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

More crap from Boxlunch, Hot Topic, ThinkGeek and Attic Salt:






 
Why does Hot Topic even exist anymore and has it become even more cringe? It should not have survived he burning. I legit forgot that franchise existed but i guess they pander to weebs now.


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There's such an understated irony to consoomers. I still remember growing up with news articles about how "above it all" millennials and zoomers would be where the trendy thing would be too live like a really fancy hobo. It's why you have cuckpods and roomshares and articles about startups where you would pay not to own shit. Now, its the opposite where the trashy consumption of the 2000s is back but with the flash and glitter replaced by poser nerds and softness. It's as if we seek the hedonism of our past but we've neutered ourselves too much for it.
 
Heartwarming moment of sharing your consoomer weeb identity with your kids. Quality parenting.

Another post where they claim to have bought something because "anxiety". This excuse doesn't work when every basic bitch claims it.
 
Why does Hot Topic even exist anymore and has it become even more cringe? It should not have survived he burning. I legit forgot that franchise existed but i guess they pander to weebs now.


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You'll notice that nearly if not all of the weeb merch in stores like that is stuff owned by Funimation. Of course, Funi now has a monopoly on weeb shit outside of Japan, so it's not much of a difference anyway.
 
You'll notice that nearly if not all of the weeb merch in stores like that is stuff owned by Funimation. Of course, Funi now has a monopoly on weeb shit outside of Japan, so it's not much of a difference anyway.
The same company that made a bunch of horrible dubs and censored and cut content of every show they localized? that blows, they really seem like a shit company and makes me glad at least latam localizations i grew up with were pretty good.

And also goes to show that the whole anime collector excuse of "i'm supporting the animu industry by buying all this stuff" is bull, since the money they spend on merch and streaming subscriptions just goes goes to whoever western jew bought the rights for the region. Unless you are importing blu-rays directly from Japan or something like that the studio who made the show are not going to see a cent from that purchase.
 
Important question. Am I a consoomer if I get a small tattoo of the animal Crossing leaf?
Rate me MATI, but why do faggots come here and ask shit like "If I get X, does that make me a consoomer?" as though they need to be validated by the fucking Kiwi Farms for their hobbies instead of just laughing at retards who worship products. Like holy fucking shit.

Anyway here are some retards obsessed with their funko pops

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There's a great old Greek word that I think of whenever I see someone with a ginormous collection of useless junk. "Opsophagos," the opson-eager. Opson was the garnish, the relish, the stuff you eat on top of the plain bread that sustains you.

Everyone eats the opson. What distinguishes the opsophagos from the ordinary ancient Average Joecrates is that the former focused almost exclusively on the over-consuming of the garnish, to the detriment of himself. He was ruled by his appetites.

Everyone has that hobby they're dumb about. We are all of us guilty of consooming to some degree. What makes it mockable is when they act like opsophagoi, consooming to the detriment of themselves and others. Building a world-record Funko collection instead of a college fund for your kids. Collecting more makeup than anyone can ever use in one lifetime. (That video is a minor example--I fell down the rabbit hole of makeup collections on YT, and Jesus Christ.)
 
I have the strangest urge to clean my house right now:
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This video convinced me I just firmly don't understand the tiktok mindset. It's barely the depressing response - it's how surreally stupid the video she's responding to is. Are most tiktoks like that? There's no connection between the video and the question and it's such a bizarre empty question. Is it to bait response videos to boost numbers or something? Are bots pulling videos of random girls for this?
 
Rate me MATI, but why do faggots come here and ask shit like "If I get X, does that make me a consoomer?" as though they need to be validated by the fucking Kiwi Farms for their hobbies instead of just laughing at retards who worship products. Like holy fucking shit.

Anyway here are some retards obsessed with their funko pops

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you can sense the tension on that second picture from the guy trying with all his might to control himself to not to make the face.
 
you can sense the tension on that second picture from the guy trying with all his might to control himself to not to make the face.
He looks so dead inside. Deep down, he knows this wasn't worth what money he spent on it or worth his dignity. And he can't even make the cuck face to momentarily distract himself from it.
 
Why does Hot Topic even exist anymore and has it become even more cringe? It should not have survived he burning. I legit forgot that franchise existed but i guess they pander to weebs now.


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I remember 15 years ago that Hot Topic bashing was the norm because everyone dreaded that their favorite thing would gain enough mainstream appeal to cheapen the thing they like. I don't know if that's anti-consoomerism but I guess it's pretty close.
 
I remember 15 years ago that Hot Topic bashing was the norm because everyone dreaded that their favorite thing would gain enough mainstream appeal to cheapen the thing they like. I don't know if that's anti-consoomerism but I guess it's pretty close.
Hot Topic had a quality that made everything it touched to become decontextualized forever, whatever it was it lost its own identity to become hot topic merch. Like how Jack Skellington became just a face for emo accessories like 15 years after the movie was released or how Joy Division is no longer seen as a band so much as "that hipster shirt", it was like walking through a meme cemetery.
 
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