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

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

I didn't know people caring about super bowl commercials is still being a thing. I remember them being more of a 2000's thing especially around 2006 As a kids back then people use to quote or talk about them for days afterward. ( i think we all remember the old godaddy.com commercials as an example.) I thought all that died out about 2013ish.

I live deep in the heart of flyover football country, it's still a thing. Dying out though, thankfully.

 

[LillWeeb]

I live deep in the heart of flyover football country, it's still a thing. Dying out though, thankfully.

Same my fiancee Gen X parents still care and each year ends the same way, they ask where have all the funny ones gone.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Same my fiancee Gen X parents still care and each year ends the same way, they ask where have all the funny ones gone.

Spoiler: Power level

I live within driving distance of a major sports stadium, it's unbearable to listen to even as someone who likes sports. I'm debating adding to this thread with some of the more famous people who live near me since that particular team has some of the most diehard obsessive fans in the nation.

 

[Gay Mouth]

Speaking of the super bowl commercials- the theme I took away this year was celebrities. So many fucking celebrities. An Austin powers actor reunion to sell cars, a smart home ad with Scarlet Johansson and her SNL husband, Schwarzenegger and Salma Hayek as Zeus and Hera, stifler’s mom and Trevor Noah for Uber eats where Gwenyth Paltrow eats a vagina candle, rocket mortgage with Anna Kendrick, Lindsay Lohan for planet fitness, zendaya wearing seashells for squarespace, the stars of that sitcom Scrubs for wifi, the zombie of Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus for T mobile...

Fuck I can’t even tell what they were advertising but J-Lo, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Seth Rogan, Paul Rudd, Guy Fieri, Matthew McConaughey, Ewan McGregor, Idris Elba had commercials. It was such a weird vibe to just have a shitload of big and small celebrities in every fucking ad. Weirdest globohomo shit I’ve seen in a while. Guess everyone wants an easy paycheck after a cozy two years not having to work as Hollywood is shut down.

Apologies for the weird capitalization my phone is about to brick trying to process all these made up names.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I never underestimated the disposable income that Australian turned Japanese weebs have on Japanese society.

 

[Yaks]

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I never underestimated the disposable income that Australian turned Japanese weebs have on Japanese society.

I run in some circles with a shit ton of old-school weebs in it and they are probably the biggest consumers I've ever met. I somewhat feel like they're worse than the Marvel and Star Wars people. I pretty regularly watch them celebrate and congrats each other for buying the Blue-ray release of an anime, as an example.

 

[augment]

Well good on them for keeping what's left of the japanese economy afloat.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

I run in some circles with a shit ton of old-school weebs in it and they are probably the biggest consumers I've ever met. I somewhat feel like they're worse than the Marvel and Star Wars people. I pretty regularly watch them celebrate and congrats each other for buying the Blue-ray release of an anime, as an example.

Streaming anime makes the anime industry somewhere in the ballpark of jack shit in annual revenue. Buying the official blueray releases of the series you like is one of the (exceedingly) few ways to actually directly financially support the studios that create the series, blue ray releases are also something that generally dries up quickly and isn't often reprinted and so jumping on them when you can ain't a bad idea if you're really into that sort of thing since they tend to sell secondhand infrequently and at no real discernable markdown, they often go up in price.

Anime is a weird hobby my man, it's rife with consoomerism and weeaboos will absolutely waste money on retarded shit they don't really need but anime merch isn't all that westernized and is still relatively insular to the Japanese market, it's even worse for Euros than Americans.

 

[Vingle]

blue ray releases are also something that generally dries up quickly and isn't often reprinted and so jumping on them when you can ain't a bad idea

Same sort of thing with animu figurines, you have to pre-order it. Or you have to pay a lot more to scalpers.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Same sort of thing with animu figurines, you have to pre-order it. Or you have to pay a lot more to scalpers.

Like I said, it's something that is easy to go overboard with and some people really do, but at the same time it's also a genuinely limited market for what are almost exclusively foreign produced goods, or goods produced under license to foreign companies who are notoriously draconian when it comes to things like IP law and brand image.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Nathaniel bought all of the Player’s Choice™ Editions for the Nintendo GameCube, and gave an almost 20 minute video explaining why.

 

[Yaks]

Nathaniel bought all of the Player’s Choice™ Editions for the Nintendo GameCube, and gave an almost 20 minute video explaining why.

