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

[The Lawgiver]

I have never in my life seen someone with a labubu. I swear the whole thing was astroturfed.

The initial thing was popular-ish since it came out 10 years ago, but the recent "craze" was pure astroturfed consoomer scalper "value speculation" nonsense aided by big money. Similar shit to what happened with Pokemon cards the last few years but somehow worse in a sense because it caused a weird cultural dementia where peopel suddenly didn't remember this little gross looking wild things inspired creature and also forgot he was tied to some larger character marketing thing and only one of the guys from it. You kinda saw a similar weird cultural dementia when skibidi toilet exploded in popularity where people suddenly acted like source filmmaker animations were some untapped unholy box corrupting the youths, and somehow we also now have official merch for this thing now which I have NO clue how any of it's legal but I'll just tie it to another case of the whole "cultural dementia" phenomenon that just keeps happening.

What's weird is I almost forgot that little shit was a thing too with just a weird air of "why is he familiar I've seen this bastard before" and then I find out it's been around since 2015 when i looked into things and it's like YEAH OK THAT MAKES SENSE.

Why do people want this cup again?

Bear cup

 

[Metamorpho]

LEAVE LE HECKING CORPORATE PRODUCT ALONE CHUD! IT'S ACTUALLY ONE OF THE BEST CAPTAIN AMERICA STORIES OF ALL TIME YOU'RE JUST MEDIA ILLITERATE!1!!1!1

 

[Randy Butternubs]

LEAVE LE HECKING CORPORATE PRODUCT ALONE CHUD! IT'S ACTUALLY ONE OF THE BEST CAPTAIN AMERICA STORIES OF ALL TIME YOU'RE JUST MEDIA ILLITERATE!1!!1!1

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If what I know about comics serves me right, The Hydra Cap storyline works well within the whole overarching, universe spanning story Jonathan Hickman was writing at the time with Avengers, New Avengers, and Fantastic Four. I get the angle where it looks like an edgy move along the same vein as "What if Superman was le heckin evil" but in terms of the greater picture I think Hydra Cap works alright and doesn't stick around for too long if I'm remembering correctly.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

If what I know about comics serves me right, The Hydra Cap storyline works well within the whole overarching, universe spanning story Jonathan Hickman was writing at the time with Avengers, New Avengers, and Fantastic Four. I get the angle where it looks like an edgy move along the same vein as "What if Superman was le heckin evil" but in terms of the greater picture I think Hydra Cap works alright and doesn't stick around for too long if I'm remembering correctly.

It also works because Red Skull makes a lot of really damn good points in that comic that makes him hard to disagree with.

 

[Soyjak Enjoyer]

I hope this bait

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

I hope this bait

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On the one hand that's super cringe but on the other hand forcing some minority to risk death on icy roads so that you can lay back in luxury and eat your heart attack food hassle free is based.

 

[The Lawgiver]

I hope this bait

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I dunno seems like a genuinely neat novelty idea, better than a funkopop wall at the very least.

LEAVE LE HECKING CORPORATE PRODUCT ALONE CHUD! IT'S ACTUALLY ONE OF THE BEST CAPTAIN AMERICA STORIES OF ALL TIME YOU'RE JUST MEDIA ILLITERATE!1!!1!1

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From what I remember the main actual backlash was because clickbait journos at the time were using this to go "SEE? AMERICA BAD!" Meanwhile in the actual comic there's some wacked out time manipulation shit going on and the actual captain america that's the one from the original timeline was trapped in the cube dimension or whatever because the cube gained sentience and was like a small child or something that liked him. There was also backlash where people still viewed this one as the actual captain america and the oner that got freed from the cube as a clone because of some other mumbo jumbo shit but the end point here is it's weird seeing this revisionism that it was all just fan overreactions.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

I dunno seems like a genuinely neat novelty idea, better than a funkopop wall at the very least

Yeah it's just a digital screen, hard to make them look awful
The cringey part is the use case, the fact that there exists someone out there who orders Doordash several times a day, on such a regular basis that they bought and will regularly use this item in their own private home, is just sad

Would be cool and really useful in an office or some other large gathering place or something where people regularly order food though

 

[I was a Teenage “JA”-man]

I said this in doobus goofus’s thread but it goes here 2x as much As the holiday season begins all the reddit atheists, the mall witches, the anti capitalists, the parent haters, tradition bashers all start screeching “buy my etsy product” or shill for consoomerism, post thier expensive slop thier “evil republican parents” get them and do a 180 on capitalist religious holiday

And the ads this year are really pushing the they live “consume” thing and the media literacy people are the dick on the balls for it

 

[moocow]

I hope this bait

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That's a neat display! Very crisp/bright LED matrix and easy to read. Shame it's being wasted for such a retarded fucking purpose. I could think of about a dozen useful applications of that thing just off the top of my head, and none of them are this kind of shrine to laziness.

