#be mad at consumerism & capitalism

[chrollohearttags]

my whole YouTube feed is filled with videos about the Stanley cup/Sephora kid thing and maybe bc I haven’t used tiktok in months but I’m so lost as to why everybody, including the kids themselves is being blamed for this problem lmao.

#there’s only one enemy and that’s capitalism/consumerism #not to mention the parents who think being an ‘ipad kid’ is cute and quirky bc they don’t want to raise their kids beyond the baby stage #like why are you mad at an influencer who’s job it is to sell a product for not monitoring if ur children are watching #that beauty influencer is not selling to them or for them #they’re a business + brand marketing to other ppl their age #people who can actually afford the products #not somebody who barely has lunch money less known 3 bands to drop on drunk elephant #like I have so many young cousins/kids in my neighborhood who are being brought up this way + it’s the internet’s fault always #not the fact that their parents don’t do anything #and what gets me is that somebody like me who’s made content online like cosplay/anime or even writing fanfic #has to worry about censoring myself for some brat I’m not even thinking abt #and it hurts creatives who are just looking for an escape #when I’m reality the only problem is that these parents are lazy and expect some random youtuber to teach their kids the things they refuse #it takes a village yes but at the end of the day that responsibility lies on the person who birthed them #I’m sorry #cherry chats 🍒

[cosmicdreamgrl]

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#i'm only going to say this once #i believe in being critical when it comes to the things/people you choose to support #i wholeheartedly encourage it in fact #being mindful is important even in the face of entertainment purposes #however #you know what i dislike? #people being hateful/spiteful #dislike the output if it's not on par with your preferences #that's perfectly normal #but when it veers off into throwing mean comments towards others & even the artist themselves? #dude #besides as i mentioned if you want to be mad at something? #be mad at consumerism & capitalism #be mad at how record label execs/conglomerates treat artists as commodities/assets for profit first and foremost #because while i'm still on this site? #i won't tolerate that in my space #period #steph.text

[felikatze]

i'm not mad at the person who said "kirby and the forgotten land is a critique of capitalism." i admit that i think they are very wrong. and i am not mad at this. i am not foaming at the mouth.

#feli speaks #FALSE YOU'RE WRONG DIPSHIT #IT'S CALLED THE *FORGOTTEN* LAND IT'S ABOUT MAKING SURE NO ONE IS LEFT BEHIND #ELFILIN REUNITING WITH ELFILIS AFTER THE TRUE ARENA? RESCUING EVERY WADDLE DEE? GOING AFTER LEOPOLD IN THE POST GAME? #IT DOESNT MATTER WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE. THEY DONT DESERVE TO BE LEFT BEHIND NO MATTER WHAT #IF YOU WANT A CRITIQUE OF CAPITALISM GO PLAY PLANET ROBOBOT YOU PRETENTIOUS- #i'm not mad about people misinterpreting kirby games #no mouthfull mode is not a metaphor for consumerism. in my opinion. #man. just play planet robobot.

[imjustexistingtbh]

i hate google i hate microsoft i hate amazon i hate disney i hate ads i hate how big corporations have made it nearly impossible to live without them

#genuinely so mad about this rn #i just want to be able to not support corrupt billionaires whenever i want to do something but i’m poor and can’t afford to #use alternatative companies etc. cause it’s often more expensive #i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate capitalism i hate consumerism i hate ads i hate big corporations

[everythinkaloud]

We live in a collective madness of our own making

#society #interest rates #capitalism #consumerism #survival of the fittest #cost of living crisis #madness #wake up #we can change it #status quo

[alioks-blog]

You'd think that you're a celebrity. Probably the biggest one on the planet - no "real" person made of flesh and blood can rival you in that matter. You even have your own star on the Walk of Fame! People meet you in their childhoods, but you never leave their memory because you're always in sight. On t-shirts, on posters, on bags, on... logos.

You're a celebrity. But so little people know you.

In comparison, of course. A portion of the entire planet is still a big quantity, but not compared to the planet itself. What do most people think of when looking at you? Corporation. Capitalism. Greed. Injustice. Consumerism. And many other negative things. They see you as a symbol of these things. On one hand, now that we've watched a documentary about you, we understand why that is. The studio was afraid to risk you, and you didn't appear in cartoons, you really only were the face of the company. And that's entirely the fault of the latter.

