Why are millennial Youtubers promoting video cassettes?

[The Gays From LA]

Why are millennial Youtubers promoting video cassettes?

What's the story here? Is some manufacturer hoping to sell VHSs to zoomers?

 

[Gore San]

Probably to raise the value their nostalgic collection so they can run and buy all the ones from goodwill and pawn shops before they triple in price and then die off.

 

[kiwifails]

It's part of a growing tread to grade VHS tapes. It's fueled by speculation channels like this.

 

[Gore San]

A lot of what people find valuable is arbitrary. Things are typically expensive because people decide it should be.

 

[kiwifails]

A lot of what people find valuable is arbitrary. Things are typically expensive because people decide it should be.

Sometimes it's demand versus scarcity though more often than not it's hype

 

[Gore San]

Yeah. Even the diamond industry is all about marketing. The whole diamond wedding ring thing is fairly new and the scarcity is mostly artificial.

 

[kiwifails]

Yeah. Even the diamond industry is all about marketing. The whole diamond wedding ring thing is fairly new and the scarcity is mostly artificial.

Red letter media had a video on this topic

 

[HmmmmmYesTheFloorIsFloorHere]

Can you not hype up complete dogshit as the best thing ever (impact font "millenials" over donkey's head)

FOR FIVE FUCKING MINUTES

 

[Jack]

I would say because they are faggots that are gay for nostalgia but I have no room to talk because I own a working LaserDisc player and a ton of LaserDiscs

 

[ecto_chasm]

Classic hipster bullshit, that’s all it is.

 

[Jack]

Classic hipster bullshit, that’s all it is.

Are hipsters still even a THING?

 

[kiwifails]

Are hipsters still even a THING?

 

[Gore San]

Are hipsters still even a THING?

Daniel is basically a hipster that won't admit it. He tries his hardest to not comfort by conforming to non conformity. Always a pseudo intellectual contrarian and acting like a man child. He also has the look down. A one for one of the fedora tipping Redditor meme.

 

[Jack]

Daniel is basically a hipster that won't admit it. He tries his hardest to not comfort by conforming to non conformity. Always a pseudo intellectual contrarian and acting like a man child. He also has the look down. A one for one of the fedora tipping Redditor meme.

But aren't hipsters annoying rich kikes doing it for the sake of some gay irony or some such nonsense?

Daniel Owens doesn't have any money.

 

[Gore San]

I think it's more about the mentality. Maybe he is one of those "it's cool to be poor" hipsters that uses it to cope with being a hobo. "Being a homeless drug addict is peak counter culture." Is something I would expect him to unironically say.

 

[Jack]

I think it's more about the mentality. Maybe he is one of those "it's cool to be poor" hipsters that uses it to cope with being a hobo. "Being a homeless drug addict is peak counter culture." Is something I would expect him to unironically say.

I mean yeah, probably. The cope is REAL with that dude.

"I'm not a poor failure destroying my brain with whippets, I'm just going against the GRAIN"

"I don't have a small uncircumcised creepy pee pee that's all over the internet. It's a grower not a shower"

"I don't have a deep seated mental illness that needs to be treated with medication before I can use government assistance to get my life on track, I'm just quirky"

"My entire body doesn't smell like the back of an earring because I've touched myself with my smegma fingers without showering for the last 2 months, I'm just organic"

Bro is out here doing more mental gymnastics than Carly Patterson (I literally had to Google "name of a gymnast" and I'm so petty that the first one was a "Nigger" named Simon something and so I picked a white one)

 

[Gore San]

I mean yeah, probably. The cope is REAL with that dude.

"I'm not a poor failure destroying my brain with whippets, I'm just going against the GRAIN"

"I don't have a small uncircumcised creepy pee pee that's all over the internet. It's a grower not a shower"

"I don't have a deep seated mental illness that needs to be treated with medication before I can use government assistance to get my life on track, I'm just quirky"

"My entire body doesn't smell like the back of an earring because I've touched myself with my smegma fingers without showering for the last 2 months, I'm just organic"

Bro is out here doing more mental gymnastics than Carly Patterson (I literally had to Google "name of a gymnast" and I'm so petty that the first one was a "Nigger" named Simon something and so I picked a white one)

"That's not dick cheese I'm saving that to spread on stale bread I found in the dumpster later."

 

[Gore ChanGore Chan is verified member.]

There's being a cringe faggot when collecting things of nostalgia, I think it's fine, I mean I like to own medias I grew up with in physical form like DVDs, Vinyl records, and all that shit - but if you're just doing it to do your thing and you're not always using it as a point of conversation that nobody asked for then collecting stuff like cassettes etc is neat if it drives some good feels out of you and dopamine.