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

[Pissmaster]

"nostalgia"
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https://web.archive.org/web/20210108015530/https://www.hgtv.ca/bedrooms/photos/90s-bedrooms-decorating-ideas-nostalgia-1930956/

This isn't nostalgia, it's just a pile of random old shit that was made between 1988 and 1999. Nobody who listened to Nirvana or Metallica was buying Tiger Beat or Spice World posters. And there's no actual home decorating idea expressed here, it's just clutter piled up on what looks like a low budget soap opera set.

a lot of these people really weren't that old during the time. I always see people born in the late 90s saying how they're a 90's baby and are obsessed with it. why? you were like four and you remember this? this whole 90's aesthetic vibe bullshit is cringe. "Imagine yourself, it's 98 and you are going over to your friend's house to play on his N64 and drink some HI-C". I never really understand it. it's also odd since most of these people wouldn't like it anyway. dial up internet, no smartphones, and no one is going you call you by your chosen pronouns. c'mon, drop the whole "this decade is my personality" shit.

Frosty_Glass mentioning seeing people born in the late 90s being into this sort of nostalgia gumbo aesthetic, and that made me realize something: if you were a toddler at the end of a period of a certain kind of culture or fashion, it'll get logged in your brain as something vague and mysterious, that you never fully understood, yet it's especially interesting because it was gone before you could really comprehend it. Things like this will stand out to you, and you'll see remnants of stuff you remember throughout your life, like assorted clothes and knick-knacks at thrift stores, magazines at used bookstores, and reruns on TV. Combine those with seeing advertisements like this:



and your mind sort of pieces together what a kid's room in that time might have looked like, because you're imagining it through rose-tinted glasses. That's what those ads in @Maggots on a Train v2's more or less are, manifested into reality.

Of course, any of us could tell you that those aren't at all what kids' rooms of the 90s looked like. Most of the furniture would be old hand-me-downs, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of it still is, considering how much 21st century furniture is just MDF junk.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I don’t know if this has been said before, but social justice and consumerism really do go hand in hand. Between Russians trying to get what is left of McDonalds hamburgers to corporations like Target and Wal-Mart capitalizing on pro-Ukraine buzzwords, this meme currently encapsulates what I currently think at the moment:

 

[Levakt]

This looks disgusting. She looks sick the whole time. The company delish should have more than one person trying to eat the food at Disney, making one person do it is horrible idea. I did not like to watch that, not even a little bit, not at all.

Anyway.

Stupid designer clothings.

Spoiler: Shoepants $3,000

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Nylon leggings for this price? No, thank you, I do not want it.

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$600,00 thrift store tshirt, looks like cardboard

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Those are perfect for the on-trend jester

Spoiler: edit: they come in animal print too...

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

I don’t know if this has been said before, but social justice and consumerism really do go hand in hand. Between Russians trying to get what is left of McDonalds hamburgers to corporations like Target and Wal-Mart capitalizing on pro-Ukraine buzzwords, this meme currently encapsulates what I currently think at the moment:

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It does when tycoons like Larry Fink, Soros are trying to social engineer culture from the top down and use all their finantial power to rope every other corporation into it. Is not even a conspiracy theory when they proudly advertise what they are doing. The whole woke phenomenom could hipotetically end, in minecraft, with a handful of well placed bullets.

 

[Vivec]

Pop science is one of the worst things to happen to western civilization. It breeds a certain type of stupid. There have always been know-it-alls but there's dopes now that think watching Bill Nye or Neil Degrasse Tyson makes them the smartest person in the room.

They are the perfect audience for pop science. They think because they learned some obscure fact about the rings of Saturn and can rattle it off at parties, that makes them smart. There's no critical thinking or stopping to ask how or why. These are the type of people that talk about what genius Tesla was and how Edison was a fraud but don't have the faintest fucking idea how power generation works.

When the topic comes up the engineers in my family (i.e. everyone older than 18 but me) joke about Tau day (6/28 ) because thats far more useful than pi day.

It's the nerd archetype. They obsess over a certain subject and then use their knowledge of that subject to adopt a certain status as "intelligentsia". No matter how much trivia you memorize, it is no equal to actual intelligence and understanding Its funny to see these types run into actual experts who are enthusiastic about the subject because they are quickly proven to be quacks really.

All nerds need to be hanged.

Funny thing about all of this, is that this problem has existed for millennia. Plato in particular rejected Pythagoras's definition of 'philosophy' to mean 'the love of knowledge', and invented his own for The Academy, specifically to exclude people who were just interested in learning random facts, or people who saw information as a resource merely be hoarded, instead of synthesized and applied.

