I Bought The Same Dress For $4, $30, $60, and $200

You are amazing slayyyyyyyy

Question for you, are you a FBI agent like you deep dive just for a video lol

Safiya... We love your franken videos.. Do more of these...❤

WE LOVE U SAF

I love this sooo much also you should try running your own drop-shipping and see what happens! 🩷🩷

A few years ago I repented to God then begged for help, "I was until then an Atheist."
I then had a dream of Jesus coming before God and he spoke of the Tabernacle in perfect context, "A word I didn't know existed.", and what I felt from Jesus when I held him was unlike anything I've ever felt before - A lifetime of Love every second - It brought me to sobbing and it changed my life, forever.
I've had Many experiences since, "Several witnessed", one was seeing a bright orb of light pass across my face in the dark, hours before a major surgery the second I gave up in my heart.
Know that God and Jesus ARE real and that they Love us deeply. Let go of your hatred and Imagine yourself holding the people who've hurt you. Tell them you Love them.
Always have hope, I believe that prayer, following God's laws & Love is the answer, and through that, Truly becoming humble, merciful, welcoming, giving, gentle, respectful, compassionate, patient, kind and forgiving, To All.

You have a mild standard for unhinged lol

And that’s exactly why I love her, she puts in the work she does not sugarcoat🥹 she looks out for us.

It feels like one of the bdg unraveled videos lol

OMG YES!!!!

a comfy bat in a corseted sundress!!!!!
she is really dedicated to the cause! (the cause being THE TRUTH!!!!!!)

and god heard her and brought her a black dress😂

the $400 is a business write off

I’m sure

@@stevethepussycat9968 oooh! forgot that, that's true!

I know right, it was thorough and impressive. I have new understanding how product scam is dealt with fake ads. She gets a follow for this video.

the only thing i didnt like was she did not verify the legitimacy of the steve madden ad. ive seen scam websites try to imitate companies as well through facebook ads. (i dont use tiktok that often)

agreed!!

Yes. She gives us a full final project research. I understand it is time consuming so she can't release so many, but I love them.

I'm kinda surprised the knockoffs didn't even make a feeble attempt to make a lace-up back or front with three sets of loops instead of a dozen! What they sent looks like cheap nightgowns.

You really didn't need to undermine her other video just because you enjoyed this one better. How about be grateful for the content?

@@alil4586 She seems plenty grateful to me. Nothing wrong with encouraging a youtuber to do more of this sort of investigative reporting, by saying they like it better than some other earlier type of work.

Absolutely

Totalgarbage! Copying 8SNT stealing!

What can’t she do. ❤

She needs to buddy up with Anne Reardon, the matriarchal voice of reason we all love and need

You wrote what I was thinking perfectly. I am enjoying her murder mystery lens looking into these fashion ads.

Accurate!!!!

its okay, you can say Temu.

this is why i never want to order from these 😭 i even ordered something from ali express and it came in like 2 weeks and it was legit

That’s why you use google/Apple Pay
You have to be really careful where you put your card info in

the problem is most of these companies are from China. China doesn't give two shits about fraud and copyright, even less if the US is complaining about it. They literally ripped off so many famous things and they got off scot free.

when you're completely honest about your business but you confess in a different language so everyone ignores it lmao

I think they were trying to go for french because in french "la robe" means "the dress"

I was about to say that😂 but it probably is in french as the girl above me said

I feel the same way about “catchall” store. I can only hear “gotcha!” lol

yeah i thought exactly the same!!

The biggest problem is that tiktok and instagram (meta) benefit from these scams and won't do anything about it. And no government is even considering holding them accountable for anything.

They absolutely do :C For example, etsy used to be all about small-business, independent, homemade artisan goods. Now it's just another outlet for drop shippers selling the same thing from a Chinese warehouse. You can still find the real artists for sure, but they are drowned out, or just plain hard to find due to etsy's SEO model prioritizing the spam-like quality of the drop-shipper listings.

