ngl they do be right though, we must purge the shitty ugly ass plastic things
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Even besides the plastic aspect I don't get why people like it so much. Even if you like the IP that the figurines are of they look like shit.
The "gamer" identity is purely based on mindless consumption regardless of the product's use value.
You can buy overpriced chairs labeled for gamers. Powdered sugar, called G-fuel. Gamer shades, gamer branded clothes, fucking blue dyed mac and cheese with a picture of fucking Sonic the Hedgehog.
A Gamer will drop his cash on the most random shit as long as it's marketed for gamers.
You could literally slap a gaming label on a bucket of dogshit and some hyperconsumerist gamerbrained troglodyte will squeal and fork over his lifesavings so he can validate his fake identity as a "gamer."
Dumbasses be thinking this trash is going to gain value over time π
There's no way this is true. These things are advertised with abundance in mind. There's always a never ending amount of them at any store that stocks them.
Why u think they keep them packaged π
To protect them from dust
When I was a kid living in a shitty apartment, my neighbor's 7year old daughter collected beanie babies. I hear they just bought their 14th Gulfstream III this year. π₯³
Using the same labour and materials they could produce normal looking figures instead of those deformed abominations, which would be actually pretty fine, having so many different ones in the same scale and series.
It's crazy how they found a way to sell ~~toys~~ little useless plastic things to adults. Capitalism is all about expanding the markets and finding new consumers, like how they found a way to market cigarettes to children.
Edited toys out because actual toys one can play with can be cool.
They're so wasteful. We have to save the climate and that means cutting this wasteful production
I had my doubts about communism, but if this is true I'm all in *undust AK-47*
You prefer having plastic toys (that actually don't do anything) over having humans live decently and be happy and free. Nothing else to add
While this post is funny the person(s) on that account I believe have started dabbling in patsoc shit.
you prefer having plastic toys over having humans live decently and be happy and free
why do you think they hate socialism? you can't hoard plastic crap in communism!
Funny thing is 99% of the "plastic crap" is literally built in a communist country, which outcompetes the west, and is increasingly doing so in all fields, and produces more ethically (though that is also a matter of the world system we live in), efficiently, and environmentally than the west.
The Chinese proles are increasingly eating better, living better, having better stuff at cheaper prices, having better homes (in contrast to the west where home ownership is out of sight for an increasingly large share of the population), and it's all thanks to communism, to the dictatorship of the proletariat being upheld, and delivering such wondrous results for its people.
Gamers : "I am being exploited by Chinese capitalism!" (Buys another Funko Pop to keep on the shelf still in original packaging)
we got a new βcommunism no iPhoneβ guys, peak theoretic development
I worked at Amazon over a decade ago, when these were new, it was the first time I saw these things and all I could think was how ugly they were and why would anyone buy them. I'm still thinking that but stricken with the fact that they still exist against all rational thought
Consumerism is a helluva coping mechanism
Good.
Fuck no to Funko pops
I would love to open every box of this stupid collector's things
They're so pitiful that I would have them mad just for doing this, I don't need to damage anything.
Insane indeed
Fuck Chunkopops
I think that account is affiliated with or a member of the "PatSoc"/MAGA-Communism "movement"
That being said, and I realize the humor in this meme, but funko pops are literally made and sold in China
They seem to be progressive, don't know where you get that
https://x.com/PamphletsY/status/1795296437544337777
https://x.com/PamphletsY/status/1796120869640741201
They are vocally anti-Trump as well
https://x.com/PamphletsY/status/1795872924475195810
But I get you, I'm always checking if a communist account isn't secretly PatSoc, I'm still sad about MidWesternMarx and MangoPress
Wait, MangoPress is PatSoc? That's disappointing
Yup, sadly. I didn't know it at first but saw more signs and then it became indiscutable. They used the word ret@rded in one of their Telegram posts and when I called them out of it they said I was pushing American identity politics on them. Another time they called a politician a f@ggot, but edited it quickly. Another time they shouted out a Taiwanese rapper's telegram page, in which that rapper called themself a MAGAcommunist, and when I called them out of it they deflected and said that they were just showing support to a friend. Another time they showed supprt for Dutch farmers protests even though those protests were by farm owners who were mad they had to follow environmental regulations. And when Cuba passed their family code referendum, they didn't make a post about it, even though it was the biggest story of the day, and from a communist country. Sorry for the wall of text, I wanted to rant.
I assume you are referring to Xiangyu? I hate that mindless hanjian MAGA-"Communist" bootlicker.
Yup
I thought Pamphlets was anti-LGBT? I swear I remember seeing tweets of theirs that came off that way.
I like those tweets you linked though
There's also this one. This is even better proof they are pro-LGBT I think
I think they got banned from YouTube for being too based.
Edit: too based
I wonder if that song is in Spotify or Youtube. Bcuz it so damn good! I am on my 5th repeat.
I saw a couple of this accounts posts over the last few days and was unsure if I should follow, but I am now.
Itβs a bit clout chasey, getting into the Haz-Hinkle sphere fyi.
ugh, of course.
These posts suggest they are pro-LGBT and anti-Trump, so don't think they are, unless I'm missing something
https://x.com/PamphletsY/status/1795296437544337777
Iβm not on twitter, but from what Iβve seen they seem to at least clout chase around them.
Could be, maybe they are trying to steer people away from those patsoc accounts
Yes please
I follow Pamphlets and they are so weird. Like, sometimes I can like their posts no problem but other times i just have to scroll because⦠yeah.
They really seem like a young teenager who is falling into the Maoist/Ultra/Puritan communism rabbithole.
Fuck Funko, they destroyed FnaF