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

Having known one of these types in university, this captures it really well. I can't help yet wonder why it's always Nintendo with them before concluding it's the Peter Pan syndrome.
It's always either Nintendo or Sega. I've noticed males get Peter Pan Syndrome while some women get this "I wish I was 20" attitude. Rather than maturing, they still try to act and dress like a young woman. Excessive makeup, promiscuity, refusal to commit in life, etc. Usually they're 30-50 and desperately trying to look younger. Rejecting your own age is toxic and fundamentally self destructive.
 
You ONLY see this shit successfully pulled with the english release versions of games. I fucking wish they let me learn fucking japanese back in the day not because of weeb shit but because the JP versions of games will forever be dirt cheap. I'll have to play NES or SNES megaman in moon runes if I want to play a non emulator port.
Just start learning Japanese, it’s fun. I can play Japanese games fine (unless it’s really text-based with a lotta kanji)
 
You ONLY see this shit successfully pulled with the english release versions of games. I fucking wish they let me learn fucking japanese back in the day not because of weeb shit but because the JP versions of games will forever be dirt cheap. I'll have to play NES or SNES megaman in moon runes if I want to play a non emulator port.
I've heard a couple of figurine autists say the gaijin piggus have been catching on, so now all the second hand stores in japan have been catering more and more to international tourists that go there several times a year just to buy collectibles. So more hoarding, more price increases and more scalping when they release something new.
 
YouTube decided I needed to see this.
It's much worse than you would expect. Looking at the thumbnail, you probably think each 1000-2000 yen lucky draw will get them roughly equal value items, which would still be stupid. They spent $100 USD to get
2 $10-15 prize figures and a cheap electric toothbrush. And that's generous, the prize figures could easily have been $5 overstock.
There are sequels.
They could go to a store in the same shopping center and buy anything in there for less. There's a 0% chance anybody is winning any of the real "prizes" in there.
Well, I do like the idea of winning random prizes. My complaint is, and you already mentioned this, the prizes look cheap. Add that multiple were household or health. Like if I spent a lot of money for an eye mask or electric toothbrush no thanks. At least when you spend money on a pack of Pokemon cards you get cards; not your mom's personal items.
 
Well, I do like the idea of winning random prizes. My complaint is, and you already mentioned this, the prizes look cheap. Add that multiple were household or health. Like if I spent a lot of money for an eye mask or electric toothbrush no thanks. At least when you spend money on a pack of Pokemon cards you get cards; not your mom's personal items.
My mother (bless her heart) is hooked on watching these obnoxious bitches unboxing "advent calendars" to expose how overpriced they are:
I don't know how she can stand watching this shit, because in this (a typical example) video, the dumb broad takes 52 minutes to say "I paid $150 for this and it's only got $80 worth of stuff in it (at retail)," and she didn't actually say those words and I had to deduce from her incessant babbling that was her final conclusion.

But it does highlight a major issue with stuff like you describe (cheap rewards) and this crap too -- you're overpaying a fuckton for practically worthless shit.

I won't even get into how this cow can afford to buy all these fucking things for her videos, because I don't want to think about it (she's probably just getting that much fucking ad revenue, probably paid by the same companies she's shitting on).
 
My mother (bless her heart) is hooked on watching these obnoxious bitches unboxing "advent calendars" to expose how overpriced they are:
I don't know how she can stand watching this shit, because in this (a typical example) video, the dumb broad takes 52 minutes to say "I paid $150 for this and it's only got $80 worth of stuff in it (at retail)," and she didn't actually say those words and I had to deduce from her incessant babbling that was her final conclusion.

But it does highlight a major issue with stuff like you describe (cheap rewards) and this crap too -- you're overpaying a fuckton for practically worthless shit.

I won't even get into how this cow can afford to buy all these fucking things for her videos, because I don't want to think about it (she's probably just getting that much fucking ad revenue, probably paid by the same companies she's shitting on).
I've watched a couple of her videos. I don't even know why I did, I am not at all into make-up or skin care. Her voice is grating as hell, and she can't seem to decide what her accent is. As for the calendars, they're probably tax write offs.
 
Don't know if its been mentioned but there's a new consoomer craze, this time is an ugly looking chinese plushie called Labubu. Gen Z's beanie baby.
its always fucking china now
i'm so goddamn sick of china

anyway i looked them up and i'll give them this, they're not ugly the same way everything else nowadays is ugly

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i expect boring modernist generic-ness from everything that gets popular now, especially it's some artificial chink trend just trying to get big, like the sorta faces you'd see on a squishmallow, safe, featureless...but these don't have that. these, if anything, seem to try and emulate older toys of past centuries which i actually quite like
 
Don't know if its been mentioned but there's a new consoomer craze, this time is an ugly looking chinese plushie called Labubu, that got viral when kpop stars started shilling them. this gen's new beanie baby.
The entire idol industry is one of the most consumerist industries with the amount of fans waiting to buy anything. Some even spend hundreds of dollars so they can give gifts to an idol (which gets thrown out) at a fansign. Besides that, those dolls just look so bland. Nothing appealing about them besides another collect them all gimmick
 
those dolls just look so bland.
if anything, seem to try and emulate older toys of past centuries which i actually quite like
Reminds me of the troll dolls from the 80s, which was its own mania, remember all my female cousing had lots of those, its almost like these things are always the same format.

its always fucking china now
China is not only manufacturing western junk now, they are also playing the soft power game as well same as south korea and japan have been doing so this is only going to become more common.
 
if anything, seem to try and emulate older toys of past centuries which i actually quite like
They look like those things girls say Kai Wilcher's boyfriend looks like. Some old Japanese(?) toy. Soft body, with a plastic face, hands, and feet. Momosomething.
 
ugly looking chinese plushie called Labubu
Crybaby: “Hold my beer”
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who is this made for? who in their right mind thinks "damn i wish i could spend 17 dollars on a plastic corporate artstyle figure of a topless brown baby crying gross-looking opaque tears and wearing nothing but a diaper/underwear(?), a yellow beret and black shiny boots and gloves?"
Women are a different species, man.
 
who is this made for? who in their right mind thinks "damn i wish i could spend 17 dollars on a plastic corporate artstyle figure of a topless brown baby crying gross-looking opaque tears and wearing nothing but a diaper/underwear(?), a yellow beret and black shiny boots and gloves?"
I'd only seen these ones before. At least two people in my city bought it.
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The Chinese big blind box company is called Pop Mart https://www.popmart.com/
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i just know, nay, i can visualize the type of BPD woman that wants these
the same type that loves cutesy pastel pink aesthetics while calling herself a sleepy little sensitive angel and then threatens to shank you with her pink pocket knife, the type that makes those "hello kitty has a mental breakdown in an abandoned parking lot" type of images

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i just know, nay, i can visualize the type of BPD woman that wants these
the same type that loves cutesy pastel pink aesthetics while calling herself a sleepy little sensitive angel and then threatens to shank you with her pink pocket knife, the type that makes those "hello kitty has a mental breakdown in an abandoned parking lot" type of images

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They both wanted the green girl, if that means anything.
 
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