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

[Thiletonomics]

This is from years back, someone bought almost 100 nesoberi plushes, in addition to other various anime merchandise:

 

[Sean Shemmy]

I don't think buying a product instantly makes you an Coonsoomer.

There is a line (however fine) between Hobbyist and Coonsoomer. Hobbyists actually like the products and games they play. Coonsoomer buy things just because it is a "LIFESTYLE BRAND." tm.

For instance the man in the Above post..probably doesn't actually play his Switch nearly as much as he claims he does.

That's because it's photoshopped! He doesn't actually have a switch in the first place. He's Bernd Schmidt, the guy with the world record for how big he can open his mouth. And before someone replies to me telling me he looks somewhat like a soyjak, he actually is one. He's the guy someone traced over to make the gapejak variant. Sorry for replying to such an old post by the way and going off topic. I don't know if replying to really old posts is frowned here, like how doubleposting and other stuff is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddRXQKSV8ss

 

[stupid frog]

He's Bernd Schmidt, the guy with the world record for how big he can open his mouth.

What a legacy.

 

[moocow]

He's Bernd Schmidt, the guy with the world record for how big he can open his mouth.

I'm legitimately surprised this dubious "record" doesn't belong to some big fat black mammy.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

hese are "hey billy i heard you like uhh the star wars, enjoy this, it shows i vaaaaaguely know something or other about you but it's very surface level"

Speaking of that. Just look at this.



Ralph Mcquarrie's art is pretty sweet. Even non star wars could enjoy it as a gift.

Except this edition is made for ants.


Just another shitty gag gift designed for the office secret santa market.
At least i would prefer this over a similarly priced Funko pop.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

Speaking of that. Just look at this.

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Ralph Mcquarrie's art is pretty sweet. Even non star wars could enjoy it as a gift.

Except this edition is made for ants.

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Just another shitty gag gift designed for the office secret santa market.
At least i would prefer this over a similarly priced Funko pop.

these tiny books are very much a decent gift and desirable thing to own, if there's a book that's dear to your heart, maybe a bible or some kinda religious scripture or otherwise something you always wanna keep on hand in your pocket and maybe pop open and read a line out of now and then, it's nice to have
it just doesn't work with an art book, where you're meant to marvel at the illustrations in all the detail the book will allow
which leads me to believe this is just some kinda amazon algorithm going around and mini-ifying every book it can find

 

[Torque Wheeler]

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So my mother wanted a cookbook for Christmas, so I stopped in a physical bookstore and stumbled across this collection of junk. Why are there so many of these "unofficial cookbooks" anyway? The usual suspects like Star Wars and Disney are there, but there's ones for shit that doesn't even make me think of food like Halo or Magic the Gathering or the Ticket to Ride boardgame? Are they going to teach me how to make hotpockets but with a funny name? Who would unironically use these?

Ran into the same issue. I was trying to find the new edition of American Test Kitchen for my mom, but all I could see was Hogwarts or great British bakeoff books. And a shocking amount of air fryer books. I think people must just live on frozen tendies, judging from all of the beginner instapot or whatever books. Don't even get me starting on the gender-afirming manly meat or bourbon or beer books.

 

[Trapper]

Ran into the same issue. I was trying to find the new edition of American Test Kitchen for my mom, but all I could see was Hogwarts or great British bakeoff books. And a shocking amount of air fryer books. I think people must just live on frozen tendies, judging from all of the beginner instapot or whatever books. Don't even get me starting on the gender-afirming manly meat or bourbon or beer books.

Every hobby seems to be plagued with beginner level books and little else. I get that they sell better and when you want to improve your skills you go online, but there’s a lot of bad information and it would be nice to have books that show you better ways to do things. It makes me wonder how many people randomly start new hobbies all the time, for beginner books to sell in huge numbers.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

With websites like Temu becoming more and more popular I'm unfortunately seeing a lot of people getting Temu crap as holiday gifts, it's depressing, people either don't care and just wanna pawn off plastic garbage on others, or worse and unfortunately more commonly, actually fall for it's advertisement as a 'luxurious' website that lets you shop like a rich person for cheap
As opposed to what it really is, a site that finds you shit products that some random Chinaman has way too much of in a warehouse somewhere

Seeing entire groups of friends and family members all get Temu poopoo from a few of the same individuals, necklaces that go green after a day, those shitty plastic gaymer displays, crappy bluetooth microphones or headphones that don't connect but that's your problem to realize once you get home and already thanked them for the gift and they're absolved because it's inappropriate to say "hey the gift you bought me SUCKS and doesn't work" the next day, despite the fact that the buyer knew damn well this was possible, some of them even proudly exclaiming how they got it on Temu
It's sad

Every hobby seems to be plagued with beginner level books and little else. I get that they sell better and when you want to improve your skills you go online, but there’s a lot of bad information and it would be nice to have books that show you better ways to do things. It makes me wonder how many people randomly start new hobbies all the time, for beginner books to sell in huge numbers.

