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

[Pissmaster]

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

You are doing what consoomers never actually do, which makes you not a consoomer. Congrats on actually using and enjoying what you buy.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

actually fuck there used to be a subreddit (yeah I know, fucking kill me) called /r/bookshelves that was filled to the brim with the sort of consoomer wank that we see here. You'd have like 5 books on the bookshelf and the rest was funkopops and anime figures.

There were bookshelves where someone had FOUR (yes, four!) copies of one of the same Harry Potter book and two different Lord of the Rings collections.

Fuck it, I'll go there and see if I can find anything particularly cringe.

Here's a bookshelf where I genuinely cannot tell if it's an 8 year old, a 16 year old or a 32 year old pedos room. The toys say toddler but the way they're laid out says 16 or older.

 

[Czechem Republic]

Here's a bookshelf where I genuinely cannot tell if it's an 8 year old, a 16 year old or a 32 year old pedos room. The toys say toddler but the way they're laid out says 16 or older.

Rick & Morty, 90s CDs, some cassettes, and a fuckton of expensive weebshit. I give better than 3:4 odds the owner is a millennial.

 

[NoReturn]

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!

Interestingly, the long subtitles come from things like light novels where the market is so saturated the long titles have become the best way to grab attention.

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

Here's a bookshelf where I genuinely cannot tell if it's an 8 year old, a 16 year old or a 32 year old pedos room. The toys say toddler but the way they're laid out says 16 or older.

Rick & Morty, 90s CDs, some cassettes, and a fuckton of expensive weebshit. I give better than 3:4 odds the owner is a millennial.

Seconded. See this thing in the corner?

That's a grind3h Froggy Plush from her kickstarter campaign, the actual shop hasn't launched yet:

So if nothing else, this is someone who is at least old enough to either have access to money, or understand KickStarter well enough to ask their parents for cash. But then you add in the type of media (CD shelf, the DVDs, specific toys) and the media featured (e.g. Old-school Transformers; original Power Rangers and Himitsu Sentai Gorenger; Parappa the Rapper; Inspector Gadget; TMNT; etc.) and I'm going to say this person is an older millennial or a very late GenX.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

I almost deleted it after posting it because I completely forgot that poor people exist and it's possible for shelves to be used to put away different children's toys until I spotted the Spongebob Squarepants Beanie Baby and it hit me that the fucker is at least early 20s. Probably has a mental age of like 9 years old though given how fucking childish that looks. Like those toys at the top straight up resemble a 6 year olds shelf.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

actually fuck there used to be a subreddit (yeah I know, fucking kill me) called /r/bookshelves that was filled to the brim with the sort of consoomer wank that we see here. You'd have like 5 books on the bookshelf and the rest was funkopops and anime figures.

There were bookshelves where someone had FOUR (yes, four!) copies of one of the same Harry Potter book and two different Lord of the Rings collections.

Fuck it, I'll go there and see if I can find anything particularly cringe.

Here's a bookshelf where I genuinely cannot tell if it's an 8 year old, a 16 year old or a 32 year old pedos room. The toys say toddler but the way they're laid out says 16 or older.
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the cd choices are very millenialish, specially that Eiffel 65 cd, most zoomers don't even give a shit about cds at all. I also feel it would feature a lot more furfagotry and less classic Tokusatsu if this was a zoomer

 

[metroid_fetish]

actually fuck there used to be a subreddit (yeah I know, fucking kill me) called /r/bookshelves that was filled to the brim with the sort of consoomer wank that we see here. You'd have like 5 books on the bookshelf and the rest was funkopops and anime figures.

There were bookshelves where someone had FOUR (yes, four!) copies of one of the same Harry Potter book and two different Lord of the Rings collections.

Fuck it, I'll go there and see if I can find anything particularly cringe.

Here's a bookshelf where I genuinely cannot tell if it's an 8 year old, a 16 year old or a 32 year old pedos room. The toys say toddler but the way they're laid out says 16 or older.
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Rodimus Prime has jizz on his feet.

 

[SarsCUTE69]

I think we cant forget the skincare hype, especially the asian ones. I used to binge watch skincare reviews but today when i see people hoarding all these face masks and creams i get moti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCt0Sd7-V9U

 

[Vingle]

I think we cant forget the skincare hype, especially the asian ones. I used to binge watch skincare reviews but today when i see people hoarding all these face masks and creams i get moti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCt0Sd7-V9U

Most skincare is bs and do nothing at best. The secret it having a dermatologist who prescribe you the real stuff.
You only need the basics.

 

[The Lawgiver]

actually fuck there used to be a subreddit (yeah I know, fucking kill me) called /r/bookshelves that was filled to the brim with the sort of consoomer wank that we see here. You'd have like 5 books on the bookshelf and the rest was funkopops and anime figures.

