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No. 2463671
File: 1743070756521.mp4 (16.41 MB, 720x1280, 1742968845061.mp4)
There was a recent brook cameo on an addyharajuku video and I thought it was funny.
No. 2467665
>>2467662Chiikawa is honestly one of the most boring mascot characters to me, at least with Sanrio they change up their characters looks regularly and put them in different fashions
Chiikawa just stares blankly at you and I honestly find him kind of ugly.
Though my point is more that Jaiden’s a basic bitch over anything else, like wow congratulations you like Pokemon, Miku, One piece and Chiikawa you’re oh so original and special, even in her video she was acting as if she discovered Chiikawa overseas even though they’ve been selling merch of it at miniso for like a year now kek.
No. 2467667
>>2467666And it’s used like a mascot character, what’s your point?
Miffy is originally from a children’s book series and Mickey is originally from animated shorts but they’re still 100% mascot characters.
No. 2467672
>>2467658doesn't she get a lot of sponsorships? chiikawa is super popular right now, maybe she's baiting for one. i've seen a ton of people buying chiikawa merch so it's kind of a self perpetuating cycle
>>2467665>>2467667>Chiikawa just stares blankly at you>Mickey is originally from animated shorts but still 100% mascot characternot to defend chiikawa consoomers but the comic/show is actually pretty fun, it's different from actual mascots like san-x and sanrio where the older characters were made first then the show(s) were made to sell merchandise. chiikawa started off as a comic. i wouldn't buy anything since i don't really like how any of the characters look, but the actual show is funny. i'd respect some autist into old mickey cartoons over a consoomer any day as long as they dont use their autism to justify overspending on random mickey themed junk
No. 2467723
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>>2467661it's because she's a hypocrite who bends over backwards to be a handmaiden and "morally correct" despite owning multiple figures from series decried by internet brainlets as irredeemable/
problematic. not to mention she spreads misinfo on jp subcul and fandom culture in general while acting like an authority about it. she's annoying and lame.
>>2467665honestly i think chiikawa is less egregious since like that other anon said it all started off as a comic (originally published on nagano's twitter iirc). the difference is that sanrio/disney/etc are all built around selling merch. sanrio in particular, since mascots typically get merch before featuring in shows or becoming fixtures at puroland. it kinda just hit a sweet spot with the pandemic where a lot of people became obsessed with it and nagano decided to make some sweet bucks off it's success. i do agree that the consoom around it is pretty wacky, though. JP fans in particular are wild.
No. 2468665
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This looks so fucking depressing.
No. 2468798
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>>2468672>my figure collection linkI've always said my precious moments are the anime figures of the past
>>2468665terracotta warriors looking ass shelf
No. 2470141
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The other reason I posted this, more lil doods. Name a more masculine hobby than collecting pastel monster Bratz.
No. 2470755
Brook used to have 300 makeup bags, but now she's whittled it down to only 40. Sustainable queen.
No. 2471056
>>2470755>promoting shein in 2025>being "obsessed" with a clear plastic bag that "came free with a set" (it's literally just the packaging for the set)kek
>>2471043Even worse is a bop is basically the new gen Z term for slut. The "bop house" is literally the name of an OF content creator house. What does she even mean calling her makeup bag that?
No. 2471941
>>2471803A bop meaning a good song has been around for a while, I might even classify that as late-millennial slang. Can't say I've ever heard it used to refer to objects before though.
>>2471899Agreed, or even just early zoomer (graduated high school before/during covid) and late zoomer (entered high school during/after lockdowns). Also a zoomer myself and I struggle to keep up with whatever 13 year olds are saying these days.
Back on topic though, and speaking of weird generational divides, I feel like I've seen more early zoomers leaning into anti-consoomerism (I see a lot of them shitting on shein promoters and getting concerned with microplastics, but that might just be my circles) whereas younger zoomers have just completely given up. I guess they've just decided everything is so fucked there's no point even trying to fix it, so get the dopamine hits while you still can.
No. 2472007
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>>2468676doesn’t really matter when she has this figure in her favorites (heavily nsfw)
No. 2473007
>>2472007Are we sure this is a woman?
>>2470755I love how she made sure to let us know that she's been storing bags inside other bags since she was 4 years old and she's lowkey proud of it. She's a prodigy, you guize!
No. 2478479
File: 1744028747500.mp4 (11.5 MB, 720x1280, Pack My Daughter s Stanley For…)
I sincerely hope this is just trolling considering she tagged this as coquette
No. 2478484
File: 1744029181668.mp4 (17.37 MB, 720x1280, Her reaction is everything.mp4)
>>2478479Welp never mind, her entire channel is like this. here's her sperging out on her comment section saying she does this so her daughter isnt impressed by "your dusty son2" despite her daughter looking about 7 keke
No. 2478515
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why do all these people have the same exact products, and she didnt even put them in neatly
No. 2478522
File: 1744032143799.mp4 (9.73 MB, 720x1280, _asmr_ pack my bag!.mp4)
Because everyone who goes out to the park needs their own carefully organised mini snack plate with like 12 kinds of snacks
No. 2478524
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this one made me chuckle because why the fuck is tajin a purse essential lol
No. 2478534
File: 1744033201133.mp4 (4.27 MB, 360x640, videoplayback2.mp4)
and they only rode 2 rides…
No. 2478832
>>2467658she is a youtuber that appeals to the most common denominator, retards.
I feel bad for her because her OC is probably the most violated youtube character ever, but yeah I sometimes get jealous because she gets to have all those pokemon plushies, no fair.
No. 2478862
>>2467658im so
sus of "autistic" women online who always get "hyperfixated" on the most socially acceptable normie shit ever. get attached to a 20+yr old piece of media that nobody cares about like the rest of us
No. 2478898
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>>2478612Ffs ikea display rooms look more lived in than this. It's purely for decoration 90% of this stuff isn't even useful. Also the little trays with "random" stuff on them that are so curated kek
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>>2478983Not sure about now but before g4 it was definitely dominated by autistic women. I remember when it was super niche and I read MLP customs blogs using g3 dolls as a base.
No. 2480256
>>2478612>fake books with blank pagesThose are notebooks! They're not made explicitly for decoration. There are fake books that are literally just wooden/plastic blocks made to look like a set of artfully arranged classics that don't even open for storage. They're meant for plays or movie sets, but a lot of people use them to pad out their shelves. Your vidrel isn't quite at that point yet, probably because they don't come in pastel or FOTM manga varieties.
>>2478484It's not about the daughter having a good Easter, it's 50% an ad and 50% the mom living vicariously through her kid and pretending that it's good parenting instead of a therapy replacement.
It's not nearly as heinous as family vlogging or parents filming their toddlers in bikinis eating ranch-covered cucumbers, but it's got to take a toll on the kids whose childhoods were built for engagement. Imagine how crushing it'd be to learn that all the attention and gifts you got from your parents were nothing more than a way to rake in views and all your childhood milestones were remembered by the amount of views they pulled in or the sponsorships they landed your parents.
No. 2480464
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Found the male equivalent of bath and body works consoom.
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>>2480482Nonny just because he’s buying soap doesn’t mean he’s using it…
No. 2480604
>>2478515It's all just PR packages. That's also why everything is brand new from the package and with obvious branding. The whole thing is one giant multi-product ad, and I guarantee the caption was something about an amazon link in her bio.
>>2478524The sheer amount of single-use plastic crap and redundant shit. Why do you need two fold-up hair brushes? Why do you need a thousand tiny tic-tac containers?? If you really can't fit a regular tic-tac container into your bag, why not just get one tiny container and refill it from a big container? The only real "necessity" here is the tampons, and of course even those are from some fancy brand and not the generic or inexpensive stuff.
No. 2486963
File: 1744654755767.mp4 (4.58 MB, 720x1280, POV- el restock de fin de mes.…)
Got a laugh out of me.
No. 2487025
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Labubus are so ugly and why are people stil defending gacha shit in this day and age? When I was 10 I collected blind bags (puppy in my pocket) and I felt so frustrated about not knowing my pull but it was 3dollars, these are fucking 30! Thirty dollars for not knowing what you're gonna get for a toy?? Insane. Gachas and blind bags should be regulated.
No. 2487039
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>>2487025I hate them because they look like picrel
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>>2487039They look like this to me
No. 2487794
>>2487703Apparently these things are sold out everywhere and the scalping is insane. Some stores started limiting how many boxes you can buy.
Also I've heard of them being stolen and girls using special transparent bags with additional straps for security to still show off these and not get them stolen.
This is crazy to me, since they existed since forever, but got that popular and expensive because of couple k-pop snaps. People really enjoy their fads and parasociality.
No. 2488648
>>2487161I will truly never understand why people are so obsessed with Sonny Angels. Why would anyone want a little figure of a naked baby?
At least with other consoomer mascot stuff like Sanrio there's more to it than just blind boxes, and the characters have cute positive message backstories or whatever to draw people in. Do these ugly labubus even have a purpose for existing? They feel like nfts to me.
No. 2488921
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mmm i got the trader joe's tote bags in tj feels so good i love them all i love easter. so cheap. didn't hear they were sought until i walked up and was told they were out days ago. i hope all resellers feel pain. patience and they come. i cant even be embarrassed by the consumption i love them
No. 2488956
>straight women buying bunny figures
ugh
No. 2488972
>>2488956By a weird chain of events my mother, my aunt and I ended up at a store that specialized in anime figurines which somehow they had never been exposed to before.
They fucking loved the bunny girls.My aunt almost bought one! They were cooing over them, they thought the characters looked so pretty and they liked the uniformity of the bunny outfits. I guess they just don't notice or care that the intent is sexual, the figures were just pretty dollies to them.
No. 2489319
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>>2488338I'm just fascinated.
>>2488989Aside from crap with the Playboy bunny on it (and I can see how people who didn't know any better might randomly find it cute) I remember there being a trend of random sexy figurines and drawings being marketed to women. I'm thinking especially of the early 2000's sexy fairy trend. Pic related is an uglier example but just as an example and I remember plenty that were far "sexier."
No. 2489869
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>>2489319I hate these and I also hate the annoying ~real~ fairies that are just scary monsters. Imo this is a good fairy representation
and consoomerism I would engage in tbh, they look really cool on a shelf. I love cool book spines No. 2489895
>>2478484>Everyone supports mothers who expose their children to dirty environments>But everyone hates me because I do nice things for my daughterYeah, everyone loves evil and hates good, makes total sense. People who have this mentality are always the
worst, self victimizing and incapable of admitting fault in anything so they frame people calling them out as absurd.
No. 2490502
>>2489836& you guys did and it sparked conversation youre welcome. Crazy that people buy these trader joes items and resell them immedietly for tripple the price despite plentiful stock.
>>24895491
No. 2490528
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>>2489319this and Luis Royo ruled over 80% of girl's 00s bedroom walls
No. 2491420
>>2489895Ikr, the women who sympathize with the filthy moms are normally women who struggled with mental health and keeping a household running with minimal or no help. They're not applauding filth, just the effort that's being put into turning the situation around. The lady in that video can't not see that, she's being deliberately obtuse to have a reason to be butthurt about something that has nothing to do with her at all.
And it's not the woman's 'fun parenting' that's being shit on, it's the stupid expensive makeup and other inappropriate crap she's gifting her very young kid that's being called out. If she stuck to the age appropriate stuff like bubble wands, legos and coloring books nobody would have a problem with this.
>>2490542Or harass them into making moid figures with removable clothes kek.
No. 2492073
>>2491434Thank you.
>>2491820The umbrella made me lol.
No. 2492301
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I have a terrible addiction to buying stuff like pic related. It's kind of mentally ill because the plushes all have the same base and just have different color variations. Plus, the quality has actually gotten worse over the years. Yet, I can't stop collecting them even with my boyfriend and my mom telling me to stop and giving me shit for it. I was even told I was no different from a Brony because it is an autistic fixation on something that has the same base and only different color variations. Yeah, I am retarded.
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For fucks sake sanrio just rerelease these stupid bunnies.
No. 2492339
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I collect Calico Critters. They're called Sylvanian Families in Europe, I think? I'm a burgerfag. I'm so sad because my dad's dog got to my hedgehog family and mutilated them. It is the one thing I'm actively a consoomer of and have been since I got my first high-school job. I am a dragon and they are my shiny gold trinkets that I horde, or whatever the legends say.
No. 2492345
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>>2492301you might as well be chucking your money into a bonfire with that kind of plush quality holy shit kek literally picrel
No. 2493697
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Does all the plastic ever get exhausting?
No. 2493920
>>2493067honestly it makes sense so the anti consoomers can make the consoomers stop, anons should bully them for their spending habits instead of whining about them posting in here.
>>2493054 has the right idea
No. 2494104
>>2493857Good Funkopops according to my coworker and this one particular client who would come to my GS store EVERY day. Are called "chase" and I honestly do not know what that means other than it being different than the rest. (Ex: It's Miku that has her leek that glows in the dark while the other miku of the same model/make/number wtv doesn't have a glow in dark leek). Otherwise things like the condition of the box matters LOL. I've had clients refuse the ONLY pop we had of that character cause the box had a minor dent.
Fuck gamestop and fuck funkpops.
No. 2495075
>>2494315Well, for me personally, there are a few reasons why I feel it's a detrimental habit to have. Waste of money being the most obvious reason. Sure, it brings joy for a moment and you can argue that it's not a complete waste of money because of that but I don't think it's healthy to rely on objects as sources of happiness. Plus, there's just something kind of mentally ill to me about owning a large hoard of objects that are so similar-looking and also take up way too much space. I look at my stupid collection and it brings me some happiness I guess but when I think about it objectively, it's extremely retarded. It's become an autistic "gotta collect them all" thing for me as the companies just keep spitting out the same shit but with different colors and increasingly cheaper materials.
Also, blogposting here but I nearly bought another stupid plush animal pillow the other day. However, I managed to stop myself from doing it after thinking more about my mental illness and how poorly-made these products actually are. Hopefully I'll finally stop the autism for good and just be happy with what I have already.
No. 2495106
>>2494315All consoomers justify their consooming with “but I really like it though”. Even the ones who are easily swept up in trends and buy things on a whim only to get rid of them shortly after believe at the time of buying that they really like or need the things they’re buying.
>>2495075Where are you coming across these products? It might help to limit your exposure to them, and only pay attention to the ones you already have. You’re absolutely right that companies deliberately feed into this urge to collect that many of us have and the best way to resist it is to completely ignore the existence of the new products. You can’t experience FOMO if you’re unaware that you’re ‘missing out’ on anything (because you aren’t, not really, you don’t need any of this stuff). Maybe you can also make a point of saving the money and only treating yourself with something more meaningful occasionally while still building up a little nest egg for yourself. You can do it, anon! After a while large collections become sources of stress (taking up space, collecting filth etc.) so this sounds like a good point to stop adding to it and simply enjoy what you have.
No. 2496119
Sometimes I think about my collections that I actually enjoy, like I have a pretty big variety of dolls I customized and made characters of my stories with, but sometimes I look at my huge AF itabag full of husbando merch and it really hits me.