@@hiddenmutant which reflects horrible on Etsy

​@@hiddenmutant I haven't been using Etsy as much, but have definitely noticed this more. It's truly disheartening to see, especially when the knock-offs and imitations are sososo bad for the environment, too! We will all pay for cutting costs and fast fashion when our atmosphere is no longer inhabitable, which could end up happening in the next century and is why the wealthy guys are investing so much into space travel... everyone suffers when capitalists and big corporations only care about one thing. Sad, because they won't be able to take their money to the grave with them. And the average person doesn't understand the value of a handmade product or art anymore, because of websites like Temu showing them a similar product for 20 cents! I'm frugal but I absolutely refuse to save money by supporting the hot garbage they try selling with the use of extreme exploitation and reduced quality. I've always been really cheap, but I've been leaning more towards either buying things used, or making sure that what I buy is ethically sourced and produced, at least when it comes to things like clothing/furniture etc. Still working on groceries.

​@@hiddenmutantyeah i dont even know how to tell what's a small business (that actually makes their own goods) anymore

Do you place "watermarks" on your pictures? Do the scammers somehow erase them or just leave them hoping that people won't notice?

@@cb9825 They don't care about watermarks. They'll either crop it out, blur it, or just leave it in and know nothing will be enforced. Simply Nailogical investigated her photos and videos being stolen way back in 2019 or so. I'm sure it's even more prevalent now that the Holo Taco business is larger too.

@@cb9825 It's very easy to take watermarks off if they're not splashed all over the image, and even if it's all over the image, if you're good with photoshop, you can still take them off. It's a big problem in the art community with reposters posting art online without credit & erasing the watermarks.

@@cb9825I was gonna ask the same - if people have business nowadays especially selling products, I wouldn’t go without watermark on every photo. Stealing is unfortunately normal especially with fast fashion sites…

@@cb9825 The scammers will often use the images, watermark and all!

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That's because congress is made up of pensioners who only know Tik Tok as the sound clocks make.

I just discovered her. I'm going to ask someone that may have more knowledge than myself. I'm looking for boxers. Do you have a place you order or would order from? I do orders for elderly people so I check everything. Before I order. But I see lots of ads for boxers(it's for a woman but I do wear men's as well). Excuse me for asking

@@Nursing1988just stick to reputable sites.

@@Nursing1988you are so polite 😊 it’s so refreshing ✨

Safiya doing investigate work is what she should focus on more. I like Jenny Nicholson the most too when she is investigating something like the park video.

Thank you for manifesting this 🙌

Netflix would ruin it

I’d resubscribe to Netflix for this.

You know what, I would watch it.

Adam ruins everything got a show.

Same it looked so cute but I found similar ones on Amazon which to me is far more trustworthy

Omg yes it would be so good

YES! PLEASE!

I mean she was literary a investigatetory reporter in escape the night

She used to do work for BuzzFeed but I think she enjoys freelancing/doing her own content because she can choose what topics to cover (and she probably makes more money too haha)

@@Alex__Size she also didn’t really do stuff like this at Buzzfeed

She roasted the hell out of them.

china has virtually no copyright law. that explains several things in life once you realize

how could the things that people say made the universe get here is there was nothing God made it all so many prophecies are being filled from revelations telling us that Jesus is coming back they are happing right now in the world he loves and cares😊

@@elliot_rat how could the things that people say made the universe get here is there was nothing God made it all so many prophecies are being filled from revelations telling us that Jesus is coming back they are happing right now in the world he loves and cares😊

@@Maob08 how could the things that people say made the universe get here is there was nothing God made it all so many prophecies are being filled from revelations telling us that Jesus is coming back they are happing right now in the world he loves and cares😊

that functioning corset back is expensive to produce and labor intensive. I thought they would swap in an elastic back but they didn't even do that!

