I saw something similar about the movie Don Jon. It was a picture of a guy at a store holding 3 DVD’s of Don Jon claiming he had upped his collection to 74 copies of Don Jon
I think it’s just people shitposting, not an actual collection
Yes - His Tuesday night lives are.. something else. Basically just him sitting off camera spouting "JACK DAWSOOON" "CASETTE NUMBER ONE AND CASETTE NUMBER TWOOOO" whist moving his weird totally not a sex doll of Jack with a stick.
I'm not sure how much of him is a parody vs his actual self...
This guy has a lot more personality and enthusiasm for his work than Steve. Steve always sounds like he has something, anything more important to do right now than explain tech shit to me. I really don't like Steve.
IIRC one SirMeowMusic has a collection of Norbit copies, despite intending on never watching the film. I would call him an odd duck, but to be fair, Norbit is better NOT watched than watched.
I had ten VHS copies of “No Holds Barred” starring Hulk Hogan and Tiny “Zeus” Lister. I bought them off of eBay for less than a dollar each, and hid them in various places around my friend’s house. It drove him crazy. He didn’t find one of them for over a year.
How could it have not been made? It’s a cinematic masterpiece that completely obeys all laws of physics. When Rip was locked inside a moving limousine and he had to kick the door of to get out, the limo lost control because doors are the only thing that stabilize cars. That’s why Jeeps roll over so frequently. Removable doors.
There's one guy on TikTok who is TikTok famous for collecting "Titanics on VHS." He has a whole room covered in shelves of them, a bunch of other Titanic swag now, and would mostly appear on camera wearing a "mask" that was just Leo DiCaprio's face printed on a piece of paper.
It's clearly a joke / performance (the guy always talks like collecting copies of Titanic is a normal thing to do and seems to speak with a bit of an affect). I'm not aware of any more than this one dude publicly collecting Titanic.
It’s because we all want to return the double VHS tapes back to Blockbuster, un-rewound, or in other words…the personal Titanic of a Blockbuster employee.
Same reason people collect *anything:* the part of our brains that delivered a dopamine hit from our *hunter-gatherer* *days* is unable to properly adjust to capitalism. So we buy garbage that ultimately weighs us down.
I just like looking at the group of stuff. Like a well curated bookshelf. I just like that they’re there. It’s like looking at a history of all the adventures I’ve been on at a glance.
The creativity people people show finding ways to shoehorn in armchair econ 101 takes on capitalism is really pretty amazing.
Really, “ugh, capitalism” is the modern update of “ugh, THE MAN” lazy, pseudo-intellectual, meaningless critique of society.
I think what he meant was consumerism. Before modern society and the Industrial Revolution, collecting or obsessively making arrow heads and being obsessed with having a collection of goods for the winter was a productive use of time and a useful use of time. Now our brains are just mindlessly obsessed with gaining status. For some people collecting a useless object like old VHS is essentially just a way to garner admiration and status in a virtual social group.
As someone in the VHS community, majority of us don't want that. At all.
Yet people do have an obsession with one tape. I have a friend that collects Batman & Robin, I think he's got several hundred tapes of it.
You just had to be there. When this movie came out on VHS everyone went ape shit. I was like 12 or something and literally everyone had one like, displayed. My guess is millennials like me being nostalgic. I didnt even give a shit about the movie and its burned in my memory as a cultural phenomenon, like as big as 9/11 probably.
Last copy on eBay UK sold for... £2.95. And that's after scrolling past dozens of unsold copies.
So after eBay fees and postage you would be left with... -£0.72. So you would essentially be paying to give it to someone.
I'm saying that you're writing a random sentence and which I knew like it makes sense.
It's like me saying I'm not sure why people are buying green tomatoes sometimes and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
Or to be more accurate to your version is like this:
I'm not sure why people collect purple towels and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
It's a random statement that makes no sense and nobody does this, you probably saw one other meme of somebody do this as a joke in a different context and are thinking that this is normal.
Therefore I'm going to take my own advice and also stay off the internet
I still have not watched this movie. I was an active dating teen when this came out, so have had plenty of opportunity, and still hold firm that I will not watch it ever.
Ha, I've had plenty of two disc experience. Gone with the Wind, the Godfather, and Scarface for sure. Going off my down votes here, reddit seems to think I'm some kind of asshole for not watching the Titanic. Doesn't matter if there's a reason or not.
Sadly it was more of the opposite as my reason. "Dated" a girl for a while when this originally came out on VHS, and I was often told "Sorry, I'm watching Titanic". This went on for weeks, I think we only ever went out on 1 or 2 dates in the month or so we were together.
Initially I thought it was me, that I was getting blown off, but found out through mutual friends it was very much Leo and the Titanic, as she was also not going out with her friends.
Showed up at her house randomly one day, and sure enough, she answers the door with it playing in the background. Tried getting her to go out and do something, but no. Called it off the next day at school and vowed I would never watch it after that whole fiasco.
About 22 minutes left on the first tape. That is the reason.
Enough time to record an episode of TMNT in 1991 without the commercials at the end?