These fact consoomers far predate the printing press.

[Pay no mind to the inherent potential irony of this post]

 

[Fliddaroonie]

I never noticed that before, but you're right. When the hell did people start doing this?

Also, damn you for ensuring I'll never not notice it from now on when people do it.

I have to suffer. Now you do too!

To be honest, I just point it out to people doing it. I ask them if they've got special needs or something or if they need extra help. It stops it right enough.

That lady has scoliosis or something. Her right shoulder doesn't sit at the same height her left shoulder does.

Sorry that makes no sense. How does scoliosis affect the gestures you make with your hands or mouth movements?

I know she's a SPED, being at Disney aside, she looks off. But her gestures, mannerisms and what she does with her mouth are all wrong and that's nothing to do with her being crippled.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Mario day is the laziest marketing that I’ve seen in some time. Mar10 = Mario. Wtf Nintendo didn’t even try this hard for Pokémon 25th anniversary last year.

After that time they celebrated 25 years of Mario by porting a SNES compilation, you expect Nintendo to put effort into anniversaries?

I think some people are just more willing to admit it than others. Suggesting you might like Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 might ruin someones super hardcore black metal gamer image.

My super hardcore black metal gamer image is enhanced with a little John Lee Hooker. It Serves Me Right to Suffer is peak depressive black metal.

Frosty_Glass mentioning seeing people born in the late 90s being into this sort of nostalgia gumbo aesthetic, and that made me realize something: if you were a toddler at the end of a period of a certain kind of culture or fashion, it'll get logged in your brain as something vague and mysterious, that you never fully understood, yet it's especially interesting because it was gone before you could really comprehend it. Things like this will stand out to you, and you'll see remnants of stuff you remember throughout your life, like assorted clothes and knick-knacks at thrift stores, magazines at used bookstores, and reruns on TV. Combine those with seeing advertisements like this:

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and your mind sort of pieces together what a kid's room in that time might have looked like, because you're imagining it through rose-tinted glasses. That's what those ads in @Maggots on a Train v2's more or less are, manifested into reality.

Of course, any of us could tell you that those aren't at all what kids' rooms of the 90s looked like. Most of the furniture would be old hand-me-downs, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of it still is, considering how much 21st century furniture is just MDF junk.

There's also the fact that this was pre-9/11. 90's babies got the shit end of the stick. They only got to experience the pre-9/11 world for maybe 7 years at most. Wonder if late Silent gens had an attachment to the pre-WW2 world despite barely being around for it.

 

[Fetish Roulette]

Sorry that makes no sense. How does scoliosis affect the gestures you make with your hands or mouth movements?

I know she's a SPED, being at Disney aside, she looks off. But her gestures, mannerisms and what she does with her mouth are all wrong and that's nothing to do with her being crippled.

I wouldn't be surprised if all of that park food she eats caused her to have a stroke.

Anyway, I found an article about the thriving Funko Pop secondary market.

Archive of Full Article

 

[Vivec]

I wouldn't be surprised if all of that park food she eats caused her to have a stroke.

Anyway, I found an article about the thriving Funko Pop secondary market.
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> $350k in revenue
> revenue

Assume they took a loss until proven otherwise. Spending 400k to make 350k isn't a viable business strategy.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

> $350k in revenue
> revenue

Assume they took a loss until proven otherwise. Spending 400k to make 350k isn't a viable business strategy.

Pretty easy method for money laundering though.

 

[Kung Pow Cream]

Anyone up for a discussion about the kinds of small businesses that pop up on TikTok?

Some of the most common ones seem to be:

• Polymer clay (this comes up in the Fat Girlcows thread as well, why is it so attractive to them?)
• Lipgloss
• Candy resale
• Resin things
• Jewelry (wirewrap, plastic things, etc.)
• Fake nails and eyelashes
• Resale of shit from China/Dropshipping general

Of all of the above, there's literally one category of item I'd buy personally, but also, how is there a large enough market to make these viable? These are all side-hobbies, right?

I've been looking at crafts for a large portion of my life and I will say one thing about people making businesses out of crafts.

This is what usually happens:

1. A few artists make a certain craft. Let's go with resin. Good quality resin items take many steps and are very creative in their process even though the method may be simple. UV Resin crafts started in japan years ago. It was because they uploaded tutorials on youtube that this happened
2. Outsiders catch on and see the artists do it. They look at tutorials and follow their guides but they are still being creative and inventive.
3. There is now a wave of people coming in because they smell money. They are not creative and their product is terrible. This floods the market with terrible stuff. Creators are copied until their ideas are useless. I saw so many terrible resin ashtrays that I couldn't believe people were actually thinking it would sell.
4. Craft stores have caught the hype and begin to sell items. This causes more people to make crafts and it's also terrible. The craft is deemed useless and terrible and nonviable as a money maker. The original artists from stage 1 are gone. They are doing other things.

