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

[Lapis Lazuli]

It's hard to really give a yes or no answer to such a question, what I would say is I'd be interested in a more in-depth study as to why these kinds of films are so culturally popular at this time. Every time periods popular film genres are usually in reaction to what's happening in society around that time, you can't just ascribe it to big companies pushing consoomers even if they are part of the audience, because the larger group is the casual viewer. It begs the question about what about these big spectacle films, along with just the best performing films that don't fall into that category, speak to people and make them go to see them. Something like that is also somewhat hard to do without the ability to look back on the bigger picture like you could do with looking at why certain films were popular in any earlier decade.

I don't think I'd be that pessimistic over the whole thing, especially in the whole "replacing mythology" aspect. Many of the popular films today still use tropes found in ancient mythology when it comes to character arcs or story tropes.

Another thing you have to remember is that mythology, especially Greek mythology, has a lot of it that just didn't make it to today. Some of the big popular ones managed to make it or just got lucky in managing to survive, but there's likely a far greater percentage of what was popular/available back then that didn't make it. It didn't help that a lot around that time was still mainly verbal tales told at festivals or other social gatherings. There was likely a lot of crap that was popular then too. It's hard to tell right at this minute which films will go on to be remembered or forgotten decades from now. We at least have the advantage now of not losing something entirely like what has sadly happened to many older popular films (stats showing half of all pre-1950s and over 90% of those made before 1929 are gone forever), ones we know were massively popular back in the day, but have become all but forgotten today due to no sources existing for them.

Except now there's far more preservation efforts being made now that more people are getting into looking for "lost media".

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

Except now there's far more preservation efforts being made now that more people are getting into

Yes, it's actually quite amazing what people have been able to find through renewed efforts in finding "lost media" and how there's actually a growing 'boutique' physical media market that helps provide incentive for companies to fund or help with restorations. Films that most likely would have rotted away have ended up getting pretty great releases (often blu-ray world premieres) with brand new restorations. Boutique labels do attract a lot of consoomer types, especially during sale seasons where it's almost unbearable, so it can get a bit annoying at times all the whining that happens over non-issues.

[...] looking for "lost media".

I remember looking a bit into the release of the silent epic Napoleon with it receiving an all new restoration and the sheer level of dedication from Kevin Brownlow (the newest releases is credited as the Brownlow restoration) is amazing to read about. Man even wrote a book about everything he went through tracking down the fragments he could find scattered through various archives and private collections all because he became obsessed with tracking down the 'lost' film.

 

[NoReturn]

I don't like this etsy listing

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I am reposting this but what is with this attitude that soulless corporations are people who have a clear artistic decision even with their shit business decisions

 

[PuffyGroundCloud]

I am reposting this but what is with this attitude that soulless corporations are people who have a clear artistic decision even with their shit business decisions

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Fucking Boogie of all people said a valid point

 

[Pissmaster]

I've been to this secondhand record store in NYC that sells absolutely anything as long as it can still be played, and it really put this into perspective for me. I mean, for every pink floyd or David Bowie or funkadelic record you found, there were 1000 trashy novelty song, one hit wonder, or overdone Christmas albums from the 70s that you had to sort through.

Most of those should just be ensured that the song is backed up on a hard drive somewhere, and the record recycled. How much time has been wasted sifting through all of those over the years? Do we really need to hang onto that copy of Gallagher Sings Christmas Carols that‘s been sifted past for longer than most of us have been alive?

 

[Raging Capybara]

Most of those should just be ensured that the song is backed up on a hard drive somewhere, and the record recycled. How much time has been wasted sifting through all of those over the years? Do we really need to hang onto that copy of Gallagher Sings Christmas Carols that‘s been sifted past for longer than most of us have been alive?

It happened with this guy:

In the comments, people are talking that a Brazillian millionaire bought his entire collection and is digitalizing everything.

 

[Vingle]

I am reposting this but what is with this attitude that soulless corporations are people who have a clear artistic decision even with their shit business decisions

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The companies go bankrupt if they don't make what the customers demands. Since every brand has soibois that buy everything regardless of how bad it is. The companies will never change, because their current behaviour doesn't affect their economy negatively.

Dude sounds like a troll, but probably isn't. And that's scary.

 

[proteus4994]

I am reposting this but what is with this attitude that soulless corporations are people who have a clear artistic decision even with their shit business decisions

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This isn’t an epic bad take to protect corporations, this is an epic bad take to try to own “gamer chuds“. Same retard energy, but I don’t think this is because of consooming

 

[BootlegPopeye]

Dude sounds like a troll, but probably isn't. And that's scary.

