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No. 1848380
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someone else has probably brought these up before but I absolutely hate this whole stanley cup snack tray trend that’s apparently going on. tiktok people don’t represent humanity i promise
No. 1848395
>>1848380Like, I get the point of those because you could use them to go to shows or events where you know you basically won't be able to leave until it's over because you won't be able to enjoy it to it's fullest.
But knowing that the people buying those are just doing it for the "esthetic" and because they're on the road to morbidly obesity by not wanting to even leave their sofas/beds/computer chairs… it's depressing kek.
Like I can't imagine doing shit like that, those people would probably put a light switch near their beds if they could.
No. 1848430
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Big collections of this shit get me so heated with how proud they are to post it and show it off. Why the fuck would anyone care? People should be ashamed to post their giant anime figurine or even fucking worse (because they're all the goddamn same looking) single brand cup collections. Sure, maybe the only interesting thing could be size but that should be a curiosity like "Why would you spend that much money and space on these stupid things," not in admiration or praise. The interesting thing about conventional collections like stamps or coins or idk painted train sets is that sometimes they're rare and hard to find, collectors put a lot of effort into the presentation and storage and care, each one might (to someone interested in the subject) have an interesting story or piece of history behind them. But these contemporary consoomer fads have nothing. They all come from the same factory and are color released in batches, there's nothing to them aside from "ooh, pretty." They're utterly shallow and meaningless and the collector is going to move on from them in half a decade to some other waste of plastic.
No. 1848448
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I can’t believe people took plants and made it consoom
No. 1848544
>>1848448i got into plants during the pandemic and some of the people who collected and sold them were fucking insane. one girl in a local group would go from store to store all over the province taking pictures of the plant inventory and posting them on facebook, literally every single day 2-3 stores. another girl had a "rare plant shop" where all the plants were priced in the hundreds. there were people who were known flippers who would go and buy out all the stores inventory of whatever popular plant they got in and sell them in the facebook groups for double the price. it was so insane.
makes me laugh when i see all the "rare" plants people were forking out hundreds for are now like $4 at the local department stores
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what the actual fuck is this
No. 1848606
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>>1848399She should have said "A Clapper" instead of bed light switch.
No. 1848640
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>>1848632Samefag, yeah this is the type of stuff I mean. I knew I couldn't have been imagining it. I think the As Seen On TV infomercial products of the 90s and 2000s are so interesting, arguably its own unique brand of consumerism.
No. 1848685
>>1848671its listening for specific sounding input.
>>1848683yeah, same as those voice-unlocked password diaries from late 90s/early00's. microphone tech apparently to some people didn't exist before the smartphone kek
No. 1849498
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>>1849488This trend is driving me insane, nonnies. I can understand why someone would collect limited edition 1 out of 500 gold thanos funko pop, but why would anyone need more than one stanley cup? they all look the fucking same. It's so creepy that all the women who collect stanley are your typical basic white bitches with beige boring houses who dress in beige boring clothes and wear the same boring basic make up, but they are competing hand in hand with hardcore nerds in consoomerism. When you think ''limited edition'' you think of something extravagant, maybe a collaboration with an artist like Murakami, but the starbucks special edition is just bright pink with a starbucks logo. What the actual fuck, how is that any different from the trillion of pink stanley cups that there are already?!
No. 1849665
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Do any of you have this bag? I’ve seen a lot of girls on tt shilling it and I’m very tempted. I find it super cute and functional but I’m worried the material won’t be good enough to justify the price.
No. 1849711
>>1849588You should stop taking other women's actions so personally, it represents
them not you nor anyone else. Your "group" mindset is self-flaggelating
No. 1849716
>>1849628Teenage girls are the ultimate consumers due their biological stage (no actual personality, no frontal lobe developed to limit themselves, ect), so it's not their fault.
However adult women should know better. Arrested development is an choice. Brands promote it because suits them obviously, but if you as a grown ass woman see no problem in basing your life over Stanley cups like you're a young girl with a husbando you have a problem.
No. 1849928
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>>1848358This cup gives me anxiety, am I the only one? It's so top heavy. The narrow bottom makes it look like disproportionate and like it could fall over easily. I get that it's for cup holders but… why
No. 1849933
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>>1849665Imo it looks frumpy, like an ugly cushion with handles. I think by default anything that has its own storefront on AliExpress or some other cheap Chinese website is probably going to be of a poor quality, and won't last terribly long.
I don't have tiktok but from what I understand, many of the items available on the shop are basically just dropshipping scams where people can turn a profit selling cheap trash. Buyer beware, basically. Also, if anything goes wrong with an order from a front like Bagsmart, usually customer service from these sites is very poor and you'll have to pay for shipping back to China if the product is defective.
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No. 1851044
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>>1849488Imagine collecting fucking cups
Not even cups with interesting designs/patterns/shapes since at least then I could get it
But the cups that literally look like the ones you get for free from a business meeting or staying at a chain hotel.
No. 1851278
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I swear this is some kind of product of putting kids toys in blindboxes. What compels an adult to overconsume brand keychains?
No. 1851313
new brook video, probably an undisclosed ad, as always. do women actually go out wearing skintight onesies??
No. 1851775
>>1851711that makes sense. Ironically they got the most opposite demographic possible to obsess over it.
Gotta hand it to the great satan that is marketing execs, they are evil scum but brilliant evil scums
No. 1851848
>>1851159not gonna lie the bag seems nice too, I like going on long walks with nothing but my water bottle and some music. This would be convenient in an airport as well. however, death to stanley for this
>>1849488 shit (assuming it's not a troll infographic)
No. 1852357
>>1851385These suck for camping, why would you get a water bottle with a weird shape and a huge handle, that can't be trusted hold tight in a backpack?
It's designed for people with office jobs who drive everywhere.
It's intersting that they even came up with it, since the brand is known for making some pretty good "buy it for life" camping gear.
No. 1852508
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>>1852357picrel is the original stanely which does seem pretty good for camping. but the sippy cup design is definitely designed for yuppies who drive everywhere
No. 1852729
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>>1852523Kind of baffled by his other videos because it seems like he uses sticky notes in the notebooks more than actually writing on the notebook paper. Hobonichi chonk pic unrelated but I think it’s satisfying when people actually 100% their stationery supplies
No. 1852838
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How many phone cases do you guys own? I try to keep it at 4 at the Max just because I like to change my phone up but dont want to accumulate them.
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>>1852833>peak hydration cultureReminds me of cartman saying that a kid today is defined by their hydration drink.
No. 1852908
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>>1852838one handmade novelty that I bought from a small artist and one pretty one that i just keep on, i've had it for 4 years and only took it off once or twice for my dumb novelty one. i used to use more novelty cases but they get old fast and get damaged easily. Picrel is similar to my everyday case
No. 1852928
>>1849716>However adult women should know better.Reminds me when my makeup consumerist phase suddenly ended 6-7 years ago, something inside me just snapped and I was like "I'm done with this shit."
Being an adult woman can be pretty cool, man these girls brainwashed by tiktok and insta to buy all this unnecessary shit are gonna have a rough awakening some day, at least some of them
>>1852838One, and it's been like that ever since owning smartphones.
No. 1853092
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But why? I get one bottle of lotion and it lasts me half a year, why so many?
No. 1853497
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I feel like this is the only place I can post this without triggering a libfem. I hate that this shit, and other things like it, are marketed towards little girls. If it was an adult collector thing, who cares. It's twisted that men are allowed to push sexualized images on girls, and then women stand around and insist that it isn't sexual, and any anybody who sees sexual material as sexual is really the real pervert and also a prude. There are also terrible bimbo cartoons. The theme of this line was "slumber party", so it was definitely designed by a man with his dick in his hand. That's why they all look like RealDolls dressed in Victoria's Secret, instead of cute girls in PJs. People say this shit doesn't have any impact on girls, but every single TiF NLOG is having an emotional meltdown trying to separate herself from it, even while they will defend its existence.
No. 1853640
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>>1853497MGA entertainment is the worst company for this, they’re constantly designing dolls that sexualiise little girls and because their lines are the most popular with tweens and collectors all the other brands copy them. Their NaNaNa Surprise dolls almost got banned in the UK because mothers were so grossed out by the lingerie designs printed on them. Ofc when collectors and teens hear about these controversies they call the mothers “Karen” for criticizing the things they consoom but there’s no reason for a childrens toy to be wearing a corset, suspenders and stockings.
No. 1853666
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>>1853651I was wondering the same, but I don't think so. All the adults I knew thought Bratz were ugly with big melon heads, but they were still just fashion dolls with generic fashion doll torsos and didn't have painted on lingerie. Or feet kek.
No. 1853683
>>1852729I really like 100%ing stationery too, satisfying to look at a filled up planner at the end of the year
>>1853588I think the picture is of a notebook where something has been stuck in on every page
No. 1853698
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>>1853429She did go on a “America has an overconsumption problem! Only the companies are the winners!” tangent in the comments immediately after admitting she barely makes minimum wage and drained all her savings on this crap. But it’s okay because she “manage[s] to come out in the positives financially wise with a little bit of girl math” and ends all her comments with hearts and smileys!
No. 1853714
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>>1853666I didn't mind bratz as a kid but see them as ugly as an adult, they're really just designed to appeal to little kids the same way cartoons are with big facial features. Lingerie is a step too far for dolls aimed at kids, but I always found it cringe when adults complained about dolls being too skinny and that making them a bad role model somehow. You want the doll to have sexy curves instead? Or to be obese since like 40% of the US is obese anyway? Or is having little kids play with realistic teen/adult sized proportioned dolls the only acceptable answer? Did Barbie truly actually give a single girl an eating disorder like they all claimed? Did bratz turn little girl into sluts when they grew up?
No. 1853715
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>>1853092The other thing about over consuming beauty products like this is that most expire within 12 months so they can never be used within time.
It’s interesting that this post and so many others I see arrange their overconsoom like a shop display. Weirdos.
No. 1853718
>>1853497These dolls look straight out of a Megan Thee Stallion video, not sure how I feel about girls playing with them
>having an emotional meltdown trying to separate herself from it, even while they will defend its existence.Because women can't criticize anything anymore on social media, because liberal feminism told everyone that everything is
valid and that others like what you hate and you're a prude with no fun if you dare speak up
No. 1853727
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>>1853720Yeah tbh I think it’s no coincidence that the generations raised on Bratz grew up to do lip filler to ridiculous proportions and popularise the “ski slope” tiny Barbie rhinoplasty with drag eye makeup.
No. 1853731
>>1853497>every single TiF NLOG is having an emotional meltdown trying to separate herself from itnona when you put it like this it just makes me want more of it kek
>The theme of this line was "slumber party", so it was definitely designed by a man with his dick in his hand.The only men who like dolls are frankly gay though. I honestly think they just don't design the dolls for kids but for teens and adults, because they know collectors will shill out tons of money and a 5 year old obviously doesn't have the money to buy shit so actually aiming fashion at a kid is stupid. And real kids fashion is ugly and boring. They call it things like "4+ years" because they don't have any choking hazard parts and has to have a label since it's a toy but it's not actually aimed at kids, the same way a 10.000 piece puzzle featuring a picture of new york, or a replica toy car isn't really aimed at kids either.
No. 1853734
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>>1853497Genuine question, do you feel the same about Ariel? Or is it the fashion itself, even though all of them are covered up way more and showing less skin than Ariel is? I honestly want to know where you think the line is for what is appropriate vs not
No. 1853744
>>1853734It's not a thing about being covered or not, it's how the dolls are presented. Tell me, why do these feel
>>1853714 just like toys going for a swim but these
>>1853497 feel odd?
No. 1853750
>>1853734ariel doesn't have filled lipes, a nosejob and 20 pounds of makeup and glitter.
>Or that she isn't "fashionable" enough according to real trends as in e-whore trends? this as children toys
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>>1853740They're about the same, the more sultry eyes are barely noticeable honestly.
No. 1853766
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>>1853497Frankly while I don't like the insta thot faces, speaking as a former bratz haver child, what I don't get is why are the stomachs so sculpted and weirdly sexualized. Reminds me of the way male coomers draw stomachs. Why do fashion dolls always have to go a step further every decade or so? No child would care if her dolls stomach was toned in this way or not, while sadly I could definitely see little girls wanting insta thot type makeup on their dolls because this shit is heavily pushed to them by algorithms.
No. 1853786
>>1853763Honestly, the old Bratz still look like just dolls to me even with the fish lips. This
>>1853497 just looks pornified and I can't pinpoint why. I don't think it's any one thing, they just look like 3D coom art. The empty stares and lack of expression does make them look even more like RealDolls.
No. 1853790
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>>1853734I get your point, but it's only fair to compare them to other mermaid toys like pic related.
Back then I used to think she was "the sexy" doll, because of her cool top tbh, and maybe it was the makeup too.
But it's pretty obvious how different is this barbie to these
>>1853497Insta baddie dolls with a face that's surely trying to imitate some micro-celebrity, showing their underwear, with pierced tails and unnecessary tail corsets.
No. 1853805
>>1853790This barbie doesn't come across as sexy to me at all, I agree with everything else though.
>>1853786Kek they do honestly look closer to sex dolls than something I would want to give as a Christmas present to my niece. No thanks
>>1853795This.
No. 1853837
>>1853640>>1853497i can't believe these are the dolls of today. social media hoeness and plastic has completely bled into the material world. this feels pedophilic.
>>1853666those things had okay clothes with interestingly textured fabrics but as a child i could not get over the tacky blow-up doll faces and prolapsed lips. they are so porny and repulsive and have this expression of contempt, i found them so hostile.
>>1853714i never compared myself to my barbies or cared they were skinny, never understood the pearl clutching about that. but i was thoroughly annoyed that their legs were so long yet not articulated at the knee.
No. 1853840
>>1852838You: buys 4 cases
Me: buys 1 clear case so I can display cool stickers I put on my phone which are unique and easily changed + my case was like 99c and gets me a lot of compliments because it's cool
Casetifycels stay losing
No. 1853861
>>1853497This kind of stuff truly depends on the influences you have in your life. I played with Bratz mostly, and then Monster High, and I don't have an onlyfans nor do I have anorexia.
>>1853786Those dolls look worse than bratz because they have 3D/"glass" eyes that look soulless as hell. MGA is not very good at incorporating 3D eyes into a design, they almost always look dead and soulless.
No. 1853882
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I have a gift card because of christmas and I can spend 135€ on whatever I want in our equivalent of Barnes and Noble. I plan on getting Pokemon Violet and a few BL manga soon, and I see I would be left with 30€ after that purchase. Should I keep it the 30€ for later in case more things get released in a few months or in case I could buy tickets for two anime/comic cons that interest me later this year or should I maybe find more BL manga to buy?
No. 1853901
>>1853889No but man I wish. Some of them are published in my country but there's no fan translation or raws anywhere online.
>>1853887My friends aren't into cons anymore and when I go alone only way younger autistic shonentards obsessed with powerlevels talk to me for some reason. I'm considering going depending on the guests but it's too early now to know who will come.
No. 1854085
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>>1853714The old Barbie’s that were basically two triangles were always hilarious to me, I never once wanted to be them. It was when they changed them to be more “realistic” that I started seeing it as sexual and jealous of their body
No. 1854089
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>>1854085I specifically remember the first Barbie I owned that had that body and how shitty it made me feel
No. 1854105
>>1854091If I was weird then so were the teen boys who got it as a joke gift for my brother “to look at while,
y’know”. Everyone knew deep down.
No. 1854107
>>1854105That's teen boys being teen boys. Should we make My Little Pony illegal because of what coomerbrained chYmps did to generation 4? Males are going to male, no matter what. They will always make female focused media a perverse wasteland because it's in their retarded moid nature.
Also your brothers friends were faggots for even buying a Barbie in the first place.
No. 1854112
>>1854089What child sees a doll and thinks "I'm shit because I'm not like it?"
Comparing children to toys it's an adult problem. Kids know they're getting a perfect, idealized version of something. Just like how adults were calling Bratz dolls "sluts" when kids not even know what "sluts" are and the kids made up stories about friendship and kiddy dramas with toys. Retarted, conservative logic.