Honestly, I wasn't expecting an actual corset but I was expecting at least a fake one, like a few stuck on straps in a crisscross pattern or whatever. But they didn't even try to do that. 😅

Well also keep in mind that but also even though AliExpress was still lying about the product that listing at least made sure to edit out the corset. Also, yeah I'm sure it's not OVERTLY hard to add a couple straps in a criss cross pattern that's f'ed up

@@lestranged Yes I have one with an elastic back ,I love it so much

@@SeraEMS Aloexpress actually is very strict on sellers

In less than 30 minutes!

Same😂❤

agreed!! This is all drop shipping from super easy from shopify

SAME

Right? I would have looked at all of these websites advertising the exact same thing the exact same way and gotten so overwhelmed and not known whete to start, but Saf seems to be really good at cutting through the overwhelming amount of information.

Wellno, she doesn't have the faintest idea what she is talking about! She just keeps parroting the copyright monopoly industries brainwashing and lies, pretending that copying is stealing! Copying is NOT stealing! If it wasn't for copying human culture won't even exist! By railing against copying she is railing against our culture! Safiya wans our culture to NOT exist! She wants a handful of giant corporations to own all human culture! She's a piece of capitalist garbage

I know right, She is so smart

i'm actually extremely grateful that thanks to safiya I have a new website of dresses to drool over while i save up enough cash to actually buy anything HAHA

she did go to Stanford

I came for a silly, yeah these are bad quality knockoffs, and stayed for the investigative journalism. This took me by absolute surprise.

+ for making it interesting

this makes me wonder if all the comments i see on house of cb saying they bought from there and the quality was terrible are also people who bought cheap dupes and didn't realise lol

probably! I have a few real House of CB sun dresses and I find the quality excellent. The bust sizing can differ a little from dress to dress, but aside from that they're beautiful and mine have lasted well with being handwashed or dry cleaned only@@hohl_ee

I think what they're really doing is purposely buying from scam websites and hoping if they went to house of cb and complain they'll receive $200, thinking they are being clever

Sounds like house of CB needs to do better at informing their customers to make sure it’s a real company website before they order.

​@@hohl_ee​ if you know anything about sewing, good materials, then you'd know that just because something is expensive, doesnt mean it's good. House of CB selling polyester dresses, doesnt mean that they're good. Especially, that for 'designer ' goods, they're not that expensive, have sales often. The fact that people are buying knock offs of these items is even more ludicrous for me. You can check out wangjennifer she makes content on good fabrics. But she doesn't sew. If you know, then you can see quality with your own eyes. People underestimate the cost of clothes and don't want to pay for labour.

right! The way she cites her sources and incorporates her own critical thinking, she is amazing. I'd love to read her papers that she writes for these videos too! 🧡

Are you also using the ACRL framework? Curious to know how students respond to it.

She said it feels luxury lol it's luxurious . A librarian who didn't. Catch that . 😂

Yay for librarians 👏🏻♥️ bless you for being a hero!

@@gypsyrose-qq9nz whatever?

Because she gets paid more than them and is respected.

It’s a good start.

I felt like I was watching an episode of black mirror!

this is a great educational video, but it is very different than investigative journalism! investigative journalists go through multiple rounds of editing and fact checking.
for example, the wall street journal’s most recent investigative story on how instagram and meta are pushing harmful content.
not trying to be a downer, but just trying to educate on the amazing work journalists still do.

are you delusional

It's not. Tiktok is Chinese, in China there are no laws to protect intellectual property.

The models/influencers who’s images and videos are being stolen should bring a class action lawsuit against these platforms and “companies”

Tik Tok is a China owned and operated company, they are fully complicit and supportive of this activity

It's not a US based company, so unfortunately there's nothing anyone here can do about it.
And tiktok won't stop because they're just getting richer and richer off of all these sponsored ads.

@@buxomboba but it is at very high risk of being banned in the US which would negatively effect its profit. So you'd think they'd be extra cautious to do their due diligence because I guarantee if any of the anti-China MAGA reps get told about this vid, it will absolutely be used as fuel to their TT ban crusade.