 

[AfghanBlue]

I've heard a couple of figurine autists say the gaijin piggus have been catching on, so now all the second hand stores in japan have been catering more and more to international tourists that go there several times a year just to buy collectibles. So more hoarding, more price increases and more scalping when they release something new.

I would like to be able to speak Japanese to be able to play the weird as fuck old PlayStation
(1) games that never had a hope of being released outside of Japan. There's such a wealth of mystery mad shit in there that I'll never get close to knowing about.
I never will cos it's a big undertaking I don't have time for nor the specific drive. It's just a kind of nice, occult reminder of the times of cultural scarcity where you actually couldn't just get everything everywhere at the exact same time and different countries were wolds apart in various ways. Rip.

 

[My cravat doesn't flutter]

The fact that these are supposed to be two different people sums up Funko Pops pretty damned well.

 

[I'mma real anime gurl]

I said this in doobus goofus’s thread but it goes here 2x as much As the holiday season begins all the reddit atheists, the mall witches, the anti capitalists, the parent haters, tradition bashers all start screeching “buy my etsy product” or shill for consoomerism, post thier expensive slop thier “evil republican parents” get them and do a 180 on capitalist religious holiday

And the ads this year are really pushing the they live “consume” thing and the media literacy people are the dick on the balls for it

Everybody hates capitalism until they benefit from it, those who still hate it are grifters.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

The fact that these are supposed to be two different people sums up Funko Pops pretty damned well.
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I have no clue who they are, I can only glean one might be a... Wrestler? And the other a... metalist? By the clothes alone

I have a theory that (one of ) the reasons they can't give any of the funkos representing real life people actual features is that they make them without consulting the person in question, and are worried about offending them if they make their faces more realistic and they won't like it, or worse, what if whichever caricature details they give them end up being deemed offensive in a few years time and now their company image is tainted retroactively
Like the people who made a lot of those old timey nigger Americana dolls and caricatures never intended for them to be downright malicious, it was just a common way to illustrate black facial features, but they became offensive overtime... The same could happen here with something mundane like a certain eye or nose shape or something

 

[My cravat doesn't flutter]

I have no clue who they are, I can only glean one might be a... Wrestler? And the other a... metalist? By the clothes alone

Axl Rose of Guns 'n Roses (left) and Bret Michaels of Poison (right)


They got rid of Axl's tattoos and both are dressed so generically. Neither of these say "glam metal" - the thing both of them are icons of.

 

[Barry Williams]

Axl Rose of Guns 'n Roses (left) and Bret Michaels of Poison (right)

I was going to guess Kid Rock and Bret Michaels, but yours seems more correct.

 

[My cravat doesn't flutter]

I was going to guess Kid Rock and Bret Michaels, but yours seems more correct.

Nah. Kid rock has darker hair and a hat instead of a bandana:

 

[Pina Colada]

I have never in my life seen someone with a labubu. I swear the whole thing was astroturfed.

I've only seen two customers at work with one handing off of their bags: A woman who looked like she was simultaneously 15 and 30 years old, and a little girl who said it was a knock-off but was happy nonetheless. I honestly can't blame the mom for taking one look at the outrageous asking price (at the time), going "fuck this", and settling for the next best thing; most kids aren't hard to please.

 

[NoReturn]

I've only seen two customers at work with one handing off of their bags: A woman who looked like she was simultaneously 15 and 30 years old, and a little girl who said it was a knock-off but was happy nonetheless. I honestly can't blame the mom for taking one look at the outrageous asking price (at the time), going "fuck this", and settling for the next best thing; most kids aren't hard to please.

Strangely, if I saw a kid with a knockoff Labubu on their bag, I'd think it was adorable.
It's like that bit in Candide where kids play with gold and jewels; and because they are so common in that country and because they associate them with childhood, they have no interest in them as adults.

 

[A.P. Hill]

I've heard a couple of figurine autists say the gaijin piggus have been catching on, so now all the second hand stores in japan have been catering more and more to international tourists that go there several times a year just to buy collectibles. So more hoarding, more price increases and more scalping when they release something new.

I can confirm that the prices for bog-standard prize figures in Akiba secondhand stores are out of control. 5 years ago, Oreimo figures were in the $5 discount bin. Now they're $30 in a glass case.