people on tumblr have taken “boycott” to mean like “any time people don’t buy something” so you have people talking about a Nintendo Boycott and making references about like “you couldn’t even boycott chick fil a” wrt people buying a switch 2, but the thing is like. there is no Nintendo Boycott. there is no like organized political action to boycott nintendo rn. you’re just annoyed someone bought a game console when you personally wouldn’t.
like very few people were even talking about a boycott, mostly it was just people going “wow this is egregiously expensive” which like. it is! but people buy themselves egregiously expensive stuff all the time. as a treat.
you’re allowed to be annoyed its whatever just like don’t pretend like its a Political Thing it makes you look corny and like you’re just reaching for a Justifiable Reason to not like something when you can just not like it. you can just be annoyed people are dropping 5 hundo on a game console. that’s fine.
To be clear you can also choose not to buy from unethical companies because you think they’re unethical. I don’t buy from Amazon because I choose not to support Amazon and I don’t buy anything I know is produced by Nestle for the same reason (though Nestle and Amazon both own like a billion other corporations so I’m probably accidentally buying their stuff anyway). This is not a boycott it’s just run of the mill consumer choice. You can decide that buying from Nintendo is unethical because of how they treat their employees or how they’ve legally abused people and abstain from doing it if you want but that doesn’t make it a boycott.