This stuff will outlive me. Especially considering I am chronically ill bordering on disabled.
Why waste my money on this. I like surrounding myself with pretty things, recently I started turning my interest towards artists merch, like prints and badges, but sometimes, when I think of it all realistically… Sure, my room is pretty to me. It's joyful to see my favourite things surrounding me, I also like the feeling of what little control of my life I can get.
But then I remember why I only thrift for clothes and frequent junk and overstock shops and no-buy groups for everything else in my life. Because if it's already in the world, I don't do more damage.
I feel like a hypocrite sometimes. Like I am pretty much eco-friendly, except for my huge fuck-off collections that sometimes feel like the joy of my life, my favourite hobby I can still do (I craft and customize and so and so) and sometimes feel like I am drowning what is left of my life in denial.
No. 2496277
>>2496260Thayrt. Yes, I already only mostly buy secondhand. I had two preorders in all my buying history. Mostly Mandarake and Mercari. Still, sometimes it's kinda overwhelming how useless it all is.
With dolls, I buy new sometimes, more than I'd like.
The issue is not really that. Is that I am, a person who's making smarter decisions about environment, lives in a pile of plastic that will outlive them still.
I don't know, I just got existential dread out the ass recently. Also in time for spring cleaning, I am already in a "I don't really enjoy this particular merch" mood and been selling some pieces, but sometimes I feel like I want to get rid of all of it since it all kinda seems pointless at times.
No. 2497006
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>>2492301Nona I completely understand you, I'm obsessed with the rabbits items from this brand.
I even bought a set of empty tea boxes on mercari japan kek, I use them to store treats for my rabbits so I like to tell myself it wasn't an useless purchase.
No. 2497181
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>>2497006The brand is so cute but I'm just disappointed with the recent plushies they've made. They went from high-quality, saturated prints and solid stuffing to these flimsy pieces of shit that feel very thin and have very desaturated prints at times. It also doesn't help that they come flattened now, something they didn't used to do. Like look at this screen I grabbed from their social media. They didn't even bother to let these things puff up a bit before displaying them and selling them in their shop. Oh well, I have a lot of their stuff prior to them cheaping out on materials so it's time I stopped consooming anyways.
No. 2499182
>>2498818I don't know about Thailand specifically but East Asian countries can be insanely consoomerist and their consoomer trends are infectious. It might be they're adopting practices from their neighbors.
>It seems that everyone is doing it so they can "heal their inner child" after growing up with shitty parents.The sad case for so many people.
No. 2499393
>>2499387Not really, no, or at the very least I've never heard of it in that way. Most people who shop at thrift stores have probably donated before, though.
>>2499354Part of it is the old hoarder mentality of "OMG THIS IS SUCH A DEAL I HAVE TO GET IT ALL", part of it is fueled by social media glorifying consumption, and part of it is because finding actually good stuff at thrift stores these days is pretty hard thanks to scalpers/resellers and the stores putting all the expensive brands on their online auction sites.
No. 2500017
>>2499964IMO this is the worst type of consumer there is, the type who gets briefly so autisticaly obsessed with some dumb shit that they feel the need to collect everything with their special interest cheaply plastered on it. Like, in what world would you ever want or need a flat, unopened Bluey balloon? Or a children's Bluey toothbrush?
The funniest and most sad part of this, is that they all sell their collections off when they get bored or the trend passes. He literally mentions in the intro that he's selling all this junk because he lost interest in that toddler cartoon, they can't even be consoomer autists correctly without being giant posers lmao.
No. 2500163
imagine spending thousands of dollars on expensive markers just to color some ai generated slop.
No. 2500893
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be honest, is it really that hard to get fashionable clothes as a fat woman? aren't there entire brands geared towards fat women, especially in the us were obesity is the norm? i'm fat myself and from europe and even i don't have trouble buying the latest microtrends if i wanted to.
No. 2500897
>>2500163she only paints baby shit too
No. 2501690
>>2501139Any person who cares about "dressing trendy", as she says, she wants to buy trendy shit that thin girls wear, is retarded and has neither style nor personality.
There are 50 new trends every month, why would anyone with a sense of identity ever follow trends is beyond me.
On an unrelated note. Went to a thrift store (slavfag) that previously specialised in used mid-range brand clothing, it's even in the title of the shop, and I swear to god, half the racks were taken up by Shein, Boohoo and Prettylittlething. And you can tell without even seeing the tag, just by touching the clothing and seeing the construction, it's from there.
I get previously worn stuff, most of my clothes are that, but knowing the quality of falling apart after a couple wears, who in their right mind would buy previously owned Shein.
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Good Smile Company halts shipment to US because of the tariffs, guess the collectors need to pick a new personality now.
No. 2501828
>>2501817They already ended partnerships with Disney, afaik.
So all their properties are getting cancelled releases or no future chance of a re-run. Which I know has many Twisted Wonderland fans in tatters currently.
No. 2502009
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Oh no, not the heckin' funkos!!
No. 2502890
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>>2502009this made me check the Funko subreddit and wow. so gangsta.
No. 2504787
>>2502915What sends me is that she just drops them all without protection into that case. Do you want to smear car dust and whatever particular matter over your teeth?? If you must keep a toothbrush in your car, just get toothpaste tablets and a normal brush with a case.
This is probably ragebait, but these people are also genuinely beyond saving. Disposable everything, single use everything, I want to shove all the trash they accumulate in a single month up their asses and they'd surely burst from just that.
No. 2505127
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So many people in the comments were complimenting this hideous rabbit thing… consoomers will truly like anything if the algorithm tells them to. I can't get over how fucking ugly it is.
No. 2505224
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>>2505127Labubus are ugly but I get the appeal, it's like a Moomin-style of cute. They remind me of Little My. I still wish Liila or Baby Three became the popular keychain doll, they're cuter and more varied.
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>>2505235They are both fluffly and got flat faces. I do like labubu's mischievous evil face more though. I think the selling point for me is the face, if they had faces like
>>2505224 i wouldnt like them. I really liked where the wild things are as a child and i am pretty sure its what inspired labubus.
No. 2505250
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>>2505224How dare you insult moomin like that, labubus aren't a fraction of as cute or charming
No. 2505253
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>>2505246They should hire me as their spokeswoman. I love those mischievous shits so much. I would never consoom them though, i got a small keychain in my favourite color and thats it. He looks really cute next to my godzilla figs too. They need to make more creepy-cute mascots. I can only think of labubus and domo kun.
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>>2505250I said they look like Little My. Labubus look like they would bite because they like it, too.
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>>2505155Idk why people are insulting you I think the labubus are cute too… the Sanrio stuff almost feels TOO cutesy and pink, and doesn't appeal to me much. Labubus are maybe the first of these type of things where I was drawn to them, besides miffy. I like when it's cute but not overly pink and aggressively femanine.
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>>2505127I actually think the Labubus rabbit things are cute lmao, even cuter than
>>2505224. Different strokes for different folks I guess
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i think monchhichis have always been the best eastern consoom mascot, they're beloved by sanriofags, kids, streetwearfags and non-weeb normies alike, they're monkeys which are the cutest animal, objectively, and they've looked the same since the 70s so that basically proves they were perfect since the inception.
the new bebichhichi thing they're doing to appeal to trendy consoomers looks soulless and i wouldn't buy them though, pic related.
No. 2505694
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>>2502009I've hated Funko Pops with a passion since they came out, I hate their faces and black eyes so much. Exception: the only one that's kinda cute is BMO from Adventure Time because their eyes are little black dots anyway
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>>2505694kinda ot but I hate how people compare the q posket as the Japanese funko; actually yeah i thought they were pretty ugly n as well, but ive really come around them and like how they kinda resemble classic dolls. Yeah there can be some ugly ones but I find them cute.
No. 2505893
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>>2505389>the Sanrio stuff almost feels TOO cutesy and pink>I like when it's cute but not overly pink and aggressively femanineClearly you don't know much about sanrio then. There are plenty of sanrio characters that aren't pink and cutesy and are more similar to the likes of Miffy, it's just that they aren't the most popular. Lots of San-X characters are like this as well. Labubu is just a level of hideous that I can't get behind, it reminds me of a creepy-cute version of the left in picrel, garish and ugly.
No. 2505993
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Spotted in a Japan proxy Discord server, I'm absolutely baffled. He has 748 items logged on MyFigureCollection alone (448 being figures) and has stated that he will never sell any of them, yet refuses to display them in any way. Actual mental illness.
No. 2506929
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what do you guys think of people bulk buying random kitschy trinkets? i do like collecting things like this but i feel like they should be accumulated slowly and associated with memories and places, not just all boxed up and delivered by some etsy rando
No. 2506957
>>2506929It'd be neat to split the bundle and give them out as gifts or maybe if it was a mystery box deal get a bunch of oddities to use as crafting. Idk maybe I'm being overly generous in thinking it isn't a way for a shop to easily grift random shit they find and for people to buy a personality.
>>2505997Maybe he's waiting for his own Shinku to manifest after ordering enough crap kek
No. 2506958
>>2506929This is cute but all of these trinkets are meant to be collected, crafted, and gifted over time. You can't buy a personality bundle like this and call it a day, it's depressing. Everything looks cheap and fake anyway…
>>2506957I agree, maybe you can craft with them or gift them to your friends at a party or something. With today's standards though, people are probably buying these bundles to fit in some type of tiktok influenced personality-aesthetic-core. It's all so performative…
No. 2507248
>>2507094This, in fact I'm pretty certain
all of the items are from aliexpress, aside from the jaw bone.
No. 2509084
what the fuck
No. 2510546
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>>2509140Where did you get your knockoff? I notice Amazon has knockoffs on the brand new line too. Kek
No. 2510771
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Girl should invest in a treadmill or gym subscription instead of shelves of coomer figures and online attention tbh
No. 2517846
brook's daughter is having surgery soon
No. 2517854
>>2517846the first 5 seconds of this tiktok are insane
>1000$ haul>this will piss some people off>am i a shopaholic ? NOalso around the 5mn mark she swears she doesn't have caca on her hands
No. 2518067
>>2517931I know, I literally called her a character. An ugly and annoying one, literal European Caillou.
The other Moomin characters are cute and nice, I don’t understand why people simp for this one over the Moomintroll family or even that poor rat creature Sniff that she bullies all the time despite him mogging her in terms of character design in every single way.
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>>2510771She's insufferable
No. 2518495
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>>2510771She's also a magatard
No. 2518516
>>2518513we can be sure of that, as she's also surely never eaten a plain vegetable or can touch her toes the fuck
What do we think is going to be the next cute mascot character everyone suddenly "hyper fixates" on? I hope it's not paddington bear, he's such a cutie
No. 2518694
>>2518590>when did this country get hateful?Look at the orange man you worship
>>2518494delusional, knowing how many leftists love anime
No. 2518862
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>>2517854her clothes are so ugly and clash with her accessories so hard. for someone obsessed with pink & cute i expected her to wear something actually pink & cute. guess not
No. 2519475
>>2518862My god these are profoundly unflattering minus the white dress. These do nothing for her figure. Stilettos with an oversized t shirt and skintight cycling shorts? What in God's name? She looks like she dresses out of the lost property.
There are dresses out there for her body type.
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>>2505680>the new bebichhichi thingThey were a thing for over 20 years and they look cuter imo
No. 2521444
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it's so pathetic how moid consoomers try to buy a personality. like yeah female consoomers and their 5000 beauty products or hello kitty knockoff pieces are cringe but with moids it's just extra pathetic.
No. 2521547
>>2521444I never got collecting alcohol. My mother has a wine collection, but she actually drinks it eventually, just keeping stuff she likes for a special occasion. She's very particular about brands and years, so when she gets to, she stockpiles certain bottles because they're valuable or something.
Tbh, I am just salty, because she kept 2 bottles bottled the year I was born to drink with me when I graduate university. Then she said it's for my 30th birthday. One of the bottles she drunk with a friend, one of them is still there. I graduated, I turned 30, never tasted a drop. What's the fucking point even, all those bullshit things. Alcohol is alcohol. You drink it. If there's a specific occasion, yeah, you drink it.
Sorry. I don't think she did that on purpose, but the level of importance she put on those bottles was ridiculous and it stuck out to me, and eventually she just didn't do what she was going to do. Not like it's gonna go bad, but even alcohol autists apparently forget why the fuck they kept a certain bottle.
No. 2521838
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>>2521499>moids are total ass at presentation>perfumesI noticed this the most when I looked into perfumes and found men's cologne stashes, imagine spending thousands of dollars on this stuff and you can't even get some risers and a nicer shelf. I wouldn't store my power tools on this thing, let alone a nice fragrance.
I've seen deranged bed bath and beyond hoarder setups that are still almost universally better than every man's colonge collection.
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>>2521838Tinfoil but maybe the male loneliness and depression epidemic is caused by the lack of enrichment in their enclosures like picrel
No. 2523836
>>2518703I wanna see what them jowels look like so bad, it's like when fat asian girls would hide their face fat with their hair.
She's gotta be huge.
No. 2525022
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Horrifying
No. 2528235
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As much as I despise Trump and tariffs the amount of whining from people who think they're small business owners for drop shipping plastic slop from China is incredibly entertaining
No. 2530640
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you are still an addict, just a different kind. and you're using your sick child for views.
No. 2531643
the dissonance between how much cutesy pink stuff she hoards vs her personal style is astonishing to me.
No. 2534515
Brooke got rid of shit for her baby daddy
No. 2534835
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>>2533611I don't think bag charms came from weebs I remember these from when I was a kid in the 2000s and then before that it was the bead lizards. I am glad they're at least turning cuter though I didn't understand or like the fluffy balls
No. 2535174
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>>2534835It’s not that bag charms are exclusively a weeb phenomena but that they had a different level of importance or role within weeb circles. Having one charm isn’t really what I am referring to but something closer to like picrel. I think they work less as a trendy accessory but more like a signifier to others about your interests. I remember excessive and large bag charms only really being a thing in nerdy, weeb circles in the mid 2000’s.
And I may or may not be one of the people who partook kek In the case of the kpoop rabbits I meant that it acted as a signifier of your interest in kpoop originally but has spread outside of that culture into a general trend now.
No. 2536044
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>>2487025I read an article about the UK saying people got into fights to get these and that they had to pull them out of physical stores for a while to avoid such incidents. And that these get scalped for insane prices.Are people actually ok? (rhetorical question)
No. 2536311
>>2536295My picrel was a random example, but yes Mawaru Penguindrum came out in 2011. It’s just difficult to find examples that predate then since so much of what comes up is y2kcore or whatever from the past few years. I remember having an excessive amount of bag charms and keychains on my purse around 2007 and that being a big thing at anime conventions around that time as well kek
>cellphone charms/strapsYeah I remember that too. I miss the phone charms to be honest I always thought they were super cute. I didn’t get a phone until smartphones were more common so I missed that trend sadly.