"I got the same exact games I already own multiple other copies of, but THIS ONE has a yellow label on it!"

I summed up his reasoning.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

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I never underestimated the disposable income that Australian turned Japanese weebs have on Japanese society.

You underestimate sponsorships. The extreme cases are xQc playing a game for 30 mins at high end 5 figures, even 6 sometimes for several hours at launch etc.

You'll see 200 viewer streamers get sponsorships of high-end 3 digits easily. If you can promise 2800 viewers? Easily $6k for a few hours of your stream. That's ignoring patreon, youtube revenue etc. He can also write this off as company spending, if the money wasn't already donated by the sponsor straight up. In fact, him spending $10k is the low end lol

 

[Thiletonomics]

Kpop is another consumerist culture all it's own. For example, if you are a big fan and want to get the invite to the exclusive fanmeets to hold hands with the idols. You need to buy somewhere around 50 of the idol(s) albums. Because theres a chance that one of them may have an invite for the fanmeet inside. Also, at the fanmeet, sometimes there will be exclusive merch to buy.

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On top of this, inside each album will be a photocard, so you also have to buy multiple albums to get the whole set.
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Then if you end up buying a ticket to a concert, there are certain exclusive items only available for sale at the merch shop at the concerts.
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You also have the official lightstick of each group or soloist to shake in the air at concerts to show your support.

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Finally you have the corporate approved fanchant to shout at stages or concerts, recorded by the group so you know what to shout.

Thats just the official stuff. Fans have been known to pay for all sorts of information just to get closer to their idols. There are information brokers that deal in stuff like candid photos, schedules, bookings, Flight Manifests, mobile phone numbers, email addresses, family addresses etc

You can even pay money to ensure your idol gets the most votes on music shows in Korea.
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Oh I almost forgot, the cross promotion. In SK, Idols endorse everything. School Uniforms. Fashion. Food. Drinks. When they are old enough, alcohol, lingerie etc etc.

They even create music videos exclusively for the bigger deals.

How bad is the K-Pop consoomerism, compared to J-Pop, i.e. the entire Love Live! franchise?

And here's a few more examples of Nesoberi consoomerism:



Some people get multiple Nesos of the same character, just to do things such as stack them in a tower.



When Nesos and JDM meet...



Ditto.

 

[Pissmaster]

Nathaniel bought all of the Player’s Choice™ Editions for the Nintendo GameCube, and gave an almost 20 minute video explaining why.

Gamecube Player's Choice releases don't actually have any differences in the instruction manuals or on the discs. Like, he could have just printed out scans of the Player's Choice covers for his existing copies, and voila.

But I know game collectors, and that's cheating.

 

[Gutpuke]

I'm starting too feel like reddit is cheating.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

How bad is the K-Pop consoomerism, compared to J-Pop, i.e. the entire Love Live! franchise?

And here's a few more examples of Nesoberi consoomerism:
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That is so unsafe if they drive like that. Did you know that a box of facial tissues (Kleenex) on the ledge behind the back seat can kill a person if they get into a collision going only 55 mph/88 kph? Think about how light a box of facial tissues is and then think about the stuff you see in the back windows of cars on the road.

It does look like that car is at a convention or something, so that's not an issue, but damn.

 

[Thiletonomics]

That is so unsafe if they drive like that. Did you know that a box of facial tissues (Kleenex) on the ledge behind the back seat can kill a person if they get into a collision going only 55 mph/88 kph? Think about how light a box of facial tissues is and then think about the stuff you see in the back windows of cars on the road.

It does look like that car is at a convention or something, so that's not an issue, but damn.

Also, because Tera Jumbo Nesoberis are ~15-20 pounds, I can see those becoming a projectile in a car crash.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

Also, because Tera Jumbo Nesoberis are ~15-20 pounds, I can see those becoming a projectile in a car crash.

That's what makes even tissues so deadly. They become a projectile going the speed you were going and if they hit the back of your head: game over

Humans are both incredibly sturdy and incredibly fragile at the same time. It's both amazing and horrifying.

 

[Donttouch2323]

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I never underestimated the disposable income that Australian turned Japanese weebs have on Japanese society.

To clarify a little, the $10,000 one was split between 3 people, paid for through a combination of patreon and cooperate sponsership, and used as set dressing for their podcast. The videos heavily advertised 4 differnt stores. They didn't pay anything for these, used it for studio props, and made money off of it.

This was just good marketing lol.