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>>1854085Is this a common experience? I feel like because I was a short stubby kid when I had Barbies, there was no reason for me to yearn for a tall, adult body type. The only doll I ever remember thinking about the body type of was a Skipper doll someone gave me when I was a bit older because I thought we had similar bodies and maybe that meant I wouldn't look like shit if I had bangs (it looked like shit). It wasn't the same as picrel but that's what they look like now.
>>1854105I heard boys talk about sexy dolls and I feel like it had the opposite effect of, "boys jerk off to that so that's what I DON'T want to look like," but I'm also not into men so that may not be the norm.
No. 1854167
>>1854139I understand but I was talking about
what they represent. Like you don't look at Monster High dolls and think "Yeah I should stop eating to look like her/dress slutty like her"
As a child, you know that those are monsters. You know they're wearing a costume, kids are not that dumb.
When a kid learns what "sluts" and "anorexia" is, it learns it through the eyes of retarded parents who go like "sluts are bad people and your dolls are dressed like them!" while the kids don't even have the concept of sluts, they look at the funny dresses and go yeah cool! They don't stop eating to resemble a doll, they know they are dolls and are wacky! I grew up with Bratz dolls, while I can see now, as an adult, the oversexualization in their designs, as a kid I made up stories about their friendship and they I grew out of it like most kids do at that age, if my parents told me that dolls were sluts, by now I would be a conservative, retarded, kneel-for-the-man woman. Plus I was a child, I know I was playing with toys resembling older people, it was fun because I made them go to parties and I was fucking eight! Kids don't project themselves, they roleplay. They act, they PLAY with toys. Adult people (mostly moids and their side pickmes) love to push the arguments that kids project themselves just to be misogynistic, they spew out their hate for women on toys, notice how this is never applied to boys toys.
No. 1854193
>>1854185Kids don't grow into pickmes only due to toys, that's the point, you tardie. That's an entire, more complicated concept that is fabricated into (mostly female) kids because moids are just like that. Bratz were sluts but I didn't see conservative moids and their wives whining about the same very thing about idk, WWE toys? "Boy" toys? Does He-man groom you into hitting the gym until your heart explodes by all the drugs? No, the fuck. At the end of the day, it's the same, woman hating logic and you didn't take a single grain of it in the original post. What I'm saying is that kids knows that toys are toys. They're supposed to be played with and the act stops once you put them away. They know the where line is, adults love, love, LOVE to pretend they don't just to shit on women. They always did.
No. 1854194
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>>1854172Those tiny brand blind bags that are like 3 layers of consoom are insidious, I know I would have loved these as a kid and hoarded them to use as Polly pocket food. Not that my parents would have ever bought me one
No. 1854276
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>>1852523>>1853017Maybe this vid isn't as good of an example of the consooming that happens in fountain pen / notebook groups. But I pretty often see people owning the same $130 pen in different colorways. Same nib and everything. Why? Or several $200-300 Sailor pens, more for a limited colorway. I don't get it. Picrel, just part of the collection. That's probably nearly $700 of pens, and for what? For 5 vanishing points?
There's also this concept of a "starter pen" like a TWSBI or preppy. How about just stop there? What's wrong with that? My $100 pen needed to be tuned out of the box (I'm still mad) and my $3 preppy is still writing smooth as ever 4 years later.
No. 1854279
collecting drinks or foods always reminds me of the iranian yogurt from reddit.
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No. 1854344
>>1854276The fountain pen reddit is so funny, I love how pretentious they act over owning a Lamy as if that wasn't every first graders pen here. I get collecting a few pens so you can use different inks or nib sizes, but I don't get the obsession with those ugly expensive ones. Like, I can't imagine ever shilling out 1k or more for a Visconti when a preppy will do the same job.
The "starter pen" stuff and how weirdly serious they get over for example cleaning pens out is also baffling to me, that thing will be fine even if you don't leave it to soak before switching inks. That's only necessary if you're switching from a dark color to a lighter one.
No. 1854370
>>1854234>>1854228Are you two american? Because this reading comprehension is below average, coming typically from usa schools. The point is that toys, alone, can't cause eating disorders, because kids know that they're something fictional and fake. The ones bitching and crying about children toys are not kids but their retarded parents, who see teen doll and automatically say "ah! Slutty toys!" and then fabricate the concept by proxy into children. Toys being dangerous is a fake, adult problem. Toys don't cause anything but parents love to act they do so they can deflect the terrible parents accusations. A girl will not become anorexic or a slut due to a Bratz doll but if she does, it's the parent's fault for not educating them properly to those concepts. Most eating disorders are rooted in family expectations and hereditary ocd tendencies. Plus they love to shit especially on girl toys because they can project their hatred of women. Saying "Bratz are slutty" makes you look better insted of saying "I view all girls and women, except my mother, as slut". Despite the oversexualization of the design (like big lips) on Bratz, if you call them sluts and you can't see behind the clothes, you're the problem, because kids don't have that concept yet and you're trying to tell them to view dolls as slut like you. Moids needs to get out of the toy industry and stfu about it.
>>1854334You're not me lmao stfu
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>>1853867what's your point
nonnie ?
No. 1854405
>>1854389>kids are smarter than you think and yes being bombarded with certain types of images can be detrimental for themYes ofc but that's not the problem with toys. TOYS were the point. Being influenced also happens with adults, duh, it's why shit like tiktok is popular but TOYS (repeating it so maybe you get that I'm talking only and exclusively about them, got it, right?) don't make children what to eat less and go out and fuck whoever.
Shit like tiktok is dangerous for children because it's a window on the real world. Kids are smart to know that toys are toys but shit like tiktok is real life to that's why is important to give them limited access to certain stuff but TOYS and DOLLS are not dangerous per se. If you give a girl a bratz doll, she will surely not develop an eating disorder because it's A TOY and A DOLL. She will most likely end up making stories with her and it ends there. It ends with a toy. Unlimited access to the internet, on the other hand, is what is influencing kids, go see for examples the "sephora kids". They go to sephora because they see REAL people, on tiktok, going. If kids see REAL people do shit, then they assume it's fine but with DOLLS? They know they're DOLLS. They're plastic in their hands and kids know it.
Do I have to make like powerpoint, comic sans, slides with some temple run on the sides to get the point across or is that clear now?
No. 1854439
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>>1854423yes and kylie jenner is huge ass bratz fan, pic related
>>1854423im not talking about modern girls, im talking about the women on instagram who were young enough to play with bratz dolls when they first came completely transforming themselves into the them to the point where we call it instagram face!
No. 1854446
>>1854439Nah, KJ only got a deal because both Bratz and her brand is sinking lmao.
And you're living under a rock, because what are you talking about is a specific trend from 2016, now nobody uses insta anymore, it's all about tiktok and their curated aesthetic shit, douyin this, glass skin that. Even baiting, you can't really have your point lol
No. 1854575
>>1854450>>1854446my original comment was
delibritely talking about imstagram women and how did their makeup/fillers and not those other sites, yes
>KJ only got a deal because both Bratz and her brand is sinkingnothing about this contradicts what i said about her being a bratz fan, she's literally said so herself years before she got any official doll on twitter, and yes im aware of bratz mainly targetting older collectors nowadays
>>1854452and i think some of you are too defensive of the shit that you enjoyed in your childhood to the point where you guys try to claim that children
aren't influenced by their toys at all. i can also genuinely agree that kids' parents, siblings, friends, neighbors, etc have way more influence on them then just their fucking toys, but acting like what they play with, what they enjoy doing in their spare time, doesn't affect them at all in the minimum is fucking asinine. like, why do parents give their daughters' dolls at all, huh?? little girls are consistently given these toddler dolls that can piss, cry, etc., why is that?
No. 1854627
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>>1854194I bought one of those on a whim and got the little shopping basket. Put it in one of my Gundam model's hands, now he looks like he's getting groceries.
No. 1854688
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The strangest consooming trend to me was or is slime, youtube used to show me peachybbies tiktoks all the time. It's just glue and pigment, but one jar goes for like 15-20$ depending on how many aliexpress trinkets are added but that stuff sells out quick. They have multiple types of textures and some of them are categorized as "beginner" or "professional". What is the obsession with this shit, once you've mixed it up you're done. And I can't imagine the experience is so different between brands that you need this many
No. 1854767
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>>1854344 Oh my god, it's a PEN. WHY!
No. 1854771
>>1854344I can understand investing in a few nice pens you will use for a lifetime if you're really into that, but you know that's not the reason, it's just status. I like the idea of keeping stationery alive in the digital age, but somehow the rampant consoomerism is excused because of this.
>>1854674Take your meds
No. 1854813
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>>1854767Kek my personal fave is the Visconti Jung Alchemy. In auctions this ridiculous double-sided monstrosity goes for anywhere from 2-10k
>>1854771Yeah, but for some reason it feels less harmful than hoarding cheap useless shit. Collecting expensive watches or similar stuff also doesn't seem that bad for some reason. Maybe because those items usually are of higher quality and worth their price
No. 1854844
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>>1854813That's fair with pens, even if having a collection of hundred dollar pens is useless. Although I feel like when it comes to other types of stationery, there's definitely a massive problem, picrel is half a bookshelf filled with just memo pads
No. 1854915
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>>1854112>>1854167You just directly proved the point and don't even see it. Girls don't understand what sexual things are. That's why it's grooming to push sexual things on them. They just see something "cute" and think it's a normal, they don't understand when it only exists for male coom. The "ideal" woman presented on girls' toys should not be a bimbo sex doll.
No. 1854923
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>>1854813This looks super tacky somehow… Maybe if it were on a fancy enough desk it might look interesting. I was gonna say that the Homo Sapiens, while still $700-900, at least looks normal, and it's cool that some of the materials come out of a volcano.
I guess you're right though, that it feels "different" than someone buying like 8 million funko pops. With some of these thousand dollar pen hoards of 20 $100 pens, I really wish they instead just made one single purchase lol. Does that make sense? One visconti > 5 Lamy 2000's > 50 TWSBIs. That somehow seems less mentally ill. Less consooomy.
Fountain pens used to be pushed hard when Zero Waste was popular. Isn't it so sad how things went with that movement? I tinfoil sometimes that it got co-opted from "don't consume" to "consume mason jars and reusable shopping bags nonsensically". I remember asking a group what the hell the difference was between a reusable paper towel and a cotton towel? Except that a cotton towel is $1 and infinitely more reusable, dye-able, bleach-able, etc? I just don't get it. Most of the responses were calling me snooty for finding the concept of a reusable paper towel so preposterous, but… It's just sort of dumb, isn't it? Like all of our ancestors all the way to mitochondrial eve has found some way to clean stuff without reusable paper towels lmao. What is wrong with normal rags?
>>1854913When bullet journaling first became a thing, it was just super simple and practical. Now people say "boojoe" bc, idk, saying "bullet journaling" takes up time out of their day that they could use to draw doodles in their boojoe. Keep track of a to-do list? What?
No. 1854937
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>>1852838No case. I should probably get one and I kind of like the look of those decoden cases (particularly the ones with nendo petites), but I imagine they get dirty crazy quick.
No. 1854947
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>>1854194Im a huge sucker and bought one of those. The very first item I pull out was a miniature version of the exact blind box ball of miniatures I was opening. Very surreal consumer experience, 2/5 stars do not recommend
No. 1854950
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>>1854915But Barbies aren't like these coom figurines, it's just a fashion doll. Seriously. That is it. Really. I swear.
Also there's the old American Girl dolls… I don't like the new ones as much. The old ones were so cool. I was always too poor to have one. But I wanted Kirsten so much. Kinda consoomy because there was thousands of dollars worth of merch for each doll. And now that they're discontinued, they sell on ebay for crazy prices. Maybe you're gonna tell me this doll grooms kids to be tradthots or something.
No. 1854961
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>>1854940>I want to see more Bara…Why?
No. 1854974
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>>1854970Anon you do realize these figures are made by men for men right?
They make nsfw figures for women, bara figures are not in that group.
No. 1854978
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>>1854977Don't care, buying all the Towa figures.
No. 1855087
>>1855034I can understand that. Tbh it's kind of tempting to buy the doll I wanted and keep her for a future daughter, but I know there's a high chance it won't be appreciated how I want. It kind of makes me sad, I don't think anything like American Dolls is ever going to happen again. They, and the sets, were really high quality. Maybe I'll just get an 18” blonde American Girl doll and sew the outfits myself, diy Kirsten!
Anyway I also think being poor can lead to consoooming. Just collecting to collect. My aunt used to buy barbies just to keep them in box "to sell later", same with Beanie Babies. I think there's a huge disconnect here, where consoomers will look at all these boxes / fountain pens / funko pops / etc and think "ah yes value" + the dopamine of adding to the hoard, they really don't make a connection that the money to buy all that would have gained more value litterally just sitting in savings.
No. 1855637
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Records in the 2020s is nothing but worthless consoom. CDs are excusable as some are still released and some people still rely on or prefer physical media, they are small and the last technical medium. Having old records is fine. But buying big ass records of new music just because you want to look cooler than you are is just plain retarded.
No. 1855641
>>1853497I'm not defending these dolls, but they are literally supposed to look like grown women in the first place, same with bratz. The original creator for bratz stated that they base the designs on what trends are popular in pop culture, what popstars that little girls typically like tend to wear. Honestly, that part concerns me more than the actual dolls, mainly because i know 12 year old me would be foaming at the mouth to own these and i really loved bratz growing up, so i am very biased. It just goes back to how nowadays there is no real space for little girls to exist or any tween culture that allows them to take their time growing up. Looking at who young girls like nowadays, Ariana Grande, Probably the pussy rappers like Megan the Stallion and Cardi B or whatever run of the mill pretty tiktok girl who posts bikini pics and makes thirst traps.
>>1853755The restrictiveness of the tail got me too. It's like they were designed to be on a shelf and left there, not to be played with by a child.
No. 1855668
>>1855628Ffs they need their own containment thread. Sperg about the sexiness of dolls and figures somewhere else. Has nothing to do with this thread and nonas are sick of it.
>>1855662Kek
No. 1855824
more undisclosed ads? maybe she wouldn't have sleeping issues if she didn't sleep until 2 pm, exercised, ate healthy and stopped going to starbucks every day. who knows.
No. 1855833
>>1855733just look at the complaints on meta. take your shitty monster high sperging and yaoi figures somewhere else, retard.
>>1855823newfags and retarded spergs that can't shut up happened. the last threads were actually about cows consooming.
No. 1855852
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Rooms like this kinda stress me out. Who needs all this crap displayed in their room. Chinese consoomers are something else
No. 1855853
>>1855839maybe you (general you) should interact with attempts to break up the retardation. see
>>1854279 >>1854306
>>1854309 No. 1855855
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>>1855852Collecting all this garbage in a bathroom is also so disgusting
No. 1855857
>>1855843wasn't part of the infighting earlier. anyways, anons tried that, their videos just got overlooked and drowned out by the retards.
>>1855262 >>1854927
>>1854913 >>1854745
>>1854714 >>1854309
>>1854309 >>1854276
>>1855824probably has some debt keeping her up at night.
No. 1855903
>>1855855imagine if one of the shelves collapsed or there was an earthquake
>>1855852At least this one seems to be stored inside of clear display cases? so less dusty
No. 1855920
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>>1855855I feel like consoom rooms with grimy walls and furniture are the most depressing. Posting some.
No. 1855925
>>1855905it's normal to wake up several times and forget about it, but i wonder if a) she is fully awake and has a hard time falling back asleep or b) she has a smart watch or something and sees how often she wakes up and thinks it's not normal?
>>1855920do we have the socmed handles of this person? i want to know what stuff someone this deranged posts about on twitter.
No. 1855934
>>1855925Her tiktok is @app1ep3n1
No. 1855942
>where i usually sleep when my sister isnt here from college
Anons were wondering if she actually sleeps in there. Yes and no. She sleeps in her sister's old room while she's away at college.
