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

[moocow]

In theory, they can eat some loss at the box office by offsetting it with theme park revenue. The movies hype up the attractions, which is where they make the real money. In-person events were always the backbone of their business. However, given the sheer scale and consistency of the losses they're incurring and the dwindling numbers at their parks(poorly attended movies don't motivate as many people to put up with overpriced tickets, lodging and food in the midst of a bad economy just attend their corresponding theme park attractions. who would have guessed) even that business model is probably being pushed to the breaking point.

It seemed like they benefitted from a bit of a pull-forward effect as the return of in person events post-lockdowns gave them a bit of renewed interest 2021-2022 and got a bit cocky from it, but now that novelty has mostly worn off just in time for a string of high-profile failures on the silver screen. It really is the perfect storm they've found themselves in, one almost entirely of their own making.

What's really pulling things nice & taut for Disney is that their "bread and butter" -- the theme park experience -- is turning to dog shit. The Star Wars stuff Disney has done in-park has been fucking god-awful by all accounts. And it's not just a matter of "oh they're phoning it in because they know people will swallow it anyway" ... it seems like they're actively trying to sabotage it somehow. "How do we burn this to the ground for good?" seems to be the prevalent question on their minds.

It's the same for the rest of their IP's too. The themed stuff just isn't any good. Add to that skyrocketing prices, significant cuts in staffing, a sharp decline in the quality of the food & beverages they serve up in all the restaurants (cheap or fancy, doesn't matter; it's apparently all gone south in a big way in recent years), and as much as Disney fans love to pretend the company's beefs with Florida aren't impacting things, they absolutely are.

Plenty of Floridians are pissed at Disney over all that shit (and their entitled whining ever since), so locals aren't going as much, and it wouldn't surprise me if even some truly die-hard Disney lovers around the world are getting weary of visiting right now because of it. Coming out against "hey don't fuck our kids, m'kay?" legislation has been a terrible publicity fuckup for Hollywood in general, but especially for Disney. They're the world's biggest child-focused entertainment company and they're pissed about being other people being told not to fuck kids? No parent is blind to that.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

They're the world's biggest child-focused entertainment company

Nintendo has been really drinking Disney's milkshake for a while and now they are doing theme parks and movies too with a lot of success while Disney crumbles at it.

 

[DrearyDoomguy]

What's really pulling things nice & taut for Disney is that their "bread and butter" -- the theme park experience -- is turning to dog shit. The Star Wars stuff Disney has done in-park has been fucking god-awful by all accounts. And it's not just a matter of "oh they're phoning it in because they know people will swallow it anyway" ... it seems like they're actively trying to sabotage it somehow. "How do we burn this to the ground for good?" seems to be the prevalent question on their minds.

Seems to me they thought they could keep on making things worse and worse with no backlash. Given that nationwide reopening doubtless brought a massive influx of traffic from people who had been avoiding gatherings for the better part of a year, they probably thought things would just keep going up. They probably assumed the social media hyperconsoomers who happily trekked around their park buying all their overpriced food and drinks so they could consume it on livestream for clicks were generating positive press for them as well. Given the viewcounts, I'm not surprised they thought this would translate into increased sales. A quick search on youtube for "disney influencers" gets you an endless list of videos just like these, some with disturbingly high viewcounts.



Being a brand loyalist online can be highly profitable.

 

[moocow]

Seems to me they thought they could keep on making things worse and worse with no backlash. Given that nationwide reopening doubtless brought a massive influx of traffic from people who had been avoiding gatherings for the better part of a year, they probably thought things would just keep going up. They probably assumed the social media hyperconsoomers who happily trekked around their park buying all their overpriced food and drinks so they could consume it on livestream for clicks were generating positive press for them as well. Given the viewcounts, I'm not surprised they thought this would translate into increased sales. A quick search on youtube for "disney influencers" gets you an endless list of videos just like these, some with disturbingly high viewcounts.

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Being a brand loyalist online can be highly profitable.

Unfortunately for Disney, Youtube views don't translate into ticket sales (for theaters or parks).

 

[Vingle]

Unfortunately for Disney, Youtube views don't translate into ticket sales (for theaters or parks).

