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

[Autistsforuganda2]

Is this the ultimate consoomer clip?

 

[Jacknife]

Is this the ultimate consoomer clip?

From what Ive seen from the YMS highlights the whole react video is pure gold.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Is this the ultimate consoomer clip?

I don't know, the faggot crying over the Rise of Skywalker trailer is a tough act to top.

 

[a very special boy]

Is this the ultimate consoomer clip?

I love VERY believable and sincere excitement. Reminds me of this. Are these videos made for or by consoomers?

My Richard E Grant Star Wars impersonation

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[Myrtle the Turtle]

I love VERY believable and sincere excitement. Reminds me of this. Are these videos made for or by consoomers?

My Richard E Grant Star Wars impersonation

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These are always so sad to me. How bad has your life gotten when you get that excited over seeing a rock or scenery made by mass media? I think of that Star Wars guy who looses his shit crying calling a desert and some rocks 'so beautiful' just because it Star Wars. Part of me wants to think their reactions are satire only because its hard for me to accept that someone could care about imaginary characters that much. Like I get sad at funerals, laugh with friends and family, experience ecstasy when I am sailing or working out, enjoying life for myself. Not because someone created lazy media and a bunch of plastic toys.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

its hard for me to accept that someone could care about imaginary characters that much.

When people are vulnerable they latch onto anything that might offer some relief, for some is a cult or drugs or a work obssesion, for others is the big media franchise that distracted them with corny pleasantries when their parents were neglecting them and other kids were bullying them at school for being slow in the mind and overweight. Things that create emotional attachment like that become deeply embeded, its a mistical sort of bond that leads to mindless worship and automatic response triggers.

the soyboy consoomer is literally the exact same "geek" that the 2010s" were telling us were ackshually super cool now and the new ubermensch of the interweb age. "geek culture" just comes down to sperging about pop culture brands and products and making pop culture references your entire identity, is a cope that weak links severely attached themselves to.


Tl:dr the south park goths should have burned ThinkGeek along with Hot Topic

 

[Pissmaster]

I love VERY believable and sincere excitement. Reminds me of this. Are these videos made for or by consoomers?

My Richard E Grant Star Wars impersonation

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They're basically zealot recruitment & reenforcement videos

 

[FILTH Tourist]

I don't know, the faggot crying over the Rise of Skywalker trailer is a tough act to top.

Definitely the dude crying over star wars. The pride rock guy was at least being payed to act excited because Disney sponsored the video. Meanwhile, the star wars guy was pure, unadulterated consoomerism.

 

[Buck Foss]

Facebook metaverse store opening in none other than Silicon Valley. This 'store' looks small, sad, and cheap.. and yes they're using this as an excuse to sell VR products to other big tech companies. Definitely NOT for gamers.

Spoiler: pathetic store image dump

Average consoomer showing off his epic Lego haul:



($49.99 spaceship at the bottom, $29.99 zurg, $19.99 zyclops, and that behemoth on the left is a $79.99 horizon ps4 creature, now out of stock and selling for $100+ on ebay..)

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[Kuchipatchi]

Facebook metaverse store opening in none other than Silicon Valley. This 'store' looks small, sad, and cheap.. and yes they're using this as an excuse to sell VR products to other big tech companies. Definitely NOT for gamers.

Spoiler: pathetic store image dump

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Average consoomer showing off his epic Lego haul:
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($49.99 spaceship at the bottom, $29.99 zurg, $19.99 zyclops, and that behemoth on the left is a $79.99 horizon ps4 creature, now out of stock and selling for $100+ on ebay..)

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It embarrasses me to see fully-grown adults still play with Legos. Chris Chan playing with Legos is understandable because he's mentally deficient but these guys? They think they're getting hot shit but they should buy model-making kits instead if they're over the age of 10.

 

[Lester Jones]

Facebook metaverse store opening in none other than Silicon Valley. This 'store' looks small, sad, and cheap.. and yes they're using this as an excuse to sell VR products to other big tech companies. Definitely NOT for gamers.

Spoiler: pathetic store image dump

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Average consoomer showing off his epic Lego haul:
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($49.99 spaceship at the bottom, $29.99 zurg, $19.99 zyclops, and that behemoth on the left is a $79.99 horizon ps4 creature, now out of stock and selling for $100+ on ebay..)

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Metaverse was trying to replicate those Apple stores, but failed horribly.

It embarrasses me to see fully-grown adults still play with Legos. Chris Chan playing with Legos is understandable because he's mentally deficient but these guys? They think they're getting hot shit but they should buy model-making kits instead if they're over the age of 10.

It's kind of like a mini-Ikea. It's just a substitute for any success they didn't achieve in life.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

It embarrasses me to see fully-grown adults still play with Legos. Chris Chan playing with Legos is understandable because he's mentally deficient but these guys? They think they're getting hot shit but they should buy model-making kits instead if they're over the age of 10.

Watching fully grown adults design and build their own Lego sets is pretty cool, at least in my opinion. It is pretty sad to see them spending all that money on the premade sets though.