Imagine coming back to visit family and you see dusty plushies everywhere because your sister is an autistic hoarder.
No. 1855945
>>1855942kek, i was about to post this when
>>1855934 dropped the tiktok. i will now daydream about how good it must feel to throw out all that trash. just stuff it in a plastic bag and toss it out. the gojos though i would melt with a blow torch in a livestream.
No. 1856088
>>1855920>naked anime plushies, with nipples, on the bed>Reigen body pillow>MLP, Gumball, animu, and furry animu>displays that straddle the line between austism and psycopathyIs this a TIF? Everything about this mess screams gendie.
>>1855927This is kinda creepy, it reminds me of my friend's room when I was a kid. If the toys were all from that time and the carpet was pale pink it'd be an exact match. The toys are even laid out at the perfect height for a kid to play with. Please tell me this is an actual child's bedroom and not the pet project of a TIM serial killer in the making.
No. 1856242
>>1856172Depends on what your obsession is, but I think diy/art/crafting or the digital equivalents are a better way to scratch this itch, whether that's learning how to draw your favorite character and making your own cards, stickers, pins, etc. or sewing or crocheting plushies or building models from found or upcycled materials. You would still have to consume a bit - and lord knows some people hoard more supplies than they will ever use - but at least you would be learning or perfecting a skill at the same time. And whatever you produce would be unique and personal and perfectly suited to your tastes and not just the same thing that every other fanatic has. I think that's the part that gets me the most about the people posted in these threads. They really act as if they've accomplished something when all they did was buy something. All of the collections and rooms look exactly the same. I don't see where the fun is in that.
Anyway, that's my two cents.
No. 1856246
>>1856172I use pinterest and it helps me a lot with my wish to consoom, because then I will try to find a picture or something and I will notice how useless are the things I supposedly really truly seriously totally needed 100% for real.
You also then compare stuff, like dupes with real designs and such or the quality of those kawaii outfits compared to well done stuff made by someone into sewing, and you will notice how most of the shit sold online is just that, shit.
Pinterest is surprisingly useful to me.
No. 1856599
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>>1856172collecting money
No. 1856601
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Tech hoarders are something else
No. 1856731
>>1848544I always had a few plants but got more into it right after the intial pandemic boom and didn't know how crazy it was until I started getting into groups online. I was shocked when I had bought a calathea at home depot I thought looked cool and found out like a year before people were spending hundreds on it?!?
I think the thing that annoys me the most is that it's all hype and greed. Most "rare" plants don't even look better than a common plant you can easily find in a grocery store. Not to mention most rare plants are completely incompatible with a house and need all kinds of special care. And in typical American greed, seems like the US was the most extreme about it.
No. 1856736
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>>1854387Bratz were ugly as hell thots and even as a child they rubbed me the wrong way. I never played with dolls but something about Bratz always felt off and stuck out to me in a way Barbie never did.
These weird "sexy" baby dolls always felt nasty and off to me too.
No. 1856794
>>1856792gen alpha is going to age like shit. Between using make up since age 10, all those
toxic scam ''skincare'' products, shit diet and lack of excercise they are going to end up loking 35 in their 20s
No. 1856795
>>1856548I love you, Nonna.
>>1856482Maybe use them for watering the plants or to store stuff like, idk, earrings, buttons, spare change.
No. 1857132
>>1856548This is really cool! Sounds like a great way to really get to know the area you live in. I think the key here is finding a hobby that doesn't require you to scroll instagram and buy a bunch of things to enjoy, otherwise it becomes a trap where you want to buy more shit you don't need.
>>1857123Doordashing boba is insane, at that point she should just make it herself, I know that's not the point though. I feel like the online culture of "treating yourself because you deserve it" has really become "waste money all of the time instead of fixing other problems you have"
No. 1857153
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>>1857142have a sip, nonna.
No. 1857163
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>>1856736>>1857151Lmao it's fine I thought Bratz were fuck ugly too as a kid. Anon is just malding because she likes them, there are a huge number of adult women who are into Bratz and LOL surprise for some reason.
No. 1857172
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>>1857163More senseless consooming. I really dislike Rainbow High dolls. I guess I can see the appeal for most other doll brands, but Rainbow Highs look like they have FAS
No. 1857173
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>>1857172Posting some moid hoarding to balance things out.
No. 1857177
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>>1857173What's the point of owning all this if you're not going to even store it properly? He kept all these in cardboard boxes and it got destroyed by pests/mold
No. 1857404
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>>1848392This here's the only stanley cup i care for.
No. 1857553
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Speaking of moids, the ones that consoom colognes are really weird. Namely the scrotes that think certain colognes “attract women” or will “make women want to sleep with you”. It’s so cringe. There’s a whole YouTube community about that and even pickmes chime in. Also hate it when they spray 50 pounds of it on themselves.
No. 1857634
>>1856172ive gotten a lot better at delaying the impulse long enough for it to go away. if i see something extraneous that i like, ill say "if i still want it at the end of my trip to this store, ill go get it". i dont circle back for it 99 percent of the time.
larger purchases incur larger delays. oh that tapestry in the thrift store looks great, not perfect but close to perfect… if its still here in two weeks, ill get it. ive only gone back for something once in two years of doing this.
No. 1857673
>>1857618Most of these cologne consoomers own a Jean Paul. A lot of scrotes are secretly gay and in denial though so.
Maybe it’s because I don’t care that much about cologne, but seems delusional to think that a cologne could make any woman more or less attracted to a moid.
No. 1857748
>>1855856Same. I'm allergic to dust so seeing these kind of rooms makes my nose itchy. The time you consume to clean it must be insane.
Have we talk about keyboard collections? I don't get when people say "oh it sounds so different from other". They sound the same for me.
No. 1857899
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Watertok is the most retarded thing I've ever seen. She probably wouldn't be such a ham if she just drank regular water too.
No. 1857915
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>>1857553> and even pickmes chime in.lmao
No. 1857923
>>1857912Have you seen how much syrup some of them use? I hope it’s just for TikTok cause the amount the use can’t reasonably dissolve and I assume it’s just
toxic sludge at the bottom.
No. 1857947
>>1857899if somehow you really need water to taste like anything other than water to be able to drink it like every other animal on the planet, just put a slice of citrus or some mint or something in it. Even a cold fruit tisane would be way better than all these syrups.
(speaking of tisane/teas though, I know a couple people who have massive consoomer collections of teas they either never drink or have on a hyper-specific roster throughout the day/week)
No. 1858440
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>>1856943From a person living in frozen hell (-20C currently) to another, get proper winter clothes, and by proper I mean actually proper, not those puffy jackets and cute mittens that look warm but are made of cheap thin fabric. I know people hate getting this advice but after having spent hours outside in real warm winter clothes you will know the difference. Don't worry about looking silly, nobody cares. Just get some proper clothes and go outside, enjoy the sight of fresh white snow, take a walk and come back to have a cup of something warm. Really helps with the seasonal depression.
No. 1858468
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This is so fucking hideous I thought it was a joke at first. Not only is it real but it's an advertisement. Book your appointment for scary tarantula eyelashes today!
No. 1858508
sage for blog post but I don't know what thread is more appropriate.
I feel a fandom/ special interest burn out. It's linked to consoom to me aswell, as consumtion of my money and my time ( aswell as physical living and head space ). I study in a crafting related industry and it make it even harder. I had phases where I would buy useless objects or craft material when I did not have the time to actually craft.
Over the years I transitioned from liking high fandom activity licenses ( i.e homestuck ), to obscure mangas without fandoms to hobbies I refuse to interact with the community ( males ), after going to concerts and seeing the state of them.
I decided to almost fully stoping watching anime or read manga because of the constant coomerism even in girl oriented one. I felt even more isolated as my interest grew toward things like radfem theories ( and the anthropology aspect around it ) which is not something you can make great or funny creative content around (look at the state of radfeminism on twitter or tumblr). I started some time ago being fan of some normie tier media ( similar to how kpop fandom work ) and it's giving me internal dilemas.
It take time to watch each weeks the shows, and objectively it's not that great at the moment (I liked the older content), but I can discuss it with irl friends and go to event together. There is no great female talent in it either which either make me have to root for meh women or men. At the same time it gave me a crisis because I almost spend big money on going at some international event, and it made me question why I would spend so much money on such activities yet due to being a student I don't have time to use that money to travel for a trip, or put it aside to start a company/ buy material (I'm waiting to be sure of my working condition before investing in anything ) or I would feel silly to spend it on random things like clothing which I have enough of and I don't have enough money to buy items I like.
What made me feel even weirder was when showing a very extra fanart from that media to a semi normie close friend she told me she wish she was as passionate about something as the fans who did the fanart was. It really hit me.
I wish I could be as candid as dbz bro who re watch the same filler anime or remakes and dress head to toe super sayan merch, or girls writting fanfic on some dead tv show or serie.
I know it would be funnier to implicate myself more into the fandom but I feel stupid doing so, and it mean spending more time on it, at least I keep my buying envy in check.
I have no time but I must consoom kek
No. 1858522
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>>1856792I looked more into this trend and I don't know how to feel about the fact you can so easily make children want what 25-30 year olds on tiktok want
Does that make the whole toy industry obsolete? Teens already make fun of millennials for being manchildren and disney moms
No. 1858523
>>1857122NTA but they do & that happened to my collection when I was little kek
I didn't had too many (they all fit on a baby shoe box) but after I cleaned when with a bath they all started to discharge brown-ish liquid thru their necks.
No. 1858717
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>>1858630Eva is a good IP to bring up because its such a depressing show but the way its been used for marketing is deranged and so tonally incongruent. Japanese consumeristic culture might actually be more unhinged than America sometimes.
No. 1858734
>>1858717Japan is most consoom country in the world, no contest. I live here, it’s so bad. It’s where “surprise” toy bullshit came from after all (gacha). The amount of landfill you see in secondhand anime stores will make you sick.
It’s unsustainable consoom right down to the “you must buy your coworkers individually wrapped little bullshit snacks every time you go on vacation or business trip”
No. 1858760
>>1858734i understand how some people would rather shut inside a room and never come out again.
i remember hikkis being described as exclusively japanese phenomenom but now its increasingly a trend in the west for more people to showcase that behaviour too, like with the loneliness epidemic and the declining birthrates, Japan it seems is always a decade or two ahead.
No. 1858795
>>1858772you are seeing from the perspective of a tourist going into a theme park which of course is going to be fun, its different for someone born and raised there who can't escape the other sides of the culture.
Consider that many people in other parts of world say the same thing about the USA.
No. 1858823
>>1858794>>1858795i am just saying that compared to the rest of the world japan is way more pretty. I used to try to go on walks and the amount of homeless moids and trash on the streets was enough to make me go back to my room
>>1858802those are neets, anon
No. 1858896
>>1854405"We found that girls’ toys were associated with physical attractiveness, nurturing, and domestic skill, whereas boys’ toys were rated as violent, competitive, exciting, and somewhat dangerous. The toys rated as most likely to be educational and to develop children’s physical, cognitive, artistic, and other skills were typically categorized as neutral or moderately masculine. We concluded that strongly gender-typed toys appear to be less supportive of optimal development than neutral or moderately gender-typed toys."
https://www.naeyc.org/resources/topics/play/gender-typed-toys"Professor Blakemore: For parents, it’s the same message as for teachers: Strongly gender-typed toys might encourage attributes that aren’t ones you actually want to foster. For girls, this would include a focus on attractiveness and appearance, perhaps leading to a message that this is the most important thing—to look pretty. For boys, the emphasis on violence and aggression (weapons, fighting, and aggression) might be less than desirable in the long run.
Also, moderately masculine toys have many positive qualities (spatial skills, science, building things, etc.) that parents might want to encourage in both boys and girls. Perhaps, to some extent, it is the same for some moderately feminine toys (nurturance, care for infants, developing skills in cooking and housework)."
(toy derailing for days) No. 1858955
>>1857172I hate their face molds too. LOLs look stupid in the same way Bratz did, it's more like an ugly art style, but when it comes to Rainbow High, they sit in some kind of awkward limbo. The best way I can describe it is that they look like bootlegs of themselves, does that make sense ?
>>1854106>playing as a werewolf or vampire sounds much more fun than playing as a white woman who picks up dog shitSkill issue, nothing was stopping you from making your Barbie drink blood. The point was that you could make them do pretty much anything as long as you had the imagination. Give her a buzzcut and send her to war if you hate girly shit. I liked to imagine stories about "undercover" aliens or robots like you'd see in cartoons sometimes but anthropophagic fairies trying to enslave mankind was ultimately my favorite scenario. Even my mermaid barbie was a genetically engineered freak.
Kinda derailing but Barbie gets shit on far more than she deserves, it was the most "neutral" doll line you could get. The lore wasn't central as to favor children's imagination and self-inserting if you wished. Meanwhile other toy franchises came with their own characters who had their own stories that the design was centered on and was harder to ignore, and new things like LOL are so centered around fashionable-ness and collection, it's hard to build characters and imagine them doing anything but sitting there looking pretty. Kids want them just to have them, not play. The only thing you get from them is a bad case of early onset consumerism. Picking your Barbie doll was pretty much like picking a faceclaim for your OC, with collectors having their own space on the side that didn't contaminate ours. Too bad the quality and variety are so shit nowadays. It sounds stupid like that but I believe that imagining a good variety of lives for your future self or a character you created is important to build good empathy.
(toy derailing for days) No. 1858961
>>1858508You sound like you might have depression, or the endless consoom might have covered up issues you didn't want to address. I get what you mean about the burnout. Maybe it's because silly escapist things like fandom have become political and retarded and you can't get away from ads and the push to consoom no matter where you are.
Try finding a hobby that isn't based on a screen or related to your studies or job. You'll consoom less and feel better for it.
>>1858955>they look like bootlegs of themselvesThat's exactly what they look like! That's what most of the shit posted in this thread looks like to me tbh. Everything's disposable nowadays and you can absolutely tell.
No. 1859055
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Western stuff really can't do cute for shit huh?
No. 1859163
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>>1859104>981 plush>wants 1000All the dust in the air
No. 1859194
>>1859018Either shitty parents who don't care, or being influenced into having a snack cart in her room stocked with Pocky, ramune and chocolate. She's probably one of those chunky kids who posts tiktoks of themselves eating Burger King off Hello Kitty plates. Who knows, maybe she'll be influenced into doing workouts and eating healthy trendy salads.
>>1859160Any guy who watches videos on which perfumes will get him laid is guaranteed to be as retarded IRL as he is online. It doesn't matter if he smells like lumberjack pheromones and dollar bills when he introduces himself, his clothes, his shoes, and his fedora, in price order, to his date. These are the men pickmes are destined to settle for.
No. 1859195
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>>1853497Not even a Barbie stan, never even played with them as a kid. But look at the stark differences. Barbie got so much criticism but at least they tried to make her a role model/big sister type figure to little girls.
No. 1859255
>>1859055I feel western ‘cute stuff’ looks off because it’s designed to look like all of the other ‘cute stuff’ out there without actually understanding what makes the other stuff cute. Like these bears look like they could be from one of the modern kids shows out there.
Japanese/Eastern ‘cute stuff’ on the other hand just rehashes the principles of what makes things cute (big heads, simplistic faces, etc.) which is why a bunch of Japanese stuff also looks so similar/interchangeable.
No. 1859261
brook posted 4 decluttering videos in a row aaand we're back to consooming.
No. 1859291
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>>1859104Of all the plush collections that have been posted thus far I think this one is probably the most insane. Only one that could be considered equally as batshit (thus far) is that woman with the pusheen collection that took up an entire dining area.
No. 1859360
>>1857748I hate the mechanical keyboard consoom element with a passion. I remember learning about red vs blue switches on reddit years ago and it was a niche power user thing for autistic gamers and programmers who used their keyboards all day. Like maybe you'd want something heavy and clacky if you type a lot, or something super light and low-resistance so you can play video games all day without straining your hands. Custom keyboards like the ones she has can cost $200+ just for the guts and metal framing, everything is sold separately and the prices can get astronomically high. Plus there's hypebeast mentality around certain brands and aesthetics. Those companies have these weebs spending $150 on a set of plastic keycaps because they have Japanese printed on them kek.
