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

[Gar For Archer]

Am I retarded or are all but the last of your pictures literally smaller than postage stamps.

Also, a lot of the reviews are "bought it for the monochrome figures LOL" rather than anything supporting the pride shit. And this one spicy boy that might be a poster here:
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Monochrome figures are no fucking joke. There’s a website that sells monochrome figures pieced together from existing pieces with their prints removed, with prices depending on the rarity of the source parts (since some colors are obviously more uncommon than others, sometimes appearing in only a couple sets that likely retired years ago). It’s no surprise that the collective response to this was “holy shit, monochrome figures!” because this kinda stuff really is pretty unprecedented.

Acknowledging that they don't need something anymore, or that an object is not up to date enough to be useful anymore, or that they might even have to downsize their living situation, all of those thing reminds boomers of death. Acknowledging your own death means visualizing that you might not be the center of the universe. Which is why boomers will not do any of these things.

Adopting this mindset has generally made me a lot happier. A lot of people fail to account for the hidden ongoing cost of literally everything you own: space and clutter. Unless something actively makes you happy or is useful in some way, it’s just not worth keeping around. Keeping something around that is of no value to you (utility or aesthetics) is just a sunk-cost fallacy, because you’ll always be paying the price of having that object taking up precious space.

This isn’t espousing extreme minimalism (which IMO also isn’t healthy), but just that you should more carefully curate the kinds of things you keep around.

 

[melty]

Monochrome figures are no fucking joke. There’s a website that sells monochrome figures pieced together from existing pieces with their prints removed, with prices depending on the rarity of the source parts (since some colors are obviously more uncommon than others, sometimes appearing in only a couple sets that likely retired years ago). It’s no surprise that the collective response to this was “holy shit, monochrome figures!”

What's the reason? Is it to make custom pieces or something?

I will say that the troon color scheme is at least pleasant looking on its own. I wonder what new bullshit they will add to the flag next year.

 

[Gar For Archer]

What's the reason? Is it to make custom pieces or something?

I will say that the troon color scheme is at least pleasant looking on its own. I wonder what new bullshit they will add to the flag next year.

There isn’t a reason other than “they look cool”. Gay shit aside, rainbows are just an aesthetically pleasing color scheme, and I think humans have the natural tendency to find collections of similar objects in different colors (like rocks or marbles or crayons) fascinating.

 

[melty]

There isn’t a reason other than “they look cool”. Gay shit aside, rainbows are just an aesthetically pleasing color scheme, and I think humans have the natural tendency to find collections of similar objects in different colors (like rocks or marbles or crayons) fascinating.

I think you're right. I wonder why that is, and wonder why people feel the drive to "complete" collections. It's not like as a hunter gatherer you would ever have a complete collection of all different colors of berries or animal hides or whatever.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Lego also trying to pander, including the Anglosphere

Everyone is awesome!!!!!
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At least this way the colours clash less...
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And allows them to pander by putting the race obsessed first, but I suspect the Genderspecials will feel slighted
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Now as a Lego sperg I will admit that the troon colours did get me excited as these colours are rare.

The good news if you are a Lego fan, bit of a Pride sperg, but only want the original flag? If you check the manual, it looks like you can build it smaller and leave the undesired parts out.
Make sure to post a review on the Lego website with a picture with something along the lines of "Much better" and see how quick it gets yeeted.

Edit: Alternatively you could piss people of by changing the tile placements thereby placing the original rainbow figures front and center and the rest towards the wall/ facing the wall...
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The song "everything is awesome" that this set's name is aping off was meant to be a cheeky parody of heavily corporate produced feel good songs. Ironic how a few years later the least creative, questionably most overpriced, BRAND TWITTER shit level thing is labelled with a name like that. Knowing how this was presented and how big of a stink they made about this set being released, there's 0 self awareness about that absolutely unintended irony.

 

[Gar For Archer]

The song "everything is awesome" that this set's name is aping off was meant to be a cheeky parody of heavily corporate produced feel good songs. Ironic how a few years later the least creative, questionably most overpriced, BRAND TWITTER shit level thing is labelled with a name like that. Knowing how this was presented and how big of a stink they made about this set being released, there's 0 self awareness about that absolutely unintended irony.

Just FYI, far as Lego is concerned the price is actually fairly reasonable. It’s at the average price-per-part ratio of $0.10 per piece, and when calculating “value” minifigures are nominally valued at $2-5 depending on print detail and accessories so that actually bumps up the nominal value a bit.

You could certainly argue that Lego in general is overpriced, but this set in particular is about average when compared to other sets.