Disney park videos can be fun to watch, but no way if I'm going there ever. And I bet most people are like that, even though the park seems to be fucking packed year round.
At least Nintendo does require a share of income from people streaming their games. Which is smart, and soyboys whining about them not letting streamers do it for free.

 

[NoReturn]

I've always found it particularly fascinating that they think putting it on pavement is a good idea. Cars, motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians all driving on/rolling over/stepping on a flag has always been viewed as incredibly disrespectful in many cultures. Even in the United States where it's legal to burn the US flag, people still generally think you're a cunt worthy of a beatdown for actually doing it.

Yet this movement seems quite comfortable having its beloved symbol trampled? I guess that humiliation fetish is more common among that crowd of defectives.

If you think of it as a magic sigil and not a banner, then the movement of people across it charges the spell.

 

[DrearyDoomguy]

Unfortunately for Disney, Youtube views don't translate into ticket sales (for theaters or parks).

It certainly goes a long way to explaining why some people will advertise how much money they sink into these brand items.

Disney park videos can be fun to watch, but no way if I'm going there ever. And I bet most people are like that, even though the park seems to be fucking packed year round.
At least Nintendo does require a share of income from people streaming their games. Which is smart, and soyboys whining about them not letting streamers do it for free.

I know Activision likes to make in-game Call of Duty merch for their most popular streamers. They get more players and make more sales, and the streamers get a cut of it. It's a win-win. Something like that might work for Disneyland with the right personality but I think these social media socialites are by and large leeching off of the Disney brand for popularity and don't really possess marketable personalities on their own. I know they sort of tried it with the Pauls but it blew up in their faces with the suicide forest incident.

 

[Vingle]

with the Pauls but it blew up in their faces with the suicide forest incident.

Even before the forest incident, it was way way retarded to invest in them. It was a tikking bomb just waiting.

 

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

From the moviebob thread: Its a auto transformer of Grimlock (from the 80s cartoon)

 

[General Emílio Médici]

So I recently got back into swimming (well, flopping around in a somewhat linear direction for 45 minutes) and all I've got is a bathing suit, cap, and goggles. All these other people have all this extra stuff. Fins, hand find, floaty things between their knees, tiny paddle boards, snorkels. It's obvious that like me, none of these people are competitive swimmers, so it's not like they've got some equipment that helps them train that I, not a pro, wouldn't understand. So maybe it's mobility issues? No, there's a regular here who looks like he's drowning while he swims, and obviously has some huge mobility issues, but like me, uses minimal equipment.
I enjoy weight training too, and similarly have minimal equipment. Yet I see these regular people completely kitted out with all of this stuff. For what?!?
I know somebody is going to "well actually" me in the flippers or something but you know what, I don't care. I'm 90% convinced most of the shit clogging the walkpath at the pool is because people like to aquire accoutrements.

I am a bit late but I did swim a bit when I was younger (and really should go back to it sometime) and there is a reason to get some of those doohickeys, but you are right that most of them probably are just consooming.

The idea behind the floaty things, especially the one that goes between your legs or feet, and the tiny boards is to allow you to work out specific muscles while you swim. You use the small board so you can hold your hands and arms firm forward and work extra hard on your leg swimming, or you use the floaty on your legs to keep them in place while you work on long strokes with your arms. Weights are self explanatory on what they do.

However, given what you describe it does sound more like they just bought those for the sake of buying them thinking it would help them in some way but not using it properly.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Movie tickets were relatively cheap back then and home video hadn't taken off yet. If you didn't see a movie when it came out, you had to hope it goes re-released or showed on on tv in edited form in a few years. It's why I saw E.T. in the theater five times.

Apparently that was common for bored kids back in the day like 45 years ago, at least according to my mother and uncle who said they'd hang out in the theater all day and watch Jaws, ET, or the original Star Wars over and over for the price of a single ticket.

It was also much much easier to sneak into the theaters back then, especially if you had a friend who worked in the projector booth or something.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

From the moviebob thread

Couldn't expect less from the wojak template man himself.

Speaking of wojaks.