But we know a different you. Not a symbol, but a character, a person. We know that your full name is Michael Theodore Mouse. You were such a mischievous little fella way back when! But now you're cute and kind, often too kind for your own good, but it doesn't stop you. You live in your little house in the town of Mouseton, you visit your friends and go on different adventures. After your attempts to cook, the kitchen is a total mess. You have an older sister and brother, the latter of whom you met fairly recently. You're often insecure, be it because of your short height, squeaky voice or some other flaws. But your friends and close ones still love you. Yes, even Donald, although he can be mean and jealous. Because you, with all your insecurities, remain the heart of the group. Sure, you make mistakes, but in the end your goals are always the most noble. We think that's why you're so liked by all who know the character-you: in reality, contrary to popular belief, you're not perfect, just like a real person, but you're the most kindhearted, compassionate and pleasant person. It would be great to be friends with you.

We know, we know that we have to accept the existence of the other you, Mickey the Symbol, at least as a completely different and separate mouse. After all, he was created by human imagination, just like you. But it's incredibly hard. No, it's abhorrent! To accept basically an opposite of you, and at that as the more known one, the main one...! It's simply outrageous for us! Because no matter how hard we try, we see a nice, kind little mouse in his place, and our hearts bleed when we see him depicted so horribly just to throw tomatoes at him afterwards. For people, you became a a punching bag for when they're mad and bitter.

And we grew up with you. We started drawing with you, we learned about things like fandoms and AUs - all with you. And now we're living and growing older with you as well. That's what you symbolize for us: art, childhood, warmth, optimism, imagination.

That's why we'll be loudly denying the existence of an evil corporate mouse. Let them find a different way to berate the Disney studio, the faults of which we don't deny. But let them leave our little mouse alone.

#alioks_art #mickey mouse #disney #(Finally translated this text that we wrote in russian for a while now) #(Wonder if it's controversial AHAH--) #(Still‚ it came from the heart. Well‚ hearts. So we hope this resonates with people.)

[stevie-petey]

hello i wanted to say this earlier when you were talking about the wiritng of duffer brothers and specifically how they will likely be bringing back the love triangle again and i just wanted to add how it feels like a step back for all three of them! i felt like nancy breaking up with steve was important for both of them, for steve to realise that he needs to do some serious introspection and let go of the life that he knows is fake, and for nancy it feels doubly important to not attempt to stick with something just because it was there in the past, and instead allow herself to move on from a stage she feels complete with and move onto what she really wants (johnathan), even if it's unconventional! and then for johnathan it felt like the more classic, someone is choosing me when i am not usually chosen moment. i honestly, truly, wouldn't even be that mad if they break jancy up, just because, y'know they're like 19-20, and it's okay for nancy to decide she wants to explore things outside of hawkins and it's pretty normal for most people, and would strengthen that "moving on" theme they were able to capture in s2, but if she goes back to steve.............hmmmm. feels unfair thematically for steve to go back to a person he dated during a specific period of his life he wants to get away from, feels unsatisfying for nancy wheeler to be delegated to Love Interest TM (as u mentioned) AGAIN, and feels bad for johnathan because omg why??!!?!? would u do that to a character whose already lost a lot of the importance and relevance that he used to have???? remember when he used to be the main character (not to mention they literally cut out his new friend argyle for the hell of it). idk i feel like after s2 they just stopped caring about a lot of these core characters and there are so many moments i could point to and be like hey guys nice regressing you did there.

my apologies, this is getting really wrong, but you mentioned that you like themes and i LOVE your themes it's very cathartic. i am excited for s3 to see character themes continue because i understand ur working with the show itself here but it immediately upset me when they made, like, russian soldiers, the main villain of the season. i felt like we had developed two very good seasons exploring the US's ability to use its citizen's bodies, especially women and girls' bodies, in its war for imperial power, and were doing some good digging at the crux of the cold war, with the upside down and its monsters making up great metaphors for the war crimes and unnatural horrors it's willing to unleash onto people as long as the government and military benefits, with brenner and the scientists and the labs all representing this part of the government. and then we get "russian communists are bad".......right......and i'm sure you believe that....... i understand that they needed like a new villain, but i think it would have been better for them to continue that thematic critique they had established already. like, the base being in the lab is perfect! wow! what an immediate link to capitalism and consumerism in reaganamics and the ways it is designed to hypnotise you to spend your money and feed the economy that thrives on unethical practices and can only exist if it has a population hooked into the addiction of product consumption that in turn provides the economics to increase the empire. DO SOMETHING WITH THAT, GODDAMIT. The mindflayer even mind controls people which fits so well into this theme but they insisted on having the russians be the human villains of the show and it blew it so bad for me :(. i don't know exactly what they should have done, but i think maybe even having a portal open to the upside down because of all the artificial-ness of the mall mixed with the constant ads trying to convince (ie control) people to bye stuff mixing with hawkins freakiness would have been more fulfilling for me. obviously i know you won't be doing anything like that but i'm excited to get some relief through character relationships from this huge problem i have with the duffer brothers.

