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

[Doinker Marmalade]

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!

An earlier title called "Berenstain Bears' Get the Gimmie Gimmies" is also an appropriate contender.

Didn't this happen to a Japanese hikikomori who literally got crushed to death by a hentai magazine landslide in his apartment?

 

[UncleFuckAss]

Scrolling through his social. It looks like he goes down by himself a few times a year, while his hambeast wife is left at home to manage their adopted child.

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I have not paid attention to him for a while, so things may have changed, but he used to have a skinny black wife who had a real job while he quit his job working in the post office sorting room to focus on youtube full time.

 

[Bastard_Call]

I hate it when hipsters jack the price up on goods. I'll be MATI if those small bottles of scotch increase in price.

It will happen. It happened with American whiskey. I can see Irish whiskey dying again in the next 10-15 years when Jameson and Bushmill is too expensive for the average mucker to buy, then rum is most likely next unless they remain cheap in the spic shitholes they're produced in. I'll be laughing my ass off when these dumbass millennials start paying premiums for vodka and gin.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

I'll be laughing my ass off when these dumbass millennials start paying premiums for vodka and gin.

You can take my £5 bottles of Glen's from my cold, dead hands.

 

[Doinker Marmalade]

Behold! The funko God.

I feel conflicted, he didn't just mindlessly consoom, he also knows all the details about the plastic horseshit he's collected and all about the Marvel Movies.
Do I feel respect for his dedication or do I feel disgust? JK, there's no contest, pure disgust.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Second, scotch is super expensive. I've seen bottles ranging in price from 100-200 us dollars

It's a price worth paying to avoid drinking metrosexual fluids, right?

”the way to stop a movement backed by neoliberal capitalism is by consooming” is not the own Wohl thinks it is.

Fun part is looking into who owns all these brands, and it's almost always big multinational corporations like Diageo.

 

[Shroom King]

I can't believe no one has posted this yet.

Spoiler: anime action figure and dirty old man

 

[Tootsie Bear]

I can't believe no one has posted this yet.

Spoiler: anime action figure and dirty old man

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So this what consoomers are going to look like when they're elderly. Well, I guess with dyed hair, a band t-shirt and a name tag with their preferred pronouns.

 

[Criterion Rat]

Cinemasickness. He's notorious on DVD collecting forums for being a massive retard.

Since we're on the subject of DVD collectors and once again rehashing the "what is/isn't consooming" debate, I'd offer up Daisuke Beppu as a good example of a true collector, as opposed to a consoomer like Cinemasickness.

Dude owns every single film in the Criterion Collection, which is an instant red flag for consoomerism, but as you look into his videos you realize that he actually seems genuinely passionate and loving towards all of the films that he owns. He also uploads thoughtful videos analyzing his collection and demonstrates a deep understanding and appreciation for film. This is a pretty stark contrast to autists like Cinemasickness who admit to collecting media for the sole purpose of owning as much shit as they possibly can.

Also, no soy face in the thumbnails:

 

[Gar For Archer]

Since we're on the subject of DVD collectors and once again rehashing the "what is/isn't consooming" debate, I'd offer up Daisuke Beppu as a good example of a true collector, as opposed to a consoomer like Cinemasickness.

Dude owns every single film in the Criterion Collection, which is an instant red flag for consoomerism, but as you look into his videos you realize that he actually seems genuinely passionate and loving towards all of the films that he owns. He also uploads thoughtful videos analyzing his collection and demonstrates a deep understanding and appreciation for film. This is a pretty stark contrast to autists like Cinemasickness who admit to collecting media for the sole purpose of owning as much shit as much as they possibly can.

Also, no soy face in the thumbnails:
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Another collector-not-consoomer is the Grand Illusions dude. His collection in many other hands would be a veritable fucking hoard of useless trinkets, but he clearly has a passion for collecting and talking about weird toys/puzzles/objects and always has something to say about every piece he shows off in his videos.

 

[No Exit]

Anyone who needlessly hoards or gathers any product is a consoomer, regardless of whatever use the items could potentially have. Even guns, as useable as they are, you only have two hands and a small amount of situations that call for specific types of them. As cool as owning an armory is you're still a sucker for wasting money on shit you will never use.
The only difference between the "good" consoomers and the bad ones is the amount of soy in their veins.