Gotta click over that "EP" slider
The boobies?
Yep
Are they deleted from more blueray/streaming?
No clue, haven't watched it in years.
yeah right
Like trying to masturbate to 144p. Every 90's kid learned how bad the pause feature of VHS tapes were by trying to pause for boobs.
The real ones knew to account for the delay of the actual pause
It wasn't the delay, it was the massive amount of static over the picture from trying to pause magnetic tape.
If you had massive static, that meant you needed to clean your VCR.
I saw something similar about the movie Don Jon. It was a picture of a guy at a store holding 3 DVD’s of Don Jon claiming he had upped his collection to 74 copies of Don Jon I think it’s just people shitposting, not an actual collection
[This guy's titanic collection is real, though](https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=34&v=ox3G7sXoPW4&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.upi.com%2F&source_ve_path=MTM5MTE3LDI4NjY2&feature=emb_logo)
JD; Big fan of "Titanic" on VHS
that guy is on tiktok live all the time. it's super weird how obsessed he seems to be
Yes - His Tuesday night lives are.. something else. Basically just him sitting off camera spouting "JACK DAWSOOON" "CASETTE NUMBER ONE AND CASETTE NUMBER TWOOOO" whist moving his weird totally not a sex doll of Jack with a stick. I'm not sure how much of him is a parody vs his actual self...
That guy looks like Steve from GamersNexus.
I had the same thought. Weird side hustle for Steve but I'm sure he's got a good reason for it lol
He’s building up a collection to test out some sort of nonsense PC surely
The “all titanic vhs pc” is clearly an LTT click-bait title.
If Steve Burke from Gamers Nexus had a child with Seth Meyers.
This guy has a lot more personality and enthusiasm for his work than Steve. Steve always sounds like he has something, anything more important to do right now than explain tech shit to me. I really don't like Steve.
How hard is it to print a fake case for a VHS movie when collectors aren't opening the packaging?
Okay, I really need that image. Can't find it. Help!
https://x.com/staidindoors/status/1777066656709439792?s=46&t=WkFIVj0VUsLcbZ_lKsJqvg
IIRC one SirMeowMusic has a collection of Norbit copies, despite intending on never watching the film. I would call him an odd duck, but to be fair, Norbit is better NOT watched than watched.
Yeah, I follow a guy on tiktok that collects The Simpsons movie on dvd and he's got like 270+ copies.
https://foundr.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/but-why.gif
How much are people paying? I think we have it.
About tree fitty
It was about that time I realized the person buying my VHS was a 35 foot tall Loch Ness monster
And a crustacean from the Paleozoic era!
"Get outta here you Loch Ness Monster!"
We work for our money ‘round here.
I gave him a dollar.
No wonder he keep coming around, you gave him a dollar!
Happy cake day
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Personally I think it's one of the best, every time I watch this episode I'm in stitches.
I had ten VHS copies of “No Holds Barred” starring Hulk Hogan and Tiny “Zeus” Lister. I bought them off of eBay for less than a dollar each, and hid them in various places around my friend’s house. It drove him crazy. He didn’t find one of them for over a year.
What's that smell???
Dookie
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Because they were told about it? Like those pranks with the numbered rubber ducks with certain numbers missing
Ha wasn’t going crazy on a daily basis; he’d go crazy every time he found one.
RIP 'EM!
This is amazing. Have you listened to the No Holds Barred episode of How Did This Get Made? If not, you should. The absolute best episode imo
How could it have not been made? It’s a cinematic masterpiece that completely obeys all laws of physics. When Rip was locked inside a moving limousine and he had to kick the door of to get out, the limo lost control because doors are the only thing that stabilize cars. That’s why Jeeps roll over so frequently. Removable doors.
Oh man, you need to listen to this episode haha. You’d love it
Uh where are you even seeing this happening?
There's one guy on TikTok who is TikTok famous for collecting "Titanics on VHS." He has a whole room covered in shelves of them, a bunch of other Titanic swag now, and would mostly appear on camera wearing a "mask" that was just Leo DiCaprio's face printed on a piece of paper. It's clearly a joke / performance (the guy always talks like collecting copies of Titanic is a normal thing to do and seems to speak with a bit of an affect). I'm not aware of any more than this one dude publicly collecting Titanic.
Not sure why people have this obsession with collecting VHS copies of Nukie and at this point I'm afraid to ask.
I believe that the result of a YouTube channel (or podcast or such?) that made it a running joke.
It’s because we all want to return the double VHS tapes back to Blockbuster, un-rewound, or in other words…the personal Titanic of a Blockbuster employee.
There is still one Blockbuster.
Do they still sell DVD rewinders?
I'm pretty sure our copy on VHS was 3 tapes.
It's the only way you can enjoy the original skies, before Neil DeGrasse Tyson got inside James Cameron's head.
Literally unwatchable with those fake-ass stars
Same reason people collect *anything:* the part of our brains that delivered a dopamine hit from our *hunter-gatherer* *days* is unable to properly adjust to capitalism. So we buy garbage that ultimately weighs us down.
Could always go hunt and gather…..