I will admit that assembling your own custom "perfect" keyboard is really fun and satisfying, once you add the keyboard influencers constantly shilling the newest best thing, the perfect sounding keyboard etc I get how people can get addicted and blow wads of money. But just get into lego ffs
No. 1859366
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>>1859355I bet this eats it
No. 1859399
>>1859141It's nowhere near that bad, I walk downtown all the time and never once had an issue.
>>1859204Clothing can absolutely count as consuming, I think that depends on the volume and where it's from. I disagree that feminine clothing looks bad without a "full performance", I actually think no makeup and simply styled hair (or un-styled, it depends) can look very nice and refreshing.
No. 1859502
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>>1859361If $400 is out of your range, don’t fret! There is also a $1,350 8oz bottle!
No. 1859551
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No. 1859608
>>1859574Tbh this is improvement for her because i remember back in 2020 it used to be really bad, she was a extreme consoomer back then.
Now it looks like she is a moderate consoomer which is still a improvement. Like she is buying less and even selling some of her bags that she consoomed so she is making progress. She did say that after she got pregnant she lessened her spending habits because she wants to save some money.
For her and moses, I think sometimes those couples who get into a fight when they first meet tend to surprisingly stay longer than those chill couples. I still remember those dm exchanges Moses had with that catfish
No. 1859624
>>1859612This is not just directed at you.
Can we not derail the consoom thread. I swear retards here try derailing every thread here with discussions about trannies, politics, radfeminism etc. Can you go and do that in other threads that are for those types of discussions. I'm really tired of seeing anons just derail in here,celebricowsand even m/ about trannies,moralfagging, race or women who dare wear makeup or be feminine.
Some discussions here really do feel like Facebook.
No. 1859632
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>>1859538posting these just for you
No. 1859634
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No. 1859635
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I honestly can't believe people are still into this thing
No. 1859640
>>1859632ngl I kinda like how it's color coordinated.
>>1859634ewww you know there's stray cat hairs and kitty litter everywhere.
>>1858986i hate consoomer perfume snobs. these idiots want the same notes over and over again, so perfumers don't make anything interesting anymore. mentioning reddit it probably low-hanging fruit, but it shows how stupid fragrance consoomers can be.
>>1859502tom ford is waaay overpriced. just paying for name at that point. when i've tested them in the store, i thought they all had a weird funky smell.
No. 1859647
>>1859643it's a different type of hoarding, poor people tend to either hoard random shit with not much specifics, or something consumable like food or soap. my parents were extremely poor growing up and they still hoard food.
the new age "rich" people hoarding is only for middle class to upple middle class consoomers though imo, usually younger people on social media but i have seen some older people (40s+) doing it. the women who hoard stanleys and the men who hoard sneakers probably are not actually rich, just upper middle class or lower to middle income with credit card debt
No. 1859651
>>1859643Consooming does not always equal hoarding. Sure, many of these consoomers have an excessive amount of things that take up space. However, hoarders usually have some trauma and will hoard anything from food to empty wrappers.
The consoomers featured on this board are purchasing items they believe will bring them status; their hoarding tendencies are rarely due to any emotional attachment to the things they buy. These consoomers will likely throw out their Stanley cup collection when it is no longer seen as popular. A true hoarder would never want to throw them out. I'd say the consoomers here have shopping addiction and get dopamine from having a huge collection of things and "rares" that other people may not have. It makes them feel superior.
Also, rich people have always been consoomers. We just see it exposed even more now because these people are flaunting their purchases on tiktok.
No. 1859653
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>>1859650Samefag, like I’ll take this wine mommy creativity over the lego star wars moids who have 12 million of the same shittotrooper minifigures.
No. 1859728
>>1858961thank you nonna, I always have been a bit depressed so it must be linked.
>>1859297duh
No. 1859735
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What happened to real hobbies?
No. 1859762
>>1859735These types of decorative objects used to be made of resin or porcelain which distinguished them from toys. Adult collectors now do not make meaningful distinction from figures that are porcelain, resin or plastic so long as they like the design, ultimately what they are collecting are decorations. The Precious Moments figurines were brought up in one of the threads as examples of consoomerism focused on the acquisition of representational miniature figures, but since they've always been marketed as collector's items they've never been criticized the same way despite them looking just like toys in design.
Adults now don't want the same types of collectables as their parents and those companies failed to capture their interest so it isn't surprising that the interest shifted towards toys. Collecting has always been a popular hobby because it is easy, the only thing you need is money. And now with the internet its easy to get asspats on your collection.
No. 1859881
>>1859634Ngl, I would have killed for a room like this when I was like 10 or something! As an adult? Not so much.
>>1859735No one has the time or money for real hobbies kek. I tried to buy yarn over the holidays to crochet with and even the cheapest acrylic yarn was expensive. It also doesn’t help that the small hobby stores you used to get supplies from and used to be able to hang out with other hobbyists in have also closed down because they can’t compete with Amazon.
No. 1859889
>>1859778I hate weaboos. Your weaboo ass has never been to Japan or if it has you haven't been there long enough to see the city districts where homeless children live outiside, people in tents,low income people living inside internet cafes, drunk people face down on pavements or men stalking you while walking down street or going somewhere which is actually very common, also the police there almost always takes the side of the perpetrator especially if you are a foreigner. This worship and false positives by Japan are made by people who have never been there or tourists who only visit for some days and are only in the safe districts.
Also stop derailing about your glorious pro-pedo , pro-stalker consoomer Nippon.
No. 1859895
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The girl looks genuinely so bored, uncomfortable with being filmed, and like she doesn't even want that shit in the first place but her shitty parents are pushing her for the sake of sponsorship. Also imagine having tiktoker parents who dress and act like they're 15yo, poor girl.
No. 1859900
>>1859895I don't like that the parents filmed it for their socials, but I can tell the little girl is very happy.
How many of us would have loved for our parents to have given us a little shopping spree at a Toys R Us back in the day? Except obviously we would have wanted our parents to have been doing it for our happiness, and not for internet clout.
No. 1859917
>>1859895Eh I think she’s reacting like any other awkward kid. Some aren’t very expressive. I think she’s enjoying herself. That’s not a lot of stuff either in comparison to the huge hauls that we’ve seen here. Agree though that it preferably shouldn’t be filmed at all.
>>1859018I was optimistic thinking this was a girl wearing size 14 in children’s clothing that happened to have big feet. It happens. If she’s really size 14 women’s then damn.
No. 1859919
>>1859889Nta but im anon up thread who does actually live here and I have legit never seen a homeless child living outside, just like I’ve never seen one in America, that’s total bullshit. There are homeless people here (all male hmm) but they don’t harass you. Internet cafes are like 4000yen a night, low income people are wasting their money if they live there.
People laying facedown drunk and everyone just walking around them unbothered is real though lol.
No. 1859921
>>1859888celeberating using a roll of washi tape is
valid tbh, they are so long lol. i have ones ive used regularly for months that still have loads left
No. 1859968
what's the point of sending out pr packages to someone who just lets them sit around for 2 months, then finally opens them all at once and barely reacts to the stuff, and then dumps everything on the floor.
No. 1860070
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>>1859635kek, I do collect Baby Yoda stuff, but I have to say most things just look horrible and I don't understand why people would buy most of the stuff that's out there. Especially those ugly Funko Pop things, look how horrible they look, how ugly they are, I just don't understand the hype and why people love them so much.
No. 1860131
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>>1859895i know its retarded but i seriously cant stop thinking about calarts care bears they look so fucking ugly, like chinese bootleg product mascots
No. 1860205
>>1859653This is so batshit suburban mom insane that it transcends mere craft and provokes awakening. I look into Baby Footballer Yoda's eyes, seeing all and in seeing all, reaching nothing. I mutter in disbelief, "In what respect is it said that the world is empty?"
He looks at me and speaks with the voice of the one and the many, declaring the adamantine wisdom: "In so far as it is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self: Thus it is said, Ānon, that the world is empty. And what is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self? The eye is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self. Forms… Eye-consciousness… Eye-contact is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self. Thus, it is said that the world is empty."
And I nod, understanding that the cycle of suffering begins and ends at desire. And when Texans lose to Tennessee Titans.
No. 1860217
>>1860145>japan is the only one with balls to do something about itUh-huh. Can you weeb-cope away their normalized child prostitution, defense of cheating moids, disrespect toward women in the workplace and rampant
victim blaming/shaming of
victims out of reporting culture when it comes to rape? Or their "junior idols" (still not illegal because moid sexuality rules all)? Even outside the sex stuff, they still have a caste system that marks certain Japanese people as "untouchables" in the modern age.
They are particularly bad when it comes to certain things, and the few laws against those things are not a testament to them "having balls to do something about it". It took a lot of work on the part of the actual sane people, coupled with pressure from the international community. No country should have its dick sucked, none of them are fantasy lands.
(derailing) No. 1860270
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Being a Disney fan is primarily centered on being a consoomer. See Loungefly mini backpacks themed on overpriced Disney resorts and Disney Vacation Club, a fucking timeshare program.
No. 1860272
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>>1860270More hideous DVC merch for adult Disney fans to proudly flaunt their membership
No. 1860293
>>1860270Idk if the bags are just garbage or like the material they used on the handle for the 50th anniversary for wdw is trash. The foil broke and cracked so quickly. If it weren't for the fact I got it bnwt for under 20, isnt awful. Finding out that funkopop owns them has turned me off of them, but also the fact that they shit out so many in a year I'm just sick of seeing them.
I dont know why anyone would pay for any of it full price we have 2 outlet stores that sell a bunch of holiday and non holiday items year round for a quarter of the price. Not to mention the flea market by Lakeland which gets a bunch of stuff from the backrooms.
I would like to say I'm a Disney fan, but anytime I do people instantly think I'm a Disney adult.
No. 1860374
Imagine having so many copies of the same anime goods packed away that your space looks like a shop, so many of these are just repeats of the same stuff too.
>>1860217This is the consoomerism thread, take it somewhere else, no one gives a shit.
No. 1860587
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From MFC
No. 1860617
>>1860587shit taste
>>1860589shit taste
>>1860595i like the 00s feel of this, cozy
>>1860599based best girl enjoyer
>>1860602shit taste
No. 1861207
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from the fandom thread
No. 1861208
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No. 1861231
>>1861207Californian company spends millions meanwhile some gopniks on buttfuck Siberia can offer the same service hosting pirate sites with better catalog with a budget of three hamsters and shoe strings.
Kek. I know that official licenses cost money and all but still is funny to me. They even brag about how much fucking money they waste and how many useless personel they hire (see:nepotism).
No. 1861489
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well this seems dystopian as hell.
No. 1861497
>>1860270Upper two bags= cute
Lower two bags= shit
No. 1861777
maybe this is better in another thread, but i think the sentiment fits here. "needless things" is one of my phrases to focus on for this year. i've spent a lot of years putting all of my spare money into traveling, to the point that i don't even have what some people would consider staple furniture items and wonder if people think of those "men are content to live like this" memes with a chair in front of a TV when they come to my house (i'm exaggerating, don't take that literally.) i only buy utilitarian, functional things when im not traveling, to the point that after years of that, everything i have that's not in that category, from home decorations to clothes, is something i bought on a trip somewhere. i used to feel self-conscious about not having trendy tiktok or buzzfeed listicle garbage like a star room projector or shein plastic crap. i used to feel like my house was empty or i was being unnecessarily cheap or spartan or that i was somehow lacking, but i never got around to buying any of those things because my money was allocated elsewhere. now on the other side of years of that, it feels amazing that almost every object in my house has a strong memory or sentiment attached to it. even things that i know were just tourist tat feel more unique and special than an expensive luxury brand item because of that. it feels good when someone visits and admires or asks about something or someone compliments my outfit and i can talk about where it came from and the memory around me buying it. some of the stuff ive collected could fall into the category of items people consoom, but i only allow myself to buy things that i come across organically, and only if there's something very unique or rare about them or it's something i've lusted after for a long time at a great price. it's all unintentionally driven me towards a quality over quantity mindset, and now i actively avoid buying amazon/shein/mall store tier stuff because i can see the difference in quality between those things and the "splurge" versions ive let myself get sparingly. i have enough money now to be able to travel like i want and also accumulate crap, so instead, i'm focusing on becoming even more minimalist. i also try to do the majority of my shopping at thrift stores, where i can focus on finding good quality items at a good value that i actually want AND need instead of being bombarded with a million shiny new choices and picking a random scattering of garbage out of overstimulated panic.
i don't know, maybe this will resonate with some people. i'll probably just get a bunch of sour bitches projecting about my lifestyle and how it's not that easy.
No. 1861933
>>1861874nothing NLOG-y meant by that, lolcow is just full of nitpickers who love to tear people apart, that's kind of the theme of the site lol. you can post "i love ketchup" and have someone call you a monster. i also agree that it's impossible not to consume things and it's stupid to get fixated on no-waste, especially for the minute environmental impact it'll have while major corporations rape the planet without consequence. trying to use the points of objects either being functional or sentimental helps avoid wasting my money on garbage that i don't need and won't really enjoy. it lets me put more into having experiences, which are more valuable than any object anyway. imo, an object reminding you of an experience has more value than it does objectively. thrifting is the only way to even find decent clothes for decent prices anymore either. i bought a 30 year old bread machine for 10$ and have made myself dozens of high quality loaves of bread and discovered a hobby in it that also saves me money. i know this is verging on off topic but maybe the nonas reading the thread and struggling to be less consoomy might find it interesting.
>>1861923excellent contribution
No. 1862493
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I'm posting some stuff by skincare hoarders. I have no real commentary for this, but i can't imagine sucking up to any brand like this.
No. 1862497
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>>1862495Now i think that this person must be a reviewer, but imo that not an excuse. I've never seen skincare influencers in general with this much shit.
No. 1862507
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>>1862502I do have some more but i don't want to post too much, but i genuinely don't understand the obsession with these mid body scrubs and the promotion of these being the ultimate form of self-care. You can literally just get a bar of soap with aha/bha and wash your whole body with that, saves so much time in the shower and you buy less things.
No. 1862738
>>1862515What I don't understand is how is the product even completely used up? Maybe I'm really weird for this, but any skincare I use that comes in a tube, I cut open with scissors when I can't squeeze anymore out so I can get the last bits out. I usually get at least 2-3 more uses, if not more, depending on the product.
Also yeah, just recycle/throw that empty shit out, wtf. Literally hoarding garbage at that point.
No. 1862741
>>1858986Nta but which brands have been bought by Chinese investors?
>>1859968I have to say this as someone who grew up in the south but OF COURSE this annoying girl went to Alabama. And ofc she’s from Illinois aka out of state—those ones are the most braindead of all since they pay the ridiculous out of state tuition to go to a party school that’s not known for academics. And she was in a sorority but you can kinda tell based on her ridiculous tan and bleach blonde combo.
Also did anyone else notice the brands she’s showing? What’s the probability that her audience is the same Sephora 10 year olds who are making Christmas lists like these
>>1858522 here?
I watched vidrel on the Sephora kids the other day and it turns out that there are millennial parents who are actually giving in and spending $500 to thousands of dollars at Sephora for their kids. It’s around 48:46 left in the video when the Sephora employees start sharing the stories of these parents acquiescing to their children demanding baskets full of products (some in multiples of the same color kek) in Sephora. How fucking hard is it to say no to a 10 year old? I’m Gen Z and my parents used to give me $20 for the mall. I can’t even imagine what kind of income the parents must have to be giving their 10 year olds $500 shopping hauls? Who is making that kind of money in this economy? Maybe it’s moreso “mommy will get you Drunk Elephant via credit card fraud” ???
