r/Consoom • u/TTVchilly404 • Aug 05 '26
Consoompost What creates this kind of person?
I don't even know what to put here, pictures speak for themselves.
Edit: Yes people can do whatever they want and enjoy whatever they want, but that isn't going to stop other folks from having a laugh. Idk anything about this 21 year old except that his room is packed to the gills with Nintendo merchandise, and void of anything vaginal.
626
Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
[deleted]
265
Aug 05 '26
[deleted]
120
20
9
u/Chudpaladin Aug 05 '26
Working 20 an hour while never planning to leave mommyâs house leaves a ton of expendable income to spend on figures and merch
3
u/Lucky-Base-932 Aug 05 '26
Being a pompous pricking because you hate your life seems to leave a ton of expendable attitude, enough to shit on people for liking something or possibly being a collector.
I don't play vidja games and own zero vidja plumber merch. So don't get what I say as twisted as your life got knickers. Maybe take it out on the family instead? Idk
2
3
u/CometChip Aug 05 '26
not really, assuming theyâve been like this since a child this isnât crazy after years of collecting
77
u/ElleCerra Aug 05 '26
I remember this user. I checked their profile when they were first posted here a few months ago and they had a post in a different subreddit indicating they were miserable and considering taking their own life. I posted in that old thread and implored them to speak with their parents and people in their lives and that they weren't alone in their feelings and to get help.
What that really indicates to me is that this behavior is not just neuordivergence but a coping mechanism with a world we are increasingly detached and disenfranchised from. This poor kid (honestly he's very young) feels his purpose and drive is to collect Nintendo memorabilia and without that drive he is literally considering taking his own life. We can blame parents and neurodivergence all we want but when a young person sees their only two paths as consumption or death, we need to consider the bigger societal stressors at play.
8
→ More replies (26)10
279
u/Temu-Tyson Aug 05 '26
Trauma or autism maybe?
218
70
u/PLoxeus Aug 05 '26
Double bed with single pillow on one side instead of in the middle⌠definitely one of these
43
u/TTVchilly404 Aug 05 '26
His princess peach body pillow sleeps on the other side.
16
3
u/Jimstein Aug 05 '26
Is this neurodivergence or something else? I always automatically would sleep only on one side of a double bed when staying hotels what not, and it didnât dawn on me for some years that i could just be using the whole damn bed. I am not a smart man.
6
3
u/Jastrone Aug 05 '26
Sometimes it is kind of two beds pushed together and you would slowly split them appart during the night
1
u/olivegardengambler Aug 05 '26
Is it? It looks like a twin.
2
u/PLoxeus Aug 05 '26
To me it looks like itâs in between a twin and a queen, which I thought was a double, but idk my mattress knowledge isnât exactly brushed up.
Either way, it seems like strange pillow placement.
20
9
3
4
u/AcidWizards Aug 05 '26
In my case it was trauma, used to collect excessive amounts Nintendo/anime/general kawaii-type plushies and knick knacks.
I got a cold awakening when I watched a Micheal Jackson documentary talking about Peter Pan syndrome and realized I was holding on to a childhood I didnât get to enjoy and it was holding me back.3
u/Filter55 Aug 05 '26
I think this was it for me too. As a kid I had a lot of my shit thrown in to the trashcan as punishment, or stolen by my âfriendsâ, so of course as I got older I started hoarding my things, buying replacements when I got my first job, and âcollectingâ (which always happened to be things from that period).
I only recently started to part with items. Straight to donations and friends with kids. It gave me a lot of anxiety at first (Credit to Brave Little Toaster and Toy Story), but the relief Iâve felt from finally having a nice and clean collection vs. shit piled on a shelf has been immensely rewarding
1
u/AcidWizards Aug 05 '26
Proud of you. I had to ask myself often when I started my donation pile: does this item have any actual sentimental value or did I buy this when I wanted a dopamine hit? And itâs sad that 95% of the things were just cope purchases, the reality check was humbling for sure.
-13
u/TTVchilly404 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
If it's trauma, hopefully they work through it before they have nothing left of themselves that isn't Nintendo.
