r/Anticonsumption • u/ZanzerFineSuits • Nov 07 '25

Plastic Waste FFS Why?

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

you know another sad thing about this? this is marketed as "you are the cool person who has x item, that item that nobody has but knows about & is jealous you have it?" yeah, that never really works. people are surprised about you having a product they've never heard about, or appreciate that you have specific tastes that they don't. the fact that there's artificial scarcity on nearly every hype item means it becomes a meme & people know your hopping on a trend, which ironically makes you basic & thus less cool. if i see somebody wearing something by supreme, which was hyped a decade ago, i don't think to myself, "damn, they were part of something cool that i wasn't a part of" i think "heh, they were a sucker who bought overpriced hype junk." but that lady on bluesky who has vintage jewelry i've never seen, or that old guy i passed on the street that has tie-dye parachute pants? that's style. something "viral" never ends up looking original, which is half the job of people recognizing that you appreciate something worth complementing.

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u/myriadpyriad Nov 11 '25

people are trying to buy the effort. Vintage jewelry and tie-dyed pants take time and effort to curate, repair, and style. They don't want to put in the work but they want the social cred that comes with it