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

Creepy tranny hoarding Wedding Crashers DVDs, a film he's apparently never seen:
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Most of the comments were roasting him not for consooming, but for being late to the movie hoarding game, and not being as fun or excessive like others who did it first like the guy who has thousands of copies of Shrek on VHS.
Or the guys who hoarded Speed, or Titanic, or even Click. You get the picture. When most collectors are buying games and hardware; posers by the same DVD because no one cares about old movies.
BTW Dude looks rough!
 
Homestuck always seemed strange to me in that it had very little merchandise irl. It had a huge presence at conventions in its heyday, but almost 0 merchandise available for purchase. Fanart was also disallowed by the creator so there wasn't even fanart for sale. It was very weird, I can't think of another fandom in a similar situation.
Fanart was allowed by the creator, but there was a stint of time where his psycho GF or someshit was just false reporting shit forcopyright left and right online from what I remember. it started getting really merch heavy in terms of t shirts towards the end but then died downtill it reared back up as an eternal milk machine with forfansbyfans to the pointof even having a fucking "extended zodiac quiz" that's sole function was to sell t shirts that were 10 dollars more than the regular t shirts for some reason. Then it sputtered out once that site died.

I remember they had an actual web store for a bit during homestucks peak in popularity aroung 2011-2012-ish for t shirts and they initially just had little letters they'd put on the wrapper going like "why the fuck did you buy this?" in some character's typing gimmick and color font. There's some images of it online if you dig around enough but I'm too lazy to go digging right now. You can see the severe tonal shift in the comic occur around the time after they stopped including those letters. Wish I saved mine since I DID get a zipper hoodie with that cool looking doom logo they rarely ever used on it once from there when it opened way back.

The Doom logo for those that never saw it.
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Fanart was allowed by the creator, but there was a stint of time where his psycho GF or someshit was just false reporting shit forcopyright left and right online from what I remember. it started getting really merch heavy in terms of t shirts towards the end but then died downtill it reared back up as an eternal milk machine with forfansbyfans to the pointof even having a fucking "extended zodiac quiz" that's sole function was to sell t shirts that were 10 dollars more than the regular t shirts for some reason. Then it sputtered out once that site died.

I remember they had an actual web store for a bit during homestucks peak in popularity aroung 2011-2012-ish for t shirts and they initially just had little letters they'd put on the wrapper going like "why the fuck did you buy this?" in some character's typing gimmick and color font. There's some images of it online if you dig around enough but I'm too lazy to go digging right now. You can see the severe tonal shift in the comic occur around the time after they stopped including those letters. Wish I saved mine since I DID get a zipper hoodie with that cool looking doom logo they rarely ever used on it once from there when it opened way back.

The Doom logo for those that never saw it.
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HS was cool in the sense that like MLP, people made OCs in correlation with the medium. Furries can and will make any and all things with no restrictions.
 
HS was cool in the sense that like MLP, people made OCs in correlation with the medium. Furries can and will make any and all things with no restrictions.
Nah Homestuck wasn't cool "because of the OCs." It was cool because you got to watch a webcomic where some dumbass stumbles around his house trying to do shit and it somehow spirals into a goofy adventure where the world blowing up is really only the start of things. The user suggestion aspect of MSPA before they shut it down permanently at some point during homestuck was one of the best fucking creative decisions a webcomic has ever made.
 
If you don't buy officially branded product, then you are poor!
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No doubt he is the type to get mad at the fact that most Warhammer fans like the video games or books and not the actual tabletop game.
insane price increases to just get the parts to play a fucking game should not be responded to with "broke". I got into warhammer40k as a kid that was probably a little too young to be playing something as grimdark as it but even with the models being slightly pricier than other model kits they had impressive sculpt design and sometimes were made of metal. They were also like 30 to 40 dollars tops for a lot of the more expensive ones. Now the standard small troop builders are that much.
 
>Entire community centered around reading
>Look inside
>They don't read

That aside I noticed this sort of attitude is more and more common in most hobby communities these days
"Yes I'm an artist and I'm PROUD to say I hardly make art!"
"I'm a gamer and I play all my games on super easy, cinematic mode, aim assist enabled with boss skip!"
"I'm a film critic and I don't even like films, and it's time we normalzied that!"
What the shit is going on? I mean, I'm sure it's largely, at least in part, just posers trying to cement themselves a place in a community they don't belong in, but when did we as a society reach a point where this is not only acceptable but only super common and a point of pride?
It's the same deal with WNs buying books from Amtelope Hill / other racist publishers and then never reading the books but talking endlessly about them on Podcasts.
 