Must... consoom...shroomjak

 

[I'mma real anime gurl]

From the moviebob thread: Its a auto transformer of Grimlock (from the 80s cartoon)
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Shit like this is what every kid would've wanted before the 00's, now it just feels late unless you're Amish and it's the first time seeing a transformer or the kid is fucking loaded. But there are model kits that are about a quarter of that price and it'll be a fun passion project. Point is for about $1,700 you can either get a fucking toy robot or a bunch of model kits, airbrush, paint, and materials for a diorama.

 

[Yaks]

Shit like this is what every kid would've wanted before the 00's, now it just feels late unless you're Amish and it's the first time seeing a transformer or the kid is fucking loaded. But there are model kits that are about a quarter of that price and it'll be a fun passion project. Point is for about $1,700 you can either get a fucking toy robot or a bunch of model kits, airbrush, paint, and materials for a diorama.

All of the transformer line of toys that exist outside of basic Walmart kid's isle stuff is made exclusively for adult consoomers. Particularly when they make them in smaller runs they can milk the whales for a lot.

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

Speaking of wojaks.

Must... consoom...shroomjak

If I ever fall so low that I want a shroomjak/wojak/soyak/whateveryak t-shirt or phone case, I will singlehandedly download the png from the internet and then take it to my local copy shop which does t-shirts and marketing gadgets, so that I can at least support the local economy instead of some proxy for a chinese sweatshop. And it's going to cost less.

 

[Dambusters' Dog II]

He has already seen this horseshit film 9 times.

Apparently that was common for bored kids back in the day like 45 years ago, at least according to my mother and uncle who said they'd hang out in the theater all day and watch Jaws, ET, or the original Star Wars over and over for the price of a single ticket.

Alec Guinness was prescient about this:

A refurbished Star Wars is on somewhere or everywhere. I have no intention of revisiting any galaxy. I shrivel inside each time it is mentioned. Twenty years ago, when the film was first shown, it had a freshness, also a sense of moral good and fun. Then I began to be uneasy at the influence it might be having. The first bad penny dropped in San Francisco when a sweet-faced boy of twelve told me proudly that he had seen Star Wars over a hundred times. His elegant mother nodded with approval. Looking into the boy's eyes I thought I detected little star-shells of madness beginning to form and I guessed that one day they would explode.

'I would love you to do something for me,' I said.

'Anything! Anything!' the boy said rapturously.

'You won't like what I'm going to ask you to do,' I said.

'Anything, sir, anything!'

'Well,' I said, 'do you think you could promise never to see Star Wars again?'

He burst into tears. His mother drew herself up to an immense height. 'What a dreadful thing to say to a child!' she barked, and dragged the poor kid away. Maybe she was right but I just hope the lad, now in his thirties, is not living in a fantasy world of secondhand, childish banalities.

"In his thirties, living in a fantasy world of secondhand, childish banalities" pretty much sums up the subjects of the thread. Of course, when this is mentioned, the fact that he was motivated by the boy's welfare is left out, and dumb journos just say "Stuffy old Sir Alec hated Star Wars". The boy himself turned up elsewhere and said that Alec's advice had a salutary effect, as intended.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

If I ever fall so low that I want a shroomjak/wojak/soyak/whateveryak t-shirt or phone case, I will singlehandedly download the png from the internet and then take it to my local copy shop which does t-shirts and marketing gadgets, so that I can at least support the local economy instead of some proxy for a chinese sweatshop. And it's going to cost less.

buying it from some chinese fuckover website is the shame tax
assuming you ever experience the kinda major brain damage thatll cause you to even desire something like this in the first place, youll presumably still be to embarrassed to go out and look someone in the face as you hand them the image you want them to slap on a phonecase

although, like i said, this website appears to be some cheap as shit "find anything online and slap it on a tshirt" store, so realistically i dont think the people making this crap are even rational enough to consider who their target audience is, they just see funnee meme and go 'ah, this is what american kids is into, i put on shirt, they buy!'

 

[DoesNotLinkToYou]

I find this shit hard to believe

 

[Vingle]

I find this shit hard to believe

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This is very dystopian

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

I find this shit hard to believe

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ive always wondered if funkos are ever announced in any way
i assumed they just come into existence in shops, but i didnt expect to see a man on stage announce one to a cheering crowd