I enjoy watching anti-overconsumption commentary videos.
These people, when the current economy bubbles pop, are going to be shitting their pants with regret. Like “I would have had like $40,000 in my savings but I spent all my money on soaps and perfumes that have since expired.”
You’re spending all your money on consumables!
At least if you were buying purses or shoes, they have good resale value.
People don’t want your open shower products. Perfume only lasts like 6 months.
Pick a scent and use it until the product is gone. If you’re using it everyday, then a product can be used up fairly fast. Then you can switch to something else.
These people are mixing and matching to the point that I don’t trust their opinion.
Any reviews they make will be tainted by the fact they don’t use a skincare product long enough to see how their skin and nose will react.
Plus if they do have a reaction, they’ll have no idea what product started the reaction. Like, an allergy to one that doesn’t show up until three days later after the person has used 50 other products.
I’m starting to think some of those videos are psy-ops to ruin people’s health.
Because not only are you effecting yourself, but you’re scent bombing the people around you. Like, a lot of those products are not hypoallergenic.
There’s nothing like being in an elevator or on a bus or in a meeting room and someone has put on a massive amount of cologne or perfume or body spray or just SCENT.
It’s like a sexy skunk walking into the room. Even if it walks through, tries to charm the cat, then runs out again… Your concentration has already been broken. Your mood has been affected. And like, some smells really linger.
And like a lot of the current consumption video trends got their start from content farm videos.
- those fruit slices arranged on primary color tables
- frosting being piped onto a cake
- someone throwing food into a pan and cooking up something that almost seems like a recipe * different kinds of ice being made
And now people are making restocking and shower routine/get ready with me videos featuring product after product after product. “Regular people” making overconsumption videos because it’s all they know how to do. And it is easy content to make. Especially since they hardly ever show themselves using the products in the way they’re describing. (Which is not sus at all?)
No one person is using that amount of product. So what happens when the stuff expires and they have to get rid of full sealed bottles and partially used bottles? Does it go to the landfill? Do they empty the containers down the drain? Is it safe for those chemicals to all mix together in a slurry?
Where did these trends begin? Were they formed organically, or did a state operator do their job too well?
Because seriously: Just because we know the mind control techniques to manipulate the public, doesn’t mean those techniques should be used. Especially on a massive scale.
These overconsumption video trends are in every country now. They could cause a long-term global environmental disaster.
It’s very bad stuff.
And it’s bad for business too.
Someone is making short-term gains in return for long-term societal collapse.
Because when there is no water to drink. No food to eat. No air to breathe. The Rule of Threes is real. And no matter what your baseline emotional response might be, every person reacts differently in sudden emergency situations.
That super sensible person you’ve known your whole life can suddenly become a raging maniac. You might find yourself in the backseat of a car rushing to “safety” and find out the driver is a fucking maniac.
We’ve got all these “I’m an aggro borderline personality disorder having” social media influencers manipulating people’s brains. Describing scenarios and being like “And if you don’t beat that person to death, then you’re a pussy. You are the PROTECTOR of your family, and your family should always come first! If someone talks shit to your lady it’s on you to step up and beat the shit out of that person. You are a teacher and the lesson you’re learning them is that fucking with you equals pain. And even looking at your woman is them fucking with you.”
And then the zombie apocalypse breaks out, so everyone’s running around armed with weapons. And now there’s a bunch of people running around like a pack of feral dogs, snatching supplies from peaceful people because it’s a dangerous situation and that means they’re allowed to do “whatever” they want in the name of protecting their families.
Because seriously, it’s a lot easier to rob a house than it is to fight through all the zombies to get to the store.
And then people wonder how zombies could wipe out a society. And it’s like “The zombies are a disaster. And how we survive a disaster depends on how we respond to it. On whether we have the tools to survive long enough to get society back on track.”
If you have food to eat and water to drink and air to breathe, you’re more likely to stay inside in safety. But if you don’t have those necessities, you have to leave safety to get it.
If all the water gets shut off, what do you do?
You can last 3 minutes without air. 3 days without water. And 3 weeks without food. Beyond that your body will get too weak for you to use and then you die. That’s the Rule of Threes.
Currently there’s a lot of contaminated water sources. Lakes full of medications that weren’t cleared out of the sewage. Microplastics.
And now people are going to be pouring thousands of bottles of products straight down the drain. Or the bottles are going to burst in the landfills and seep into the water tables.
And big companies are buying up water rights. They’re coming into communities, pumping out all the drinking water to bottle and sell, and those communities are dying. You go from having good water to having to buy water.
Everything is so suspicious lately. Because they’re being so fucking stupid.
It’s like “Hey AI-Plagiarism Machine, I have a company and I want you to come up with a plan that will give me the maximum amount of money in the least amount of time and that I can’t get arrested for doing.” And a plan is spit out and they follow it and they get incredibly wealthy. But they never think about consequences and that even if something is technically legal it might be something you really don’t want to do because of long-term effects.
We all loved glitter once.
It’s better not to have to feel regrets. And the best way to avoid committing regretful acts is to run a mental simulation of all the things that could happen.
“I spend $500 a month on body wash. I just had to throw away 30 unopened bottles because they expired, and 40 bottles because they started getting moldy. I would like to buy a house someday or afford a good assisted living community when I’m older. Someone who’s good at budgeting please help me!”
Overconsumption is a serious issue. It is not a joke. It is not cute. It is not funny. It is not a gender issue. It is a response to predatory capitalism.
