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

[Judge Dredd]

investors/scalpers buying up cards to sell to the former groups.

This.

I don't know about the US, but there have been news stories of people making life changing money from a gen 1 foil Charizard. Like 5 or 6 figures worth. As well as complete collections for similar money. It wasn't just a YouTube thing either. Episodes of mainstream TV shows like Antiques Roadshow would feature them. This video is of booster boxes, but same kind of thing.

Just like Beanie Babies, or 90s comics books, I doubt pokemon cards will be worth anything in the future. The gen 1 foil Charizard or whatever were only valuable because they were rare, and no one really valued them so they got beat up, traded, sold when they moved out their parents house, etc. The sad part is there's going to someone out there who drops a bunch of money on Pokemon cards hoping to pay for college or retirement and end up with worthless cardboard.

 

[56 others]

It seems like everybody wants a way to get rich quick since covid. Crypto, scalping, speculating, scamming, all these people putting in a lot of effort and money. Boomers were hoarding ammo during the pandemic and trying to scalp big time on it.
Every hobby seems to be getting raped. And new ones to rape get found all the time.

 

[Soso]

And yet despite claims that gamers won't take it, the Nintendo fanbase has rushed out to buy buy buy, because Nintendo.

Nintendo fans tend to be extremely rabid if you say anything slightly critical of Nintendo, and tend to be some of the biggest consoomers. They don't just stop at the games, they go for every little merchandise, every single little thing. I remember when amiibos were around, and they would lose their shit about them.

It seems like everybody wants a way to get rich quick since covid. Crypto, scalping, speculating, scamming, all these people putting in a lot of effort and money.

Yes, more people are trying to "hustle" no matter how ethical or not what they do is. Sometimes they come out poorer than they did before

 

[Skylavijas]

It seems like everybody wants a way to get rich quick since covid. Crypto, scalping, speculating, scamming, all these people putting in a lot of effort and money.

Except working

 

[stupid frog]

It seems like everybody wants a way to get rich quick since covid. Crypto, scalping, speculating, scamming, all these people putting in a lot of effort and money. Boomers were hoarding ammo during the pandemic and trying to scalp big time on it.
Every hobby seems to be getting raped. And new ones to rape get found all the time.

It's because people were spending their Covid bux on whatever bullshit, and some kept the behavior.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Nintendo fans tend to be extremely rabid if you say anything slightly critical of Nintendo, and tend to be some of the biggest consoomers. They don't just stop at the games, they go for every little merchandise, every single little thing. I remember when amiibos were around, and they would lose their shit about them.

Came to post this in the Nintendo fanbase thread, but it fits.

 

[The Hardest R]

The smartphone maker’s ideal customer is a 30 y/o latina dental assistant with an LV purse. She cares about brand name and status, she’s new to money and wants to enjoy it, she’s willing to enter into payment plans, and she’s not tech savvy and prefers everything to work out of the box.
Every (major) phone is made according to this person’s taste. Phones are enormous because that’s what she can fit in her purse, the cameras are made for social media filming, and Apple can get away with it because she’s buying the phone so she can have a group chat with blue messages. Everyone else lives downstream from the middle class superconsumer and their tastes. (And their willingness to finance their shit- I have seen more and more examples of “starting at $39 a month” advertising instead of prices)
If the rest of us were as eager to repurchase as Rosely from Fresno, CA, phones would be made with audio jacks and buttons. But we aren’t. Whenever I see new tech slop that I don’t understand I try to think of a stereotype of its user and then it clicks.

This describes most consoomer products. There was some article a while back about how middle class latinks are the primary demographic in movie theaters. Guarantee you Rosely from Fresno has an LV iPhone case which can cost up to $500 per their website. No fakes or replicas for her of course, just swipe it on her maxed out credit card with 29% interest.

To take it up one more notch, years ago, whenever you’d see a BMW or Mercedes SUV it was either an old guy or a trophy wife in the driver’s seat. Drive up to one of them these days and it’s negresses and squat looking lah-TEEN-ahs driving it. These newly minted middle class female minorities love conspicuous consumption of higher end brands, even if it’s something like an iPhone and a designer case.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

It seems like everybody wants a way to get rich quick since covid. Crypto, scalping, speculating, scamming, all these people putting in a lot of effort and money. Boomers were hoarding ammo during the pandemic and trying to scalp big time on it.
Every hobby seems to be getting raped. And new ones to rape get found all the time.

Nobody wants to work post-covid. All they want to do is grift and scam. Funny how Covid has made the world a much worse place.

 

[Lady Bizness]

Rosely from Fresno, CA

Marisol, but otherwise accurate.
These fuckers don't even go out to the Sierras for fun, just sit in their dusty ass hellhole acting like they're the ones picking strawberries when that was their great great grand daddy and they actually work reception at European Wax.
Okay, they go to Yosemite Valley to take a picture at the nearest waterfall, at least you won't see them any further out there.

