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

[NoReturn]

This person spent $4000 on a gigantic ugly Louis Vuitton trunk, $1500 of which was to ship it by sea because it's so huge there was no other way to do it.

But why though? That one is extra weird because it seems like it's a knockoff of one of their old steamer trunks that they don't even make anymore.
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and I see this subculture is on TikTok as well. I just need to start assuming anything stupid like this has an active TikTok tag. It's Zoomer-reddit.
Selections from #repladies #dhgate

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Fairycrate. Faecrate. Owlcrate. Tiktokers. It's all the same garbage.

It doesn't help that books now have gone towards this shallow A E S T H E T I C COVER mentality as well. Not just YA but romance too. So if you're going to buy a book, it should be "pretty" so you can snap photos of yourself with it on a macrame rug "reading" like a "bookworm uwu".

Spoiler: Blinding Covers ahead

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The 2020 Romance Book Cover syndrome. Bright, popping covers, especially with BLACK PPL on them, to show you're inclusive. Except YA which needs to have Strong Wymyn on the covers or some regal theme if it's a "fantasy".

Spoiler: Edgy Aesthetic ahead

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Most of these books are garbage - I don't even need to read them to know - but publishers really push for girls to buy them because their dying industry needs the money. And these girls do instead of taking them out at the library. Then they buy trinkets and junk to scatter around the book with its pages open, get some fandom crap for it off etsy or out of a subscription box, and glamorize the entire aesthetic.

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Would you do this with a book you loved? Or would you just read the damn thing and stick it on your shelf after?

Those collages are fucking uncanny.
And while we're on the subject of the above, some from: #bookAd #yabooks #fyp #bookhaul #booktok #bookworm #bookclub

Spoiler: More

 

[cornycat]

Anyone else work at retail here? I hate dealing with customers who don't know how to fucking read. I'm a cashier, and I'm going back to school next year, but I want to fucking quit, man. These "consumers" are fucking brain dead. It's easy to deal with them on the internet, but the fact that I have to deal with these people who will scream at you for asking them to follow store policy is insane.

I asked a customer to put on his mask because if my manager sees it, he'll fire me for not saying anything. The customer threatened the law against me and told me its illegal to do that to him.

I deal with impatient customers who constantly asks me questions about the products, when they can just read it themselves.

 

[Yeeted Teet]

But why though? That one is extra weird because it seems like it's a knockoff of one of their old steamer trunks that they don't even make anymore.

They said in the comments that they bought it to keep all their "trinkets" in, so I assume they're on the hoarder spectrum.

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Why would you buy fake earbuds? (for clout, I know). I do not believe they sound good, even the real airpods have poor to average reviews for sound quality and you can get very good ones from companies that actually specialise in audio equipment for a similar price or less. I can understand buying some designer fakes if you really like the piece independently of the logo but don't think it could ever be worth the money (and you'd be right), but this is peak buying something just to be seen with it.

 

[Vingle]

This person spent $4000 on a gigantic ugly Louis Vuitton trunk, $1500 of which was to ship it by sea because it's so huge there was no other way to do it.

Almost didn't even get it, because chinaman untrustworthy. But I've noticed that sellers from Asia in general has begun to ghost sellers under the pandemic. Which to be fair, only damages them, because they get bad ratings.

Selections from #repladies #dhgate
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I assume it's a biological girl based on the voice, but jeez. She looks like a old man with make up.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Don't be so sure!

*Tyrone not included

Just adding in the videos in its own comment, because I do watch them all. But it's a hassle to delete everything that I'm not going to comment on @NoReturn.

Brands should really slap down on this, it's distasteful at best of jewtube to allow counterfeits on their platform. I know that plebbit have a sub that's called Fashionreps for counterfeits, and of course. That's not being shut down.
This is a disgusting poor people-thing, because this kind of luxury was only meant for a few. Not like H&M-shit. And I suspect designer bags is worse quality than before, because people buy fakes and don't see the difference to a real one. Brand get this idea to make bags more on par with fakes, because people won't notice it anyway
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This troon-lookalike really said Sia is problematic. The song is painfully overplayed, and dance is cringe/shit. When the heck did she become "problematic"?

I feel that if someone can make an indistinguishable product from the brand for a 5th the price then fuck the brand. Still, wearing a fake that has the brand logo is tacky because there's still that wannabee aspect of wanting it to pass as the brand, ideally it shouldn't involve any copyrighted symbols but is not like inflated prices that don't correlate with the quality of a product are not gay to begin with, and if brands lower the quality all the more reason not to pay their absurd "authentic logo tax" and just go with alternatives.

 

[Kujo Jotaro]

So are YA books just as generic and predictable as Harem anime? That's what I'm getting from these tik toks, they even come with their own paragraph long subtitles too!

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

So are YA books just as generic and predictable as Harem anime?

