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

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Superbowl ads have been as big of a draw to the Superbowl as the actual football game as long as I can remember, though now that I think of it, that really is a seriously consoomer-tier thing to care about. Commercials are generally seen as a necessary evil, except for Super Bowl Sunday, because the ad space starts at seven figures and the draw is that they're really gonna go all out and shove their brand in your face. I get the appeal, the appeal that the ads are big budget short films, but they can't really be films with any substance, because their entire purpose is to sell you on a product. Not to mention, personally, I know I've seen a bunch of assorted Super Bowl ads, yet the only one I can remember was this one ad for a local place, I think maybe like an auto mechanic, where it was literally just the guy and some employees of his in a shop saying "Yep, we paid a fortune for this super bowl ad! Everyone wave to the camera! Well if you need your brakes fixed or some shit, come on down to Chuck's Queers and Rears, and we'll inspect your tailpipe for free"

Super Bowl parties are a huge thing and if you aren't into football the commercials are a welcome reprieve since it at least gives you something to watch and talk about, that's really the main appeal of them.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

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Oh no! She pulled down a shelf! I don't see any damage to the pops or the boxes. It's almost like she was trying to really annoy you without actually harming the things you value; you know, like someone who cares about you but is really angry with you would do. Maybe some boxes got crushed, but I saw an image of a brand new game console that some insane girlfriend literally destroyed because her boyfriend played on it when she wanted attention, so ya know, count yourself lucky.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

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Notice how the shelf has a wall anchor up top to stop this from happening and buddy boy just straight up ain't using it. Although I am curious as to how all those funkos in the background ended up on top of and behind that other shelf, he must have more wall shelves above the picture. Credit where it's due to Funko Pop though, those boxes are decently made to be thrown off shelves and survive totally intact like that, assuming that's what actually happened.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

JUST before John Madden died, these games (like all sports games) were absolutely worthless, even sealed.
Someone even made a urinal out of them.

When K-Marts started dying 20 years ago, some of them pulled out bins full of hoards of secondhand NES and SNES cartridges repackaged by a 3rd party. I got so excited at first, but then saw it was 99% Madden.

Notice how the shelf has a wall anchor up top to stop this from happening and buddy boy just straight up ain't using it. Although I am curious as to how all those funkos in the background ended up on top of and behind that other shelf, he must have more wall shelves above the picture. Credit where it's due to Funko Pop though, those boxes are decently made to be thrown off shelves and survive totally intact like that, assuming that's what actually happened.

I think the Funkos on top were stacked on top of the shelves, and she smacked that shit over so fast, the top Funkos were briefly suspended in air like Wile E. Coyote.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

Sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar

Look how red he is.

This level of Disney obsession makes me feel dead inside. I wouldn't care if they only visited Disneyland a few times, but to treat such a blatantly artificial place like that as if it's the most fascinating place on Earth just rings hollow. The whole corporate nature of it and all feels awful.

 

[NoReturn]

This level of Disney obsession makes me feel dead inside. I wouldn't care if they only visited Disneyland a few times, but to treat such a blatantly artificial place like that as if it's the most fascinating place on Earth just rings hollow. The whole corporate nature of it and all feels awful.

You fool! You think the DDOS preventing media uploads will stop me from showing you more of this?

 

[The Curmudgeon]

You fool! You think the DDOS preventing media uploads will stop me from showing you more of this?

Why you do dis? YOU'RE BREAKING MY BALLS, MAN!

 

[b0x]

A recent story from South Korea.

A typical vapid IG Influncer/Youtuber became popular in South Korea after appearing on a "Love Island" style dating show wearing nothing but brand name stuff all the time.




Heaps of articles were written about her, what she wears, how she does her makeup, what celebrities are interested in her.

But then a few weeks ago she was cancelled. She deleted all her social media, as well as getting edited out of SK TV shows where she guest starred.

Single's Inferno participant Song Ji-ah to be edited out of MBC's The Manager amidst scandal​

https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-singles-inferno-song-ji-ah-edited-out-mbc-the-manager

What was her crime? Apparently she wasn't a big enough CONSOOMER. Because 20 out of her 500+ piece wardrobe were knock-offs.

She ended up making an apology video after receiving death threats.

 

[Levakt]

I found the dude whose gf knocked over the funko shelf and he is down bad. Didn't even take two years to do this to the mfer, at least a couple of these cost him over $100.

Also, the third angle shows that they sleep right in front of it lmao. The girl's probably just losing it after waking up to hundreds of beady black eyes every day.

 

[Yaks]

A recent story from South Korea.

A typical vapid IG Influncer/Youtuber became popular in South Korea after appearing on a "Love Island" style dating show wearing nothing but brand name stuff all the time.

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Heaps of articles were written about her, what she wears, how she does her makeup, what celebrities are interested in her.

But then a few weeks ago she was cancelled. She deleted all her social media, as well as getting edited out of SK TV shows where she guest starred.

Single's Inferno participant Song Ji-ah to be edited out of MBC's The Manager amidst scandal​

https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-singles-inferno-song-ji-ah-edited-out-mbc-the-manager

What was her crime? Apparently she wasn't a big enough CONSOOMER. Because 20 out of her 500+ piece wardrobe were knock-offs.

She ended up making an apology video after receiving death threats.

South Korea is a different kind of consumer hell I can't even begin to fathom.

 

[Vingle]

What was her crime? Apparently she wasn't a big enough CONSOOMER. Because 20 out of her 500+ piece wardrobe were knock-offs.

I would say you're an bigger consoomer, if you buy fakes. And she deserve it.
A dupe is okay, but an actual fake of a designer brand-product is a great sin.