 

[melty]

Here's more Leffersons (horrifying Disney consoomers). I want to do a little bit of a breakdown of one of their videos:

They begin by saying they went on a weekend trip to Epcott's festival of the arts. So that's cool, and you can actually buy art there - sounds like if I were a Disney collector, that would be a unique and relatively mature way to show off my obsession. So what art did they buy? Well they didn't actually buy any art - and they seem a little guilty about this, as if they know an art piece or print is a little bit better than all the stuff they usually buy, but decided against it anyway. The male waffles on why they didn't buy art, explaining that the "whole vibe" of the festival was wandering around with food and looking at art. I get the impression that the problem was the festival didn't allow them to load up a cart with shit and impulsively purchase it as usual, and instead made them more carefully consider their purchases, but he doesn't really land on a point, saying that being "stationary" was off-putting. Maybe it was just a quality vs quantity thing - they seem to prefer purchasing a bazillion pins to buying any of the more expensive stuff.
So instead, they bought a big bag of a bunch of other shit. And then two more bags.

Apparently they got a 30% discount on their Disney annual pass, and were fucking ecstatic about this because they could immediately put those savings into buying stuff they had been wanting and "holding off" on buying. They hold off on buying things?

The first thing they bought was a bunch of Wishables mystery bags. These seem to be small plush toys for children. This series is It's a Small World, so again Disney is selling stuff from specific rides. I've only been on this ride once or twice, but I don't even recognize these things. A cactus? Tiki creature? Is Disney somehow hard up for mascots?

They purchased five bags for a series with four characters. The male seems confused at why they did this, but the female explains that the hippo character has two different color variants. Oh. Ok.

They also bought a men's shirt, and a "children's board game" - that's how they describe it - that's just a Disney branded Life game. There's some blah blah about how they haven't played it in awhile or something, I mostly skipped this.
Then they purchased an animal kingdom themed Starbucks mug, as well as some candy and a big cookie.

Next, they explain that the "bulk of the budget" for this trip was budgeted for.. pins. I am not sure if they're just talking about the merchandise budget, but the pins can be pretty expensive. I wouldn't be surprised if there was $200-300 in pins in this video.


They explain that the focus on pins makes sense to them because the pins are in mystery boxes which they open in future videos, so it's "purchasing content for the channel." I've considered if it matters if they are buying stuff mainly to make money from youtube - I'm not sure how much they make, but I also don't think it matters. It's still consooming.
The pins they are holding here are "character connectors" which means each pin is a puzzle piece and you have to collect them all to connect them. Because they are also mystery boxes, you have to buy more boxes than there are pins because you might get duplicates, so they bought 6 boxes of 2 pins to hopefully get all 10 pins. I've always looked at stuff like this and thought, who falls for this kind of gimmick? Surely it's just children, right? Who cares if you pins connect into a puzzle? Next, they bought some pins that aren't in mystery boxes:



"This is going to be a really expensive year for us because of winnie the pooh." Apparently, it's Winnie the Pooh's and the honey tree's 55th anniversary. Is the 55th anniversary really a milestone? It's also not of the franchise itself, but the anniversary of the first (?) animated featurette, The Honey Tree. But those minor details don't matter, it's the anniversary of something and it's an excuse to consume more. They spend some time discussing if the blue in the pin is more sparkly or shimmery, or is it glittery?
-The pin is L.E. (limited edition) of 4,000. They really seem to enjoy Limited Edition stuff from the few videos I've watched, it's a big selling point for them.
-Another Pooh pin. The male briefly mocks the shop assistant for asking which of the three Pooh pins they wanted, because, obviously, they wanted all of them. They get the character wrong on this one in the video so that's why the text is there.
-"And yes, this IS an L.E. pin."
-Another Pooh pin, this one is also LE 4,000, which causes them to realize there is a trend here, and all the pins are limited to 4,000 each. Wow! They justify these purchases by saying "it's our main collection." I get the feeling they have several "main collections".



Side note since a lot of people use the excuse "collectors collect stuff they really like": these people and they others I have posted all claim all the time they only buy stuff they really like. I've heard them say something like this in multiple videos. This, to them, apparently means they don't literally buy every item at the park. They still buy a fuckton of stuff. You just really love the hippo and the cactus from the small world ride so much you need a plush of it? They love winnie the pooh, but get the character with the blue shirt mixed up with the one that has no shirt? There really aren't that many characters. They also buy a lot of mystery boxes and I'm not sure how you can "really like" products before you know what they are but my brain isn't completely broken so idk.



