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

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Head Muggle said:
I find book consumerism interesting because 1) it's a trend that targets women 2) I'm guilty of it myself.
These are some ladies most watched videos. They have between 100k to 50k views each.
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It's not just buying books but also unhauling them (giving them away), reorganizing shelves, picking your next book out of a little jar with pieces of paper that list titles, putting together books by color themes, etc.
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What a fucking waste of ... shipping infrastructure, logistics, fuel, employee time, printing presses ... really everything. She ordered a pile of books (with all the attendant waste involved in shipping it to her), and she's now going to ship them on, presumably one by one, in separate packages, to different recipients around the country, all without having read any of them first.

Such a fucking waste. Holy shit.
 
Head Muggle said:
I find book consumerism interesting because 1) it's a trend that targets women 2) I'm guilty of it myself.
These are some ladies most watched videos. They have between 100k to 50k views each.
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It's not just buying books but also unhauling them (giving them away), reorganizing shelves, picking your next book out of a little jar with pieces of paper that list titles, putting together books by color themes, etc.
Female autism.
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Link to this bitches YT, I want to know how often she uploads these vids.
 
Head Muggle said:
I find book consumerism interesting because 1) it's a trend that targets women 2) I'm guilty of it myself.
These are some ladies most watched videos. They have between 100k to 50k views each.
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It's not just buying books but also unhauling them (giving them away), reorganizing shelves, picking your next book out of a little jar with pieces of paper that list titles, putting together books by color themes, etc.
Female autism.
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The only thing worse than someone who doesn't read is a clout chaser who uses books for clout but still doesn't fucking read them.

If you ever meet someone who organises books by colour, it's your civic duty to remove them from the breeding population.
 
stupid frog said:
Link to this bitches YT, I want to know how often she uploads these vids.
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It's in the post, I should make it more explicit.

Her content is incredibly inoffensive which is what screws with my head so much. Her "24h readathon" is just clips of her reading a book, some light footage of a tea or snack, her commentary then repeat (Or at least that's what's it's trying to appear as, as if there wasn't a huge amount of work put into moving around the lightning, redoing make-up, etc.) The comments are almost entirely women.
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A Funko Pop collector showing off his 400+ shelf full of plastic garbage rightfully earns the ridicule of the population. If a woman owns the same amount of garbage blocks of paper in content as void as the inside of a Funko, she earns respect because we automatically associate reading with intelligence. Truly, a society. Both should be made fun of.

Like all influencer videos, it's selling a lifestyle. It's about making people think this is the life they should have: Reading the equivalent to a netflix-original everyday. Never being challenged by a text or needing to tackle with notions that force you to reconsider your closely held beliefs. The most critical engagement is the rating system on goodreads.
You are never bored because books aren't written boring anymore. All paragraphs are only four sentences, most of the book is made up of dialogues. By the time you're bored you're onto the next thing. Only happy feelings.

But oh Lord! if you claim that such books are not literature. That's elitist, that's gatekeeping, that's classicism.
 
Head Muggle said:
Like all influencer videos, it's selling a lifestyle. It's about making people think this is the life they should have
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I might be too autistic to understand this, but why do people watch content that makes them feel like shit about themselves?
 
Skylavijas said:
I might be too autistic to understand this, but why do people watch content that makes them feel like shit about themselves?
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To live vicariously through the content of somebody more attractive/successful/etc.

It can reach a point where the road forks and their reason becomes a parasocial relationship with the influencer/content creator.
 
Head Muggle said:
It's in the post, I should make it more explicit.

Her content is incredibly inoffensive which is what screws with my head so much. Her "24h readathon" is just clips of her reading a book, some light footage of a tea or snack, her commentary then repeat (Or at least that's what's it's trying to appear as, as if there wasn't a huge amount of work put into moving around the lightning, redoing make-up, etc.) The comments are almost entirely women.
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A Funko Pop collector showing off his 400+ shelf full of plastic garbage rightfully earns the ridicule of the population. If a woman owns the same amount of garbage blocks of paper in content as void as the inside of a Funko, she earns respect because we automatically associate reading with intelligence. Truly, a society. Both should be made fun of.

Like all influencer videos, it's selling a lifestyle. It's about making people think this is the life they should have: Reading the equivalent to a netflix-original everyday. Never being challenged by a text or needing to tackle with notions that force you to reconsider your closely held beliefs. The most critical engagement is the rating system on goodreads.
You are never bored because books aren't written boring anymore. All paragraphs are only four sentences, most of the book is made up of dialogues. By the time you're bored you're onto the next thing. Only happy feelings.