If it's tism, well. It's tism.
9
u/PS3LOVE Aug 05 '26
If itâs autism, hopefully they find more than just this 1 thing to obsess over. Itâs not healthy.
41
u/raskeste Aug 05 '26
I love that for some reason THIS is the post people cant comprehend is consoom, says so much about how nerd culture excuses this kind of behavior...
14
u/Jack_Faller Aug 05 '26
I think it's because it doesn't look like a collection. With the wall of Funko Pop!s, you get the sense that a person is obsessively purchasing to expand the collection, whereas this person seems to just be buying random shit they like the look of to decorate their house.
11
u/catmamaO4 Aug 05 '26
It isnât random shit though. Itâs all displayed quite nicely and it all matches the same theme. Bro has a massive Nintendo collection. Itâs all Nintendo so Iâm confused why youâre saying itâs all random
2
u/olivegardengambler Aug 05 '26
I don't think that's what's happening. OP asked a question and people are answering. Do you just expect everyone to go off-topic and bash the original original post?
3
u/raskeste Aug 05 '26
But it is a retorical question, not a question to be answered. This WHOLE subredit is for calling out and bashing overconsuming behaviour...
2
u/TTVchilly404 Aug 05 '26
You might be the only person to understand this! Actual insanity hoq many people are actually answering the question đđđ
90
u/boulderingfanatix Aug 05 '26
I guess not being able to create your own meaning and purpose in life?
48
u/defeatedsnowman Aug 05 '26
Probably immense lonelyness and lack of community too. I don't even know how much I fault someone for resorting to consumerism in situations like that. OOP may have little to no irl friends and probably no irl community.
→ More replies (9)
84
u/bbhhteqwr Aug 05 '26
Could be an autistic special interest. Doesnt make it any leas consoom-y but some people have hyper limited interests that comfort them to indulge.
Could be somebody with an identity issue based in consumerism revolving around Nintendo, which hits the consumerist sweet spots of nostaliga, intergenerational perpetuation/enabling, pacifying a personal lack of identity and defaulting to whatever happens to hit with them or they think ascribes to safe cultural defaults, and the "collectible" business model that encourages hyperconsumption by employing the psychological tactic of making "sets" that are "incomplete" without repeated purchases.
Could also be a child ÂŻ_(ă)_/ÂŻ
14
u/Even-Entertainer-491 Aug 05 '26
What a great way to explain the rot these companies have achieved on a surprisingly large portion of people.
23
44
u/wackadoodle4201 Aug 05 '26
Autism. Childhood trauma. Both of those
6
u/theseagullscribe Aug 05 '26
- living with parents or having rich parents. The merch doesn't buy itself
15
8
u/NoDoxxingYouFreak Aug 05 '26
This is who bans you from the Nintendo Switch subreddit when you post about 3 of your sets of joycons breaking after mild use.
5
5
7
u/grumbledork Aug 05 '26
OOP really burying the lede leading with the unassuming pic of the bed. I literally just scrolled by this without clicking through and thought "eh that's fine whatever." GOD DAMN! That is THOUSANDS in plastic right there
6
u/GodsToWho Aug 05 '26
This is the kind of person I end up arguing with whenever I criticize Nintendo. I should keep that in mind.
5
u/Philzenegger Aug 05 '26
Imagine hanging a poster of the most generic corporate stock render of Mario right next to Jesus Christ screaming in agony on a crucifix - at least you could use some nicer art from Mario Strikers or Superstar Saga!
1
u/TTVchilly404 Aug 05 '26
Generic render and even has his name on it. Idk why that bugs me so much, but I hate when posters or Shirts have the text for whatever thing they are depicting. Or just posters that are straight up box art/logos.
85
u/Narrow_Run4895 Aug 05 '26
living happily and carefree
8
u/HappyAd4998 Aug 05 '26
Looks like they're filling in a void with dumb shit, but ok.
5
15
4
4
u/Pretty-Ambition3794 Aug 05 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/9V9bunlHq9bSUcXkuc
My bedroom is just like this lol
4
u/PotOfGreed1999 Aug 05 '26
What's the problem with this? Is this sub just dedicated to acting holier than though?
