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

Dangerhair said:
Sports are... kind of hard to categorize in terms of consoomerism because they're so popular, and rather than the solitary or exclusionary consoomerist hobbies, sports are social lubricant.

While there are a lot of die-hard fans and even more regular enthusiasts, there are also lots of people who only follow along while their city's sports team is on a playoff run, or won't watch a game by themselves but will go to a game with their buddies, not so much for the sport but for the experience. Unlike a movie, it can't be spoilered, and rather than sitting in silence, you get to talk, move around, and get really into it.

Nobody offline wants to be that fedora wearing, neckbearded and Cheeto-dust fingered geek going "HURR DURR sportsball is dumb! My pursuits are far more intellectual- you have to have a high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. Ackshually, it should be called 'handegg', not football*"


On the other hand, the merchandising makes huge money. For motorsports especially, the merch far exceeds revenues for race viewership. A lot of that is because while very few people can afford $500 000 for a Ferrari, most people can afford $50 for a Ferrari cap and T-shirt or $5 for a Ferrari keychain.

There's also the debate over crowd energy and seeing the games. My local hockey team plays in a 19 000 seat arena. 15 000 seats are for season's ticket holders, most of those are companies, so there are a lot of empty seats. The remaining seats start at around $430. The local baseball team, back in the 1980s, used to play in a big stadium that was a glorified grandstand with additions over the years for football and baseball, raising capacity from 10 000 to 43 000 for baseball and 50 000 for football. The cheapest seats, some 800ft from home plate, were the equivalent of $4 and were general admission. You could even get undated tickets at grocery stores for $2.

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*The old soccer vs. football/futbal debate is annoying, because soccer, rugby, American, Canadian, Gaelic and Aussie Rules football are all football games. In the 19th century, almost every city and university had their own local variation of the game- everything from field size and shape, to whether you could use your hands or not, and eventually various leagues started settling on common rules so teams could play together. Soccer is Association Football, Rugby developed from the school with the same name, Canadian football took the rugby rules and added forward passing, American football developed from Canadian football with one less player per side, a smaller field and an extra down, and so on.
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Jesus, I havent paid that much for hockey tickets when ive had lowest tier NHL tickets.. thankfully my local hockey team charges like 11 bucks for a ticket
 
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I'm a glutton for punishment and have watched videos on some of these consoomer channels. Consoomers like Pop Fun to Play and Discupcakes. Seeing them surround themselves with hoards of cheap plastic and countless merchandise makes me feel dead and empty inside. Their collections never end! They never reflect much, if at all, on all the money they waste buying all these toys and whatever. I could forgive that if it were just like a few things as mementos or souvenirs, but they go beyond that. Way beyond that! It's almost like merchandise is a stand-in for drugs or junk food. It's awful...
 
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2d6 said:
I didn't even get this trend, 'Khaleesei' is the title of Daenerys Targaryen not her name itself. It's like seeing 'Richard III' and instead of naming your son Richard you name him King or seeing 'Star Wars Episode II' and naming your daughter Ambassador instead of Padme.
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It should be said that by GRRM's own admission there have been plenty of people that named their daughters Daenerys, probably with the middle name Targaryen too.
It's still retarded, it's just a more pedantically correct retarded.
 
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Uncle Ben's said:
It should be said that by GRRM's own admission there have been plenty of people that named their daughters Daenerys, probably with the middle name Targaryen too.
It's still retarded, it's just a more pedantically correct retarded.
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There's going to be a big surge of Isabella/Bellas, Edwards, and Jacobs, followed by a surge of Christians and Anastasias. The names are less cringey, but the reasons aren't.
 
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I saw this in a vidya game I play and thought it was relevant to the thread:
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Bixnood said:
man I hope they make a after the end for ck3.
that's a product I would like to consume.
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They are, but it'll probably take a long time to come out because the map's so much bigger compared to the CK2 version.

This is the first time I actually played AtE and I started as the ruler designed Catholic count of Bâton Rouge, named myself after the old French royal family and am currently trying to reunite the old French colonial empire. It's now 2700 and I control all of de jure Louisiana and am just waiting to usurp that title from the Creaux family (the voodoo guys who control it at the start). Oh, and my son, Georges, is married to the Queen of Iowa so their son, Louis, should inherit that, and once I have Iowa I can start revoking titles and putting Cajun dukes in place.

Who needs the Reconquista when you have the Reconquête?
 
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Boring Furfag said:
I don't know if this has been mentioned before but:
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They even share the same big black eyes.
This kinda angers me: Copy previously successful idea, make it incredibly shittier, slap brand name on it: big success.
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It's sad that even those were more detailed and had more character than funko pops or blind boxes.
 
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Boring Furfag said:
I don't know if this has been mentioned before but:
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They even share the same big black eyes.
This kinda angers me: Copy previously successful idea, make it incredibly shittier, slap brand name on it: big success.
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My grandmother has a china cabinet full of these things! They are called Precious Moments and are super popular among religious Christians and hoarders of a certain age. I'd rather hear my grandma complain about me not going to church than hear one of the zoomers I hang around rationalize the Avengers as high art cinema.
 
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I want to talk about another avenue of consoomerism, and that's the trend of owning exotic plants that social media has helped re-popularize. Here's some basic videos on the subject. There are shed tears over some of these plants.

What good is a collection if you can't post it all over social media?

