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

[Mega Negroid Gyroid]

Hey, did you all get your Amazon catalog? Apparently everyone is black now.

Was at my grandparents not too long ago and they had the physical Amazon Catalog (which I did not know they did). When I cracked it opened out of curiosity, I was greeted with fat mulattas with the biggest and grossest septum piercings. I'm sure they were equally as repulsed.

 

[Lady Bizness]

Do Amazon catalogs really exist? Is it a specific type of catalog? Google tells me they've got a toy catalog, and here's a small negro child and an Asian engaging in delinquency so apparently that's a priority for the company.
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I believe you though, and I also believe that if someone tried to deliver an Amazon Catalog to my residence I'd chase them away with a stick. I'll tell you what I need when I need it Amazon, don't get uppity.

First time this year getting an adult Christmas catalog! I was shocked AND appalled. I've been getting the kids one for a few years now, but I find the whole thing bizarre. Amazon is where I look up shit I already know about to see if I can get it cheaper, or where I look to see if the thing I want actually exists.

The catalog was going to be immediately shit canned, but I counted two black people (one in a wheelchair) on the cover and one redheaded white child so I couldn't help but thumb through to see what other representation was in there. No downs syndrome. Do Better Amazon.

The people that put it together must absolutely love hot boxing their own flatulence. Can't you just imagine the legendary ass rip that occured as the graphic design intern literally centered a disabled black woman on the cover of an Amazon catalog?

 

[Elysian]

I didn't know physical catalogues were still a thing. I haven't seen one since the days when taking a copy of the Argos catalogue home with you was A Thing That People Did. Have you ever thought about how Argos is basically just pre-internet Amazon that still exists for boomers who can't use the internet? What even is the point of a physical Amazon catalogue anyway, since you still have to use the online store to buy the things?

Spoiler: Catalogue Nostalgia

Once when I was 5 years old, my parents handed me a copy of the Argos catalogue so I could write down what I wanted Santa to get for me for Christmas. But because I had no understanding of money and childlike magical thinking, I thought that you could write down as much stuff from the catalogue as you wanted and Santa would get it all for Christmas. So my Christmas list was 2 pages long and totalled approximately £1,500. Laughs were had all round at my childlike innocence and my parents told me to narrow it down to a couple things.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It can be manipulative (and at least annoying) when using an ad blocker is claimed to be the same as "stealing content" or "piracy".

Blocking ads is more like not leaving a tip for the street performer who's already out there on the street performing. Or it's like muting ads on TV or radio. Not all want to be flooded with endless and easily manipulative ads (especially in Current Year Clown World). Not to mention that internet ads can be risky to privacy, and PC security.

Can you imagine watching some ambience video to relax, but every so often it's loudly interrupted by advertising? Like ocean sounds interrupted by "HEY YOU BUY PRODUCT"?

 

[Torque Wheeler]

My local gas station installed stupid video screens at the pump that blast advertisments directly in your face. There used to be a way to mute it (seconds button from the bottom right on some pumps), but they disabled it

 

[WelperHelper99]

My local gas station installed stupid video screens at the pump that blast advertisments directly in your face. There used to be a way to mute it (seconds button from the bottom right on some pumps), but they disabled it

Sam's club has been doing that for years, but it seems it's bleeding out to other stations now too. Sad

 

[Torque Wheeler]

Sam's club has been doing that for years, but it seems it's bleeding out to other stations now too. Sad

I found the speaker grill. I'm thinking about putting a needle through the speaker cone to break it. Saying that, I'm like 80% sure they put cameras behind the video displays

 

[WelperHelper99]

I found the speaker grill. I'm thinking about putting a needle through the speaker cone to break it. Saying that, I'm like 80% sure they put cameras behind the video displays

Ads sadly are eternal. They'd just fix it anyway. That's the true sad part. Making some wagie fix the ad machine

 

[Ammyterasu]

I didn't know physical catalogues were still a thing. I haven't seen one since the days when taking a copy of the Argos catalogue home with you was A Thing That People Did. Have you ever thought about how Argos is basically just pre-internet Amazon that still exists for boomers who can't use the internet? What even is the point of a physical Amazon catalogue anyway, since you still have to use the online store to buy the things?

Spoiler: Catalogue Nostalgia

Once when I was 5 years old, my parents handed me a copy of the Argos catalogue so I could write down what I wanted Santa to get for me for Christmas. But because I had no understanding of money and childlike magical thinking, I thought that you could write down as much stuff from the catalogue as you wanted and Santa would get it all for Christmas. So my Christmas list was 2 pages long and totalled approximately £1,500. Laughs were had all round at my childlike innocence and my parents told me to narrow it down to a couple things.

Good times.

