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

[Trapper]

Fomo is definitely at play with Labubus. What I want to know is, do people genuinely like them, or are they so caught up in consumerism that they don’t even know what they like anymore? There’s people who buy expensive handbags to match each ugly doll, and people who insist they hate the look of them only to change their mind after seeing them too often on TikTok. For others, it’s the idea they can get rich quick by pulling the rare Labubu and reselling it to some other loser. Because people can’t behave normally, they stopped selling them in the UK due to “safety fears”.

 

[Brenda Holiday]

This Labubu thing is so surreal because right before someone flipped a switch and it got mega popular I watched this video

I was so fascinated by how ugly these things are... the park seems so boring too.

 

[74164978231]

YouTube decided I needed to see this.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=51snHJlr9sAIt's much worse than you would expect. Looking at the thumbnail, you probably think each 1000-2000 yen lucky draw will get them roughly equal value items, which would still be stupid. They spent $100 USD to get

Dear god that fucking voice. Its like shes trying to sound like a stereotypical vtuber but in person.

 

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[glass_houses]

Labubu has been around for a few years, but they've really gone apeshit comparatively recently, with some kpop idol saying (likely after being paid to do so) that she liked them. There are blind box lines that are attractive on a sculptural level, but strangely enough the ultra popular lines are all fucking identical. The Labubu craze is autistic, but it's not quite as autistic as Sonny Angel.

What's Sonny Angel? It's the exact same shitty figurine of a Kewpie in a shitty fucking hat twelve times over, with bonus baby dick:

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

Labubu has been around for a few years, but they've really gone apeshit comparatively recently, with some kpop idol saying (likely after being paid to do so) that she liked them. There are blind box lines that are attractive on a sculptural level, but strangely enough the ultra popular lines are all fucking identical. The Labubu craze is autistic, but it's not quite as autistic as Sonny Angel.

What's Sonny Angel? It's the exact same shitty figurine of a Kewpie in a shitty fucking hat twelve times over, with bonus baby dick:

it seems like having a samey design with only a mild alterations is the key to artificial collectibility

 

[glass_houses]

it seems like having a samey design with only a mild alterations is the key to artificial collectibility

I'll freely admit that I don't mind the odd bit of reasonably priced plastic crap, but every time I see a hoard of Funko Pops or Sonny Angels or some other creatively bankrupt line I start wondering if Uncle Kaczynski was onto something. Franklin Mint used to catch so much crap when I was a kid, but at least they made a token effort to make things that were visually interesting and didn't assault the world with hundreds of thousands of reproductions of the same penis.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

I'll freely admit that I don't mind the odd bit of reasonably priced plastic crap, but every time I see a hoard of Funko Pops or Sonny Angels or some other creatively bankrupt line I start wondering if Uncle Kaczynski was onto something. Franklin Mint used to catch so much crap when I was a kid, but at least they made a token effort to make things that were visually interesting and didn't assault the world with hundreds of thousands of reproductions of the same penis.

you sure are
fixated on that penis

 

[glass_houses]

you sure are
fixated on that penis

Because every time I hop on Aliexpress it's there on the front page, or go on manga or pop culture groups there's at least one random displaying theirs. It's like having my own personal, underage flasher following me around. I'm seriously considering dropping a ton of sites I'm following. At least Funko Pops have the decency to keep their pants on.

 

[Soso]

This Labubu thing is so surreal because right before someone flipped a switch and it got mega popular I watched this video
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6U_2OZJtTpYI was so fascinated by how ugly these things are... the park seems so boring too.

It reminds me how Crumbl (another consumerist thing), got popular overnight because of social media when no one cared, and now almost everyone where I lived lost their shit over Crumbl cookie. I'm always so confused when these new things pop out of nowhere

 

[Chromeo]

it seems like having a samey design with only a mild alterations is the key to artificial collectibility

It just makes me think of NFTs, how they were essentially dollmaker icons scrambled up and sold as collectible.

It reminds me how Crumbl (another consumerist thing), got popular overnight because of social media when no one cared, and now almost everyone where I lived lost their shit over Crumbl cookie. I'm always so confused when these new things pop out of nowhere

They're not even that good of a cookie, I wish the Big Thing people got excited about would be actually good once in a while.

This Labubu thing is so surreal because right before someone flipped a switch and it got mega popular I watched this video
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6U_2OZJtTpYI was so fascinated by how ugly these things are... the park seems so boring too.

DANCING BACONS!! I'm so glad to see the girl in the video again! My family watches their channel, we call the girl Hami-chan 'cause she always has her cheeks full like a hamster. The videos just aren't as fun when it's only the camera guy buying convenience store snacks and trying them off-screen.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

My family watches their channel, we call the girl Hami-chan 'cause she always has her cheeks full like a hamster.

