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

[Kier]

Funkos are funny to me as an 'investment' because it is by far the most guaranteed to fail.
The market for collectables depends on supply and demand just as much as everything. Most Funkos have extremely high supply and the demand is limited to Funko Consoomers. The entire demand base has already by definition, bought what you have. Making there effectively no demand. I cant imagine they will have any generational appeal because what kid is going to want to EXPAND the collection their father spent all of their federal tendiebux on leaving them with little food.

The most valuable Funkos at this moment are some extremely limited release horror films funkos from Comic Con 2012 that can real at most 4000 but average in the 900-1500 range. 40 or less of them were ever made, and that price is the greatest peak they will ever reach.

You have to sell when the demand is high, so the people who don't really give a shit will sell now. The people who care too much will buy now and convince themselves it is an investment in order to silence the ever growing voice in their head that forcing their kids to eat canned beef so they can own a Glow in the Dark Freddy Kruger with KISS makeup is an awful idea.

Bennie babies happened as they did because of Press Coverage, and the death of Princess Diana turning a innocuous bear into something resembling Historical Memorabilia for a devastated population. Given that I have not seen a skyrocket in the price of Black Panther funkos... I think we can rule that out as something that could ever happen for these guys.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Ik I already sperged about pokemon tcg earlier in the thread, but this brings up another topic relating to it. For those who don't know collectibles specifically tcg's and even more specifically pokemon tcg has been blowing up this last year (I'm talking 600% increase in prices no joke). This has led to a lot of the people in the scene trying to treat pokemon cards as stonks, but really the only comparable card in that category is charizard. Every card will naturally increase in price over time, but that would require you to hold it for a significant amount of time(like 5 plus years) to see a significant return normally.

Of course man children can't comprehend this and try to flip cards on the regular. They don't understand the concept of holding long term, and since they only bought the card for the stonks and not out of genuine interest they feel a pressure to sell it shortly after buying it(typically within the first 6 months). Depending on the card and market they either loose money or straight up can't find a buyer, seeing as most flippers are man children they typically only buy cards with a high popularity and not neccesarily high rarity, though occasionally you see them buying some random Japanese promo no one really cares about but is actually genuinely rare and so has some perceived value. Inevitably they get stuck with the hot potatoe and have to sell low and eat their losses.

This happens a lot with the modern sealed market, dudes buy a booster box as an " investment piece". This wouldn't be such a bad idea if literally half the people buying boxes weren't doing the exact same thing, and the boxes actually were limited and not printed to oblivion.

There are people who are successful in selling cards, but its typically people with an actual strategy outside of stonks, or those who had a genuine interest and just accumulated an excess of valuable cards by pure accident. Full disclosure I do sell cards, but mostly as a method to acquire other cards I like. #1 rule in collectibles buy what you like, as soon as you start treating it as pure stonks you loose your connection to the market and get salty if you can't actually sell your stonk cards.

Actually a great example of this type of behavior is in mtg, theres a YouTube channel called alpha investments, he's probably the most successful public figure in the mtg market. The dude gets letters all the time from people about how they were investing in sealed product, but had to sell it all before getting any serious stonks because they didn't have the capital to hold $100 booster boxes more than 3 years . Or alternatively the magic cards they've sunk $50,000 into over the last 5 years have collapsed to a cumulative $10,000 because wizards reprinted them(magic cards value mostly comes from playability no one gives a fuck how rare a card is if its ass in the game).

This is happening right now with retro games, people (americans mostly) are playing stonks with them, even common as fuck games like chronno trigger can go to 100$ even with no box or manual. Just a common as fuck cartridge because there's people poaching everything they can thinking is a great investment and is driving up demand and the amount of resellers scalping on ebay.

Good time for people that can still get the games for cheap and resell them to these yuppies on but i don't think the people paying 300$ for a silent hill 2 disc are making a really great investment. All these old games can be emulated easily, old games get remasters all the time on steam and GOG and the originals were not products made in short supply to begin with, there's millions of them in the world. Is the comics bubble all over again, even the market for crts and controllers is inflated as hell and people are dropping hundreds on N64 joysticks.

Why don’t you just get an expensive bottle of scotch to act as decoration on your desk/office

I've seen desks with handcrafted rum bottles . They look kinda like ceramic pots anyways

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

Does buying warhammer miniatures make someone a coonsoomer? Asking for a friend

 

[Coach Kreeton Of All That]

Does buying warhammer miniatures make someone a coonsoomer? Asking for a friend

Depends on whether they need to take a photo while making this face with every purchase.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Does buying warhammer miniatures make someone a coonsoomer? Asking for a friend

I don't think buying a product instantly makes you an Coonsoomer.

