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

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I've been to disney. Don't remember the food being anything special other than being overpriced.
@Toolbox, meet the Disney food community:
It's not just Disney; because we, as a society, turned away from God and are looking for someone to fill His place, lots of people deify consooming or ideologies.
If teenage-me could see me now there would be a lot confusion because I used to be very anti-religion, but at this point in my life I find myself completely in agreement. Most people really do need something to fill this version specific space in our consciousness. It's probably even something instinctual that has served to promote pro-social behaviors and group cohesiveness.
 
@Toolbox, meet the Disney food community:

If teenage-me could see me now there would be a lot confusion because I used to be very anti-religion, but at this point in my life I find myself completely in agreement. Most people really do need something to fill this version specific space in our consciousness. It's probably even something instinctual that has served to promote pro-social behaviors and group cohesiveness.
Most of these foods aren't even special. I don't think I can ever understand how much these people are convincing themselves that they are. A pineapple full of whipped cream? A cookie covered in chocolate chips? Literally just cinnamon rolls? You can get any of this anywhere else or make it yourself.

And definitely agreed on the necessity of religious groups for most people. We are all social animals, all to different degrees, but without tribal cohesion we cannot function as a group. The corporatization of everything and the fall of true belief in any religion other than that of pop culture is rusting a hole straight through society and tradition at large.
 
It's not just Disney; because we, as a society, turned away from God and are looking for someone to fill His place, lots of people deify consooming or ideologies.
As I posted a few weeks back, a lot of that is deliberately driven by corporations where they push to have brand loyalty be considered a religious creed.

I'm not religious at all, but I fully agree the decline of religion in society is one of the worst things for society. Think of it, reading the Bible and going to church is free. There's dozens of translation of the Bible on the internet, the Gideons put them in every hotel room, and churches love visitors and often give them free barbecue/whatever after the service. But consooming burns a hole in your pocket. You have to pay for religion which used to be free (or "free to play", most religious people tithe or give to religious charities). Corporations do charity too, but it's pretty shit compared to what most religions do.

The only religions that make you do this is shit like Scientology or other dumb cults that make you buy their books and stupid "seminars". Shame on corporations for exploiting people's need for religious belonging for personal gain. What's even worse is when this corporation worship fuses with today's political religion, so celebrities and late-night comedians become both preachers and the source of political opinions which are treated as religious tenets.
 
As I posted a few weeks back, a lot of that is deliberately driven by corporations where they push to have brand loyalty be considered a religious creed.

I'm not religious at all, but I fully agree the decline of religion in society is one of the worst things for society. Think of it, reading the Bible and going to church is free. There's dozens of translation of the Bible on the internet, the Gideons put them in every hotel room, and churches love visitors and often give them free barbecue/whatever after the service. But consooming burns a hole in your pocket. You have to pay for religion which used to be free (or "free to play", most religious people tithe or give to religious charities). Corporations do charity too, but it's pretty shit compared to what most religions do.

The only religions that make you do this is shit like Scientology or other dumb cults that make you buy their books and stupid "seminars". Shame on corporations for exploiting people's need for religious belonging for personal gain. What's even worse is when this corporation worship fuses with today's political religion, so celebrities and late-night comedians become both preachers and the source of political opinions which are treated as religious tenets.
Organized religion really isn’t all that much different from corporate consoomerism. Like, the Church selling microtransactions to forgive your sins is a thing that literally happened at some point.

IMO, religion and spiritualism should be practiced on a familial or community level. Anything larger and it will inevitably develop into a system for exploitation. My stance on religion is very similar to my stance on consoomers. You should strive to give back to your community and not be a dick to those who don’t deserve it not because you think it’ll guarantee you a place in heaven, but because it’s what you genuinely believe is the right thing to do.

E: Just thought of another kind of consoomer that I don't recall being brought up yet: audiophiles. While we could sit here and debate the merits of $600 headphones and whether or not you can even tell the difference (hint: you can't, the price-to-quality curve flattens at around $300 and will give serious diminishing returns beyond that that no normal person will even notice) we're talking about people who spend likely tens of thousands of dollars buying dozens of pairs of $500-$1500 headphones, plus thousands of dollars on other audio equipment like amps and DAC's, just to listen to "reference tracks" for the purpose of (theoretically) appreciating the audio quality instead of enjoying the music itself. Tens of thousands of dollars for dozens of pairs of headphones, all for a difference in quality so poorly quantifiable that it might as well be a placebo effect. And if you thought a $1000 pair of headphones would at least be sturdy and well-built? Think again, a lot of these "high end" companies are notorious for their shoddy build quality, poor QC and terrible customer service which people are willing to put up with because muh audio quality.