There is a verse from the Bible that encapsulates my feelings about consoomers.

1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

Alot of Consoomers are Godless or Lost Sheep. and they fill the void with whatever plastic shit makes them feel happy or fulfilled.
 
There is a verse from the Bible that encapsulates my feelings about consoomers.

1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

Alot of Consoomers are Godless or Lost Sheep. and they fill the void with whatever plastic shit makes them feel happy or fulfilled.
Ironically this quote seems like something some of these people would quote to try shutting down criticism lmao.
 
Ironically this quote seems like something some of these people would quote to try shutting down criticism lmao.
They try. The use the one modified by C.S Lewis

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up

Of course they miss the part that C.S Lewis didn't have fairy tale funko pops, dressed up fairy tales characters for conventions and didn't have a room full of chink made plastic fairy tale shit. They always miss the entire context of what he was saying

Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

It's pretty obvious he's saying it's fine to enjoy childhood things. That the idea of "I must only enjoy adult things" is childish in its own self. You can see that mentality in the man-o-sphere consumerism of black rifle coffee, and manly beard oils, and whiskey scented soap with 5-11 outfits. If you enjoy this products because you think it's cool/good product then whatever but we have seen plenty of consumerism aspect of buying this shit for the sake if having trappings of "adult manly" items.

I'm sure theirs ladies equivalent to this but I'm a stranger in that world so no idea what it would be.
 
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I'm sure theirs ladies equivalent to this but I'm a stranger in that world so no idea what it would be.
With ladies the line is more blurred because women don't need to perform adulting quite as much as men, they're more permitted to be childish in liking things like toys and cute colorful nonsense.
But I think the female equivalent of "fake grown up" is everything to do with magic crap- tarot cards, crystal, witchy and Halloween aesthetics- they still play with them, their manner of consumption is akin to a game, but it's socially approved adult play.
 
It's pretty obvious he's saying it's fine to enjoy childhood things. That the idea of "I must only enjoy adult things" is childish in its own self. You can see that mentality in the man-o-sphere consumerism of black rifle coffee, and manly beard oils, and whiskey scented soap with 5-11 outfits. If you enjoy this products because you think it's cool/good product then whatever but we have seen plenty of consumerism aspect of buying this shit for the sake if having trappings of "adult manly" items.
Thing is Funko pops and other consoomer shit seem like shittier "adult" things. Notice how the funko consoomers mainly only go for the mint in box funkos to cram into a wall. I've noticed there's a weird complex where a lot of them will belittle people for liking actionfigures or some shit, of course it's always the stuff that's not BRAND with"VALUE" that gets made into funko pops.

There's a weird dichotomy in "adult collectibles" where it's either shit like funko pops or high effort super articulated tiny figures. During the 2000s and early 2010s there was a trend where big companies started putting out lines of stuff secifcally targeting both kids and adults but somewhere along the line the kids shit got cheaper and the adult stuff turned into funko pops.
So we went from shit like this being the standard starting in the early 2000s
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To THIS being the standard now.
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Granted there's still some instances with the kid and adult collector thing, but it's now always priced in a way where kids can never afford it (SEE: TRANSFORMERS GENERATIONS AND GI JOE CLASSIFIED) and it's never got the same level of gimmicks and engineering as years ago unless it's some kind of kamen rider esque shit. Even reissues of cheaply produced kids toys now are gimped and even more cheaped out on to try and preserve the "collector value" of the original which is like the polar opposite of what they used to do for anniversary or special reissues of figures. Used to be "make it look the same but add/improve things maybe" but now it's "make it shittier and charge more based on the "value" so you end up with shit like a 90 dollar technodrome "reissue" that's basically one of those chinese knockoffs in construction. People consoom it anyways to the point it sells out instantly and they never restock because it's now going for the same 200-500 that the OG one is being squatted on by scalpers for so it's now got "value"
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Found a good quality side by side, you can probably immediately tell what one's the "newer" one.