No. 2536752
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>>2536544I think that's what annoys me most about the whole bag charm "trend". It started as a way to personalize your bag to show off your hobbies/interests, but somehow people on tiktok have made customization bland because everyone gets the same bag with basically the same combination of accessories that don't even say anything about the owner aside from "trendy". It's always a claw clip, a random ribbon tied into a bow, a gacha plushie, a pointless wrist strap and always one of those stupid coach fruit charms (or a knock-off kek). The bags barely even look lived in, and the charms are always organized in a way that's perfectly "aesthetic". I have way more respect for the average itabag-owning weeb tbh, at least their bag says something about the owner's hobbies. I couldn't tell you a single thing about whoever owns picrel aside from "tiktok zoomer"
No. 2536902
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>>2534942Kek what a funny coincidence, I bought a Kipling bag just the other day. They still put the little monkeys on the bags. Their fashion backpacks get good reviews, if you want something cute but functional and durable, they're a good option.
No. 2537059
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>>2536752I want to get behind bag charms real bad but all of what I've seen is either too cutesy, not cute enough, too big, or too small and convoluted. Or simply put, too zoomery. Pic rel is nice enough but I can't deal with the anxiety of it getting lost or pulled out by someone. Maybe one day.
No. 2537064
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Not sure if this was posted before but kek.
No. 2537355
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>>2537151after they phased out the charm hole, they had these headphones jack adapters for them
… actually my smartphone still has a headphone jack, I can still live my phone charm dreams
No. 2537411
>>2537160kek. why are you bragging about your phone brand being successful enough to order cases for it online itt?
>>2537355these are dumb as hell ngl.
No. 2538402
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Don't understand who in their right mind will spend 20 euros on empty boxes tf
No. 2538448
>>2538433They might already have the contents of the box and want to resell it for a higher price as NIB. If they do a lot of consoom content the boxes are a cheap way to pad out hauls and shelves.
I've seen a LOT of designer packaging, shopping bags, gift boxes etc online and it sells well. Think of how many haul videos, Christmas content, birthday gifts etc that you've seen that have piles of designer boxes and bags in the background. Most of them are probably empty props or filled with fakes.
No. 2538491
>>2536311>>2537151>>2537122Some smartphone cases have a place to put straps on, I did and it's fun and makes finding my phone at work easier since every phone is a black rectangle now.
I would just go for a plush strap or rubber, because I am afraid of scratching up my screen with acrylic/metal and having to fix or replace my phone any earlier than absolutely necessary. I am typing this as my phone key strap sways, it's just two extra holes in the case basically, but I've seen people put them through thinner plastic pieces in the case as well, like around the charging port.
Literally have an old piece of shit Redmi with just a clear case. You might find better luck getting a case online though, as most phone shops don't stock old/unpopular models.
No. 2538502
>>2538491Samefag, but I LOVE clear cases because they allow me to put not only a strap, but a card of my husbando with some stickers there too.
The clear case is a catch tho. I hate buying new ones, because the old one got yellow and mucky. I tried a bunch of anti-yellowing plastic hacks, like trying to bleach it out and several other things. But it just sticks. I hate that so much. Like, I want my husbando strap and card to look nice, but somehow the phonecases are still being made to be dirtying and yellowing from just your skin contact.
So if you are trying to consume less plastic, be aware of that.
I make a lot of straps and jewellery and accessories myself out of some random junk/thrift shop things, so I think that kind of offsets my impact, but it still gives me a sour taste in my mouth sometimes.
Also also. Just get an awl and put holes through a random case you have for a strap. You're losing nothing.
No. 2538648
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>>2538502the plastic might last longer if you regularly clean it, but idk. there's phone cases with a window for trading cards that might last longer
No. 2540942
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I am a sucker for cute stationery but I'm trying to me a lot smarter with my consumption of it. Whenever I watch a consoom haul video I don't feel the need to buy everything I'm shown but instead I watch the video and think "I have something similar to this already" or "this is a bit ridiculous, why do you need that many mechanical pencils" it helps me avoid buying more than I already need and encourages me to just use it up to its fullest instead of buying a shit ton of backups, why would I need to buy so many backup highlighter packs when a set would last me like 4-5 years?
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Always love to see some figure autism. The bad lighting truly makes this picture.
https://x.com/myhl_mastang/status/1928426937028096170 No. 2545082
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>>2540942>mfw there’s another perdziola nonaExcellent taste!!
No. 2546678
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will it kill these people to act normal about something
No. 2546920
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>>2546678Do the people love the manga that much? I've been seeing a crazy amount of chiikawa collections lately
No. 2546943
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>>2545082I just discovered him recently! I'm so amazed with his designs whether it's on the costumes or sets of the projects he's involved in. His illustration style is so pretty too, it has a vintage quality that looks so elegant and enchanting. I'm trying to learn art again and his work is very inspiring for character designs. I'm glad someone else on here enjoys his work!
No. 2547338
>>2538402Makes sense for set decorating and nothing else. Like if I was shooting an episode of a TV show with an episode about a character buying a bunch of labubus I would purchase empty boxes like this. Or if I just wanted wall decor to have in the background of a youtube video.
>>2538433glossier bags have a pink bubblewrap cushion so they are actually pretty handy. The zip top portion unfortunately sucks but I used to save mine and kept toiletries in there to keep in my purse. The cushion helped prevent breakage and it would contain leaks.
No. 2549290
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my mother said labubus are connected to the antichrist (demonic appearance) and Im starting to believe her. pure avarice
No. 2549800
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I feel like I’m going insane reading everyone in the comments saying this is totally normal
No. 2552983
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I've noticed people on TikTok are very actively against minimalism, why is it that? I understand they claim minimalism kills personal style, creativity, etc. But to me that's just bullshit, even if it's true, there's a difference between thinking minimalis is bad and claiming maximalism (and getting all the trash you can) is the best thing ever. I'm okay with both if that's your preference, I just don't understand why are young people so against minimalism.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Jellycatplush/comments/1l1v37v/my_collection/jellycat hoard from a subreddit i used to frequent (i had a massive overspending problem)
this shit is probably $1000+ alltogether
No. 2553029
>>2552983People often confuse minimalism as an aesthetic (sterile, monochrome) with minimalism as a philosophy or lifestyle (which can be as cute and colourful as you want). Cute things can be practical and if you truly love trinkets enough that they add to your life, it's compatible with minimalism. But when you're just a shopping addict accumulating clutter because of this
>>2553003, that's a different story.
No. 2553308
>>2552983I think it's less that young people as a group are against minimalism but more that these influencers would be out of a job if people stop buying cheap tacky crap so they go out of their way to demonise it. I think when this generation gets older the tide will turn though. When I was a teenager I used to watch all of those beauty gurus on YouTube with massive hoards of makeup and now the idea of having that much disgusts me and most of the people I used to watch barely get any views now. The average young person will get to a point where they realise they have more stuff that they could ever want and it's just collecting dust once the novelty wears off. Or when they finally move out of their parent's houses they regret it now that they have to deal with it all.
Sidenote: it really pisses me off that brands and influencers have gotten in on the memes about spending too much money. Everyone used to say that once a brand tries to get in on a meme that means the meme is over but now it's just become normalised and I hate it so much. Do young people now really like this kind of content unironically and not see through it? I'm not even a minimalist myself but I've noticed there's so many trendy audios about "I hate minimalism, it's boring" or "minimalism is for rich people or people with no personality" and I don't understand how regular people don't see through it. Influencers want you to buy more products, so of course they're going to say minimalism is for bland boring people and in order to be interesting and well rounded you need to buy whatever they're shilling. Again, I'm not even a minimalist but I think most people who are probably have more of a "personality" than those who sit on tiktok all day convinced they can buy one.
No. 2553462
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>>2549290These things are so fucking ugly, who the hell likes them? What's the appeal, can someone even explain? They look like creepy uncanny dolls.
No. 2553601
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Consoomers want to larp as poor. It is privelaged to spend 1000 usd buying two seperate sets of switches kek.
No. 2553602
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>>2553601From the same thread
No. 2553796
>>2553601If these are two people this is called having a job? Hell the actual price was revealed 2 months ago, that’s plenty of time to save ~$250 a month twice even if you don’t make that much. If you’re a thirdie I would understand feeling jealous but it’s relatively normal for someone with an American income as long as they aren’t spending that much every month on frivolous stuff or stupid shit like takeout. Buying it now when there are almost no new games is kind of stupid though, I haven’t gotten one myself. Seems like all the people getting mad are young, third worlders, or leeches. The children and entitled ebegging unemployed gendies getting mad in the comments are retarded though, a regular switch was still $300
>>2553602This is fucking stupid though and consoom
No. 2554454
>>2549290I like them because they remind of Where the Wild Things Are, and I really loved that book as a child. But I would never buy one unless it was under $10. And it would still feel weird, because I doubt most people buying them even really like them.
>>2549868>"if she's moving to another country soon how the hell is she going to bring all that useless garbage with her?"IKR. Her mom should be worried. It sounds like she can't financially support herself yet, is taking time off from work to fly to Korea, pissing money away on immigration lawyers, may lose her relationship and doesn't realize it yet, and on top of that is hoarding overpriced B&BW crap.
>>2552983Can't help but notice it's another very obese woman trying to compensate by hoarding 90 million "feminine" objects.
No. 2554609
>>2549809Very small candles can last several hours, the huge ones can last weeks. You wouldn't want to burn a candle the entire day, the smell would be horrendous, and if it's a shit quality candle like B&BW ones the wax can irritate your eyes, throat and nose. She should definitely get her shit together and get through them but it's not a quick fix, it's like telling someone to use an entire soap bar per shower.
>>2554360It's a trend unfortunately, it'll pass soon and you can go back to shopping for cool old band tees in peace without risking a heart attack at the price.
>>2554454>another very obese woman trying to compensate by hoarding 90 million "feminine" objectsEvery single time.
No. 2555460
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>>2538502>>2538524>>2538648>>2539390>>2540347>>2555421>>2555431Soft clear plastic will always eventually yellow, no matter what claims manufacturers make, what "hacks" you try out, or how often you clean it. The degradation happens due to simple environmental factors that can't be prevented if you are going to use the case. The only real solution is buying one that has hard clear plastic on the back (such as polycarbonate or acrylic), and non-clear plastic around the edges (as these have to be softer). I have this Spigen Ultra Hybrid case and it has held up very well. The black edges aren't the prettiest, but it beats having a yellow case that you constantly have to rebuy, imo. I'm sure there are probably others out there that have nicer colours, though.
No. 2556002
Nona's, any recommendations?
I wear men's boxers for my underwear, because I am built like a straight ruler and because I enjoy the coverage, but within half a year, these stretch to the point of getting in my ass the exact same as women's underwear do.
I have usually about 15 pairs in rotation, but it pisses me the fuck off that I keep good care of it, no holes or stains or anything, just the fit is becoming wrong.
I've read a bunch on boiling it or whatever, but it doesn't help.
Is it like, normal these days to toss out your underwear after half a year of intermittent wear?
Are there like, ideas or options on what fabrics will keep shape? I am afraid of wearing synthetics over my pussy (many reasons I think you can guess), so I am kinda lost and feel pissed this is even an issue.
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No. 2557503
>>2556002Anything that contains ANY elastine/spandex/Lycra/etc WILL wear out more quickly than 100% natural fibers. This is why denim jeans from the 1800's are still intact & on display, but the pair you bought 2 years ago already has saggy knees/butt/crotch/ripped at the thighs.
It's like a rubber band, in that after wearing/washing, the elastine will come back together. But stretch a rubber band out all day, over and over again, and it will lose the ability to regain it's original shape, like your underwear.
The cotton/natural fibers are mixed around the stretch material, so it is also unable to maintain the original natural strength it would have, before mixed fiber material.
It's a way for manufacturers to claim they are following consumer demands, while producing clothing, that even with the BEST attention, care & hand washing will wear out within 4-5 years, but likely much, much sooner.
No. 2557515
>>2557483Mentally ill. Can't believe all the people applauding this clutter. I'd constantly be nauseated seeing this shit take up space in my house. Please get real hobbies, retards.
>>2557495These things are seriously going to go the way of the Beanie Baby. Garish, repetitive designs with the additional "bonus" of collaborating with soulless billion dollar corporations like Coca-Cola and McDonald's. Such an artificial and forced trend and they will be destined for Goodwill shelves in a year. I hope all the ruined relationships and wasted money was worth it for these troglodytes. At least Beanie Babies came in a variety of forms and were sometimes cute. I can't stand the extreme repetition with Labubus and having to see them constantly in public.
No. 2559352
>>2559321Why would you confront her outright? Ask her if she's even got space to display them, or if she's going to resell them or do repaints. Offer to discuss display ideas with her, which will hopefully prompt her to look for somewhere to display her collection and realize that she might have over indulged. Ask her what she's planning to do with any doubles she might have. Mention that you've been looking at display and storage options for your own collection and it's so expensive/hard to find room for/otherwise inconvenient. Bring up old hobbies she's since ditched in a 'hey remember when you had a XYZ phase back then? You got a whole store worth of stuff in like a week lol' kind of way, so you don't sound preachy. Nudging her in the right direction, and giving her space to think about it without telling her what you want her to do, will give you better results than going full Victorian grandma and begging her to stop her foolish ways before it's too late.
At the end of the day your friend isn't your responsibility. If she wants to spend all her time and money hoarding plastic, it's not on you to fix her. All you can do is offer support. But it sounds like she might just be in the honeymoon phase of a new hobby and hasn't figured out what she really wants out of it.
No. 2559501
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Konsoomer kitty
No. 2559747
>>2559371The linked post shows that it's not just a 2DS collection. It's a massive hoard mostly made up of handheld Nintendo consoles.
You are right, though, the original 2DS is ugly as sin and unwieldy to boot.
No. 2559762
How much shit do you need for one evening routine?
No. 2559810
>>2559762Tbh, it's clearly someone trying to get sponsors and shit, all of those products are all brand new, her real routine must be half of what she showed herself doing and that routine she showed must be the
>wow I feel like shit I better put all of this on my body to feel slightly better about my life todayRoutine, which most women tend to have, I know I do.
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>>2559747Didn't actually look at the post woopsie, but now I'm even more flabbergasted. What the fuck is the point in owning multiples of the same fucking variant? And there were retards defending this?
Since we're talking about vidya consoom here's my thread tax:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/1kqig9i/my_husband_and_is_game_collection/ No. 2559888
>>2559762>>2559810This isn't someone
trying to get sponsorships, this
is a sponsored video. Douyin is primarily an e-commerce app. I've seen someone calling these types of videos "aggressively aesthetic" kek because it's just one product after another selling the fantasy of "your life can be as perfect as mine and you can look as good as me if you buy this product."
I've seen domestic themed videos before selling rose ice-cube trays, designer cupboards, multi-tiered steamers, miniature vacuum cleaners, airpod disinfectant, room sprays, egg timers, ipads/tablets, wireless phone chargers, shoe cleaner spray, and cooking oil all in one video kek.
No. 2560353
>>2559855I wonder if it's to artificially increase market value by holding onto as many as possible in hopes to resell in the future, but even then it looks insane. It doesn't feel like a cherished collection, it looks like poorly stored stock.
