#ConsumerBase

[cemeterym]

there's some candy here that used to be called UFOs and now they're called comets and my mom just asked me if that's another one of those political correctness things. girl what the fuck are you talking about

#no yeah the alien consumerbase was really upset. those damn woke alien moralists

[butchyena]

crazy how now that netflix has banned people from account sharing on the most convenient and easy to access platforms (tv apps, console apps) theyre actually making shows im interested in watching for the first time since they. you know. cancelled what i wanted the service to watch years ago. and every single executive in a corporate chair is smoking literal methamphetamine if they think id shell out for my own account now they theyve thoroughly destroyed every ounce of good will from their consumers, let alone jump through hoops to watch the aforementioned programming

#companies have gotten so chronically incapable of seeing their consumerbase as Numbers (income!) and bot thinking feeling people w brains #theyve shown their hand so why would i care now more than ever #is having streaming services more convenient that pirating? of course #but they forget that people are petty. and way smarter than corporations atp #at least smarter than corporations are willing to treat us

[grim-echoes]

genuinely though what is it with professional comic artists who only know how to draw two body types and that's "hilariously stacked dude looking like the elephant's foot came to (full) life and walked out of the reactor room" and "spider-legged waif who struggles to open a mayonnaise jar", is this just a genuine industry problem hampering the range of otherwise good artists or do they just take amateur art advice about how to draw men and women to heart and only understand that men are boxes and women are circles while not considering that body fat exists or that women have muscles (which is how they are capable of movement and articulation)

#i'm well aware there's a marketability factor to it as well #a lot of professional design tends to water down character archetypes if profit margins are being considered #and not necessarily by choice of the artist #especially if there's a particular audience you're catering to because it's the majority of your consumerbase #in comics though i especially do not get it because of the fallibility aspect #when you're not always able to stay on model and all art is uniquely stylized #how do you not see how fucking ugly and boring this shit is #all this to say i desperately want to see a dude with body fat and a woman who's allowed to be stacked to the ceiling #they are fucking superheroes this is fantasy land where anyone can do anything

[explodo-smash]

Are you one of the people expecting bkdk to be canon? I just learned that there are people that sincerely believe Hori would have Deku and Bkg have an explicit confession of love. That he's going to be the first popular mangaka to have a endgame gay ship. I am in so many mlm ships of shounen but I've never had the delusion that the author would make them canon despite the evidences otherwise. Like I thought it's fine to ship mlm as long as we stayed in our lane and never harassed the author.

After speaking together, we do believe based on the evidence in the series that BakuDeku being canon is not an even vaguely unreasonable conclusion to reach. We think the story is written in a way you can reach that conclusion easily, so much that even casual viewers who aren’t shippers are questioning the nature/potential conclusion of their relationship.

One of the most consistent and convincing lines of evidence for us has been Katsuki taking on roles/positions traditionally reserved for female heroines/love interests (if you’ve seen anyone call him “narratively androgynous,” this is what they’re referring to). In the context of Jump magazine, we have a number of shonen heroines and love interests to compare Katsuki to. The similarities are so striking that many notable people (including the VAs for the anime) have taken to calling him the heroine of the series.

However, we do think things like homophobia (whether it’s the writer or the audience/consumerbase at large– in this case we’re primarily referring to the audience), the safety of everyone involved, and timing are all unpredictable factors people have to take into consideration when writing/reading a story of this magnitude. Needless to say, if Horikoshi is indeed planning an endgame for bakudeku, he’d also have to take these factors into consideration.

Horikoshi has a record of being pretty in-tune with his fanbase. He definitely keeps some eye on bnha’s reception–for example, he mentioned a while back that both the people who love Katsuki and the people who hate him will have something to look forward to in this finale (we can now see what he meant lol). He’s very likely aware of the people who love bakudeku and the people who loathe it. 

Taking into account that he tends to be very intentional with his writing choices, he’s written this story in a way that not only centered bakudeku’s relationship over others (notably Izuku + Ochako’s, the character he’d presumably end up with if things were going predictably?), but also went the extra mile to distinguish their relationship as unique, closer than all their other relationships, the “biggest pillar of the story” (x, x). He didn’t have to do all of this. This extra push is what’s giving bakudeku that undeniable chance at an endgame right now, because it’s come to a point where no one can ignore the implications of scenes like this:

On the flip side, we don’t think people’s hesitation is unreasonable. It’s scary! If bakudeku were to fall flat of all this buildup/our expectations, it wouldn’t be the first time the romantic implications between a pair of boys in a story like this was ignored. Hell it wouldn’t be the first time a popular pair in general, (gay or not) got ignored in favor of what the author just felt like doing, regardless of what any previous developments in the story or interviews or official artwork would have us believe. There’s enough written evidence that canon bakudeku wouldn’t be surprising, but there’s also (at the time of writing this response) still room for things to go another direction, for all of this to be recontextualized and passed as something else. 

As per social norms/patterns of behavior, this would be disappointing as hell but not surprising. Especially for people who have been let down before, we completely understand the need/impulse to distance oneself from the idea/hope that bakudeku may become canon.

