Luxury items, particularly watches and shoes and shit. Conspicuously ranking your wealth like that is cringe as fuck. "Ah yes, I see you can afford the DoucheKeeper 2121. That's ok I guess, if you can't afford the DoucheKeeper 2424."
It makes far more sense to just dress well below your "status" imo. Real confidence is being above all that vanity, and real intrigue is keeping people guessing about your "status." You want to know what I do and how much money I do or don't have? Get to know me, and you'll discover none of that shit matters.
keeping people guessing about your "status."
Yeah I’m a fan of this. I dress like I never outgrew the 90’s, haven’t had a haircut since covid, and fly first class a lot. It really bugs some of the snobs up there in the front of the plane.
I’ve never been into fashion in the least. I’m a quiet software dev and don’t talk to people.
I can appreciate people enjoying fashion even if it’s not for me. What I don’t understand are the things that are just regular ass items like a tee shirt, but they printed the name of a brand on it and charged a crazy price for it. Nothing else. No actual design or special manufacturing quality. Just the name of a fashion brand that’s famous for… being the name of a fashion brand that sells clothes that… have their name on it. IS EVERYONE PULLING A PRANK ON ME? WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON?
The kind of watch that says "please mug my rich dumb ass" is all I see. (I've never mugged or stole from anyone, it's just the thought that crosses my mind.)
Kind of like the super sensitive car alarms or home alarms that have a voice that loudly announces it's recording. "Hey, I have valuables worth protecting, just to let you know."
Watches are insane. I've seen ones that cost more than a freaking house. And I'm not talking about ones encrusted in diamonds. Just a regular ass looking watch that cost $250k or more.
Sex
Turns out I'm asexual.
The spicy part is try being asexual yet HOPELESSLY romantic
But aside from THAT -- Brand name clothing.
Most of it doesn't even look good
There was a time the rich dressed decadently, that was conspicuous consumption, but at least it looked pretty and shiny in pictures. Nowadays rich people be buying clothes that look exactly, completely indistinguishable from the discount shop made-in-china artificial-fabric rags everyone else is wearing, but which have a logo printed on them. And that logo is what makes it expensive.
When you say "asexual", do you mean you hate it, or you don't hate it and don't mind your romantic partner doing it with you?
This varies from ace to ace. With me?
I am not repulsed but I am violently disinterested
A partner wants to fuck? Sure, I guess? If it makes them happy and I like them. But like. I'll never go out of my way to try and get sex.
Labubus.
Kids wanting them I get, but the craze among adults for them is baffling to me. And the blind bag mechanic is just a bullshit way to get people to buy more than they actually want in an attempt to collect a full set. It's honestly kind of sad to see so many adults fall for something meant to manipulate children into begging their parents to buy over and over again.
You know something is worth your money when they deliberately obfuscate what you're actually buying.
AI
There are fools out there who are willing to invest in this hype train. Is it enough for you to understand the hype?
I do understand their wishful thinking. What I don't understand is their disconnect from reality.
Streaming like in twitch, podcasts, tiktok, and other "user generated content". I'm not even 40 yet but I really feel like "old man yells at cloud".
Actually, the mere term "content" makes me cringe. You do art? Now it's called content. You are an independent reporter? Now you do content. You like plants? How about turning that into content? Content: you are either consuming it or producing it. Fuck content as a concept. And fuck discoverability algorithms and every clown trying to game them. Fuck social media spoon-feeding brainrot to people. I feel anti-hyped for all that.
NFTs
Most things that people seem to get hyped over really. Not big on buying things. Books are an exception but most people aren't hyped about those
It’s been really bewildering and concerning seeing all the crazy consumer crazes online. Maybe this was unfounded, but there was a while where I thought we were starting to wane on consumerism but I guess I was just wrong about that. The internet has just supercharged it. We now have turbo consumerism. Forget about keeping up with the Joneses, you now scroll past 100 of them in your feed and half of them are ~~human billboards~~ influencers.
Most celebrities. I know its usually manufactured hype, but I still don't understand people falling for it.
Collectible toys. On top of not getting it, I hate it from an environmental perspective and a wasted resources (incl labor) perspective.
Looking through these comments I don't know what half of this stuff is and I don't think I want to.
My wife's freind came over the other day and asked me if I could fix her new glasses because they were crooked, being polite I said I liked them (they're hideous but to each their own), and she responded "thanks they're D and G, they only cost me $700". These were $700 glasses with no additions. No blue light thing, no scratch resistant stuff.
I don't care for that.
Anime profile pictures and wallpapers
The Chance-Vought F4U Corsair. People fangirl over the reverse gull-wings but I just don't get it. Bending the goddamn wings to fit the the prop on the plan is just a bizarre bandaid for an odd design.
Gimme that P-47 chunky monkey any day
Apple
Big butts. I mean the ones featured in "Baby Got Back" were ok. But, today, some people are going crazy with it.
podcasts, owning an automobile, twitter, following celebrities, being competitive, land ownership, having a degree versus having the knowledge the degree entails, marriage, religion, recycling (beyond that of reducing and reusing), collecting things, fashion, owning the newest of anything once it is released especially for phones and i could come up with more probably but this likely covers at least one thing people who read this are into in one way or another.
Coffee in the morning.
People be losing their minds over an addition.
I've had people outright claim caffeine and coffee aren't addicting. It basically ticks all the boxes, from habit-forming chemical dependency to social reinforcement. Out of addictions to have, it's one of the less harmful ones, but it absolutely can form addiction and people who can't function without it are dependent, even if they can overcome it easily.
Souls-like games, game streamers, turkey (the meat).
I may be dating myself here, but Beanie Babies.
Is that some kind of labubu?
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