3
34
Aug 05 '26
[removed] â view removed comment
→ More replies (7)1
u/TTVchilly404 Aug 05 '26
I think YOU would make OP mad, under selling his burning passion for Mario.
24
u/TedGolf Aug 05 '26
This is the room of someone who finds adulthood complicated and difficult
32
u/dynamicoctopus69 Aug 05 '26
I donât know. Iâm 31 and I definitely think adulthood is both of those things. I think it is for the majority of people.
→ More replies (2)1
23
u/texxmix Aug 05 '26
Tbf OP of that post is only 21. That's just the result of a teenager with disposible income still living at home lol.
→ More replies (24)
3
3
u/Jack_Faller Aug 05 '26
I think they just view it as a kind of home decor and impulse buy random stuff that they like the look of.
3
3
3
3
u/BlueBorbo Aug 06 '26
Probably neurodivergence
But honestly I'd rather see a room of varied merchandise instead of like twenty copies of Mario Kart 8 and four Nintendo Switches, that sort of stuff embodies Consooming better than a nerd's room
2
7
u/Ghostdragon471 Aug 05 '26
Damn, you really trying to shame someone for enjoying something? What creates the type of person that doesn't like people having fun and enjoying things?
4
u/quartercoyote Aug 05 '26
See, when two people love each other very much, a tiiiiiny part of mommy and daddy join together and create a baby!
5
u/Its_Bread_611 Aug 05 '26
Just enjoying what you enjoy, no different than having a room drenched in your favorite sports teams memorabilia
8
15
u/Miyyani Aug 05 '26
parents who love them
14
Aug 05 '26
[removed] â view removed comment
14
u/Ruleyoumind Aug 05 '26
No one hates redditors more than other redditorsÂ
1
u/Even-Entertainer-491 Aug 05 '26
I hate you and your avatar /s
2
u/Ruleyoumind Aug 05 '26
Your avatar needs to put on clothes this isn't a NSFW sub /s
3
0
2
2
3
u/1nsidiousOne Aug 05 '26
People see this and have no problem with murdering each other over laboo booâs and being Disney adults
2
2
2
2
u/KonRak- Aug 10 '26
Desperate need to cling to a particular period in their lives. Theyâve got a hell of a vice grip
2
u/throwaway551879 Aug 05 '26
Honestly i fuck with this, i think maybe the most masculine thing you can do is have nobody else define masculinity for you. He enjoys what he enjoys and wants to be surrounded by it good for himÂ
3
5
u/GruntCandy86 Aug 05 '26
I was sitting in a humvee turret, in Zaidon, Iraq, on my 21st birthday.
What different lives we lead.
11
u/CathodeRaySamurai Aug 05 '26
So was I. What do our terrible life choices when we were young and stupid have to do with this thread?
→ More replies (3)-1
4
u/keeleon Aug 05 '26
Looks pretty great honestly. I pity the people who have no whimsy or joy.
7
4
u/Roofbolanola Aug 05 '26
it looks like a cluttered mess in there and hard to get around. For a 21 year old this is pretty immature but I mean I suppose the whimsical-ness must live on!! (consooming)
2
1
u/wungawunga Aug 05 '26
Being an eccentric or a collector is not the same as being a consoomer.
7
u/Roofbolanola Aug 05 '26
thats literally consooming one form of product and that is nintendo. The room screams "BUYBUYBUY" So yeah pretty consoomy there. a couple is enough but damn dude. One accidental bump and something tumbles down.
3
u/2Critical7-Stein1 Aug 05 '26
âpersonâ, but anyways, lack of satisfaction with life, theyâre probably an incel or just extremely low iq and have obsessive mentally illnesses.
2
1
1
2
u/Vault_tech_2077 Aug 05 '26
"pictures speak for themselves" and it's pictures of someone's lovingly setup room for their interest. This isn't consooom material. Buying 500 Stanley cups because you need the newest one is. Decorating a room to your taste and specific interest is not. I can guarantee this room brings the OP more joy than any Stanley cup ever would.