No. 1862759
>>1862741>>1862453The other week when I was at Target, I saw two little girls, both had to be younger than 10, just grabbing random bottles of skincare products and hounding their mom to buy them. The mom kept saying stuff like "that's vitamin C, you don't need that", "you have something like that at home already" and "you already have three products in the cart, you have to put one back to get that". It was really eye-opening for me, the poor mom seemed so exasperated, but also I can't imagine even giving in at all to kids so young about things that have no purpose for them.
>>1862462Is right, literally all kids need is a chapstick, sunscreen and maybe a bottle of inexpensive lotion. I wonder how many kids will grow up to have skin issues due to this overconsumption. Shit, I wonder how many little kids are having to go to the doctors now with rashes from misusing products or stuff with conflicting ingredients? I'm sure there are fucked up parents who only encourage this obsession too, since there's people who seem to want their kids to grow up quickly and have adult interests to "bond" over.
No. 1863032
>>1862759Sage for
fart noise blog, but all this talk about kids wanting skincare they don’t need has me and my wife planning and plotting for the inevitable moment one or both of our daughters might be interested in it because they are present for our skincare routines more often than not. We came up with the solution to save the old bottles of serums with tops that come off and just put baby sunscreen in them or water so they can pretend and even learn how to use small amounts and put some on (with supervision obviously I’m not giving my toddler free access kek) and then when they’re bigger we can come up with a similar version of this. My friend who is older than I am has a daughter in the age bracket to be getting warped by tiktok and unfortunately and just recently had to deal with a tantrum for not getting her retinol at the age of eleven. That’s one of the wildest parts of modern influencer driven consumer culture geared towards kids, the companies know no bounds either in terms of marketing. They will stoop as low as they need to.
my kids are not touching a screen until they’re like eight mark my words No. 1863156
some book consoomerism as a palate cleanser. caption of vidrel:
>i know at once point i owned like 12 copies of ouabh and 8 copies of bona however i have not read either. damn those pretty secret covers also still waiting on my #fairyloot copy of bona ALSO BOOK 3 TITLE REVEAL TOMORROW EEEP (emoji)
No. 1863163
>>1863158Gen alpha is gonna have like 20 less IQ points on average than zoomers who are already like 10 points behind in statistics.
Not a joke or exageration. People in education who are keeping track are appaled.
No. 1863169
>>1863168"Fuck you, got mine"
Thats how they feel.
No. 1863217
speaking of 10 year olds in sephora, here's a video of ones mom tidying her room. the amount of tiktok trending products is crazy. why does a 10 year old need amika and other expensive hair products? the amount of makeup she owns at that age is just sad.
No. 1863225
>>1862738Drunk Elephant is expensive and trendy, it's a flex. No idea how she got through that much skincare unless she shares it with the whole neighborhood or slathers it all over her body.
If it's just for the flex she might buy empties on ebay.
>>1862741I'll never understand parents who do everything their kids demand. 'But it's so hard to say no to that adorable little face!!!' well do it anyway. That's what parenting is.
>>1863168They feel overjoyed that they're teaching a whole generation to give them money.
No. 1863476
>>1863217On one hand I get it but it's also sweet to see a mother actually care about her daughter. You can tell they aren't consoomers to the scariest kind of degree like some others up thread, its like target haul consooming. But she just wants her kids to be happy and fit in. I doubt her daughter needs any of those things, yeah, but this is hardly offensive. However
>random shot showing off Stanley cup but not doing anything with it Kek
No. 1863478
>>1863032It's actually very validating to see that the retarded
fart noise posts are coming from an older out of touch woman like i thought it likely was
No. 1863485
>>1863217>All those mascaras, lipglosses, hair products, and skincareDamn. Idk how old this girl is, but judging from the room it looks like she was a pre-teen? And I assume her mom is buying her all this stuff?
When I was an early teen, I was borrowing my mom's makeup (without her knowing) because I saw other kids in middle school wearing it and eventually she got me my own colored chapstick and 1 mascara when she found out kek. I don't think I even started using face wash until I was 15 or 16. Also, agree with all the nonas that her mom cleaning her room at this age is really weird.
>>1862462I know that these 7-10 year olds are buying these skincare products because they're being shilled on tiktok. However, do they want this skincare because they want to "be cool" and imitate the influencers who use it? Or do they legitimately think that their skin has issues that they need to "fix"? It just makes no sense to me because girls these age don't even have overactive oil glands or acne yet, their skin is already smooth and perfect.
No. 1863559
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craft nonnas, do any of you also feel the same rage as me at these ridiculous yarn hoards that some people collect? i understand keeping a large supply of yarn at the ready if you ran a craft business, but i'm certain that most of the time they don't even use them for projects, just let them get dusty on the display shelves. a lot of it tends to look like ugly poor quality acrylic stuff too, if they just prioritised the quality over quantity they could spend this money on lovely silk , cotton or mohair instead.
No. 1863570
>>1863559Personally, I don't. Yarn will always be able to be used (unless it's a smoker's or cat person's house), so it doesn't matter if someone hoards it for twenty years before selling/giving it away. My uncle owns a storage unit and once someone abandoned a unit that was floor to ceiling wool yarns so he let me take as much as I wanted before auctioning the unit so that was pretty cool.
I feel differently about people hoarding paints because those go bad and so no one actually gets to use them.
No. 1863588
>>1863032Why not just tell them no, explain why, and
let them tantrum. It’s part of growing up, why are parents shaking in their boots at 10 year old girls whining and pouting
No. 1863646
>>1863447>>1863481I have really bad cystic acne, but I also have a feeling I have PCOS. I saw someone posting a conspiracy theory about how they think a lot of women have PCOS/PCOS-light due to the amount of highly processed foods we as the general public consume, and honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a link. I definitely eat a lot of processed crap and also happen to have acne and excessive facial/body hair issues.
>>1863497>>1863510Not to mention dehydration. I would probably look a lot worse if I didn't knock back maybe 2~3L of water daily. This whole watertok shit is not gonna be helping anyone's kidneys or skin either.
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Then maybe don’t spend your life savings on video game bullshit at age 14. Your parents are doing you a favor, faggot. Go outside and make some friends.
No. 1863780
>>1863771Welll…. you can do something to hormonal acne with diet by changing your diet in a way that supports your hormones better, it's sort of roundabout but there's a definite connection. For instance, something basic and simple like DIM supplements or eating a lot of cruciferous vegetables could help, depending on the person. Water and a nutritious diet are generally going to do a lot for you while a shitty diet generally exacerbates/causes problems.
This is super off topic for the thread though so I'll stop.
No. 1863781
>>1863497>>1863510>>1863710>>1863718>>1863771I don't think it's an underrated factor, if anything it's the very first thing anyone who is clueless but "trying to help" mentions. as someone who dealt with acne. the first thing EVERY person would tell me is to eat "cleaner" or drink more water as if those were actual cures for acne. people who have acne are so tired of hearing those two things so we will dismiss because telling someone to eat different and drinking water won't cure acne and that's not science. do you know how I cured my acne? going to a fucking dermatologist and getting the medicine I needed after years of thinking I was inherently disgusting for not eating perfectly every single day and that's why acne was just the punishment for it. not obsessing about eating "clean" or drinking 3l of water per day (although it is important ESPECIALLY if you are on any meds) but literally taking the meds I had to. being dirty, fat, dehydrated, etc. don't automatically give you acne even though they might help. a lot of people live "perfectly" and still have a pizzaface. it's offensive and judgemental to assume people don't eat well or drink water or don't wash well because they have acne.
>>1863778yeah that's why you go to the doctor and they tell you if you have fungal acne or hormonal acne so they can give you the appropriate meds for it and what else suggestions they have. not for internet randos to give opinions on.
No. 1863784
>>1863780that's such a specific thing to each person that I wouldn't simply tell anyone to eat differently just because they have acne. something that might
trigger you might not
trigger someone else and viceversa. that's why if you have a skin disease you treat at the doctor, not at the internet.
No. 1863900
>>1863883Teenagers aren't expected to work for their 'life savings', they're allowed to work for their money and do what they want with it, but ok, good for you. If anything I commend this person for working to buy the stuff they want whether it makes financial sense or not instead of demanding it from mommy and daddy.
>>1863889I'm sure it's embellished, but reading it as-is, it's still pretty fucked up.
No. 1864064
>>1863559>>1864048Samefagging to add:
Has anyone else noticed consoom tendencies creeping into DIY spaces? I feel like lately there's more of a focus on brands/products or copying influencers rather than making something unique.
No. 1864423
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>>1863559Hi, nona. I used to be a craft hoarding nona myself. But I am mostly into diy/customization clothing/jewelry and such.
I used to get tons of supplies on AliExpress and they're always cheaper the more you buy in bulk. So I got hooked on buying like a 20-piece charm sets when I only "need" one of them for a particular project. And even then I could have just gotten one locally in a craft store (expensive, but less clutter to deal with)
And then I got to dating another craft nona for like 5 years and realized that it's about PERSPECTIVE, really. My gf would keep EVERYTHING because she might use it and hoard not only craft supplies, but also ungodly amounts of makeup and clothes. She barely even used all of it and she kept everything in complete chaos. I offered her to help her downsize and organize maybe like once a month, pretty sure whenever I visited. She always declined, would start fights over it and would get on my case for throwing stuff away she could have used (and never got to anyway, just kept it in storage boxes or all over her desk)
We eventually broke up and I assessed my own craft hoard finally.
You see, craft consoom gives you reassurance. That it's a "REAL
VALID" hobby or whatever. That you're oh so creative and crafty because you have all those supplies and all the fanciest tools.
And I got hit hard by decluttering. I realized that just keeping shit I can never ostensibly use was actually bogging me down. Having too many choices kills your creativity, when having to whip up something in a pinch leads to the most creative solutions.
Some of the things I've kept related to hobbies I thought I would start, bought a TON of shit for and never ended up liking at the moment (scrapbooking, which I realized after I actually enjoy, but with found items, random paper stuff I get through my normal life)
So I basically solf off/gave away everything that I don't ever see myself using. I made a lot of posts with the charms shit, like to my friendgroup GC of "I have these charms and beads and such, do you want me to make anything out of them for you for free?" and so downsized a TON.
I still have an issue with patches (but I use patches a lot and forbade myself from getting any new ones until I am halfway through my hoard) and fabric (I have two big plastic tubs, one is smaller scraps for small things and one is big scraps, in case I like, decide it's time for a new pillowcase and ALL of it is second-hand)
But I downsized a TON and I feel more creative than ever? My ideas don't get lost in a ton of needless shit I own.
tldr: Having a lot of supplies makes you feel like a more accomplished craftperson, when actually accomplished people can do very well with second-hand and bare basic supplies.
Also it makes you feel like you're gonna do shit with that after, but you will never end up doing that project and are much better off doing with what you already have or buying small/specific for what you're absolutely sure you're going to make.
Overbuying shit makes you feel accomplished, but also you get bogged down in it and it never gets used, for even shorter tldr.
No. 1864446
>>1864436Tayrt, absolutely.
And also craft stores/suppliers do really weird shit all the time.
Like maybe I want to make christmas stuff in advance? Or I need a halloween thing in winter? No, not there.
With yarn it's a bit ridiculous sometimes especially. Like they would do some sooper special limited edition yarn or yarn that's only out on certain holidays. And if you want to knit an actually big thing and you're doing it for a prolonged time, you have to bulk up, because there's absolutely no guarantee it will ever be available when you come back. Or ever again.
I personally just stock up on Halloween stuff, because we barely get it (don't celebrate in this country), and it's very limited in time and available quantities, but I like including spooky shit into my DIYs.
So yeah. That's hard. But like, shelves upon shelves of yarn is really excessive.
I used to "save" nice stuff too, not just with crafts, with basically everything, but what's the point of it all drying up and turning to dust/microplastics in my cupboard.
Actually getting use of nice things brings so much joy though!
No. 1864473
>>1863272she does say her daughter got her braces on (which can be a pretty painful adjustment some times) and in the comments she said she just wanted to do something nice for her. I don't think at 10 I was consistently keeping my room tidy either tbh.
>>1863304totally agree. with the amount of creeps out there I would never want to post my child's room online.
No. 1864481
>>1864423>>1864436I found that not being precious with the things I own makes it so much more fun to use them. I recently got a cyanotyping kit and I've been experimenting with scraps of shitty scratchy lace, buttons and charms I couldn't find any use for, bits of netting, things like that. I've made some really cool prints, and some really shitty ones, but while the shitty prints would have made me mad and depressed about 'wasting' materials, I can now see them as a natural part of the learning curve. I've cut them up, laminated them, painted over them, made collages and used the pieces in a scrapbook.
I've gone through my stash and found that I have a lot of supplies I don't think I'll use in my usual crafts, so my goal for the year is to use them as creatively as possible. Or at least to use them up somehow. I hate waste, but supplies are wasted if they're not used, simple as.
I've given up on making seasonally appropriate items, now I just make Easter stuff at Halloween if I feel like it, it takes the pressure off and I actually finish my projects in time to use them.
No. 1864664
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>>1852928I tried explaining this concept to a makeup consoomer and ofc she hit me with the "girls should support girls" and "I do it for ME" lines
>>1858734I've always been confused by Japanese itabags like picrel where they just buy multiple of the same exact button. I know official merch is cheaper over there than for the rest of us, but I still don't get the appeal.
I like the idea of getting fan merch at conventions and having something unique, but so many Western artists still have that hideous 2016 tumblr SJW style. Like, I'm sorry, but I want merch of Uzui Tengen that actually looks like Uzui Tengen not some My 600lb Life participant
No. 1864743
>>1864664It's easier to coordinate with clone pins, you just put them everywhere and you're done with it. It's basically the basic bitch style of itabags.
>>1858734Honestly that anime merch isn't cheap, it's not for brainless consooming. That's why they're called itabags, they cost a lot of money to make and the money is paid to support a series you want them to continue since a lot of anime series rely on those merch sales to get a funding. It's not comparable to peak consoomerism where someone cops a $900 shein haul to do a youtube video on it.
No. 1864792
>>1864743It's definitely peak consoomerism, the intent isn't that different and I don't see how it matters. Sure you want to support the series you like, but a huge part of shit like this
>>1862949 is out of control and probably wouldn't be a thing if it weren't for trying to impress others on social media. There are some people that are die-hard fans of one character and series for years, but many of them jump from favorite to favorite anyway. Piles of unwanted used anime goods at places like Mandarake prove this is pretty mindlessly wasteful and isn't much better than a Shein haul.
No. 1864865
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It's crazy how people obsess over these Stanley cups. I came across pic related and had to share with the thread.
No. 1865156
>>1865057I don't know about where you're from nonna but here in Currywurstland, the prices differences between organic meat, butcher meat and average supermarket meat cuts are not as drastic as 5-6 years ago. You may have a 1-3€ difference when it used to be 4-6€. So if I'd want chicken drumsticks, I'd rather go to an organic produce shop or at the butcher's, because the meat in a supermarket, I don't know how the chicken was treated (a stressed or sick animal will have an impact on the quality of the meat cut).
In the end if you wanna be a smart grocery shopper and not just a consoomerist, the reference is the price per kilogram (per pound for non metric system users), that's where you see whether you're making a good deal or not. If you pick the cheapest 200g of smoked salmon for 4,99€ but the kg price is 24,95€ and the "more expensive" smoked salmon brand had a kg price of 23,00€ instead, then you're losing money by being a cheapskate.
No. 1865373
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>>1865365I haven't been into lolita fashion in over a decade but I'll never forget the girls hanging brand tote bags (not purses; I mean the plastic bags you get to carry your merchandise) hung on their walls as display
No. 1865411
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>>1865381>>1865388>>1865393i feel this so much. i started diary writing again like 3-4 years ago and it helped a lot with getting off of social media and my constant need to overshare and invent funny little happenings to appear interesting to my mutuals- basically i lied all the time to make it seem like i had the funniest, most interesting life. even in my head, my thoughts would sometimes be phrased like oversharing tweets. but it quickly escalated into buying tons of stickers and washi tape and empty notebooks. i have since purged my collection, gave it away, donated it, etc. now i have a single leuchtturm weekly planner (see picrel) and i just write bullet points of what's happening so i can keep track of my life.
