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

[Cuntspiracy Man]

Spend money decorating the inside of your fridge
That would just be so annoying thankfully no one in my house is that crazy

see i think this is where the divide between appreciating beauty, and having an unhealthy obsession with it, stands
some things need to be utilitarian
i will go for miles expressing my respect for people who love beautiful things, the world is too damn ugly and wanting to decorate your surroundings is nothing if not admirable- but beauty should inspire, it shouldn't be an obsession, and once you attempt to make utilitarian objects all pretty is the moment maintaining that beauty becomes a neurotic practice

because you're gonna have leftovers, you're gonna be have half drank bottles, half used jars with sauce or whatever smudged up onto the side of the interior, you're gonna have days where you're left with two leaves of salad, half a cucumber and a small bunch of grapes that doesn't look all pretty in your fridge, or buy those "ugly" looking veggies that are kinda lumpy and malformed but are still perfectly usable yet you'll forego them because they won't look 'aesthetique' in your little shrine to self absorbance

this is my main issue with most modern decorating trends, is that they don't come about naturally nor stay of their own volition, they have to be obsessively maintained
"cottegecore" used to be a result of people finding and creating whatever old furniture they could, old beautiful pieces of art were found and collected over time, great gifts and memorabilia were displayed as they came into your life, but now you have to deliberately go out of your way to seek them out, find them, make SURE every piece you own is whatever"-core" enough
there's a huge difference between "oh what a lovely statuette, i'll put it on my empty shelf" and "that shelf is empty, i NEED something for it, anything, quick, to the cheap dollar store to find any ol piece of junk to stick there, anything, just as long as the overall display is maintained!"

a good type of collection in my eyes is one where every piece of the collection is loved for itself, not for whatever it does to the group it's apart of, not as another number within the collection

 

[Mac Monster]

It's not even just Star Wars. I understand that the whole market for hermetically sealed "investment" comic books has recently gone bust. I'm sure that's just the start. Star Trek merchandise has already been in free fall at least 20 years. American pop culture has been so completely raped, and the economy is in such a shitty state, I think the secondary market for most old pop culture shit will be prematurely eviscerated.

Buying something not because you actually need or want it but just because you want to pawn it off to some other retard later on has always been very baffling. There's no guarantee that you'll ever profit from your "investment," and you could end up just stuck with a bunch of useless shit you have no attachment to.

 

[AnOminous]

on her own she's a cute mascot, i have to admit, i'm fond of her

It's one of the most valuable IP franchises in the world in terms of pure money. Tens of billions of dollars.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

It's one of the most valuable IP franchises in the world in terms of pure money. Tens of billions of dollars.

Not just one of the most valuable IPs, it's the No. 1 biggest IP on the planet. If I remember correctly, Pokémon was second. Hello Kitty and Sanrio all around are a level of popular that I really can't conceive of, especially just for nice little Japanese characters.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

Hello Kitty and Sanrio all around are a level of popular that I really can't conceive of, especially just for nice little Japanese characters

Kitty does not even look actually cute. She, relative to a cat, is something like putting me against young Pamela Anderson as a sex symbol.
I never seen people in real life wear unironic versions of it. Altho I saw few chinese knockoffs that look way more like a cat.

I suspect weird oriental magic at work.

 

[NoReturn]

Hello kitty is not a cat drawing, is a demonic sigil

but explain to me why on god's good green earth is it such a BPD bitch magnet
i know they love their cute shit, but what is it about sanrio in particular? is their shit somehow scientifically designed to be the ideal "type" of cute to attract these loonies? is it just one of the more popular pop culture cute things so the girls who are attached to it don't really like it, they just pick it and pretend they do? i'm sure the latter is true for some, but if there's one thing i learned of these kinda whores is that they genuinely do, honest to god, love cute things, maybe even love them a bit too much to the point where they have the urge to purge anything that isn't adorable
maybe a bit of both?
maybe it's their well documented nature of desperately trying to control the way they're perceived leading them to neurotically trying to design and maintain their perception and thus gravitating towards the brands that do the job best?

Kitty does not even look actually cute. She, relative to a cat, is something like putting me against young Pamela Anderson as a sex symbol.
I never seen people in real life wear unironic versions of it. Altho I saw few chinese knockoffs that look way more like a cat.

I suspect weird oriental magic at work.

Hello Kitty is not a cat, she is a little girl who looks like a cat.
I think @Cuntspiracy Man is on to something, honestly. Cuteness is cute, we all know this, but there's something in particular about the Sanrio characters that attracts a certain personality type.