 

[quaawaa]

Facebook metaverse store opening in none other than Silicon Valley. This 'store' looks small, sad, and cheap.. and yes they're using this as an excuse to sell VR products to other big tech companies. Definitely NOT for gamers.

Spoiler: pathetic store image dump

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Average consoomer showing off his epic Lego haul:
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($49.99 spaceship at the bottom, $29.99 zurg, $19.99 zyclops, and that behemoth on the left is a $79.99 horizon ps4 creature, now out of stock and selling for $100+ on ebay..)

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This is just Facebook going “me too” since every other big tech company (Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon) has onsite stores selling their stuff. However, all of their competitors have actual products to sell besides a VR headset and a video calling device everyone forgot about.

 

[NoReturn]

Nightmare time!

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Fake friends shilling lipstick: welcome to WeChat’s hottest sales trend​

“I need to treat them like customers, but also friends.”​

To her hundreds of customers, Wang Yuanyuan is more of a friend than a salesperson. The entrepreneur runs Korean-style womenswear stores in four major Chinese cities, but on WeChat, she’s online around the clock, ready with gossip about popular TV shows, Covid-19 news, fashion trends, even advice on the best camping spots. When someone complains about a bad day, Wang is immediately there with comforting advice. On International Women’s Day, she sends them all virtual red packets containing small cash rewards.

Her friendly rapport has paid off in orders placed by the thousands. Wang told Rest of World that the chat groups, which she runs with her colleagues, bring in more revenue than their four physical retail stores combined.

“You have to know women,” she said. “They want to look good. They want to get more with less money. They also want to feel that you really love them.”

Wang is among the thousands of entrepreneurs in China using WeChat to capitalize on a marketing trend that has taken the country’s e-commerce industry by storm: private traffic. Traditional open e-commerce marketplaces like Taobao and Tmall are impersonal and dull, avid salespeople and business owners suggest, keeping brands removed from a true connection with shoppers. Brands use private traffic to turn occasional shoppers into dedicated consumers by interacting with them in the same way they might text family and friends.

“Private traffic binds customers to a brand,” said Christian Schuster, founder and head of SEO at China-focused marketing agency Tenba Group. “It makes a shopper into a real follower and a loyal fan.”

But the intimacy is a veneer — enabled by a suite of technologies that help companies collect data on consumers, automate interactions with them, and, in some cases, create altogether synthetic influencers. The resources available span all price points: free scripts that program bots to automate interactions in the WeChat group, instructional clips on growing an audience on Xiaohongshu, and books available on Taobao about key concepts like “maintaining personal charm through WeChat interactions.”

The obvious presence of bots in the groups hasn’t seemed to put shoppers off: social commerce firm Azoya predicts that sales via private traffic will top 3 trillion yuan ($454 billion) this year. And funding has poured into companies that help brands facilitate private traffic, like SaaS provider Youzan, influencer networks like Big Goose Culture, and e-commerce agencies like Baozun. In 2021, China’s private traffic industry received investment topping $125 million — up 185% from the year before, according to Daxue Consulting in Beijing.

No one is a better private traffic draw than Austin Li, also known as “Lipstick Brother,” who expertly marries the strategy with another tool geared at the Chinese market: livestreaming. Li reportedly runs at least 500 WeChat groups, each of which max out at 500 members. Legend has it that shoppers are rendered incapable of leaving one of Li’s livestreaming events empty-handed. He once famously sold $1.7 billion worth of beauty products in just 12 hours.

In a private WeChat group joined by Rest of World reporters, Li’s assistants remind customers of daily livestreams and post tantalizing pictures of products on sale, from croissants to sanitary pads to, of course, lipstick. They answer group members’ questions about upcoming promotions, while addressing them as “MM,” slang for “pretty girls.”

Through intimate, constant communication on WeChat, sellers are making themselves a part of the buyers’ everyday lives, convincing them that they’re working tirelessly to provide the best deals. It’s hard work to comprehensively understand what catches a potential shopper’s interest and makes them stick around enough to buy, says Laura Deng, senior activation manager at e-commerce agency Tong Global. “Brands have to build a closed ecosystem, attracting people’s attention, to nurture the connection and convince them to purchase,” said Deng, who helps brands build their private traffic business.

The brands don’t just get better sales numbers out of this work — they learn more about their customers. Deng’s firm, Tong Global, helps brands use private traffic to gather data on their customers’ interests and habits. With one client, she said, she uses a customer relationship management software, Tanma, to help them sort members of their private groups into potential customers, existing customers, and loyal customers. “We can categorize them by their interests, by their demographics,” Deng told Rest of World. Deng helps clients use another tool, called Drip, to do things like create unique games exclusively available to their private WeChat groups.

Viral direct-to-consumer beauty brand Perfect Diary created its own virtual influencer, Xiao Wanzi, as the face of the brand’s persona: she is made to appear to run the brand’s private WeChat groups just like Austin Li in his beauty groups. High-end global brands like Christian Dior and L’Oréal have followed suit — L’Oréal’s virtual brand persona is a 24-year-old Chinese-French man who cares about the environment and goes by “Mr. Ou.”