There were bookshelves where someone had FOUR (yes, four!) copies of one of the same Harry Potter book and two different Lord of the Rings collections.

Fuck it, I'll go there and see if I can find anything particularly cringe.

Here's a bookshelf where I genuinely cannot tell if it's an 8 year old, a 16 year old or a 32 year old pedos room. The toys say toddler but the way they're laid out says 16 or older.
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This just seems like a normal sloppy shelf rather than what you're hyping it up as. It is, however, a quintessential example of the consoomer shit. It's like the person that organized it had no clue what the fuck the bigger picture of their layout should look like and just flooded it with funkopops and anime/vidya shit. Most of this stuff is in the realm of deceptively cheap looking but expensive shit marketed as "adult collectibles"

Jizzfoot rodimus, H&M bag michaelangelo, and the bionicle with it's legs ripped off really add to the unsettling nature of this photo.

 

[Registration]

actually fuck there used to be a subreddit (yeah I know, fucking kill me) called /r/bookshelves that was filled to the brim with the sort of consoomer wank that we see here. You'd have like 5 books on the bookshelf and the rest was funkopops and anime figures.

There were bookshelves where someone had FOUR (yes, four!) copies of one of the same Harry Potter book and two different Lord of the Rings collections.

Fuck it, I'll go there and see if I can find anything particularly cringe.

Here's a bookshelf where I genuinely cannot tell if it's an 8 year old, a 16 year old or a 32 year old pedos room. The toys say toddler but the way they're laid out says 16 or older.
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The thing about this shelf that bothers me the most is that is a consoom shrine.

It isn't about a dude that likes transformers and have all the toys and comics and so on, there are lots of franchises in different types or merchandising, but nothing to really focus. In the top shelf there is a goranger manga that isn't in the manga shelf, being in the tokusatsu/power ranger shelf. the manga shelf there isn't a complete library of all volumes, just a few ones, sometimes even one of a series.

There isn't dedication to it, it is just a shelf of shit he bought. Totally soulless and without any passion to it.

 

[Pissmaster]

actually fuck there used to be a subreddit (yeah I know, fucking kill me) called /r/bookshelves that was filled to the brim with the sort of consoomer wank that we see here. You'd have like 5 books on the bookshelf and the rest was funkopops and anime figures.

There were bookshelves where someone had FOUR (yes, four!) copies of one of the same Harry Potter book and two different Lord of the Rings collections.

Fuck it, I'll go there and see if I can find anything particularly cringe.

Here's a bookshelf where I genuinely cannot tell if it's an 8 year old, a 16 year old or a 32 year old pedos room. The toys say toddler but the way they're laid out says 16 or older.
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That looks distraught and random enough to look like the toy shelf at Goodwill

The box fan and the two Transformers paintings really sell that Goodwill vibe

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

actually fuck there used to be a subreddit (yeah I know, fucking kill me) called /r/bookshelves that was filled to the brim with the sort of consoomer wank that we see here. You'd have like 5 books on the bookshelf and the rest was funkopops and anime figures.

There were bookshelves where someone had FOUR (yes, four!) copies of one of the same Harry Potter book and two different Lord of the Rings collections.

Fuck it, I'll go there and see if I can find anything particularly cringe.

Here's a bookshelf where I genuinely cannot tell if it's an 8 year old, a 16 year old or a 32 year old pedos room. The toys say toddler but the way they're laid out says 16 or older.
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What I find personally funny is that they've picked up the belt for Zero-one (thing by the funko voltron), which go into the $90+ range and even higher for older belts, yet nothing else from the series or other Kamen Rider in general like the (usually) cheaper figures. It also feels like such a weird place to put it, like an afterthought. Random google example of a more 'normal' collection where they organize it:

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Yeah, that shelve doesn't look like a collection, minus the funkos it reminds me of one of my slighthly older cousin's shelves from when we were kids, thats whats eerie because it seems like the dude never grew up and his room remained frozen in time keeping the random shit from when he was a 12 year old for 20 something years only adding equally inmature yet more recent shit on top of it.

 

[NoReturn]

The box fan and the two Transformers paintings really sell that Goodwill vibe

You shittin' on box fans? I'll cut you!

What I find personally funny is that they've picked up the belt for Zero-one (thing by the funko voltron), which go into the $90+ range and even higher for older belts, yet nothing else from the series or other Kamen Rider in general like the (usually) cheaper figures. It also feels like such a weird place to put it, like an afterthought. Random google example of a more 'normal' collection where they organize it:
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That setup is a ClosetMaid 1290 + ClosetMaid 16068 Storage bins (Inserted the wrong way) and some U-shaped floating shelves. All together you could get this setup for ~$100-$150 USD. Not too bad, honestly.

 

[Pissmaster]

You shittin' on box fans? I'll cut you!