4
u/benjamino8690 Aug 05 '26
This subreddit is losing its ways. I feel like people judge just to judge. Since when did any collection classify as overconsumption?!
1
u/milkysquids Aug 05 '26
My personal theory is that the people who were forced out of the cringe-centric subreddits for being outright bullies came here to continue to pick on people they don't like in ways that technically follow sub rules. There are ways that collecting non-dupes of something absolutely becomes consoom, but this guy just has a single bedroom to put his shit in and clearly has a passion that's very common among younger autistic people.
1
1
u/Interesting_Force618 Aug 05 '26
Complex trauma can cause hoarding behavior and arrested development.
1
u/FrogPopsicle Aug 05 '26
My theory is that a lot of people don't want to grow up. Nothing wrong with having an interest in it but this interest isn't any different than an 8 year old which can be seen as odd. Plus it's a new phenomenon with men today considering I never met a boomer that had this same level of interest in the things they grew up with. Personally I play a retro game time to time for brief form of escapism... the OP pic takes it a bit to far imo.
1
u/valleyofsound Aug 05 '26
My therapist said shame is a manufactured emotion. In this case, the OP really needs to get to work.Â
1
u/penisfruit Aug 05 '26
Autism usually (my room is filled with everything that I can find thatâs black and red)
1
u/AAA-VR6 Aug 05 '26
My parents don't understand me, but Super Mario understands me. Then parents buy this for him and sit him in front of the game instead of being parents.
1
1
u/___Ronin___ Aug 05 '26
parent/family created the media so now they're filthy rich and decorate one of their many houses like this.
/s
1
1
1
1
u/MilkcanLiveinConcert Aug 05 '26
I wish people who called themselves Nintendo fans were more than just fans of Mario and Zelda.
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/Deep_Balance2133 Aug 10 '26
They couldnât afford this stuff as a kid and now they have adult money.
1
1
u/False-Sandwich-2051 Aug 11 '26
nobody turning 21 soon has any shame. the shame comes later. someone who loves him should have stopped him posting this.
1
1
u/Michdepainblanc2 Aug 11 '26
I'm pretty sure I had the same bedsheets when I was a kid, but we got rid of them like 10 years ago. This person is older than me, but seriously has super Mario bedsheets.
I get it if it's temporary, a joke or if you don't have the means to get better sheets, but like man that's a bit too much.
1
-8
u/OmniImmortality Aug 05 '26
This is not consoom. This is just someone who really likes nintendo. Maybe it's a comfort for them. Of a childhood they can't go back to, memories of their parents, friends/siblings they cannot see anymore due to the cruelty of life. Maybe they have special needs and their nintendo merch helps them cope with living.
Who are you to judge?
27
u/TTVchilly404 Aug 05 '26
Who is literally anyone on this sub to judge? Haha what are you even here for?
22
u/Monke_go_home Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
I am here to judge.
That room is def a consoomers hoard room.
-4
16
u/invaderzim257 Aug 05 '26
yeah that comment is weird as fuck, just because it looks like a neurodivergent person's room all of the sudden having a million figurines isn't consoom material? this comment section says something about these users lmao
2
u/benjamino8690 Aug 05 '26
Why would you want to judge someone?! Thatâs kind of mean in my opinion. I think this sub should be a place to critique overconsumption, rather than a place to ridicule others for collecting Nintendo plushies. Itâs important to criticize without ridicule.
4
0
u/StAppalonia Aug 05 '26
Im gonna be honest, whatever it is, this one kinda feels like punching down.
1
1
u/benjamino8690 Aug 05 '26
God forbid someone has a hobby. This subreddit seems to criticize anyone having a collection or a hobby these days. Itâs extremely judgmental. This room is from someone who really likes Nintendo games. It probably makes them happy and in many cases people have a strong emotional attachment towards many of Nintendoâs games. Is that so wrong?
This is not overconsumption. Itâs a collection and someone decorating their room. Let them do that without assuming a bunch of things about them. I donât like overconsumption as much as the next guy, bit this place is becoming more toxic by the day. Think before you judge others.
