What forum am I on again?
Some blogs become sales pitches. Once he/she gets enough readers/followers, the blog owner takes cash payments or free merchandise to talk about a product or service, as an "influencer" with a niche market. Advertisers pay good money to have a trusted person become a brand rep to a curated community of people interested in their particular type of product. It's why fashion blogs always recommend specific items (they're getting a cut), garden blogs recommend a particular seed company (they're getting a cut) and financial blogs recommend certain credit cards over others (they're getting a cut). Sometimes the author genuinely likes the product, but that doesn't change the fact that they're selling out.
I hate it. The internet was supposed to be a democratizing force, a place where the free market (of ideas AND stuff) could flourish without the baggage of corporate-controlled old media. So it pains me to see a community like this one, so ardently helpful, devolve into just another "keeping up with the Jonses" excuse to recommend silly overpriced consumer goods. "You can be cool if you buy this product!" "A blender changed my life!" "Spending money is the secret to happiness!"
Screw that noise. I don't want to hear about your consumer crap. I do not look up to you because you overpaid for a kitchen appliance. Your car does not make you cool, and your clothes are not interesting. Your wanton spending, which you flaunt like a badge of honor, is really just a boat anchor around your neck. You're ruining your life, and then bragging about it.
And most of you aren't even profiting by selling out! I'm sure some of you (likely the ones with low post counts and exuberant stories of life-changing blenders) are paid actors, sent out into the wild internet to promote a product (who remembers everest wealth management?), but the rest of you are just playing along. It makes me think that we WANT a bullshit consumerist lifestyle, that we crave positive feedback for our poor life choices, that we prefer a corporate-controlled buy buy buy narrative to any form of authenticity. Why would you do that? Why would you come to a forum about simplifying your life, buying less stuff, finding meaning in doing things the hard way, and spending less money, and then brag about how you spent a ridiculous amount of money to add a second version of an appliance you already own, that does all if the work for you and generates extra waste and pollution? The fancy blender is literally everything that the MMM site stands against, everything that is wrong with modern America, and the very reason this site, and this forum, exist.
You might as well go to a vegan/vegetarian forum and brag about your veal burger recipe. Either you're just trolling, or you've completely missed the whole point.