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

Even worse, I just saw a YouTube ad that took the Mini Brands series a step closer to hell:
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The fuck is the point of a toy collectible if you can't even play with it?
It's like a toy line for children that were only ever allowed to watch Supermarket Sweep

Razer is bringing covid panic, consooming, and microtransactions together with a $99 RGB face mask + $30 per month filter refills:

I kind of wanted one of those in that if I'm gonna have to wear a face mask, I might as well wear the gaudiest one I can find, with bright LEDs so I can look like a complete faggot everywhere I go.

but lol forget about replacing the filter, I just want to look obnoxious
 
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The latest update of Animal Crossing: New Horizons is pretty consoomer-worthy. I can feel the Ikea from the pics in this comment, carboncopy of those shopping baskets in the kawaii candy hoards @NoReturn provided, those gaming racer chairs every jewtuber has.
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It's just sad seeing this game become completely about hoarding items when the charm was the villagers, they go and dumb them down yet the game is more popular than ever because of social media retardation.
 
There has to be a market for like, half-masks or paintball masks. Something that will make babies cry in the grocery store.
As a paintball player myself, those masks can get ridiculously expensive. I got mine for cheap, but some of the really high end ones can cost $150+. To be clear, that's without RGB lighting and fans and shit.
 
The latest update of Animal Crossing: New Horizons is pretty consoomer-worthy. I can feel the Ikea from the pics in this comment, carboncopy of those shopping baskets in the kawaii candy hoards @NoReturn provided, those gaming racer chairs every jewtuber has.
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It's a free update, bro. There's nothing about consumerism in that.
 
Also notice how she was careful not to cover up the Apple logo with all those stickers lol
Gimmie those late stickers, but not covering up the Apple logo is A Thing You Do if you're an Apple fag. I buy an iPhone every four or five years, basically when iOS stops updating on my phone because security updates are important. Two iPhones ago for me, so the 4C I think, back in 2012 or so, I couldn't find a sturdy case for it that didn’t have a cutout for the Apple, which I hated. I don't want to advertise that I have an iPhone. Four years ago I could find solid backed cases, but a lot of them were transparent or clear to show off the color. Which alright, if I'm buying a colored phone I don't want to cover it with an opaque case, but still showing off that Apple.

Now Apple has a range of I don't know how many different colored cases, probably 13 or so, all with the Apple on the back. There are two clear cases, one of which shows off a circular ring where the magnets in the back that the magnetic wireless charger (an additional $59 dollars fuck you Very much) attaches to. Fucking eyeroll, man. You know the Apple fags are buying multiple cases, if not all of them. Why? A good case will last the life of your phone and swapping them sucks.

And as an added coonsum bonus? Each iPhone comes with an Apple sticker to proclaim your faggotry to the world on your car or something. I like the phone, but I'm not going to drive around town advertising that I have one. It seems like that's an invitation to thieves to break in to my car just in case I have expensive toys in there.
 
It's a free update, bro. There's nothing about consumerism in that.
Free update full of consoomer-stuff, not at all.
Have you ever thought that this is a kids game and is grooming them to be future consoomers? The update isn't for the old gamers, because then the game would become more like New Leaf.
The whole thing is suspicious, and we're talking about Nintendo. Which has a history of making more and more shitty games in recent years, with add-ons.

Not everything has to cost money to be consoomer-worthy.
 
Free update full of consoomer-stuff, not at all.
Have you ever thought that this is a kids game and is grooming them to be future consoomers? The update isn't for the old gamers, because then the game would become more like New Leaf.
The whole thing is suspicious, and we're talking about Nintendo. Which has a history of making more and more shitty games in recent years, with add-ons.

Not everything has to cost money to be consoomer-worthy.
The one argument I really have against this is that Animal Crossing's items aren't branded outside of Nintendo stuff, and even with that, a lot of it is stuff you can't just buy at a store. The one object I know of that you can is a Switch you can get in-game, which, uh, if you're playing New Horizons sans emulation, you already own one. It's all more like dollhouse furniture, and you're incentivized to make your place aesthetically nice. Collecting DIY recipes and building things yourself is also a big part of the game, which is great.

And speaking of building things yourself, if any of you know of any good YouTube channels for such things, let me know.
 
The update is free but there's also the Happy Home Paradise dlc which cost 25$.
All the items can be used in the vanilla game.

Free update full of consoomer-stuff, not at all.
Have you ever thought that this is a kids game and is grooming them to be future consoomers? The update isn't for the old gamers, because then the game would become more like New Leaf.
The whole thing is suspicious, and we're talking about Nintendo. Which has a history of making more and more shitty games in recent years, with add-ons.

Not everything has to cost money to be consoomer-worthy.
wtf is wrong with you? The images you posted feature a kitchen, a children's bedroom, a study, and a closet. What do all of those things have to do with consumerism? It's a game focused on interior design, the shit that Barbie has been doing for girls since ancient times.

Chill out, dude.
 
