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Hot take: influencers ruined thrifting. I used to thrift when I wasn’t making a lot of money but needed nice work clothes. Now you have influencers buying a bunch of clothes and re-selling it online for a higher price
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Anonymous 14w

FUCK THE SCALPERS FR 🗣️🗣️🗣️

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Anonymous 14w

I tried to explain this to my dad the other day and he didn’t get it smh. Feels like there’s no where to get affordable clothes anymore

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Anonymous 14w

Cold take

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Anonymous 14w

no for real, its getting harder to find cute/flattering clothes for cheap. i wouldn’t be surprised if this was the reason

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Anonymous 14w

Influencers ruin everything they touch

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Anonymous 14w

Hotter take: influencers have ruined most things

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Anonymous 14w

Influencers don’t exist in my life because I don’t pay attention to them and you may realize they are insignificant. There are always going to be resalers. Sure. But that’s just part of life. Influencers didn’t “ruin” anything. They just made you aware of an economy.

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Anonymous 14w

People love to wear ones struggle as a costume

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Anonymous 14w

there’s enough clothes on this planet to last for hundreds of years, the resellers aren’t the problem if anything they’re part of the solution. the REAL problem is thrift stores beginning to upcharge in response to it!

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 14w

Just because you ignore something doesn’t mean it no longer exists, and it’s becoming a growing problem that’s putting a strain on lower income people. It’s disgusting as is our capitalist society

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 14w

Actually they’re up charging due to different reasons. If resellers were apart of the solution they’d make them even cheaper, not more expensive. All they are doing is creating a new problem

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14w

nah it’s on the thrift stores, not the influencers. clothes that aren’t bought are shipped to third countries and burned, there’s no shortage on secondhand, the stores are being greedy

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 14w
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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14w

in the screenshot it’s saying they’re not the problem 💀

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14w

Influencer actually contribute to the issue of thrift stores raising prices

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 14w

It literally says they contribute and lists the other reasons, learn to read

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14w

girl you gon buy the bales they’re sending out to third world countries? if not then stop complaining ab it

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 14w

You just sound salty cus I called out influencers for being greedy

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14w

it’s not greedy to resell, it’s greedy that the thrifts are raising the prices when they don’t have to

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 14w

It’s pretty greedy to buy a 5 dollar shirt someone else could have used and resell it for 20 online. Sounds like something a greedy pig would do

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14w

People that were in my situation a few years back are having harder and harder times finding nice clothes at affordable prices and influencers are one of the factors

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14w

That screenshot means nothing bc it is the ai overview, which you can’t really trust. I’d recommend finding a better source, but it doesn’t really matter bc 4 will fight you even with real evidence

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 14w

Fair enough, I wasn’t going to go in-depth for a yikyak arguement tho

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 14w

I don’t think this applies like this because even if they aren’t influencing you they’re still influencing other people to go out and buy cheap clothes and resell them. It was great for sustainability to encourage people to thrift instead of buy new but not go buy everything you can find and then list it online for more money to make a profit.

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 14w

Let’s just say I think you’re highly overestimating how many people are following “buy thrift clothing and resale them online - influencers”

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