No. 1865444
>>1865381The stationary community is such an awful consoom hole.
This is so shameful, I'm trying to stop consooming but Hobonichi just went and posted previews for their Spring line and I want all the new stupid cat themed products. They know their audience… I do use all of my stuff regularly though and I'm good at using up stuff.
What I don't understand in the planner community is the hype for certain shops, how did coffee monsterz co get so much clout making all that cookie cutter kawaii junk? Christian housewives seem to eat that stuff up.
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>>1865444>how did coffee monsterz co get so much clout making all that cookie cutter kawaii junk?For real, she has some cute sticker designs but her 'emoti' character is so ugly and basic
No. 1865489
on the topic of stationery insanity.
No. 1865617
>>1865365>Once I left the communities I was in online it was like the spell over me broke kek.This is so true. I still stayed close friends with some of my old comm members so I've never been truly out of the loop, but since making the decision to quit it's like I can see the forest for the trees all of a sudden. I even tried to come back to the community for a while because I was bored and thought I missed it (I still like some of the clothes and didn't get rid of most of them. I just wear them in other ways now because I don't want to go out and buy a whole new wardrobe) but the spark that was there before wasn't anymore.
All I could see was how thoughtless and consoom-brained they all are and how much I didn't want to be like that anymore. I feel bad saying this about my friends but their consumerist behaviour really grosses me out after getting some distance from it. They all have 100+ dresses and complain about having no savings, but refuse to stop or seek professional help when I suggest it. I feel like I just can't get through to them, sometimes I'll have a conversation with one of them and feel like it was a turning point and then I go and see them buy 3 more dresses the next week. You can lead a horse to water but can't make it drink.
>>1865465I've been there with books too. I have some special editions of my favourite classics and so on, but seeing all the book influencers or even the normal people in groups have shelves and shelves filled with special editions of every new release drove me mad. They all 'unhaul' them a few months later because they have no space for them, didn't like the books or didn't even read them. I get books from the library now if they aren't public domain old. And if I end up not liking them I think to myself thank god I didn't waste money on that expensive edition on release. There's maybe one or two authors I really love who I am happy to do that for.
No. 1865638
>>1865441Oh god I forgot to include the whole selling & buying aspect of it. That was bizarre. Lolita
as depicted on social media, before anyone jumps me is a collection hobby and, most of it is showing off your collection online and meets happen just to model your collection IRL. It's just an elaborate aesthetic. I don't mean lolitas who get casual, wearable stuff and use it in various ways but the people who hoard OPs with garish prints because they got memed into thinking it's iconic or something
No. 1865660
>>1865444They're minimalist kawaii aimed at people who think funko pops are wonderful additions to any collection. I think they're cuter than most of the other cluttered options middle-aged Christian moms have at their disposal and they're simple enough that you don't feel you're 'wasting' stickers by using them, so they actually get used instead of being added to the hoard. Coffee monsters co knows her market.
>>1865057Either they're lying or they're the personification of the Dril candle tweet. Most of the time they buy expensive retarded shit that looks cheap on the surface- cheap frozen pizzas that don't cost much but only last one meal, single serve drink multipacks, pre-chopped fruit, absolute shitloads of snacks, microwave meals that are cheap but only feed 1 person per meal, that sort of thing. These people could easily cut their spending in half by buying food that isn't processed into another dimension and feeds more than one person per item, but they'll chimp out if you suggest this because muh poor pepole can't afford no fancy basic packets of rice, only the microwave version that costs twice as much. It's the same mentality as the hambeasts who screech about fast food being a necessity because healthy food is too expensive.
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>>1865584I think you're right nona. I remember being that age and making potions from all the different soaps in the bathroom, it's pretty normal kid behavior. I think everyone's so bothered by it because they're going straight to luxury skincare partially because of tiktok, but also because there's really nothing out there targeted at little girls anymore.
In the 2000's there was a chain called Libby Lu and I remember going to SO many birthday parties here as a kid. They had stations where you could mix colors and scents to make your own lip gloss or body spray. The employees would do your makeup and dress you up in feather boas and tutus for photoshoots kek. I think the sephora kids would go crazy for that if it was still around
No. 1865725
>>1865381lol lindseyscribbles definitely has a hoarding issue when it comes to stationary. She has so many planners that she fills up and I genuinely don’t understand having so many. Maybe one for work and one for personal stuff but more than that is so excessive especially if you don’t have a lot going on.
>>1865365It doesn’t help that Lolita attracts the worst kind of people too. Literally who cares about impressing a bunch of autists anyway? Why wouldn’t you want to buy dresses that not only are wearable but look nice on you? Sweet is cute but unfortunately does not suit everyone but a lot of people won’t admit it. It’s clear that a lot of Lolitas go into debt to buy all this stuff for the clout too. I recall that one lolita who was begging people for money for her dog’s surgery but then was seen buying more dresses on LM. Like?? You’d have money for your dog if you weren’t spending it on shit you don’t need ffs
No. 1865755
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>>1865584This isn't anything new. Nail polish "graffiti" has been a thing for a very long time in places that sell drug store makeup like Target and CVS. It's done with lipstick as well. Cosmetics are now locked up in certain places so maybe people just forgot/never saw it because all they know is locked up makeup. Not getting enough tactile play might be a part of it but it's also kids just being kids; the only thing that has changed is that they are being influenced to go somewhere else.
This is just me, but I don't believe most of the "OMG 10 YEAR OLDS AT SEPHORA HORROR STORY!!" crap people are trying to peddle on social media. The stories sound fake and all sound the same. I think a lot are putting content out about it for views. It's a distraction from the real problem which is "why are 10 year old girls wanting to buy anti-aging products"? which we all know here is because society is telling these girls they'll be old at 23 and that "old" women are evil jealous hags.
No. 1865832
>>1865810Some places do that, in my city there's an arcade with a place that's decorated in neutrals where girls get their nails done and all that stuff, with fancy bathrobes and photo shoots before they go play at the arcade.
I thought this was normal at this point tbh, since kids will never stop trying to imitate mom and dad.
No. 1865872
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>33 clothing items is a “mini capsule wardrobe”
No. 1865888
>>1865872I love how in this vid she's like 'my clothes feel like remnants of who I lived or want to be' among other pretentious shit, but all her clothes are the most basic generic ass clothes.
I never get that in general with people who wear basic ass clothing though like how do you dislike an outfit when everything looks the same?
No. 1865893
>>1865872Maybe that includes socks and underwear? Thats the only way I can see 33 items being capsule.
>>1864865Stanleys are annoying, but is it a crime to have that many? Why did police arrest her?
No. 1865942
>>1865893The most obvious deduction is that she stole them.
>>1865872La délúsíonn
No. 1866063
>>1866048It is.
There are tiktoks of 11 year olds putting on foundation that they don't need to go to school. It's weird, unnecessary and adultifying.
Retinol and other products with active ingredients need to have an age limit. At this point, if no limits are made, then the companies like Sephora are responsible since all they care about is cash.
No. 1866072
>>1865872If it's for all seasons, this is reasonable?
>>1865943No that's about the size of my wardrobe not including shoes, thermal layers and things like that. It also depends on her environment. I live in a shithole that's covered in different forms of ice and slush 9 months of the year so I can't exactly own one pair of flip flops and call it a day. I need different traction and waterproofness depending on whether it's powdery snow, wet ice, slushy bog or dry ice.
No. 1866272
>>1865617>complain about having no savings, but refuse to stop or seek professional helpBook anon here, and I totally saw this in my online circles as well. People would literally be putting themselves into debt using those buy now, pay later sites just to buy books they haven't even read but want because they're pretty.
>"B-but the FOMO is real! If I don't buy it now, I'll just have to pay 10x as much to a reseller if I decide I want them later"When anyone told them they don't really need to buy every single special edition that comes out if their finances are stressing them out, they would get told off and to mind their own business. Then you would see them in multiple groups complaining about how broke they were and that they can't keep up with all of the new releases or that they have to hide how many purchases they're making from their husbands.
I swear those BNPL sites like klarna and afterpay are partially responsible for the level of consoom we see today. When they weren't around, if you couldn't afford it, you weren't buying it. Now people can make as many unnecessary purchases as they want and just pay it off a little at a time every month. People don't even really see it as debt either since the monthly payments aren't that high but they can really start to snowball if they use these services constantly.
No. 1866385
>>1866313>I can't imagine if that shit is ingrained into you from childhood.It’s scary to think about. You’re so impressionable as a child. These girls are going to be obsessed with preserving their looks and put themselves in danger. As they become teenagers I’m sure they’ll be begging their parents for botox and fillers. I fear they may be so afraid of growing older that they may
unalive. Perhaps that’s dramatic to say but things are looking so bleak.
(you must be 18+ to post here) No. 1866390
>>1866272The logic is so retarded. I can't afford to pay X for this-> I can afford to pay Y for this over 6 months-> I have bought so many things that I'm now paying 3X per month for a ton of shite I don't need and can't afford because it's shiny and viral.
Also, Klarna, and I think a couple of others, don't go after you if you don't make a payment. There's no way a company can make money like this since they don't charge interest. So the only logical conclusion is that they sell debt to other companies, and probably personal information as well since obviously they have a good insight into their customers' spending habits. I don't think there's anything wrong with spreading the cost of purchases especially since it's more cost-effective than using a credit card where you'd pay interest, but when you reach the point where you're paying for something that costs less than a coffee over 12 months, it's time to take a good look at your finances and spending habits. Buy now pay later, or other payment plans, should be for expensive purchases that you actually need, like furniture or a new kitchen. Not for pretty editions of a book you have no intention of ever reading.
No. 1866458
brook had a fight with her baby daddy so of course she went shopping.
No. 1866481
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>>1866245Internet shopping has definitely made consoomerism worse because it's so fucking easy to buy things. You don't have to leave your house, you can buy things at any hour of the day. And I love how convenient it is myself. It's unlikely for big shopping sites to shut down so I'm thinking about doing a personal challenge instead, to just buy from irl shops. And just neccessary things of course.
Does any other farmers who shop online want to join the challenge? No online shopping for the next month?
No. 1866528
>>1866390>So the only logical conclusion is that they sell debt to other companiesDamn I didn't know they didn't go after people who didn't pay. It must be like with private couriers who sell any customs/broker fees that remain unpaid to debt collectors.
What if they suddenly lose their job or have an emergency and now can't pay the instalments for their $500 Sephora order? Crazy that people are risking having that on their credit reports for dumb shit like Lululemon or whatever hyped thing is on tiktok that week.
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>>1863769When I was 10 I used to think using this cream was the most expensive thing in the world so you had to use it carefully so it could last a bit more.
No. 1866731
>>1866683i think the 20 years age gap was a troll post and apparently she shared his real age previously. they're only a few years apart, i think. i also agree that they're only together for the kid. i guess he's staying because their daughter is still recovering from her surgery. ngl as cringe as her shopping/pink/didneigh addiction is, i like the few family vlogs in between when you see how lovingly they interact with their daughter.
vidrel, she bought another ugly bag.
No. 1866736
>>1866272>"B-but the FOMO is real! If I don't buy it now, I'll just have to pay 10x as much to a reseller if I decide I want them later"Funny thing is that there's a 99% chance they won't decide they want them later. As soon as the fad is gone and the community has moved on to the next new thing they will have completely forgotten about the last one. That's why they all 'unhaul' these books a year later, the hype has already died down for the book they just HAD to have.
>BNPLI agree that BNPL is predatory too. It's one thing to use it in an emergency or for big things like appliances or furniture, but these people use it for books or clothes or whatever else they don't need. The lolita comm is terrible about it too. Some girls will beg you for a payment plan to buy some ridiculous 400 dollar dress they don't need, and if you refuse to enable them you're classist and "don't believe poor people deserve nice things too". I don't know about other anons but was always raised that if you can't afford to buy stuff like that twice you can't afford it at all. I'm a grown adult but my mom would probably slap me if I wanted to use afterpay or went around begging sellers to let me pay in instalments for some non necessity like books or clothes.
No. 1866885
>>1863559sage for blog but I need an opportunity to rant about my sewing teacher, because this thread has confirmed my annoyance with crafty women who hoard things they're never going to use is somewhat justified. she has an insane fabric collection. im talking absolutely insane. she has an entire wall of deep, floor-to-ceiling cabinets, all filled to the absolute brim with every single type of fabric you could imagine. She's over 70 years old, rapidly losing her eyesight, could not use up even half of them in the amount of time she has left, yet she is the stingiest person alive when it comes to them. I never went into it expecting her to give me any fabric at all, i buy all my own materials for every project and never expected for her to even lend me thread, and I also understand its her collection/hobby that's taken her several decades to accumulate and means a lot to her, so shes not going to just give it all out like candy. But there was one time she pulled out one of the most beautiful fabrics i have ever seen out of the bottom of this old plastic bin (she puts all of her meaningful fabrics in her glass display cabinets) and just tosses it aside because she was looking for something else. It obviously didnt mean that much to her and i seriously doubt she has any intention to use it just like 90% of the fabrics. But it was so beautiful to me, it had a very unique pattern and drape to it. I pointed out how much i liked it and kept asking questions regarding it (and for the record it was not an expensive type of fabric), but either she didn't catch on or just wasn't having it. I'm thinking about maybe asking if i could buy it from her? Idk I'm scared id make her feel guilty/awkward if she wanted to say no. I couldn't find any fabric that looked like it anywhere online.
No. 1866992
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I wouldn't consider her a personal cow because she doesn't do anything milky but all she does is spend money on Japanese clothes and kawaii items and post about it on Twitter. In picrel, she bought so much that she had to ship some items from her Japan trip back to her country because she bought so much and she had to steal luggage space from her Nigel as well.
No. 1867062
>>1856792I saw them irl in sephora, drunk elephant in hand, dressed like mini adults in lululemon with little baby voices. And their parents didn't seem to give a fuck.
>>1866313The thing is, nobody is directly telling them to do this stuff necessarily, although the obsession with anti-aging is still bad no matter what age you are. The beauty gurus they are watching do not make their videos with children in mind, but the children are watching those videos and want to copy the influencers. I recall a bunch of videos on this subject saying that there's no separation between adult spaces and child spaces on the internet. There's not a whole lot catching the attention of little girls either, disney channel doesn't seem to be as popular as it used to be, neither is claire's and the such. Dolls are being bought by grown people more than little girls. It's normal for little girls to want to copy women, hence why they make play makeup for them that's just vaseline with glitter in it. The issue is that these parents don't really care about their daughters wanting a skincare routine, a lot of them probably don't even know what retinol is or are straight up encouraging them to continue with it.
No. 1867226
>>1867061We already do. My girlfriend's sister is a doctor. She has the biggest ego but talks and reasons like a mouthbreather and does not take anyone else's opinion into account whatsoever. She's overly confident so people buy what she's selling but that girl doesn't have two brain cells left to rub together. Think of a typical online zoomer who gets into internet fights to hear themselves talk while typing like an imbecile, that's her.
Med school is also a joke. In my country, you have to go to prep school for it and/or have amazing grades which makes all the med students overly full of themselves. The actual education is questionable because it doesn't matter once you're in.
No. 1867393
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People are seriously getting fired over these dumb cups now. I will neve purchase a shitty Stanley cup as long as I live
https://www.businessinsider.com/target-workers-caught-off-guard-by-stanley-cup-crackdown-2024-1?amp No. 1867453
>>1867424>I feel like online shopping addictions are propagated just like any other addiction: to give yourself self-esteem where you have none, to fit in to a "community", and to get a dopamine fix.Basically yeah. It feels like people shop to be able to say they got x, y, z brand and not because their jeans or shoes are worn down from wearing them for three years and they need to replace it. I watched those viral Yt videos of big Youtubers donating 1k to small Twitch channels as they are doing their stream, and one of them was only thinking about the new sneakers he could get with the donated money, when I personally (probably due to the fact I was raised by pragmatic Mom whose Dad was working in mines and earned barely anything) think if anyone donated me that money, I'd save it for a rainy day. I think people took the "treat yoself" meme too far, and instead of treating themselves every once in a while but within their means, they've gone the route of treating themselves every day because… I don't know, breathing and waking up in the morning?
