What is the worst type of consoomer?

[Anonitolia]

Feel free to input your own answer if you'd like.

 

[0 0]

It's not included in the poll but consuming products are fine as long as it isn't your sole personality trait. Besides "obnoxious," of course. If you share a hobby or interest with another person, that's great. If you don't, then you clearly have nothing to talk about, so please don't spend 15 minutes telling everyone how many comic books or movies you've bought. Obviously, you can tolerate these discussions with people. It can even be engaging. But like I said, if it's your sole personality trait, it gets old quickly.

My biggest grief with excessive consumerism is the lack of creativity or thought in the consumer. As an example, it's one thing to just bring up what happens in a movie. If you want to hold the other person's attention, you could act excited about it since that's always fun. But then you have people who will just talk like the synopsis on Wikipedia for the film. It's more interesting to discuss what the events in the movie means, what it represents, or the symbology or purpose behind it. You can like it, of course, my issue is people trying to turn spending money on a product into a topic of discussion beyond smalltalk. For instance, that one guy who somehow brings the topic around to his hunt for more Funko figurines.

If I had to make a choice, though, I'd pick "The Devotee." I can't stop thinking about people who buy Apple products mindlessly. Like that metal stand that costs $1,000. There's a nonzero amount of people who bought this day 1. If I could put it into words, since the one thing I hate about mindless consumerism is the sheer lack of thought put into it, buying things regardless of quality just because of the brand is the pinnacle of what I dislike.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Don’t know what category they’d fall under, but “the trendoid “ consoomer annoys me the most. People who would have laughed at or shit on a product in the past but now that it’s become popular and mainstream they HAVE to get in on it and act like they’ve always been True and Honest fans.

Looking at tabletop gaming in particular for this.

 

[starborn427614]

Merch fanatic is probably the worst, especially if they dodge better products for the cheaper/tackier version. If you're going to consoom, at least have some standards for quality.

 

[Ozul]

I know several people in the merch collecting circle who have to buy anything and everything related to the franchise they collect. I'm talking down to gum wrappers. Doesn't matter if they like the product or not, they have to buy it because it has this certain character slapped on it. Their houses look like organized hoards. They will even get pissed off when new products are released saying things like "Ugh, why did they have to release this, it's ugly and I don't have room for it."
Just like....insanity.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

i hate gaming consoomers. the ones that'll bitch about EA and Ubisoft but constantly getting double dildo fucked by both companies

"IDK HOW U DON'T LIKE ASSASSINS CREED, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL SERIES WITH A STORY THAT'LL TUG ON YOUR HEART STRINGS"

*video game that is 60 hours minimum to complete while most of the missions are fetch quests and pointless conquer missions.*

"UGH MADDEN AND NBA ARE SO SHIT NOWADAYS. I CAN'T BELIEVE 2K WOULD DO THIS TO MAKE MONEY"

"how about just don't buy the game"

"NO BECAUSE IVE ALREADY BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS AND IM GOING TO BUY THE NEXT ONE. UGH OSAMA DO YOU THINK I CANNOT COMPLAIN ABOUT A GAME AND STILL LIKE IT"

 

[Chocolate Wombat]

The one I hate the most is like 50/50 gamer and devotee since that combo is a very special kind of stupid.

 

[Shroom King]

The transsexual is all four of those categories combined. They already treat their own bodies like a pay-to-win RPG, so of course they are going to spend their disposable income on pointless nonsense since they (hopefully) don't have any children/dependents to take care of.

This is why transsexuals are courted so hard by advertisers and the politicians that are bought and paid for by advertisers, because they spend money like a sailor on shore leave until they join the 41%.

 

[I (Don't) Have A Gun]

A bit of a cross-section, but the consoomer who gets screwed over and over again but just keeps consooming.

 

[GaryGray]

The technology enthusiast who must buy first generation everything is a sub group of the devotee which really gets irritating. No matter how many times it can be pointed out that first generation technology contains significantly more bugs they still act like buying something over priced only to be beta testers is a badge of honor. They are notorious for buying into marketing materials. Recently while looking for a new mother board there was one which was advertising its high quality capacitors. Yet when looking at images of the board there were no manufacturers marks to be found. The average technology enthusiast will be easily duped by this lie.
Another problem is their inability to do anything other than parrot that bigger number means better without any concept of use case or bottle neck. It was funny to see people get dual SLI video cards so they could run game at the highest setting only to find out the game is processed mainly by the CPU. Similar to people who get an 8k TV and "high fidelity" sound system only to watch Youtube and streaming services that are 720p lossy compressed videos that are then poorly interpolated into 8k.
Technology enthusiasts are to blame for the awful trend of shoving rainbow LEDs into every piece of hardware or peripheral sold. In general the devotee is to blame for mindlessly buying into marketing that then informs the design decisions moving forward which propagate a design philosophy that is anti-consumer. Especially when it comes to consumer maintenance and upkeep. See this a lot with power tools where everything must be brushless motors and proprietary batteries which when a single power MOSFET burns out causes the whole tool to be useless rather than being easy to repair. The technology enthusiast is the same person who will have a garage filled with expensive professional tools despite only getting maybe four hours of use a year.
Do not be a technology enthusiast. A fool and their money are soon parted.

