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

Minor autism, but since we're on the topic of Star Wars, I think Boba Fett might be the prime example of a consoom character. Before his own show and appearance in Mandalorian, the character has about 5 minutes of screen time over 3 movies. He doesn't even do anything except stand next to Darth Vader and die. Why is such a unimportant character so popular? His figures and toys are some of the best selling of any character in the whole franchise. Is it just because he has a cool design and his FunkoPop will look good on your reddit shelf?
Matt gets about 1 minute of screentime in Death Note but is one of the most popular characters. The anime's English dub was broadcast when emo and scene was trendy.
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Most of his screentime is spent smoking, playing video games, typing, and dying. Not sure if he has much merch.
 
I knew someone who majored in "Industrial Design" aka designing shitty packages. They are all consoomers and live to be able to construct branded cardboard garbage.
Industrial designers had a huge hand in creating almost every object that surrounds you including the phone, monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc. that made it possible for you to write this post lmao. It's not a bullshit field whatsoever.
Found a new breed of consoomer that's a variant of artists. The Art Supply Collector, where they hoard art supplies but never use them outside of swatches

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Nobody who actually knows what they're doing buys these sets because you eventually realize you use certain colors a lot and barely touch others, so you typically end up buying individual pastels, paint tubes, etc based on your actual needs as an artist. And sets are often filled with cheaper crappier versions of a brand's line, like they might include hues (imitations of expensive pigments made by blending cheaper ones together, which usually don't mix very well) instead of the real thing to cut costs.
 
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Diversity markers. Just what every kid wants.

Industrial designers had a huge hand in creating almost every object that surrounds you including the phone, monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc. that made it possible for you to write this post lmao. It's not a bullshit field whatsoever.

Nobody who actually knows what they're doing buys these sets because you eventually realize you use certain colors a lot and barely touch others, so you typically end up buying individual pastels, paint tubes, etc based on your actual needs as an artist. And sets are often filled with cheaper crappier versions of a brand's line, like they might include hues (imitations of expensive pigments made by blending cheaper ones together, which usually don't mix very well) instead of the real thing to cut costs.
Try sitting through this bird's hauls. She usually has a haul at least once a week but seems to delete a fair amount of videos. It just goes on and on, endless hauls of junk from craft stores, there's only so much craft one single person could do, surely.
 
It's been a thing for awhile now, you'll hear the voice mainly in small business customer storytimes where they tell stories of mean customers.
I always thought those were fake. They always exaggerate the customer's rudeness to a excessive degree to the point of being unable to sympathize with them, and the shop owners are portrayed as nice and accommodating for the customer in question. It's like this comic but in video form.
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Like this story of a father asking this chick to make "masculine" slimes, which apparently means "hunting themed" slimes.
 
I always thought those were fake. They always exaggerate the customer's rudeness to a excessive degree to the point of being unable to sympathize with them, and the shop owners are portrayed as nice and accommodating for the customer in question. It's like this comic but in video form.
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Like this story of a father asking this chick to make "masculine" slimes, which apparently means "hunting themed" slimes.
Fakeness aside, there's nothing wrong with a dad wanting to commission a custom slime, even if he calls it masculine themed. Kid might just like hunting.
 
I always thought those were fake. They always exaggerate the customer's rudeness to a excessive degree to the point of being unable to sympathize with them, and the shop owners are portrayed as nice and accommodating for the customer in question. It's like this comic but in video form.
I think a majority of them are fake from the bigger shops, iirc Peachybbs has been caught in a shit ton of scams since 2018 but people still buy from them because it's a popular slime shop.
 
Maybe I’m really late, but I have noticed that TikTok implemented a new feature where A.I. generated voices can do voice overs when posts are being seen with hashtags.

These are just some in particular:




Honestly, I’m surprised they’re trying to outdo Alexa and Siri all together.
All AI eventually becomes racist, luckily for them this isn't even AI.
But this is AI-assisted robot-voice.
Compare that to where the technology was three years ago:
 
so you typically end up buying individual pastels, paint tubes, etc based on your actual needs as an artist.
Zorn famously used only two colors besides black and white: Vermillion and Yellow Ochre. Thats it, only four paints. They even show up on his self portrait. which is kind of a low key brag of him, Not every artist will stick to limited palettes but its tends to be true that when researching famous painters the palettes they stick to are usually more modest than people think, if you know how color work you only really need the basic hues to mix them to your needs. Zorn himself only used other colors besides the four as accents or in specific cases.


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So this guy does reviews of knives. EDC and ‘Tactical’ is very much consoomer. At least this guy is somewhat self-aware that he’s just collecting knives (and other items) and it’s not actually about practicality.

Him roasting some over-the-top tactical knife.

My favorite I’ve seen so far.

How are those cities even ran? Like what is the situation like for shop assistants, waiters, baristas, babysitters, cleaners, frycooks, even low level white collar jobs like secretaries etc.?

Even a basic ass 3 bed 1 bath home out in the suburbs of LA seems to be like $800k. Does everyone just commute for 2 hours each way or something?
They’re financially illiterate, don’t save money, and end up having to move within a year or two. I’ve been at my apartment for a long time and have seen young people continually drift in and out of the place like we’re a God damn halfway house.
 