It waters down the brands and make them seem cheap, when poors wear fakes. And I'm pretty sure the quality of fakes sometimes is better than the authentic stuff, is the reason for why designer brands are going down in quality. Like, why even try. If someone can get that thing for several thousand less and filthy normies can't even tell the difference.

We need class differences.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

A recent story from South Korea.

A typical vapid IG Influncer/Youtuber became popular in South Korea after appearing on a "Love Island" style dating show wearing nothing but brand name stuff all the time.

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Heaps of articles were written about her, what she wears, how she does her makeup, what celebrities are interested in her.

But then a few weeks ago she was cancelled. She deleted all her social media, as well as getting edited out of SK TV shows where she guest starred.

Single's Inferno participant Song Ji-ah to be edited out of MBC's The Manager amidst scandal​

https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-singles-inferno-song-ji-ah-edited-out-mbc-the-manager

What was her crime? Apparently she wasn't a big enough CONSOOMER. Because 20 out of her 500+ piece wardrobe were knock-offs.

She ended up making an apology video after receiving death threats.

i shut off everything from south korea, their media is too plastic for me to stomach it. I guess it feels like the cringiest aspects from American and japanese pop culture but on steroids, their idols are like those creepy realistic robots, they give me uncanny valley vibes, very surreal stuff.

 

[WULULULULU]

i shut off everything from south korea, their media is too plastic for me to stomach it. I guess it feels like the cringiest aspects from American and japanese pop culture but on steroids, their idols are like those creepy realistic robots, they give me uncanny valley vibes, very surreal stuff.

PL: I know someone who is too much into Kpop, well a specific band at the very least. Listens mostly from that band and thinks most bands from Kpop are pretty good but as a result, tends to be a narcissist and has too much pride. I can tell you that the moment you consoom anything from Korea that is mostly Kpop, Kdrama or any part of their culture, they will immediately adopt a holier-than-thou attitude to their culture, especially if they were anime weebs from the past.

 

[NoReturn]

South Korea is a different kind of consumer hell I can't even begin to fathom.

Nor I, but I do want to know more about it.

I would say you're an bigger consoomer, if you buy fakes. And she deserve it.
A dupe is okay, but an actual fake of a designer brand-product is a great sin.

It waters down the brands and make them seem cheap, when poors wear fakes. And I'm pretty sure the quality of fakes sometimes is better than the authentic stuff, is the reason for why designer brands are going down in quality. Like, why even try. If someone can get that thing for several thousand less and filthy normies can't even tell the difference.

We need class differences.

Ok, we can do feudalism, but in exchange I want my own patch of land where I don't have to pay taxes and only need to offer yearly shares to m'lord.

PL: I know someone who is too much into Kpop, well a specific band at the very least. Listens mostly from that band and thinks most bands from Kpop are pretty good but as a result, tends to be a narcissist and has too much pride. I can tell you that the moment you consoom anything from Korea that is mostly Kpop, Kdrama or any part of their culture, they will immediately adopt a holier-than-thou attitude to their culture, especially if they were anime weebs from the past.

There seems to be a generational difference where there are more weeaboos among millinials and more koreaboos in GenZ.
I blame the easy access to the associated media. Things like kdrama on streaming sites being more common than Japanese shows (and also the Japanese shows being represented are anime, not live action.) There's also the manwha/webtoon vs. manga divide. Teenagers are reading comics on their phones, not sitting on the floor of a Borders hiding from the store staff while they read entire volumes of manga.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Ok, we can do feudalism, but in enchange I want my own patch of land where I don't have to pay taxes and only need to offer yearly shares to m'lord.

I will join you in this.

sitting on the floor of a Borders hiding from the store staff while they read entire volumes of manga.

Damn you to hell, I used to do that. Except it was my local hobby shop since they were the only place with good manga since we didn't have Borders and Barnes & Noble only ever stocked trash.

 

[Gar For Archer]

I found the dude whose gf knocked over the funko shelf and he is down bad. Didn't even take two years to do this to the mfer, at least a couple of these cost him over $100.
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Also, the third angle shows that they sleep right in front of it lmao. The girl's probably just losing it after waking up to hundreds of beady black eyes every day.

What the FUCK?

In that picture, there’s just around 200 visible (assuming the shelves aren’t double-stacked, yes, some retards will buy Funko pops just to put them BEHIND OTHER FUNKO POPS) + 10-ish extra large ones. That’s about one Funko pop every other day.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

This is small potatoes in the land of coonsooming, but I've found my local grocery store chain's entry into smelly hand soap to be lulzy.

Every three months or so they come out with three new scents of these soaps. In July last year the scents were based on their brand of ice cream flavors. (So delicious, both the scent and the ice cream - people who don't have an HEB are missing out)

In December it was Christmas-esque scents. Now these.

I'm still working through the ones I bought in July (there's only two people in my household so it takes a long time to use a bottle of soap). The scents are amazing, but no way most people need three new scents of hand soap every season.

Other companies do this too, but this is the first store brand I've seen do this in a regular basis.

 

[NoReturn]

Holy shit, dudes.

It's a Disney subdivision.

 

[Yaks]

Holy shit, dudes.

It's a Disney subdivision.

Wait wait, didn't they already build a Disney City thing that ultimately ended up failing?

EDIT: Yeah the town is Celebration, FL. It ended up being terrible and sold off to another company after letting it fall to pieces, school system and all.

 

[Gar For Archer]

BHoly shit, dudes.

It's a Disney subdivision.

Haven’t they done this already? I seem to recall there being entire Disney-sponsored and Disney-themed gated communities in Florida.

Wait wait, didn't they already build a Disney City thing that ultimately ended up failing?

…Epcot?