The popularization of Pi Day is a a billion times worse than Mario day, it's nothing but Pop Science bullshit that nobody gave a shit about until twitter rolled around so you could make a hashtag out of it.

However there is a special retardation about May the Fourth because it is nothing but astroturf created by Disney.

I'm not very big into certain days but Mole Day (October 23) kind of makes me happy because science teachers would decorate the place with stuffed moles and I'm a sucker for animal mascots. We even made felt moles to celebrate it once. If Mole Day catches on like Pi Day, I wouldn't like it anymore however because then it would be a big thing for no reason. Pi Day is literally just a reason to sell pies now. It's peak consoomer.

However, I feel like Mole Day would never catch on because it's a number that isn't used in basic high school classes. Everyone knows pi, not that many people know Avogadro's number (6.02 x 10^23) so that makes me a bit happy. Also stores don't have a need to sell stuffed moles unlike grocery stores and pies.

 

[Kuchipatchi]

I've been looking at crafts for a large portion of my life and I will say one thing about people making businesses out of crafts.

This is what usually happens:

1. A few artists make a certain craft. Let's go with resin. Good quality resin items take many steps and are very creative in their process even though the method may be simple. UV Resin crafts started in japan years ago. It was because they uploaded tutorials on youtube that this happened
2. Outsiders catch on and see the artists do it. They look at tutorials and follow their guides but they are still being creative and inventive.
3. There is now a wave of people coming in because they smell money. They are not creative and their product is terrible. This floods the market with terrible stuff. Creators are copied until their ideas are useless. I saw so many terrible resin ashtrays that I couldn't believe people were actually thinking it would sell.
4. Craft stores have caught the hype and begin to sell items. This causes more people to make crafts and it's also terrible. The craft is deemed useless and terrible and nonviable as a money maker. The original artists from stage 1 are gone. They are doing other things.

I'm not very big into certain days but Mole Day (October 23) kind of makes me happy because science teachers would decorate the place with stuffed moles and I'm a sucker for animal mascots. We even made felt moles to celebrate it once. If Mole Day catches on like Pi Day, I wouldn't like it anymore however because then it would be a big thing for no reason. Pi Day is literally just a reason to sell pies now. It's peak consoomer.

However, I feel like Mole Day would never catch on because it's a number that isn't used in basic high school classes. Everyone knows pi, not that many people know Avogadro's number (6.02 x 10^23) so that makes me a bit happy. Also stores don't have a need to sell stuffed moles unlike grocery stores and pies.

I considered doing resin stuff at some point but it's too convoluted and has enough products anyways. Plus, it has a childish look to it which isn't my aesthetic.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

> $350k in revenue
> revenue

Assume they took a loss until proven otherwise. Spending 400k to make 350k isn't a viable business strategy.

Yeah. Product sourcing aside, I have a hard time believing anybody is making a living wage selling on whatnot. There doesn't seem to be anything directly for sale, it's just a catalog of scheduled snapchat-esque video streams where I guess somebody will sell shit eventually. Nobody with a job has time for this.

 

[EyeGuy]

Sad news in the Disney consoomer sphere:

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Sad news in the Disney consoomer sphere:
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Are we taking bets on whether or not alcohol was a factor? Because slipping in the bathroom and breaking an ankle is almost exclusively the sphere of the elderly and drunks.

 

[Elysian]

Are we taking bets on whether or not alcohol was a factor? Because slipping in the bathroom and breaking an ankle is almost exclusively the sphere of the elderly and drunks.

She might not have been drunk, it’s easy to fall over on a cruise ship if the seas are particularly stormy, as the ship can tilt pretty violently. I went on a cruise once and knew a girl that sprained her ankle from falling over while inside the cruise ship and we were both like 13 years old at the time.

 

[Yaks]

The part I hyperfocused on is they did TWO trips to the Starcruiser.

 

[NoReturn]

The part I hyperfocused on is they did TWO trips to the Starcruiser.

$10,000. That's $10,000 at minimum.
That's land money right thar! That's a new car! REEE

 

[celebrityskin]

• Resin things

Those 'resin pyramids' all over Etsy are tacky as shit, who even buys that stuff?

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Those 'resin pyramids' all over Etsy are tacky as shit, who even buys that stuff?
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Check the Neopagans thread.