The last few years I've been getting into kinda loosely following various independent small artist company's figures aimed at adults. Not gonna consoom/build a funko wall for them but I kinda wish I had the resources to put stuff out like this myself. Maybe I will someday, maybe I'll still be in this hell situation of barely any resources to make shit I want to I've been trapped in since like 2016.
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This last image has some interesting stuff ted to it. The guys making these ones sold the rights for the characters they bought/owned to a larger company that's now making it something that doesn't even follow the lore of the original thing they were basing these off of. But hey now you can get FUNKO POPS of the robo force robots! :story:
 
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toys and cute colorful nonsense.
everything to do with magic crap- tarot cards, crystal, witchy and Halloween aesthetics
You are describing an average nerd or girl who thinks she’s edgier than everyone around her. A lot of women would associate these things with teenagers. Women usually want to also appear professional and succeeding in life. I think the female “grown up” consumer equivalents would be the right type and brand of clothing, makeup/hair/nails, expensive versions of alcohol, certain books placed on the coffee table when people visit, that kind of thing. Apart from makeup and hair, not much different from men who want to look more grown up. Fine if you like it, sad if you’re just conforming against your personality. Even sadder when it’s purchased at the expense of actual grown up responsibilities.
 
There's a weird dichotomy in "adult collectibles" where it's either shit like funko pops or high effort super articulated tiny figures.
What I can't fathom is why some people spend hundreds on action figures with 10 gorillion points of articulation only to leave and display them inside their boxes. Unless you're a scalper intending to pawn it off, there's no reason to value the packaging over what actually comes inside.
 
What I can't fathom is why some people spend hundreds on action figures with 10 gorillion points of articulation only to leave and display them inside their boxes. Unless you're a scalper intending to pawn it off, there's no reason to value the packaging over what actually comes inside.
That shit's been the bane of my existence for my whole ass life. The ones that mark shit as "best offer" and then auto-reject any actual offer that's not their default asking price or higher have a special place in hell. I'm fine with paying a little over MSRP for a hard to get/long retired figure but when you start charging 2 to 5 times the initial asking price and go "oh well because it's accumulated value demand+inflation bluh bluh bluh" no fuck off.
For small run stuff or stuff really like the box art of, I try saving the box in some manner but that's not the same as keeping the stuff in package forever waiting for some shmuck to buy it for inflated prices. Noticed there's a second method scalpers do where they split up a figure into it's individual parts and charge like 40 to 100 each depending on if it's a current thing or a several decade old thing from the 70s/80s. Not talking about the people that sell stuff split apart like that for like 1-10 dollars, those guys are usually doing that so that hobbyists can get parts without having to pay for the whole price of what it comes from usually. I'm talking "80 dollars for the gun for a transformer" type listings.

A good example of "speculation" getting backed by companies which then destroys a line is how the "25th anniversary" line of gi joe figures. That shit went on for over a decade under different names to suit the various times and years it was going on, but like the last 6 years or so of it most of the significant releases were locked behind convention exclusives or a subscription service store. Walmart got some exclusive ones under a "retro" line like back when corona first hit, but they were ones that were already readily available a few years prior save for a few select ones that had weird QC issues and bad distribution. I actually recently got one of the "sub service store exclusives" from someone selling a bunch of them off because they actually responded to the best offer with something that wasn't a fucking auto-decline or counteroffer for one cent off their listing price. I'm pretty sure I paid less than what I'd pay if I did the subscription thing when it was available since I'd have to pay for the shop access and then the actual fucking thing itself. It's missing an accessory or 2 but it's the cool looking super articulated tiny figure itself I wanted and I didn't pay an insane 100-200 dollar price for it like some people seem to be just squatting on these things for for the last 5 years since they came out.

I'm going to have to make approximations of other figures I found interesting myself using resin casted repro parts because there's no way in hell I'm paying 70-80 dollars minimum for a 4 inch figure. Want to set shit up to do it myself as a side hobby sometime but till then I found out about a few different people that already have things set up for that and they have a VASTLY better selection of parts to choose from in terms of recasting stuff.
 
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I looked into old DS pokemon games on ebay and noticed how crazy the market for Soulsilver/Heartgold is.

Old, sticky cartridge? 100 Dollar. Inlay for the box? 20 Dollar. Box itself? 30-40 Dollar. The little gadget that the game was sold with you can buy for 50-60 dollar.
If you want the full box youd even look at crazier prices.
I think the game retailed 50 Dollar back then?

What the fuck? I can't imagine this game being in particular rare or anything, but then I remember these collectors lamenting how they can't find a fully boxed game to catch dust in their Gaming Shelf together with 100 other unplayed DS Games.

Seems like Pearl/Diamond (same generation) go for more reasonable prices however, which doesn't mean much, since they appear to be less popular, but still sell for a similar price as retail.
 
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