In all honesty, if it turns out bakudeku isn’t canon or left open-ended (say, an ending where they’re partners of some kind/the closest to one another without that explicit romantic confirmation), we would be frustrated/heartbroken. Not because we feel like Horikoshi shouldn’t do what he wants, he should. But because there’s been a clear effort to bring LGBTQ+ readers into the fold, and tell and portray our experiences in MHA. Horikoshi has done a beautiful, incredible job of writing various LGBTQ+ and marginalized experiences as a metaphor in his stories. Toga is a prime example. This is something that readers around the world have noticed, and it’s something MHA is special for (see this data x, and the further context/commentary on it given here x). 

We think it’s intentional. This story and the relationships in it have invoked experiences close and personal to many of us. Things are in a state right now where we wouldn’t just feel baited, we feel like readers would have a right to feel unsatisfied.

That being said, feeling unsatisfied doesn’t equate to feeling empowered to harass or bother others. Especially not Horikoshi himself, and also including other readers who had differing expectations. This is really the case across the board. We should all be able to control our anticipation/expectations without becoming assholes. 

It’s not just the shippers, by the way. People who work on the series or work closely with Horikoshi have rooted for bakudeku to go beyond. Izuku and Katsuki have already done what a good chunk of the readerbase thought impossible and became friends. People see their writing, their potential, and they want more. The voice actors (x, x sorry for the crunchy pic it's all i've got atm), academics (x), musicians (x, x) , editors (x) and more have all kind of rallied around Bakugou and Deku’s bond, with a particular sensitivity towards the deeply and uniquely intimate nature of it + how it evokes romance.

We’d like to see MHA exist free of the burdens previous popular shounen series have had placed on them. But that’s a conversation for the ending. As far as the fanbase goes, I think it’s super important people practice humility and caution when speaking to others. We have NO way of knowing what will happen. People who have been traumatized by situations like this in the past have a right to be anxious, people in general are allowed to withhold judgment until we have all the information we need. However, we don’t think having hope or confidence that this narrative might lead us to a canon bakudeku is unwarranted or delusional.

At the end of the day one thing is true, and this was something we had to fight to “prove” much longer than we had to prove Bakudeku had romantic potential - it’s that Kacchan and Izuku’s lives are going to be forever intertwined in this new era of their world that births from the finale. 

They’re forever intertwined in a way that’s not replicable for any other character in the series, and that’s amazing all on its own. We’ll just have to wait and see how far they take it! Thanks for reading if you got this far, and Happy Holidays!

#Anonymous #ask #bakudeku #dekubaku #katsudeku

[noellevanious]

while i think the over-proliferation of ds/3ds model revisions is a bit silly and led to a lot of needless consumerbase over-saturation (hello like 4 different "new" models that just add an awful c-stick nub, 2 smaller less useful shoulder buttons, and needless bonus specs that make some games unplayable on older consoles), i do think that people dont realize how good the original 2ds specifically is as a console. like. for some reason it just "gets" the experience so right, especially if u get one of the more rare crystal variants

[xandra-but-cool]

hey

you're cool

what's your favourite [insert topic here]?

Playing favorites is always hard for me cuz I have ADHD and go "is it this thing or this thing, or did I forget to consider any options I just can't quite think of?"

However, one easy favorite I can think of is company to hate on. Wizards of the coast. Thanks for ruining two of my favorite games with over monetization and greedy choices that hurt your consumerbase. Then to top it all off you fired tons of employees multiple times and then lied about using ai art after you got rid of half your artists. Fuck you wotc. And Hasbro while I'm at it.

On a slightly happier note, my favorite icecream flavor is chocolate.

[regina-bithyniae]

Hate it so much the online algorithms think I'm part of the waterproof tactical pants consumerbase

[rametarin]

For comics and cartoons, the 90s was a bold ass fucking time.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles did not start out with the 1980s saturday morning cartoon show. It started out as a violent black&white noir comic where people actually died. It gained an iteration where the Turtles were softened up and babified for children’s consumption and sold like gangbusters.

And I just have to respect that. The 90s wasn’t afraid to give that kind of potentially horrifying clash of themes and it all turn out okay, because as a child, parents and children were forced to come to an understanding that something could be Made For Kids(tm) and general audience acceptable, and something could be Made For Adults(tm) and because of the nature of the flavor of that work, you not repeat certain themes or topics or plots just because it’s part of that franchise you like. Because Grandma and Someone Elses Grandma may not approve of it.

So you had Rated R movies like Robocop and Terminator getting children’s merchandising, because everybody fucking knew dad and mom would watch R-Rated movies in front of the kids, and they’d consume and enjoy Adult culture. Within reason, obviously. It really was a time when liberalist ideals meant parents were allowed to customize how they showed media based on the maturity and mental health of their children at their discretion, with greater society being more open and free.

You even had fucking Troma, Troma, making Toxic Avenger toys and an animated series. Toxic Avenger.

Those movies are fucking not for children. But it had coloring books, action figures and merchandising. Holy shit.

