Best Consumer Culture Quotes

"Your generation is moving from ownership to access, from markets to networks, from consumerism to sustainability."

"This is the era of mindless consumption, extreme polarization, and soulless, meaningless junk food entertainment."

"You can sell these people McDonald's, you can allow them to eat five chickens in one sitting, but you won't sell them clothes to fit them? You make them this way, why not sell clothes to fit them?"

"I would absolutely cancel the sneaker culture. It's wild to me that people would spend that kind of money."

"Feels like a Jordan drop, son. I felt like sneakers in that moment."

"As avid consumers of wellness culture, we're going to have more and more trouble in the future differentiating between the actual experts and the self-styled experts."

"The cardinal features of this culture were acquisition and consumption as the means of achieving happiness, the cult of the new, the democratization of desire, and money value as the predominant measure of all value in society."

"Sometimes you wonder how free we really are in 2019 with our Apple phones and everything else."

"Does every celebrity need a skincare, makeup, and beauty line? No, I think that the entire industry needs a makeover."

"You have to understand the concept of debt because we live in this consumer culture."

"If you're not doing XYZ, you're missing out. And I think to myself, oh, you know, I am missing out. I should go and get all this experience, these rare items, this cash. And then I realize that I'm not necessarily playing for fun anymore, I'm now playing for efficiency."

"These might just be games for little girls, but the girls that play them will grow up into the next generation of consumers."

"We loved buying product, we loved getting gift bags, we loved going to natural hair events, we love the sort of experience of camaraderie of kinship that the natural hair movement created."

"Brands only see the numbers and give their resources, their time and efforts, to people who don't even use their things. Authenticity and being genuine should always overcome and overpower numbers."

"The fast food industry has changed the way people think about and consume food, turning meals into a cheap, tasty, and arguably unhealthy part of everyday life."

"Do not give up your life for a 2020 brand-new Mercedes because they're gonna make a 2021 and a 2022."

"In the 21st century, when Homo medinicus sets out to fill his stomach, he needs a shopping cart. But what he really needs is determination."

"It is too much for no real benefit and people are buying games all year round now, especially with the digital culture."

"People always really love these videos though, because it's really fun to unbox everything, see what's inside."

"Those were the good days, man. 2005, 2004. You had quality games with almost no micro transactions or [__] going on."

"Who cares introducing the $120 soul-sucking toad bag."

"We've killed a lot of things... Millennials in general... just, you know, products not existing or failing."

"We're missing things because everything is so disposable and accelerated."

"Identity should be so much more than non-gmo organic gluten-free bread."

"Idle Hands are the Devil's Playground and people love to buy stuff that sucks and you're like stop doing that everybody."

"But nowadays Plaza Ice Cream Parlor still serves that 80s branded ice cream."

"People expect to have things that they expect, and I'm sorry if you don't like it."

"Omega Mart is a real physical Supermarket where you actually explore shop and give your life Essence to the Eternal corporate overlords of cosmic energy."

"It's hard to overstate how much and how quickly fast fashion altered our relationship with clothing, conditioning us to believe that our clothes should be cheap, abundant, and new."

"Your existence as a type of girl has almost nothing to do with whether you actually read Joan Didion or wear Mui Mui, and everything to do with whether you want to be seen as the type of person who would."

"I recommend everybody read the book 'How luxury lost its luster' because it describes how luxury used to be fine artistry, now is corporatized and it's really just a logo."

"Oh, so you get, because on National Donut Day, they're giving away free donuts."

"Everyone needs this in their collection, no doubt."

"Let me get a 65 incher in my [__] living room you're so goddamn jewish."

"We're always one step closer to the future when in a supermarket."

"You'd watch these kinds of stuff on TV all the time, and you wouldn't care."

"That could be my kids yep be my kids now your kids will see that on TV and be like go buy me that toy and granted my son is 14 and I still I don't even have kids and I'm gonna buy them."

"Amazon started off as a small online bookshop... we're all Amazon Prime members."

"The Coca-Cola culture actually needs people to be unhappy because unhappy people consume."

"It's all feeding into a larger narrative... it's all about going the first weekend and wearing your shirt."

"We are complicit in the hype cycle for sure."

"One person spent over two hundred thousand dollars for the worn Birkenstocks of Steve Jobs."

"People are gonna be super excited that they finally get their Funko pops."

"I trust crazy people because they always be right. I'm sorry, I don't trust people that are paid by pushing stuff on you that you don't need."

"Chase the hype. We have Nike, we have Disney, we have Twitter, we have Facebook, we have Discord, we have Reddit."

