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

[Nicest Person on a Honda]

The A's had a Black Panther Funko pop night and the figures are selling for a moderately high price. There are adults right now buying these for $50

https://www.ebay.com/b/Oakland-Athletics-Black-MLB-Bobbleheads/24410/bn_112901131

The graphic for the game is cringeworthy but it won't load for some reason.

 

[Lester Jones]

Looks like something that a manchild or a pedophile would buy:

 

[Coolio55]

Looks like something that a manchild or a pedophile would buy:
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It's actually a promotion for one of those "hype" clothing lines.
Still bizarre though.

 

[make_it_so]

Looks like something that a manchild or a pedophile would buy:
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Anyone who actually buys one these needs to be mocked relentlessly.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Kind of random but did anyone else remember when Ted talks were "the thing" that everyone was consuming. It seemed like it happened overnight, every forum (I was at SA at the time) was jizzing themselves over the latest Ted talk, everyone tuned in to watch. Then just again over night it was gone, no one cared anymore.

 

[FraudFrog]

Kind of random but did anyone else remember when Ted talks were "the thing" that everyone was consuming. It seemed like it happened overnight, every forum (I was at SA at the time) was jizzing themselves over the latest Ted talk, everyone tuned in to watch. Then just again over night it was gone, no one cared anymore.

TED talks are such a good idea on paper, but it generally devolves into the speaker huffing his own farts. That said there are some great ones, like the Gwar TEDx talk, and the Dan Bell one.

 

[1988 prick]

Kind of random but did anyone else remember when Ted talks were "the thing" that everyone was consuming. It seemed like it happened overnight, every forum (I was at SA at the time) was jizzing themselves over the latest Ted talk, everyone tuned in to watch. Then just again over night it was gone, no one cared anymore.

I never actually heard of it at all until I started uni, for whatever reason professors love these Ted Talks to a poing they gave us assignments on em.

TED talks are such a good idea on paper, but it generally devolves into the speaker huffing his own farts. That said there are some great ones, like the Gwar TEDx talk, and the Dan Bell one.

Their pretty much on the same level as a YT video essays, the only difference is that with Ted Talks you can put it on your resume and look good.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

TED talks are such a good idea on paper, but it generally devolves into the speaker huffing his own farts. That said there are some great ones, like the Gwar TEDx talk, and the Dan Bell one.

I'm sure there's good ones out there. But yeah it turned into a real circlejerk of we are so smart and you are so smart for watching us, now let's save the world through idealism on a stage

The onion had some pretty good parodies of it.

I never actually heard of it at all until I started uni, for whatever reason professors love these Ted Talks to a poing they gave us assignments on em.

It seemed like it hit this sweet spot of widespread internet usage for college age individuals that it became a thing to watch to show how sophisticated and well read you were.

 

[Elysian]

I'm sure there's good ones out there. But yeah it turned into a real circlejerk of we are so smart and you are so smart for watching us, now let's save the world through idealism on a stage

The onion had some pretty good parodies of it.

It seemed like it hit this sweet spot of widespread internet usage for college age individuals that it became a thing to watch to show how sophisticated and well read you were.

Jontron has a TED talk parody as well:

 

[Phil The Thrill]

Kind of random but did anyone else remember when Ted talks were "the thing" that everyone was consuming. It seemed like it happened overnight, every forum (I was at SA at the time) was jizzing themselves over the latest Ted talk, everyone tuned in to watch. Then just again over night it was gone, no one cared anymore.

 

[Judex Meus]

Kind of random but did anyone else remember when Ted talks were "the thing" that everyone was consuming. It seemed like it happened overnight, every forum (I was at SA at the time) was jizzing themselves over the latest Ted talk, everyone tuned in to watch. Then just again over night it was gone, no one cared anymore.

No one's mentioned the Sam Hyde one yet?

 

[The Great Citracett]

Kind of random but did anyone else remember when Ted talks were "the thing" that everyone was consuming. It seemed like it happened overnight, every forum (I was at SA at the time) was jizzing themselves over the latest Ted talk, everyone tuned in to watch. Then just again over night it was gone, no one cared anymore.

I remember them being so big that even fucking Russell Greer was wanting to do one called "Overcoming the Taylor Swifts in your life."

