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

[Lovely Kin]

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?

So people don't leave their hugbox, and watch someone who already agrees with them. I tried watching one of those videos once, and the voice is always so grating.

 

[cybertoaster]

so what's the point of watching these?

Some boomer fapping to her because she looks like an 80's fat metal head that would blow you inside a portapotty at some judas priest concert back then.

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

Look at her, what were you expecting?

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

Top comment:
>Keep in mind, that person in the commercial is how this company sees all of you.

 

[Metamorpho]

Top comment:
>Keep in mind, that person in the commercial is how this company sees all of you.

It wasn't the first one for me, but it was one of the first ones. And is this the comment you were talking about?

 

[SuzukaKobayashi]

Top comment:
>Keep in mind, that person in the commercial is how this company sees all of you.

...I thought Hasbro would at least make a toy for kids, you know HASBRO?! What is- What do you even say to this? It feels like a parody.

 

[moocow]

It feels like a parody.

It's literally just a "fuck you, shut the fuck up and buy more of our stuff!" ... simple as that. Every "consumption" industry (TV, film, video games, internet video, etc.) has always hated its audience and they're just going masks-off these last few years.

 

[Notgonnalie]

"nostalgia"
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This isn't nostalgia, it's just a pile of random old shit that was made between 1988 and 1999. Nobody who listened to Nirvana or Metallica was buying Tiger Beat or Spice World posters. And there's no actual home decorating idea expressed here, it's just clutter piled up on what looks like a low budget soap opera set.

I disagree. A lot of people are into both mainstream and alternative medial. I know I was.

 

[Negev]

Does black people spending thousands of dollars on prom count as consooming? I didn't realize this until it was talked about a bit recently but its crazy how all out they go for a stupid school dance that most people barely remember. I know they are stupid but I just don't understand why they latch onto prom so bad, I guess its because they know its the last big event that most of them will ever go to that isn't some ghetto gang party.

 

[Mac Monster]

Does black people spending thousands of dollars on prom count as consooming? I didn't realize this until it was talked about a bit recently but its crazy how all out they go for a stupid school dance that most people barely remember. I know they are stupid but I just don't understand why they latch onto prom so bad, I guess its because they know its the last big event that most of them will ever go to that isn't some ghetto gang party.
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Wasting thousands of dollars on prom outfits is retarded enough as it is, but imagine going as some hideous furry cosplay just because your fat sheboon girlfriend is still obsessed with Disney. Nigger would have been better off staying at home and doing anything else.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

Wasting thousands of dollars on prom outfits is retarded enough as it is, but imagine going as some hideous furry cosplay just because your fat sheboon girlfriend is still obsessed with Disney. Nigger would have been better off staying at home and doing anything else.
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idk what you're talking about, in my eyes, this guy won that night
he gets to go without anyone seeing his face or likely remembering who he is
he must've jumped for joy when his gf brought the mask out, and she just thought "man i had no idea mah man was such a disney fan! (:"

 

[SuzukaKobayashi]

Does black people spending thousands of dollars on prom count as consooming? I didn't realize this until it was talked about a bit recently but its crazy how all out they go for a stupid school dance that most people barely remember. I know they are stupid but I just don't understand why they latch onto prom so bad, I guess its because they know its the last big event that most of them will ever go to that isn't some ghetto gang party.
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I never really understood the prom thing, all I know is supposed to be some highschool party of some sorts? I live in a country where this is not even a concept, so I have no idea what it's supposed to be for but spending this much money on what it essentially a party with people who attend the same highschool, involving your teachers and then having the most insufferable teenagers around sounds more like a nightmare scenario.

 

[Lovely Kin]

Wasting thousands of dollars on prom outfits is retarded enough as it is, but imagine going as some hideous furry cosplay just because your fat sheboon girlfriend is still obsessed with Disney. Nigger would have been better off staying at home and doing anything else.
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Disney obsessed "people" are so tiresome to be around.

I never really understood the prom thing, all I know is supposed to be some highschool party of some sorts? I live in a country where this is not even a concept, so I have no idea what it's supposed to be for but spending this much money on what it essentially a party with people who attend the same highschool, involving your teachers and then having the most insufferable teenagers around sounds more like a nightmare scenario.

Yes it's an end of year dance for juniors and seniors in many schools. From what I knew about it from the public school in my town, it was very pricy and many felt like it wasn't worth it. I believe they were paying more than ten dollars for tickets? Unless the person who told me was exaggerating. My school didn't have a prom, it was all-boys. You are correct it's a nightmare scenario though! One of my friends who teaches hates having to supervise, but she only got forced because it was her second year teaching.

