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[-] Ciel@lemmygrad.ml 58 points 3 months ago

ngl they do be right though, we must purge the shitty ugly ass plastic things

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Big_Bob@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

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."

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 3 months ago

Dumbasses be thinking this trash is going to gain value over time šŸ˜‚

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 3 months ago

Why u think they keep them packaged šŸ˜‚

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 months ago

To protect them from dust

[-] landlords_morghulis@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 months ago

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. šŸ„³

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] PosadistPotatofish@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago

They're so wasteful. We have to save the climate and that means cutting this wasteful production

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago
[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 35 points 3 months ago
[-] driving_crooner 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I had my doubts about communism, but if this is true I'm all in *undust AK-47*

[-] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

While this post is funny the person(s) on that account I believe have started dabbling in patsoc shit.

[-] big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago

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!

[-] SadArtemis@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Gamers : "I am being exploited by Chinese capitalism!" (Buys another Funko Pop to keep on the shelf still in original packaging)

[-] xkyfal18@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 3 months ago

we got a new ā€œcommunism no iPhoneā€ guys, peak theoretic development

[-] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago

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

[-] landlords_morghulis@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 months ago

Consumerism is a helluva coping mechanism

[-] GlueBear@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 3 months ago

Good.

Fuck no to Funko pops

[-] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

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[-] Lurkerino@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

Fuck Chunkopops

[-] Redlogic@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 months ago

Insane indeed 1000011959

[-] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 months ago

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

[-] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Wait, MangoPress is PatSoc? That's disappointing

[-] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

I assume you are referring to Xiangyu? I hate that mindless hanjian MAGA-"Communist" bootlicker.

[-] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

There's also this one. This is even better proof they are pro-LGBT I think

https://x.com/PamphletsY/status/1792260171215020081

[-] Pili@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think they got banned from YouTube for being too based.

Edit: too based

[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

I wonder if that song is in Spotify or Youtube. Bcuz it so damn good! I am on my 5th repeat.

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

I saw a couple of this accounts posts over the last few days and was unsure if I should follow, but I am now.

[-] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 months ago

Itā€™s a bit clout chasey, getting into the Haz-Hinkle sphere fyi.

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

ugh, of course.

[-] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago
[-] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Iā€™m not on twitter, but from what Iā€™ve seen they seem to at least clout chase around them.

[-] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Could be, maybe they are trying to steer people away from those patsoc accounts

[-] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 months ago

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 becauseā€¦ yeah.

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago

They really seem like a young teenager who is falling into the Maoist/Ultra/Puritan communism rabbithole.

[-] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 months ago
[-] Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 months ago

Fuck Funko, they destroyed FnaF

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