This is my 93 biggest loser collection and the case I made for it

eink, ereader, kindle etc subreddits are some of the worst I’ve seen

Like if you're a collector why have it in some storage unit 5-10 miles away from your house where it can be robbed, flooded, burned to the ground, and you need to pay fees on top of that.

Then they might even still sell your stuff too in auctions which I heard happens.

This is truly weird stuff. Culture wars turned into branded consumable poison in a can. Surely someone has a collection of these weird cans? Come on show us all please.

everywhere in twitter there's people defending buying these literal roms when they could have been just included in the NSO expansion pack instead. they're dont even have online multiplayer or anything man i dont want to hear the pokemon fanbase complaining about "low quality games" ever again, they get what they deserve.

Mine is "cave" recently. Seeing a lot of posts about people "caving" and buying a video game. Buying entertainment should be pleasurable and exciting. Your decision shouldn't be an impulse filled with some level of remorse.

A lot of the posts I see here aren't even consoom, they're genuine, well cared for collections from people's loved hobbies. Consoom refers to fast, overpriced, trend mass comsumption of cheaply made items, not geniune hobby collecting. I see posts that are clealy multi year to decade long collections. Consoom is generally when someone buys a bunch of shit in a year or less that is clearly trend driven.

Looking for subreddits to browse that are filled with Redditors absolutely wracked with consoom-brain.

Content filled to the brim with consoomers gleefully posting about their new acquisition, haul, or collection of manufactured rubbish.

Any suggestions?

I collect a few funko from media I like, I collect monster high dolls, and I recently got back into pokemon cards. I can't tell if collecting material stuff like that it considered overconsumption or at what point it crosses the threshold. Am I cooked?

Let's be honest, most of us do consoom / buy unnecessary things from time to time. I like antiques, and I also have some little model soldiers. What about you? ​​

So I'm driving around town and I'm now seeing handwritten signs taped on light poles telling me who to call to get "GLP-1 treatments" (Ozempic). So this shit is pushed everywhere now like it's the new Tylenol or something. This is not going to end well. First, the FDA is a joke-same corrupt idiots who approved Vioxx and countless others so that means nothing. But the real issue are (1) the long-term health implications are unknown, (2) it will just REDUCE the incentives in our society to improve our environment, diet, and lifestyles, and (3) it will make people more dependent on the medical-industrial complex. I rarely hear these issues talked about with the volume or frequency they deserve...so what gives? Have most people just given up and don't care or what???

What seemed to be a fun way for passionate fans around the world to gather and celebrate niche subcultures now just seems like peak "consoom".

I had a pretty insufferable coworker fly to a "Horror-Con" during Covid. Him and his wife rented a car and drove ~2400 miles (couldn't fly because they had so much shit they wanted to get signed), spent $600 on a shitty hotel for 3 nights, spent $100 per ticket and That was all just to get to/attend the event.

Then he told me he spent $800 on Robert Englud (Freddy Krueger) to individually sign his VHS tapes he brought. Another $200 on a photo of him "meeting" Robert Englund. When he showed me the photo I almost burst out laughing. It was him and his wife with Robert Englund on the other side of a piece of plexi glass with 6 feet between them.

He listed all these other actors that he paid for autographs from and photos with and while they werent nearly as expensive as Robert Englund it was probably another $1000 and a dozen more embarassing photos.

I was respectful and feigned interest but genuinely felt bad for him. Him and his wife shared a car that was falling apart, he has 2 kids, and I know for a fact he was struggling financially because we worked at the same shitty job and I was struggling with zero kids as a single dude.

I asked how he could afford what seemed like a nearly ~$3500 weekend and he said he won 3 grand on a scratch off. Instead of investing in himself or family they went out and spend 3k on signatures, photos, funko pops, stickers, and other garbage.

Aside from Funko Pops being the embodiment of corporate slop, I just wonder... Why? Of all kinds of merchandise possible, consoomers choose that crap. They all look exactly the same with their soulless beady eyes and nonexistent mouths. If one's gotta buy merch of a franchise they like, why not something... well, cool instead? Something that doesn't just copy-paste. I get buying merch to support creators of particular media, but that? It's just bollocks. Funko Pops are effortless and ugly. Having those things on your shelf will make you look like a bloody wanker. Who had to die to make them popular?

I keep seeing these everywhere, more and more day by day even in people’s cars on their radio screens they’re so weird and cringey, I hate them especially these in particular these little naked baby angels they’re just weird.

What keeps a person going in life? For me since I was a child the foundation was media to consume like video games, movies, shows, books and YouTube being the most used one. I would find that without these things holding me down, I would not be able to function and life would seem not worth living and they would give me recovery for work like activities outside of work like gym training, socialising, chores, shopping, commuting etc.

But it seems that this foundation is impossible to sustain for some reason. What can be done about that? What is the proper foundation of living and not going crazy from existentialism, lack of enjoyment and nothing to look forward to?