Pretty much. I find it funny how many of the tiktoks shared are girls going on about how "imma reader guys look at me, reading is deep , not like other girls" but they might as well be moefags sperging about their waifus since all they ever read is generic YA romance novels.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

Anyone else work at retail here? I hate dealing with customers who don't know how to fucking read. I'm a cashier, and I'm going back to school next year, but I want to fucking quit, man. These "consumers" are fucking brain dead. It's easy to deal with them on the internet, but the fact that I have to deal with these people who will scream at you for asking them to follow store policy is insane.

I asked a customer to put on his mask because if my manager sees it, he'll fire me for not saying anything. The customer threatened the law against me and told me its illegal to do that to him.

I deal with impatient customers who constantly asks me questions about the products, when they can just read it themselves.

Nobody cares about wagies.

 

[cornycat]

Nobody cares about wagies.

Well, I just turned 18 so.. I have to actually work or I'll get kicked out. I'm not going straight to college till I have some programming basics done.

 

[tea cup]

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I figure that's because that's around the time the Boomers we're little kids. So it's their version of a millennial listening to Enya or a zoomer who likes Backstreet Boys.

Blew my mind the first time I learned about "dupe culture" where there are the straight knockoffs:

and then the "dupes"

Whose plastic collection looks better? Consoomer
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or bowerbird?
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The irony is that the bowerbird has a good chance of getting sex by his collection. Where as the grown man who's collecting figurines is going to remain a virgin due to his hobby.

 

[Da Grim Reaper]

Marx was right

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

The group buying knockoffs and then showing them off just bug me. It is a fact that some companies way over charge for their products and pocket the profits instead of paying their workers/designers well, but there's also a bunch that charge that high price because they pay their workers well. It's a big problem in the fashion world with stuff like fast fashion totally skewing peoples view on the whole thing. You'll have people complaining about the price of things being too expensive and not understanding the basics of how much things cost to make, usually then turning to these knock off groups (which are stealing those designs) to buy cheap garbage made of the worst material. Yet, you'll have some of them have the audacity to complain about how "they don't make things like they use to!" when it comes to quality or the ever hypocritical "I care about workers well being unless it means I have to pay more to support that," from the internet socialists.

Spoiler: Some video examples from people talking about the problem

Also, like the plague that tiktok is they've apparently been making fast fashion even worse by hyper accelerating fashion trends and increasing the buying of cheap garbage that doesn't last:

 

[whitepumpkin]

You'll have people complaining about the price of things being too expensive and not understanding the basics of how much things cost to make, usually then turning to these knock off groups (which are stealing those designs) to buy cheap garbage made of the worst material.

Pretty much. The videos about fashion were very informative and pointed out why the Strawberry Sparkle dress is so expensive, but really the want to have the dress is just a fad at the moment. As soon as the obsession to own it blows over, those who bought it are left with something that most girls probably won't wear more than once or don't have the body type to pull it off.

Case in point:



They didn't buy it for its material or for fashion. They bought it because it's popular.
By all means, if you love the dress and will wear it on more than one occasion, go for it. But if you simply want it because it's hitting all your autistic buttons and you want to be popular, consider deleting tiktok.

Speaking of aesthetic disasters, to go back to YA Instagram/Booktube and all that, just wanted to plop some choice images down that further shows these books are being designed for aesthetic hoarders. And people definitely want to encourage that.

Spoiler: Buy Buy Buy!

Consider a library card.




YA Novels? Check. Too many of them? Check.





You're not allowed to sit with us unless you have a e s t h e t i c s. And probably stupid pronouns.

They're all teafags too. You can't just read an ebook at the counter drinking water. It needs to be tea, blankets, a REAL book, and probably some candles too. Bookstores have caught onto this since I noticed the local abomination that is Indigo Chapters has an entire section of garbage like overpriced blankets, "Reading Socks", and candles that smell like cotton assholes. Now that it's autumn in the northern hemisphere they've really ramped it up. This is, after all, Sweater-Tea-Book weather.

Lastly, a cheery article: Ebooks are an Abomination

Don't you fucking dare buy a device that can store hundreds of books for free. Buy the book. You're not a REAL reader if you use a device with a screen!

 

[Kujo Jotaro]

Pretty much. The videos about fashion were very informative and pointed out why the Strawberry Sparkle dress is so expensive, but really the want to have the dress is just a fad at the moment. As soon as the obsession to own it blows over, those who bought it are left with something that most girls probably won't wear more than once or don't have the body type to pull it off.

Case in point:

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They didn't buy it for its material or for fashion. They bought it because it's popular.
By all means, if you love the dress and will wear it on more than one occasion, go for it. But if you simply want it because it's hitting all your autistic buttons and you want to be popular, consider deleting tiktok.

Speaking of aesthetic disasters, to go back to YA Instagram/Booktube and all that, just wanted to plop some choice images down that further shows these books are being designed for aesthetic hoarders. And people definitely want to encourage that.

Spoiler: Buy Buy Buy!

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Consider a library card.

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YA Novels? Check. Too many of them? Check.
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You're not allowed to sit with us unless you have a e s t h e t i c s. And probably stupid pronouns.