That setup is a ClosetMaid 1290 + ClosetMaid 16068 Storage bins (Inserted the wrong way) and some U-shaped floating shelves. All together you could get this setup for ~$100-$150 USD. Not too bad, honestly.

I'm shittin' on people who put paintings in front of box fans because they need to clean up their mess. Messy rooms are almost as degenerate as fatties.

 

[NoReturn]

Yeah, that shelve doesn't look like a collection, minus the funkos it reminds me of one of my slighthly older cousin's shelves from when we were kids, thats whats eerie because it seems like the dude never grew up and his room remained frozen in time keeping the random shit from when he was a 12 year old for 20 something years only adding equally inmature yet more recent shit on top of it.

I'm shittin' on people who put paintings in front of box fans because they need to clean up their mess. Messy rooms are almost as degenerate as fatties.

Honestly, I really do think there is something to the idea that someone's living situation is a good reflection of a person's mental state, but only to such a degree as is under that individuals control. To be clear, I really do mean "within someone's personal control". If someone has a nice house simply because they pay someone to furnish and maintain it, then all they've really done is told you about their wealth and aesthetic sense, but there is a place on the sanity slider where even that starts to break down.
Let us take, for example, animal hoarder and drug addict Taylor Nicole Dean, and how she was presenting herself online vs. how things really looked irl.

Spoiler: Images she shared herself

We also think of poverty as being synonymous with hoarding and messy/dirty homes, but this isn't always the case either, nor is a beautiful home just "pretending to be wealthy" or "hiding poverty".

Spoiler: Philosophizing

This isn't going to be very eloquent, so I apologize in advance for it being rambly, and I won't PL unless someone asks me something specific.
When times are tough, you don't get much exposure to beautiful things these days. It's seen as an excess, and in certain subcultures seeking beauty is seen as a kind of "Oh so you think you're better than us?", "Don't you have more important things to do?", "Why can't you just be happy with X?" sort of thing.
Meanwhile there are other subcultures that make the same amount as other people in that same income bracket, but who live "better" because they have access to things like a church, a large family, or some other social network that not only provides them with the benefits that affords, but also with access to certain things for which members would otherwise have to pay out of pocket.
E.g. Renting a venue for a wedding vs. having one in a Roman Catholic church.
Then there's also the matter of access to beauty more generally.
There are plenty of criticisms to be made of the excess of organized religions and the corruption of governments, but you'd really think these people who are into things like communism would also recognize the value of pooled resources, not just shared resources. It really surprised me as a little kid to learn that really wealthy people don't travel by staying in fancy hotels. They stay with friends and family, or in their friends' second/vacation homes and then "pay it back" by paying it forward to each other, their children, and others within that circle.
Two nights for two adults in Cabo at an AirBNB is about $500.
Saving money is great, but think too what else you can do with that money.

And because I got serious for a moment there, please enjoy the following:

Paying for things, of course, being optional:

 

[Matt Damon]

Most skincare is bs and do nothing at best. The secret it having a dermatologist who prescribe you the real stuff.
You only need the basics.

Truth. I luckily never had problems, but my brother was still a pizza-faced monster into his early 20s.

He got a prescription for Accutane and his skin became perfectly clear within a month. I couldn't believe how effective that shit is.

 

[Kujo Jotaro]

I'm shittin' on people who put paintings in front of box fans because they need to clean up their mess. Messy rooms are almost as degenerate as fatties.

To do list
1. Wash penis
2. Clean room
3. Slay the metaphysical dragon of evil and rescue my father

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

We also think of poverty as being synonymous with hoarding and messy/dirty homes, but this isn't always the case either, nor is a beautiful home just "pretending to be wealthy" or "hiding poverty".

I don't automatically make that association and i actually believe wealth also brings more possibilities for normalized unhealthy behaviour , is a double edge sword in that regard. Its just that if someone is lower income issues become more readily apparent. Someone poor or middle class with limited living space has more of an incentive to keep their stuff in order and to make room and throw away stuff more often, a hoard taking all breathing space from a small middle class home will have an effect on the quality of life so its pretty weird entering on a small apartment and have to dodge around crap from 20 years ago just to walk across the ling room, the lack of self control, planning and discipline are all more apparent. Meanwhile a rich person might be an even bigger and more compulsive hoarder but will have that stuff in a large storage room, even locked on a second home sometimes, they can sink a lot deeper into habits before anyone realizes there's a psychological issue or any problem with their pattern of behaviour, same with drug addiction, i've met rich kids who were the biggest junkies but were always very casual and failing up in life, they were never gonna be in a street corner sucking dick for cash because just the monthly stipend they'd get from their parents without working or doing anything was a lot more money than they'd ever need to spend on drugs, while someone lower class with a similar habit would absolutely need to turn to crime and prostitution, because that spending was more than most working class wagies made.

TL;DR money makes issues worse but helps mask the negative aspects better