 

[Coolio55]

Kind of random but did anyone else remember when Ted talks were "the thing" that everyone was consuming. It seemed like it happened overnight, every forum (I was at SA at the time) was jizzing themselves over the latest Ted talk, everyone tuned in to watch. Then just again over night it was gone, no one cared anymore.

No one's mentioned the Sam Hyde one yet?

Had a few teachers recommend them as study aids in high school and I always tried to slip my classmates the 2070 paradigm shift one.
Didn't help that VICE spoiled the joke but lol at them giving Sammy favourable coverage back in the day.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I’m sure Steve Jobs Tim Pool and his bee workers over at Apple will be proud of this.

 

[The Great Citracett]

Here's one I found in a retrogaming sub. This girl is autistic as hell and lives solely to consoom as much Perfect Dark product as humanly possible. Not the good N64 Perfect Dark though. The franchise killing Perfect Dark Zero on the 360.



The current hoard:


She dresses up as the girl from the game. Apparently she's currently trying to make a PDZ film which she also stars in.




She does own some "normal" clothing.


The merch must be everywhere:


She's trying to start a PDZ club. In 2022.


She was gone for a while, but came back with more toys than ever.


It's still not enough. Never enough.


I feel like the 'tism is probably a big part of this, but it still definitely counts. Consooming is her entire life. There is nothing else.

 

[Johnny Eastwood cash]

Consumerism now is way different then consumerism 77 years ago or even 123 years ago because back if someone bought something they liked that was the end of it they didn't have people going around covering there rooms with merchandise of there favorite products sure they liked entertainment but it would have been rare to find a person with a hardcore three stooges obsession back then my point is nowadays it is socially acceptable to buy 3000 plastic toys then it was back then

 

[Toolbox]

Video games can still be brought to like, Half Price Books. Even with a big collection, you could just walk in, plop it down, and they’ll call you in an hour with an offer. That’s a real shame to throw it out right now.

Though in 50 years, yeah, there will be a glut of very old games where the hardware is degrading, and it won’t be worth dick. Just think about the value of Elvis Presley stuff today vs. the past.

But in that same case, something that is Elvis themed and was worth a significant value can still be.

This isn't something that was made 50 years ago, but shows that production and marketing of this kind of thing doesn't die in 50 years. It dies when the market for it dies.

I’m sure Steve Jobs Tim Pool and his bee workers over at Apple will be proud of this.

I wonder what the value of this collection will be in 10-20 years when none of the devices will turn on without modification. Though color me surprised that Ipods started becoming relevant again and have a bit of a refurbishing community, it will be interesting to see if that repeats with iphones. I have my doubts.

 

[Elysian]

I wonder what the value of this collection will be in 10-20 years when none of the devices will turn on without modification. Though color me surprised that Ipods started becoming relevant again and have a bit of a refurbishing community, it will be interesting to see if that repeats with iphones. I have my doubts.

Depends on how repairable the earlier model iphones are, since Apple started making their stuff much harder to repair yourself. If it’s too much of a nightmare to work on nobody will make mods for it - there are no iPod nano mods whatsoever because they’re all an absolute nightmare to disassemble, while the earlier iPod mini has a whole bunch of mods because it’s much easier to get into.

 

[PFM]

Anyone who actually buys one these needs to be mocked relentlessly.

Mocked? You're a kinder man than I.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Consumerism now is way different then consumerism 77 years ago or even 123 years ago because back if someone bought something they liked that was the end of it they didn't have people going around covering there rooms with merchandise of there favorite products sure they liked entertainment but it would have been rare to find a person with a hardcore three stooges obsession back then my point is nowadays it is socially acceptable to buy 3000 plastic toys then it was back then

They'd get into Ripley's Believe It Or Not or Guinness under World's Largest X Collection." I remember as a kid 20 years ago reading about some woman with rooms full of Pikachu shit or some guy who wallpapered his entire house with airplane sick bags from thousands of airlines. The lesser version is your grandmother having a giant collection of commemorative spoons, baseball cards (one of the first media specifically meant to be collected, it's century-old shit), comic books, etc.

But in that same case, something that is Elvis themed and was worth a significant value can still be.
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This isn't something that was made 50 years ago, but shows that production and marketing of this kind of thing doesn't die in 50 years. It dies when the market for it dies.

Nice, has crossover appeal from both boomers collecting Elvis merch and boomers collecting pinball machines.