"I want these corporations to go back to doing what they do: making stuff I want to buy, providing services I want to use. Isn't that their mandate?"

"The modernization moronization of the masses: the more you get, the better it is for the companies that can hack your psychology."

"They unlocked skins, dude. DLCs and skins, baby."

"Our primary identity has become that of being consumers, not mothers, teachers, farmers, but consumers."

"The Air Jordan 11 Concord... If you're a Jordan fan and you're a Jordan head, you really can't get much more classic than this shoe."

"I'm not really a big Ferrari person like I just don't really care and also I feel like a Ferrari sneaker should be designed seeker than that not a test."

"As long as we live in a society dominated by consumer culture doing financially smart things is never going to be the glamorous cool looking thing to do."

"Comfort, it's consumer-based comfort. I go out and buy things that make me happy, and I wrap myself in this. As long as I can sit in my little cocoon of comfort and nobody bothers me, I'm happy."

"American consumer culture can co-opt a counter trend quicker than you can say Whole Earth Catalog."

"I'd like to create real genuine items that you can treasure as opposed to just throwaway fashion which you wear twice and then replace."

"Shopping isn't about going into the store and picking out what you need and making sure it fits. Shopping is an experience, shopping is entertainment, shopping is a religion for some people."

"Jordan Brand can reinvent themselves a thousand ways over and people will jump to the opportunity to be able to buy their sneakers at $200 or whatever else it might be."

"MLMs are an almost too perfect distillation of a society that over-promises, under-delivers, and then blames you for your problems."

"If you have too much competitive consumption you get really bad social outcomes."

"The most successful and longest-lasting vending machines before the 1920s were penny scales and gum."

"Films in the west are over. So get used to having your memories repackaged in a shittier package and sold back to you."

"This right here is the holy grail of sneakers."

"If you pay thirty dollars to watch a lifeless, pointless, rehashed remake of a Disney cartoon that you've already seen, you should lose your citizenship rights."

"Black Friday is something that no longer makes sense to me in almost every instance."

"They need to feel special, like there should not be a Star Wars movie every six months."

"Disney is notorious for introducing us to our favorite snacks only to take them away."

"Apple is church now, bro. Apple is church. It's not even a religion, it's a fact."

"We spend way too much time consuming. We spend way too much time trying to be entertained."

"I don't like about social media is that it makes art too disposable."

"Cariuma's original sneaker has won celebrity fans racked up wait lists over sixty one thousand people."

"Make cool stuff, people want to buy cool stuff."

"Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy Taco Bell, which is basically the same thing."

"So, how can I make this a game? How can I make this fun?"

"Maybe by looking at them a little harder in the face and with a little more honesty and a little less advertising mentality we'll be able to see enough to stop continuing on a road as disastrous as the one we are on."

"Women move capitalism, a lot of times, yes, we're an integral cog into what's popular."

"A new culture of self-gratification, self-realization, where the objects we consume define us."

"This is the rare Gacha anime that feels like it's actually trying to tell a good story first and sell me [ ] second, and that's really nice."

"De Beers brilliant marketing made diamonds synonymous with human love."

"Call of Duty has become more than a product people buy, it's a brand people buy into... we kick off an annual unofficial but worldwide phenomenon called the Call of Duty season."

"I love how iPhones come out with like a new one every year."

"We live in a hurricane of messages telling us the answer to our pain and distress lies in shopping."

"I think I truly do understand the appeal of haul videos better than I did before."

"Red Solo cups are seen as a very American thing...a piece of American iconography."

"Until men say no to giving them this money and for simping on those OnlyFans sites, until men take that money away, women will continue to do it."

"We spend too much time consuming and not enough time doing."

"These brands are Antichrist Brands, part of the spirit of Antichrist."

"We spend money we don't have on things we don't need to impress people we don't like."

"Consumerism is suffering lots of YouTube unboxing."

"You're getting that one [ __ ] thing for the part, nothing. We got clothes you want to buy, your new designer, you say what? Not like, poor crap. It's good. Oh no no no bringing [ __ ] back from the past is not new content, that's recycled content."

"I mean have you ever seen an exciting unboxing? But why do people even do unboxing videos? It's just a box and the thing inside it is more important than the actual box."

"As meaningful as a status symbol as it gets."

"The wheel has declared that next we're going to be opening up a Boxycharm."

"Fast fashion is like PLT, Boohoo, where obviously cheap and cheerful, but it's produced very, very quickly for the consumers."

"So enjoy those midnight trips to GameStop to pick up your pristine game disc while you still can."

"It's easy to take for granted how much access we have to just about anything we want these days."

"Hermes is a drug; collectors are sort of like Hermes junkies."