Compare Sanrio and their rival company San-X's designs in the image below:

Direct comparison of the black cats:
Sanrio

San-X


Or compare BT21 (the BTS mascot line) to Sanrio

Rabbit comparison
Sanrio

BTS21


You can see it, right? That something in the Sanrio characters. There's something there that might be extra attractive to the BPD brain.

I have seen crossover with crazy women and Tokidoki with Sanrio, which is funny because Tokidoki also has crossovers with both Sanrio (general) and Hello Kitty (specific sub-brand).

Tokidoki


Tokidoki x Hello Kitty

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Hello Kitty is not a cat, she is a little girl who looks like a cat.

its the little girl they sacrificed to power the sigil

 

[Buttigieg2020]

this is way the fuck sadder because a lot of the time this is stuff that older generations treasured and thought their children would at least treat with some semblance of respect

My family runs an estate disposal business.

The majority of Boomers‘ remaining possessions are not noteworthy. Their prized possessions are almost always dozens of cabinets of worthless China and Porcelain made on an assembly line.

If you’re lucky they’ll still have family handcrafted furniture and American steel tools. Most of those usually get thrown out when they downsize.
I did see one family with signed Space Race NASA official photograph prints. Those were awesome.

To give the boomers credit, Hummels are at least better than Funkopops.




Edit: Sorry, I didn’t realize there were like 5 other replies saying almost the same thing. I guess it’s good to know that my experiences aren’t unusual.

 

[Tragon Dirtle]

You can see it, right? That something in the Sanrio characters. There's something there that might be extra attractive to the BPD brain.

I'm having a thought about this that I can't quite put into words. Bc I think I see what you mean looking at the side by sides.

Cute aggression, or playful aggression, is the urge to squeeze or bite things perceived as being cute without the desire to cause any harm. It is a common type of dimorphous display, where a person experiences positive and negative expressions simultaneously in a disorganised manner.

Cute aggression - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Unstable and chaotic interpersonal relationships, often characterized by a pattern of alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation, also known as 'splitting''

Borderline personality disorder - Wikipedia

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[Cuntspiracy Man]

The majority of Boomers‘ remaining possessions are not noteworthy.

"those people cared about these objects"
"nuh uh, how could they? they're not special or worth lots of money"
is a terrible thought process

 

[DrearyDoomguy]

"it's not worth no MONAY" is a pathetic response to "this is stuff that people care about"

It's just a reality you have to face when you've got limited storage space and tight finances. Not everyone can afford to rent out a storage unit for all the heirlooms they don't have room for in their house or apartment. At a certain point you have no choice but to discard the stuff that serves no real purpose other than taking up space.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

It's just a reality you have to face when you've got limited storage space and tight finances. Not everyone can afford to rent out a storage unit for all the heirlooms they don't have room for in their house or apartment. At a certain point you have no choice but to discard the stuff that serves no real purpose other than taking up space.

the point i'm making is that it's a bad mindset which is why i altered the post to better express what i mean

if you think responding to the claim that the people who hand you down things loved and cherished those things by saying those things aren't valuable in the eyes of society as a whole or expensive as some kinda retort, then you clearly think people can't love or care for things that aren't worth cold hard cash

 

[NoReturn]

The Hello Kitty stuff continues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwe3QYwOIDA

It's just a reality you have to face when you've got limited storage space and tight finances. Not everyone can afford to rent out a storage unit for all the heirlooms they don't have room for in their house or apartment. At a certain point you have no choice but to discard the stuff that serves no real purpose other than taking up space.

the point i'm making is that it's a bad mindset which is why i altered the post to better express what i mean

if you think responding to the claim that the people who hand you down things loved and cherished those things by saying those things aren't valuable in the eyes of society as a whole or expensive as some kinda retort, then you clearly think people can't love or care for things that aren't worth cold hard cash

I think there's also a disconnect between "loved and cherished by the individual" and "loved and cherished by the family".
Going back to someone I mentioned earlier itt, I know someone who is being asked to pay for a storage unit for their mother's possessions. These are not things that are valuable or hold emotional significance to my friend, but they do to my friend's mother.
This is causing some conflict between them because the mom is sayings like "Don't you care about your own childhood? What about all these memories!"

 

[Randy Butternubs]

This is causing some conflict between them because the mom is sayings like "Don't you care about your own childhood? What about all these memories!"

