Shein is hurting all of us and influencers are helping them do it — BEST OF TANGOTI

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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Society & Culture, Technology

4.4 • 820 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Amazon responds to Shein and Temu threat with new low-price storefront: https://www.techspot.com/news/103565-amazon-responds-shein-temu-threat-new-low-price.html

Fast fashion retailer Shein’s brand trip didn’t quite go as they planned. They sent a group of influencers to China to tour their facility after a bunch of bad press, but now those influencers are facing backlash themselves, and renouncing their partnership with Shein. The whole thing raises questions about the ethics and harm of fast fashion, as well as the influencers who shill for it.

Aja Barber wrote the book on consumption. She explains why it’s about more than just Shein.

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0:00.0	Amazon is the largest online retailer in the entire world.
0:04.4	So Amazon's business decisions really matter because they can set the tone for the entire
0:08.6	retail space.
0:10.3	And this week, Amazon announced they were building out their own super cheap fast fashion
0:15.0	retail site, where items will ship directly from China to the United States to compete
0:19.7	with the suspiciously low-cost Chinese
0:22.5	online retail giant, Shien. Now, Shien is a huge and not to mention not super ethical player
0:29.6	in the retail space. After a disastrous Shian influencer brand trip, I spoke to Aja Barber,
0:37.0	author of Consumed, Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism,
0:41.1	about the cycle of fast fashion, Cheyenne, and how it's doing real harm to all of us.
0:47.9	All of a sudden, everyone's an expert because a brand has, like, flown you first class to, like, tour their facilities.
0:53.8	Like, come on
0:54.6	there are no girls on the internet as a production of iHeart radio and unbossed creative
1:04.6	i'm bridget todd and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.
1:11.6	Lately, folks have been having conversations about our consumption habits and the Internet.
1:19.6	Like, should we really be fawning over the Kardashians' over consumption on social media?
1:24.6	And for a hot second, de-influencing was a thing, where rather than
1:29.3	telling you to buy more stuff, influencers actually told you what stuff not to buy. Until that is,
1:35.9	the whole thing was kind of co-opted by brands, who were basically like, yeah, girl, de-influence,
1:41.6	don't buy this stuff, buy our stuff instead. And of course,
1:46.2	those fashion halls where people on TikTok show off bags and bags of stuff they bought from
1:51.6	fast fashion retailers. Now, it is impossible to talk about fast fashion without talking about
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