yeaaaaah u can def tell the show was going a bit haywire once season 3 released BUT the seasons vibes were immaculate u cannot argue with that. however yeah its wack how they brought up some cool villains and powers and then just. dropped it. do we know what happened to all those flayed people ???

as for jonathans character just becoming less and less important as the seasons go on ,,,, i grieve that every day. he deserves so much better in that aspect. and nancy !!! and steve !!!! like the love triangle pisses me OFF !!!!

as for ur russian rant imma be real i followed a bit of it but my brain is so sleepy and im not a history buff but ur SO real and valid for all that. i think the russians were fun but apparently everyone hates them ??? wild. i also have poor media literacy but thats not important rn

#procrastinationprincesses #ask #m speaks #like seriously did everyone just die who were flayed #did everyone just believe the mall fire story ???? #why would they all conveniently be at the mall at the same time #sigh

[hmsindecision]

Literally every time I think about porn I get so mad. Like millions of people are so tied to patriarchal consumerism that it is the only or major way that they come at all. On the one hard I find that horrifying, on the other pathetic. But truly porn is the most distilled form of capitalism and let it fucking die as soon as possible

[youdontloveme-yet]

How much money can we send as aid before our economy officially collapses US challenge.

Idk man, but I think Americans should really be mad. Like furious. I don't think some of you grasp the idea that all your hard earned money are constantly funneled to other countries. Countries who have health care and free housing, while your society is on the verge of absolute collapse. You may not care about the fact that people are being slaughtered by your money, but maybe you should think about how your economy will collapse in on itself very soon. The US govt will never admit they're printing valueless money, so maybe, just maybe you lot gotta start being concerned. Because when recession hits you, you'll be the ones on the streets not your govt or the countries to which the money is being sent.

It is your children that will be forced into labour at a young age, as a consequence of this. It is your precious consumerism that will dissipate as a consequence. It is your lives that will be sacrificed as a consequence. Rich people and govts don't care that you'll have no future. Fascism and extreme capitalism are not things of the past. You lot are living through it. So good luck on surviving while staying silent.

#us #us economy #ra rants #us wars #palestine #congo #sudan #ukraine

[godsfavdarling]

I posted this earlier but deleted it, but I'm not scared anymore. Also pls remember that owning physical copies does not make you more of a fan! And I'm not mad at anyone who is buying multiple copies, and I'm not mad at taylor. I'm mad at overproduction, how this whole thing became normal. I'm mad at capitalism and consumerism. And saying that getting angry at a standard industry practice is pointless and we should just move on and ignore it is not.... Good. I'm not gonna sit here and pretend I like this.

#taylor swift #swifties #swiftie #ts ttpd #ttpd #ttpd era #twitter swiftie

[jadedaceofspades]

I DESPISE how hypocritical some people can be when talking about how they "care about poor people." Bullshit. Like, you claim you care about poor people but then shun people who buy cheap clothing from places because "consumerism." These are one of those things where these two things CANNOT co-exist. You cannot claim you care about poor people and then get mad at them for buying cheap clothing. Yes, you can argue about the ethics in how these clothes were made, but for you to be like "nah, shut them down" is literally you forcing poor people to spend more money than they have on clothing that should be affordable to begin with. That's why they shop on these sites/apps to begin with. Like... wtf??

You can hate Shein, Temu, Aliexpress, etc. for their ethics, that's fine. But don't you dare get mad at people ordering from them when these hubs are all some people can afford because if you shut them down, people would buy their clothes from Walmart and such you'll start shunning and yelling at these people for "consuming capitalism" for shopping at big box stores. There is no winning here but if you sit there and say you care about poor people, then don't judge how they are able to retrieve on of their basic needs, like clothes.

#i said what i said #i'm getting so tired of seeing people say one thing and say something else that contradicts their earlier sentiments #like some of you all don't actually care about people you just want to yell and scream and act a fool

[ultramaga]

Consumerism:

Blindly purchasing regardless of the value of the product or even how the purchaser is treated.

Customerism:

Customerism is mutual respect.

The customers have money and will take the money elsewhere if they are not provided respect.

Equally, the merchant has goods and services that are potentially desired by the customer, and can refuse them as well. If either side is abusive, the transaction is broken.

It is mutually beneficial to be polite even if you don't have to be, but it is also true that you can express dissatisfaction in a fair manner with a public review.

