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

[stupid frog]

"show off with the hand behind" shit everyone keeps doing even with mundane things like food? Why???

It's to make the camera focus on the item. Or that's why people used to do it.
I couldn't watch the video, what I saw it looks like she's going to stock a small store display.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Time to lurk once more...

IIRC it was mostly @NoReturn who was posting about it.

 

[Skylavijas]

"you're supposed to have a whole cabinet of makeup" ? for what? Makeup expires, there's no way any of those tiktok girlies use all that makeup they show, it expires unless they're just reapplying makeup in their homes multiple times a day which sounds insane.

I thought the idea was indeed that. That they apply makeup for everything, including something as minor as driving to the gas station... If they're poor or a teenager with limited funds, they'll just use expired makeup, or do other unhygienic things like borrowing used lipstick from relatives and friends (which does lead to their face not aging gracefully, making them even more reliant on makeup). At times I think such heavy usage of makeup goes way beyond just looking pretty, but being obsessed with the process of applying it, as I fail to see why trying to imitate the look of a drag queen is supposed to be attractive to men.



And for whatever reason, this seems to be particularly bad amongst Latinas and Russian women.

 

[donksmanSupreme42]

Thread tax, does using cheesy RGB lighting for shelves make a consoom collection more pathetic, or can it make it look better?

only if the RGB lighting is so bright people can't see ur collection and think this is just a lamp shaped like a shelf

 

[The Lawgiver]

Thread tax, does using cheesy RGB lighting for shelves make a consoom collection more pathetic, or can it make it look better?

I think it looks kinda neat, but more in like a "store display after closing hours" kinda neat. In fact, I'm pretty sure some local stores back in the 2000s-early 2010s did this with the glass counter display stuff at night.

It's ragebait. It's done because it works. The reason Selma got season 2 wasn't because of some conspiracy cabal, it's simply that everybody wouldn't shut up about it and everybody decided to check it out for themselves, or wanted to farm clicks online from them ranting about it.

If by "selma" you mean "velma" then it wasn't because of a conspiracy or people watching it. They were already making season 2 by the time season 1 released. A lot of shows the last several years networks tried pushing did that where they are already doing shit and then go "oh it just got greenlit for series 2 guys we're a success!" in a really suspiciously short timeframe. Movies do that too, the live action stitch being the most recent example thought hat one was somewhat of a success due to being didney and outrage baiting.

 

[Judge Dredd]

If collectors would stop paying extortion prices on ebay, second-hand store/thrift stores would stop trying to compete with it.

They don't though. A lot of "collectors" are just scalpers buying from scalpers, either deliberately to drive up prices, or unknowly believing they're getting a deal.

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?

My theory is consoomer prestige.

There's a quote I've seen attributed to Terry Pratchet.
"To be an author, you have to want to write. Too many people want to 'have written'."
The idea here is that people want the fame, money, and image of being a professional author, with all that writing and storytelling being a barrier to entry.

As for the bolded part. Ever since nerd stuff became popular. They want the cool club of being in nerd space, but without wanting to deal with those ugly nerds stinking up the place.

It's ragebait. It's done because it works.

Except it doesn't. It's underpants gnome logic.

1. Ruin IP
2. Fans rage online
3. ???
4. Profit

At one time the ??? would've been esg money, but that's no longer viable. StarWars, Marvel, Dungeons and Dragons, Dr Who, Saints Row, the list goes on of dead franchises and even dead studios. Their reputation tanked so much that even quality product isn't winning people back.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

i think it's clear most media suddenly depicting previously attractive female characters as now ugly creaturas is made with the main goal of not letting men have anything
they're upset that men find something attractive, they want it taken away in any way possible

See also: retconning or redeveloping characters to be lesbian

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

See also: retconning or redeveloping characters to be lesbian

Or niggers.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

show off with the hand behind

this one is done to block out the background and force the automatic phone camera that everyone is filming on to focus, but i do think it's possible that this became such a cultural behavior that some people who do it now don't know why

the tapping is annoying and seems to be a part of the long list of tiktok behaviors that is solely done to be as unpleasant as possible

 

[glass_houses]

this one is done to block out the background and force the automatic phone camera that everyone is filming on to focus, but i do think it's possible that this became such a cultural behavior that some people who do it now don't know why

the tapping is annoying and seems to be a part of the long list of tiktok behaviors that is solely done to be as unpleasant as possible

It's hooking into the ASMR thing. Many ASMR videos feature tapping, making it both visual and audible stimulation for the people who're into that kind of thing.