She’s Queen

Better than Sherlock

Can we nominate her for an Oscar somehow

Everyone is saying that

Gotta be a bot becsuse there are dozens and dozens of comments stating her investigation skills are great

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A few years ago I repented to God then begged for help, "I was until then an Atheist."
I then had a dream of Jesus coming before God and he spoke of the Tabernacle in perfect context, "A word I didn't know existed.", and what I felt from Jesus when I held him was unlike anything I've ever felt before - A lifetime of Love every second - It brought me to sobbing and it changed my life, forever.
I've had Many experiences since, "Several witnessed", one was seeing a bright orb of light pass across my face in the dark, hours before a major surgery the second I gave up in my heart.
Know that God and Jesus ARE real and that they Love us deeply. Let go of your hatred and Imagine yourself holding the people who've hurt you. Tell them you Love them.
Always have hope, I believe that prayer, following God's laws & Love is the answer, and through that, Truly becoming humble, merciful, welcoming, giving, gentle, respectful, compassionate, patient, kind and forgiving, To All.

i literally sent this to my mom cause she got got at least 3x by websites like this

Honestly, I'll be using this video in a lesson for my high school students to teach them about scamming and its dangers. Safiya's videos and Cristine's podcast "simplypodlogical" can be used nicely to educate my students since they speak clearly, informed, and talk about topics that are very relevant to them.

Thats EXACTLY what i'm saying!!!

I laughed out loud thank you for that

Frankendress!

So while the cheap ones are probably some polyester/ poly blend that could melt, the real one likely has a solid amount of natural fibers and would burn instead (the burn test is a legitimate way to figure out fiber content of unknown fabrics)

😂😂😅

Truly the "House of CB" of tiktok haul youtubers!

Is she preggo?

@@LetsBHonest we don't talk about other people's bodies

I became seriously invested in this video when she got out the board with the strings. Well done, Saf!

it's amazing that one person was able to do such deep investigation but tech companies "can't"

me too

Unfortunately AliExpress is still going strong

TikTok knows who the fleeing companies are because they paid for the ads

She didn't destroy anything. No one cares 😂

big companies lol

She is a pro :)

It’s actually so intriguing cause I would love to do this kind of investigating myself if it wasn’t so much effort and it’s cool to see it be done fully without me having to do it

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It's not even a good amount of investigating lol.

A few years ago I repented to God then begged for help, "I was until then an Atheist."
I then had a dream of Jesus coming before God and he spoke of the Tabernacle in perfect context, "A word I didn't know existed.", and what I felt from Jesus when I held him was unlike anything I've ever felt before - A lifetime of Love every second - It brought me to sobbing and it changed my life, forever.
I've had Many experiences since, "Several witnessed", one was seeing a bright orb of light pass across my face in the dark, hours before a major surgery the second I gave up in my heart.
Know that God and Jesus ARE real and that they Love us deeply. Let go of your hatred and Imagine yourself holding the people who've hurt you. Tell them you Love them.
Always have hope, I believe that prayer, following God's laws & Love is the answer, and through that, Truly becoming humble, merciful, welcoming, giving, gentle, respectful, compassionate, patient, kind and forgiving, To All.

As if it's something new, China has been pirating expensive/popular products since forever. I remember several kids in my school had pirated shoes from famous brands

And there’s probably a hundred more too

right? I was so impressed with all the work that went into this video with the cross checking and even the editing style was very smooth

Very entertaining as well. I watched the whole thing because of it. This video was fascinating.

do you have the listing link of this dress ? I love it so much !!

House of CB has such amazing quality and they have such good looking pieces I hate that their pieces are stolen like this

It is pretty obvious that the $4 dress is the scam here. The House of CB dress has so much craftsmanship and thought to the design put into it to make the lace-up corset work.