 

[Soso]

Nobody wants to work post-covid. All they want to do is grift and scam. Funny how Covid has made the world a much worse place.

Covid brought out the rot that always lingered in humanity and made it more acceptable to behave like antisocial freaks. Something about the lockdowns and everything around 2020-2021 really sped things along. I don't know if it was pre-covid or during covid, but there was a trend I remember where some were punching old ladies in the faces during around that period.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

Covid brought out the rot that always lingered in humanity and made it more acceptable to behave like antisocial freaks. Something about the lockdowns and everything around 2020-2021 really sped things along. I don't know if it was pre-covid or during covid, but there was a trend I remember where some were punching old ladies in the faces during around that period.

I remember when asian Old ladies getting punched in the face and it started the whole #StopAsianHate that twitter leftists regurgitated for a few days. I believe that was 2021.

 

[xXthrowawayaccountXx]

Except working

They destroyed all of the social trust in work.

I don't care for antiwork and anticapitalism rants. I believe work is good and capitalism is the most functional system of government. But there's a pretty important part of the culture that if you want to work, not even getting to a middle class or improving your station but you'll be able to continue on with your life. But then they just decided that they got to decide who was "essential" enough to work and shut people out. I graduated during covid and there was quite literally nothing at all for me. Not even a temp gig for at least a full year before hearing back from a single company. I think the rise of hyper growth areas to make money like bitcoin and stocks started the erosure but this specifically broke people, and the current AI scare/grift market made everything worse.

When actual jobs start becoming a gamble, it's better odds to only have to win big once than to pray you don't lose for years. And this is going to destroy society eventually, I do believe this.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

It seems like everybody wants a way to get rich quick since covid

Yes, more people are trying to "hustle"

covid taught people that a long term honest business will be taken away from you at the blink of an eye, an investment will disappear, a physical store will have to close, government literally told people, plain as day, "if you love what you do and want to do it long term and earnestly.... you're a FUCKING SUCKER LMAO, GET FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED!" so now people want their money quick because they're scared nothing will last
it's sad, but no individual is to blame for it, perhaps you can blame them for selling their souls but you can't blame them for having this mindset because it's been clearly telegraphed to us, we are creating a society where what we have is worth little and we need to swindle eachother to survive... we're creating another modern china

 

[Sierra Death Generator]

This describes most consoomer products. There was some article a while back about how middle class latinks are the primary demographic in movie theaters. Guarantee you Rosely from Fresno has an LV iPhone case which can cost up to $500 per their website. No fakes or replicas for her of course, just swipe it on her maxed out credit card with 29% interest.

To take it up one more notch, years ago, whenever you’d see a BMW or Mercedes SUV it was either an old guy or a trophy wife in the driver’s seat. Drive up to one of them these days and it’s negresses and squat looking lah-TEEN-ahs driving it. These newly minted middle class female minorities love conspicuous consumption of higher end brands, even if it’s something like an iPhone and a designer case.

I don't know if those brands (BMW and Mercedes and other imo former luxury brands) are aware of it or not but my perception and the perception of others I've talked to has completely shifted/tanked. 15-20 years ago you saw one and your mind's eye saw the boomer in his polo shirt, sunglasses and watch in the drivers seat even if you didn't catch the driver physically. Now, and especially since the late 2010s, it's all ugly minorities driving that shit. Indians, chinese, and goblin looking hispanics. Don't know where they even get the money from whether it's those sweet make-work jobs, welfare fraud, or good old fashioned crime but it's coming from somewhere because those shitboxes are approaching $100k new now (and it's gotta be new, nothing but the best for Pajeet Singh, Lupe Rojas-Espinoza, and Hong Xi).

I guess it doesn't matter to them as long as the $100k shitboxes keep selling.

 

[The Hardest R]

I remember when asian Old ladies getting punched in the face and it started the whole #StopAsianHate that twitter leftists regurgitated for a few days. I believe that was 2021.

Old ladies were getting punched in general, including Asians, and it was starting to piss off the azns, who were starting to talk about straying from the Coalition of the Ascendant. So #StopAsianHate was just a way to keep them in the coalition, which worked for a few years. That post-COVID period was a pretty interesting time.

I guess it doesn't matter to them as long as the $100k shitboxes keep selling.

I assume they are like any (formerly?) DEI-obsessed business where they think it’s a good thing some toad-looking lahteenah is driving their luxury SUV.

As for how they’re able to afford it, dealerships are offering more extended car loans than ever. Used to be 4-5 years was as long as it gets but now there’s loans that go beyond seven years. They’ll never keep it that long, they’ll just roll the balance over into the next one until it’s too unaffordable and they just walk away from the car loan. But their ESG stats look good that more minorities than ever own their luxury SUVs!