Fat yellow gook-chan.

 

[glass_houses]

The videos just aren't as fun when it's only the camera guy buying convenience store snacks and trying them off-screen.

Are you talking about the Japanesestuffchannel bloke? God, he's aggravating. If he doesn't want to talk on video that's fine, but could at least give us a few lines of descriptive text instead of the same silent thumbs up every fucking time?

 

[Nuclear Poisoning]

Because every time I hop on Aliexpress it's there on the front page, or go on manga or pop culture groups there's at least one random displaying theirs. It's like having my own personal, underage flasher following me around. I'm seriously considering dropping a ton of sites I'm following. At least Funko Pops have the decency to keep their pants on.

Here's a wild, think-outside-the-box idea I just had. Maybe, just maybe.... don't go on Aliexpress? Like at all? Don't buy anything from there anymore? Nor Temu, alibaba, nor Amazon, and so on? Stop buying crap you don't need? "but the occasional piece of plastic tat is ok because-" NO. Just stop it.

 

[glass_houses]

Here's a wild, think-outside-the-box idea I just had. Maybe, just maybe.... don't go on Aliexpress? Like at all? Don't buy anything from there anymore? Nor Temu, alibaba, nor Amazon, and so on? Stop buying crap you don't need? "but the occasional piece of plastic tat is ok because-" NO. Just stop it.

I'd agree with you completely, if the things weren't infesting every single cheap shop in the country anyway. And while yes, laying off the tat can only improve my life, I still have to go to cheap stores and websites like Aliexpress to buy pet supplies and random household crap that has a five or ten times mark up in "legit" stores. So avoiding tat would mean me having to do shit like pay $45 for a rope perch that would only cost me $15 from a cheap shop or $10 from Aliexpress. I can then take that $30 and use it for my vet's mortgage.

Being cheap and owning pets often means dealing with unwanted advertising and naked Kewpie dolls.

 

[Skylavijas]

Here's a wild, think-outside-the-box idea I just had. Maybe, just maybe.... don't go on Aliexpress? Like at all? Don't buy anything from there anymore? Nor Temu, alibaba, nor Amazon, and so on? Stop buying crap you don't need? "but the occasional piece of plastic tat is ok because-" NO. Just stop it.

I can still fully understand people using these sites, if they live in a rural area, far away from any developed city. My parents use Temu to purchase various gardening knick knacks like hats or scissors, simply because finding something niche in a physical store is difficult or is sold at heavily inflated prices. Hell, even I found myself caving in and using amazon to purchase an AC adaptor for my laptop because it was cheaper, after the wire of the old one I owned broke (and apparently was designed in a way that it couldn't be fixed or replaced by any repairman... fuckin cheapskate bastards).

 

[glass_houses]

I can still fully understand people using these sites, if they live in a rural area, far away from any developed city. My parents use Temu to purchase various gardening knick knacks like hats or scissors, simply because finding something niche in a physical store is difficult or is sold at heavily inflated prices. Hell, even I found myself caving in and using amazon to purchase an AC adaptor for my laptop because it was cheaper, after the wire of the old one I owned broke (and apparently was designed in a way that it couldn't be fixed or replaced by any repairman... fuckin cheapskate bastards).

I use a particular type of overpriced litter for my animals, which comes in 40L bags. I'm relatively close to a pet store that carries the stuff, but not only is it more expensive there, the traffic in that area is such a fucking bitch that it takes two to three times longer to get there than it would to cover the same distance in any other direction. Amazon not only carries the same litter, it's slightly cheaper than the pet store even with delivery costs. So by sucking the Amazon teat, I'm not only saving time and money, I'm saving myself from having to sling these huge bags around every month, and also from the chance of getting my car totaled by some crazed random trying to make a living driving Uber.

Sometimes Amazon is genuinely the best option.

 

[ToEnsureVerification]

Bare minimum for when SHTF. I'm totally not a hoarder.

 

[Coon Cheese]

Bare minimum for when SHTF. I'm totally not a hoarder.

God gun collecting is so fucking gay, owning a few guns is fine they're fun to shoot and look cool I get it. I understand the enjoyment that can be gained from firearms, but the people that collect that many guns have a screw loose. Funny how all these when shit hits the fan guys are all fat and old. Their guns aren't going to help them when their fat boomer asses run out of insulin for their beetus week one of SHTF.

 

[Chromeo]

Are you talking about the Japanesestuffchannel bloke? God, he's aggravating. If he doesn't want to talk on video that's fine, but could at least give us a few lines of descriptive text instead of the same silent thumbs up every fucking time?

No, DancingBacons, their video was posted in the comment I replied to.