Is this consumer (or con-“soomer”) meme accurate?

[Jonah Hill poster]

It was around the time when the new Star Wars movie was getting loads of amounts of criticism, I managed to save this image from a user online who posted a meme to a “fan” of SW. The person in question complained that people who did not see the new movie shouldn’t have the right to criticize the movie, and he said something along the lines of “You’re just adding to the hate, giving all these anti-SJW’s more firepower!”
(Keep in mind, the person he was interacting with was just giving the film constructive criticism.)

With that said, does this meme seem to define what to expect in the 2020’s?
Will this continue to happen globally, or is this just an American thing?

 

[Otis Boi]

The consoomer meme is just poking fun of something that has always been there. Consumerism isn't new as the iconic supreme logo once said "I think there for I Shop" I think it's just fandoms have become more prevalent as normies started to become the target audience of most websites along with the proliferation of social media.

This is just normal autistic tribalism. The same thing we have with sports teams just alot dumber and gay.

 

[nagant 1895]

Sure the consoomer is real so the meme is accurate to a greater or lesser degree. Sure that archetype has been around for quite a while, at least as long as I've been alive. I won't make an pretensions about being highminded but an aesthete views a film, a person watches a movie, a consoomer consumes content.

But

In the past the consoomer was more or less derided for his vapid mind and flighty fixations. In the way back there were just books to read, then there were movies and TV to watch, now there's more media produced at a high production value than you could possibly consume. And now, nearly everything is political, including your "identity" and political topics range from toxic to dangerous, there aren't that many safe ways to interact with people other than by consuming vapid media and talking about it. Why structure your public personality around your deeply held faith? Love of fishing? Cis-het-normal relationship pair bonding? These things are problematic.

Better to identify as a starwars fan than a white person. Large corporations, non profits and swathes of people will validate and affirm the goodness of the HBOmax subscriber, no one gives a shit about your metal working, god, canned goods charity drive or archery hobby. Even if some people did find it interesting it would only be in passing and to discuss it would risk ridicule, or worse, conflict. Safer just to mention your thoughts on The Mandalorian in a tweet or until coffee break is over.

I guess it's sort of just a rehash of the Small Souled Bugman, about whom much was written 3ish years ago. The Consoomer is just how the Bugman comes across online.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Read Moviebob's thread, then ask that question.

 

[Lemmingwise]

No, it isn't accurate. He doesn't have a soy grin in the picture and he isn't holding a nintendo switch.

 

[aspic surprise]

Very accurate. The whole purpose of these people's lives is to keep consuming absolute garbage brought forth by Disney and spread their woke agenda everywhere. It's like a processing machine.

 

[MelloYello]

The consoomer meme is just poking fun of something that has always been there.

Consoomers are basically bugmen. Except they're really starting to consider eating bugs...

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Consoomers are basically bugmen. Except they're really starting to consider eating bugs...

Make the bugmen eat each other while we watch and laugh at them

 

[DecimatedFerret]

Sure the consoomer is real so the meme is accurate to a greater or lesser degree. Sure that archetype has been around for quite a while, at least as long as I've been alive. I won't make an pretensions about being highminded but an aesthete views a film, a person watches a movie, a consoomer consumes content.

But

In the past the consoomer was more or less derided for his vapid mind and flighty fixations. In the way back there were just books to read, then there were movies and TV to watch, now there's more media produced at a high production value than you could possibly consume. And now, nearly everything is political, including your "identity" and political topics range from toxic to dangerous, there aren't that many safe ways to interact with people other than by consuming vapid media and talking about it. Why structure your public personality around your deeply held faith? Love of fishing? Cis-het-normal relationship pair bonding? These things are problematic.

Better to identify as a starwars fan than a white person. Large corporations, non profits and swathes of people will validate and affirm the goodness of the HBOmax subscriber, no one gives a shit about your metal working, god, canned goods charity drive or archery hobby. Even if some people did find it interesting it would only be in passing and to discuss it would risk ridicule, or worse, conflict. Safer just to mention your thoughts on The Mandalorian in a tweet or until coffee break is over.

I guess it's sort of just a rehash of the Small Souled Bugman, about whom much was written 3ish years ago. The Consoomer is just how the Bugman comes across online.