But oh Lord! if you claim that such books are not literature. That's elitist, that's gatekeeping, that's classicism.
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trash books are to books what Funko pops are to art
you could consider them sculptures or statuettes, technically speaking, but we all know even under that definition they are spiritually lesser
the same is true for every shitty young adult forbidden romance and magic for teen girls novel- yes it's a book, but it's not deserving of the respect or perceived intellectuality such a word would evoke
 
There's something insidiously consoomer about adult coloring books. I know nobody who actively does these. These appeal, as far as I know, only to people who "aren't like other girls" and "le quirky redditors" and their irony novelty. One the most half-assed waste of resources to exist, mainly to appease adult children.

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Randy Butternubs said:
There's something insidiously consoomer about adult coloring books. I know nobody who actively does these. These appeal, as far as I know, only to people who "aren't like other girls" and "le quirky redditors" and their irony novelty. One the most half-assed waste of resources to exist, mainly to appease adult children.

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i have to both agree and disagree
in and of itsef, coloring is fun and relaxing, and there's appeal in getting to do it with art that's actually complex, detailed and beautiful rather than simplistic giant peppa pig coloring books for kiddies

but also it does seem to capture mainly such an audience, which is a shame
it's a nice idea but it's absolutely marketed to such simple people
the 'adult' factor should come from the complexity of the art, not the fact that it's a buncha doodles of weed, condoms and beyonce
 
Head Muggle said:
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She's read half the books she owns, at best. And moved with all 400+ of them... sounds like hell.

Randy Butternubs said:
There's something insidiously consoomer about adult coloring books. I know nobody who actively does these. These appeal, as far as I know, only to people who "aren't like other girls" and "le quirky redditors" and their irony novelty. One the most half-assed waste of resources to exist, mainly to appease adult children.

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There's a lot more of these now, and there was already too many. Maybe they're restricted to Amazon, but I see so many made with AI. Most are (kid franchise) + weed!!!!11
 
stupid frog said:
She's read half the books she owns, at best. And moved with all 400+ of them... sounds like hell.
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It was revealed recently by some tiktok book influencers that by "read" they mean they just skip to the dialogue or skim the books to keep up with making so much book content.
 
Yaks said:
It was revealed recently by some tiktok book influencers that by "read" they mean they just skip to the dialogue or skim the books to keep up with making so much book content.
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Ok, I retract my previous statement, that is peak consumerism.
 
Randy Butternubs said:
There's something insidiously consoomer about adult coloring books. I know nobody who actively does these. These appeal, as far as I know, only to people who "aren't like other girls" and "le quirky redditors" and their irony novelty. One the most half-assed waste of resources to exist, mainly to appease adult children.

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I'll say in fairness I can see someone do these as a form of meditation, like one of those zen gardens, and for people who are in a creative mood but not skilled enough to make their own art it can give them something to work with and give a sense of accomplishment for having at least done something. These were far more common in the early 2010s when people were feeling the dread that came with the recession and my theory is it allowed people to have some kind of control in their life. I agree with cuntspiracy's take.
 
John Titor said:
I'll say in fairness I can see someone do these as a form of meditation, like one of those zen gardens, and for people who are in a creative mood but not skilled enough to make their own art it can give them something to work with and give a sense of accomplishment for having at least done something. These were far more common in the early 2010s when people were feeling the dread that came with the recession and my theory is it allowed people to have some kind of control in their life. I agree with cuntspiracy's take.
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agreed
and some of those books also clearly have beautiful art in them, and appreciating that sort of art while you color it is also great

the worst ones are the ones that are just generic squiggles and "color this while high"
 
Cuntspiracy Man said:
the same is true for every shitty young adult forbidden romance and magic for teen girls novel- yes it's a book, but it's not deserving of the respect or perceived intellectuality such a word would evoke
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It's kinda funny how history is repeating itself. Shallow romances (in the original sense of the word) were popular among literate young women in Cervantes' time and inspired him to write Don Quixote as a response to those. The difference, though, is that the trash fantasy books being written today for teen girls are inevitably being written by midwits.
 
Merton J. Dingle said:
It's kinda funny how history is repeating itself. Shallow romances (in the original sense of the word) were popular among literate young women in Cervantes' time and inspired him to write Don Quixote as a response to those. The difference, though, is that the trash fantasy books being written today for teen girls are inevitably being written by midwits.
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What I would give for a book about a woman who reads too many bad romance novels, starts to blur reality and fiction and eventually suffers from it.
Hold on....that exists already!
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