They bought a fuckton of Disney Princess pins. Apparently these are released every year, and the male spends some time talking about the different versions from years past and why this year's pins are different and exciting. This dude's ancestors were hunters and warriors and he's over here talking about Disney Princess collectible pins. They want all 12 disney princess pins, therefore they bought six boxes. I think they will buy more later if they don't get all of them.



Finally, they bought Disney pets pins mystery boxes. This time they only want "a few" of the pins, so they only bought two boxes. And they don't know most of the characters names either; the female discusses the pins she wants, but admits she doesn't really know a character because it's the cat of the best friend of the main character of Princess and the Frog, a cat I didn't even know existed. Once again, is Disney really hard up for mascots or something? They sell a ton of weird obscure shit in the parks, but the pet of a side character in a movie that wasn't very popular might take the cake.

She also bought a mickey mouse face mask because she "wanted to try the medium face masks". I mean, you could just make the large face mask you already own shorter..

This video was done in February, and in just the past week, they've uploaded three new videos with new purchases.

 

[Mongo0o]

Going back to Cinemasickness for a moment. It looks like he will respond to every negative comment left on his channel in a passive aggressive manner.

I watched a random video and found this little gem. Look how tough his fat fag friend acts. shit talking a Dollar store manager after getting scolded for filming

 

[The Curmudgeon]

Since we're on the subject of DVD collectors and once again rehashing the "what is/isn't consooming" debate, I'd offer up Daisuke Beppu as a good example of a true collector, as opposed to a consoomer like Cinemasickness.

Dude owns every single film in the Criterion Collection, which is an instant red flag for consoomerism, but as you look into his videos you realize that he actually seems genuinely passionate and loving towards all of the films that he owns. He also uploads thoughtful videos analyzing his collection and demonstrates a deep understanding and appreciation for film. This is a pretty stark contrast to autists like Cinemasickness who admit to collecting media for the sole purpose of owning as much shit as they possibly can.

Also, no soy face in the thumbnails:
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On one hand, that's certainly a hoard of DVDs. On the other hand, at least this guy actually appreciates film as a medium. He can talk about each movie with you and film studies/history in general. Unlike a lot of the other people posted in this thread, I don't mind this guy. I wouldn't spend copious amounts of money on DVDs like him, but I can appreciate him being a genuine film afficionado. Also, his hoard is very specific. He only likes the Criterion Collection and isn't buying DVDs the way others buy Funko Pops or Disney merchandise. I'll give this guy a pass.

 

[The Lawgiver]

YES. The fragile feel is absolutely the reason why I immediately put mine back in its box, and was like, "even rocket science is easier than this shit". I'm in the same boat, bought only one nendo. And thats it.

For fucking YEARS I only had one nendoroid and it was the original one of L from death note. This was before they added joints and shit. The neck joint on one of the faces broke. The past few years I've actually been getting a few nendoroids and they feel a lot less fragile but the joint tolerances can be a bit fucky sometimes. They aren't figures that are meant to be banged around and are more cool stylized display pieces for your desk/shelf. The prices rose from $30 to $50-$60 and materials got better, but QC got kinda iffy on them. The QC problems are infinitely worse on funko pops, and Funko has no fucking excuse with how short the development and production requirement of the things is. Every time something gets announced/revealed there's instantly a Funko pop of it. Contrast this with Goodsmile, where they took ridiculously long to complete the main trio of Gurren Lagann in Nendoroid form. Yoko was number 53 in the product number counter thing. Kamina was fucking 935. they made a fuckload of nendoroids other characters like suicide squad jared leto joker between those releases.
I'm not sure what exactly their reasoning is with what characters they make into figures at what times but It's definitely different than Funko's ideology and not quite full on "CONSOOM" mode. There are absolutely nendo consoomers though, no doubt about it.

