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

i guess they already knew about the soy face back then. uh

Powerpuff girls also referenced the obsessed collector as a villain, same with Toy Story, is a bit ironic how even the creators of the same pop culture coomlectors love take every opportunity they get to shit on them and make fun of their bullshit.

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Did they predict OPL or did OPL predict them.


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For when your consoomerism coincides with your bad taste in music. For those who don't know (or aren't from the UK), Lewis Capaldi (related to Peter Capaldi of Dr. Who fame) is a mediocre pop singer with a few big hits in both the UK and the US. If I hadn't seen the name on the box, I wouldn't have any idea who this was, like a lot of Pops modeled after people. He's also only been "famous" in the last few years, making this thing even more questionable.

Ironically, Lewis Capaldi himself is more recognizable, due to looking like a living potato.
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I don't know how he's related to Pete. Peter has this very dignified, regal British attractiveness while Lewis looks like he was conceived by two alcoholic meth heads who live in a run down counsel flat.
 
They get sold, if it's rare or highly sought after. It goes for several hundred usd more than it was originally bought for. Haven't read up on prices for Funko Pops, but an anime figure can easily cost over 1000 usd.
The kimono at least is fabric and not plastic.
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boy I sure hope my kiwifarms™ commemorative silver coin™ increases in value as well. GET YOURS TODAY!!!!
 
They get sold, if it's rare or highly sought after. It goes for several hundred usd more than it was originally bought for. Haven't read up on prices for Funko Pops, but an anime figure can easily cost over 1000 usd.
The kimono at least is fabric and not plastic.
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Anime figurines are like classic cars. They lose value immediately after purchase, but they always appreciate over time.
 
Anime figurines are like classic cars. They lose value immediately after purchase, but they always appreciate over time.
Depends heavily on the figure, obviously. Most anime figures are not $1000, they’re mass-produced and can range anywhere from $10-15 to $300+ depending on the size, quality, level of detail, IP, etc. $1000+ figures/statues are definitely not the standard. Depending on the popularity of the character/franchise and the rarity of the figure (eg whether or not it’s still available) you can probably make most of your money back if you decide to sell something. If it’s something particularly desirable and out-of-production you’ll be able to make a solid profit.
 
I don’t collect, but about two years ago, I bought this little plush of Vivi from Final Fantasy IX that was a pre-order bonus for the game back when it came out in Japan over twenty years ago.

Didn’t pay that much to import it, probably isn’t worth a whole lot, but there’s something about having a twenty year old plush of one of my favorite characters that came out along with one of my favorite games that makes me feel... sentimental.

So I can understand why some people like to collect, but there comes a point where it becomes an obsession and rules over your life.

If I were to collect a bunch of the kind of stuff I mention above, it would only cheapen its personal value to me.
 
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From reading this thread, I've noticed that Disney is just Marvel but for soygirls. Why do grown ass women like Disney so much?
Just off the top of my head
  • Escapist fantasy
  • Feeds into the "I don't want to grow up" Peter-Pan-mentality
  • Female power fantasies (Winning with love and magic vs. Marvel's winning by strength)
  • Constant opportunities to consume new product, but within a "realm" with which they are already familiar
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  • It provides an entire lifestyle (from vacations to clothing)
  • Inbuilt community. If you're a "Disney girl" you can skip the hard work of community building and just be part of that group (like a religion)
  • Being a "quirky Disney girl" provides a pre-built personality that guaranteed to be unique "enough" to get you attention while still being safe enough to be socially acceptable and not alienate people around you
  • The Disney "brand" provides a cradle-to-grave customer experience, so a woman who grew up with Disney in her life can get married in a Disney park, wrap her own child in a Disney onsie when its born, and raise it on Disney movies and Marvel films.
  • Disney makeup and "Disneybounding" lend themselves to the fashion-minded and anything based on "Disney princesses" is guaranteed to get you attention/likes/engagement/etc.
 
Plenty of pre-owned figures for several hundreds on ebay. The price is always a "it depends".
Never judge a products value based on an ebay listing. Very rarely do they actually sell for the price listed. You're better off looking through the sold listings over the past few months/weeks(or even days if it's a particularly popular item) to get an accurate picture of the value of the item. Also don't be fooled by one off high selling listings, if an item randomly sells for 2-3X the price theres either something fishy going on or some retard really couldn't be bothered to wait/look for a cheaper listing.
 