Most of the time when you want a book on a topic, you're not really starting from the very bottom, you have some semblance of what the hobby is about before you get into it, after all, if you're interested enough in, say, computer building, you must have some idea of why you like it before you set foot into it, right? You don't need to be told that the power button turns the computer on. Books like that, almost stupidly beginner friendly, are for hobby tourists, people who literally just jump into a new hobby as soon as it interests them for a day (or the hobby suddenly becomes popular and they want social cred for partaking in it) and immediately jump into buying stuff relating to it before learning up elsewhere so they can validate their interest before it disappears in a week

Speaking of cheap crap, AI books are absolutely plaguing markets now
AI is getting slightly better at constructing sentences that "look" smart from a distance if you don't actually look into them, so it's hard to tell at first that it's bullshit before you buy it, until you open it up and read a paragraph that tells you computers were invented by Doctor Comp. A. Uter in the year 2010 to breed into more computers or some shit, you might actually believe what it says before that if you're a complete and total beginner

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Working retail this holiday season has made me never want to celebrate them again. We have an after Christmas sale and it's been worse than Black Friday. Just the mindless buying because grandma gave every retard and faggot $50. It's shockingly disgusting. It feels way more chaotic and consooomerish than last year ever did.

 

[YouTube Autist]

A recent Predator Poachers video features a lawyer and would-be child molester who actually throws himself to the ground in despair when caught.

Despite being a grown man, and despite being a lawyer who presumably makes enough money to furnish his dwelling tastefully, he has a bunch of Funko Pops displayed in his living room. I couldn't help thinking of this thread.

 

[PandaChai]

proudly exclaiming how they got it on Temu

I'm now old & crotchety enough that if anyone; family, friend, coworker; gave me a ""gift"" saying it was from any of these chinesium dropshipping sites, or that information somehow otherwise came to my attention, I would refuse to take it. I don't care if I'm called Grinch or Scrooge or ungrateful, if it's so great lucky you it's all yours. Perhaps I'm just lucky I don't have to engage in middle management mandated secret santa or the like, and I'm sure being a man helps

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

and I'm sure being a man helps

i don't know how that will save you from shitty Temu gifts, we all get them sometimes
I myself got a dogshit "50 GB usb drive" from one of those websites as a gift from a relative that can barely hold 10 JPEGs on it

you'd think it's all old people who don't understand tech, too, but you'd be wrong, young people seem to fall for that crap way more often, most people i know over the age of 60 just say they don't touch that crap

 

[Randy Butternubs]

you'd think it's all old people who don't understand tech, too, but you'd be wrong, young people seem to fall for that crap way more often, most people i know over the age of 60 just say they don't touch that crap

Ain't that the fuckin' truth. It genuinely shocks me how ingrained Temu made itself in like, 2 years. Young and old people talk about it, talk about shopping on it, talk about how they find great deals on it, etc.
It's insane! Especially given that WISH was Temu and got absolutely heckled to death. Now there's just "Oh look product, BUY" consuming both young and old

I think there's a little bubble of people who know how to identify scams but brother, they are few and far between these days.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Ain't that the fuckin' truth. It genuinely shocks me how ingrained Temu made itself in like, 2 years. Young and old people talk about it, talk about shopping on it, talk about how they find great deals on it, etc.
It's insane! Especially given that WISH was Temu and got absolutely heckled to death. Now there's just "Oh look product, BUY" consuming both young and old

I think there's a little bubble of people who know how to identify scams but brother, they are few and far between these days.

Temu being a Chinese company, and having lower prices, is the same reasoning why some people are falling for the same trap and buying Chinese EV cars (where they are available, i.e. Europe, Australia, Southeast Asia, Central and South America), because they look great and seem like a good deal with their lower prices. Little do those suckers know about severe the cost cutting goes with those cars on the parts that you don't see, which are so shoddy that it would make Nissan CVTs seem like Toyota-levels of reliable in comparison.

 

[Yaks]

you'd think it's all old people who don't understand tech, too, but you'd be wrong, young people seem to fall for that crap way more often, most people i know over the age of 60 just say they don't touch that crap

People in the age demographic of under 30 are less tech savvy than the previous generations. Gen X to Older Millenials was the sweet spot of general tech literacy when it comes to modern day computering (and a good chunk of them were barely at acceptable anyway). The younger people might give the illusion of understanding, since they can figure out how to click the 2 buttons to connect to bluetooth, but ask them to switch operating systems on their phones and see what happens. When the technology becomes dumb and streamlined, so does literacy.

