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

[Vingle]

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

 

[mr.moon1488]

Those 'resin pyramids' all over Etsy are tacky as shit, who even buys that stuff?
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This looks like some kind of shit tooter would buy.

 

[NoReturn]

Low fruit, but check out Chris-chan's room starting at the 3 minute mark.

 

[Gay Mouth]

Can we talk about Aerogardens?

Fuck aerogardens! I received one as a birthday gift and was like "oh thanks" But this fucker produces ugly glaringly bright blue grow light that makes me feel like my kitchen is on a spaceship. Nawt the aesthetic.

It works fine to grow plants, sure. But when considering binning it for its pure ugliness I looked it up and realized the relative who got it for me spent $165 goddamn dollars on it. So I gotta use it til it breaks.

It is basically a small hydroponics set up that is about the size of a toaster oven. It comes with pods that have a dirt colored sponge cone in it with a seed that you click into holes at the top. All this is fine, it's been nice having a place to start seedlings without worrying about sunlight.

But it's so consoom-y. Six seed pods will run from anywhere between $15-$35, which you buy multiple times a year. The pods are plastic with a plastic label and these get thrown away after one use. One of my plants didn't sprout so I just took out the sponge cone and pushed a tomato seed in it, which worked fine, but made me mad to realize they swindle top dollar out of people with these repeat cone pod purchases.

Their ad trades on that "attain the image you want" thing by being like "Can't you imagine yourself as a person with a sparkling white mod kitchen, growing and eating vegetable? Look at these upper class huwhite children's giggling as they eat a cherry tomato. That could be your child eating vegetable! And the best part? You don't have to touch dirt!"

 

[Vingle]

It is basically a small hydroponics set up that is about the size of a toaster oven. It comes with pods that have a dirt colored sponge cone in it with a seed that you click into holes at the top.

Just insert the damn pic. Not everyone bothers to search it up.

 

[Anon88]

Low fruit, but check out Chris-chan's room starting at the 3 minute mark.

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Honestly I think Chris-Chan might be better then most consumers on this thread. No doubt he's a consumer but at least you can see some homemade stuff in that room, as crappy as it is. Most consumers only seem to buy crap and never make anything for themselves.

 

[Christopher Robin]

Honestly I think Chris-Chan might be better then most consumers on this thread. No doubt he's a consumer but at least you can see some homemade stuff in that room, as crappy as it is. Most consumers only seem to buy crap and never make anything for themselves.

Are you forgetting that Chris Chan bought items from the PS3 Store so religiously that he purchased DLC for games he didn't even own?

 

[Yaks]

Honestly I think Chris-Chan might be better then most consumers on this thread. No doubt he's a consumer but at least you can see some homemade stuff in that room, as crappy as it is. Most consumers only seem to buy crap and never make anything for themselves.

I don't know, if everything you make entirely orbits around the massive amount of media you consume, have made an intrinsic part of your personality, and have now based an entire cult religion on where you are God of these fictional universes, I think you might be the Legendary Super Consoomer.

 

[Anon88]

Are you forgetting that Chris Chan bought items from the PS3 Store so religiously that he purchased DLC for games he didn't even own?

Yeah I know I agree he's a retarded consumer. However there are a ton of photos on this thread with rooms filled with games and other junk that'll never be played/used just like Chris' pointlessly bought DLC. At least Chris' room has "homemade projects" (I'm really stretching calling them projects seeing how bad they are) which is better then most people who just have store-bought crap plastered all over their walls.

I don't know, if everything you make entirely orbits around the massive amount of media you consume, have made an intrinsic part of your personality, and have now based an entire cult religion on where you are God of these fictional universes, I think you might be the Legendary Super Consoomer.

Yeah I can't really argue with that logic.

 

[The Southwest Strangla]

Those 'resin pyramids' all over Etsy are tacky as shit, who even buys that stuff?
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new age faggots. I knew a woman who would buy shit like this by the truck loads.

 

[Spez]

Are you forgetting that Chris Chan bought items from the PS3 Store so religiously that he purchased DLC for games he didn't even own?

I'd argue this is peak consoomer, which is fitting that it comes from Chris, buying virtual pixels that he can't even use or look at, atleast csgo consoomers can admire their shiny pixels ingame unlike chris who can admire his game dlc's from the "Installed Games" page, lol.

 

[Caligura]

Yeah I know I agree he's a retarded consumer. However there are a ton of photos on this thread with rooms filled with games and other junk that'll never be played/used just like Chris' pointlessly bought DLC. At least Chris' room has "homemade projects" (I'm really stretching calling them projects seeing how bad they are) which is better then most people who just have store-bought crap plastered all over their walls.


Yeah I can't really argue with that logic.

I'll take fifty Sonichu totem poles over any Funko Pop, any day.

 

[EyeGuy]

Sad news in the Disney consoomer sphere:
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Update - turns out she broke her ankle getting up from a toilet on the beach:

Truly a horrifying image:

I was in the restroom and I had my bathing suit down, and when I stood up to pull it up I slipped and I fell and I was naked on the floor.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

Hidey ho coonsumer fans! Welcome to the newest totally-makes-sense Disney Star Wars coonsumer collab!

I'm sure you can't wait, so here you go!


This, for the manly menfolk Kiwis among us is Vera Bradley.




God awful quilted cotton handbags and totes at outrageous prices for what you get. Floral, butterflies, gaudy colors, and the bags all look cheap and shapeless. (TBF I like plain leather bags that hold their shape/mostly hold their shape when sitting on a surface, bright colors are great but I've never cared for Vera Bradley stuff)

Yeah, this should be "awesome".

Edit because my powerword was showing.