 

[Not A Bunny]

White knights.

If you feel you need to white knight for a corporation for any reason, well, you're too stupid to understand that have been played for a sucker.

If they ain't paying you, keep your parasocial bullshit to yourself.

 

[The Last Stand]

A bit of a cross-section, but the consoomer who gets screwed over and over again but just keeps consooming.

I have to say, with experience, sport gamers are the worst type of consumer.

"UGH MADDEN AND NBA ARE SO SHIT NOWADAYS. I CAN'T BELIEVE 2K WOULD DO THIS TO MAKE MONEY"

"how about just don't buy the game"

"NO BECAUSE IVE ALREADY BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS AND IM GOING TO BUY THE NEXT ONE. UGH OSAMA DO YOU THINK I CANNOT COMPLAIN ABOUT A GAME AND STILL LIKE IT"

Realize that Madden and 2K have monopolized their respective sports by buying licenses to avoid competition. Even so, practically every sports title out now finds a way to monetize players for an unfair advantage. There are countless videos of influencers opening packs and buying builds for games that would be obsolete and inaccessible in a year's time.

Add insult to injury, those monetization practices would seep into other games since companies will see that they're lucrative.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Gamers, because it increasingly seems like everyone on YouTube has to relate absolutely everything in the world to video games, like it's their only frame of reference for anything.

 

[SparklyFetuses]

Not completely sure which category they belong to, but I hate those of the hoarding kind who spend a shitload of money on buying extremely rare stuff (like prototype cartridges of existing games or old uncensored books which are out of print and no doc/pdf/etc. files of them exist anywhere), but refuse to share their contents nor make any backups because "it'll affect their prices" or any similar excuse, without seeming to realize that they might end up whining the day they lose them due to a fire, burglary, or because they're way too damaged due to poor storage.

 

[I Love Beef]

In my experience, all five (and more) tend to be a blend of a few or more at once and have no sense of whimsy or wonder to their enjoyment. As someone said before, they don't ask how, they ask why. They also tend to be megalomaniacs and power starved control freaks with a shitton of baggage. They tend to be coddled and spoiled wastes of food who never saw the world outside of their suburbanite/urban/sterile bubble. They're literally the "stop having fun" guys if they never get their way. They also tend to be militant atheists and the cocksuckers of the establishment, and like I mean they seek to get a place in the "new government", not actually for good decent people regardless of personal beliefs.

If I had to give one answer, it is the Hipster. The unholy corpse sperm of Generation X nihilisitic smartassery and impregnated into the taboo of child bride Generation Y and shaped into Wokeness by Something Awful, G4, and the attempts of the Military Industrial Complex trying to use video gaming as a propaganda tool. One scumfucker shitheel who holds a place dear in my heart is a trust fund baby out in the West Coast who whined about how anime wasn't big robots and tits anymore and threatened to nuke Japan because his family's investment firm deliberately caused the Great Recession and demanded they bend over keelhaul to an American audience for his enjoyment or else. Sean O'Mara everyone. DON'T LET THEM LIVE. IN MINECRAFT.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

Easily the Trend Slave.
They somehow manage to be soulless NPC normies and supreme soy-guzzling autists at the same time.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

have no sense of whimsy or wonder to their enjoyment. As someone said before, they don't ask how, they ask why. They also tend to be megalomaniacs and power starved control freaks with a shitton of baggage. They tend to be coddled and spoiled wastes of food who never saw the world outside of their suburbanite/urban/sterile bubble. They're literally the "stop having fun" guys if they never get their way.

Extremely accurate. Consoomers love to corner people and infodump on them as a kind of way to both validate their life choices, and exert power over someone else by forcing them to listen.

 

[FamicomGorby]

I'm gonna go with the signaller. Consoomers that buy mountains of crap products at least keep their crap in their home usually but signallers have to blast all over the damn internet about how they consoom product and how anyone who does not consoom product is a Nazi or something.

Like an example that sticks with me is Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, 99% of the praise online was basically "PUNCH NAZI'S BRO 10/10". Except in reality the game was complete shit, with eh gameplay, terrible writing, and a not even having the courtesy to end with a proper boss fight. But anyone who leveled valid criticism at it would get a gaggle of redditor geniuses accusing them of sucking Hitler's cock. Or how the Black Panther movie was immune from criticism because of socioeconomic reasons even though it's below average capeshit goyslop.

Also I think this includes big brain consoomers who like something but have to say they like it for the "right" reasons, those right reasons usually being completely retarded. Like Doug Walker who made an entire video about how he liked Max Max:Fury Road for the right reasons and everyone else like it for the wrong reasons. Except his reasons basically amounted to "it's a road runner cartoon".