There is a line (however fine) between Hobbyist and Coonsoomer. Hobbyists actually like the products and games they play. Coonsoomer buy things just because it is a "LIFESTYLE BRAND." tm.

For instance the man in the Above post..probably doesn't actually play his Switch nearly as much as he claims he does.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

I don't think buying a product instantly makes you an Coonsoomer.

There is a line (however fine) between Hobbyist and Coonsoomer. Hobbyists actually like the products and games they play. Coonsoomer buy things just because it is a "LIFESTYLE BRAND." tm.

For instance the man in the Above post..probably doesn't actually play his Switch nearly as much as he claims he does.

Yeah I have an unpainted pile of shame but I do try to crank out a few hours of painting a week.

I just despise these fucking bugman and their slavish devotion to brands.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Yeah I have an unpainted pile of shame but I do try to crank out a few hours of painting a week.

I just despise these fucking bugman and their slavish devotion to brands.

Well even having them unpainted if a friend came over you could pull them out and actually do something, my main point was that Consumers buy something for the sake of buying it, Hobbyists buy things for the sake of. Doing things with them.

 

[User names must be unique]

There is a line (however fine) between Hobbyist and Coonsoomer. Hobbyists actually like the products and games they play. Coonsoomer buy things just because it is a "LIFESTYLE BRAND." tm.

I think the true test is to ask yourself whether you'd buy 'alternative brand' if there was one that was cheaper, better quality or better focused on your interest.

If you answer no then you're a consoomer being loyal to 'brand' just because it's 'brand'

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

MARS BLACKMON RUINED A GENERATION OF YOUNG SNEAKERHEADS.

 

[ERROR_ENTRY]

Subversive ideas are modified by corporations and turned into commodities, then sold back to the people; perfectly packaged for mainstream consumption. This is why people think they are making an impact by spending money on companies or people 'supporting' LGBT rights, BLM etc. Its a way for folks to sublimate their consumption habits into a political identity, 'I can help end racism by buying X product from this black owned business' .

Not a recent trend, but a common one in 'consoomer' culture.

 

[DuckSucker]

People have wanted useless items as decoration since people started existing. Lots of people have figurines of items or places or people they like.
What becomes sad is when you’re collecting just to collect, which Funko people do.

I feel like Funko Pops are just Precious Moments figurines for the woke SJW left instead of the religious right.

I mean think about it, they have the same weird, beady eyes and the same big heads...

 

[make_it_so]

That being said, I do get tired of materialism in fandoms. I get some nerdy 17 year old on social media using Star Wars analogies to discuss complicated and nuanced political topics down to a distilled "Man Trump is Palpatine" statement.

That to me is the biggest problem of "consoomerism." That the people involved in it are so infantilized that they cannot make any kind of reasoned argument or analogy about real world politics, history, or philosophy without tying it in to their favorite corporate product.

 

[Alexander Thaut]

That to me is the biggest problem of "consoomerism." That the people involved in it are so infantilized that they cannot make any kind of reasoned argument or analogy about real world politics, history, or philosophy without tying it in to their favorite corporate product.

->quote a john wayne or jimmy stewart movie
->get called a bigot.
->get told that noone knows what those BIGOT movies are anymore and get suggested to try quoting disney films
->quote Song of the South and express my sincere respect and admiration for James Baskett, the actor who played Uncle Remus
->tell other people the weenie forced me to talk about disney movies.
->start whistling zip a dee doo da


I understand the value in the original star wars trilogy, or older comics stories before the 2010s shift in the industry, but it's mostly gone now.
I think the funniest example of consoomerism was the "cancelling" that happened over the Shield Hero anime wherein a villainess makes a false rape accusation on the protagonist and all of vice, kotaku, jezebel, and whatnot seemed to trip over themselves trying to scream mysogyny.

which is a shame since it's not a bad show and is pretty popular in non-Western First world places.


I remember one of these idiots shilling Steven Universe over it in some social media whinging but honestly lol consoomerism. I enjoy Nintendo products but I'm not going to be retarded about my enjoyment of them. Same with the likes of anything else. What also pisses me off is that I can't really mock fans of franchises or whatnot anymore irl because sensitivity is over-enabled.

 

[Spez]

Depends on whether they need to take a photo while making this face with every purchase.

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The record for the biggest soy face

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

That to me is the biggest problem of "consoomerism." That the people involved in it are so infantilized that they cannot make any kind of reasoned argument or analogy about real world politics, history, or philosophy without tying it in to their favorite corporate product.

It's not like they had any real education about politics, history, or philosophy. All they've been taught is "WHITE MAN BAD!" or "CAPITALISM IZ EVUL!" Expecting them to have any reasonable ideas about politics, philosophy, or history is like expecting pigs to fly.