 

[Homegrown Homophobia]

Can we talk about Aerogardens?

Fuck aerogardens! I received one as a birthday gift and was like "oh thanks" But this fucker produces ugly glaringly bright blue grow light that makes me feel like my kitchen is on a spaceship. Nawt the aesthetic.

It works fine to grow plants, sure. But when considering binning it for its pure ugliness I looked it up and realized the relative who got it for me spent $165 goddamn dollars on it. So I gotta use it til it breaks.

It is basically a small hydroponics set up that is about the size of a toaster oven. It comes with pods that have a dirt colored sponge cone in it with a seed that you click into holes at the top. All this is fine, it's been nice having a place to start seedlings without worrying about sunlight.

But it's so consoom-y. Six seed pods will run from anywhere between $15-$35, which you buy multiple times a year. The pods are plastic with a plastic label and these get thrown away after one use. One of my plants didn't sprout so I just took out the sponge cone and pushed a tomato seed in it, which worked fine, but made me mad to realize they swindle top dollar out of people with these repeat cone pod purchases.

Their ad trades on that "attain the image you want" thing by being like "Can't you imagine yourself as a person with a sparkling white mod kitchen, growing and eating vegetable? Look at these upper class huwhite children's giggling as they eat a cherry tomato. That could be your child eating vegetable! And the best part? You don't have to touch dirt!"

You can get aerogardens for near cheap or free secondhand from bugmen, especially in the Bay Area. My brother's scooped up two and you can easily repurpose them for marijuana growing.

 

[IsJoke]

Having a cohesive "aesthetic" and lots of things that fit that aesthetic is an aspirational goal and a sign of wealth and class.

I think you hit something that I never realized until now.

Having an "asthetic" that encompasses every inch of your life (hobbies, home goods, fashion, food, etc) is usually expensive.

People who buy things to use daily usually have to go with what's in stock, priced right, and will last. They don't usually have time or funds to wait for the next uwu pink/purple/hello kitty item to drop.

I think its an old phenomenon. The kawaii tik tok girls are just the mass produced Amazon Prime equivalent.

I think its why my great grandparents envied people with matching furniture sets. They had enough money to buy it all at once to match. They had to just buy/refurbish what they could get.

What's with these "kawaii" aesthetic videos and always featuring the same six or seven Pokémon? It's always Pikachu, the Eeveelutions, or some other cutesy Pokémon from Kanto. If you're gonna consoom at least be diverse. I wanna see a guy go all autistic and have a ton of shelves with merchandise dedicated to all 800+ Pokémon. Now that would be funny.

Pokemon has a good variety of "cute" types from later games too. Hell there's even a Fairy type that essentially caters to cute.

My guess...mons like Pika and Eevee have become almost like millennial teddy bears. Even women who don't play Pokemon know what they are and usually think they are cute.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CbHHi2BD-gm/?utm_medium=copy_link

If you haven't seen the insanity that is Pikabellechu behold.

She's in her 40s. Lives with her elderly mother. Presumably unemployed other than crafting commissions. Brags about being a former Disney actress at the parks.

But her pride and joy is her "Chuseum" a hoard full of Pikachu Merch. She's been in Guinness and even drives a PikaBug that the Pokémon company used. (Though other PikaBug owners claim its fake.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Pokemon has a good variety of "cute" types from later games too. Hell there's even a Fairy type that essentially caters to cute.

My guess...mons like Pika and Eevee have become almost like millennial teddy bears. Even women who don't play Pokemon know what they are and usually think they are cute.

I'll go ahead and autistic powerlevel myself here, I still play Pokemon and something that I've noticed about the designs of the mons, especially the starters, is that they've started introducing more and more anthropomorphized mons as the generations go on and they seem to be focusing slightly less on the OG design philosophy of "fantastical animals". Now that isn't to say that humanoid Pokemon haven't been around since the beginning, they have, but those designs tend not to get nearly the fan following that some of the more popular animalistic designs have had.

As far as Pokemon like Eevee, Pikachu, Charizard, etc etc. The really popular ones go? Most of those are very old designs and have been seen in every single one of the eight generations of Pokemon, they've survived a sort of digital evolutionary crucible and remained incredibly popular for over twenty years. Part of this is marketing, part of this is that they've remained relevant in the game meta in one form or another, but another part of this is that they are genuinely good designs.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CbHHi2BD-gm/?utm_medium=copy_link

If you haven't seen the insanity that is Pikabellechu behold.

She's in her 40s. Lives with her elderly mother. Presumably unemployed other than crafting commissions. Brags about being a former Disney actress at the parks.

But her pride and joy is her "Chuseum" a hoard full of Pikachu Merch. She's been in Guinness and even drives a PikaBug that the Pokémon company used. (Though other PikaBug owners claim its fake.

I forgot about this bitch, what a train wreck.

 

[Mister Uno]

I still play Pokemon

I have no clue why, I stopped caring after Sun and Moon. The gen 3 remakes where already a gigantic slap to the face for me, but I should of saw it coming. Now the newer games have even less features, and new/old existing features are behind a paywall. Fuck that.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

I have no clue why, I stopped caring after Sun and Moon. The gen 3 remakes where already a gigantic slap to the face for me, but I should of saw it coming. Now the newer games have even less features, and new/old existing features are behind a paywall. Fuck that.

I don't play much of anything newer than gen IV except for romhacks, but I keep up with Showdown.

 

[Mister Uno]

I don't play much of anything newer than gen IV except for romhacks, but I keep up with Showdown.

Ah, several of my friends have moved on to Showdown, but they keep getting banned since the mods have a hate boner for them. The community there is something special, and from what I heard are currently split. Don't remember the details.