This is called "Living in the past" instead of accepting that time has moved on. I cherish memories and relationships but the trinket is only a vessel for them. Realizing that the object's time has come to an end is just part of growing and moving forward. Don't let the past define things and you won't be upset when the reality of things is that nothing lasts forever and people move on

EDIT: The mindset of "I have to preserve this to my own detriment" I think is a worse mindset than acknowledging that people cherished them and moving on when necessary.

 

[melty]

This is called "Living in the past" instead of accepting that time has moved on. I cherish memories and relationships but the trinket is only a vessel for them. Realizing that the object's time has come to an end is just part of growing and moving forward. Don't let the past define things and you won't be upset when the reality of things is that nothing lasts forever and people move on

Boomers have strange ideas of what their children should want. My friends boomer mom sent him a big box of "memories". What are the memories? Stuff like the first dishes he used, clothes he wore as an infant, baby and doll stuff the mom personally liked. In other words, moms memories.
Most kids cherished items are more like a favorite toy, not clothes they don't remember wearing. A lot of boomer "heirlooms" are like that, it's something the boomer personally liked, so he thinks everybody else should like it and find it valuable too.

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I really like your post. My first thought at seeing this fridges is that's actually a neat idea. Why shouldn't they look nicer if it's something in your house you look at regularly?
But you're right that there's too many impracticalities and how trends don't come about naturally. "Fridgescaping" is just like people making ice cubes with juice and flowers all over again.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

"Fridgescaping" is just like people making ice cubes with juice and flowers all over again.

I'd argue it's not the case at all, the latter is a lot better and more productive since it (assuming the person engaging in it views it that way) can be a sort of creative hobby, one where you fiddle over an object to achieve an end result, as opposed to something requiring maintenance and upkeep

At the end of the day I don't even think any of these practices are *inherently* bad, they're only bad for you if they overtake your life
It goes back to the argument this thread has like once every 20 pages or so of "Guys am *I* a consoooooooooooooomer?" "Guys I only do this and that, please quantify how valid I am" there's no easy way to say just by looking from the outside in, we can only laugh at the most egregious and obvious examples, but the stuff that sits in the middle of that blurred line is on a case by case basis and depends entirely on how much unnecessary spending, emotional toil and little reward outside of the act of acquiring more and more goes into it
I think the biggest thing most of these hyperconsumers have in common is how much they advertise what they do because so much of it hinges on them getting attention for it, that's really the defining trait here, is them doing this for the approval of others

Semi related: you won't find me a single person who still performs, even half a year later, any one or several of these trendy hobbies, you won't find me the same girly still fiddling over drinks and ice cubes while also "fridgescaping", because they take up such a large part of their day and mental capacity that they're not really lifestyles or hobbies but rather things to fill their lives with until the newest trend comes in

 

[AnOminous]

Semi related: you won't find me a single person who still performs, even half a year later, any one or several of these trendy hobbies, you won't find me the same girly still fiddling over drinks and ice cubes while also "fridgescaping", because they take up such a large part of their day and mental capacity that they're not really lifestyles or hobbies but rather things to fill their lives with until the newest trend comes in

I sometimes make fruit juice ice cubes, especially with grape juice, because I like it really cold but I don't like it getting diluted when the ice cubes melt. Then I crush any leftover cubes into slush.

 

[Apustajan apustaja]

My ashtray collection is worthless at the moment, and mostly stored away, but it was something that was common in every home or restaurant my childhood, but people are ashamed of now. It keeps getting bigger.
I hope my great grandchildren can sell them later like nazi stuff today, "I can't beleive people used to poison themselves/jews".
I have sold some to collectors already, it is usualy the missing peice from their design series of plates and glasses.
But I don't get how people buy stuff recently made as "collectibles".

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

I sometimes make fruit juice ice cubes, especially with grape juice, because I like it really cold but I don't like it getting diluted when the ice cubes melt. Then I crush any leftover cubes into slush.

is there a "who cares?" rating?

 

[Summertime]

This website has been brought up before on this thread, but what's your opinions on the "Aesthetics Wiki"? I think some of these pages are actually very informative, while others just feel like a guide for younger teenagers (mostly girls) on how to act, what to buy, and what to consume/watch/play (especially when the pages in question have some sections like "Media" or "Brands"). I think TikTok has created a concerning loop of new fashion trends being shat out every single week even if everyone will forget about these crazes in no time.

For reference, this specific pages are "consoomercore" as hell:

• Nintencore (legit just Nintendo images)
• Kawaii Gamer (Belle Delphine syndrome)
• Animecore (filling up your room with anime figures)
• Clean Girl (forgetable TikTok trend)
• Basically everything on this category: Microtrend