Spoiler: autistic retelling

I remember one year I spent hours and hours with a toy catalogue, I knew I would never get all the toys I wanted for Christmas so I fantasized about playing with them in my mind. I can't find it online but I remember fixating on this Polly Pocket and making up stories about the Pollies living there:

In the end I didn't get that from "Santa", but I got a couple of Polly Pocket minis and those were good enough.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

My local gas station installed stupid video screens at the pump that blast advertisments directly in your face.

Sam's club has been doing that for years, but it seems it's bleeding out to other stations now too.

That sounds like something out of Idiocracy.

 

[Merton J. Dingle]

I miss the old web before it was completely taken over by corporate interests.

I still use search engines like Wiby to find niche information since it's pretty much impossible with how current search engines work, even the "better" ones. I don't care about your amazon affiliate link wordpress blog, Barb.

Just typed a totally random word into the search, "crocodile," and found university web pages related to paleontology, ancient Egypt, and the Roman coliseum. That's a fuck of a lot better than the YouTube shorts and TikTok videos that come up alongside Britannica and Wikipedia pages that I could have looked up on my own if I wanted to read them.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Ever since I was a little kid, I've kind of seen brand names on everything to be annoying. I've also disliked having advertisements pushed on me for many, many years now.

A hammer was just a hammer, not a STANLEY hammer. Salt was just salt, not MORTON salt. A pencil was just a pencil, not a DIXON TICONDEROGA pencil.

 

[WelperHelper99]

That sounds like something out of Idiocracy.

Who said it wasn't the inspiration?

Ever since I was a little kid, I've kind of seen brand names on everything to be annoying. I've also disliked having advertisements pushed on me for many, many years now.

For me it depends. A pencil is a pencil. But if I'm getting a power tool, I want to know I grabbed a trusty Milwaukee and not some Chinese knockoff with a red and black color scheme. Bur I will agree that EVERYTHING having a logo is annoying

 

[Panzerfrau]

The fact that Soomers are just repeating what Boomers had with the Home Shopping Network has already been well-established, but it still surprises me to see it in action.

"TikTok Made Me Buy It"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAtp-tmgk5A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzxaD5IRFhc

Video about buying "TikTok Made Me Buy It" products

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmrOxpNjJoA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26hT8q7sV2g

Video on the topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8iOvD4z9CQ

I watched the first "TikTok made me buy" video and tried watching the second, but when the british chick got all flabbergasted when she discovered that little ball for cleaning fur from clothes is sticky instead of "just being like, glass?", I had to turn it off. No one can be that retarded, right? Is she playing it up for simps/kids watching her or...?

As for the first girl, I love (hate) how she sperged and sperged about those shitty lipglosses and basic bitch t-shirts, but as soon as she opens an item that can be used for learning a new skill or craft some neat stuff? "Uh yeah like, it totally wanted to learn how to do it tehee" and throws it away, next!
That embroidery kit is never gonna get used lol

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I miss the old web before it was completely taken over by corporate interests.

IIRC I read in some business article that some business person claimed the age of the "free" (as in "free beer") internet is ending.

Corporations most likely miss the days before the 'net (when they ran mass media), and they clearly want to make 'net like cable TV.

(full of ads, "advertiser-friendly", censored, centralized, paywalled)

 

[Brenda Holiday]

My local gas station installed stupid video screens at the pump that blast advertisments directly in your face. There used to be a way to mute it (seconds button from the bottom right on some pumps), but they disabled it

I refuse to get gas at these places unless I absolutely have to.
It's such a joy to have WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER blasting in your ear while you watch your food budget for the week get poured into your gas tank.

 

[Oxyjen]

but when the british chick got all flabbergasted when she discovered that little ball for cleaning fur from clothes is sticky instead of "just being like, glass?", I had to turn it off. No one can be that retarded, right? Is she playing it up for simps/kids watching her or...?

Haven’t watched the vid but there is such a thing as an electrostatic pet hair remover, which is just smooth plastic. She might have seen one like that before. The sticky thing is a cheap and lower tech version.

 

[Panzerfrau]

Haven’t watched the vid but there is such a thing as an electrostatic pet hair remover, which is just smooth plastic. She might have seen one like that before. The sticky thing is a cheap and lower tech version.

No no, she seemed confused about the idea of fur removers in general and expected it be some kind of magic glass thing. Later in the video she explains for a few minutes how a water bottle with two compartments work, so I guess she's either retarded or pretends for an audience

 

[BMO_]

It can be manipulative (and at least annoying) when using an ad blocker is claimed to be the same as "stealing content" or "piracy".

Webpages are documents written in HTML.
Browsers download and display these documents.
Adblockers modify these documents.
Fighting adblockers is like fighting video game modding: it's pointless and retarded.

 

[NoReturn]

I refuse to get gas at these places unless I absolutely have to.
It's such a joy to have WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER blasting in your ear while you watch your food budget for the week get poured into your gas tank.

Second button on the right is the mute button