"I'm going to go back to being a regular non-privileged human being that doesn't have magical powers because of the things that he buys."

"The glacial freeze is the greatest Gatorade flavor. It's the light blue one. It's delicious. It should be currency in the future."

"Personalized Starbucks cups are the cutest gifts to give."

"Because it is literally the Super Bowl of sales."

"I remember telling him pretty clearly that I didn't think that was funny in the slightest before promptly hanging up on him."

"The trick to all this is that you just keep coming out with product that people like that's the trick you know uh whether you're kanye or trump or chris brown or tory lanez or whoever just keep coming out with product."

"This country is drowning in information and starving for understanding."

"Some of it's just is the chase of chasing down a shoe and getting it, and then it's fun to see my son who likes it and then he rocks it."

"That looks like something that would be rolling around inside of Walmart to me, that looks like great success."

"The Chanel classic flap is pretty much one of the most popular luxury handbags in the world."

"America is so spoiled when it comes to prepackaged snack food in that one regard it really is the land of the free."

"Fast food, fast clothes, Apple iPhones, you name it, they'll be gone."

"People just love to be better than others don't they it's always world's biggest wheel world's best glass world's most exclusive collection of first run power puff girls merchandise etc."

"Stop being obsessed with the new, use the same one."

"Now, if there's one chain you can count on to go all out for the holidays, it's Starbucks."

"It's a lot, child. These people, they do whatever they can because they're making the money."

"We constantly infantilize ourselves, raised on a steady diet of media information and rampant capitalism which leads us to strongly identify with what we consume."

"October 2020 is shaping up to be an insane month when it comes to sneaker releases."

"We're always trying to upgrade things and we never seem quite happy."

"I feel like it would be fun to start with an unboxing of something I ordered that I'm really excited about."

"Merry Christmas! What better way to celebrate not getting the scalps new consoles for Jesus's birthday?"

"Consumerism when it comes to baby products and weddings, it's insane."

"QT changed the game. 49 cent slushies, all the candy, all the food. Tier two QT."

"This is a super sale. It's like Black Friday happened and now it's like Cyber Monday."

"Yes, it's a manufactured holiday, but it's manufactured for us."

"This is done to a Disney Universal level, of course all the attractions lead out into themed gift shops as well."

"You have to go to Costco once; it's an experience in life. If you never go back, you gotta see that [__] place once."

"Justice is coming to my place because I pre-ordered it."

"It's hard to just drop out of this society, this hype culture."

"Fill her up in America: free refills on Fountain drinks."

"Sometimes the coolest stuff is the hardest to get, and if there's an opportunity to buy your way into it, someone always will."

"Even if we lose, the Olive Garden association, yeah, I count this as a win."

"Parents will live on ramen noodles just to buy the toys for their kid."

"This is a really exciting one, because we're about to shop until we drop."

"Sign value: Objects as symbols of status and identity."

"We're seeing elementary school girls articulating adamant preferences for designer jeans."

"It's a consumerist orgy and you know we're the ones being consumed."

"Your show sold out like it's stock from shopmisterbeast.com, you spent 24 hours in a bunk or another 24 inside of a fake prison."

"In 1999 I think phase was hitting a point of mass consumption we had this brand and this line basically being wrapped by bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit like they were the poster children on these ads."

"If you play video games and you watch porn, you are a consumer in the worst sense, and you end up creating nothing."

"Costco is the most middle-class thing in the world and I love it."

"I think it's good to live a simple life and to not indulge in the constant pursuits of buying things and getting new things."

"It's a leech on society, guys. Buy the skin if you want to."

"We're not gonna consume our way out of the status quo."

"It's almost objectively ridiculous at this point to really, I guess, sit here and argue over which piece of manufactured plastic is the better one."

"Everybody from companies to politicians target the middle class as the largest block of customers and voters."

"People love pizza so they, as dudes who would say, pizza is big business."

"These companies are the backbone of our country. They're nostalgic, a little evil, and honestly, delicious."

"What are mini brands, you ask? Let me introduce you to a world of real shopping brands that fit in your hand."

"Everything is bigger than Costco. This is like shopping in the Texas of department stores."

"Disney inadvertently tricked us into making autograph collecting part of every one of our Disney experiences."

"Lose yourself in keeping up with the Joneses and keeping up with the Kardashians, except your own truth."

"It's so cool to have physical copies of things these days. It's nostalgic to have something you can actually hold."

"It's not about Black Friday or buying the latest LED TV. Life is about living."

"Trying to make ourselves into a brand just turned us into products."

"It's easier for us to consume pretty things without reckoning with the horrible story behind them."