> picrelHope these people don't live in an earthquake-prone area. There is no fucking way they've played all of those games, much less completed them.
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Someone on Reddit spent 12k on lipstick. In the comments she said she ended up losing interest in using lipstick so she doesn't even use the hoard.
No. 2562234
>>2559762Perfume…for…
bed? SEVERAL perfumes for bed??
Let me guess, she has a Nigel kek No. 2562343
>>2561382It's worrying how many comments in these threads take obvious ads, ragebait and other clearly staged content at face value. Some of them could be transported into the Truman Show and wouldn't notice.
>>2562114This is 2016 levels of makeup hoarding if it's true. Remember when all the beauty gurus began selling off their stashes of expired unused makeup and took themselves off PR lists?
No. 2562380
>>2562343To be fair, most ragebait/ads do heavily promote consoom and is what leads to shit like
>>2562114 but the posts getting mad and saying influencers/paid models could save money by doing something else or calling them stupid are retarded. It's not real, criticizing them for making bad decisions doesn't make sense, it would be reasonable to still call it consoom and a bad influence though.
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the poster of this image said they don't have room anymore so they're going to put all these into a bag and into a closet so they can still keep them. fucking why? i'm sure they're going to fill the space with even more after that
No. 2564518
I feel bad for zoomie weeb girls obsessing over a dating sim of high school girls just because they finally found a moeshit media with a "fat representation"
Comment on another video:
>im sorry to ruin the fun but dont they look kinda young? ive seen an artist asking ppl how can they draw with this artsyle an adult and they couldnt do it without it ending up looking like a child
>yea I agree with u tbf.. it’s common in anime for characters to look younger than they should (not that i support it AT ALL) and they are in highschool The main reason i look past this is bc the whole game is cancelled anyway and barely anything still remains on the internet so it’s easy to ‘ignore’ those parts
No. 2564838
>>2564518Feeder fetish.
Why don't they latch onto Western media? Why the need to look for fatty representation on a culture that thinks that a woman weighing 60kg is obese even if she is 6'1?
No. 2567525
>>2564518This is how I learn that cancelled game had merch runs somehow
I wish they'd pick non-ero otaku bait fat characters to parade as "representation" like the one from Asukano or something
No. 2567849
>>2567368i guess it probably is real term for obsessed autistic people but there it's really just a copout to consoom without it being your fault, just like you aren't an asshole you have BPD, and you're not a fat gluttonous fuck you have BED. not that the labels aren't true or
valid, they are and they are useful when thinking about meds or therapy or whatever, it's just that people choose to view their failings from a medical POV like it absolves them of all responsibility rather than a moral one where they're in charge of wtf they're doing.
No. 2568059
>>2567368I could have written this post too. I should be grateful when her obsession is "just" consooming since she has focused on far worse things in the past, but her constant financial struggle because she overspends is tiring. She's my friend so I want her to have a good life, I don't want her to waste her money on crap we both know she won't care about in a few weeks. I'm not her mom and I don't want to have to put my own mental energy into convincing her it's a bad idea to waste another $3000 on consoom items. But if I agree with her that an item of chiikawa or labubu or whatever trend she fell for is pretty cute then I'm suddenly encouraging her to obsess and buy more. You just can't win! I wish they'd have some better outlet to put this obsessive energy into, but these people never care to change anyway.
>>2568022>a characteristic of hyper fixation is that it's there for an extensive period of time and doesn't just go away after a few weeksNot if they're talking about an ADHD hyperfixation. My friend is a diagnosed autist and ADHD run in her family too, so it's clearly linked to that somehow. Imo that also doesn't cancel out being a fandom hopper or consoomer. A person can be/do both at the same time.
No. 2568299
>>2567368I have friends who are like this and I find it annoying too but unless they're in dire financial stress and asking for help they usually don't listen. They tend to just feel attacked and make excuses if you confront them about it even softly. The only thing you can do is try and gently remind her of the last 'hyperfixation' she spent a ton of money on and then discarded, and stop validating her in any way for buying things. If you show too much enthusiasm when she shows you new shit she wants to buy or has just bought she will think that's how you two communicate and that she needs to keep buying stuff to facilitate a conversation. If you are in the same fandom show her that you can participate in it without shopping or admire things from afar without owning them. If she is the kind to use the term hyperfixation as an autism/adhd thing there's a chance she'll call you ableist if you confront her too. Also like
>>2567849 said it's likely they'll use it as an excuse to absolve themselves of any responsibility. It's a tricky situation, you need to tread carefully.
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i don't even see labubu buzz anymore kek is it already over
No. 2568654
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>>2567368>>2568059i'm an ex fandom hopping consoomer and the only thing that helped me was having a minimalism phase and not being able to make the money back. i managed to sell several artbooks and nendoroids but i had a lot of acrylic standees and keychains… god, so many keychains… anyway, after a few months of constantly having to redo my listings at my country's reselling platform i decided to pull the plug and bin all the leftover stuff. that sting i felt cured me forever. i still check amiami sometimes out of curiosity but i never really want to buy anything. the only merch i bought in the past four years was picrel (which still makes me happy to this day) and a knockoff husbando pin off of aliexpress. i paid 2 euros for the pin and when i received it in the mail i cringed so hard and tossed it back into a drawer. so that also helped solidify that i'm not a merch person anymore. fingers crossed that your friend one day experiences such an awakening too!
No. 2568825
>>2568801Theres only two series I would do this for because I re-read them periodically and they are better in physical copy but theres no way anyone's reading that many series often enough to justify it
>>2568807You could probably already donate to a library. My library has a big manga section but almost every series is missing the first couple books cause no one brings them back
No. 2572972
>>2572835Fat people, especially fat women, believe that being obese is the same as having a rare disablity or long term injury they didn't give themselves, or the same as being an ethnic minority or LGB. They think being called a fatass in middle school by retarded kids is as bad as being a
victim of racism and homophobia your whole life so they want to cope with fictional characters with big boobs or a slightly chubby stomach so they can pretend they look like that.
>>2568807I don't know how that could work in terms of connections and money. It's a good idea but as other anons said people rely on other options like the library. However your odea reminded me of library boxes or book boxes, I'm not sure how to translate that. I've sold a lot of manga and novels because I needed more space on my shelves and more money, and some of these books were a disappointing but nobody wanted some really cheap classic novels and DVDs so I put them on one of these boxes in a train station and they were gone the next day. I had to really look for it though despite going to that train station everyday and only knew about that one thanks to the book store employee telling me where exactly it was. If you live in a big city maybe there are similar boxes outside, or maybe an organisation already exists to donate books and merchs to kids so you just need to ask if you can work for them maybe.
>>2572687Many of the manga I got rid of had bad translations or editions too so it really depends. Whenever I regret selling my JJBA volumes I remember how some of the texts were in the wrong speech bubbles and how sound effects in my first language.
No. 2573115
>>2572979kek I was thinking about JJBA in French in particular. Stone Ocean was so bad I remember one volume where the pages that explain who the characters are before the story starts had ALL the paragraphs attributed to the wrong characters. Like the green baby's description right under a picture of Pucci. I regretted having to sell my books at the time but when I think about it maybe I shouldn't have bought them in the first place. I only started buying them because the scans for Golden Wind were total shit.
>Older ones seemed to have more care put into themIt really depends on each manga. When I read my older manga I realize how some of the translators must have been lost boomers trying anf utterly failing to make the young characters talk like people their age. Like in Fujoshi Rumi/Otaku Girls. I liked the manga a lot at the time but even when it was being released the characters were saying weird outdated slang for no reason at all. Some pages are completely different if you compare them to the English official translation, not in a good way at all. Black Butler mistranslated one line that made one plot twist look like it came out of nowhere too.
I thought Ciel was being a schizo in the green witch arc instead of remembering his brother because a previous line in a previous arc was mistranslated. Some older manga have some outdated slang but the dialogues are well written, the biggest issues is when the translators make shit up to avoid writing "chan" or "kun" like weird nicknames. I learned Japanese at some point and can read manga if I have a dictionary and there are furigana, and with the weak yen it's sometimes cheaper to order them online than wait 5 years for a badly translated volume with ink stains, very thin pages and less pages or illustrations. I heard JJK translation was so bad in so many languages I just bought them in Japanese. I heard it's a pain in the ass to translate because it's full of old kanji nobody uses and not enough quotes so sometimes you don't know who's talking.
To stay on topic, realizing all of this and seeing how expensive volumes became made me buy a lot less manga, I'm even more likely to read scans online and only buy what I really liked after series are over. I also heard streaming platforms make shit up to have shorter lines for subtitles, from now on I refuse to pay for them too.
No. 2573505
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It’s crazy that flea markets imitate the chronically online kawaii lifestyle to a T.
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>>2573505The bootleg Dior and Channel Labubu's are so incredibly trashy, that they go right around and become hilarious.
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I am convinced whoever the fuck even came up with the idea for picrel is a pedo
No. 2576635
>>2576609I agree with you and I seriously hate the cope
>You're the weird one for thinking sexual thoughts!It's not even about the naked baby as a concept that weirds me out, it's the fact that these are mass-produced and sold as figures to gawk at. I wouldn't be weirded out seeing a cherub painting in a museum but I am weirded out that there's a demand for naked baby figures that people spend a pretty penny on. I feel the same about loli anime figures that are "innocent". Everyone knows who they're made by and for but you're somehow the pedo for acknowledging it.
No. 2576846
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>>2576609They're just the second coming of Kewpies. I think the worst part is they added genitals for some reason but considering they're japanese I don't think that design choice is too strange.
No. 2577018
>>2576846Sonny Angels are just Kewpies, Labubus are just Monchichi and Jellycats are just Beanie Babies all over again.
I do not get the asian obsession with dick/poop themes, but I am baffled that this cultural thing translates into still somehow being cute in the west.
Tbh I own a Kewpie myself, but it's a very small one themed after my fave vintage anime which doesn't have a lot of merch (and most of the existing merch is expensive or ugly, so just owning a 3cm rubber doll is enough for me)
For nonas who don't want to bother selling off shit or can't sell certain things for a long time: I try to sell everything I no longer need, but there are certain more curated thrift stores that will take it if it fits the theme, same with consignment stores, which will give you commission.
No-buy groups or websites should exist for your community if you're in a more populated cities. These people will take literally anything off your hands.
Donation library boxes and book-crossing shelves are good for offloading books and other media.
Some charity organisations would be happy with used toys or clothes in good condition, at least where I live.
If you're into subculture or popculture, you can try looking for swap meets, if you want you can say you'll swap shit for actual necessities beforehand, like unperishables or toiletries, people who attend swaps are generally more crunchy and are into that more than normies.
There are also free markets organised in bigger cities, I think it's a better pick than garage sales or flea markets if you want to sell, but can't bother with shipping online.
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My collection is growing now that my extended family wants me in their good gracies. I should be selling my art for money but I will give portraits to these nacissis in exchange for Cinnamaroll paraphernalia. It's small but growing. I crave to be surrounded by Sanrio and Kirby bullshit someday.(wrong thread)
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>>2577021Why are these type of women obsessed with super sonicoom, i know the real reason is because they have no personality and are consoomers but there are cuter pink/purple animu figurines
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This person had a popular post on tumblr of all of their journals/planners and I saw that their yt account had almost no views except for a video about everyday carry with 40k+. So what I found interesting is how staged the photos are (and she reposts a lot of very similar ones)
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>>2578509but look how empty her room is behind the desk where the photos would be taken. All the stuff she buys is just sitting on a rack and there's nothing else
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Moving back to my parent's house and I have so much anime/manga/old games/egl shit to go through, it's funny how you just completely stop caring about that stuff once you're away and doing normie things for a while. Hopefully the nostalgia and seeing fandom accounts online doesn't bog me down but I'm really focused on selling a lot of it online during the summer. I loathe the idea of having to use a storage unit and just want to save my favorite things.
No. 2579179
>>2579048I wish you luck
nonny. I've been slowly decluttering and selling my old weeb consoom hoard this year. It's amazing to realise how little this stuff means to you after you've had some distance from it and get busy living life, but it feels like a big part of you at the time. If the nostalgia gets to you or you feel tempted to replace the stuff you sell with new fandom stuff, keep reminding yourself how you feel now about all this stuff. Remember that you can be part of a fandom and enjoy something without having to own merch or physical media. If those things are just going to bog you down and be a burden in the future you don't have to keep them or continue buying them. You can keep your favourite items but you don't have to have a whole collection just to be a fan of something.
For egl at least you'll probably get good money out of selling things you don't wear. I sold a lot of mine too and put that money into savings. It's a bit of effort but it's definitely more worthwhile than selling other weeb consoom shit which can be really humbling. Like
>>2568654 said, the sting of realising a lot of it is worthless and no one wants it is horrible but it snaps you out of wanting to buy more. I ended up donating a lot of mine or offering it to friends for free.
No. 2580979
>>2580868Interdasting…
I’m in the EU too but momox isn’t available in my country yet, apparently. I can’t find the app on the App Store. I can find a similar company but they explicitly don’t want incomplete series. Everything else would involve directly interacting with buyers, which I’d rather avoid. I think I’ll hold onto them a bit longer and see if momox or something similar will come to my country, too.
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I knew Jellycat was the It-brand right now but lmao what is this
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>>2581274And apparently they have a limit of the items in stock and the wait can be over 2hrs long after the reservation time, so you can pay that much and wind up not even being able to spend more money on a stupid food plush.
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>>2581952>>2582212They are much higher quality than a prize plush. I think the draw of them is while yes it’s a simple smile, it’s somehow “pre kawaii” in a way…the eyes aren’t as close to the mouth like the Japanese look that got popular what 15 years ago that has plagued us ever since. They look dopier and not as forced I guess.
No. 2582463
>>2581110>>2581111>>2581114>>2581135>>2581291Not speaking in agreement just some context. Jellycat is an English brand (could stop there, you know how people love that) that's been around since 1999 in London. In a way they
are very luxury. The quality has gone down in recent years. I was a toy buyer for a luxury children's boutique for 10 years and I didn't know of them before that. Rich people love them though. In recent years (2020 on) quirky kids started coming in to purchase them, mostly the food, plant, monster, frog, mushroom, bug.. What you'd expect. The rich moms love the bunnies for Easter (the largest size is huge and was $200 some years ago, I'm sure its more now).
They are very strict about pricing and set the prices for stores. So much as five cents off and a rep will come to your store. They have a radius block where only one shop in a 5-10mi radius can carry the line. If that's not you, too bad. The cataloges are fun to look through. They reference pop culture (like vogue covers or album covers) staged with the plush. Its a whole Thing.
They're cute and I have a few (discounts…) But I would never buy one full price, especially now that the quality has declined. If you want similar quirky creatures, other lines have them now. If you want their "Smudge" line softness, other lines have that too. Other plush brands have picked up where Jellycat's cost cuts average consumers out.
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>>2582431The eggs are really cute though. Theyre a different kind of look to other popular plush. The few lines where they attempted to do "kawaii" were quickly discontinued and didn't do well. There were a few nice ones (picrel) but they performed very poorly.