 

[Sierra Death Generator]

Old ladies were getting punched in general, including Asians, and it was starting to piss off the azns, who were starting to talk about straying from the Coalition of the Ascendant. So #StopAsianHate was just a way to keep them in the coalition, which worked for a few years. That post-COVID period was a pretty interesting time.

I assume they are like any (formerly?) DEI-obsessed business where they think it’s a good thing some toad-looking lahteenah is driving their luxury SUV.

As for how they’re able to afford it, dealerships are offering more extended car loans than ever. Used to be 4-5 years was as long as it gets but now there’s loans that go beyond seven years. They’ll never keep it that long, they’ll just roll the balance over into the next one until it’s too unaffordable and they just walk away from the car loan. But their ESG stats look good that more minorities than ever own their luxury SUVs!

The #StopAsianHate shit got dropped like a bad habit when everyone started noticing the only altercations and videos they could find of asians being assaulted were 80% by negroes and 20% by hispanics. Since the whole thing was originally an attempt to pile on Whitey Hate(tm) it became very inconvenient and was dissolved as a "movement".

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

gesture based shortcut where shaking the phone a couple of times turns the flashlight on

You just reprogram your Android phone in the settings. I have double press the power button set as the flashlight, immensely useful and no need for a specific brand of phone. I stg tech literacy keeps plummeting and it's becoming more and more obvious

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

You just reprogram your Android phone in the settings. I have double press the power button set as the flashlight, immensely useful and no need for a specific brand of phone. I stg tech literacy keeps plummeting and it's becoming more and more obvious

"you don't need a dedicated button for that, you can program your machine to do that" used to be a joke on people who use some kinda strange nuclear potato computer with a weird esoteric OS dug out from an ancient sumerian grave to describe how much shit they have to go thru just to get access to the right mouse button to get started on changing their desktop background

now it is slowly turning into people who can't even FIND the right mouse button and just demand a machine already come with their desired desktop image

 

[Sierra Death Generator]

Covid brought out the rot that always lingered in humanity and made it more acceptable to behave like antisocial freaks. Something about the lockdowns and everything around 2020-2021 really sped things along. I don't know if it was pre-covid or during covid, but there was a trend I remember where some were punching old ladies in the faces during around that period.

I think this social decay was all extraordinarily predictable as an outcome of "lockdowns". It's unfortunate I have to come off as sitting on my high horse like one of those dickheads that has all the answers and knows everything but anyone with the capacity to think would have and should have recognized enacting a mirror world totalitarian state to "fight covid" (based on absolutely no scientific principles whatsoever, mind you - straight from the keebler elf's mouth he made this shit up as he went) would eviscerate the social contract. Where every single person you know and love will die if you do anything but sit inside.....unless you are one of the CHOSEN.

If the power maker CHOOSES you then you are exempt from these nu-social rules based on criteria the power maker deems fit and changes daily and no logical human thinking can come up with their answer beforehand. Childhood vacation memories? Too dangerous. Attending grandma's last Thanksgiving or her subsequent funeral? Bigot, don't you know Covid-19 is racist and specifically targets black folx?

But a bunch of faggoty Hollyweird LARPers making streaming slop for you to consoom? They are ESSENTIAL. They are FAVORED and *chosen*. They may go outside as long as they wear ridiculous bubbles on their head that make no scientific sense by any possible metric. The nonsense layered on nonsense layered on showing young people in their formative years everything is just essentially an illusion like what mid 2000s nihilistic teens wrote their gay poetry about rubs down social fabric to nothing. Because now you have a whole bloc of people who never even experienced that social fabric formation at all. Just a giant gap of nothing where the 3rd or 4th Once In A Lifetime economic collapse was forced to occur because of an escaped Chinese Bioweapon that statistically threatened only those with multiple preexisting comorbidities over the age of 75.

 

[Soso]

The #StopAsianHate shit got dropped like a bad habit when everyone started noticing the only altercations and videos they could find of asians being assaulted were 80% by negroes and 20% by hispanics. Since the whole thing was originally an attempt to pile on Whitey Hate(tm) it became very inconvenient and was dissolved as a "movement".

Even when lots of the Asians tried calling out the Tyrones who were shoving people in front of trains, they got shut down

But a bunch of faggoty Hollyweird LARPers making streaming slop for you to consoom? They are ESSENTIAL. They are FAVORED and *chosen*. They may go outside as long as they wear ridiculous bubbles on their head that make no scientific sense by any possible metric.

Whenever I think about the lockdowns and pandemic besides I lost my study abroad program, I keep thinking about how the celebrities got together and sang imagine, pissing everyone off including me. What a fucking time.