"Another metal piece based on magnets to snap into place, this was the first ever fidget toy that has led me down a very expensive yet exciting world of what is known as pocket trash."

"High fashion is legitimately a scam. It's more about showing 'look, I wear Louboutins, look at me' than anything else."

"We exist beyond our conditioning, beyond our extreme consumerist culture."

"Amazon Prime is about the best thing in the world. If you don't have it, you're a loser."

"I don't buy trendy foods, they're like the fast-fashion of food."

"Name a better combo than a crappy used car lot on the side of the road and a beat up Honda Civic."

"Corporate America will not save us. Walmart will not save us. Target will not save us."

"Every day we treat the residual desire to be something more than a consumer as Nostalgia."

"You cannot resolve the injustice inherent to a capitalist economy by consuming more."

"My challenge to you though is to mindfully evaluate why you're live streaming. Is it effective, is it propelling your congregation to more next steps, or is it feeding the consumer culture that's already rampant in our churches?"

"Who doesn't love ordering stuff off of Amazon at 3 in the morning when you can't sleep?"

"Star Wars didn't so much represent the birth of geek culture as the ascendancy of a consumer counterculture."

"Wish is the internet's Dollar Store: they've got toilet paper earrings and engagement rings, fast fashion and Tech Goods all for suspiciously low prices."

"In a society of mass production, has the replaceability of everyday items become the norm?"

"This heat check is less about Kanye's net worth and more about his work as a provider of Yeezys to us."

"It's extraordinary to keep people on a level of consumption only at the price of crippling debt."

"We're just completely puppets controlled by a massive puppeteer named Jeff Bezos." - Farron Cousins on Amazon's influence

"What economic power and political power wants us to do is to think of ourselves as consumers."

"Each year, the Air Jordan 11 is the biggest release and it lands during holiday season."

"It ultimately ends up blinding out and blacking out everything else around you - all the branding, all the nonsense."

"You just bought a PS5? Okay, a thousand bucks. Rackety rack, don't talk back."

"You're not bragging, people like to see unboxing and like to see like nice things and pretty things."

"It's a chamois bra y'all need a tight knit and look at care about the sell out of that [__] now where's that yeah let."

"A hundred million plus people are thinking about twisted tea... You can't buy that kind of brain infusion branding."

"If you don't know who you are, capitalism will make you look like the most ratchet ho on the block."

"The studios really want this to work, and if that's all they're offering to us, we'll just keep consuming it."

"In an economy based on endless growth and planned obsolescence, there's only too many eager folks ready to sell whatever will make us feel like we finally made it."

"Unfortunately we do live in a very materialistic and consumerist society."

"It's Black Friday, let consumerism consume you."

"It's what we do, just on a mass scale. Are we just products?"

"It's a holiday made for corporations to sell stuff, to buy into the idea of a fancy meal, which yes, that's what I'm doing. It's an opportunity to indulge."

"Christmas doesn't come as a surprise to us at Hamley's."

"The destruction of consumer culture and the destruction of American Empire is not in moral terms a negative for us and perhaps can allow us to recover some of our own humanity."

"Minimalism emerges as a response to psychological dynamics, aiming to break free from the cycle of desire and dissatisfaction that characterizes consumer culture."

"Just because a lot of people wanna you know they wanna get the highest of the high on these cards."

"Hello Kitty sold incredibly well after the coin purse launch. Japan's economy was growing, kids were able to afford these little trinkets that just contributed to this insanely widespread popularity of Hello Kitty in Japan."

"We're in a consumer culture which is why Consumer Debt is so high relative to savings."

"My mission on this channel is to help shift our culture of over consumption to something that's more intentional and sustainable."

"Sustainability gets a bad rap for being expensive, but like why doesn't consumer culture get that same bad rep for being expensive?"

"We need to be done with everything the world tells us we're supposed to want."

"Consumer culture revolves around the cult of the self."

"It's amazing that people want that shoe."

"I don't drink energy drinks, but I do want to become an energy drink person because while I was at the gas station getting these energy drinks, the guy that was winging these up said, 'I love Monster' and he seemed really cool."

"Gucci just rolled out $770 jeans with grass stains on it. That's the new look, grass-stained overalls for almost eight hundred dollars."

"The idea is that we can just kind of like discuss things it's not going to be haul videos where I'm showing you loads of things I'm buying every month."

"This ad manages simultaneously to make fun of itself, Pepsi advertising advertisers, and the great US watching/consuming crowd."

"There are over 11,500 convenience stores in Taiwan, with a population of about 23 million, that is about one store for every 2,000 consumers."

"And get the kids became a very much important part of this."