Do you talk to people in real life? because I have a hard believing that you do if you think this is the norm for social interaction. More people would be willing listen to you talk about metal working or whatever the fuck else than talk about starwars. Unless you're being a fucking sperg, then nobody is gonna want to talk to you about anything

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Do you talk to people in real life? because I have a hard believing that you do if you think this is the norm for social interaction. More people would be willing listen to you talk about metal working or whatever the fuck else than talk about starwars. Unless you're being a fucking sperg, then nobody is gonna want to talk to you about anything

The meme is an obvious exaggeration but I doubt anyone here doesn't have a friend or knows a guy that's suckling on the corporate tit to the point of white knight for mega-corporations.

 

[Jason Wynn]

I find this one more accurate

 

[nagant 1895]

Do you talk to people in real life? because I have a hard believing that you do if you think this is the norm for social interaction. More people would be willing listen to you talk about metal working or whatever the fuck else than talk about starwars. Unless you're being a fucking sperg, then nobody is gonna want to talk to you about anything

Of course I speak with people face to face, Maybe it's the city I live in, the industry I'm a part of or the company I've kept but in my experience this is how people are these days. Their identity became defined by the brands and types of things they purchased (late 80sish) AND identity became political (mid 2000s) all that remained for people who wanted to fit in or move up was to tie themselves to whatever was popular.
Is there some place where this is not the case?

The thing about being a sperg is it prevents you from realizing when you're having a sperg out, so maybe I am? I'd never be able to tell.

 

[Sperghetti]

The consoomer meme is just poking fun of something that has always been there. Consumerism isn't new as the iconic supreme logo once said "I think there for I Shop" I think it's just fandoms have become more prevalent as normies started to become the target audience of most websites along with the proliferation of social media.

This is just normal autistic tribalism. The same thing we have with sports teams just alot dumber and gay.

Yeah, I’m going to have to agree with this.

People have been criticizing consumerism for ages, it’s just that in the past, that criticism would have been directed at prime time TV and action movies and pop music. Now it’s Star Wars and Marvel and video games and social media.

The criticism never changes and the target never changes, the only thing that does is pop culture. Criticizing consumerism is essentially just criticizing people who are heavily invested in pop culture.

 

[Otis Boi]

Consoomers are basically bugmen. Except they're really starting to consider eating bugs...

Yea but Consoomerism is just their version of faggy sports teams. Are you Marvel or DC fan,Disney or Warner Bros, Amd or Intel/Nvidia ect. It is a dumb way to have an identity.

It's fine to have brand loyalty for example MSI has been every good about replacing my Motherbaords and GPUs when they break so i will shill for them and tend to leaning buying their products. The thing is if they screw me over I'm not coming back.

 

[Pissmaster]

The consoomer meme is brilliant because it finally lampoons the kinds of idiots you see in fandoms that need to buy every single product their favorite franchise sells, even when something sucks or it's a clear-cut cashgrab. It works especially well in the world of video games, where an upcoming game might be discussed in length for months, only for it to finally come out and have all discussion surrounding it die within a week, just to move onto the next upcoming game. There's also a vocal minority of mongoloids that buy every single game Limited Run releases, even if it's nothing they'd give a flying fuck about in a million years otherwise. Or the people that collect every single Amiibo, even the ones of characters they don't even like. Reddit's especially bad about encouraging these kinds of faggots.

There's nothing wrong with having a big collection of something you enjoy, but I'm not going to be any less impressed if you somehow managed to collect every single Gamecube game ever made but you're missing Madden 2006 and Barbie's Horse Adventures. Anyone who would be is a faggot of the highest order. A magna-cum-faggot, if you will.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

The consoomer meme is brilliant because it finally lampoons the kinds of idiots you see in fandoms that need to buy every single product their favorite franchise sells, even when something sucks or it's a clear-cut cashgrab. It works especially well in the world of video games, where an upcoming game might be discussed in length for months, only for it to finally come out and have all discussion surrounding it die within a week, just to move onto the next upcoming game. There's also a vocal minority of mongoloids that buy every single game Limited Run releases, even if it's nothing they'd give a flying fuck about in a million years otherwise. Or the people that collect every single Amiibo, even the ones of characters they don't even like. Reddit's especially bad about encouraging these kinds of faggots.

Even funnier when the product clearly sucks and the consoomer morons say something like, "C'mon guys, don't you want it to continue?" before buying the shit product en masse and showing the corporations that people will buy shit products.

 

[Pissmaster]

Even funnier when the product clearly sucks and the consoomer morons say something like, "C'mon guys, don't you want it to continue?" before buying the shit product en masse and showing the corporations that people will buy shit products.