I think it is very revealing that Leftism demands the censorship of customers. They know Leftist products are innately inferior.

So instead of evaluating customer feedback, and then producing something better, they double down, denouncing customers as Russian bots and trolls.

The irony is when they listen instead, they have success.

The non woke ghostbusters sequel ignored the feminist story and just continued from the earlier material, resulting in profit.

Capitalism works.

Sonic the Hedgehog us another example. The fans were furious at his off model the character was. The studio listened, spent money and time redoing it, and had a success instead of blaming failure on trolls.

Top Gun Maverick is another example of customer respect. They didn't "update for a modern audience" - they didn't make the pilots black lesbians in wheelchairs fighting Patriarchy...

Whereas The Marvels woked like mad, relying on blind loyalty instead of a good production.

I just tried using the Tumblr search to find a gif, but it failed. Even Tumblrites didn't care about the movie despite at least four lesbians; one underage, poc, and Muslim; all of whom seemed involved with each other.

Oh, and a black man who had learned his place as the inferior of the white woman.

What a surprise that comic fans and mainstream audiences stayed away.

#Youtube

[wellwornwornwell]

You have no taste. How tasteful of you.

Irony is Eden. Warm lagoons, lush with overgrown mangroves of awkward humor, broken up by pristine, uninhabited beaches of detachment. It’s always Island Time. There are dark, troubling clouds in the distance, but they never reach the shoreline. You’re safe. No one *really* knows about this place but you. Kind of like Tulum in 2010.

But much like Tulum in 2010, you need everyone to know you’ve been here. That the waitstaff know your name. That they recognize you for your accomplishments and readily enable your insistence on avoiding reality. They’re always the first to compliment your Minions shirt.

Wait, what the fuck are you wearing? Where does one even purchase blobby red boots so cartoonish they make Mickey Mouse blush? What is going on?

I’ll be the first to admit I am not cool. I’m an upper-middle-class, white, 30-something, born out of suburban comfort and forever bestowed with unearned confidence. I look like a rejected extra from a J. Crew catalog (the one where no one is convincing). My biggest life accomplishment is pretending sending emails constitutes work, for which I make an inordinate amount of money. I get it: I’m the enemy. Oftentimes my own.

But I will be damned if I ever understand why it’s cool to look like an asshole.

People want to make a statement. People want to buy things. People don’t want you to know they’re seriously lost. Enter: Irony.

No one needs to know how deeply self-conscious you are. The examined life is for pussies and the French. Let them have it. You have blind consumerism and an unflinching need to stand out. You’re about to go viral. “Rise and grind,” or so I’m told.

Of course, this is all just a terribly tragic state of affairs. As someone who LOVES avoiding my problems, I can understand the opioidic appeal of irony. It’s just simpler. And snark has become the not-smiling face on the internet’s hard currency. It feels good to keep people at arm’s length and the joke firmly inside. Golden brown. Texture like sun.

But this does not make a substitute for taste. You can’t just decide none of it matters while also insisting upon your elevated station in society. Nihilists make for shitty leaders. Pick a lane.

Look, I own multiple pairs of pastel pants that retail for more than $1,000 a throw. The realtor keeps showing me glass houses and I don’t know how much longer I can hide my pockets full of rocks. But at least there is some nuance in the traditional, tongue-in-cheek manner of dressing. Cheeky emblematic ties, garishly colored pants, not so subtle racism. There used to be principles to this stuff.

I guess this all resolves to an old man yelling at the clouds. The older you get, the closer you get to death – and not just physically but culturally as well. None of this is meant for me and my insistence on “knowing better” only further solidifies me as the first dinosaur to see the meteor. We’re all doomed.

What I’d ask, as you reach for your Raytheon Saudi Arabia embroidered polo shirt, is that you realize that hiding behind obnoxious clothing will not save you. It does not create the individuality you think it does. It is not formal enough to be respectful, not original enough to be endearing. You are simply a fleeting artifact of a hollow society too disgusted with itself to look into a mirror.

Please don’t confuse me for a capital-T Traditionalist or one of those RETVRN weirdos. Fuck those guys. But do know that one day, sometime soon, when you’re looking back at photos of yourself, you will be met with embarrassment. The kind of embarrassment that fuels resentment and questions existence. These are not bellbottoms, parachute pants, or even twinkishly skinny suits. This is late-stage capitalism so bald-faced that it doesn’t even bother to establish utility. You are being played. You are losing.

In quiet moments I envision a world where everyone cares about clothing, and yet no one gets mad about what people wear. Then I re-read this post and get sad. Sad enough to buy a Shirt That Goes Hard. We’re all doomed.

