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

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?"
The type of gals who are in and out of the psych ward a couple times a year. If you can't figure out who is buying something retarded, it's always either children or women with BPD.
 
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.
Ah, trolls. Those were funny. It cracks me up that their most prominent use today is as good luck charms by those crazy fucking old bats who haunt bingo halls and will fucking kill you if you so much as talk to them during a game, even by accident.
 
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.

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My wife was offered one of these that someone pulled and was unhappy with. She gave it to our dog because she thought it was disgusting looking. I didn’t know what they were until I saw a video about people scalping them like pokemon cards. Just like those, it seems there’s some kind of susceptibility to fomo that these people have. They’re expensive as shit for plastic crap, but you’re willing to pay 2, 3 or even 5 times what they’re worth to some fat Mexican in flipflops that cleared out the store and is selling them from the back of his car in a Lane Bryant parking lot? I have zero sympathy for these retarded consoomers, and just like the retards camping out outside of GameStop, Walmart, Target or Best Buy, I hope they get stuck with bulk they can’t pawn off on someone.
 
Fomo is definitely at play with Labubus. What I want to know is, do people genuinely like them, or are they so caught up in consumerism that they don’t even know what they like anymore? There’s people who buy expensive handbags to match each ugly doll, and people who insist they hate the look of them only to change their mind after seeing them too often on TikTok. For others, it’s the idea they can get rich quick by pulling the rare Labubu and reselling it to some other loser. Because people can’t behave normally, they stopped selling them in the UK due to “safety fears”.
 
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
Dear god that fucking voice. Its like shes trying to sound like a stereotypical vtuber but in person.
 
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Labubu has been around for a few years, but they've really gone apeshit comparatively recently, with some kpop idol saying (likely after being paid to do so) that she liked them. There are blind box lines that are attractive on a sculptural level, but strangely enough the ultra popular lines are all fucking identical. The Labubu craze is autistic, but it's not quite as autistic as Sonny Angel.

What's Sonny Angel? It's the exact same shitty figurine of a Kewpie in a shitty fucking hat twelve times over, with bonus baby dick:
 

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Labubu has been around for a few years, but they've really gone apeshit comparatively recently, with some kpop idol saying (likely after being paid to do so) that she liked them. There are blind box lines that are attractive on a sculptural level, but strangely enough the ultra popular lines are all fucking identical. The Labubu craze is autistic, but it's not quite as autistic as Sonny Angel.

What's Sonny Angel? It's the exact same shitty figurine of a Kewpie in a shitty fucking hat twelve times over, with bonus baby dick:
it seems like having a samey design with only a mild alterations is the key to artificial collectibility
 
it seems like having a samey design with only a mild alterations is the key to artificial collectibility
I'll freely admit that I don't mind the odd bit of reasonably priced plastic crap, but every time I see a hoard of Funko Pops or Sonny Angels or some other creatively bankrupt line I start wondering if Uncle Kaczynski was onto something. Franklin Mint used to catch so much crap when I was a kid, but at least they made a token effort to make things that were visually interesting and didn't assault the world with hundreds of thousands of reproductions of the same penis.
 
I'll freely admit that I don't mind the odd bit of reasonably priced plastic crap, but every time I see a hoard of Funko Pops or Sonny Angels or some other creatively bankrupt line I start wondering if Uncle Kaczynski was onto something. Franklin Mint used to catch so much crap when I was a kid, but at least they made a token effort to make things that were visually interesting and didn't assault the world with hundreds of thousands of reproductions of the same penis.
you sure are
fixated on that penis
 
you sure are
fixated on that penis
Because every time I hop on Aliexpress it's there on the front page, or go on manga or pop culture groups there's at least one random displaying theirs. It's like having my own personal, underage flasher following me around. I'm seriously considering dropping a ton of sites I'm following. At least Funko Pops have the decency to keep their pants on.
 
This Labubu thing is so surreal because right before someone flipped a switch and it got mega popular I watched this video
I was so fascinated by how ugly these things are... the park seems so boring too.
It reminds me how Crumbl (another consumerist thing), got popular overnight because of social media when no one cared, and now almost everyone where I lived lost their shit over Crumbl cookie. I'm always so confused when these new things pop out of nowhere
 
it seems like having a samey design with only a mild alterations is the key to artificial collectibility
It just makes me think of NFTs, how they were essentially dollmaker icons scrambled up and sold as collectible.
It reminds me how Crumbl (another consumerist thing), got popular overnight because of social media when no one cared, and now almost everyone where I lived lost their shit over Crumbl cookie. I'm always so confused when these new things pop out of nowhere
They're not even that good of a cookie, I wish the Big Thing people got excited about would be actually good once in a while.
This Labubu thing is so surreal because right before someone flipped a switch and it got mega popular I watched this video
I was so fascinated by how ugly these things are... the park seems so boring too.
DANCING BACONS!! I'm so glad to see the girl in the video again! My family watches their channel, we call the girl Hami-chan 'cause she always has her cheeks full like a hamster. The videos just aren't as fun when it's only the camera guy buying convenience store snacks and trying them off-screen.
 
The videos just aren't as fun when it's only the camera guy buying convenience store snacks and trying them off-screen.
Are you talking about the Japanesestuffchannel bloke? God, he's aggravating. If he doesn't want to talk on video that's fine, but could at least give us a few lines of descriptive text instead of the same silent thumbs up every fucking time?
 
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Because every time I hop on Aliexpress it's there on the front page, or go on manga or pop culture groups there's at least one random displaying theirs. It's like having my own personal, underage flasher following me around. I'm seriously considering dropping a ton of sites I'm following. At least Funko Pops have the decency to keep their pants on.
Here's a wild, think-outside-the-box idea I just had. Maybe, just maybe.... don't go on Aliexpress? Like at all? Don't buy anything from there anymore? Nor Temu, alibaba, nor Amazon, and so on? Stop buying crap you don't need? "but the occasional piece of plastic tat is ok because-" NO. Just stop it.
 
Here's a wild, think-outside-the-box idea I just had. Maybe, just maybe.... don't go on Aliexpress? Like at all? Don't buy anything from there anymore? Nor Temu, alibaba, nor Amazon, and so on? Stop buying crap you don't need? "but the occasional piece of plastic tat is ok because-" NO. Just stop it.
I'd agree with you completely, if the things weren't infesting every single cheap shop in the country anyway. And while yes, laying off the tat can only improve my life, I still have to go to cheap stores and websites like Aliexpress to buy pet supplies and random household crap that has a five or ten times mark up in "legit" stores. So avoiding tat would mean me having to do shit like pay $45 for a rope perch that would only cost me $15 from a cheap shop or $10 from Aliexpress. I can then take that $30 and use it for my vet's mortgage.

Being cheap and owning pets often means dealing with unwanted advertising and naked Kewpie dolls.
 
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