I completely agree with you. I own several pieces from House of CB and I must say, the quality justifies the price. No other “brands”, including Ali, can replicate such amazing products. The level of craftsmanship is truly exceptional.

I didn't know about the House of CB brand until I watched this video, but brand names are easy to search up. If you search a brand name up sometimes you might see this panel that tells you about what the company offers, when it was founded and who it was founded by. If you are seeing it chances are it's most likely legit. Besides, you already felt that the quality is good, high quality garments don't come cheap!

sorry im not on these platforms, does Tik Tok or Instagram not consider your videos as intellectual property? I know KRplus cracks down content stealing or unauthorized usage.

I hope you get loads of followers off this! 💜 Have you ever done a tour of your bookshelf? I see a few books and series I recognize but lots more that I don't!

@@chenisejenkins1786​​⁠​​⁠​⁠i’m not 100% certain but i think tiktok has it in their terms and conditions that once a video is posted that video is basically no longer the creator’s (i.e. it can be used and the creator doesn’t have to be paid nor can fight it because they agreed to the t&c)

@@chenisejenkins1786they don’t care because they didn’t post it. It’s probably in the terms no one reads, so they’ll use it as a “well we trusted them not to do illegal things” but meanwhile benefiting from ad revenue.

tiktok is owned by a chinese company... they probably support scam websites because they come from chinese factories....

ugh that’s awful, i’m sorry that happened to you. what exactly happened?

So upsetting to read stuff like this. I'm very sorry. ❤

Same here!

Oh no!!! What happened? I'd love to hear your story!

Now I’m curious. What do you sell? It’s okay if you don’t feel comfortable replying

You can't help the dumb.

This is a different line of work but I work in a pet supply store and we are a small business trying to bring only the best of pet food products to the consumer, such as no additives and reputable sources for (dried) meats.
It makes it so a bag of for example beef skin chewy bones costs quite a bit more than the supermarket or heaven forbid: the dollar store, since we only use reputable sources of producers.
People often come in asking for the best food/snacks for their pets, but then scoff at the price and say "But I can get this at the dollar store for X amount less!" Yeah but that also comes with additives and significantly lower quality of food.. people truly will pay less for an inferior product just to save money, instead of thinking about the quality.

@@mr_selfdestruct I wish I could go to this store you're talking about. I have a dog with allergies to very common ingredients (peas, brewer's yeast, and 15 (yes, actually 15!) other food-related ingredients. It is SO HARD trying to find food or treats or good chews. I've had to change his food three times because the brands keep getting discontinued. It sounds like I might be able to find stuff for him at your store~

​@@mistingwolftry looking for raw pet food suppliers in your local area. The ingredients list is very short: human grade muscle and organ meat, ground bones or bone meal and some supplements such as omega3 oil.
Though not cheap, I find the price comparable to the higher end canned food.

@@fredericapanon207 Thanks! I will check around to see if I can find someone in my area (I live in BFNW, lol)

She is one of the most legit when it comes to product testing in this format.

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this whole thing could honestly be a whole paper for a university class

Hello Michael, I apologize for the delay in getting back to you. I'm uncertain if I'll be able to make it tonight, as I've been preoccupied. Thank you for your understanding. I'm eager to catch up with you and Patricia soon.

I am looking into getting one, props to Safiya for finding the original and reaching out to the models.

House of CB doesnt need the boost, they're plenty famous already. Plus I always see a lot of comments about their customer and returns service being... not the best. The dresses are gorgeous but it always makes me wary or buying.

It’s really expensive, so I don’t think they need more sales

It reminds me of something by gunne sax, innocent world, Mary Magdalene, Liz Lisa etc

@@zenbdgI know about HouseOfCB, but I never knew they sold the original of this style of dress. I have had these Ads for months and really liked the dress but didn’t want to support an unknown fast fashion shopify site. This video is solely the reason I discovered that this dress is originally from HouseOfCB and I will be driven to make a sale because of this

For real, this was basically a short documentary. Very well done.