 

[Skylavijas]

Does black people spending thousands of dollars on prom count as consooming?
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A little, although this in general is more so associated with "newmoney" behavior. What's at the center is not consuming product for the sake of consuming product, it's trying to show off in as flashy a way as possible how much above you are around everybody else. It's all about status, not the product. Sure, people will call you a show-off cunt, but that doesn't matter, all that matters is being the center of the attention. You want to invite your girl for a cute little dance at a school? Too bad! All you're gonna remember years down the line is that stupid cunt that arrived in a helicopter.

With consooming by contrast, you don't gain any notable status by owning a funko pop collection. On a contrary, you tend to keep that shit to yourself and only show off to people online, that are just as autistic about this shit as you are. Most consoomers (unless they're online influencers) do possess self-awareness that their interests aren't going to make anybody's pussy wet, or earn them respect among the ordinary people that don't give a fuck.

 

[ForgedBlades]

I was "lucky" enough to be at Traget today and witness a Pokemon card restocking in person. There were five or six guys in their twenties hovered around the shelf and a female employee was sort of holding them back while another male employee was unpacking boxes. I guess they weren't allowed to touch the cards until he was finished. Once he was done, the female employee stepped aside and they all started shoving boxes into their carts or baskets by the armful. Shelf was cleared in literally ten seconds flat. Never seen anything like it. I stood there and watched the whole thing. I'm a gigantic fucking loser and even I was cringing.

I wanted to talk to them and figure out how they knew there was going to be a restock at that specific date and time. Do they just hang out there all day waiting for the boxes come out? I don't get it. Were they scalpers or collectors? So many questions.

 

[The Lawgiver]

I was "lucky" enough to be at Traget today and witness a Pokemon card restocking in person. There were five or six guys in their twenties hovered around the shelf and a female employee was sort of holding them back while another male employee was unpacking boxes. I guess they weren't allowed to touch the cards until he was finished. Once he was done, the female employee stepped aside and they all started shoving boxes into their carts or baskets by the armful. Shelf was cleared in literally ten seconds flat. Never seen anything like it. I stood there and watched the whole thing. I'm a gigantic fucking loser and even I was cringing.

I wanted to talk to them and figure out how they knew there was going to be a restock at that specific date and time. Do they just hang out there all day waiting for the boxes come out? I don't get it. Were they scalpers or collectors? So many questions.

Last week I watched a guy at target grabbing all the Neca TMNT shredder figures, taking photos of them while they were in his cart and making internet listings IN THE FUCKING STORE BEFORE HE BOUGHT THEM. Scalpers are just cartoonishly brazen now it's insane.

 

[moocow]

Last week I watched a guy at target grabbing all the Neca TMNT shredder figures, taking photos of them while they were in his cart and making internet listings IN THE FUCKING STORE BEFORE HE BOUGHT THEM. Scalpers are just cartoonishly brazen now it's insane.

It's helped me understand why stores impose per-product per-customer purchase limits.

Though I still don't understand Costco's insistence on limiting cat litter purchases to 3 units when it's on sale. Ain't nobody scalping that shit unless they roll up in a U-Haul. Maybe they just don't want people breaking their carts

 

[The Lawgiver]

It's helped me understand why stores impose per-product per-customer purchase limits.

I've never seen those actually enforced except for the times when it'd be something that it'd make sense to buy 4 or 5 of in one store visit... Or online, that's automated though and scalpers easily get around it.

 

[Negev]

I never really understood the prom thing, all I know is supposed to be some highschool party of some sorts? I live in a country where this is not even a concept, so I have no idea what it's supposed to be for but spending this much money on what it essentially a party with people who attend the same highschool, involving your teachers and then having the most insufferable teenagers around sounds more like a nightmare scenario.

Maybe it used to be a bigger deal but now it's just a stupid school dance to end high school. Most people just go to hang out a bit with friends or a girlfriend, Though I'm sure it depends on where you live.

 

[The Great Citracett]

Leave Nintendo alone and let me consooooom!

 

[Barry Williams]

Were they scalpers

Yes, the grown men who had to have a second Target employee standing between them and the first employee trying to do her job stocking the shelves, the ones who when they were allowed to approach the shelf began taking them "by the armful" in your words, were buying them for the love of the game because they sincerely feel they have to catch them all. None of them are going to rip open the booster boxes on YouTube to an audience of single-digit viewers and then flip all the rares on eBay while bulking out the trash to Troll & Toad for 40 cents in credit.