I aspire to do that sort of thing, someday. Imagine having such an understanding with the public and consumerbase that you could put out an adult version of your property, and also a child friendly version of your property, and the public understands what you’re about so well that ideally the two different demographics never confuse stuff meant for adults with stuff meant for kids, and vice versa. No unvigilant parents asleep at the wheel.

Like Batman. Batman has kid friendly interpretations and incarnations, and he has very much adult stories and movies. And it’s understood some of that you do not show while some of it you do.

[pussyfootmaneuver]

people have already probably complained about this and stupid dragonball nerds will have gone wehh frieza wehh majin buu wehh FUCK all of that. what's really going on is nobody on this team knows how to fucking worldbuild to save their life they couldn't worldbuild their way out of a paperbag. *28 planets* there are EASILY more than 28 unique alien designs in dragonball, and you're going to tell me kick, just because there are many species doesn't mean their planets are intact (see: the saiyans, the namekians for awhile), and well i would say to you there's an ENTIRE INTERGALACTIC ECONOMY BUILT AROUND BUYING AND SELLING PLANETS TO ALIENS WHO NEED NEW PLANETS, SO THERE HAS TO BE A SIGNIFICANT CONSUMERBASE FOR SUCH A THING TO EVEN BE VIABLE, EREGO THERE ARE MORE THAN 30 SPECIES IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE. the next dragonball super arc will be about intergalactic cultures and socioeconomics goku and vegeta can go fuck off for a little bit

[csmeaner]

691201112247877632/ i havent been allowed outside since 2018, but honestly id probably open a business paypal if i were selling shit like that, def not too much to ask but all cs owner are nincompoops

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they really want to get paid like a business whilst at best putting hobby-levels of effort forth. hell not even businesses get this much probably because if they were this lazy and greedy they'd lose their consumerbase immediately

#general

[coolyo294]

all the videos GW put out for titanicus are raw 

#i love this new era of marketing and community outreach #it's a far cry from the old days of tom kirby GW where they actively seemed to despise their consumerbase

[theliterarywolf]

Turns out there might be another reason OnlyFans might be shutting off it's consumerbase.

Is it the MasterCard thing?

And, by extension, how the internet is being sanitized by the whims of three credit-card companies?

And how, if for no other reason, this would be a perfect case-study as to why cryptocurrency could have been a viable evolution in online commerce if it weren't for so many people dicking around with it and turning it into a joke?

[ac-liveblogs]

I just realised. Even though the fatui apparently prolonged the war so that they could create a market for delusions, they were handing them out in secret (since Kokomi didn't know about them). Does this mean they were literally selling delusions for soldier pocket change? They must have no production costs lmao, or else rather than a market, they'd just be making a loss. Even if the war itself is their profits, it wont last long with delusions around, either. Their motivations are a mess.

So far as I can tell, they didn't even do that much? The Delusions were hidden in the supplies the fatui anonymously donated to the revolutionaries. Except like. The started the Vision Hunt Decree so they could create a market for Delusions, but

Ayaka outright states that since there aren't many Vision Holders, most people don't care about the decree, ergo there can't even be that many rebels to begin with

The delusions are being given away for free? ??? Like, we have no record of any being sold, so...

Delusions age the users sometimes extremely rapidly, so they're kind of killing their own consumerbase here (especially given Teppei died in like. A few days, max) and if the rebels had any brains they would stop using them

So like, how many sales are they making off this war anyway? There are more efficient ways to make money...? Have they considered selling those guns the fatui mooks use instead, perhaps

#ac plays genshin impact

[noellevanious]

also i think it says a LOT that tumblr implemented a "nsfw" function so fundamentally useless that we literally have to step around it and still use our own nsfw functions. even though tags are fundamentally perfect for that kinda thing. i mean it's obvious why (shithead staff that May or May Not Be Terfs , thanks Poeslaw!) but still. a good lesson in design with consideration for the consumerbase

[chimeraan]

Gamergate was actually fucking hilarious.

A bunch of beanie baby boys launched an entire campaign complete with a female mascot they wanted to fuck (which was a recolour of a girl from a shitty manga) and angrily demanded that video game developers make games that catered exclusively to them. In what can only be described as the Heated Gamer Moment of the Century.

Then indie game developers went “Well we prefer to do what we feel is artistically fulfilling and we don’t hate women or LGBT folk so....goodbye?”

Then every corporate game developer looked at their sales numbers and went, “Well we looked at the figures boys and we actually found out that you make up such a small percentage of our consumerbase that by catering to you and not pursuing, well...yknow, nearly the other half of the population (and then some) that could be buyin our products if we represent them more in our products would lose us a lot of money. Plus you keep harassing women so it would make us look real bad if we took you seriously. So sorry guys, love you, but no dice on this one 🤷🏻‍♂️. We’ve got lootcrates in the next game tho, you like them right??? Fun surprise treats that you pay for??!”

So the insects were forced to sit in the corner and grumble to each other on Twitter. Forced to buy whatever games that their semen encrusted little fingers could afford. It’s actually beautiful.

#gamergate #funny #history #love this #video games #gamermoves #gamers

[angelicguy]

the dreamcast failed due to its complete overestimation of the nu metal consumerbase