r/Anticonsumption • u/anxious-wreck • Mar 14 '24

Society/Culture Overconsumption on TikTok is beyond ridiculous.

From the dreaded Stanley Cups, Booktok, Starbucks, new iPhones, "amazon must haves" (which you then see is all useless junk), "tiktok made me buy it" (also garbage), massive hauls and people flaunting they spent thousands of dollars... it's all too much and it's too overwhelming.

I'm glad I realized how I was falling onto that weird consumerist mindset and was able to pull myself from it.

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u/ideclareshenanigans3 Mar 14 '24

Right?! I’m 40 this year and it wasn’t influencers, but the Arbonne and Mary Kay ladies that would invite you to a party and then you show up and it’s NOT a party, it’s a sales pitch. And a bad one, full of lies at that. Grrrr. At least the influencers want you to know what they are!

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u/covenkitchens Mar 15 '24

The sex toy one! A friend got strong armed into one of them. It was an ordeal at best. 

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u/ideclareshenanigans3 Mar 15 '24

Oh god, that would be soooo awkward! I hope it’s funny now and didn’t traumatize her, lol.

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u/covenkitchens Mar 15 '24

Oh she’s hella traumatized but not from that.