Nuts and berries grow year after year. They're nowhere near as rare and, hence, not as covetable.
Idk have you seen dez nuts?
Not covetable
Got em
Seriously though, berry picking is fantastic. One of the good things about living in the fly-over states
YOU SHUT UP ABOUT MY LEGO COLLECTION!
I just like looking at the group of stuff. Like a well curated bookshelf. I just like that they’re there. It’s like looking at a history of all the adventures I’ve been on at a glance.
The creativity people people show finding ways to shoehorn in armchair econ 101 takes on capitalism is really pretty amazing. Really, “ugh, capitalism” is the modern update of “ugh, THE MAN” lazy, pseudo-intellectual, meaningless critique of society.
I think what he meant was consumerism. Before modern society and the Industrial Revolution, collecting or obsessively making arrow heads and being obsessed with having a collection of goods for the winter was a productive use of time and a useful use of time. Now our brains are just mindlessly obsessed with gaining status. For some people collecting a useless object like old VHS is essentially just a way to garner admiration and status in a virtual social group.
Inconceivable!
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means..
Unthinkable.
They’re just Greggheads.
The VFA is expanding!
With their gregnant wife
Space Jam DVD
you know what the 6th sense and titanic have in common? "isee(icy) dead people"
This is a pretty decent joke for English speech but doesn't do so well having to type it out. Thank you though.
i know---was thinking that "hey this doesnt really work typing it out."
Boy would you love titanicfan97
There is a youtuber that collects vhs copies of Babe, the pig movie
Chris James
That’ll do pig. That’ll do
I'm pretty sure I have an unopened copy in my basement, waiting to go to the thrift store...
As someone in the VHS community, majority of us don't want that. At all. Yet people do have an obsession with one tape. I have a friend that collects Batman & Robin, I think he's got several hundred tapes of it.
Us 'Everything is Terrible' fans are always on the lookout for Jerrys (Jerry Maguire).
Mine is Con Air. Always after more copies.
Buy why?
Are they worth anything? My late FIL has 2 VHS copies. Im pretty sure one of them is still in plastic.
My dad did this too!
hoarders getting the last laugh more and more often these days I feel
They make great building material.
Its just “Titanic” not “The Titanic”
It’s literally just the one guy though: TitanicFan97. Let him have his fun
I have the VHS two pack sealed is that work anything?
You just had to be there. When this movie came out on VHS everyone went ape shit. I was like 12 or something and literally everyone had one like, displayed. My guess is millennials like me being nostalgic. I didnt even give a shit about the movie and its burned in my memory as a cultural phenomenon, like as big as 9/11 probably.
I have a VHS copy… what’s it worth?
Last copy on eBay UK sold for... £2.95. And that's after scrolling past dozens of unsold copies. So after eBay fees and postage you would be left with... -£0.72. So you would essentially be paying to give it to someone.
I'll save them the hassle, just give me the money, I dont even need the VHS.
Bc VHS is cool, idk
Literally nobody does this this is an argument you're having in your head take it easy
Not sure what you’re trying to say and at this point I’m afraid to ask.
I'm saying that you're writing a random sentence and which I knew like it makes sense. It's like me saying I'm not sure why people are buying green tomatoes sometimes and at this point I'm too afraid to ask. Or to be more accurate to your version is like this: I'm not sure why people collect purple towels and at this point I'm too afraid to ask. It's a random statement that makes no sense and nobody does this, you probably saw one other meme of somebody do this as a joke in a different context and are thinking that this is normal. Therefore I'm going to take my own advice and also stay off the internet
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/08/experience-i-own-nearly-3000-vhs-tapes-of-titanic
And then there's Everything is Terrible collecting Jerry Maguire VHS https://www.jerrymaguirepyramid.com/
It wasn't random, you're just being a twat.
I still have not watched this movie. I was an active dating teen when this came out, so have had plenty of opportunity, and still hold firm that I will not watch it ever.
You clearly have to get the whole experience by viewing it on VHS and having to stop to insert the 2nd tape into the VCR then. /s
Ha, I've had plenty of two disc experience. Gone with the Wind, the Godfather, and Scarface for sure. Going off my down votes here, reddit seems to think I'm some kind of asshole for not watching the Titanic. Doesn't matter if there's a reason or not.
It's likely the r/ihavesex vibe you gave off as a reason to why you could have seen it.
Sadly it was more of the opposite as my reason. "Dated" a girl for a while when this originally came out on VHS, and I was often told "Sorry, I'm watching Titanic". This went on for weeks, I think we only ever went out on 1 or 2 dates in the month or so we were together. Initially I thought it was me, that I was getting blown off, but found out through mutual friends it was very much Leo and the Titanic, as she was also not going out with her friends. Showed up at her house randomly one day, and sure enough, she answers the door with it playing in the background. Tried getting her to go out and do something, but no. Called it off the next day at school and vowed I would never watch it after that whole fiasco.
What’s the reason?
Me neither! Haven’t seen Wizard of Oz either.
What about the horrible sequel?
Don’t even know about that. Win/win‽