Culture Zoella cons children with overpriced advent calendar. - YouTube Capitalism in action!

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FierceBrosnan said:
Looks like the ran out of ideas to jam into this overpriced mess at "confetti". You could make your own advent calendar for half the cost hitting up an arts and crafts store and it could be loaded with way cooler shit than "ceramic bauble" and "candle".
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It's all dollar store junk. People are so stupid if they buy this. I'm going to guess the purse holds half a tissue and a tic tac and still bursts at the seams.

When I was a kid we only had the chocolate ones. At least those were the only ones I saw. But no one wants that anymore. They want toys and doodads so it's become a big business to make all these toy and accessory based calendars so it's like Christmas before Christmas. I think it kind of takes away from the fun. You spend a lot of money on the calendar and that's just less for what your kids asked for under the tree. Some of these are very pricey.

and a lot of them list on the back what you are getting. Why on Earth would you want to know? That's like wrapping a present and taping a picture of what's inside to the top of the box.
 
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Dysnomia said:
It's all dollar store junk. People are so stupid if they buy this. I'm going to guess the purse holds half a tissue and a tic tac and still bursts at the seams.

When I was a kid we only had the chocolate ones. At least those were the only ones I saw. But no one wants that anymore. They want toys and doodads so it's become a big business to make all these toy and accessory based calendars so it's like Christmas before Christmas. I think it kind of takes away from the fun. You spend a lot of money on the calendar and that's just less for what your kids asked for under the tree. Some of these are very pricey.

and a lot of them list on the back what you are getting. Why on Earth would you want to know? That's like wrapping a present and taping a picture of what's inside to the top of the box.
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Shameless self promotion has murdered Christmas.
 
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Zoella was also one of the main attractions at a complete shitshow of a UK YouTuber event called Hello World recently, for which parents paid hundreds of pounds to...well, do nothing basically. Half of the attractions (carnival rides, a giant arcade machine) were either not there or weren't working, people queued up for hours to meet Zoella in her "winter wonderland" only to find that she wasn't there, she was on stage for about three minutes despite being a headliner, another YouTuber joked about the money the audience had spent helping buy her a house to a not exactly receptive crowd. It was a total debacle. So between this and that it's not exactly been a good couple of weeks for her, lol. Still, 12 million subs for make-up and haul vids...
 
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What kid wants scented candles and shit like that? I know as a kid I would've wanted toys, not whatever the fuck that shit is. Or is this thing not for kids?
 
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Now I can see $25 for one of the nice wood ones that come empty I’ve seen at JoAnns/Michaels/Hobby Lobby. But that would be for starting a family tradition, like the grandparents mail it to the kid as one of their gifts, and the kid send it back after Christmas with a thankyou card. That would be cute.

This much for a disposable thing? Fuck that.

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TheQueerion said:
Zoella was also one of the main attractions at a complete shitshow of a UK YouTuber event called Hello World recently, for which parents paid hundreds of pounds to...well, do nothing basically. Half of the attractions (carnival rides, a giant arcade machine) were either not there or weren't working, people queued up for hours to meet Zoella in her "winter wonderland" only to find that she wasn't there, she was on stage for about three minutes despite being a headliner, another YouTuber joked about the money the audience had spent helping buy her a house to a not exactly receptive crowd. It was a total debacle. So between this and that it's not exactly been a good couple of weeks for her, lol. Still, 12 million subs for make-up and haul vids...
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Some of the fans are deluded, doing damage control saying she's got anxiety problems lol. This event should be a wake up call, along with the calendar.
 
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Racist Trash said:
Fuck it isn't even a full 25 days advent calendar, might as well have had the last door have two rubbing hands.
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Back in the 80's, 7up used to do this...

EDIT: Being Catholic myself, we don't really use advent calendars in our religion, so this was the next best thing!
 
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When i was young the calendars only contained pictures. No presents or extra value was needed, just opening a box per day and looking at the image was enough.

It is heartening to see that in a world of calendars filled with expensive presents this blogger is taking a stand to make a calendar that is only eorth ad much as the paper it is printed on
 
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