 

[Space Retard]

I had a brief conversation about it with a friend who was studying psychology, she said it was a coping mechanism for insecure men with bad self esteem, they want to hide their face as much as possible out of shame, the beard and thick glasses work as a sort mask to subconsciously hide behind, same with fedoras and eccentric trench coat combos, they'd prefer something thats external that draws attention as a form of faux armor because they feel it deflects from the ugliness they feel on the inside. they'd feel more exposed without it. I feel like is a very broad generalization given how common and natural facial hair is in men and how some dudes really do need thick frames for their shitty eyesight but i suppose there is a point to it too.

Great point. Beards have totally became a cope for low T Numales. Also, this could be confirmation bias, but the majority of men I know with large beards use it to hide their weak chin/jawline.

 

[Pargon]

Here's more Leffersons (horrifying Disney consoomers). I want to do a little bit of a breakdown of one of their videos:

They begin by saying they went on a weekend trip to Epcott's festival of the arts. So that's cool, and you can actually buy art there - sounds like if I were a Disney collector, that would be a unique and relatively mature way to show off my obsession. So what art did they buy? Well they didn't actually buy any art - and they seem a little guilty about this, as if they know an art piece or print is a little bit better than all the stuff they usually buy, but decided against it anyway. The male waffles on why they didn't buy art, explaining that the "whole vibe" of the festival was wandering around with food and looking at art. I get the impression that the problem was the festival didn't allow them to load up a cart with shit and impulsively purchase it as usual, and instead made them more carefully consider their purchases, but he doesn't really land on a point, saying that being "stationary" was off-putting. Maybe it was just a quality vs quantity thing - they seem to prefer purchasing a bazillion pins to buying any of the more expensive stuff.
So instead, they bought a big bag of a bunch of other shit. And then two more bags.
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Apparently they got a 30% discount on their Disney annual pass, and were fucking ecstatic about this because they could immediately put those savings into buying stuff they had been wanting and "holding off" on buying. They hold off on buying things?

The first thing they bought was a bunch of Wishables mystery bags. These seem to be small plush toys for children. This series is It's a Small World, so again Disney is selling stuff from specific rides. I've only been on this ride once or twice, but I don't even recognize these things. A cactus? Tiki creature? Is Disney somehow hard up for mascots?
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They purchased five bags for a series with four characters. The male seems confused at why they did this, but the female explains that the hippo character has two different color variants. Oh. Ok.

They also bought a men's shirt, and a "children's board game" - that's how they describe it - that's just a Disney branded Life game. There's some blah blah about how they haven't played it in awhile or something, I mostly skipped this.
Then they purchased an animal kingdom themed Starbucks mug, as well as some candy and a big cookie.

Next, they explain that the "bulk of the budget" for this trip was budgeted for.. pins. I am not sure if they're just talking about the merchandise budget, but the pins can be pretty expensive. I wouldn't be surprised if there was $200-300 in pins in this video.

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They explain that the focus on pins makes sense to them because the pins are in mystery boxes which they open in future videos, so it's "purchasing content for the channel." I've considered if it matters if they are buying stuff mainly to make money from youtube - I'm not sure how much they make, but I also don't think it matters. It's still consooming.
The pins they are holding here are "character connectors" which means each pin is a puzzle piece and you have to collect them all to connect them. Because they are also mystery boxes, you have to buy more boxes than there are pins because you might get duplicates, so they bought 6 boxes of 2 pins to hopefully get all 10 pins. I've always looked at stuff like this and thought, who falls for this kind of gimmick? Surely it's just children, right? Who cares if you pins connect into a puzzle? Next, they bought some pins that aren't in mystery boxes:

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"This is going to be a really expensive year for us because of winnie the pooh." Apparently, it's Winnie the Pooh's and the honey tree's 55th anniversary. Is the 55th anniversary really a milestone? It's also not of the franchise itself, but the anniversary of the first (?) animated featurette, The Honey Tree. But those minor details don't matter, it's the anniversary of something and it's an excuse to consume more. They spend some time discussing if the blue in the pin is more sparkly or shimmery, or is it glittery?
-The pin is L.E. (limited edition) of 4,000. They really seem to enjoy Limited Edition stuff from the few videos I've watched, it's a big selling point for them.
-Another Pooh pin. The male briefly mocks the shop assistant for asking which of the three Pooh pins they wanted, because, obviously, they wanted all of them. They get the character wrong on this one in the video so that's why the text is there.
-"And yes, this IS an L.E. pin."
-Another Pooh pin, this one is also LE 4,000, which causes them to realize there is a trend here, and all the pins are limited to 4,000 each. Wow! They justify these purchases by saying "it's our main collection." I get the feeling they have several "main collections".