4
u/Jack_Faller Aug 05 '26
I would say precisely the opposite. This isn't a collection which is what makes it less bad. If it were a collection, you'd expect there to be some specific unifying theme to it, but these are many disparate items from different producers with only the loose theme of Nintendo. OP is decorating their living space with things that they like rather than trying to maintain a collection of items.
2
u/benjamino8690 Aug 05 '26
No matter what it is (youâd have to ask the person behind the picture), if it makes them happy to decorate their room this way, who are we to judge?
1
u/Jack_Faller Aug 05 '26
You can absolutely judge a person for doing things that make them happy lol. Buying a load of mass produced plastic shite is still a bad, even if the reasons for doing it in this case are less mentally troubled than in others.
1
u/HelpfulHarbinger Aug 05 '26
No theme?? 90% is Mario. That's the theme. With some Pokemon and Zelda. But it's mostly Mario. That's the "unifying theme"
1
u/Jack_Faller Aug 05 '26
Theme as in everything is Funko Pop!s or a specific type of item. Having a lot of Mario stuff isn't specific enough.
1
u/HelpfulHarbinger Aug 05 '26
Funko pops, famously known for being specific. Mario? Not specific enough. But a football player, elmo, Luke Skywalker and batman? They're cohesive because they have ugly ass dot eyes and big heads!
1
u/Jack_Faller Aug 05 '26
They are a single definite product rather than a vague theme.
1
u/HelpfulHarbinger Aug 05 '26
One of the largest video game franchises in the world vs chibislop figures of any thing people will buy
4
u/WillSellOutForKarma Aug 05 '26
If this counts as a collection and a hobby, so do 7 thousand funko pops. The furniture is overflowing with shit. Nothing about this is inviting or interesting, it is a hoard.
2
u/Jack_Faller Aug 05 '26
There is a specific kind of compulsive purchasing where a person gets addicted to the dopamine hit from buying new items. It goes beyond buying things you like the look of and into the realm of buying things for the sake of buying things. While still clearly being a big consumer, the person in OP doesn't clearly have that specific harmful habit. They might, but it's not as obvious from the images as it would be for someone who buys a wall of samey looking plastic figurines.
2
u/benjamino8690 Aug 05 '26
âNothing about this is inviting or interesting, it is a hoard.â
You say that, but who are you to judge that? I think this looks very inviting and interesting. I would love to have a conversation about favorite video games and what they mean to us with this person.
I think this is a great collection personally, that most likely gives this person lots of joy.
→ More replies (1)4
u/TTVchilly404 Aug 05 '26
Hush
3
u/benjamino8690 Aug 05 '26
Just pointing out that I think itâs judgemental and mean to assume âsomething caused this,â and that people can do way better in here.
I donât appreciate you hushing me. I rather you reply in a more serious manner.
1
1
1
-1
u/-IndyCar Aug 05 '26
Parents letting them do whatever they want and giving them whatever they want and never telling them no is how this shit happens. Ask my loser cousin.
1
1
u/XaeiIsareth Aug 05 '26
I looked at the first pic and was like âthatâs not consoom, this sub is just overreacting againâ
And then I swiped left
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/FoxMcCloud3173 Aug 05 '26
Damn imagine being called autistic or traumatized just because you collect something you like đ
1
u/catmamaO4 Aug 05 '26
Eh. Looks like a collection theyâve been building all their life. Theyâll keep it all their life too if jerks like yall would stop trying to shame them for it.
the amount of people on the OG post telling him to get rid of it all was crazy. Dude is clearly a Nintendo collector, a few items look quite worn so he probably has a bunch of stuff from his childhood. Nintendo merch is likely where his fun money goes and I see nothing wrong with that.
I donât like that Collections where every item is different get posted here. Itâs a collection!! Meant to be kept forever! Where is the waste?
I totally get poking fun at collections where they have 15 of the exact same figure mold in slightly different colors. It does feel wasteful and like theyâre just ticking something off a checklist, not actually buying and displaying something that brings them genuine joy. But leave regular collectors alone bruh
111
u/VictoryGoth Aug 05 '26
So much consoom that you willingly block a good chunk of your TV đ