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

[Jonah Hill poster]

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I’m willing to remain optimistic that this comment sounds like a troll, even while admitting that it’s basically the same Marvel movie all over again.

 

[Vingle]

It's less of a "I need to acquire items/spend money." than "I need to do something useful, but like, in a lazy way." feeling, at least for me anyway.

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E.g. For me the "I need to do something" breakdown is like so:
↑ energy, ↓ neuroticism, need to feel productive = Make money
↑ energy, ↑ neuroticism, need to feel productive but not necessarily make money = Cleaning
↓ energy, need to feel useful, but necessarily productive or make money = Shopping

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It's not even Halloween yet!

Easy solution, just have more expensive stuff on your wish list. Aren't able to impulse buy, if you're in a limbo of always saving up for something that's not shit.

I don't know if the prices they show is with tax or not. Because only showing it without would be misleading.
These chains do actually have really good items, and it's a bummer they're not in my country. Because saving on food, that's actually good? Hell yes.

 

[Sicko Hunter]

Whatever happened to consumption based on interest?

It's insane how many times you will hear "Ugh, another fucking star wars movie I have to watch" or "X video game company screwed up Y game but I'm still going to buy whatever they release next" I haven't seen a super hero movie in theaters since the dark night in 2008. Why? I'm not interested in super hero movies. These people whine about how bland and generic they are yet them STILL consoom product ensuring more will be made. One of my closest friends bought Fallout 76 even after all the reviews (albeit marked down a bit) out of what I have to assume is sheer brand loyalty and guess what? Disliked it. It's painful.

 

[The Great Citracett]

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[Nikes_JustDoIt]

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they could make Mr pringle the funko pop holding a can not the can being the funko pop

 

[Raging Capybara]

200 million usd advertising budget buys a LOT of things. That means you get ads where you wouldn't even thought of would be adds, you get gay ops, , fake communities. Fake trends, fake news. etc. That amount of exposure and above and below the line bombardment unavoidably seeps into the culture and fucks shit up pretty bad. Is like it steamrolls everything there is in life with BRAND™. At that level is not just a matter of "just don't watch it" because the marketing is design to annoy you and be intrusive even if you don't.

And a holiday apppropiate consoom trivia. Disney actually tried to trademark "Day of the dead/Dia de los muertos" just to promote Coco.
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There're very few advantages of living in a third-world country, but one of those perks is the absence of marketing. If people don't have money even to feed themselves, consumerism isn't really a priority, right?

I probably don't watch Hollywood blockbusters because of that, I don't even know they exist. For some bizarre reason, blocking ads on twitch is extremely complicated, so I watch the garbage they try to sell me there from time to time, the only exposure to ads I still have in my life. I remember some days ago Marvel trying to convince me to watch a capeshit starring a chink, I literally almost died from laughing. The film looked ridiculously, I can name you some 90s direct to video films with better special effects, the trailer was beyond lackluster. And I didn't know this film existed since the week it premiered, it's so good to be blissfully ignorant about pop culture trash

The sad thing is that I bet it was a success (or not, I don't know). After Black Panther - a film that looks like a PS2 game - was a hit, I doubt nothing else. Cinema is dead.

 

[Airbrushed Van Art]

I actually really enjoyed most of the Marvel movies, including Endgame. However, I’ve always known or felt that they were just fun roller coaster rides of visceral enjoyment, not serious cinema (and certainly not “art” films).

The intense, passionate RAGE that Marvel movie fans blast at me when I say express such an opinion… that anger could power a space ship. Holy shit do they despise ANY implied reasoning that superhero movies are anything but the pinnacle of the cinematic artform.

I mean, I get it: any film that can elicit an emotional response can be considered of high value to a consumer. But so does a Quarter Pounder with cheese after a bad day at work, or chugging an ice cold generic cheap beer after working out in the yard in the middle of summer. But those things, as fun as they are in the moment, are just artificial trash.

I wish people would get over it and realize that capeshit is primarily made to make a profit. Any filmmakers who actually had a unique vision were overpowered by producers or fired.

 

[Fandom Trash]

So the take home message I can take away from reading this thread is that everything I know and love has already or will be brought and manufactured by mega corporations that will turn them into an unrecognizable pile of crap ready for my quick consumption.

 

[remiem]

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I wonder if the people at funko ever sit back and wonder if they've finally hit the point that they've gone too far.

Is there anything they won't make pops for? my god.

 

[whitepumpkin]

So the take home message I can take away from reading this thread is that everything I know and love has already or will be brought and manufactured by mega corporations that will turn them into an unrecognizable pile of crap ready for my quick consumption.

Well, the nice thing is, you can enjoy something without falling into mass consoomerism about it. There are a lot of different ways to show your appreciation for something without spending a lot of money or needing to keep up with The Brand. You can do art, or write. If you're crafty, you can sculpt your own stuff, or crochet/knit/cross-stitch.

