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

Speaking of Funkopop, has anyone else noticed those fake videos on YouTube where a guy cuts his figures heads to check if they have a miniature or a fake brain inside? It’s harmless fun but people in the comments are salty as hell because “he’s hurting the collecting community”.
If anything that'd HELP the collecting community! Its just more artificial scarcity to jack up the prices!
 
I just want to say that the “Is ‘Avengers’ America’s Iliad?” from video in the OP is making me seethe like you wouldn’t believe rn (right now). Jesus fucking Christ, how insufferable can journalists get?

The part that’s really making me upset is that, to an extent, they might be right. There are so many great works of American literature, drama, and film, but for the most part those works don’t serve as a cultural touchstone anymore. Homer’s influence was apparent in practically every aspect of Greek culture; it was their touchstone, it was their base of reference for analogies, symbols, and so on. As much as it pains me to acknowledge this, that is increasingly becoming true of capeshit in the US, as the OP video shows.

We’re replacing mythology — stories born out of the genuine spirit of a people — with entertaining but ultimately empty stories told by Hollywood hebrews, designed with the primary intention of extracting as many shekels as possible, and the secondary intention of engineering new social values. What will this mean for us?
 
I just want to say that the “Is ‘Avengers’ America’s Iliad?” from video in the OP is making me seethe like you wouldn’t believe rn (right now). Jesus fucking Christ, how insufferable can journalists get?

The part that’s really making me upset is that, to an extent, they might be right. There are so many great works of American literature, drama, and film, but for the most part those works don’t serve as a cultural touchstone anymore. Homer’s influence was apparent in practically every aspect of Greek culture; it was their touchstone, it was their base of reference for analogies, symbols, and so on. As much as it pains me to acknowledge this, that is increasingly becoming true of capeshit in the US, as the OP video shows.

We’re replacing mythology — stories born out of the genuine spirit of a people — with entertaining but ultimately empty stories told by Hollywood hebrews, designed with the primary intention of extracting as many shekels as possible, and the secondary intention of engineering new social values. What will this mean for us?
Watchmen predicted this, and Alan Moore said the exact same thing almost a couple of decades ago
 
What will this mean for us?
We’ll lose a good deal of young people who will build their personality and life over weak foundations. Anxiety/issues will spike up, etc.
And no, I’m not exaggerating: entertainment and social media are so omnipresent and intertwined that it would be impossible for most kids to avoid them, especially if their parents are poorly educated and uncultured.
 
Kiwis.

That's not a disrespect - they're made by the New Zealand Mint and are actual legal tender. I got curious at such a ridiculous item (even for this thread), and looked them up.
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I'd like to know how they think this is something trademarkable. As far as I can tell the term just comes from a shortened Japanese word. Can they actually own this in the context of currency specifically?
 
The part that’s really making me upset is that, to an extent, they might be right. There are so many great works of American literature, drama, and film, but for the most part those works don’t serve as a cultural touchstone anymore.
I would say Faulkner is as relevant today as he was 90 years ago, but people don’t read anymore so until theres a miniseries of The Sound And The Fury starring Jeremy Renner, good luck getting people to pay attention.
 
View attachment 2439618 I'd like to know how they think this is something trademarkable. As far as I can tell the term just comes from a shortened Japanese word. Can they actually own this in the context of currency specifically?
Dunno. I guess so, seeing as the trademark was granted this year. The details of the trademark application are here if a lawfag is really really bored and wants to look at it.
 
not that I know of, can't imagine consoomer's are into stacking PM's. I'd imagine they'd be more into crypto as its a lot more mainstream. I know some people give their relatives silver/gold as gifts to try and get them into stacking maybe that's what this is intended for. I don't really get the appeal otherwise, they could've done a cool coin design without plastering paint or whatever they used on top. Also a thing to note for those not into PM's they're asking for 3-4 times the going price of an oz of silver.
Kiwis.

That's not a disrespect - they're made by the New Zealand Mint and are actual legal tender. I got curious at such a ridiculous item (even for this thread), and looked them up.
View attachment 2439618 I'd like to know how they think this is something trademarkable. As far as I can tell the term just comes from a shortened Japanese word. Can they actually own this in the context of currency specifically?
I looked it up and I do not like what I found.
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I would say Faulkner is as relevant today as he was 90 years ago, but people don’t read anymore so until theres a miniseries of The Sound And The Fury starring Jeremy Renner, good luck getting people to pay attention.
Very optimistic that you think Jeremy Renner will be able to survive in the social media influenced, cancel culture world. If anything, I’m just amazed, though still grateful, that he’s still getting work in.

Though, if there ever was a Sound and the Fury adaptation, you know that they’d probably turn it into a young adult type movie like the 2021 version of Dune.
 
Very optimistic that you think Jeremy Renner will be able to survive in the social media influenced, cancel culture world. If anything, I’m just amazed, though still grateful, that he’s still getting work in.
I’ll be honest, I just picked an MCU actor who actually has a decent acting resume. It’d either be him or RDJ.
 
I just want to say that the “Is ‘Avengers’ America’s Iliad?” from video in the OP is making me seethe like you wouldn’t believe rn (right now). Jesus fucking Christ, how insufferable can journalists get?

The part that’s really making me upset is that, to an extent, they might be right. There are so many great works of American literature, drama, and film, but for the most part those works don’t serve as a cultural touchstone anymore. Homer’s influence was apparent in practically every aspect of Greek culture; it was their touchstone, it was their base of reference for analogies, symbols, and so on. As much as it pains me to acknowledge this, that is increasingly becoming true of capeshit in the US, as the OP video shows.

We’re replacing mythology — stories born out of the genuine spirit of a people — with entertaining but ultimately empty stories told by Hollywood hebrews, designed with the primary intention of extracting as many shekels as possible, and the secondary intention of engineering new social values. What will this mean for us?
People have been talking about this for decades and I think it is ultimately true. Not about the Avengers in particular, granted, but I think a lot of superheroes/capeshit really do reflect elements of American culture and spirit especially since superhero comics as we know them developed in the US and were written by and for Americans and (((Americans))) who were damn happy to live in the US instead of the USSR or Nazi Germany or wherever. Like Superman is the aspirational part of American society--he's an immigrant farm boy moved to a city who works a mundane job, but he has the power to go to great lengths to protect his life. And since our culture has decayed so much, it's no surprise that superhero comics reflect that when they devolve into propaganda that's somehow preachier than 1940s-era superhero comics that were literal WWII propaganda.

Other franchises like Star Wars or a lot of Disney's classic output would fall under this as well although Star Wars very closely follows the structure of a classic myth and Walt Disney basically took folk stories and classic children's books and repackaged them for American children.
 
I can't tell if that guy is being intentionally dumb for a joke or is actually that dumb. I thought RLM was pretty well known in most online circles, that video is literally part of a parody series making fun of all those godawful consoomer podcasts.
No. The guys from RLM still consume all of that pop culture trash on day one and unironically enjoy this stuff. They are hypocrites of the highest caliber.
 
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