Last I checked, there was a huge influx of cheap (<$30), well-built, and great-sounding in-ears coming out of Chinese audio companies that were giving the big name brands a run for their money, offering maybe 98% of the audio quality (e.g. good enough for anyone without superhuman hearing) at less than 10% of the cost.

Unfortunately I don't have any specific persons of interest to point at, but the /r/Audiophiles Reddit and the Head-fi forums (which are notorious for being a massive circlejerk around their golden-child favorite brands and fertile ground for shills and snake-oil salesmen) are certainly a good place to start digging, for anyone interested in the subject.
 
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It's not just Disney; because we, as a society, turned away from God and are looking for someone to fill His place, lots of people deify consooming or ideologies.
You are implying religious consoom doesn't exist and selling merch specifically marketed for christians is not a major industry still, same as sucking believers dry in tithes and donation money to buy yacths.

Chick-a-filla marketing is constantly milking the not opening on sundays for church reasons and it pays off. Millions of christians will go buy the holy chicken sandwich to own the heathens.
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Retardation is retardation, it doesn't become good when a cult is exploiting people rather than a corporation or government.

 
You are implying religious consoom doesn't exist and selling merch specifically marketed for christians is not a major industry still, same as sucking believers dry in tithes and donation money to buy yacths.

Chick-a-filla marketing is constantly milking the not opening on sundays for church reasons and it pays off. Millions of christians will go buy the holy chicken sandwich to own the heathens.
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Retardation is retardation, it doesn't become good when a cult is exploiting people rather than a corporation or government.

Religion or Not chik fil a has had an absurd spike in popularity the last several years to the point it's the only fast food place I've seen extremely crowded no matter what time or day it is. Some of them have installed 2 drive thrus to keep up with demand. Kinda fucking wild considering how they literally only sell chicken sandwiches and tendies. This BRAND PR account shit probably has very little to do with that but it's probably what they're commenting on in a way with this exchange.
 
Most people really do need something to fill this version specific space in our consciousness.
I think it's worth noting that in countries that are officially atheist, worship of the leaders just takes the place of God.
What's even worse is when this corporation worship fuses with today's political religion, so celebrities and late-night comedians become both preachers and the source of political opinions which are treated as religious tenets.
Calling it a political religion is a very accurate description. Aside from the Hillary Clinton prayer candles I always bring up whenever this topic is mentioned, the BLM movement is full of secular saints and their hagiographies. Just mention that St Floyd of Minneapolis was a gangbanger and you'll get treated like a heretic.
Retardation is retardation, it doesn't become good when a cult is exploiting people rather than a corporation or government.
> calling Christianity a cult

Welcome to the Consoomers thread. Please leave your fedora at the door.
 
What? What was that about animal rescusers and sacrifices?
On the subject of ngangas, look up the Narcosatanists and Astolfo De Jesús Constanzo for a good story about that whole deal. It’s pretty interesting stuff, and the podcast Cults did a pretty thorough job of explaining it.
 
I have a morbid fascination with Funko Pops and have found a new “favorite” channel, Top Pops.
I think I like him more because his face doesn’t give me the heeby-jeebies like Funko Man’s creepy beard does.

But the one thing I picked up from this video is that this nigga stacks his entire collection two layers thick. As in like, each shelf has an entire layer that’s completely covered up and hidden from view.

Something about that just rubs me the wrong way, the idea of buying something not even to display it, but to hide it behind other shit.

A friend of mine went to highschool with this guy and likes to send me his videos to make fun of him. I can't believe he's made it all the way here. Apparently he used to wear his own channel merch to school and edit his funko vids in class.

According to one of his recent videos he has an office presumably for his funko pops? I have no idea what else he'd need an office for considering he just has a youtube channel.

I don't understand the appeal of watching someone go through a subreddit about themselves but then again I don't understand the appeal of his channel at all.
 