Oh I have no doubt it's legit, I see it more than ever now. These consoom-bots appear whenever there are complaints about some franchise, as though you have a duty to consoom whatever they put out as if there isn't a legitimate reason to critique it.

For instance, I generally liked Mario games until the 3-d era (I think I was just too old to appreciate anything not 2-D), but to the consoomers if you like Mario you have a duty to buy all of them because of Nintendo's benevolence in giving you new product. You can't say 'meh this Mario game wasn't that fun to me'.

 

[The Great Citracett]

Oh I have no doubt it's legit, I see it more than ever now. These consoom-bots appear whenever there are complaints about some franchise, as though you have a duty to consoom whatever they put out as if there isn't a legitimate reason to critique it.

For instance, I generally liked Mario games until the 3-d era (I think I was just too old to appreciate anything not 2-D), but to the consoomers if you like Mario you have a duty to buy all of them because of Nintendo's benevolence in giving you new product. You can't say 'meh this Mario game wasn't that fun to me'.

They do that with Pokémon too. Even if they don't like it, they simply must show their support by buying both versions, because Nintendo is their friend that loves and cares about them.

I can't remember which game it was, but a while back, a bunch of soys were buying 2 or 3+ copies on release day and bragging all over twitter about it. Because huge faceless corporation loves them and will surely repay their devotion.

 

[bifftango]

It happened with this guy:

In the comments, people are talking that a Brazillian millionaire bought his entire collection and is digitalizing everything.

I didn't know Rich Evans was so into vinyl.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

It happened with this guy:

In the comments, people are talking that a Brazillian millionaire bought his entire collection and is digitalizing everything.

On one hand it sucks that he both had diabetes and was blind, but on the other hand, I couldn't even imagine having over 1+ million vinyl records in my storage.

My own parents only about 50 to 70+ vinyl records, and a record player that they said they were going to use, and yet they never did.

 

[Mepsi Pax]

I've seen this bunch posted on the TikTok thread. How come modern day polygamy is always one chick and multiple dudes, and never the other way around? Is she taking advantage of their desperation? If so, that's... kind of sad honestly.

Among other cultural degradations, women have gained the upper hand in techno-world. They are insulated from the full consequences of their actions by both government and social systems. It's also not an exaggeration to say that relatively homely women can freely couple with comparatively higher-value men just by opening up an app. The fundamentals of that aren't new (slumming, prostitutes, easy lays), but it's been heavily enabled and become "safe and easy" for the average person by virtue of technology.

Even short of the ol' suck and fuck, women can get tons of (fake) male attention by utilizing a handful of social media apps. This is actually part of the aforementioned social system that limits consequences. In my opinion this has a greater effect than sex apps, by virtue of rewarding women for their cunts being female with attention (fake as it may be) without demanding that they invest any real part of themselves into getting that attention. Keeping any one specific man interested is not well reinforced by the nature of social media itself (more bluntly, it doesn't matter - what's one among supposed thousands?).

While in reality pussy is still Earth's most plentiful and renewable resource, in socially declining western countries there exist artificial market forces which raise it's perceived value. Of course, this all leads to misery and further social atomization (and a birthrate under replacement level), but the people get their dopamine and the lizards get their billions. Simply put, you're seeing the visible effects of upended social norms run through the amplifier of technology. In rural areas where the social fabric is stronger and technology less effective (only 10 tinder matches!?) this particular form of decay is less visible.

I want to meet the crazy bastard who came up with the idea of selling shirts at premium prices with their logos on it. Coke, Reeses, etc. People pay to be walking advertisements. It didn't even cross my mind until the other day how goddamn insane it is.

Last I checked big brand shirts were priced "normally", unless you were paying for some special item. You're not wrong about the inanity of buying merch just to be an advertisement, but in truth I think most people buy that shit for something safe (read: conformist) to wear. The big brands are sold in wal-marts and similar stores, people don't buy them because they're superfans, they're more likely to just like the logo or not even think much about it at all.

It's the "lifestyle" brands that are purchased more with an eye to social signaling, a phenomenon that's really taken off in recent years, that people buy to "say" who they are or whatever. This is something right and left wing consoomers actually have in common. Lefties buy their safe media brands to show how hip they are, and righties buy their individualist activity brands (muh yeti cooler) to show how white American they are.

I say this as someone who buys branded stuff, just not the kind of brands anyone outside of <insert subculture here> has heard of. Even if I personally utilize a company's product, I won't buy their shit unless it is aesthetically pleasing and well made. I have found myself wearing a handful of brands I've never used otherwise (admittedly a few only make clothing) because either their design is tit or the fit/material is high quality. Christ knows I'd never be caught dead in a McDonald's shirt, any more than I'd wear muh Blue Line Sniper Cop shirt, but in a way that also says something about who I am and what views I may hold.