Look at this dude. He likes doing dioramas, water, and monsters. All his monsters are made with tinfoil and this sculpt clay you bake. Some people even make dioramas out of cereal boxes and coffee stirrers. There's a nice variety of stuff you can get into if you like something, but because it'll probably take time and effort and not just sticking a funko pop into an online cart, the majority of fans don't want to do that. But it is possible to make something cool for a franchise you like with little to no spending.

 

[NoReturn]

I remember some days ago Marvel trying to convince me to watch a capeshit starring a chink, I literally almost died from laughing. The film looked ridiculously, I can name you some 90s direct to video films with better special effects, the trailer was beyond lackluster.

I've avoided trailers for a while using adblock, but you got me curious, so I looked up the two that matched your description and holy shit. They both look like shows like Xena or Hercules from back in the day, it's just the special effects that have advanced. Not even "improved", just "advanced".

vs.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

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"How many levels of consoom are you on?"
"I don't know, like five or six I think?"
"You are like little baby, watch THIS."

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

I actually really enjoyed most of the Marvel movies, including Endgame. However, I’ve always known or felt that they were just fun roller coaster rides of visceral enjoyment, not serious cinema (and certainly not “art” films).

The intense, passionate RAGE that Marvel movie fans blast at me when I say express such an opinion… that anger could power a space ship. Holy shit do they despise ANY implied reasoning that superhero movies are anything but the pinnacle of the cinematic artform.

I mean, I get it: any film that can elicit an emotional response can be considered of high value to a consumer. But so does a Quarter Pounder with cheese after a bad day at work, or chugging an ice cold generic cheap beer after working out in the yard in the middle of summer. But those things, as fun as they are in the moment, are just artificial trash.

I wish people would get over it and realize that capeshit is primarily made to make a profit. Any filmmakers who actually had a unique vision were overpowered by producers or fired.

Marvel fans seem to get real upset at the idea of someone calling their films popcorn flicks or 'not cinema' even though both aren't necessarily bad things for films to be. I mean you also have people that misuse both terms to disregard films they don't like, but they're just as dumb.

They need to learn to chill out like horror fans who largely don't care what non-horror fans say or how much they get trashed as "schlocky dumb garbage for sickos" by those that don't 'get' them.

 

[NoReturn]

"How many levels of consoom are you on?"
"I don't know, like five or six I think?"
"You are like little baby, watch THIS."

Do you think they ever wake up? Like, for most people you grow out of it over time, but do you think any of them have ever had that moment where they're sitting there and one final neuron just makes a connection and it's like

I feel like these sorts of plastic pieces of crap would be the ones to do it. Just that final straw.

 

[Fetish Roulette]

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The ship sailed on this a long time ago.

I just saw an ad for these and thought they'd be perfect for the thread. Apparently, there was a craze beginning in 2019 over these things called Mini Brands, which are essentially IRL gachas which contain miniature models of consumer brands.
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Make sure to keep buying once you have them all, because they also come in ultra rare golden and metallic variants!
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And where else would they be marketed but at Gamestop, for manchildren to develop deep bonds with their consumer products?

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[Toolbox]

Do you think they ever wake up? Like, for most people you grow out of it over time, but do you think any of them have ever had that moment where they're sitting there and one final neuron just makes a connection and it's like

I feel like these sorts of plastic pieces of crap would be the ones to do it. Just that final straw.

The fact they couldn't grow up past this mentality through puberty makes it incredibly hard for their behavior to change out of this nonsense for a long time if not the rest of their lives. Most likely. It's awful because these people and the type of economy/businesses they are influencing will cause lasting damage. Pretty much impossible to actually recycle the kind of plastic most of these people buy and fill their homes with. Once they're done with it, who will care to keep it? Maybe a few museums that would house shitty memoriabilia as "artifacts" but they don't number that high these days and there wouldn't be an excess of them in the future. Maybe later generations waxing nostalgia for a past they never had? Still niche.

 

[NoReturn]

Maybe a few museums that would house shitty memoriabilia as "artifacts" but they don't number that high these days and there wouldn't be an excess of them in the future. Maybe later generations waxing nostalgia for a past they never had? Still niche.

How would you even preserve that shit? The plastic gets all sticky and/or brittle.

 

[Toolbox]

How would you even preserve that shit? The plastic gets all sticky and/or brittle.

Yep. A whole lot of older plastics do not preserve in their original form unless you keep them vacuum sealed, cleaned, and under constant colder temperatures than even room temperature. Newer plastics will probably start having these kinds of issues in at a minimum 20 years, though I'll be optimistic and say 40.

 

[NoReturn]

Yep. A whole lot of older plastics do not preserve in their original form unless you keep them vacuum sealed, cleaned, and under constant colder temperatures than even room temperature. Newer plastics will probably start having these kinds of issues in at a minimum 20 years, though I'll be optimistic and say 40.

Those shed xenoestrogens, too, right? It's just a soy feedback loop.

 

[Toolbox]

Those shed xenoestrogens, too, right? It's just a soy feedback loop.

It's not just that plastics tend to cause a whole lot of chemical leeching when exposed to anything that people consume but that they also block up parts of the brain that lead to healthy mental development.