Gimmie those late stickers, but not covering up the Apple logo is A Thing You Do if you're an Apple fag. I buy an iPhone every four or five years, basically when iOS stops updating on my phone because security updates are important. Two iPhones ago for me, so the 4C I think, back in 2012 or so, I couldn't find a sturdy case for it that didn’t have a cutout for the Apple, which I hated. I don't want to advertise that I have an iPhone. Four years ago I could find solid backed cases, but a lot of them were transparent or clear to show off the color. Which alright, if I'm buying a colored phone I don't want to cover it with an opaque case, but still showing off that Apple.

Now Apple has a range of I don't know how many different colored cases, probably 13 or so, all with the Apple on the back. There are two clear cases, one of which shows off a circular ring where the magnets in the back that the magnetic wireless charger (an additional $59 dollars fuck you Very much) attaches to. Fucking eyeroll, man. You know the Apple fags are buying multiple cases, if not all of them. Why? A good case will last the life of your phone and swapping them sucks.

And as an added coonsum bonus? Each iPhone comes with an Apple sticker to proclaim your faggotry to the world on your car or something. I like the phone, but I'm not going to drive around town advertising that I have one. It seems like that's an invitation to thieves to break in to my car just in case I have expensive toys in there.
Isn't the logo a button? Like you tap it to do stuff?
 
Isn't the logo a button? Like you tap it to do stuff?
No, it's just there. But the magnetic charger is going over it.
Pic is with transparent case designed for magsafe.
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Gimmie those late stickers, but not covering up the Apple logo is A Thing You Do if you're an Apple fag. I buy an iPhone every four or five years, basically when iOS stops updating on my phone because security updates are important. Two iPhones ago for me, so the 4C I think, back in 2012 or so, I couldn't find a sturdy case for it that didn’t have a cutout for the Apple, which I hated. I don't want to advertise that I have an iPhone. Four years ago I could find solid backed cases, but a lot of them were transparent or clear to show off the color. Which alright, if I'm buying a colored phone I don't want to cover it with an opaque case, but still showing off that Apple.

Now Apple has a range of I don't know how many different colored cases, probably 13 or so, all with the Apple on the back. There are two clear cases, one of which shows off a circular ring where the magnets in the back that the magnetic wireless charger (an additional $59 dollars fuck you Very much) attaches to. Fucking eyeroll, man. You know the Apple fags are buying multiple cases, if not all of them. Why? A good case will last the life of your phone and swapping them sucks.

And as an added coonsum bonus? Each iPhone comes with an Apple sticker to proclaim your faggotry to the world on your car or something. I like the phone, but I'm not going to drive around town advertising that I have one. It seems like that's an invitation to thieves to break in to my car just in case I have expensive toys in there.
extremely buttmad Applefag here, if you're this committed to pretending you hate having an iPhone then just scribble over it with a sharpie or something. take control of your life.

i wonder about those stickers and who's actually sticking them sometimes, though, cause i've probably got a dozen of them stacked up by now and have zero desire to put them on anything. certainly not my fucking automobile
 
i wonder about those stickers and who's actually sticking them sometimes, though, cause i've probably got a dozen of them stacked up by now and have zero desire to put them on anything. certainly not my fucking automobile
I've seen those stickers on many a charger/suburban in the middle-class and lower income parts of town. Never in the rich areas, however.
 
To a degree, it doesn't matter how the movies do. The shelves are going to be so full of Black Widow action figures and Eternals Funko Pops that Disney is going to make a profit regardless.

Will those actually sell though? There were tons of Star Wars toys left on shelves, from movies that didn't particuarly resonate with audiences - I'm just struggling to see merch selling well that's based off three superhero movies that barely got any press coverage. Maybe I'm just living in a cave, though.
 
Will those actually sell though? There were tons of Star Wars toys left on shelves, from movies that didn't particuarly resonate with audiences - I'm just struggling to see merch selling well that's based off three superhero movies that barely got any press coverage. Maybe I'm just living in a cave, though.


unsold goods are billed in advance and it is useful for the company to understand which target is less interested and in what.
besides I fear that they earn more with the merchandising for teens and adults than with the real toys
 
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.
Correct me if I'm wrong- but either Bronze-Age or Iron-Age China was the first human civilization to learn how to mass manufacture shit (specifically crossbow bolts), right? Modern archeologists and historians collect these crossbow bolts because they represent a very important step in mankind's technological advancement (specifically- paving the way for replaceable parts). The problem is I don't think alot of the plastic consoomer shit has any tangible historical value because mass-manufacturing was already perfected in the Industrial Revolution of the 1800's. You could make the argument that they will eventually have "collector's value" like the Confederate and Zimbabwean dollars that was mass-printed during periods of hyperinflation and are now prized by collectors as having economic and historic relevance but I really don't see that with shit like Funko Pops or Star Wars figurines. As hilarious as it may sound- Bootleg knock-offs of these toys may have a bigger cult following just due to how obscure and bizarre the rebranding can be as a means to skirt international copyright law (See the "Cash Pope" stores they have in Spain, for instance)
 
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