 

[All Cops Are Based]

People need myths and folk heroes. The problem is we've outsourced mythmaking to Disney and Marvel.

 

[Crybaby Xianghua]

After going through this part of the forum more, I just realized something:

Having both autism and a mid life crisis at the same time is a recipe for disaster.

 

[The Last Stand]

I'm sure everyone has seen this legendary piece before but I think it exemplifies how even Twitter leftoids, socialists, commies, tankies, and anarchists are diseased with terminal consoomerism

If you own Apple products, you have no right to discuss workers' rights.

...

Shut up.

 

[Erika Furudo]

I don't understand why people play newer videogames in some genres. So few of em are worth the price of admission.

FPS Genre: CS, TF2, COD/BF. Every new thing is either a clone of those or Battle Royale.

Loot'n Shoot: Past Borderlands 1, everything else is just far too samey.

RTS: Brood Wars, CnC, Red Alert, AOE. Nothing new any good.

MMO: Ultima Online, Eve Online, Everquest 1, Guild Wars 1, Ragnarok Online, Lineage 2, Final Fantasy 11. Nothing new any good, only old games are good.

2D Fighting games: Street Fighter 2/Z2/Z3/3s, newer ones shit. KOF98/02, all newer ones shit. GGACP+R, newer ones are shit. Mortal Kombat has always been shit and always will be.

ARPG: You've got good old Diablo 2 and Path of Exile, everything else is underwhelming.

I can kinda understand buying some new games. I remember looking at Project Mirai a few years ago, it's a vocaloid weebshit game. I passed and now it's like $100. I also went back and bought some old wii games, and was lucky to snag a bunch relatively cheap (Metroid Prime trilogy £50), but some were much higher.
That said modern games are trash, and even if they weren't you cant own them. I went to the trouble of hunting down a physical copy of Deus Ex Mankind Divided. It was kinda shit and worse than HR, but my biggest issue was I put the disc in and it went through steam and asked for my code that came with the disc. I entered it, but holy fuck why did I even bother buying physical at that point? Videogames are ruined by many types of people, as much as we hate SJWs people who defend shit like steam and games as a service, or everything being digital only for conveninece don't get nearly enough hate. I literally don't own that game despite having the fucking disc.

I think Cold Brew makes a great point. Since Pokemon gets talked about a lot, i'l throw my two cents in on that.
The difference between a hobby and Consoomerism is that you actually want the thing for what it is other then the brand attached. In high school I bought a Groudon figure for like 15ish bucks or something because I thought it looked cool and it was fun to look at next to the other dragon sculpture things iv'e bought at ren-fests. I played VGC at some comic stores and made some good friends there. What I did NOT do was buy out the entire section at target. Never got into the plush market or cards or lunchboxes or whatever the hell they sell. I never bought two copies of the exact same game because I had friends to trade with. I skipped out on Let's Go because it looked like trash and I wasn't interested. I didn't collect every toy I could find (after age 8 at least but kids don't count). My investment into it was a copy of Omega Ruby, a figure or two, and the one time I got a hotel room to go to regionals plus an honestly embarrassing amount of time breeding. What I got out of it was some memorable weekends, some great memories at regionals, and some prize money from side events every now and then.

Hobbies are a great thing. Being a degenerate is not.

Depends. Some people will argue they are hobbies and they enjoy the thing itself, not the brand. But it can still get excessive
I used a site in the past called Fragrantica, it's an online perfume database that is a great tool for finding new aftershave, maybe something a bit different as it lists perfumes based on notes, suggest similar things, etc. It's a pretty great tool for that imo, but it has a forum section where people discuss perfume, and there are youtube channels exclusively for perfume (unrealted to Fragrantica) and the "fragrance community" as a whole is pretty fucking bad for encouraging consumerism, they say it's becuase they like the product itself, but they have "wardrobes" where you can list your collection. People can have 200+ bottles of perfume they "Love".
How the fuck can anyone wear 200+ bottles of perfume? Perfume has an expiration date (they claim it does not) but even if that were true you can't use up 200 bottles, but people seemed to justify and encourage it. Some perfumes cost $20, others will cost you several hundred. I just can't see that community as healthy when ot encourages people to purchase more than they can use.

For reference I have around 15 bottles, it's too much. People justify it by saying you break it up between night/day and depending on season and occasion, but it's still too much imo. Time spent wearing 1 is time spent not wearing the other 14, which can make sense as some stuff wouldn't work at all in summer. But it actually becomes a hassle when you have too many options and it means you either don't use things you really love, or you do and you're left with a bunch of things you don't really care for.

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

only things worth spending money on are basic clothes, food, internet access, essential utilities, and newer vidya. Anything else is either unnecessary or can be acquired for free on the net i you know where to look