That's a pretty good piece of modern art. It makes for nice commentary on the cheapening, watering down, and commodification of Christianity and Jesus's message to fit modern American culture and how we don't really know the real Jesus, just the Coca-Colafied version of him.
 
Organized religion really isn’t all that much different from corporate consoomerism. Like, the Church selling microtransactions to forgive your sins is a thing that literally happened at some point.

IMO, religion and spiritualism should be practiced on a familial or community level. Anything larger and it will inevitably develop into a system for exploitation. My stance on religion is very similar to my stance on consoomers. You should strive to give back to your community and not be a dick to those who don’t deserve it not because you think it’ll guarantee you a place in heaven, but because it’s what you genuinely believe is the right thing to do.

E: Just thought of another kind of consoomer that I don't recall being brought up yet: audiophiles. While we could sit here and debate the merits of $600 headphones and whether or not you can even tell the difference (hint: you can't, the price-to-quality curve flattens at around $300 and will give serious diminishing returns beyond that that no normal person will even notice) we're talking about people who spend likely tens of thousands of dollars buying dozens of pairs of $500-$1500 headphones, plus thousands of dollars on other audio equipment like amps and DAC's, just to listen to "reference tracks" for the purpose of (theoretically) appreciating the audio quality instead of enjoying the music itself. Tens of thousands of dollars for dozens of pairs of headphones, all for a difference in quality so poorly quantifiable that it might as well be a placebo effect. And if you thought a $1000 pair of headphones would at least be sturdy and well-built? Think again, a lot of these "high end" companies are notorious for their shoddy build quality, poor QC and terrible customer service which people are willing to put up with because muh audio quality.

Last I checked, there was a huge influx of cheap (<$30), well-built, and great-sounding in-ears coming out of Chinese audio companies that were giving the big name brands a run for their money, offering maybe 98% of the audio quality (e.g. good enough for anyone without superhuman hearing) at less than 10% of the cost.

Unfortunately I don't have any specific persons of interest to point at, but the /r/Audiophiles Reddit and the Head-fi forums (which are notorious for being a massive circlejerk around their golden-child favorite brands and fertile ground for shills and snake-oil salesmen) are certainly a good place to start digging, for anyone interested in the subject.
The Steve Hoffman forums is a very long-running popular audiophile space. It is so easy to shit on the displays of consoomerism to where it even has a site known as Stereo Central to talk shit about it. It could make an interesting thread if anyone is willing to deep dive into it.
 
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Those official videos. They're really forcing all employees to 'social distance' and wear the mask still? And I'm assuming they already required them to vaccinate and wait. And they also appear to be forcing patrons to also at least mask up. What the hell was the point of the wait, then?

Is the third video in the long videos tab an actual official tiktok from Disney? Do they think that is good for their image? Watching a manchild kick and scream around various locations?

Disney is actually these people's religions. Waking up at 6 am to go to disney, buying everything they wear and most of what they own there, even as far as 'neeeeeeeding' to go there just to eat food. I've been to disney. Don't remember the food being anything special other than being overpriced. In fact, absolutely everything is. You can see this in the star wars store video. A god damn stick with a lamp on it costs the price of a cheap smartphone, and these people eat it up. And it's something that's probably just going to be hung on a wall for the remainder of the time it's owned by them or put into storage. What does Disney have other than theming of their parks?
the sad part is that the things they simp on are usually marvel and star wars which aren't original disney creations(like mickey mouse and friends, I am not gonna count the princesses because the spirits of folklore, Hans Christian Andersen, and Brothers Grimm don't deserve to be shot in their graves even more)
and more salt on their wounds is they only became marvel and star wars fans AFTER the acquisition, and are eating up the Disneyfied content.
If disneycoomers aren't proof that God or insert other cosmic creator being here, has abandoned humanity, dunno what is.
 
We shit on EA and Activision Blizzard all day long, but apparently legitimate fleecing scams happen within the china realm and foreign territory that happens to land in our web space and the U.S government does nothing.
People give well deserved shit to those companies for their extremely predatory microtransactions and practices, but I personally haven't seen anyone discuss the crazy costs some packs are in these games that are marketed towards kids.


I don't know the value of any of these since I don't play any of them, but I do know that Roblox content creators pop some of these packs like candy and that kind of mentality trickles down to their viewerbase, probably 95% children. I have no doubt this kind of stuff is creating little consumers.
 
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