 

[fadededcrossblur]

What else is there to buy for Nintendies? You've got Mario, you've got Pokemon, you've got Legend of Zelda. That's it.

fire emblem

 

[NoReturn]

Now that I finally lurked the thread, seeing a lot of things that I have an issue with being addressed almost two years ago makes me feel less dystopian, many thanks. With that out of the way, has anyone mentioned the insanity of makeup hauls? I only have very minimal makeup I use only when I go out but I keep getting confused because "you're supposed to have a whole cabinet of makeup" ? for what? Makeup expires, there's no way any of those tiktok girlies use all that makeup they show, it expires unless they're just reapplying makeup in their homes multiple times a day which sounds insane.

A good example I found by just searching makeup haul on tiktok (this is my first time attaching a video so sorry if it fucks up the format):
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IIRC it was mostly @NoReturn who was posting about it.

I'mBackBaby.Bender
Even with the "totally-not-real" recession, even with the tariffs and everything else, they're still going. These are all from the last 24 hours.

dumb side note: am I the only one who hates this constant "tapping" and "show off with the hand behind" shit everyone keeps doing even with mundane things like food? Why???

It was originally done for ASMR reasons, but because influencers are all in a monkey-see-monkey-do cargo cult, they just did it because they saw others doing it. I fucking hate ASMR so that shit you're going to need to look up yourself. You can find it with terms like "ASMR unboxing".

 

[fadededcrossblur]

I don't see how sanrio stuff is worth fighting over as shit is sold everywhere at any fucking store you visit these days.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

the tariffs

so either tariffs aren't happening, these shopping apps managed to somehow skirt them with more chinese scam magic, or these people are so addicted to this stuff that they can't even make the "it's cheaper, i'm literally poor and need to shop, i NEED my cute dresses, i NEED my plastic knickknacks!" excuse anymore, they'll literally buy chink plastics even if they're the same price as local goods

big CCP very proud

 

[fadededcrossblur]

found a couple of vids regarding sephora kids i figure may be interesting to share here.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

found a couple of vids regarding sephora kids i figure may be interesting to share here.

Well if that ain't the pot calling the kettle a nigger.

 

[cybertoaster]

I'mBackBaby.Bender
Even with the "totally-not-real" recession, even with the tariffs and everything else, they're still going. These are all from the last 24 hours.

Look at all that packaging for like 3 little bottles of face lotion, no wonder every kid in the planet is born with microplastic in their brains now.

These are the same dumb broads who cry about my lifted F350 doing negative 3 miles per gallon (but ignore all kids I ran over because they are pro choice)

I don't see how sanrio stuff is worth fighting over as shit is sold everywhere at any fucking store you visit these days.

Fucking tired of this cooked memeword, and stop posting this tranny.

 

[SuzukaKobayashi]

idk about you guys, but when any video essay shows the person talking and they look like an insufferable egirl or like a fat blob I don't even click it. Besides they're all the same thing, talk about X topic and state the obvious like "wow guys this is bad and we have to talk about it even though everyone is already..." and they're not funny either, so what's the point of watching these?

There are exceptions of course, and most of the time, the person looks like a normal human being and don't talk in such an annoying tone.

 

[The Lawgiver]

idk about you guys, but when any video essay shows the person talking and they look like an insufferable egirl or like a fat blob I don't even click it. Besides they're all the same thing, talk about X topic and state the obvious like "wow guys this is bad and we have to talk about it even though everyone is already..." and they're not funny either, so what's the point of watching these?

There are exceptions of course, and most of the time, the person looks like a normal human being and don't talk in such an annoying tone.

It reminds me of how every time a video mentions grifters int he title these days 99% of the time it's a politics team buzzword grifter video essayist wannabe fucking calling warrented criticism of something a sexist/racist/gay/woke/whatever buzzword for either side thing. I'm not gonna sit through 30 minutes of you fucking telling me i somehow support an entire political party and some left/right wing gobbledygook because I did or didn't like a movie or tv show or whatever.

 

[Pole Smoker]

I don't see how sanrio stuff is worth fighting over as shit is sold everywhere at any fucking store you visit these days.

i gave way too much time to this video only for her to have repeated herself over and over, sometimes louder, and certainly unfunnier (it wasnt funny to begin with) each time