Some insight on shein and Chinese consoom: I ordered some of that for the boutique and you'd be surprised how much people are willing to pay for hiked up plastic shiny. Maybe you wouldn't. A lot of those things are directly from AliExpress and Shein, and some retailers barely try to hide that. Some of the import distributors sell the same shit for less, so in some ways its unsurprising. You don't have to bother with buyer accounts when consumer side is already wholesale priced.
No. 2582477
>>2581952The plushies are fine but they're nothing special. There's nothing to justify the consoom craze that makes grown adults foam at the mouth and throw hands for a chance to get a stack of fabric pancakes. We're not shitting on a kid's toy, we're shitting on the adults who go insane over something that's not even that special.
>>2582463That's really interesting, thanks for the background info nonna!
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https://fliphtml5.com/aycv/sbuy/Jellycat_Jingle_Jingle_Holiday_Catalog_2024/If any nona were interested in the catalogs, here's last years Christmas book. Jellycat requires buyers to purchase Christmas plush in either March or May (can't remember. Easter is purchased around Christmas time for example) to be delivered later. This shows the margins of what stores pay vs. What consumers pay as well in case you've ever been curious.
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>>2582437>>2582453I wouldn't mind Labubus so much if they had some variations. The monsters in Where The Wild Things Are had different designs. Why can't Labubus be that way too? All I've seen so far is different fur colors, different expressions, and whatever custom clothing or accessory they have. The constant repetition of Labubus just annoys me especially since I see them so often so I really do not get the appeal. The consoomer craze around them comes off as extremely braindead because of that.
No. 2583206
>>2582463I'm not British but I always jellycat was for rich people to gift each other's kids. I wasn't familiar with all the quirky designs until I started to see them on social media. We mostly got the more simple animal toys like
>>2582496 here. I'd always see them and think they were more for parents who wanted their kids toys to match their aesthetic than kids who would rather have more obnoxious, gimmicky plastic toys. Not sure when or how they managed to become the new squishmallows for quirky consoomer adults. It's amazing how that demographic just hops from one thing to the next without even thinking about the last thing they collected. Soon jellycat will be flooding the thrift stores when they move onto something else. Nothing ever changes.
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>>2583154anon it doesn't have the hat but is this it?
No. 2583442
>>2583160I'm the original anon and this is what I meant mostly. I don't mind if people dislike jellycat/like jellycat/like dislike labubu/etc, I can see the appeal for all of them. Just that the labubus are all pretty samey, there's only a few expression variations, whereas Jellycats are pretty varied, so that criticism is kinda nothing. Though my impression of Jellycat is
>>2582496 so I could understand somebody who only sees the "inanimate object with the same face" has the same impression of jellycat.
>>2583206I sold one of my old ass jellycats my middle school friend gave me as a gift (after her already owning it for a while) for $50 a little while back, it's kind of crazy.
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>>2583536labubus remind me of lalafanfan ducks. they were big in my country like a year ago but they fell out of style now. kids who couldn't afford the plushies would make paper dolls of them, it was pretty cute
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>>2583154Hi there nona, the plush you're talking about sounds familiar, but the one I'm thinking of is definitely much more recent. I found this Marie from the Aristocrats and while she's only from 2015, its possible there was an older version. I also figure you'd remember if it were Disney. I'll keep an eye out and post back if I find anything. Another poster also found something
>>2583356>>2583206This. They were formerly really good quality but ultimately plush are for kids and are for playing with. Though I was the kind of kid who treated my plush gently and didn't take them anywhere, I know that people love JC because it holds up well. Or did. Last I saw (about 2 years ago) they had stray threads, crookedly sewn noses, lopsided ears and feet. I even experienced a customer accusing them of being counterfeit due to the quality. An interesting trend I noticed though is that its mostly the younger consoomers with money who buy the dot eyed food/things with those faces. Usual consumers purchase the regular animals and creatures. Originally, I didn't order too many of those styles because they didn't sell among their "intended demographic". Just a few years later and they were the best sellers. They run a bit lower cost for jellycat though they're still expensive to be a casual consoom item.
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>>2583536idgi are these basically the modern version of the Kipling monkey kek
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No. 2586743
>>2584314How to be a retarded tiktokfag:
1) spend hundreds consooming naked baby trinkets
2) record the aftermath while overlaying the worst music you’ve ever had the misfortune of hearing
3) get high off of updoots
No. 2587693
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absolutely unhinged post i found on the labubu subreddit. the other pictures in this post show giant tupperware boxes full of extras. i think they're cute but i just bought the one i liked most and called it a day. i will never understand shopping addictions like this.
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>>2587693Went onto that sub for the first time yesterday and pic was the first post I saw
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>>2583669I just saw this and immediately thought of your post kek, no way this is actually becoming a thing
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>>2587972I swear this trend hasn't even been going for 2 months and people are accumulating this shit so fast? Why is it not obvious to some people that they are a flash in the pan trend that will end up infesting 2nd hand stores and sites in the next couple of months? At least sanrio and san-x stuff actually have some longevity, beanie babies were cute and their popularity was understandable, but labubus are so garishly ugly and unsightly. There are so many other cute things to consoom, why are these fugly shits the ones that blew up the way they did?
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>>2588773If I had to analyze and compare the popularity of this crap by East vs West, I'd say they're almost equal in that regard. The only thing is that it's apparently easier and cheaper to get them in East Asian countries. I imagine this sense of scarcity is helping to push its popularity in the states as they've become a retarded status symbol. I'm in an Asian-American community and it's ridiculous how much news coverage, both print and on television, they get here too. This shit is so fucking forced that it pisses me off.
No. 2588839
>>2588784That’s really interesting to hear, thank you for taking the time to explain it to me nona. Also,
>filenamekek
No. 2588949
>>2588671Not the tormented anon but Popmart is Chinese and was pretty popular in China long before it gained any sort of notoriety in the west
>>2588765I think beanie babies were popular cause of the investment scam book, not really because people had a crazed desire to collect them all. I guess the closest equivalent to Labubus atm would be Squishmallows during Covid, but even that was nowhere near as big
No. 2588991
>>2588888People are spending so much on them that I think the trend will continue a little longer as the collectors try to sell their millions of identical dolls and recoup at least some losses. It might die down but I don't think it'll completely disappear, probably just evolve, people are already buying clothes and houses for their labubus so it might evolve in that direction.
Beanie Babies were bought specifically as an investment, like antiques. Labubus are bought as a status symbol. They're not the same, they're worse.
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>>2585601There are tons of ugly cute mascots that are very popular, this thing comes to mind. People also think dead blobfishs are cute. It's really not that deep.
No. 2590742
>>2588784>>2589240I don't use tiktok and have avoided seeing what these things actually look like until this thread. I've heard the name once or twice. They're fuck ugly??
>>2590060>>2590096unfortunately this is true, this was prime drink here and is currently dubai chocolate.
>>2590333Rare tulip bulbs could go for 3000 guilders (10x a skilled workers' annual wage) so we're not even that bad yet.
No. 2591118
This room is making me feel claustrophobic. So much shit, how many bottles of perfume do you need? And ot, but who puts a huge bed like that in a box room?
No. 2591309
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>>2590742There’s a certain amount of irony in the fact that the rarest bulbs had mosaic viruses, which inevitably kill the plant so the breeds no longer exist.
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>>2591118I actually think this is cute, it isn't practical at all and I know it would be a pain in the ass the dust/clean in general, but it's cozy and looks like one of the rooms from Howl's Moving Castle/Nausicaa. It also reminds me a little of the Happy
Victims photo series.
No. 2591713
>>2591677>What made you change your ways Nothing 'sudden', it happened over the years. But majorly, running out of space and feeling more and more uncomfortable in my one refuge due to it. It's like the twin of those bare moid rooms, a cluttered and dirty environment really fucks with your mentality and also productivity in the long run.
Other factors were:
- frequently forgetting what I own
- having trouble cleaning
- not being able to find the things I own without starting a search party that is exhausting and makes an even bigger mess
- noticing shopping addict patterns of getting high from purchasing and receiving packages, then immediately resuming to shopping once the rush subsides and noticing I tend to seek out buying stuff the most when I'm bored or irritated or newly into some interest
- selling lolita and realizing that I rarely end up regretting it despite my initial fears
- selling my other things and realizing how much of a pain it is because it's so slow and people on popular platforms love to waste your time which results in me not wanting to buy new things that eventually will have to go through the same process
- realizing that none of the ways to archive my dreams, goals and ideals involve wasting money on things I barely use
- undetected mold infestation nightmare forcing me to clean and throw away an exorbitant amount of things
- all the FOMO aspects, especially in lolita, causing actual feelings of anxiety in me and generally dedicating way too much time and headspace for "hunting" items despite already having a beautiful wardrobe with more than I need. The lolita comm both irl and online really didn’t help with that one.
- neglecting other interests and actual self improvement in favor of shopping, having it live rent free in my head all day
- slowly noticing I was heavily in denial over binding my buying behavior to my identity and worth, when I was clearly feeling a level of 'pride' and achievement over owning rare items and how I'm being perceived by my hobby peers due to it, it's pathetic when you look at it from a different perspective
- trying to question this positive treatment of hoarding and shopping addictions on cgl, other lolita social medias and some hobby collector spaces, only to be met with coping ('as long as you can afford it don't question it', 'as long as it makes you happy aka gives you a rush', 'others use their money on drugs and netflix' etc), various stages of poorfag accusations and other addicts reading my heartfelt concerns that probably apply to them too yet all they think about was fantasizing about buying my things in a tone as if they're stealing from me
- meeting and learning about some of the lolitas who own as much as me and also repeat the copes mentioned above, only to find out literally all of them are either heavily in debt, are also neglecting all hobbies that don't involve heavy shopping or are neglecting themselves while trying to fix it with filters
There's many other factors too, but that's what I remember from the top of my head.
> what kind of lifestyle do you lead now?I'm no minimalist and I still have a chunk of items that have yet to sell, but I also feel so so much better. Everything I own is stuff I use, I feel more at peace in my room since it's like 4 times bigger now and so much quicker to keep clean, I don't stalk second hand platforms anymore and only do non-essential online shopping every 4 months or so (usually in the big discount seasons, I also plan and budget it very strictly now because I still don't trust my addictive ass kek) and the most fulfilling change is that I actually managed to pick up my hobbies again that revolve around creating (but even there I frequently struggle with wanting to overconsoom beyond it but my budgeting helps against that). My appearance also massively improved kek.
It's hard but it's definitely doable once you're open to question your own behavior and cut off enabling factors. You can do it
nonnie!
No. 2591756
>>2591713Ayrt I'm happy for you
nonnie. I can relate to so many of your reasons. Having all this stuff fills me with so much anxiety and dread. I've done a lot of work on myself and I guess I'm at a point where I already realise a lot of this stuff, but I'm just so intimidated by the thought of letting lolita and similar hobbies go. It's exhausting to sell things and to say goodbye to what feels like it's been a big part of my life, even though it isn't anymore. A lot of my close friends are still very into it too, so I feel like I'm isolating myself by getting out.
>trying to question this positive treatment of hoarding and shopping addictions on cgl, other lolita social medias and some hobby collector spaces, only to be met with coping ('as long as you can afford it don't question it', 'as long as it makes you happy aka gives you a rush', 'others use their money on drugs and netflix' etc)I know exactly what you mean. I've had so many interactions like this. You try and reach out for help without even criticising them, and basically get told to never question it and maintain a superiority complex over 'normies' about it at all times. I notice so many alternative people and people in niche hobbies have the biggest superiority complexes over people they see as 'boring'. Basically the type of person
>>2591741 is describing. They conflate happiness and identity with shopping so if you question it at all (not even criticising it) they lash out. Calling you poor or boring is the only thing they can come up with. I guess all ages and different types of people do it these days though. For example I've never understood the way people lose their shit at 'minimalist' or 'sad beige' decor (not talking about the cases of when people destroy an old character home or something) when it's not their house. Just because someone doesn't want to live in overstimulating rainbow vomit or quirky consoomer den with a million things to dust doesn't mean they don't have a personality or they're less interesting or successful or important. Maybe they find it relaxing. It's like these people unironically believe that people who aren't addicted to shopping are NPCs with no lives or feelings of their own. My personal favourite is when they say
>You just don't understand whimsy and fun!in defence of hoarding labubus or whatever else is trendy that they will get sick of in a month. I don't know how it's fun or whimsical to keep contributing to landfill.
No. 2591911
>>2579048that's great
nonny, well done for sorting stuff out! i have lots of weeb stuff from childhood to get rid of and hope I can sell it on EBay soon, looking back I only bought it to keep up with other weebs online or to fill a very empty, lonely house. now i'm an adult I value space and it's more satisfying clearing them out, aside from the manga I'll definitely read again
No. 2592071
>>2591934well once you find something you like, usually you want to keep doing that and refocus that energy to exploring the thing. e.g., cooking. you start trying new recipes, learning new techniques, exploring food, etc.
did you like the hobbies you tried? probably stop trying things that have a materials cost and take a workshop or class instead that supplies the materials while you try it out. maybe you need to take more time to reflect on what you like to do and why you want to try the hobby before jumping in and buying all these things
No. 2592696
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>>2592694if i had lots of money i would live exactly like i do know just wouldn't work.
No. 2592741
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>>2592694ngl if i had that much money i'd just do some crazy shit with it like turning my living space into some fuckin alien space station or something. there are much better recreational things to spend your money on than buying a bunch of the same thing over and over
No. 2592830
>>2591934Try new things through taking classes, like
>>2592071 said. Having someone walk you through the basics is great because you learn much faster than by trial and error, any bad habits get nipped in the bud, and you won't need to spend ages looking up why you fucked up so badly.
Sometimes you lose interest in a hobby without some sort of external guidance, for example if you like air dry clay you might get stuck in a rut of only making the same few charms and trinket dishes since that's what everyone makes online but if you took a class you might learn new techniques that inspire you to continue with that hobby.
No. 2592853
i'm not religious but whenever i see people going way over the top with these micro trends i think they need jesus or literally any other faith based community to devote themselves to.
No. 2592863
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>>2592853I’m not religious but raised Catholic. I think about picrel a lot and that religion probably plays a necessary role in many people’s lives.
(wrong thread) No. 2592876
>>2592863As a younger teen i rebeled a lot against religion but over the years i've come to agree with a whole lot of what my catholic upbringing tried to teach me despite my stubbornness, i've reach similar conclusions through secular means.
There's a lot of condensed wisdom in religion from thousands of years of human experience, i think what fedora tippers (like i was for a while) is that you are missing the the forest for the trees when you autistically nitpick every line in the bible to see if its scientifically proven like some sort of gotcha and the point that the text is trying to make. Fundamentalists are guilty of this too.
Its gonna be much healthier to be in a faith that is encouraging good habits and behaviour in you than being in the cult of whatever is viral this week.
(derailing) No. 2593042
>>2592876Right? You don't need to be religious to agree with the principles of a religion.