Modern journalism that we need, consumer and women's rights! Well written

Yo I need this in my life

please review shark blankets so i know which one to get ☝️

Wait you should test different cat costumes. That would be so funny to see Cosmo all dressed up. You could dress them up as an astronaut. 🤣

You better not be kidding Tyler!

Yes! I bought a cheap one. They tried to get me to subscribe and when they finally came, it was kid sized and they refused to exchange. 😭

As a high school teacher who recently commenced a module about online scams and disinformation, I’m considering recommending this video to my students. ☺️👌🏼

@@Thislackspurpose you should:) and it would lead them to this whole channel which is filled with other useful learning content :)

what would this teach??? that if you spend 1/10th of the cost you receive 1/10th of the quality??

yes, that is part of it. But it teaches a lot more. What to look out for, how easy it is to make fake accounts, reviews, and ads. It will help the next generation understand some of the environmental consequences to fast Fashion and ordering online.
@@conan4real

@@conan4real if that's all you took from this then you failed to understand the point of this video. It's about scam marketing, doctored and stolen content, lack of regulation and privacy laws to protect your content posted on the internet. The structure behind scam websites (likely one or very few suppliers who will produce items for a variety of websites. However it's more or less the same item just marketed at different prices)

I found an online store that custom makes each item of clothing before they send it to you. I bought two coats which fit perfectly and had gorgeous, thick, beautiful , high quality wool blend fabric , one in dark green, the other in a rich wine color. You just send them your measurements, height, weight, body shape (apple, pear etc). They will last for years.

I began my sewing journey making aprons, baby quilts, curtains, etc. The closest I came to clothes was the occasional costume and some basic tailoring to get something to fit right. This was pre-online shopping and I lived in jeans and tee shirts, so quality was pretty much the same across the board. As my style started to evolve and I was buying more clothes and fast fashion really started taking hold, I watched the quality of workmanship and fabrics (read: cheap AF synthetics) get worse and worse. So, now I sew a LOT of my own clothing (admittedly, this is also due, in part, to the fact that I wear 40s/50s styles, but you can buy reproductions and those can be from the same fast fashion manufacturers and just as bad). The time and effort alone is indicative that nothing should be selling as cheap as most clothing sells for

​@@rachelferet3941You sound like a woman after my own heart! I'm trying to pick up some better sewing skills (made myself some PJ pants and do basic alterations) but I've worn and collected vintage for 25 years and the quality drop even since the '90s is ASTOUNDING! Part of the reason I buy vintage is that it's just made better. Even if I have to restitch a brittle seam, or have new heels put on shoes, they're overall made to last much longer than the disposable clothing now.

@@madamedex5989 I think it says a lot that I've got some handmade dresses from the 50s that are holding up better than most modern RTW.
I can't really speak too much on the quality of clothing purchased new in the '90s because I was thrifting then on account of being poor 😂 But I can say that all of my clothes, new or thrifted, would be held on to for years before getting getting misshapen or a seam coming out whereas now, half the stuff new, still on the rack has loose threads, etc.

@@rachelferet3941 Exactly! I have dresses from the early-mid '60s that were very inexpensive "junior modes" you would've found at Sears or Penney's and they are better constructed than most Ralph Lauren, J. Crew, and the like now. One thing I remember fondly from the '90s, and even early 2000s was how you could find natural fabrics even at lower and mid-tier levels. VS had tons of real silk nighties that would go on clearance, Target carried linen, silk, and wool items. Now everything, short of seasonal "luxury" offers is poly/rayon/nylon. I can only imagine what it's doing to the environment.

After awhile that many videos will be boring

Yeah I don’t trust ANY of these sites, super sus. Only buy from real stores.

Same! At some point all I seemed to see were those three hour live videos of doing very random stuff and those really just weren’t for me. But this is really amazing and impressive!