Never judge a products value based on an ebay listing. Very rarely do they actually sell for the price listed. You're better off looking through the sold listings over the past few months/weeks(or even days if it's a particularly popular item) to get an accurate picture of the value of the item. Also don't be fooled by one off high selling listings, if an item randomly sells for 2-3X the price theres either something fishy going on or some retard really couldn't be bothered to wait/look for a cheaper listing.
Or just ask one of the spergs in a subreddit, you gotta look out for bootlegs too. Because they look like a retarded version of the original. Ebay is actually one of the worst places to buy figures, but there are many legitimate places to buy them. Like Ami Ami and Mandarake.
 
Yeah, the prices of anime figurines are insane. I want exactly one anime figurine and it costs over $300. I can't afford that.
OT but If you can't afford a discretionary purchase of $300 you need to stop posting and get your life straight.
you already know the answer
 
OT but If you can't afford a discretionary purchase of $300 you need to stop posting and get your life straight.
you already know the answer
Oregon's coof lockdown bankrupted my previous employers and I haven't found as good a paying job yet because I live in bumblefuck nowhere and the job market's a bit tight. I have enough to buy the figurine, indeed many similarly-priced figurines, but it's a bad idea to waste money at the moment because if shit goes tits up again I could be more fucked than previously.

I come to the internet to get away from my worries because being an alcoholic is also needlessly expensive.
 
Oregon's coof lockdown bankrupted my previous employers and I haven't found as good a paying job yet because I live in bumblefuck nowhere and the job market's a bit tight. I have enough to buy the figurine, indeed many similarly-priced figurines, but it's a bad idea to waste money at the moment because if shit goes tits up again I could be more fucked than previously.

I come to the internet to get away from my worries because being an alcoholic is also needlessly expensive.
That's a nice story. Good luck with your escaping-poverty-via-blogposting strategy.
Oh, and try not to dox yourself in the process.

E: I don't think I've ever spent a single penny on anime, disney, marvel, or any of that shit. All the projecting in this thread is embarrassing.
 
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Oregon's coof lockdown bankrupted my previous employers and I haven't found as good a paying job yet because I live in bumblefuck nowhere and the job market's a bit tight. I have enough to buy the figurine, indeed many similarly-priced figurines, but it's a bad idea to waste money at the moment because if shit goes tits up again I could be more fucked than previously.

I come to the internet to get away from my worries because being an alcoholic is also needlessly expensive.
you didn't need to reply to that or justify not spending frivolously. Calling people poor for not consooming is the last resort and cope of coomlectors. Just laugh at the faggotry needed to actually take pride on getting fleeced by toy scalpers on ebay, only a retard would boast about such things.

If I were to collect a bunch of the kind of stuff I mention above, it would only cheapen its personal value to me.
One or two figures can look cool, once things start to form clusters is just visual noise. Always thought shelves packed with figures and toys looked ugly as sin, doesn't matter how the individual figures look.

Did they predict OPL or did OPL predict them.
Thats probably from before Chris's internet spotlight but more than predict it was reflecting something that was already a phenomenon but i don't think even cartoonists making an exaggeration for comedy sake could predict how extreme irl people like Chris could get after being raised on that mentality. Reality proved stranger than fiction once again.

Simpsons did a few takes on it when they were still funny too


  • It provides an entire lifestyle (from vacations to clothing)
  • Inbuilt community. If you're a "Disney girl" you can skip the hard work of community building and just be part of that group (like a religion)
  • Being a "quirky Disney girl" provides a pre-built personality that guaranteed to be unique "enough" to get you attention while still being safe enough to be socially acceptable and not alienate people around you
You just described this girl's channel. She is kind of likeable actually but fits the stereotype of rich horse girl in arrested development who spend a fortune on Disney parks and Disney merch well into their adulthood.

The funny thing about Lindsay Ellis is that she also tries to larp as a socialist for her breadtube crowd while being the ultimate Disney obsessed wine aunt at the same time. I wonder if its truly just cognitive dissonance , lack of self reflection or a sense of guilt and self loathing that drive these types into stupid ideological contradictions.
 
You just described this girl's channel. She is kind of likeable actually but fits the stereotype of rich horse girl in arrested development who spend a fortune on Disney parks and Disney merch well into their adulthood.
I think Jenny Nicholson is what consoomers want to be in a way, or what they envision themselves doing: producing mildly interesting content with their consooming. Never mind the fact that while Nicholson's content is fluff, it is a decent quality fluff that requires (if you ask me at least) some passion beyond Consume Product to produce.

you didn't need to reply to that or justify not spending frivolously. Calling people poor for not consooming is the last resort and cope of coomlectors. Just laugh at the faggotry needed to actually take pride on getting fleeced by toy scalpers on ebay, only a retard would boast about such things.
True. Apologies for sperging.
 