 

[AdmiralRenae]

New Guinness World Record Set For Largest Funko Pop! Collection

We've seen some impressive Pop collections over the years, but there is one that previously held [...]

comicbook.com

Typical funko consoomers.


Since its Pride month, Corporations are pushing out propaganda now.

More here:

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/best-of-corperate-pride-month-items.91350/page-16

 

[Chan the Wizard]

I don’t understand why they insist on using the ugly black and brown lines. Adding the trans colors is dumb but at least it makes sense and isn’t a terrible color scheme. I just like rainbow designs and now they can’t even make those.

 

[Antipathy]

I don’t understand why they insist on using the ugly black and brown lines. Adding the trans colors is dumb but at least it makes sense and isn’t a terrible color scheme. I just like rainbow designs and now they can’t even make those.

It's not about gay people, black people, or aesthetic, it's about shoving as many identities into a single box as possible to try and market to them.

Either that or black is a sexuality now.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

Typical funko consoomers.


Since its Pride month, Corporations are pushing out propaganda now.

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More here:

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/best-of-corperate-pride-month-items.91350/page-16

 

[Yeeted Teet]

I don’t understand why they insist on using the ugly black and brown lines. Adding the trans colors is dumb but at least it makes sense and isn’t a terrible color scheme. I just like rainbow designs and now they can’t even make those.

If you're not mentioned specifically you're being excluded. It is kind of funny that the flag is supposed to represent everyone, but at a time when every imaginary sexuality has its own flag only trannies and for some reason black people have to be shoehorned in.

It's like feminism being repackaged as a general "be nice to everyone" movement, defanging it and making it easily marketable in the form of private labelled mugs and t-shirts made in sweatshops by women who could have benefitted a lot from feminism in an earlier from. LGB(AGP) is marketable now, so it has to be expanded because there's a finite number of genuinely gay people to buy plastic rainbow coloured trinkets. Queer is possibly the peak of this, that's just what straight people who want to sound interesting call themselves and it's caught on to the point where people think it's PC to use it as a catch-all term despite plenty of gay men having bad memories of it being screamed at them and would rather never hear the word again.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

I don’t understand why they insist on using the ugly black and brown lines. Adding the trans colors is dumb but at least it makes sense and isn’t a terrible color scheme. I just like rainbow designs and now they can’t even make those.

Because the "B" in "LGBTQIAP" stands for "black and brown people" nowadays (you can't be bisexual, that's queerphobic since only bigots are attracted to just two genders). And being transracial is a thing in the era of our racial reckoning, just ask Shawn King.

 

[mr.moon1488]

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Suddenly trannies start to make a lot of sense.

 

[Jazz never died!]

I'm cooming over the newest episode of Power Rangers and can't wait for Linkara to review the whole thing so i don't have to watch it.

 

[Doinker Marmalade]

Lego also trying to pander, including the Anglosphere

Everyone is awesome!!!!!
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At least this way the colours clash less...
View attachment 2225113
And allows them to pander by putting the race obsessed first, but I suspect the Genderspecials will feel slighted
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Now as a Lego sperg I will admit that the troon colours did get me excited as these colours are rare.

The good news if you are a Lego fan, bit of a Pride sperg, but only want the original flag? If you check the manual, it looks like you can build it smaller and leave the undesired parts out.
Make sure to post a review on the Lego website with a picture with something along the lines of "Much better" and see how quick it gets yeeted.

Edit: Alternatively you could piss people of by changing the tile placements thereby placing the original rainbow figures front and center and the rest towards the wall/ facing the wall...
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Typical funko consoomers.


Since its Pride month, Corporations are pushing out propaganda now.

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More here:

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/best-of-corperate-pride-month-items.91350/page-16

Thank you for providing a good list of brands that I will never ever buy from again.
Sucks for Lego, 5 year old me would've cried to this.

 

[Karellen]

Woo lads. Just finished reading the whole thread. Here are a few more:

• Starbucks cup afficianados. The color changing ones, the studded ones and some regional cups (like the Hawaiian pineapple tumblers) sell out quick and go for 2-3 times the price on eBay or Mercari. There are also Facebook / Instagram groups dedicated to collecting and trading and showing off their walls of Starbucks cups and mugs. Usually middle aged women. They retail for around $13-$30 depending on what you get but can go upwards of $100 for some.
  