 

[L50LasPak]

I am reposting this but what is with this attitude that soulless corporations are people who have a clear artistic decision even with their shit business decisions

There's a growing movement of corporate shills who are trying to get corporations recognized as living things. I think the endgame is for them to be granted protected status complete with pronouns and shit, so that things like complaining about a corporate decision or an annoying advertising campaign will now be legally considered discrimination/hate speech and people can be fined/censored over it.

A few of these people do genuinely see corporations as living things though. Which I probably don't need to tell you is horrendously dangerous.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

I want to meet the crazy bastard who came up with the idea of selling shirts at premium prices with their logos on it. Coke, Reeses, etc. People pay to be walking advertisements. It didn't even cross my mind until the other day how goddamn insane it is.

I remember being able to get some neat graphic tee's at target. No logos, just a cool design of some sort. Then one day all I could find are retro logos with a faded look. Retro Pepsi logo with faded look, retro star wars logo with faded look, retro atari logo, retro comic heroes and NASA (Its crazy how much NASA logo is on stuff, STEM consumers i guess.),

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Among

There needs to be a retarded rating because holy shit you just went full chimp.

 

[Shig O'nella]

There's a growing movement of corporate shills who are trying to get corporations recognized as living things. I think the endgame is for them to be granted protected status complete with pronouns and shit, so that things like complaining about a corporate decision or an annoying advertising campaign will now be legally considered discrimination/hate speech and people can be fined/censored over it.

A few of these people do genuinely see corporations as living things though. Which I probably don't need to tell you is horrendously dangerous.

It's the next logical step. Corporate personhood is already a legal thing, so you get corporations recognised as living entities ... President Apple, anyone?

 

[Throwing Romans]

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.

NZ mint is a private company, so those are collectors coins - not legal tender. New Zealands government outsources coin minting to Canada and the UK.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

Among other cultural degradations, women have gained the upper hand in techno-world. They are insulated from the full consequences of their actions by both government and social systems. It's also not an exaggeration to say that relatively homely women can freely couple with comparatively higher-value men just by opening up an app. The fundamentals of that aren't new (slumming, prostitutes, easy lays), but it's been heavily enabled and become "safe and easy" for the average person by virtue of technology.

Even short of the ol' suck and fuck, women can get tons of (fake) male attention by utilizing a handful of social media apps. This is actually part of the aforementioned social system that limits consequences. In my opinion this has a greater effect than sex apps, by virtue of rewarding women for their cunts being female with attention (fake as it may be) without demanding that they invest any real part of themselves into getting that attention. Keeping any one specific man interested is not well reinforced by the nature of social media itself (more bluntly, it doesn't matter - what's one among supposed thousands?).

While in reality pussy is still Earth's most plentiful and renewable resource, in socially declining western countries there exist artificial market forces which raise it's perceived value. Of course, this all leads to misery and further social atomization (and a birthrate under replacement level), but the people get their dopamine and the lizards get their billions. Simply put, you're seeing the visible effects of upended social norms run through the amplifier of technology. In rural areas where the social fabric is stronger and technology less effective (only 10 tinder matches!?) this particular form of decay is less visible.

Last I checked big brand shirts were priced "normally", unless you were paying for some special item. You're not wrong about the inanity of buying merch just to be an advertisement, but in truth I think most people buy that shit for something safe (read: conformist) to wear. The big brands are sold in wal-marts and similar stores, people don't buy them because they're superfans, they're more likely to just like the logo or not even think much about it at all.

It's the "lifestyle" brands that are purchased more with an eye to social signaling, a phenomenon that's really taken off in recent years, that people buy to "say" who they are or whatever. This is something right and left wing consoomers actually have in common. Lefties buy their safe media brands to show how hip they are, and righties buy their individualist activity brands (muh yeti cooler) to show how white American they are.

I say this as someone who buys branded stuff, just not the kind of brands anyone outside of <insert subculture here> has heard of. Even if I personally utilize a company's product, I won't buy their shit unless it is aesthetically pleasing and well made. I have found myself wearing a handful of brands I've never used otherwise (admittedly a few only make clothing) because either their design is tit or the fit/material is high quality. Christ knows I'd never be caught dead in a McDonald's shirt, any more than I'd wear muh Blue Line Sniper Cop shirt, but in a way that also says something about who I am and what views I may hold.

That was the purest dose of incel cringe I've subjected myself to in quite a long time, thanks.