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

I know my vehicle and I know more or less exactly how far I can go at each point on the fuel gauge. Who cares if the fuel light comes on? I wait for the light and then fill the bitch, or I check the trip odometer and get gas when I hit a predetermined milage number since I know within fractions of a gallon how much fuel that has used. Drive your car and pay attention to it, it isn't that hard.
It's more a case of having the range if I need it, with a quarter tank in my car I know I can do at least 100 miles at the drop of a hat and not have to worry about finding a petrol station on the way. But like I said nigga, it's a personal thing.
 
Tbh if you're stupid enough to buy a $800 advent calendar without checking what it contains, then you deserve to get scammed.
Yeah, but at the same time brands deserve to be roasted for how overprice their products are.
The backlash towards Chanel alone is entertaining, and i hope a couple of kids were woken up to the emptyness of brand-worship.
 
The thing that makes people like this tacky is that their taste consists only of stereotypical "rich people stuff" whereas real rich people just buy really nice, high-end examples of things they enjoy or actually use. PL but I've worked at a place that catered to extremely wealthy clients before, and the average car was more like a boring-looking range rover or BMW sedan than the flashy sports car that screams "rich"



I honestly don't care that big brands like Chanel sell cashcow shit like this honestly, it's a fucking genius business model. If it means more money for beautiful haute couture collections, make logo print toilet paper and sell it for $40 a roll. I don't give a fuck :story:
Its "Dutch disease" but applied to people, they receive increased income and the more they make the faster they end up buying themselves into debt rather than be freed from it . More money more problems is true, if all you do is flaunt it and spend like a nigger.
 
Did I miss the time where this thread had posters talk about Amiibo collections?


One might think that using maxmoefoe is technically cheating, but he’s not the only one. That video was made just a year ago, for these ones existed almost two to even SIX years ago:




As a bonus, it was just a few days ago when Nathaniel Bandy made a video about his Amiibo collection. Though, to be fair, I think he realized that he was in on the joke:

 
Did I miss the time where this thread had posters talk about Amiibo collections?


One might think that using maxmoefoe is technically cheating, but he’s not the only one. That video was made just a year ago, for these ones existed almost two to even SIX years ago:




As a bonus, it was just a few days ago when Nathaniel Bandy made a video about his Amiibo collection. Though, to be fair, I think he realized that he was in on the joke:

Good lord. I'd get it if you wanna use them for games but... That many? Really?
 
I found a Lootcrate branded tshirt in a thrift store here (in Russia), bought it as it was precious shade of blue that made my red fucking face look better. The picture (Transformer) started to rub off after two washes, so now I wear it at home. Was it their general quality?
I can imagine so because I've heard that Lootcrate was actually a box of unsold merch from warehouses.
I can imagine the company had to spend as little money as possible for their exclusive merch and not too long after, the company went under.
 
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Fashion man, a story in three parts.
Posting this less about him than to highlight how his audience clearly struggles with the difference between dropping $500 on Shien vs. buying secondhand, as well as the same discussion we've been having in this thread re: "Where is the line?"

(The O-OP privated her account, btw)

 
Funko pop nfts are a thing now apparently. Poor Bob Ross has to be rolling in his grave.

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https://twitter.com/OriginalFunko/status/1470816228684050438
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God this makes me MATI. I don't care for Bob ross's paintings but his whole fucking life philosophy was to make people fall in love with painting and being creative, his name and estate were basically swindled out of him while he was on his deathbed dying of fucking cancer just a few years after his wife passed and now all these tie-ins to his name for art supplies and shit like this are being pushed like crazy against the rest of his family's wishes. There's a whole documentary about this on Netflix
 
God this makes me MATI
Funkos and the grifting of Bob Ross only add insult to injury but everything about NTFs is usually enough to make me MATI, so much that i don't bring it up for the thread since i avoid lingering too much on the topic for my own mental health, everytime i read something i try to forget it and pretend is not real.

But fuck it, someone made this cheap ass cursed animated abomination featuring those ugly apes as an NTF cartoon and is now worth 2 million dollars with the usual redditors being extra excited claiming is the best thing ever made and a historical achievement of epic proportions.
Just end it all now, burn this gay earth, i wouldn't even right click save none of this shit for free.

 
Has this been shared here yet?
This is the exclusive welcome video you get if you booked a stay at the godawful Disney Wars hotel.

Its about as cheap looking as you can expect, but totally worth $10k amiright fellow Disneyphiles?
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Iphones instead of props, backdrops you'd expect at some movie editor store in a mall, shitty gimmick poker as the only source of entertainment, and they even gave the alien girl the wrong skin color so you know they're really dedicated to their authentic LARP bullshit at least!
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But its not Disney's fault though. Fans are just toxic bigots!
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This is your brain on consoomerism.

Reservations are being cancelled at a rapid pace but I'm still expecting plenty of shill videos bragging about wasting $20k to "enjoy" this shitty experience twice.
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Has this been shared here yet?
This is the exclusive welcome video you get if you booked a stay at the godawful Disney Wars hotel.

Its about as cheap looking as you can expect, but totally worth $10k amiright fellow Disneyphiles?
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Iphones instead of props, backdrops you'd expect at some movie editor store in a mall, shitty gimmick poker as the only source of entertainment, and they even gave the alien girl the wrong skin color so you know they're really dedicated to their authentic LARP bullshit at least!
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But its not Disney's fault though. Fans are just toxic bigots!
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This is your brain on consoomerism.

Reservations are being cancelled at a rapid pace but I'm still expecting plenty of shill videos bragging about wasting $20k to "enjoy" this shitty experience twice.
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IMHO one of the reasons of this failure is the fact that while normal Disney travels and experiences are aimed at kids or families with kids, this Star Wars thing had to include young adults and adult nerds. Which is a problem because adults that demand to enjoy an immersive, realistic experience won’t just be satisfied with the usual kid thing Disney does.
The result is probably going to be something that neither target will like.
 
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