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

The Curmudgeon said:
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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Well then don't just blog about it, post some examples we can laugh at.
 
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Staffy said:
That's just as bad.
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What do you think of this guy's collection?
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itunes said:
You'd think supposed lovers of nature would care more about responsibly sourcing their plants.
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I think, like many other things we've seen in this thread (and also that's come up in "Witches on the Internet" and the SJW thread) there are huge swaths of consumers who like the idea of certain things, but either do not understand or do not care about the reality of those same things. It's like they've grown up in a religion that affects their worldview to such an extent that they cannot view things outside of that lens.
We can even just look at the distribution channels. You can buy plants on Amazon as easily as anything else. Who cares if they're alive, right?
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itunes said:
This is a fun thread. Please post more consoomer cringe.
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Can do!
Did you know there's an entire section of Buzzfeed that's just for shopping? And that it updates multiple times a day?
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And you know what? While we're here, why not another round of "X you need from Y" compilations?
Welcome to the zoomer version of the home shopping network.
 
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Staffy said:
What's the backstory behind this one? Seems like they picked stuff of the road ot dumpsters.
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THAT, my friend, is an nganga. It's a religious object in palo mayombe that contains and acts as the "body" of a spirit. Then you "feed" the spirit with offerings of money, booze, bones, and blood.
How do you put the spirit in the pot to begin with? Why grave robbing, of course!
Rapper Azealia Banks is a practitioner, and she fed her dead cat to her nganga:
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NoReturn said:
THAT, my friend, is an nganga. It's a religious object in palo mayombe that contains and acts as the "body" of a spirit. Then you "feed" the spirit with offerings of money, booze, bones, and blood.
How do you put the spirit in the pot to begin with? Why grave robbing, of course!
Rapper Azealia Banks is a practitioner, and she fed her dead cat to her nganga:
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Less consooming but more creepiness, this one.
 
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Everyone’s favorite Funko Man dropping some wisdom on reissues and “variants”:
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”Giving [“exclusive” figure] a wider release isn’t really fair to the people who lined up to get them on Day 1. At least it has a different sticker though, so I have both in my collection.”
”Rereleasing figures in the same box is bad for the hobby. They should rerelease them in different boxes so that collectors can buy the more valuable original run while people who just want the pop can buy the new one. Of course, I’m going to buy both of them.”
 
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Thiletonomics said:
I do wonder what's worse in terms of the consoom factor. These anime collections and shrines, or people's Funko collections.

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Between the two while both are gay, Funko Pops are objectively worse since they are all ugly and it's literally the same design with some changes.
 
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NoReturn said:
Can do!
Did you know there's an entire section of Buzzfeed that's just for shopping? And that it updates multiple times a day?
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And you know what? While we're here, why not another round of "X you need from Y" compilations?
Welcome to the zoomer version of the home shopping network.
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I guess Buzzfeed has to keep the lights on somehow. It's so clearly just advertising, I weep for the poor souls that genuinely click on any of those advert-articles.
The tiktok shopping videos were mind-numbingly stupid and great, thank you. :biggrin: That first one in particular, it's astounding how much of the footage is just her struggling to use the product. That was genuinely painful to watch.

Gar For Archer said:
Everyone’s favorite Funko Man dropping some wisdom on reissues and “variants”:
Some choice quotes:
”Giving [“exclusive” figure] a wider release isn’t really fair to the people who lined up to get them on Day 1. At least it has a different sticker though, so I have both in my collection.”
”Rereleasing figures in the same box is bad for the hobby. They should rerelease them in different boxes so that collectors can buy the more valuable original run while people who just want the pop can buy the new one. Of course, I’m going to buy both of them.”
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This video is like being trapped in a room with an autistic kid and you can only leave after he shows you all his super-cool funkos. He talks about any manufacturing inconsistency being a cool variant, not a reflection of how cheaply made these funkos are. Somehow it's become an excuse to hoard MORE funkos.
He keeps talking about his dream future where he has a "big studio space" so he could "archive each funko variant." Guy, just get a shipping container.

NoReturn said:
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This funko paintbrush-beard guy is something else. I love how he talks about displaying each figure on a "spinny." Also love how those one-12 figures are going in his personal collection, yet he dresses them so poorly. You could kill yourself drinking if you take a shot for every time he says, "very cool, I think I have this one already."

The clothing in that Disney haul looks so cheap and awful. Each piece was $12.99? Color me shocked. Seriously, who designs the merch for Disney? I've yet to see something that actually looks good. It all feels so slapped together.
Did you know enamel pins are painted by hand? Real human beings have to painstakingly color in each little pin, and Disney decides on the most thoughtless, tasteless, obtuse, ugly designs to torture their slaves with.

Surprise, there's enamel pin consoomers.

Another video from the cupcake channel, with a super cool feature of grating audio emitting from the right speaker only. How do you fuck up audio this bad in 2020?

This Disney couple. Oh and of course there's an app that helps you organize your collection, and isn't just an advert tool that sells you more pins that might be missing from your collection.

Another Disney channel. She even has a small collection of bootleg pins, so she can compare to the real ones.
 
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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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One man's collection is another man's invasive species.
 
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Disney Cupcakes girl looks like she's 15. She's just got a young face right?

Enamel pins are cancer, they have a low price point so it's really easy to spend hundreds over time because it's "just" $10 here and there. They don't look good displayed in a group all together either. I had no idea they were hand-painted. The Leffersons seem to be big fans of them.

I found this pink product consoomer today. She caught my eye because a lot of the stuff and aesthetic she has I recognize as being popular in the mid 00s around the time Mean Girls came out, so shes either genuinely still a fan, or yet another consoomer that is trying to reclaim the past by buying things.

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I think it's mainly the cringe sayings, brand worship and display of mundane items like bedazzled starbucks iced coffee cups and makeup brushes that gets me. Also, her room looks halfway like a gift shop:
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Gotta own every Too Faced makeup item, a brand that's notorious for having cute packaging but steadily downhill quality (also again with the makeup hoarding, there's waaay more that I didn't post):
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Starbucks worship:
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She buys a lot of stuff from Home Goods and TJMaxx which are also cancer/consumer central. Home Goods primary consumer base is stay at home wives/moms/etc and, like TJMaxx and its other ilk, crafts the impression that they sell discounted goods sourced from other stores, when in reality like 90% of it is cheap crap that's made specifically for Home Goods and isn't discounted at all. It's a one stop shop for terrible shit like pumpkins that say "thankful" on them in cursive:
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NoReturn said:
THAT, my friend, is an nganga. It's a religious object in palo mayombe that contains and acts as the "body" of a spirit. Then you "feed" the spirit with offerings of money, booze, bones, and blood.
How do you put the spirit in the pot to begin with? Why grave robbing, of course!
Rapper Azealia Banks is a practitioner, and she fed her dead cat to her nganga:
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"She called me a pimply faggot" :story: Never change Azealia, we love an unrepentant queen.

This is the first time I'm hearing the rest of the story about her cat which strangely enough, does make her sound less batshit. I mean, still pretty fucking weird but better than boiling your dead unburied cat for absolutely no reason.
 
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