak would say.
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It's almost too on the nose. That said it wouldn't be the first time someone so nuts you think they can't possibly be for real turned out to be real.
 
AnOminous said:
Joshua Ryne Goldberg had tons of author pages, too.

It's almost too on the nose. That said it wouldn't be the first time someone so nuts you think they can't possibly be for real turned out to be real.
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do you think the "soyjak" just spawned into existance fully formed as the strange demonic ritual symbol it is today? originally it WAS just an internet meme based on, and used to mock, people like that
 
Cuntspiracy Man said:
do you think the "soyjak" just spawned into existance fully formed as the strange demonic ritual symbol it is today? originally it WAS just an internet meme based on, and used to mock, people like that
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It's just a wojak variant lmao it can be used for pretty much whatever the person using it intends within that specific personality theme of parodying the "soyboy" stereotype.I don't think anyone thought otherwise, it was only comparing the phrase to the memes parodying the personality.
 
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