Man, I've always hated that idea. "Vote with your wallet! Show the company how much you loved Nostalgic Piece of Shit by buying Nostalgic Piece of Shit VIII, even though it sucks and was made by an outsourced team! They'll get the message and we'll finally have a proper sequel to Nostalgic Piece of Shit 2 like we've all been clamoring for since 1995!"

And then, like clockwork, poor sales numbers will come in and they'll scream about how everyone should have bought the game anyway and now the franchise is dead and it's our fault, because that's exactly how simple this all works.

Though I did take to saying "Okay, then buy me a copy! Here's my Steam account". Never did get a single free game that way.

 

[Pissmaster]

You know, something I was thinking about today was how Funko Pops really summed up the consoomer ways of the 2010s. They're just so repulsive and lifeless, stripped of all charm that its source character had, with only some clothing and hair details to differentiate them. I always figured they were designed that way to both be easy to churn out countless numbers of them, and so the actor's likeness never has to be licensed - so with a Funko Pop of Daryl from The Walking Dead, they don't have to give Norman Reedus jack. They just kind of came from nowhere and spawned a whole new market of bullshit collectibles, with the ones you'll most commonly see in stores from whatever new Marvel movie's out and whatever adult-oriented TV show is hot right now.

And people fuckin' buy these. I don't get it. They make every single character look like an insect, but I guess the urge to consoom consoom consoom whatever franchise put a bit o' meth in your soy milk this morning makes everything from actual quality to appeal worthless. Didja grow up loving Shrek? Well why not add this horrifying depiction of Donkey to your shelf, to gaze at you forevermore:


It sounds ridiculous that a figure line that sells nothing but bland-to-creepy bugeyed faceless characters could be so successful, but somehow, that happened. It's like the soullessness of modern pop culture is now on full display, practically mocking itself for how milquetoast and unoriginal everything's become. There's not a single bit of creativity in a Funko Pop. They're gauche and inoffensive. A child could draw a mockup for a future Funko Pop of any franchise, and probably nail what it'll look like.

Funko Pops, among a collection of other figures, really don't work on their own. They're way too ugly and stand out. So they're designed to be collected with one another, kept unopened, so you'll end up with a home that looks like this:



And there's just a certain decadence to that look. It's such a shrine to soulless consoomerism.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

You know, something I was thinking about today was how Funko Pops really summed up the consoomer ways of the 2010s. They're just so repulsive and lifeless, stripped of all charm that its source character had, with only some clothing and hair details to differentiate them. I always figured they were designed that way to both be easy to churn out countless numbers of them, and so the actor's likeness never has to be licensed - so with a Funko Pop of Daryl from The Walking Dead, they don't have to give Norman Reedus jack. They just kind of came from nowhere and spawned a whole new market of bullshit collectibles, with the ones you'll most commonly see in stores from whatever new Marvel movie's out and whatever adult-oriented TV show is hot right now.

And people fuckin' buy these. I don't get it. They make every single character look like an insect, but I guess the urge to consoom consoom consoom whatever franchise put a bit o' meth in your soy tard cum this morning makes everything from actual quality to appeal worthless. Didja grow up loving Shrek? Well why not add this horrifying depiction of Donkey to your shelf, to gaze at you forevermore:
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It sounds ridiculous that a figure line that sells nothing but bland-to-creepy bugeyed faceless characters could be so successful, but somehow, that happened. It's like the soullessness of modern pop culture is now on full display, practically mocking itself for how milquetoast and unoriginal everything's become. There's not a single bit of creativity in a Funko Pop. They're gauche and inoffensive. A child could draw a mockup for a future Funko Pop of any franchise, and probably nail what it'll look like.

Funko Pops, among a collection of other figures, really don't work on their own. They're way too ugly and stand out. So they're designed to be collected with one another, kept unopened, so you'll end up with a home that looks like this:

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And there's just a certain decadence to that look. It's such a shrine to soulless consoomerism.

What pisses me off about Funko Pops is that they generated this awful wave of collectible toy products. Collectibles have always been a thing, but now it's consumed (no pun intended) everything. My local Barnes and Noble used to have this awesome DVD and vinyl section. I found so many cool movies and records there. Then at some point they junked that whole section and replaced it with fucking horrible consoomer toy collectables while the DVD and vinyl are squished into this tiny section.

I place the blame squarely on Funko Pops because they were the first to really latch onto the mainstream and now every comic, gaming, and book shop is cluttered with this shit while the actual products like books, DVDs, and games are pushed aside.