So look at this dumb bitch.
So I was at the container store on someone else's behalf and since I was there I thought I'd look for a shoe rack that the fucking cat won't be able to piss in god dammit. Anyway there was this huge poster showing this woman's sneaker collection. I swallowed my pride and had a look at the storage item she was using because hey, looks like a cat can't piss in there. Each of these fucking boxes holds only one pair of shoes. In the store they consistently have them stacked three high, so you think that's what you'd be getting, but no, it's actually $12 per box and you can pay $60 for six of these packed in a cardboard box - though they are still separate units. These things were being pushed heavily in the store. Luckily I found something much more reasonable to keep my off-season shoes away from the angry cat.
So you've got a plastic-intensive tacky as hell shoe ensconced in yet more plastic. Multiply that by however many shoes are in this moron's collection, and multiply that by however many other retards are out there collecting shoes and have to keep them in plastic because of whatever housing conditions they've got going on.
 
So look at this dumb bitch.
So I was at the container store on someone else's behalf and since I was there I thought I'd look for a shoe rack that the fucking cat won't be able to piss in god dammit. Anyway there was this huge poster showing this woman's sneaker collection. I swallowed my pride and had a look at the storage item she was using because hey, looks like a cat can't piss in there. Each of these fucking boxes holds only one pair of shoes. In the store they consistently have them stacked three high, so you think that's what you'd be getting, but no, it's actually $12 per box and you can pay $60 for six of these packed in a cardboard box - though they are still separate units. These things were being pushed heavily in the store. Luckily I found something much more reasonable to keep my off-season shoes away from the angry cat.
So you've got a plastic-intensive tacky as hell shoe ensconced in yet more plastic. Multiply that by however many shoes are in this moron's collection, and multiply that by however many other retards are out there collecting shoes and have to keep them in plastic because of whatever housing conditions they've got going on.
you can get similar to that in Daiso
 
So look at this dumb bitch.
So I was at the container store on someone else's behalf and since I was there I thought I'd look for a shoe rack that the fucking cat won't be able to piss in god dammit. Anyway there was this huge poster showing this woman's sneaker collection. I swallowed my pride and had a look at the storage item she was using because hey, looks like a cat can't piss in there. Each of these fucking boxes holds only one pair of shoes. In the store they consistently have them stacked three high, so you think that's what you'd be getting, but no, it's actually $12 per box and you can pay $60 for six of these packed in a cardboard box - though they are still separate units. These things were being pushed heavily in the store. Luckily I found something much more reasonable to keep my off-season shoes away from the angry cat.
So you've got a plastic-intensive tacky as hell shoe ensconced in yet more plastic. Multiply that by however many shoes are in this moron's collection, and multiply that by however many other retards are out there collecting shoes and have to keep them in plastic because of whatever housing conditions they've got going on.
Any easy solution is to have a closet
 
So look at this dumb bitch.
So I was at the container store on someone else's behalf and since I was there I thought I'd look for a shoe rack that the fucking cat won't be able to piss in god dammit. Anyway there was this huge poster showing this woman's sneaker collection. I swallowed my pride and had a look at the storage item she was using because hey, looks like a cat can't piss in there. Each of these fucking boxes holds only one pair of shoes. In the store they consistently have them stacked three high, so you think that's what you'd be getting, but no, it's actually $12 per box and you can pay $60 for six of these packed in a cardboard box - though they are still separate units. These things were being pushed heavily in the store. Luckily I found something much more reasonable to keep my off-season shoes away from the angry cat.
So you've got a plastic-intensive tacky as hell shoe ensconced in yet more plastic. Multiply that by however many shoes are in this moron's collection, and multiply that by however many other retards are out there collecting shoes and have to keep them in plastic because of whatever housing conditions they've got going on.
Shoes always seemed like one of the worst things to collect. The kind collectors are into cost a fortune right out of the gate, and they're not wearable for anyone that's not your same size. Not to mention how shoes are one of the most well-known products to be made by essentially Chinese slave labor.
 
Any easy solution is to have a closet
Sneakerheads don't want to use a normal closet. They want to show off their collection and they have to hermetically seal the $500+ sneakers they never wear in order to preserve their value, so anything designed to store regular clothes won't work. Those boxes are the sneaker equivalent of card sleeves, car covers, or Funko Pop boxes.
 
Sneakerheads don't want to use a normal closet. They want to show off their collection and they have to hermetically seal the $500+ sneakers they never wear in order to preserve their value, so anything designed to store regular clothes won't work. Those boxes are the sneaker equivalent of card sleeves, car covers, or Funko Pop boxes.
What gets to me is that the showcasing of all of the things you mention are in such dismal taste. It's one thing if something is so fragile and important that it's housed under strict environmental conditions in a museum. But this is some tacky mass produced shit in a plastic box, stacked from floor to ceiling. Hell, at least my grandmother's Gone with the Wind collector's plates, as tacky as those were, had a decorative aspect to them and the way she arranged them over the entrance to the kitchen. I am being really generous because I hated those things and think her collecting them was from the same cloth that modern collectors are cut from.
 
What gets to me is that the showcasing of all of the things you mention are in such dismal taste. It's one thing if something is so fragile and important that it's housed under strict environmental conditions in a museum. But this is some tacky mass produced shit in a plastic box, stacked from floor to ceiling. Hell, at least my grandmother's Gone with the Wind collector's plates, as tacky as those were, had a decorative aspect to them and the way she arranged them over the entrance to the kitchen. I am being really generous because I hated those things and think her collecting them was from the same cloth that modern collectors are cut from.
It definitely is.
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These are the same.
 
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