Other shopping and social apps, including Taobao, Xiaohongshu, Douyin, and Meituan, have also introduced group chat functions, but social media managers told Rest of World that WeChat is, so far, the most effective platform because people use it all the time.

McDonald’s China also runs WeChat groups for every branch location, where consumers enter coupon lotteries by guessing the name of a sandwich from a picture. Messages containing the term “KFC” trigger warnings about “non-McDonald’s information.” An employee at a McDonald’s branch in Shanghai, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, said store managers had to compete with each other over how many customers they have recruited, and those who failed to meet targets got reprimanded.

It’s not just lipstick and burgers. Nana, who requested anonymity because she was not authorized to speak to the media, used to run WeChat groups for one of China’s most popular English learning apps. The company invited parents into the groups by offering them a trial course and spent the next week trying to convince them to pay.

From her office in Shanghai, Nana greeted the parents every morning with motivational lines like “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” During the day, she invited them to post videos of their children and play English vocabulary games to earn coupons. Then, in the second half of the week, she would start promoting the paid course. In the groups, fellow salespeople would pretend to be interested consumers. “What if my children can’t keep up with it?” they would ask –– a way to address the doubts of the hesitant but silent parents, Nana said. At the end of the week, 15% of the group members would sign up for the paid course.

The cost to maintain these groups is high, thanks to the labor required to run a 500-member chat. While big companies often use chatbots, bots don’t offer the same personal touches as individual sellers that are key to pleasing consumers. For example, beauty customers don’t want to just passively receive promotions but to watch product tests and unboxing videos, to understand whether a product is right for them — and this is harder than just basic group management, according to Shuyi Han, an analyst at Daxue Consulting. “Feeling disturbed by too much junk and useless information is the main reason they’d leave later,” said Han.

In her groups, Wang strikes a careful balance: she engages but avoids spamming, in case people press mute on the group. She remembers the VIPs’ sizes. She asks about someone’s wellbeing when they sound raspy in voice messages. “I need to treat them like customers but also friends,” she said.

 

[Myrtle the Turtle]

This is some Machiavellian-level business strategy shit that I wish I thought of first. They've taken advantage of the pandemic isolation by giving people fake friends who sell them things. Because they're fictional personas, you can say whatever you want and tailor them to your audience. Forget creating fake promises for an ad in a magazine, now you can create a fake person. Gen-Z for examples loves appearing 'environmentally friendly' but still consumes fast fashion like a crack addict:

L’Oréal’s virtual brand persona is a 24-year-old Chinese-French man who cares about the environment and goes by “Mr. Ou.”

They've even gotten the appeal to boomers with their cliché jokes and sayings:

From her office in Shanghai, Nana greeted the parents every morning with motivational lines like “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” During the day, she invited them to post videos of their children and play English vocabulary games to earn coupons

I remember an eerie college tour where the presentation was tailored to parents, not the students and the parents fell in love with the school just as much, if not more than the students. They gleefully wrote 6-figure checks for tuition.

Sellers are making themselves a part of the buyers’ everyday lives, convincing them that they’re working tirelessly to provide the best deals.

There you have it, make CONSOOMING part of your everyday life.

 

[Lysenko]

Facebook metaverse store opening in none other than Silicon Valley. This 'store' looks small, sad, and cheap.. and yes they're using this as an excuse to sell VR products to other big tech companies. Definitely NOT for gamers.

Spoiler: pathetic store image dump

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Average consoomer showing off his epic Lego haul:
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($49.99 spaceship at the bottom, $29.99 zurg, $19.99 zyclops, and that behemoth on the left is a $79.99 horizon ps4 creature, now out of stock and selling for $100+ on ebay..)

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Justifying consoomerism for "mental health" like mental heath is the gen-z buzzword excuse for everything these days

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Fresh off the presses from the Cursed Images thread, many thanks to @Forgetful Gynn.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

Henry Kuttner's Year Day-tier shit...

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Four months ago, there was a video about clock collecting. I’m not sure how many alarm clocks you guys have, but this is interesting to witness.

Here’s some other ones from four years ago:

The first one has over seven plus million views, so this looked like an antique collection that I may have missed. Either way, it’s rare to see that at one point, collecting clocks for hobbies/re-selling was a real thing.

 

[Parce Que]

It embarrasses me to see fully-grown adults still play with Legos. Chris Chan playing with Legos is understandable because he's mentally deficient but these guys? They think they're getting hot shit but they should buy model-making kits instead if they're over the age of 10.

LEGO is merely an extention of your creativity. If you're a souless bugman like that guy, all you know is how to assemble the pre-designed sets modeled after your favorite franchises.
There's a good number of well-adjusted LEGO fans however, that either build their own creations or go deep into the autism spectrum (the good kind) and build complex mechanical contraptions.