Also people are taking consumer credit instead of paying full price once (with savings), which is in essence making them poorer because they're paying interests on whatever they purchase. It's a sad consoomerist trap, really.
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Mechanical keyboard consoom is so retarded. These faggots waste all that time and money just to hold down WASD for 6 hours or annoy their workmates
No. 1867518
>>1867426> I feel like the majority of gen alpha will be ok once they actually enter adulthood and find out that their actions have consequencesThat's the best case but if a majority of alphas, zoomers are useless they're going to set the existing culture going forward, not be changed by it. And if they only get it together in adulthood their childhood education and college opportunities were still wasted and they can't get that back, even if they get more education later its not the same once you have to pay your own bills. It's unknown if the attention issues caused by tech in early childhood are fixable later or not.
Honestly I think America is already heading towards a have/have not society and if you can keep your kids mostly off tech, supplement their education and make them pick a good job, they'll end up much better off then their peers
No. 1867801
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Not this shit… we don't need merch of everything. DuoLingo always seemed like a nice app for children to practice language outside of school. Now they're making innuendos about big dicks.
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>>1867542What about the nasty ass keycaps
No. 1867839
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>>1867393Another consoomer bit in this story is the fired worker who bought it only because she collects pink items, but she made it about breast cancer awareness. The pink ribbon/pink product association in itself has shady history
No. 1867871
>>1867491This is pretty much exactly what maxmoefoe did on his second Japan trip kek.
They're still entertaining enough vlogs, but at least the first trip had some stuff like going to Tokyo Disney and going to some weeb museums the second one is just entirely shopping.
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>>1867850it's referring to the big dick energy meme. they could've just said, congrats, keep it up. but it has to be all controversial. how quirky, going streaking and talking about cock size.
No. 1867960
>>1867495>>1867506See
>>1857748 I don't even know how people can find the sound of the keyboard so "ASMR". Have they worked in a callcenter or office full of keyboard sounds? Because that's what makes me think and is quite stressful.
No. 1868042
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Literally wtf is the point of having this many
No. 1868047
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I will never understand women who collect this shit
No. 1868093
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>>1867801Fucking kek I came to this thread to share duolingo merch too, this shit is getting out of hand
No. 1868097
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>>1867750Oh my GOD I hate those “restock” videos so much. Buying plastic containers and dividers so that they can pull their prepackaged items out of the perfectly good box they came in, and stack up 50 candy bars and sodas so their kitchen can look like a gas station. It’s ridiculous
No. 1868110
>>1868047Maybe she's a lesbian? I'm glad at least she doesn't seem to one of these people with 800 figures from what I can see on the image kek
The orange girl would be cute if she had some actual clothes on though, but I looked up the purple one and she's so thin you can see her ribcages, I don't know how anyone could be attracted to that (and much less, spending thousands of dollars on it)
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>>1868110>The orange girl would be cute if she had some actual clothes on thoughDo you mean Rena?
No. 1868219
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>this sharks jaw was tragically torn out by fishers
>Consooming our shitty jewellery, plastic stickers, and badly printed clothes from our dropshipping sham business can help end this tragedy
One of my least favourite forms of consoomer brain rot is what I call "Claire's activism", which is when people buy accessories to show they're standing for a cause. The worst perpetrators of this are gaydens since they will buy like a million badges with their highly specific niche identity flag, flags for the walls, start collecting frog squishmallows, etc. to make sure everyone can visibly see what causes they believe in
No. 1868287
>>1865411journal/craft consoom is a siren call to a certain kind of introvert woman who needs a private way to organize their thoughts and life. i remember being envious of the nicer japanese journal these kinds of content creators had, but forced myself to use my shitty one for my first year before i rewarded myself for cementing the habit with better supplies.
these people could be making this hobby so sustainable with a fountain pen or two, a refillable journal cover, a habit that keeps them off of screens and away from
triggers to consoom. but like so many other self improvement spaces, its full of these little dopamine traps were you can procrastinate forever doing anything meaningful (like journaling) by buying shit you'd think the person you want to be would have.
No. 1868291
>>1868219"Claire's Activism" is a good word for it,
nonnie. Showing my age, but I hated when boys used to wear those I heart boobies bracelets to "show their support for breast cancer" when in reality it was just a ploy to sell edgy wording to kids. I don't believe the company ever donated a substantial amount of that money to actual breast cancer research. It sucks that claire's activism has only gotten bigger with social media and moral peacocking.
No. 1868313
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I genuinely need some help talking myself out of this purse. It's been my dream bag for years and years and it's $1500. I'm rationalizing it right now because I never buy myself anything, I can get it for $1000, and I've consistently wanted it for a very long time. But I know it's still incredibly stupid to spend this much money on a purse, I'm just trying to fight the temptation and struggling.
Set me straight please.
No. 1868331
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>>1868313It's weird to me how companies can charge a thousand dollars for a bag that doesn't even look well put together in its display image. The face emblem looks oddly off centre and the bag itself doesn't even look fully symmetrical. Plus, the bag in the photo has a small hole in it, can Versace not afford quality control? Maybe it's better that this bag is too small to be a genuinely functional purse because I wouldn't have any confidence in its longevity based off how plasticky the whole thing looks. 100% leather, but of what quality?
Also the same bag comes in less ugly (lilac) and more versatile (black, white, brown) colours, as well as larger sizes where you'd actually be able to use it as a practical bag. If you're going to spend a thousand or more dollars on a bag, I don't see why you'd choose this one.
No. 1868469
i just don't understand the appeal of these dolls.
No. 1868556
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>>1864705>>1865365It's really weird because I haven't noticed such tendencies in my comm. A lot of girls make their own dresses or at least accessories (even I enjoy making amateur cute jewelry). Nobody struggles with finances because of lolita. I don't live in the US and people don't have credit cards at all most of the time. I think overconsumption has a lot of tieswith US culture, it's not as strong in other parts of the world.
Still posting a lolita consoome-y pic to contribute.
The fact that "credit cards" even exist is so weird. The government just let people get into massive debt for useless shit that they obviously won't be able to pay back? How doesn't it ruin the economy? Are banks just able to magically create more money? How does it even work?
No. 1868606
>>1868539This. I would expect more quality for the price, but even the Aliexpress knock off are better. You're paying more for the brand than the bag itself.
No. 1868626
>>1868556I’m not an econ person but my layman’s interpretation of it is that sooo much of the economy is basically useless stuff with fake prices attached to it, and propping up a useless economy is important even if it means getting into a lot of debt to keep the status quo. If everything can be bought on credit or loans then they can make things as expensive as possible, especially necessary things like college or cars. Of course this only benefits the people on top, but it’s so insanely normalized here. I try to deprogram a lot of my friends but it’s just ingrained that noooo I NEED this car that’s way out of my budget because it has these over the top safety features/it looks cool. Noooo I NEED to go to this private college for a useless degree and go $100,000 in debt because of bullshit prestige.
I’m having a hard time relating to my best friend from childhood because of her consoom habits (her personality/identity is all based around whatever collector phase she’s in at the moment), and I’m beginning to think my future with my bf isn’t sustainable long term because he genuinely cannot tell between a need and a want- you NEED food, but you WANT Chipotle and not the same thing but made at home. It’s really sad how financially illiterate most adults in the US are.
No. 1868680
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>>1868313You do not need a $1000 bag. I found this similar, genuine leather coach bag for $200. You still get the high of having brand, without some ugly logo on it. They're even similar shapes, even if this is smaller. But the smaller size means the pink won't be so obnoxious.
No. 1868690
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I'm trying to downsize big time so what is the best place to sell stuff these days, Mercari? I hear depop is a trashfire so I'm looking for better options to sell my kawaii crap I dont use.
>>1868556Sucks that Lolita and consooming are tightly intertwined here. I always think about the sugary carnival incident where a girl paid 1k for the old release and the MTO came out for it later that month. I judge the shit out of lolitas that drop that much on a dress. Sugar hearts is also cute but not $800+ cute so I'm not sure why that dress is so sought after when the cut would look unflattering on most lolitas anyway.
No. 1868695
>>1868690Mercari is good if you want to get paid quickly, once the buyer rates they can't refund. It autorates after three days. eBay you get the money quickly too but the buyer can still get a refund after 30 days.
But I will say Mercari's a different sort of trash fire, think weird old ladies pretending to be disabled to get a 3 USD Dollar Tree item for free vs the tweens acting retarded on Depop.
No. 1868708
>>1868313It looks less like Versace and more like a replica you would see on alibaba with a logo on the side that says vverseca. The chain looks like actual plastic. The medusa isn't even centered.
>>1868469Owning more than just a few is insanity.
No. 1868805
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>>1868708You're right, seeing the original with this
>>1868313 looks like straight from Alibaba.
No. 1868887
>>1868556I don't live in the US either but I guess it must vary from comm to comm. Most of mine don't even have credit cards, they just have a million different payment plans if they're poor or they blow their whole pay check the second they get it if they aren't. Either way they all have no savings and dozens of dresses they don't even like and just buy for clout. In defence of lolita though, I think most of them would find some other collector hobby to consoom if they weren't into the fashion. They're all just addicted to shopping.
>>1868313Nona this is so ugly and cheap looking. I know you say it's been your dream bag for years but will you still want it in 10 years? If you're going to spend 1000 dollars on a bag you should go with something less outlandish that will age better than this.
No. 1868900
>>1867801>>1868093I don’t see how people can be consoomers of Duolingo of all things and give it praise for the “representation” or character design which is just fucking shallow corporate stock art characters. It feels so manufactured and it likely is since Duolingo is such a cool gen-z brand that shitposts on social media, such funny things like the time they joked about Amber Heard. Worship of soulless brands just because they post a funny thing on the internet or have a funny commercial is another level of consoom.
>>1868261Agreed goth girl characters are mostly all coombait now. I can’t look at any goth girl characters from my childhood that I liked now without thinking about how they’re just another fetish for men and what “cracked the egg” of troons.
No. 1868923
>>1868313Just get a knockoff for $100 or some shit.
>>1868331What's funny is replicas are starting to have better stitching than the legitimate bags. It's pretty disheartening, if I'm honest. Spending a little extra for high quality leather and great build quality that lasts a long time isn't so bad, but now these "high end" companies are just churning out overpriced shit.
No. 1868998
And a new vile food trend for consoomers appears, fried chicken ice cream:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2lWhYJP90z/?igsh=OWdvZHZoMXJ0YjE0You know people will buy it just to be in the bandwagon. I just don't understand the point of this at all, it sounds absolutely disgusting.
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>>1868626>>1868740>It’s really sad how financially illiterate most adults in the US are.I don't think adults in european countries are more financially literate, but the difference is that the system tend to restrict your spending abilities. For instance, even privately owned univeristies are way cheaper : the most expensive ones cost about 10 000 euros a year in my country.
It's crazy how americans are given these financial freedoms but aren't taught anything about financial responsibility in school. I'm sure having more freedom to spend isn't necessarily a bad thing, as long as you know what you're doing. What would you think could be the solution for americans? More restrictions or more education?
>>1869038Yes, isn't this the reason why banking crashes happen in the first place?
>>1868690I buy and sell everything on Lacemarket but it's probably not the most efficient place to do so.
I personally always feel guilty whenever I buy a new main piece. I almost have 30 main pieces with a good mix of solids and prints (I only own 1 "iconic" AP print skirt), but I always feel like I'm wasting money, despite being able to save up. Is it normal to feel guilt whenever I buy something new?
No. 1869079
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>>1869075More lolita consooming
No. 1869109
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>I personally always feel guilty whenever I buy a new main piece. I almost have 30 main pieces with a good mix of solids and prints (I only own 1 "iconic" AP print skirt), but I always feel like I'm wasting money, despite being able to save up. Is it normal to feel guilt whenever I buy something new?
I feel the same, nona. I have a reasonable amount of savings but if I think about the times I've been financially irresponsible with lolita I feel so guilty. I think there's something wrong with normalizing 200+, 300+ or even 400+ dollar purchases at once for a frilly dress, even if it's a frilly dress you've been obsessing over for years. Suddenly spending all that money at once is justifiable if it's something you REALLY want and that will disappear if you hesitate too much. It rewires your brain into that of a shopaholic consoomer, even if you weren't one before.
I haven't been in comms but sometimes normies ask how much one of my dresses costs and I feel ashamed telling them the real number so I lie. I think when you reach that point you're no different than a gambling addict living a double life. Yet you can't stop because if you don't buy that dress NOW for 400 dollars maybe you'll never see it again, maybe you will but it will be at 800 instead, so better to buy it now and take the hit than suffer the FOMO and rack up your willingness to pay for it to 1k next time.
Lolita consooming is an interesting phenomenon. I can imagine what being in a comm or posting regularly on social media would add to it, the dopamine hit of making others seethe with jealousy must drive you to even crazier heights of consoom.
No. 1869387
>>1867750Whoops, I posted this video too before I saw your post, lol
I liked her takes, so here's a summary:
>this is a fantasy that's pleasant to watch and inspires you to buy with those affiliate links>she spent 400$ on the equipment in this video and she can reuse it every season and write it off on taxes because it's her business>imagine how they own closets full of plastic containers and need to play tetris to create an aesthetic display>she probably has to throw half of that out to make place for actual food and leftovers, or owns a business fridge>she doesn't know any of the expiration dates now and has exposed the dairy products to air and bacteria>these little gadgets are confusing and that keeps your attention>you can pay for services to respond to keywords in your comments to further drive up engagement and promote your affiliate links No. 1869415
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>>1869079This is retarded even from a lolita stand point because these pony shits can't fit anything. Not even a small wallet. Literally only a chaptstick so they're useless. They are literally just for flexing.
No. 1869426
>>1869395What
>>1869401 said,
and all the things they make skincare smoothies out of is really expensive. If I begged for any of that my mom simply wouldn't get me anything of the sort no matter how many tantrums I subject her to in public. As a tween I even used essence myself, but essence is and was aimed at teens and is cheap.
No. 1869463
>>1869401I remember when I was a preteen I was obsessed with the skincare stuff from Lush
Drunk Elephant should just make a kid-friendly line
No. 1869471
>>1869463>>1869440I think it's a larger issue, if you look at some of the earlier posts ITT, you have kids who want stuff millenial moms on tiktok would want. Kids always wanted to emulate adults, but in the current internet era content for kids and adults isn't separate.
I had people in my class that watched reality TV and r-rated movies when they were 10, but they didn't care for the ads in between. On tiktok advertising is inseparable from the content itself and it constantly feels like someone is trying to show you something cool that you need or "educate you" about what's good and what's bad.
No. 1869545
>>1869401Is there any actual evidence that using retinoids (the main anti aging ingredient) while your young is bad for you? I've seen this argument repeated a lot, but it seems like such a knee jerk reaction.
Yes, retinoids reduce wrinkles, but they have have a lot of other effects too, like helping against akne. Which is appropriate for teens, especially if it means they don't have to go on accutane or similar.
No. 1869649
>>1863497In my case this is true. I thought I had fungal acne for years. To stay more on topic, this caused me to fall down the skincare rabbit hole and I actually ended up damaging my skin even more trying out whatever products are supposed to work for fungal acne. On a whim I decided to stop eating dairy and my acne completely went away overnight, it's bizarre.
I do think that you can clean up your diet and there will still be environmental factors that can be genuinely out of your control but I don't think this sentiment is obsessive or ana-chan-y whatsoever
No. 1869661
>>1865411Good for you
nonnie! I had a similar experience as you right down to the thoughts being like oversharing tweets thing. While some of it is cute, it's wild how obsessive the washi tape and sticker type of journaling can get, especially for a hobby that is so personal
No. 1869705
>>1869463Yeah, that'll solve the issue. Consoom MORE instead of banning these brainwashing platforms.