>>2592853It makes me think they live online to such an extent that their trips to the real world become an extension of their online presence. It's like a mental MLM where the goal is to rise through the ranks by owning and showing as much trendy shit as possible. And because of scalpers selling these things at aneurysm-inducing prices, the consoomer can trick herself into thinking she got a good deal because she got them for cheap.
And have you noticed that the microtrends are all random cheap shit? Those beaded purses, Dove shower gel, Tree Hut scrubs, it's not like everyone is scrambling to buy Chanel bags. Even the expensive microtrend items are comparatively accessible like the Dyson Airwrap and LV bags (and if you can't afford real, fake is fine). The only things I can think of that aren't easily accessible are the Birkin and Kelly bags but they're not easily accessible to literal celebrities either.
These ugly bags are the highlight of this woman's day. It doesn't matter if she wears them or if they're going to sit on her shelf with the tags on for 20 years. The only thing that matters is that she's finally gotten the clout she craves.
No. 2593105
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Burgers, when and why did those buddhist wall sheets become popular?
No. 2593171
>>2592863Thank you for sharing, anon, hadn't seen that quote before. It summarizes my struggle with religion. I know I would be more structured if I believed in God but I can't just believe in something that I…don't believe in, I guess. I never did, not even as a kid when I was raised Christian. I do feel spiritual at times, however. I just don't know how to make that feeling a part of my life in a meaningful way.
>>2592876Is there any faith you subscribe to?
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>>2593171First ayart and I empathize with you a lot. I also never really believed in it but I have an admiration for people who do and devote themselves to it. I’ve considered going back to church just because I believe communal worship like that is probably good for people. Even if I don’t believe in the nitty gritty details, I am taking the time to admire and devote myself with others to the principles and morals that the service tries to uphold.
One thing that has helped me is become more appreciative and aware of the present and the process that led me there. You can apply that logic to something like cooking a meal with crops you’ve grown, wearing a dress that you sewed, or framing a painting you made yourself. If you’re involved in the process of making something, you’re more present and aware of the efforts that brought it to fruition. That gives a sense of purpose and meaningfulness that many people lack. You can even apply that logic to yourself as you are your longest work in progress.
Another nona shared the quote in picrel a few years ago and I like it a lot. We don’t have to do anything, we can just appreciate what we have and make. On a large scale there probably is a desire to be part of a movement to bring about large scale change, but it’s not necessary for us to find fulfillment.
(derailing) No. 2593713
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Uh ohhh, the animecore people have a new figure that they're going apeshit for…
No. 2593765
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>>2593713>What character is that I don’t recognize her at all>It’s SakuraThis looks nothing like what I would associate with Sakura much less the CLAMP style. I know for a lot of new animefags, especially those who consoom, it’s just an aesthetic. But damn this might as well be a waifu figure for FOTM rather than Sakura
No. 2593930
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It wasn't much but I made $30 giving old clothes to a local thrift shop, they take seasonal stuff and pay a percentage of the price they list the pieces for. I've used thredup and sold online previously but this was a way I could donate unworn clothes locally without taking a huge amount of time - and avoid shit companies like Goodwill/Savers.
>>2592697If I had rich people money I would take so many in-person art classes, I've loved doing them in the past but they cost a few hundred dollars.
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>>2594126It’s like plushie jail please free them
No. 2594214
>>2591118I love this room, but as a film set or a miniature, not as a space to exist in. I'm getting asthma flare ups just watching this.
>>2591713Oh my god I feel your post in my soul. Lolita has always been so driven by consoom, I miss the days when everyone would learn to DIY their coords by sewing their own clothes and bags and making their own hats and jewellery because nobody could afford brand or figure out how to use a shopping service. There was also a bigger focus on lifestyle. IMO all of it changed for the worse when burando became more accessible. When you're a broke teen trying to learn how to use a sewing machine it's easy to take it slow and be happy with what you have.
The FOMO aspect of lolita hasn't changed at all from the LJ days when brand was almost impossible to buy, except now all the coveted pieces are on LM at surprisingly decent prices (especially if you were around for the bloodbaths when they were initially released) and the need to consoom kicks in in full force. And the fear of selling pieces is probably from that time too, if you sold a piece in 2008 good luck finding it again for a decent price in the same colorway and cut. Tying your self worth to the items you own is inevitable in a hobby that puts so much emphasis on brands and holy grail items, and when 90% of lolita arguments revolve around accessibility (restrictive sizes that not everyone can fit into, prices that not everyone can afford to pay, items in inconvenient locations that not everyone can access, replicas vs real vs handmade, etc) it's hard not to judge yourself by where you fall on those metrics. Owning rare brand items and being able to wear them does affect your social standing in that hobby, there's no getting around that.
It takes a lot of strength to leave that mindset when you're so entrenched in the hobby that it almost takes over your life. Good job on breaking free from it all and getting your life back on track!
No. 2594262
>>2593713She was already ¥25,000 and a CLAMP exhibition exclusive, wonder how much she was going for before the tiktok explosion
>>2593765She looks like the inferior Sakura from Tsubasa and not Card Captor's Sakura. Whatever the case may be, you're right and she looks weird.
I wish CLAMP would design a new cute female character, as much as I love Sakura.
No. 2594408
>>2546680I install people's Internet for a living.
Poorer houses have way more pointless garbage than rich ones do AND they have it out in a less organized fashion. The real question is which ones have an """interest""" and which ones have a hording compulsion.
No. 2594479
>>2594422>you must see some crazy ass shit walking into people's houses right?I could make my own thread.
>but then I remember that other people probably don't care about their house looking nice for repair people…So long as there's nothing on the floor that could injure me and there's no awful smells I don't really care.
No. 2594508
>>2594478Related to consooming? The funniest example was when we went to a house in the most ratchet part of my city and the guy's place was a complete dump in need of a lot of fixes but he had a collection of watches in a really fancy display case, some of which had their own little motorized pedestals. The guy was damn near ready to fight us over the prospect of getting too close to it. Which lucky for him, was not even necessary.
Couple of houses with collections of those really stupid bespoke $200+ bongs you see at weed shops. One (right around the corner from watch guy aamof) had no car so instead his garage became a museum for the things. One of which was like a double barrel shotgun, except like 5 feet long, and a horrifying one that was a bong of Bugs Bunny using a bong, you had to toke it from behind his head. He shut the lights off on us without warning and then walked around turning on the ones that lit up just to show us. (One was based off an old Pegasus gas pump, and that one kinda went hard, but it was also completely pointless)
About 3 or 4 "sneakerhead closests" that took up entire closets. And of course the faggots who collected those were slobs with no effort put into their wardrobes beyond their shoes. I would not be surprised if all of the people mentioned here were unemployed, some of them definitely were.
No. 2595030
>>2594532The sneakerhead men I’ve known irl all thought fashion (and personal hygiene) was lame and gay or for women. Sneakers were different though, apparently because they’re ‘useful’
and ‘collectors items/investments’ at the same time, somehow.
No. 2596171
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The labubu craze Is getting out of hand. The fuck you mean people are scalping Labubus so much, people are willing to pay a fuckton of money for a fake? For what? A Little doll? Why are adults into it? Why did jobless, autistic retards made scalping their jobs? How is that even legal? I thought that it was just your regular phase, a cyclical fashion item like picrel was for me when I was a kid but imagining someone scalping Pooh keychains, talking about ~rarity~ and making them constantly sold out feels so fucking wrong to me. Gacha mechanics on toys are already foul (if they aren't 1$ like these where, so like sustainable and trigger a fun trading Activity), scalping toys and cards should be heavily regulated like for what.
? So people can have the latest doll? 10 years ago people walked to the store, got a toy, done. Scalping hobbies (like even manga volume) should be illegal, that's the main reason of why this shit exist, it triggers a giant fomo feeling in shopping addicts that forces them to horde stuff before it gets too big or expensive to get.
No. 2596220
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>>2596215i like grandma maximalism, where not everything is all that thought out or follow a sophisticated logic but is still homely and lived in
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No. 2596363
>>2596246Nah I’m just a boring adult that never understood the consooming and scalping craze. Recently I went to a concert, people were hoarding the merch booth and one hour later, that stuff was already on ebay and vinted, ready to get into consoomer hands. Scalping just enforces consoomerism, I heard people say “If I want to read a manga I have to get it frame zero because it’s gonna be sold out” then you have consoomers with money that buy from scalpers and the cycle goes on and on, I just come from an otaku (man, zoomers don’t even use this words anymore) background so I noticed the shift kek but in particular, I hate toy scalpers because they prey on children so if parents want to see their child happy, of course they have to pay scalpers and they know they have to be faster than them at the next round. Labubu are just toys, no different than puppy in my pocket or gacha games, no one really thinks they’re cute , it’s just a pararell currency, like the value of pokemon cards, they’re totally made up but people trust those made up numbers.
No. 2596379
>>2596252I do not get the Dubai choccy hype, it's really not that good because it's insanely thick and rich. Actually if nonna is correct
>>2596368 on the origins of it being created by a pregnant woman with texture cravings that 100% tracks.
No. 2596411
>>2596252I used to sometimes buy kadayif pastry from the Turkish shop in my city and there were always tons of it on the shelf. Then after the Dubai chocolate craze hit it became impossible to get. Even the kunafa desserts in the bakery counter that used it would be sold out when before whenever I went to buy some there would always be plenty left in the tray, I can only assume because people wanted kadayif for Dubai chocolate but there was none left so they just decided to scrape kadayif off the kunafah instead. The cashier there told my mother that people were coming in and buying 10, 20 boxes of kadayif at the same time. I saw empty kadayif packages in the random suburb in Europe I live and heard teenagers horribly pronouncing kunafeh ("can-naffee"), which is 100% the doing of Tiktok. Even pistachios are harder to find and I didn't even have to get them from a speciality shop because usually any old supermarket has them.
And it's all for mediocre chocolate with undercooked, crunchy kadayif and a hint of pistachio and tahini.
No. 2596503
>>2596381nona, i feel ya. i like getting CDs, mostly because less storage footprint. they used to be really cheap, but now i swear, it's impossible. like, sometimes, i'm paying twice the real value for some releases. for example, PSB's Further Listening series are horribly pricey on the secondary market, and retail hardly carries any of them, where they have the correct suggested retail (40CAD against 60CAD on average). it sucks because music is probably one of the only things i enjoy investing time on. don't get me started on band merch at gigs, the prices are obscene, even if the money goes partly to the band. i have been restraining myself on the tshirt side, but i can't help it sometimes… i just love band tees,
oof.
No. 2596692
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Watching someone who apparently has had her kids taken away from her and is living in a hotel spend all her money on pokemon cards. I have to wonder what is going through these people’s minds.
No. 2596698
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>>2596692There’s this weird paradox where the more expensive the collections are, the more shittier everything else in the person’s situation is. I’ve seen moods posting graded cards worth hundreds and they’re living in a fucking shed. pokemon collectors are mentally retarded.
No. 2596807
>>2596698It's a real phenomenon. Years ago there was a dumb bitch on Tumblr who got called out for constantly cyberbegging and whining, but it was discovered that she was unemployed and living in section 8 with her mom, and spending her welfare checks on a nonstop flow of mostly junk quality bjds.
—–
But ISTG, you have to be abnormal in some way to get famous for consooming on social media in the first place. I'm abnormal, and it still couldn't be me. It must take hours out of your day, every single day, every single week.
No. 2596842
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>>2596171The same people who were acting like labubus are golddust and paying scalper rates to acquire them because they're just so desired.. are now drawing on them with sharpies ffs. I can't stop seeing tatted labubus. The home done ones are smudged to fuck already. Or people are charging to sell hopefully less likely to smudge ones for a hefty price. Scalper rates with their commision rate then added on top.
Or.. or.. actual tattoo artists will sell you tatted labubus starting at about 300 bucks. It's almost like hoarding 30 things all with the same face on them gets old real fast and anyone could've predicted that throwing more money at it would be peoples solution once they've already invested so much and haven't got the kind of dopamine payoff they were betting on.
No. 2596849
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>>2596842Samefag to add mid tatt session labubu kek
No. 2596876
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>>2596379There are some versions that are smaller, like Lindt made one, but I've heard bad things about the smaller ones.
>>2596458Dubai chocolate is a (usually thick) chocolate bar with a filling inside made with pistachio cream and knefah mixed together. The knefah is supposed to be crunchy so I think they cook it first or something. It's famously expensive, there's one confectioner known for making them and they price the bars at around £13. It got really popular among tiktok foodies and now loads of people are cashing in on it, I've seen dubai chocolates waffles, cakes, fudge, cheesecake, syrups etc. Picrel is what you'll expect.
No. 2596882
>>2596876that looks like baby shit.
>>2596873self promote here when you're done bc I'm curious. Juggalabubus?
No. 2597290
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Idk why labubu communities were all worried about men coming by to shit on them for their newest girly interest. I mean who didn't see it coming that men would be all over this shit looking for asspats. Embodying the stereotype to a tee but hoping to get even more attention for it because they're a quirky guy doing it.
18 in pic, 4 in the mail, 2 secrets to still hunt down and he clarifies in another post that he started 3 weeks ago. A labubu per day so far. Muh adhd you guys
No. 2597585
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>>2597290Holy fucking shit can these people stop using disabilities as an excuse for their mindless consoomerism?
>>2597294It almost certainly is a TIF since it's not the first time I saw a TIF blame her disability for her consoomer habits.
No. 2598586
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This listing constantly pops up on my feed.
No. 2599117
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>>2598819I hate this soy facing fаggоt so damn much, these moids have ruined collecting Pokemon.
No. 2600449
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https://www.hk01.com/中國觀察/60255017/深圳labubu女工削到手指痛日入僅50元-揭中國老年女性散工困境No English translation of this article but it's grim knowing that elderly women can only make about $7 a day shaving 1500 Labubu faces a day. I know that's Chinese capitalism for you but the contrast between these elderly women having to work for pennies for each ugly doll face and the mindless consumerism and hype behind Labubus is depressing.
No. 2600707
>>2591118honestly this is really cute. I love grandma rooms like this and I think it would look better if the room was bigger so there was more space between the dresser and bed
>>2591623agreed
No. 2600716
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What does any of this mean
No. 2600732
>>2600716'My family keeps telling me to stop spending all my money on labubus and I can't think of a good comeback because they're right, so I've decided that ALMOST anyone who doesn't encourage my mindless obsession is a baka trumptard who cares more about me landing a husband than me finally landing a rare labubu on live'
>>2600449Reminder that the people who obsess the most over these dolls are the ones who preach anti-capitalism the loudest. Hit dogs sure do like to holler.
No. 2600748
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>>2600449Words can't describe how sad this shit makes me feel. I have multiple friends who, at their ages, should know better than to buy into this stupid craze. At least Stanley cups had some sort of practical use but these? God, just imagining landfills filled with these things makes me lose faith in humanity
No. 2600770
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>>2600732I hate these people.
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>>2600785>>2600782Decided to check out of curiosity and wtf, this is real
>>2600770Midas is annoying faggot but it's a painfully obvious ragebait, no sane person says this
No. 2601139
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>>2600858I wonder what happened to this "neurodivergent icon". Does anyone remember him really?