I notice a similar theme in the majority of "collectors" rooms. It really looks tacky and cheap. They only use money on the collection, meanwhile the rest looks like shit.
Not to mention because they're all cluttered together, it's one disastrous fire hazard waiting to happen. Imagine a soyboy tripping over all the boxes and cardboard displays while he's desperate to save those twelve super rare Golden Hulks or Vegeta recolors he can resell on eBay. More money, more product, smoke damage be damned!
It's too bad this book came out in 1999, because a lot of today's consoomers should have read it as children. In the end, Brother and Sister Bear realize they can't have fun with the toys they've been obsessed with collecting, as all they are are expensive trophies on a shelf that simply stare at them. Meanwhile, other kids boast about how many they own, which the book states something like, "That's pretty much all you could do with them."
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An earlier title called "Berenstain Bears' Get the Gimmie Gimmies" is also an appropriate contender.
 
Ever looked at the hermit crabs in a pet store and noticed many of the shells have been painted? Well, that paint isn't safe for the crabs. Pet safe pretty much never means safe for creepy crawlies. The crabs sometimes get stuck in these shells.

These things also look downright ugly. If you were a hermit crab, would you find these appealing?
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Given the choice between broken beer bottle and badly drawn Spongebob, I'm taking my chances on the bottle.
 
So are there any examples of consoomers who become self aware? In particular I am curious how they dispose of all thier shit, be it anime figures or funkopops.
Do anime figures just get thrown away or are they relatively liquid?
I was one of these a few years ago, rev up those puzzle pieces.
I got into consooming MLP at the height of the ponysperg epidemic and decided I was going to have a complete collection of g4 merch. Trying to do something like this ends up looking like a god damn crack addiction to outsiders; I went without food on some days just so I could buy The New Thing, I sold shit for more toy money, and found myself stressing the fuck out if I couldn't get my hands on New Thing. This went on for a couple years before I had the realization that I was being a massive retard, buying the same pony 20 times but this time it has glitter/tinsel/glow in the dark bits/etc. It's like that scene in the Simpsons with everyone freaking out over Malibu Stacy's new hat. The collection is crammed into a box in another state. When I can get my hands on it, most of it will be sold off or given away to kids in my SO's family to enjoy. There are some sentimental and valuable toys in the bunch that I'll hold onto, but never again am I going to do such stupid shit. Control your consooming, kids.
 
The funny thing about Lindsay Ellis is that she also tries to larp as a socialist for her breadtube crowd while being the ultimate Disney obsessed wine aunt at the same time. I wonder if its truly just cognitive dissonance , lack of self reflection or a sense of guilt and self loathing that drive these types into stupid ideological contradictions.
I don't know about her specifically, but there's a surprising amount of this type of person and it's really not too deep; they just think socialism means the government will pay for their health care and student loans freeing up hundreds of dollars per month to buy more consoomer products.

Here's a random disney sperg I found:

The video starts out with a bunch of cope about how she actually spent no money on these products, it was all gift cards and credit card points (which you have to spend money to get). Then she says that it's her honeymoon anyway so she's entitled to buy a bunch of stuff. I thought she didn't actually buy anything? What does it matter if the stuff is supposedly free?

She starts by showing off stuff she just took from the hotel, like Disney branded free soaps. I didn't watch too much further, but I saw children's dinosaur plushies, a funko pop for "a ride I haven't been on" (they make funko pops and other merchandise for specific rides*), more bars of soap that she bought, saying she almost put them back because they were expensive (again not sure why it matters if it's "free") and some other stuff.

She also loves funko pops

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I want to elaborate on this because I never went to Disney until I was an adult, and I thought this was actually kind of insane. There is clearly an entire park culture that doesn't speak to me at all, probably because I didn't experience it during my formative years. But I did go to some other amusement parks and never really saw anything like this. So Disney sells a shit ton of merchandise that's not really a character, or a franchise or anything, but for specific rides and things only at that specific park.
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This is a ghost character in the famous Haunted Mansion ride
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Apparel, housewares, and collectibles from the haunted mansion ride:
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The pattern is the wallpaper in the ride. It's got a cool aesthetic, but I really don't get this. It's just a ride... It's kind of a cool ride, I guess? Although it's a famous ride, it's not just this one they do this for. Other rides have in-joke apparel referencing events that happen during the ride, or funko pops of characters from the ride. And they went even further and offer merchandise and women's apparel based on a specific snack in the park that became popular:

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The Disney girls eat this shit up and Disney responds in kind by providing endless amounts of meme merchandise that only really makes sense in the content of the park for them to buy to wear the next time they come to the park to shop and buy more stuff. It's seriously impressive. It's like it wasn't enough to push souvenirs for the park, they realized an opportunity to push them for every ride or random experience so you can properly "memorialize" the experiences you liked.
 
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