>>1869512This level of consumerism is nothing like dreaming about having cool stuff as a child or teenager. Kids have subliminal advertising shoved in their faces every second they have their screen on. If these kids weren't consuming these cookie cutter, retarded "beauty influencer" 30 second snippets edited to hold their attention, they wouldnt be begging and screaming for a brand even many adults have moved away from. Your "meh" attitude is so reminiscent of these terrible iPad baby parents kek.
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>>1854950Same here, except I got the new ones during my childhood. The older dolls look more appealing and don’t look too uncanny. Pic drop on one of the dolls I loved growing up
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>>1869862Packing is a major part of marketing though? Something like picrel would never go as viral as Drunk Elephant even though they're both anti aging skincare.
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>>1869872You're telling me drunk elephant is seriously addictive to spoiled kids because it has multicolored lids? Come on. It's their fyp.
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>>1869885You retards are putting words in my mouth. I never said the algorithm wasn't a factor, just that cutesy packaging is much more appealing to the algorithm and thus go way more viral than some old lady serum. This is not a hard concept at all. Yes, kids like the bright colors of Drunk Elephant, don't be stupid. They also like the colors/food motifs of Glow Recipe.
No. 1869895
>>1869889Drunk elephant
is old lady serum and the packaging isn't even appealing to children, it's boring compared to tons more cute options. It's just pushed on the algorithm
No. 1869941
>>1869933Advertisement psychology isn't meant to be
aggressive at all, quite the contrary, it's meant to be completely inconspicuous. It sure is effective too!
No. 1869945
This is just grotesque lol
>>1869941Please continue to fritter out about how we are all old mules and you totes know everything with your tiktok university degree
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>>1869945What does tiktok have to do with something that has existed for over a century
No. 1869967
>>1869638>Retinol also causes facial fat lossI couldn't find any source for that, just some anectotal evidence and it's commonly listed as a retinol myth. This could just as easily be explained by people being hyper vigilant after misinterpreting studies like this:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18498477/Which shows that high doses of retinol ihibit the ability of fat cells to mature in a pretri dish. Everyone loses facial fat as they age, and if your worried about retinol, of course your going to attribute it to that.
No. 1869975
>>1869969It has but like does no one remember the past? At one point McDonalds' whole business model was built around children and they were the largest toy producer in the world. Companies always tried to profit off of kids and they always encouraged extreme consumption - get every happy meal toy, collect the glasses, buy all of the barbies and their house and accessories and babies, get the whole lego set, buy pokemon/whatever cards until you collect them all etc. In my middle school children weren't wasting money on plastic aliexpress shit but we sure bought a ton of collectibles like cards, kinder egg toys, silly bands, digimons, beyblades, finger skateboards, snap bracelets and all other kinds of stupid shit.
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These kind of go hard I won't lie but why is he gooning in the left shoe
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>>1870028He must be holding the Orb of Confusion again
No. 1870048
>>1867061late reply and ot but unfortunately you are wrong about doctors at least… i am close with an older medical professor and she quit her job at the university in protest of the examination board passing through students with such poor results she feels they will be dangerous in the field. this is a good university too.
she has to manage interns at her hospital as a senior dr and was telling me the other day that they were behaving like high school students while she was giving a seminar, giggling and whispering to each other. when she asked them some very basic anatomical questions they couldn't answer her…. fucking grim. this year's interns have apparently been the most extreme drop in capability for her at least
>>1867226yeah younger doctors are fucking retarded. most of them are funnelled directly through high school -> med school -> training with no gaps for living a social life, having hobbies, etc and it shows. most of them are nightmarish to try to hold a conversation with.
No. 1870079
>>1848358>>1870061I'm sorry but this is a silly take. Doctors have always been expected to hold vast amounts of information and that isn't a bad thing. Every system in the human body is so intricately connected that you need to have enough knowledge outside of your speciality so that you don't fuck up another system, and are able to make a judgement to call in another specialist if you need to. Imagine if all your cardiologist knew was how the heart worked, you'd be fucked. And tbh with both the US and the UK introducing physician associates and nurse practitioners you don't have to imagine: these people are taught nothing and then let loose on patients. I know some doctors are dumb but this is next level.
Back on topic though, yeah the consoomerism kids exhibit today when they've been exposed to tiktok since before they could walk is frightening. Sure we collected sillybandz and mylittleponies and littlestpetshop when we were kids, but the only exposure we had to marketing for those things was when my mum put the TV on for us and there were maybe 2 ads in between whatever was on CITV. Word spread around schools about different trends, but we weren't absorbing those adverts 24/7.
No. 1870086
>>1869895You're thinking of clinique. I only associate that brand with my mom because she's been using it since before I was born.
>>1869463They should get into TonyMoly and only stick to the cutest products.
No. 1870113
>>1870060I only know about Genshin but that does sound possible. He has a lot of weapons but they seem to be mostly R1 and he said he doesn't C6 all 5 stars. With 20k you can buy around 10.1k pulls, but that's excluding top-off bonuses that they give out once every version and the extra from battlepasses since I wouldn't know how many he got. To get a specific 5 star character you need at most 180 pulls and for a 5 star weapon it used to be limitless (which is how Tectone ended up spending so much), now it's 240. But that's the max, so you'd have to be super unlucky to have to go that far every time and he also didn't say a concrete number, so it might be more than 20k that he spent.
But this guy really sounds so fucking annoyed and bitter when talking about it kek I feel like he knows he's a complete degenerate and that this money could've been used for so many actual items that would have actually improved his pathetic life. There's literally no joy in his voice, I would assume you'd care some more about games you spend so much for
No. 1870246
>>1870114God that sucks. Sorry about your shitty dad and his retarded mood swings. I hope he gets the stuff he uses for his hobbies destroyed by another deranged ape with no brain.
You're not missing out by not wearing makeup. It's a huge drain of time and money, and it fucks up your self esteem, especially if you tie it to your personality or yourself as a person. All the places I've worked had at least one woman who prided herself on never going out without a full face of makeup and they were always the most insecure people you can imagine.
No. 1870380
>>1869969I never once defended tiktok…I only said that if they see something colorful and fun looking on their FYP, they'll obviously ask their parents to buy it for them.
>>1869978When did I compare people buying things they see on social media to previous generations…
No. 1870627
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>>1869395The problem is not make-up, is that kids wants expensive make-up and anti-aging skincare. If I wanted make-up, my mom would have bought me those safe-for-kids toys make-up, no a base that cost $40.
No. 1870879
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And so it begins
No. 1870923
>>1870879That's worrying but 1. those Amazon tests aren't that reliable, since they test positive for other substances as well as lead and 2. which part of the cups did she test? It's dangerous to have lead on ANY part of a cup, obviously, but the USA has fucked up laws on the percentage of lead that can be used in crockery and other things it shouldn't be used in (IIRC it's 0.03% lead but the safe amount of lead to use is 0%, to nobody's surprise) so she might have picked up a small but sadly legal amount of lead on the logo, not the inner metal part. Ideally she should do multiple tests on each part of each cup- lid, inside, outside, logo, handle, straw- to see if there are consistent results before posting anything.
Lead poisoning symptoms are very easy to miss or to attribute to something else. High blood pressure, mood swings, joint and muscle pain, headaches and shit memory and concentration are literally all symptoms that also come from staring at a screen all day and hating your job/school. Nobody's going to think 'Oh, I have a headache and self diagnosed ADHD, I should get tested for lead poisoning.' Abdominal pain is less common and that's normally when the affected person goes for a checkup, but again there's a massive chance that it'll take forever to find the cause or it'll be misdiagnosed.
TLDR if there is lead in Stanleys, there's a 99% chance that it's within the legal limits for the USA and a 99.999% chance that nobody who uses them is going to notice the lead poisoning for years.
No. 1870973
What the actual fuck lmao
No. 1870999
>>1870973That child is just messing up with her face because her mom is too retarded to tell her that she doesn't need those things.
I get the whole wanting to be like the most beautiful woman in the world (mom) but it's her job as her mom to tell her that she doesn't need those things, maybe a face cream if she really really wants something or a silly lipstick if she wants one.
No. 1871058
>>1866245Modern technology has definitely been a big contributor. Tons of tech is made to be an all-in-one, which is a huge consumerist selling point. Convenience makes things more complicated. I think it's less about simplicity now. Before, things were simpler. Technology used back then had one job, now people are relying on tech to get the job done for them. A server goes down? An entire store will close for the day because no one has been trained to manually make a sale anymore. One of my interests about tech is how easy it can be to break and corrupt. A splash of water can render your $1300 machine that you dedicate to being your bank, journal, email reader, phone, language learning tool, etc useless. Whereas, if you simply had separate things for all those functions, a splash of water on one thing, you'd still be able to go about your day. Also the fact more tech is made with cheaper materials and the software quickly becomes incompatible with older versions, it's a waste of money, it will not last 20 years like older tech and general non-tech items. I have a piece of tech with it's only simple function to be for light therapy, cost me $10 and has lasted me way longer than three phones I've had.
No. 1871326
>>1870079>And tbh with both the US and the UK introducing physician associates and nurse practitioners you don't have to imagine: A clinic staffed with only these morons killed my friend's child because they insisted they really were doctors, only knew a literal checklist of things, and refused to write out a referral after months of problems they couldn't correctly diagnose or treat. It's going to be horrible, people are going to pay a fortune for medical care and still suffer and die as if they had none at all.
>but the only exposure we had to marketing for those things was when my mum put the TV on for us and there were maybe 2 ads in between whatever was on CITV. The thing that's really creepy is the normalization of insane levels of consumption for normal people. TV ads are obviously fake, but social media shills make it look totally normal to go out and buy whole product lines, or premium priced products that 95% of people have no reason to be buying. And it seems "real" to most people. They don't question who the fuck would buy all the shitty colors of Baby Lips or a dozen $10 blind box toys.
No. 1871433
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>>1870923theres a house plotline in this
No. 1871809
>>1871806Excuse me? I thought that was a woman in her late 20s/early 30s
Before anyone thinks I'm doing some pickme shit, I'm 28 and the thing that made me think she's older is the style of clothes and make up.
No. 1872157
aaand brook bought another bag.
No. 1872180
and the ugly wallet she got, probably wallet #49302 in her collection at this point.
No. 1872191
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>>1872174The uniqlo mini round shoulder bag is awesome, it fits a ton of stuff in it, is good quality for the price, and there's a bunch of different colours. Even comes in consoom pink kek
No. 1872259
>>1872187Wishful thinking; anything "cute" with the illusion of practicality will make them foam at the mouths.
>>1870973You could tell so clearly that the child was struggling to find shit she was interested in, it shows in her choice of items being basic sheet masks and sparkly lip glosses. She is clearly disappointed that she didn't really want anything, she probably just wanted squishmellows like a normal child.
>>1869872I disagree, i've seem them go crazy for the ordinary and it has some of the most boring minimalistic packaging out of every skincare brand. The way the packaging looks doesn't matter, they just want to copy the influencers online, that's all there is to it.
>>1871570The enticement comes specifically from the trend of making skincare smoothies. It's also why the brand bubble appeals to these children too because of the dispenser. This is their version of making mud pies as some youtuber put it or mixing random flowers in water to make perfume.
No. 1872264
>>1870973There is a chance that this little girl will grow up to be the opposite of her narc mother out of spite and revulsion so not all hope is lost. Sad that she actually purchased this random shit her child picked out because that’s teaching kids to be terrible with money.
>>1871063The mom has cosmetic fillers, botox, lash extensions, and plenty of sun damage from tanning so you can bet that she’s insecure herself and teaching that to her daughter. The filter on the child at the beginning shocked me, I remember when the Kardashians got shit for doing that to their kids but now it seems a sizeable amount of millennial women do it to their children as well.
>>1872071I agree that she would look better in her color season but she’s a sorority girl who went to Alabama where the standards of what looks hot are being thin, tan, and having bleach blonde hair.
No. 1872266
>>1872258Nta but why do people no longer want to admit looking young for an age is a thing anymore? I saw a woman in her 60s get praised for looking young, she has no greys naturally, now wrinkles, was fit, etc. ofc there had to be the one person swearing she looks her age like no, no tf she doesn't
Also 16 yr olds don't look the same as women up to their 30s, that sounds like a pedo excuse
No. 1872279
>>1872157What the hell was happening during covid that caused zoomers to all collectively be fixated on what is
1. in a bag
2. how it's placed in the bag
3. the order each item goes in a bag
No. 1872311
>>1872279Sageblog but seeing these videos made me to realize how organized my bag can be using certain bags for certain stuff. I used to put everything inside my bag and then had to seek for it. Of course I don't have shelves full of products like them, but it does help.
>>1872187You'll have to ban cute stuff, pastel shades or Sanrio knock off in the meantime.
No. 1872324
>>1872266> Also 16 yr olds don't look the same as women up to their 30s, that sounds like a pedo excuseWat?
nonnie said she looked 16 and I was like “well yeah because you’re still under 25”. I’m almost 30 and when I was that age my friends would always boast about looking like a 16 year old.
No. 1872365
>>1872327Basically if the small part on the bottom comes off you can potentially be exposed to lead. I know Stanley’s are a popular consoom item but let’s not act like most products aren’t made with
sus materials. Maybe people should start testing their plastic kawaii plates and figures for lead and other harmful materials.
No. 1872376
>>1872259….Did this kid do that in a store?
Just fucking ban anyone under 18.
No. 1872403
>>1872377Yeah, that's why I put affordable in quotations. Didn't feel like getting too off topic or whatever by talking about how much more accessible stuff like surgery is becoming for non richfags.
>>1872381
>The fact that under 18s can easily get botox for under 50 bucks doesn't help eitherChrist. What? I'm used to them being able to get tattoos that easily but shitty back alley Botox for a 16 year old? Yeah, makeup is the least of their worries now..
No. 1872672
Nonas, I really feel weird about my own consoom.
I am one of those bag-prepper people. If you need something, I probably have it on me. I am a bit insane, so I have to carry a lot of shit around with me to feel safe. Like, now that I think of it, I currently have in my bag: a multitool, a sewing kit, a bottle opener, a full set of cutlery, a small boxcutter, glasses cloth, a tote, a small towel and a pocket ashtray.
The only things that get used up and replaced are meds, bandaids and menstrual products. All the other things are obviously not possible to really use up and just need cleaning.
But every time someone has a wardrobe malfunction and I just pull out my sewing kit, or I go to get boba and whip out my own straw, I feel like I am being judged. Or people tell me straight to my face that I must be weird or one of Those People (meaning tiktok overpack girlies)
I am not exactly trying to NLOG, it just feels weird to me that people actually see no fucking difference between someone producing a kilo of single-use plastic a day and someone who just wants to be prepared and help out where they can.
Some people are just neurotic, I guess.
No. 1872760
>>1872672>a multi toolare you out in nature a lot, or do you primarily use your bike so you need ready access to tools on the go in case you need to fix your bike? if not, ditch it
>a sewing kithow often do people have wardrobe malfunctions around you??? just grab a few safety pins instead of an entire sewing kit
>a bottle openerpractical, but there are small ones you can clip on your key chain, or might even be covered by your multi tool
>a full set of cutleryhow often do you get food to go/boba that you NEED this with you at all times?
>a small boxcutterif you really need to cut something, your multi tool probably covers it
>glasses clothuseful, i agree
>a toteuseful as well
>a small towelif there is ever an emergency in which you desperately need a towel, you can probably use your tote for that. otherwise you can just ASK for paper towels
>a pocket ashtraystop smoking
i get it, nonna, i like to be prepared for all times as well, but there is being prepared and then there's being a weirdo.
No. 1873020
>>1872780Hi, I quit, but have pals that do still and I get PISSED at them for littering lmao.
>>1872760Cutlery I also use at work for my meals tbh, almost daily, don't really want my cutlery hanging around there, shit gets lost all the time. And the towel is small, so can be used as a handkerchief for sweat/snot stuff.
On other points - yeah,
valid. But these are like… a security blanket, I guess?