No. 2601196
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>>2600716What I want to know is why christfags are targeting labubus specifically kek
No. 2601214
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>>2601196I think bc they look sort of demonic and have become a popular trend so quickly. The same groups get mad about any other popular thing for kids if it's about magic, vampires or ghosts. The fact that these have a menacing expression and are selling so well is free pr for this toy. Also it's named something foreign, so that makes it sound demonic too. Just a lot of seemingly intentional stuff to offend people, since it's predictable, creates buzz and happens every time
No. 2601469
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>>2564518>this ugly pink blob from a porn game has a dedicated fanbase>meanwhile no one cares about mao, who's an actual character with personality from a non coom animeThese pickmes think exactly like men, it's sad. I wish they would stop pretending they care about fat representation and women and instead just admited they are insecure pickmes that want to feel desired by men because their self esteem revolves around men finding them attractive.
No. 2601479
>>2601196I think it's partly because were some viral social media posts on sites like Tiktok and Facebook (vidrel) where people were spreading the idea that Labubu's were based on some mesopotamian demon called Pazuzu.
>>2601469as a lesbian fatfag thank you for the recommendation and I think mao is way cuter than that ugly pink blob No. 2601492
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>>2564518This and Pochiko/Sonico, I dont get these choices. If I'm going to stand for a fatty I'm picking someone with good character too.
No. 2601494
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>>2601479>spoileri think you will enjoy the anime
nonny i am not even lebanese and i fell in love with Kanako.
No. 2603063
>>2602951The 300+ dollar ones are usually graded cards (Like PSA or CGC). It's cheaper than getting treatment for OCD since graded cards are usually the cards with good alignment and no wonkiness or scratches kek
Otherwise idk even buying old sealed unopened boxes of cards makes more sense than buying expensive graded cards, there's no real value in having something that someone else is paid to say "this is actually a ten out of ten bro trust us we have AI scan our cards bro please"
No. 2603263
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>>2602951The collectibles market is now skewing towards millennial manbaby tastes and now that these manchildren have grown up and have some money to spend, they're overvaluing these cards because of nostalgia and shit. I have friends who obsessively collect Pokémon cards and consider them "art". I don't get it either, even as someone who grew up loving Pokémon. The franchise has increasingly focused on consumer slop and the games now have little effort put into them. I consider it on the same level as Disney slop now.
No. 2603267
>>2602951You're supposed to play with these cards but I'm sure scalpers and their customers/
victims don't gove a fuck about the game and its rules.
No. 2603284
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Digital gacha consoom is still consoom, so let me post this crazy bitch that spends 7k$ monthly and a large chunk of that is on moidslop games.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarRailStation/comments/1lgsakr/my_response_to_the_blade_rerun_after_spending/ No. 2603469
>>2603063Nayrt but nothing you said explains why anyone spends money on these cards so I still don’t get it.
>>2603313Same age and kids at my elementary school did play the game. I had a few cards because my father got them for free from his job but I was never able to play the TCG because the boys wouldn’t let a girl play with them. I preferred the gameboy games, but most kids at my school didn’t know those existed and only knew about the anime/TCG/merchandise. I should ask my father if he’s still got them, because I’m sure we had two or three fancy glittery Charizards. They probably weren’t this one
>>2603263but it can’t hurt to check kek
No. 2603509
>>2602951They have more money than sense.
>>2603267>>2603313>>2603329>>2603351>>2603469I was in the minority of kids that knew how to play, but you had to go to a game store or toys r us in order to play because they had tables and stuff. I used to go with my brother and play with decks he built. It was fun, but kinda makes me sad that all of that is gone now and all we have now are adult babies chasing nostalgia dopamine.
No. 2603607
>>2603313Can also confirm that nobody I knew growing up actually played with the cards. I think there was only one kid my elementary school class that played.
>>2603469Nostalgia is a powerful factor and the millennials with money who grew up with Pokémon cards now overvalue them because of that. Plus, there are people who manipulate the market to make them more valuable than they seem.
No. 2603892
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Who asked for this
No. 2603935
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>>2603904These are the notes. I bet it's sickeningly sweet and cheap smelling.
No. 2603958
>>2603509>I was in the minority of kids that knew how to play, but you had to go to a game store or toys r us in order to play because they had tables and stuff. I used to go with my brother and play with decks he builtI'm seething in jealousy right now at my big age. By the time I knew the rules and had enough cards to make decks I already said others still didn't know the rules but soon after everyone was like "ugh pokemon is so has been" or "pokemon is for babies now, we're 8 years old, move on"
>>2603607>Nostalgia is a powerful factor and the millennials with money who grew up with Pokémon cards now overvalue them because of that. Pokemon's marketing business is now the same as Disney movies so it's all on purpose. We have a bunch of new games/movies that introduce new characters and pokemon/mascots on a regular basis regardless of quality just so more merchandises can be created and sold in a semi-regular cycle, nostalgia baiting is all done on purpose, and they're both doing the "cradle to grave" strategy by trying to make nostalgic adults either buy stuff for themselves or for their own kids who will then do the same thing.
I bought some Pokemon baby toy in a Pokemon Center a few weeks ago for a baby in my family so I probably shouldn't judge. If Game Freak didn't have to release games evey year because of the Pokemon Company and Nintendo and investors in general I'm sure they would take more time to release games that don't crash every single minute but who knows.
>Plus, there are people who manipulate the market to make them more valuable than they seem.It happened exactly at the same time and the same way as the video game second hand market. I started hearing about graded games and cards around the same time. When my regular retro game store started selling graded the exact same copies of games for triple the price as before covid I started judging them a little.
No. 2604213
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£15 ($12 ?) for the custom outfit on facebook marketplace. I'm becoming a consumer of the consumerism, the metasized trashiness of it all is fascinating to me.
No. 2604235
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>>2603958I just wonder how long this overvaluation will last. The retro games market is so ridiculous and I find it hard to believe people are seriously falling for some of the ridiculous prices. I can easily imagine the bubble bursting in the near future. Pic related as this dumbass Redditor spent $2000 each on graded copies of Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2 and wants to pass them on to his grandkids. Treating games you can easily emulate as family heirlooms. Seriously?
No. 2604341
>>2600716>>2600774exactly my thoughts, she could mayyybe get away with misogyny since it's mostly young white or asian women. maybe also classism if she can appeal to the "poor people deserve nice things too !" crowd. i swear these teenage leftist shit-stirrers are getting worse and worse at their job.
>>2601196now this is what i'm talking about. schizo, righteous and unashamed. i want them at the UN
No. 2604405
>>2604235I think this is heavily skewed perspective depending on which generation you grew up in. For me, VHS tapes and CRT TVs are just things I used as a kid and saw them get worn out over time, but to some people it's this "aesthetic" thing they want to preserve.
I'm a digital hoarder of fanart and indie games but I only have 2 external SSDs for that, I know I'll need to adapt to future changes because this data could easily get damaged or hard to read, but so far we're doing pretty good with video games from the 90s even if you need to learn some things to run them.
No. 2604452
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>>2601479>>2601196are people for real kek
No. 2604505
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kek
No. 2604554
>>2604488I know, with some cable magic I got a retroid handheld connected to my old CRT. Fully recommend for handheld and CRT emulation gaming, looks wonderful.
But what I meant in my post is that I don't glorify the CRT TV as like…a statue or symbol, it's something cool I still use but I wouldn't design a display around it because to me it would feel like designing a display around my fridge.
No. 2605779
>>2605374If he forgot about them then chances are he doesn’t care about them. That said, I don’t believe your story,
nonnie.
No. 2605855
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Everything on that probably was made by thirdie kids paid only $3 for the whole thing
No. 2605957
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>>2605855she looks like one of those displays they have on ocean trash pollution
No. 2606002
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>>2583669Fucking thank you, it was on the tip of my tongue for so damn long. I remember Kiplings, I worked in retail back around 2016 and it was interesting to me the unspoken normie fandom these things had. Labubu feels like a fusion of Kiplings, Monchichi, and Gremlins/goblin/the "gobbo" waifu trend zoomers were getting into.
Monchichi is honestly much cuter than all of them but also has that baby doll feel of something you pass on to another child that has the time to play pretend, not that ipad toddlers gaf about toys much anymore unfortunately.
No. 2606118
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>>2601479That's the demon from the exorcist movie. Caused demon panic back in the 70s and we're back at it again in 2025 kek. Spoilered for zuzu dick
I like how some of the clips that prove labubus are possessed are people holding up the worst knock off labubus too. Can't afford a real labubu.. don't worry even the lafakefakes have an ancient mesopotamian demon living inside them.
No. 2606218
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No. 2606253
TIL there are Labubu backpacks for elementary schoolers.
>>2606118Maybe the fakes have a lesser Mesopotamian demon in them. Collect ‘em all!
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i didn't even know anything about the bogg bag, but lately i've been seeing so much crap about the yeti camino bags. i don't know why you would want this if you're not an outdoorsy person. even then, i feel like you'd want something with a material that's really quick and easy to clean.
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No. 2606899
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>>2606002Monchichi is uglier than Labubu, and I don't like Labubu. I prefer Cheburashka.
No. 2606906
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>>2606899Cheburashka will always have a special place in my heart.
No. 2606932
>>2606218It's always so awkward when a cutesie product has a giant ©CURRENT YEAR GIANT CORP sign on it. Also, this thing looks like a Walmart employee.
>>2606499Dude why. Pure shopping addiction, 10 packs of face wipes, 10 clear lip glosses. There are a few OK products at Dollar Tree, but you won't get them like this. The only good things she got were the cardboard tube lipsticks, but buying 5 at once defeats the whole purpose of a semi biodegradable tube. And those mystery goo cleansers and lotions are going to melt her sensitized skin off again.
No. 2606935
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>>2604235And I sold my Limited edition PS2 copy of Silent Hill 2 for like 20 bucks in 2016 because no one was buying it for weeks. Now retards sell it for 160? How did that happen? Where is that demand coming from?
No. 2606947
>>2606935The recent SH2 remake renewed interest. Plus, the decades of praise and the somewhat underground status of the games have granted it reverence among gamers leading to a increasingly larger cult fanbase and subsequent overvaluation of the games. Also,
>>2606941 since Konami apparently lost the source code for the original PS1 and PS2 games.
No. 2607210
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why are so many blind box series so fucking hideous? i know the big one people are consooming nowadays are only labubus but im still seeing people buying a shit ton of these crybaby figures. they unironically look like those pictures of dogs who got stung by bees in their mouths. who tf is buying this shit???
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>>2607210The artist behind that particular "crybaby" design is Molly Yllom. This is how her art looks like.
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>>2607252>>2607210the limited edition crybabies are fucking weird, why would you put a naked crying child on your bag?
No. 2607412
>>2606912How tf does having an opinion on something make you a consoomfag? It's literally free to look at something and form an opinion, especially something as basic as what you find cute or not. That nona didn't say she has 200 dusty Cheburashka dolls in her bedroom or something.
>>2607394Also that's supposed to be coiled up turds on their head
No. 2607561
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>>2607240The powerpuff girls collab looks so bad
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>>2607412>that's supposed to be coiled up turds on their headIt's just a hat nona
No. 2607930
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>>2607240Edmund Mcmillen did the crying baby thing better with Isaac.
No. 2608834
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please tell me someone else has heard of pucky on tiktok, @puckycake
https://www.tiktok.com/@puckycake>probably owns every single madoka figure to exist, not an exaggeration >including the super expensive kimono one that costs more than 1k >also has a ton of figures of the other madoka characters, more than the average so-called “madoka fan collector” >also is collecting other series aside from madoka, such as bocchi the rock, apothecary diaries, and more>likes to collect a lot of anime figures in general, including the popular cutecore ones such as that overpriced and overhyped love warden miku figure what really gets me is her monthly to weekly hauls of more figure and merch crap. she seems to have posted less recently, but i implore you guys to check out her account and see how insane this level of consoomerism is. package after package of crap, she likes to buy new sets and new figures of series she likes. it’s exactly the type of greed talked about in the bible. i honestly admired her before because i enjoy collecting and watching figures too, but i’m realizing that i honestly have never seen a tiktoker that was on her level. she’s not that famous
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No. 2610140
>>2607561Personally i don't find labubus ugly, they're just aesthetically tiring because they're literally everywhere. But this shit is horrible. It's like botched ps
victims with lymphedema. I can't find the ugly-cute in this no matter how much i squint
No. 2610183
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I cannot imagine wasting your money on something so unappealing, ugly, soulless and just wasteful like this. Those terribly designed characters were made to be shitty merch for either edgy teens who cut themselves or autistic adult gendies, prove me wrong and even GLITCH has this problem although they are more shameless. I cannot imagine being over 20 and liking this.
No. 2610185
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>>2610183Here's a even worse example
No. 2610187
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Someone please burn this with fire.
I refuse to believe people actually like and buy this??
No. 2610211
>>2610187This looks like something an elsagate content farm would sell.
Why are you exposing your young audience to all your nipponese fetishes?
No. 2610303
I'm rolling my eyes right now
No. 2610414
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>>2607394i swear popmart is just allergic to the idea of selling/making collectables that aren't deeply fucking ugly. i really fucking hate hironos too because it reeks of TIF gendieism (maybe because a lot of them collect this one ig?) but at least they have more variation than labubus
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>>2610414I think the Pucky series are cute, I'd love to have the jellyfish one from this series. But I won't, because I'm not going to buy a single blind box ever.
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i feel like you'd get drawn and quartered for saying this in weeb spaces but mofusand is not cute. they have underage kawaiifag vibes.
No. 2610542
>>2610519hard agree on what
>>2610537 said. that or get really into completionist runs of video games if you have the time and patience for it. it's really satisfying getting 100% on a game you like.
>>2610515honestly this is so real and fair. there's some blind box things i like but i refuse to buy any of them unless i'm content with getting any of the options shown. all in all this really does help put money aside for things like scale figures kek
No. 2610552
>>2610519Why is it not the same if it's not physical? To be honest, if I were you I would do some introspection and try to understand why I have the urge to consoom and why does it have to be physical. You say it's fun, do you get enjoyment from watching haul videos? Or does it have to be you the one that does the unboxing or consooms directly? And if so, why? I don't know, obviously there's something there that is making you act like this.
You talk about TCG cards, which makes me think you might be a
victim to trends. Would you mind collecting things that are out of style, like coins or stamps?
I sometimes get the urge to consoom too when the ads and the shilling get to me. But I realized I don't care about figmas, retarded figurines or dolls. I just like how they look. So whenever I have the urge to, idk, buy some stupid doll, I search for photos of the dolls either on flickr, forums, social media, whatever. Because I don't actually want that thing, I just think it looks pretty and I like staring at it. I save the ones I like inside the folder and whenever I get reminded of figmas, figurines, etc. I just open it and look at the photos I saved.
Why don't you arrange the things you have as if they were collector pieces? I don't know, maybe you have some old plushies lying around, you could treat them as if they are valuable or something that is part of a collection. Paintings, clothes, figurines, whatever. Whenever you make a monthly purchase (groceries, take out, clothes) you can pretend they are limited edition? I don't know.