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They're all teafags too. You can't just read an ebook at the counter drinking water. It needs to be tea, blankets, a REAL book, and probably some candles too. Bookstores have caught onto this since I noticed the local abomination that is Indigo Chapters has an entire section of garbage like overpriced blankets, "Reading Socks", and candles that smell like cotton assholes. Now that it's autumn in the northern hemisphere they've really ramped it up. This is, after all, Sweater-Tea-Book weather.

Lastly, a cheery article: Ebooks are an Abomination

Don't you fucking dare buy a device that can store hundreds of books for free. Buy the book. You're not a REAL reader if you use a device with a screen!

You can buy nice used copies or soft cover versions for a fraction of most hard cover book prices, they just aren't A S T H E T I C. I personally prefer to buy whatever I'm reading because often I'll have the urge to randomly look up something I read in a book I own(I read a lot of non-fiction), the few fiction books I do buy are typically thing's I'll probably read again in a couple years. Amazon and ebay are godsends when it comes to used books. I wanted to read Cicero's letters to Atticus, and as far as I can tell outside of shitty photocopy versions no one is printing the text at this time. Found a used copy on amazon for like $7 and aside from some yellowing(because it's from the 70's) there's not much wrong with it.

 

[Pissmaster]

This person spent $4000 on a gigantic ugly Louis Vuitton trunk, $1500 of which was to ship it by sea because it's so huge there was no other way to do it.

LV Trunk from TS Pink

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I have absolutely no eye for high fashion, and if I saw that trunk among my grandma's stuff after she croaked and I was cleaning out her house, I would have just chucked whatever in there and probably dented it at some point, just to eventually throw it out, never the wiser that it was worth big bucks.

And since that sub's logo triggered my graphic design tendies:

"Designer", yet they're using Helvetica, the world's most trite font. Congratulations on looking like Target's logo, I guess? And lol at the inconsistent kerning, which ironically makes that logo feel more like a bootleg than anything.

 

[Shig O'nella]

This troon-lookalike really said Sia is problematic. The song is painfully overplayed, and dance is cringe/shit. When the heck did she become "problematic"?

In addition to @Raging Capybara 's point, she has talent and yet doesn't go all out promoting woke bullshit. That's an unforgivable sin in it's own right.

 

[melty]

I am really glad people are catching on to the performative reading thing. One of my favorite lolcows who loves book hoarding (not so much actually reading) was seething at this article recently:

Why is it so hard to get rid of our books? | Financial Times

archived 13 Sep 2021 11:23:55 UTC

archive.is

 

[whitepumpkin]

You can buy nice used copies or soft cover versions for a fraction of most hard cover book prices, they just aren't A S T H E T I C. I personally prefer to buy whatever I'm reading because often I'll have the urge to randomly look up something I read in a book I own(I read a lot of non-fiction), the few fiction books I do buy are typically thing's I'll probably read again in a couple years. Amazon and ebay are godsends when it comes to used books. I wanted to read Cicero's letters to Atticus, and as far as I can tell outside of shitty photocopy versions no one is printing the text at this time. Found a used copy on amazon for like $7 and aside from some yellowing(because it's from the 70's) there's not much wrong with it.

I think in your reply alone you've pointed out that you're not buying books to consoom and put on shelves to flex on all the plebs. And you read Non-fiction. Most of the books I posted are all Young Adult and Romance. Easy to consume and low critical thinking books. They're meant to appeal to you emotionally with pretty covers - and none of them have even a crease on them. There's no books with creased spines, stickers, blackened out barcodes, or even highlighter marks and post-it notes to indicate they bought them used or even utilize them.

Every book these girls have they keep pristine and keep on a shelf in their designated order, meant to look pretty. All the books a moderate reader can polish off in a day or less since they're about as deep as puddle on asphalt and have stunning dialogue such as:

"People really are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows. And maybe it’s a good thing, the way we never stop surprising each other.”

“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”

“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You’d be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside—walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It’s the saddest thing I know."

Like wow, so deep! The world is truly lost without the insight of YA authors!

 

[TaimuRadiu]

call me a consoomer if you want but I love old books, they're an absolute joy to have and read

My Vampire Dinosaur Boss Pounded Me In The Butt With My Own Butt? Not so much.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Sia wrote and directed a film last year where she low-key mocks the hell out of an autistic girl for basically 2 hours straight. Pretty based shit

Lulz dat description.

Just to give some more context. Sia made a austism is magical movie where her little girlfriend plays an autistic kid who learns life through music or whatever. 2 hours of autistic face at the camera while sia music and visuals play. The everything is a problem crowd had a problem because sia didn't get a real autistic person for the role. In sia's defence can you imagine trying to film something with the sound and visuals of a movie studio along with sia's aesthetics. Be a fucking nightmare for everyone involved.

I am really glad people are catching on to the performative reading thing.

Back in the day using StumbleUpon these people plagued the books tag. You'd think you'd get some pretty pictures of books and libraries or interesting articles about authors.

Nope. Constant stream of images of a pretty girl holding a book with a coy look and a quote about how reading makes you cool.