It's astounding we live in a world where "plant unboxing" is a thing. Oh and a lot of the plant youtubers have merch because of course they do. A common theme is unboxing plants bought for hundreds of dollars, while the youtuber reminds the viewer, "Now, don't buy anything outside of your means. Be a financially responsible plant owner."

What's funny is there's a lot of unboxing videos that boast that they received exotic plants from Indonesia, from a company called greenspaces.id
Video is sponsored by greenspaces. Girl raves about how her plants with battered leaves are in "perfect condition." She says greenspaces is great, was great at communicating, making sure there's no foreign pests, and will ship to the US for free if you spend $300 (yikes) with them.

This video isn't sponsored. OP talks about how hard it is to hit this $300 mark to get free shipping. Getting a "sanitary certificate" to make sure your plants are pest-free and OK for customs doesn't count towards the $300 total, and the certificate is mandatory. Overall, the plants received look fine with minimal damage.

Same channel a year later, but this time greenspaces.id sent her the plants for free. Sounds like some ez promotion, except most of the leaves on all these plants are dead, or the roots extremely dry. Of course, seeing as the youtuber got these plants for free, she's willing to excuse the damage.

Reddit poster gets ghosted by greenspaces after every plant arrives dead.

There's a good amount of comments on the above videos from people in Indonesia taking note that these sought-after exotic plants grow like weeds in their backyards. I'm not accusing greenspaces.id of poaching to source their plants, but it seems like the trend of plant-posting might be giving others ideas.

A podcast talking about venus flytrap poaching.
You'd think supposed lovers of nature would care more about responsibly sourcing their plants.

This is a fun thread. Please post more consoomer cringe.
 
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itunes said:
I want to talk about another avenue of consoomerism, and that's the trend of owning exotic plants that social media has helped re-popularize. Here's some basic videos on the subject. There are shed tears over some of these plants.

What good is a collection if you can't post it all over social media?

It's astounding we live in a world where "plant unboxing" is a thing. Oh and a lot of the plant youtubers have merch because of course they do. A common theme is unboxing plants bought for hundreds of dollars, while the youtuber reminds the viewer, "Now, don't buy anything outside of your means. Be a financially responsible plant owner."

What's funny is there's a lot of unboxing videos that boast that they received exotic plants from Indonesia, from a company called greenspaces.id
Video is sponsored by greenspaces. Girl raves about how her plants with battered leaves are in "perfect condition." She says greenspaces is great, was great at communicating, making sure there's no foreign pests, and will ship to the US for free if you spend $300 (yikes) with them.

This video isn't sponsored. OP talks about how hard it is to hit this $300 mark to get free shipping. Getting a "sanitary certificate" to make sure your plants are pest-free and OK for customs doesn't count towards the $300 total, and the certificate is mandatory. Overall, the plants received look fine with minimal damage.

Same channel a year later, but this time greenspaces.id sent her the plants for free. Sounds like some ez promotion, except most of the leaves on all these plants are dead, or the roots extremely dry. Of course, seeing as the youtuber got these plants for free, she's willing to excuse the damage.

Reddit poster gets ghosted by greenspaces after every plant arrives dead.

There's a good amount of comments on the above videos from people in Indonesia taking note that these sought-after exotic plants grow like weeds in their backyards. I'm not accusing greenspaces.id of poaching to source their plants, but it seems like the trend of plant-posting might be giving others ideas.

A podcast talking about venus flytrap poaching.
You'd think supposed lovers of nature would care more about responsibly sourcing their plants.

This is a fun thread. Please post more consoomer cringe.
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Holy fuck, and you would expect environmentalists and garden lovers to not consoom, because that actually hurts the environment, yet here they are.
 
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The_Dank_Astero said:
Holy fuck, and you would expect environmentalists and garden lovers to not consoom, because that actually hurts the environment, yet here they are.
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People who care for animals and plants can get the worst about this kind of thing. Just look at people who keep reptiles or fish.

Now, these people at least tend to care about how well they treat these animals, but at a certain point there's just no way you can properly care for so many living, breathing things, especially considering in many cases they're not just caring for the animals in the tanks, but having to keep track of feeder insects, live plants, entire simulated environments just to house lizards and snakes. Some of the people keep plants as well, separate from these tanks.


At some point the expense alone has to become too much for most people to pay for. If you just keep a few animals I can understand, but once you enter double digits of things you have to keep housed and clean and fed, I don't know how well one person can pull that off. Especially for fish and other aquatic animals, many, like axolotls, need such specific conditions just not to die that it's insane. And there's people that keep tens of them.
 
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Toolbox said:
People who care for animals and plants can get the worst about this kind of thing. Just look at people who keep reptiles or fish.

Now, these people at least tend to care about how well they treat these animals, but at a certain point there's just no way you can properly care for so many living, breathing things, especially considering in many cases they're not just caring for the animals in the tanks, but having to keep track of feeder insects, live plants, entire simulated environments just to house lizards and snakes. Some of the people keep plants as well, separate from these tanks.


At some point the expense alone has to become too much for most people to pay for. If you just keep a few animals I can understand, but once you enter double digits of things you have to keep housed and clean and fed, I don't know how well one person can pull that off. Especially for fish and other aquatic animals, many, like axolotls, need such specific conditions just not to die that it's insane. And there's people that keep tens of them.
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One of the biggest pet YouTubers is/was Taylor Nicole Dean, who has her own thread. She was known for buying poorly bred animals from Craigslist, lying about how her animals died and allegedly trying to replace them without anyone noticing, impulse buying animals and not knowing exactly what she had, and generally neglecting them.
 
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