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Side note since a lot of people use the excuse "collectors collect stuff they really like": these people and they others I have posted all claim all the time they only buy stuff they really like. I've heard them say something like this in multiple videos. This, to them, apparently means they don't literally buy every item at the park. They still buy a fuckton of stuff. You just really love the hippo and the cactus from the small world ride so much you need a plush of it? They love winnie the pooh, but get the character with the blue shirt mixed up with the one that has no shirt? There really aren't that many characters. They also buy a lot of mystery boxes and I'm not sure how you can "really like" products before you know what they are but my brain isn't completely broken so idk.


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They bought a fuckton of Disney Princess pins. Apparently these are released every year, and the male spends some time talking about the different versions from years past and why this year's pins are different and exciting. This dude's ancestors were hunters and warriors and he's over here talking about Disney Princess collectible pins. They want all 12 disney princess pins, therefore they bought six boxes. I think they will buy more later if they don't get all of them.


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Finally, they bought Disney pets pins mystery boxes. This time they only want "a few" of the pins, so they only bought two boxes. And they don't know most of the characters names either; the female discusses the pins she wants, but admits she doesn't really know a character because it's the cat of the best friend of the main character of Princess and the Frog, a cat I didn't even know existed. Once again, is Disney really hard up for mascots or something? They sell a ton of weird obscure shit in the parks, but the pet of a side character in a movie that wasn't very popular might take the cake.

She also bought a mickey mouse face mask because she "wanted to try the medium face masks". I mean, you could just make the large face mask you already own shorter..

This video was done in February, and in just the past week, they've uploaded three new videos with new purchases.

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I can't fucking stand the fish-eyed, open-mouthed smiling thumbnail. Those creepy fucking user-produced kids channels use it, clickbait channels use it, fucking adult children like these assholes use it and it is always like some uncanny valley shit that immediately makes me distrust anyone who's got that look painted on their pate. Get them the fuck away from me.

Also a grown-ass cunt wearing giant fucking hair adornments like she's six years old screams DDLG fetish. Can't believe there are whole swaths of people who act like this, whether it's for views or not. Turns my stomach.

 

[Kujo Jotaro]

We're back to this discussion again? I think a main problem is we have different interpretations of what a consoomer is. I posted the Fallout76 example a while back because a normal person could have bought FO76, enjoyed it (lol) or got disappointed; consoomers on the other hand will fight to the death to protect it from "haters".

I think we're mostly targeting Funkos because they're more mass produced compared to anime figures, so they'll show up on the radar more. I would also define a consoomer as someone who has no self-preservation. If you can afford your collection, more power to you; but if you're behind rent because you spent it on Funkos, nigga, what are you doing?

And maybe Nendroids are just the nicer looking Funkos, I don't think we've seen the equivalent lolcow yet.

You're confusing autists with consumers, on a ven diagram the two categories probably have a lot of overlap but not 1:1 overlap. The autist will obsessively defend a game, even when its utter shit. These are the people who got sold on no mans sky by the original trailer, and were coping from launch day until it turned around. Same thing happend with fo76, fallout was either already their favorite franchise or they got sold so hard on an online fallout they had rose tinted glasses come launch.

The consumer will openly tell you a product they bought is flawed, in fact they'll go out of their way to tell you things they don't like about it. Yes they will defend their purchase, but with no passion or actual reason just "I like it bro". Apple fags bitch about their products all the time, but they still purchase the new shiny toy(s) every year.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Second, scotch is super expensive. I've seen bottles ranging in price from 100-200 us dollars.

Depends on where you live, the brand, and variety. Like all alcohol. In the US, some states have lower taxes on alcohol. Some states have high taxes on it and will not allow liquor to be sold outside of an ABC store.

Wohl probably drinks bottom shelf Scotch.

Should clarify that this post isn't justifying anything. Calling the consumption of scotch a piller of masculinity is dumb and deserves mockery.
Edit: Removed pointless tangent.

 

[NoReturn]

Also a grown-ass cunt wearing giant fucking hair adornments like she's six years old screams DDLG fetish.

It's not. It's just puella aeterna.

Spoiler: Examples from TikTok's #disneymom