Unfortunately if it isn't Temu, the same exact shit is on Amazon, Ebay, Walmart, etc anywhere with a marketplace. At least with the other sites you can easily return it.

If you thought the normal consumer hauls were bad, the Temu ones are next level.

https://www.youtube.com/@HeyyyEverybody/videos
Note the dates. She isn't the only channel I've seen like that where they just keep getting bags every couple of days.

My favorites are the ones who call themselves "thrifty" something and they're just constantly purchasing low end shit to where they aren't even thrifty anymore they've spent so much money.

 

[PandaChai]

i don't know how that will save you from shitty Temu gifts, we all get them sometimes

I more meant getting away with being the grouch that says no thanks to such a thing, as I feel the lady farmers might not be so fortunate

 

[bliblblblbbllb]

I was trying to find the new edition of American Test Kitchen for my mom, but all I could see was Hogwarts or great British bakeoff books.

Cookbooks are a dying breed like all picture-less book right now. You know how it's typically insufferable to actually get to the recipe in a webpage? You have to scroll past fifteen giant magazine-style images and five pages about the author's children's first day of kindergarten? Cookbooks are the same way nowadays: every other page is total bullshit that might have some entertainment value/eye appeal, but is basically fluff.

Way easier to sell something because of the big pretty pictures of something from a recognizable IP like Disney or Harry Potter than it is to sell a book that looks and reads like an encyclopedia. Cookbooks are also constantly being shilled nowadays by Youtube/social media chefs. Not that they can't have good recipes, but they just typically make trash reference books. Highly specialized recipes are for special occasions, not general knowledge/daily use. You can spend hundreds of dollars buying a dozen books from Youtube chefs, and they won't hold a candle to an old edition of the red-plaid cover BH&G cookbook.

For example, here is a random picture of someone on r/Cookbooklovers (archive) showing a cookbook, I'm pretty sure from an influencer.

Half of one page is the ingredients, a quarter of one page is the recipe, a quarter of a page is a picture of the ingredients posed next to a serving of the food.... And the entire page opposite is the author's meandering opinions on what is and isn't good in vegetarian chili- and it continues to the next page.

Obviously this person has chosen to read this drivel as a cozy Saturday morning activity and fine whatever, people can have fun and hobbies etc. But if I'm actively looking for a chili recipe, I lose my mind if a website looks this way. So I would equally be mad if my cookbook was 50% blogpost.

I find it very consoom-y. What it boils down to, like most of the consumer culture products, is that it's easier to sell people books about the Idea of Cooking and "Feeling Like a Person Who Cooks a Lot of Good Food" than it is to sell actual reference-style cookbooks.

 

[glass_houses]

Unfortunately if it isn't Temu, the same exact shit is on Amazon, Ebay, Walmart, etc anywhere with a marketplace. At least with the other sites you can easily return it.

I do a lot of shopping on Aliexpress and it's always "buyer beware". Each "store" has individual ratings from prior customers, and it's a good idea to study those ratings carefully before buying. Some stores will have two types of reviews, wholly positive and wholly negative. This means that the store cuts costs by occasionally mixing counterfeit crap with legit merch, using their good reviews to offset the bad ones. Some stores have absolutely lovely people running them, some are flat out con artists and standover merchants, but most are in between.

Most of the time it's the exact same brands as Anko or Amazon, just cheaper and without the box. Just, for the love of God, use a payment service and never give them more money than you can afford to lose, and don't buy anything that you plan to eat out of.

 

[Kiska]

My favorites are the ones who call themselves "thrifty" something and they're just constantly purchasing low end shit to where they aren't even thrifty anymore they've spent so much money.

There's a trend of a lot of people overspending on chinese ecommerce apps. They see all the cheap items since you're basically paying with less middlemen than amazon or your typical retail, and they end up walking away with a horde of cheap trash they probably spent 10 or 15 or so minutes perusing through and call it a haul. What'll typically end up is a bunch of clone people with cheap and tacky home decor, or they just throw it out quickly once they have their fun with their toys. Have someone I know that works with ewaste and he give me some of the shit they throw out for free and the things they get there from such sources often end up there literally unused or open-box and barely used.

I do a lot of shopping on Aliexpress

Can't blame ya since I do the same for all of those reasons but I also sometimes import from Taobao (aka the mainland china version of aliexpress) since it has a lot more aliexpress doesn't

Also Stanley hoarders on tiktok are in shambles, there's a new player in town. Better throw out all your tumblerinos to make way for it.