#taste #late stage capitalism #irony #me

[themojaveexpress]

Thanks for your kind response. I just get scared that people will be mad about things like that. Or think I'm a 'fake fan' or something. Especially because enjoying the show seems to be the unpopular opinion at the minute. You know how the internet is. I also saw someone saying they thought it was problematic to watch it because it's an Amazon production so I guess I'm just looking for different views on that. I pirated it anyway (I'm not paying for a whole new service for one show).

Hey, that's okay! I understand feeling like that, I used to be very worried about things like that too. Nowadays I'm more like, well if someone doesn't like my opinions they can block me, or I can block them lmao

As for the amazon thing, as we all know the company in general is shitty, so there's always gonna be some grey area around paying for it/using their services. (But kudos to you for pirating, I'm piggybacking off my parents' account to watch it 😅). But regardless, I think that particular critique is more about the irony of a story that's heavily critical of capitalism/consumerism being produced by amazon - and that irony being completely lost on bethesda/amazon/the audience at large. We're at the mercy of a megacorp to watch our show that's (partly) about evil megacorps 🙃

(also i got your second message - no need to apologise! You didn't sound confrontational at all 😊)

#replies #Anonymous #hope you have a good day anon #i am going to bed. 😴

[kingtankgirl]

the barbie movie's "feminist moments" were generally vapid, it's vague criticism of mattel's history of marginalizing women + consumerism and capitalism and the barbie doll's contributions were so half-baked it was truly insulting (the movie made it clear it was shitting on people who do take issue with that. which like. ok.), and i was literally fuming when a few people clapped after the big ~being a woman is so hard in this world~ speech because it's EMBARRASING that ANYONE would think that was revolutionary instead of incredibly self-pitying. also the stupid scene with hari nef and the glasses did nothing but highlight how there were zero barbies that wore glasses. there was a shocking lack of diversity overall, and there were glaring tokenization issues throughout the film. ALSO THERE'S LITERALLY A SMALLPOX BLANKETS JOKE? WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT ABOUT? the film's big theme was that the only way women can derive power is by ~showing men who's boss!!!~ and absolutely none of it is inherent to their existence and depends entirely on being oppressed, which is a good thing. i guess. oh and also it's either barbies ruling completely and totally or it's rampant crazy misogynistic kens ruling completely and totally. at no point does a single character glance in the direction of egalitarianism, but rather the whole film reaffirms that there Should be a gender binary and one of those two groups Should be entirely oppressed by the other. because this is the natural order of things. the gender essentialist ideologies it posited were absolute dogshit, through and through. the final line of the movie is literally a joke about how barbie's Big Moment of being A Real Woman is... visiting. the gynecologist.

the worst part is that it was literally laugh out loud funny the whole time. i was pissing myself. when it was funny it was so fucking funny, and thats what SUCKS. if it had just been that, without all that unnecessary stupid shit, it would've been a homerun!!! but no!!! i'm so goddamn mad about it. i want to erase this thing from existence it's truly such an embarrassment.

#tbf i wasnt gonna go see it but i had friends who wanted to go n i wanted to see my friends so

[heavymetalchemist]

I think people struggle with the concept of a targeted boycott because (at least here in the US) consumerism is so very closely tied to activism.

You have to buy correct product to be Good™.

You have to not buy wrong product or you will be Bad™.

People don't want to be Bad™ but if someone is like "great join us in not buying Puma or HP" and those were things that person already wasn't buying, it doesn't feel like enough. There's this weird puritan self-flagellation thing where in order to not be Bad™ you HAVE to give something up! So they make a big giant list of every Bad™ company and there's like fifty of them!

And this feeds into the predictable backlash of people throwing up their hands and going "well there's no ethical consumption under capitalism anyway" and "well I'm just one person how can my getting a frappuccino really mean anything" and then they've talked themselves into not boycotting at all.

It's the same reason that people protesting like "merry christmas" being taken off the stupid Starbucks cups started going to Starbucks more specifically to ~protest~ and it's like, bro, just don't fucking buy Starbucks if you're mad at them? But that doesn't feel like DOING something so it's not as satisfying.

If you want to do something active, keep talking about Gaza and Palestine. If you want to do something active, speak up against Islamophobia and Antisemitism. Remind people that Judaism is not Zionism and that people are not their government. Write and call your congresspeople and demand that they call for a ceasefire.

And stick to the boycott list from BDS. I promise, that is doing something.

#palestine #TARGETED boycott is TARGETED