No. 2610616
>>2610539Seconding this one. Video games aren't satisfying to me because theres no solid real-life aspect to them (i.e. you can't see your playtime on your shelf or any other space, unless you brag. And if theres a deletion/corruption mishap, your "collection" is dust in the wind) but archiving is an easy-to-minimize thing and you can have a visual record of what you've done, and if other people like it then it can stick around forever. I started by scanning library books and eventually started scanning things I bought from yard sales, and then donating those to the library. The only issue is file space, but if your collection is on multiple platforms its easier to accept you have to delete old things to make space for the new stuff.
And if
>>2610552 is right and it's a trendy thing, idk how appealing it would be, but there's a lot of demand for aesthetic scans on tumblr/twitter/insta. Lots of accounts use dollar-store or food packaging for fodder.
No. 2610625
>>2610519>If I worked at like an art gallery or museum curator I'd probably thrive but alas I do not.I was about to suggest doing this kek. If you work in collections or even volunteer as an attendant you get to be surrounded by old stuff all day. Some museums also hire volunteers to maintain their outdoor gardens.
Similarly to museums I think a lot of people also like going to auctions/flea markets to hang out and look at stuff.
>>2610539This is a good idea too. I started scanning washi/crafting paper to use the textures for digital art and I can probably share it on the internet archive or clip studio assets to get their currency.
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I've noticed some collectors nailing random items to the wall, not on a shelf but just as is. What's the point? It makes everything look so much tackier and does it not damage the item itself? Spoilered because this is just terrifying.
No. 2610725
>>2610537>>2610542>games in which you can collect things or get richer. Like play PokemonThanks but I literally listed pokemon as something I tried that didn't work! It just isn't the same when it's not in the real world and something I can't physically touch.
>>2610539>Archiving things that could be valuable for others.What sort of things are you thinking of?
>>2610552>Why is it not the same if it's not physical?It's not permanent, I can't touch it or interact with it, and all it is is staring on screen. It's like watching a cooking show VS actually eating.
>if I were you I would do some introspection and try to understand why I have the urge to consoom Serious answer, probably stems from some kind of resource gathering instincts. I don't need to collect just like nobody needs to play video games, do gardening or read books - but it's genuinely so much fun to me to create little collections and to decide how to present them and to curate it all perfectly.
>You talk about TCG cards, which makes me think you might be a victim to trends. Would you mind collecting things that are out of style, like coins or stamps?I did literally mention stamps in the same sentence as the TCG so yeah lol I've got little collections of both from childhood. You'd think stamps were better than TCG, but the stamp community is actually just full of batshit crazy old moids who will pay insane amounts for their stamps
>Why don't you arrange the things you have as if they were collector pieces? Oh I do! I love thinking of how to present them and making like little photoshoots. I never even share the photos outside family and friends though. But yeah I think maybe you're on to something there, perhaps if I spend even more time with each piece that would distract me from buying more while enjoying what I've got or something.
>>2610625>If you work in collections or even volunteer as an attendant you get to be surrounded by old stuff all day.I did look into it at one point but sadly there's nothing like it around me
>>2610659>become a bird watcher. Make it your goal to see as many different bird species as possible, and catalogue them in a notebook.Not a bad idea! Though I think it would fall on me not having something physical to touch again.
I really do appreciate all the answers!
No. 2610766
>>2610725how about taking pictures of birds (or other stuff like plants/interesting places) and then printing them? you can then create fun wall/shelf arrangement or maybe make an album (just be careful to not fall into rabbit hole of scrapbooking lol).
That way you have stack of pictures you can change and choose only the best to print, the rest can be stored on pendrive. On top of that you learn some photograpy/pic editing/composition/different aesthetics.
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>>2610519Have you tried getting into plamo? it makes the high last longer since you dont just unpack it and sit it on a shelf you actually have to build it.
No. 2610800
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Why do these Labubus look like they have camel toes? Also, fucking terrible that these things are catching on so much those paint-your-own pottery stores are now selling these blanks. Worst fucking fad ever.
No. 2610887
>>2610725I like collecting but my one big rule has helped me a lot to curb consoom. which was, can't buy it online.
I collect physical music, but I know I can't keep a physical copy of every album I like. so I only buy it at a concert I actually went to, or if I find something really special while I'm out window shopping. the only thing I'll buy online is a CD from a new artist or band who wouldn't have a concert near me or copies in a store.
i also have a sea glass collection where I limit myself up to 3 pieces per beach so other people can find some,
I guess basically I made myself rules that make building the collection incredibly slow, but each piece is attached to an actual memory.
after a while, online consoom collection shopping feels horribly soulless.
No. 2611009
>>2611000There's a cool nonfiction book called "Stuff" by Gail Steketee that researchers hoarders, and she found no particular cause that
triggers hoarding among the people that were studied. Highly recommend anyone here check it out
No. 2611069
>>2610766>how about taking pictures of birds (or other stuff like plants/interesting places) and then printing them?Sounds good in theory but I happen to have a friend whose hobby is nature photography so I know the cost of cameras and lenses is literally insane, and later it also includes taking expensive trips all over the country/world to see those rare animals or plants.
>>2610887>which was, can't buy it online.Oh that's an interesting one. There's no way I could stick to it since I'm from a eurotrash country and we've got fuck all here in general lol, but good for you! I do have a few rules like I never get copies of what I already own and I never commit to whole sets.
>>2610954>but mushroom hunting and gardening are my favorite hobbies.I love the idea of it, truly, but I'm deadly afraid of bugs. I've never considered collecting food, I wonder if exploring it is worth it
>>2611000>Hoarders do not hoard because of animal instinct to collect resourcesWell possibly true, though I'm not a hoarder, just a collector. I don't collect trash or random items thinking it's important I keep it "for something", I feel literal joy hunting out specific pieces I want for a curated collection. So perhaps it's more of a hunting thing? Like mushroom-nona above mentioned, I feel like there really is a resource gathering instinct, and finding and getting the items is like a game.
>why does the amount that you consoom bother you?Money and space, and also the planet is dying and I'm contributing to the production of more unnecessary items…
I actually have a close friend with OCD. She is closer to a hoarder in that she buys a ton of items she literally never uses, she always keeps them in their boxes, buys whole sets, and it doesn't even matter that they're items with a best by date. She lets them go bad and still keeps them. She's described feeling a panicked urge to get the items she desires, if she doesn't get them she physically feels like dying and it doesn't matter that she can't afford the item she feels like she needs it and goes into debt. I know I'm not that and I don't think it's possible for me to develop into it since I don't have her OCD, but it is what made me want to explore if I can maintain and control my own collection urges better. So that's not at all my experience, which is really just joyful and fun. But it's still definitely overconsumption on my part too!
No. 2611096
>>2611069Consider hobbies where you make something consumable. Like baking. You will soon find out the ability to create something is much more fulfilling than collecting, and an excess can be given to friends and neighbors.
Otherwise, look into anti-consumer youtubers, I know some of them are annoying and repetitive but hear me out. It will give you a glimpse to what you may become, with the Labubus and the Stanley cups(just bc your Stanley cup is some obscure Japanese or Euro thing doesn't mean its any better, remember that). I was in your position as well, susceptible to buying things because I wanted to collect or I thought I would need it. You need to rewire how you think about physical items. I can now look at something that I want and identify if I want it just because I know what it is, it's cute, it looks good in it's packaging, it fulfills some kind of lifestyle I want to achieve, etc. A question that is very helpful for me when I want to buy is "where is this thing going to be in my house, and where will it end up in 5 years", most of the time the answer is: it has no place in my home, and it will be uninteresting within 5 years. There are many reasons people consoom beyond "collecting is innate", you need to do the mental work to figure out what is true for you. Those videos can help you see how you might be acting but in third person, and having a Youtuber point out the insanity might bring you to some realizations.
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>>2611082I can't decide if this is healthier or not
>>2611096do you have any anti-consumer youtuber recs?
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>>2610851I think it's supposed to be a seam so you can move the legs and pose them in plushie form
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>>2611182I like Shawna Ripari, shes more soft spoken which is a plus because I don't like loud Youtubers with obnoxious editing. I also don't go on Tiktok anymore, so it's kinda fascinating to see what is going on there. Restock Tiktoks are like a culture shock to me, kek.
>>2611443Like other nonna said, kpop. Lisa from blackpink posted hers sometime last year and your typical Smiski/Sonny angel fans ate it up, then it snowballed.
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>>2610414I love Popmart’s Peach Riot figures. If you’re buying a blind box figure I feel one that is designed by an American woman is the way to go.
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>>2612233Seconded. The creator is so cool and the grrrlband feel for these three makes me so happy. Every single outfit and design is just perfect!
No. 2612315
>>2610550I have seen companies selling ACRYLIC KEYCHAINS (you know, 3mm of flat plastic with an image printed onto it) blind boxes for $15 each! Not even Japan, which was where the surprise acrylic merch originated, prices them as high, they tend to be $7 from what I have seen.
I can't imagine paying that much for flat plastic you might not even like.
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>>2612114>Not gonna lie anon, it kind of sounds like you want to shoot down most of the suggestions I was worried I'd come off that way, but I really see it as idea balling and a discussion and I can't go "yes that would totally fix the consoom itch" when I honestly don't think it would. Plus some anons did suggest things I had literally mentioned I've already tried that didn't work for me! I'm also hoping people in a similar position to me could read it and consider if it works for them. So I really appreciate all the suggestions because I think it adds to possible solutions for someone even if that person isn't me.
>what snapped me out of consooming was a few things: Moving house, having to pack all my useless shit into multiple boxes made me feel embarrassed. I'm not embarrassed about my stuff kek, but something that helps me sort through and get rid of unwanted stuff is to simply remove everything from its place and only put back what I
really want so thats the same principle.
>Maybe volunteering/working at a thrift would be good for you, seeing the massive volume of someone's previous things getting dusty and damaged over time while sitting unsold will help you see junk for what it is.That's honestly likely not going to happen. I just don't see my stuff as junk nor have I bought them thinking they're an investment I can sell later. If I worked at a thrift shop it would
trigger the "this is a cool find" feelings rather than making me think "wow so much junk". Worst case scenario is that I would end up buying the stuff myself, which is why in my first post I thought something like a museum/gallery where I can't buy things privately but still curate a collection would be a better idea.
Another idea I've considered (but that will never happen) is becoming something like an interior designer where I'd get to hunt down and curate pieces to fit specific spaces. It's annoying that the only solutions I can think of consists of getting specific jobs though, when collecting is meant to be a hobby.
And one idea is to collect something like literal rocks so I could just keep them in the garden. At least then they wouldn't take up spaces inside! But how fun is a rock really kek
No. 2612621
>>2612347Nta but with your preconceived notion that your consoomerism is an inherit "hunter gatherer instinct" which prevents you from doing some introspection you're likely not going to make any meaningful changes. You even admit that you don't see anything wrong with consooming and it's just a money and space issue.
If I'm being you honest sound like you're addicted to the quick dopamine rush you get from consooming which is why you're not even considering quitting and aim for replacing the source with something else instead.
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>>2612233>>2612236>grrrl riot>aesthetic is just tumblr cutesy doodlesI don't understand why people like to larp as punks/anti-system. It's gonna reach a point people are gonna draw an anime moe girl and say it's punk.
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What a great way to signal that you have the money to waste on a fake labubu and that you listen to aphex twin while also being quirky enough to ruin the doll with shitty DIY - featuring ugly polyester bag
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>>2610187>>2610303More Glitch garbage, who are they trying to lure in with this?? At least with TADC it's colorful but this looks abysmal. I hate how you can clearly see the main zombie girl's detailed hip bones and crotch in the figurine, they are not being subtle at all.
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>>2612782I thought this was just them trying to DIY themselves an aphex twin bear mascot which using a labubu is smart since the body is similar
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>>2610129I’d say with that it depends: this? yeah, no harm here at all. that Scrote that prints thousands of cutouts of things like his waifu? there’s a problem there.
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>>2613120I don't like the oversized ecchi shit but, eh, there are projects he made that seem like they involve actual creativity with the collaging. Not my thing but I cannot hate him entirely for it since I put creative endeavors of any kind above mindless consooming. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to get as much interest in these as the giant ecchi figures. Massive wastes of paper catering to ecchi slop faggots.
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>>2613337>creativityyour picrel is literally just obnoxious zoomer memes but in paper form. Maybe if he did actual paper crafts it would be cool, but that requires effort and talent.
No. 2613811
>>2612912Gaslight District doesn't seem to be popping off like other Glitch productions for the simple fact that the aesthetic is ugly. I get what they are going for, it feels very 2000s like the look of stuff like Invader Zim, Psychonauts, Tim Burton and so on but I don't think the nostalgia for that aesthetic is back yet and even then the characters just lack appeal. All those other things I listed made sure to balance the spooky and icky out with characters that had more cute elements to their design.
I think the zombie girl design is especially bad in part because they don't actually lean into the waifu shit sincerely. It's like they are too embarrassed about making her sexy that they saddle her design with a lot of bad elements for plausible deniability. NONE of the characters suit merch.
No. 2613841
>>2612621>with your preconceived notion that your consoomerism is an inherit "hunter gatherer instinct" which prevents you from doing some introspection girl you're taking that way too seriously lol
>you're not even considering quittingI'm literally asking for ways to quit by channeling it into something else more useful because I recognize that it does give me dopamine aka it's fun and fulfilling but I still know it's not sustainable long term. I'm obviously not magically gonna go minimalist overnight, that's unrealistic. I think it's been documented enough in this thread that the worst consumers are mentally ill/have a disorder and developed their consumerism habits through that which may actually be an inherent trait to them. I want to know ways they could be helped to channel it in a different way too (like my friend with OCD I mentioned earlier)
No. 2613918
>>2612315Western companies are somehow even worse about this crap than Japanese ones, and that really says something, considering Japanese companies will happily charge 5000 yen for a t-shirt or 12000 yen for Claire's tier plated metal jewelry. There are new Sailor Moon trading stickers out right now, each 3 pack has a retail of $9.99.
>>2612823The only nice thing I will say about these things is that it gives morons looking for clout something better to buy and immediately resell than recasts off AliExpress that they don't even know the original name of.
No. 2613956
>>2612114Ha,
nonnie, I can relate, I've moved maybe four times in the past five years, to smaller and smaller spaces, and when downsizing, I managed to sell an air fryer, a computer monitor, a foldable desk, all useful things, but
nobody was interested in buying any of my plastic fandom tat. The one thing I remember was a special limited collectable from Japan I had to use a consignment service to get, set me back over $100, but it was bulky and my new place had no place for it, so I listed it on an online marketplace. I had
zero buyers for months, until I finally got a bite when in desperation I listed it for $5. The thing I thought was so important that I spent so much time and money to get ended up being something some rando only bought on impulse because it was so cheap. I've sworn off fandom-related anything entirely because the pain of trying to offload that damn thing always comes back to haunt me.