  
• Video Game soundtrack vinyl collectors. There are some legit licensed websites (iam8bit, SquareEnix, fangamer etc) but some make unofficial knockoffs. Most sell out the day they go on sale. Apparently there is a Chrono Trigger box set that goes for $1000. I remember on Reddit one guy posted a letter on his door asking the mail man to leave his vinyl in a different spot so his wife wouldn’t find it because he had already gotten in trouble for blowing too much on them already. Also lots of drama especially around the bootleggers as they tend to ship out half of what was bought and then disappear
  
  
• It was touched on briefly but all the Pay2Win games. Brianna Wu and DSP are shining examples of consoomers who love to blow $1000s just to get to the top of leaderboards across multiple games (I think DSP was addicted to WWE and Wu was hooked on some Final Fantasy 15 tower defense game, Star Trek and Final Fantasy Record Keeper)
  
  
• Finally the damn Disney pins. I think it was briefly brought up by the Leffersons posts but that has been a Disney parks long con for almost 20 years. People have blown $1000’s of dollars on them. I worked at a client once where a guy had a whole wall of his cubicle dedicated to his pins plus he wore a lanyard with pins everyday to work and I swear you never saw the same pin twice in the year I worked there.

 

[Ged!]

Finally the damn Disney pins. I think it was briefly brought up by the Leffersons posts but that has been a Disney parks long con for almost 20 years. People have blown $1000’s of dollars on them. I worked at a client once where a guy had a whole wall of his cubicle dedicated to his pins plus he wore a lanyard with pins everyday to work and I swear you never saw the same pin twice in the year I worked there.

The Disney pins have always been baffling to me. I used to always see the little kiosks whenever I would go to Disneyland as a kid, and I always knew that there were people who got really into them, but I never personally knew anyone who actually had any nor did I understand the appeal.

It was one of these collector hobbies you almost had to "learn" about, similar to how coin and stamp collecting require a bit of expertise, just minus the historical value. From what I remember there was a bit of a process to buy them. You had to get a lanyard that the pins would go on, and then there were different classifcations of pins. The price of the pins corrosponded to the the classification they were in. I think the prices ranged from $3.99 to $9.99, or something like that. There were maybe five or six classifictions. They were always coming out with new pins, and I think you could only get them at the parks, which contributed to the scarcity. Pins were discontinued after some time, and I do believe there was a bit of a secondhand market for rare and out of print pins. When I was a kid I always thought of them along the same lines as those souvenir coins or collector spoons you'd buy at shitty roadside gift shops, but now I realize they were really kind of a proto-funko pop.

It is kind of genius the amount of money Disney was able to extract and the phenomenon they were able to create, all for cheap metal pins that didn't even look very good. It was structured top-down to be a hobby that people continued spending money on, rather than just some souvenir that people buy once when they go on vacation to Disney.

 

[NoReturn]

Adopting this mindset has generally made me a lot happier. A lot of people fail to account for the hidden ongoing cost of literally everything you own: space and clutter. Unless something actively makes you happy or is useful in some way, it’s just not worth keeping around. Keeping something around that is of no value to you (utility or aesthetics) is just a sunk-cost fallacy, because you’ll always be paying the price of having that object taking up precious space.

I really like Marie Kondo for this reason, but I feel she's misunderstood quite often. I had to defend her even to a close friend of mine who thought that she was some kind of anti-book hyper minimalist.

Either that or black is a sexuality now.

Starbucks cup afficianados.

Finally the damn Disney pins.

 

[Gar For Archer]

I really like Marie Kondo for this reason, but I feel she's misunderstood quite often. I had to defend her even to a close friend of mine who thought that she was some kind of anti-book hyper minimalist.
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Yeah, it’s a careful line to toe between consoomerism and over-the-top hyperminimalism. I think the key thing at the end of the day, is a healthy sense of introspection regarding what ACTUALLY makes you happy, and whether objects of supposed sentimental value ACTUALLY hold that value to you.

 

[roo farmer]

Funko Pops have always reminded me of those Turkey Sex experiments from the 1960s. Then, the scientists were trying to figure out what it took to get a turkey’s motor running because the newly bred commercial turkeys were getting fatter and were having less babies. The scientists made a turkey sex doll, then slowly cut away the feet, the legs, the thunder thighs, the badonka donk, the tig ol’ turkey bitties, until the only thing left was a turkey head on a stick. That was how scientists discovered the inky thing a male turkey needed to get freaky was to see the back of a girl turkey’s head.

Funko Pops seem like an experiment on discovering the minimal product necessary to make consoomers open their wallet. Ditto squishmellows. Mark my words, the next thing they are going to try is putting a NFT of one frame from a cape-shit movie on a plastic pog, and sell it for $100.