Same here! I was telling my sisters how I had not seen her videos in literally years, and this one showed up in my feed.

Same!

Those are her and Tyler's channel, separate from her main but agree great investigative videos!@@MiriINC

Same here!

I believe its the carmen dress from House of CB. They have the dress in different lengths on top of different colors. In my opinion anytime I see a dress like this is immediately makes me think of this company because they do it so well

cool to hear the perspective from someone like you who sews! i dont know anything about seamstressing(?) but i can imagine how all those added elements add a ton of labor, esp the corset part i'm sure must be very finicky to do right, which relates to how all the cheap versions saf bought were corsetless

If you're reading this message! You are the best person! Be always healthy!

Yeah it's actually like 200😅 all stolen footage

literally

real as fuck

YES SHE DID!

I know

I wanted to see her to melt the dresses into one

Shipping actually costs that much sometimes. I sell items online and people get mad, but it can. Especially if it is international or rushed. A woman in front of me yesterday had to pay 70 something to ship a tiny box international. Even the usps large flat rate box (which isn't even that big) is 18.

Often part of a shipping price is hidden in product price - to make the shipping look cheap and more like a good deal. It is a problem as buyers get used to unrealistic prices for shipping.

It's for sure part of the scam, but it's also definitely being shipped from China.

unless it's Australia haha

Probably because they ship it straight from China

what when where I didn't catch that at all

I'd have been surprised to but I do recall she and Mark have a few mutual friends at least. Both her and Mark are good buddies with both Rosanna and MatPat. Mark, Rosanna, and Saf all have been a part of MatPat's Christmas charity streams so it is extremely likely they either know each other personally or at least can be connected by mutual friends if she need to ask him something.

@@neonblkhole28 minutes in

Ikr! I wasn't expecting her to say she contacted him about it, I just thought she was going to say she knows based on everything else she's seen

She's a peer; she has 10 million subs and is verified everywhere, so her DMs probably don't get filtered. Of course she can just ask him something.

Always better to buy a few quality items than a buttload of garbage

Quality is always worth paying for.

I thought that way too before my aunt introduced me to some designer brands she liked (NOTE: Not high fashion) and I never wanted to deal with fast fashion again. I now save up for my clothes, patch them and take care of them a million times more than my old fast fashion clothes

@@aliasilver_636 Which one? :)

@@aliasilver_636what brands do you like to shop from? If you don’t mind sharing 💓

The landfill part doesn't apply to burnable products if you live in a place that incinerates trash for the heat generated by turning it into ash and slag . But it's still a waste of material, resources and work hours .

​@@johndododoe1411 Most people don't live in an area like that, though.

😂😂😂❤❤❤❤

If you're reading this message. You are the best person! Be always healthy!

I'm also an advertising major. This is the reason I'm never working in advertising again.

​@@enamis1 Honestly, same. I worked in marketing but it's so shallow, I'll never go back. It's all about fooling people into buying whatever you're selling, doesn't matter if it's a good product/service or not.

The rabbit hole is going to get even deeper with deep fakes. @footdocdana here on KRplus found out a company made an AI version of her to promote their products....

No fr! I don't even study advertising or anything but like why is it such a pain to find a cute dress? Why are these people's videos stolen to promote a scam? It's so frustrating.

agreed. i noticed the algorithm didn’t grab this one as much as it normally does for her videos. only got suggested to me once and then i had to go track it down myself when i didn’t click it originally. hopefully it still does well. i think this is important to share.

Me too. I've been skipping videos lately, because I'm just not interested in watching another video about mixing 50 lipsticks together or whatever. No offense to anyone intended, btw. People like different kinds of content and that's fine.
But this is the kind of video, that made me personally subscribe to Safiya and I was really excited, when it popped up im my subscription feed.

I really like this kind of videos too. Whatever encourages critical thinking in this era of misinformation is super precious.

​@@raraavis7782Same. I've been skipping the Franken-videos for months, but this is right up my alley and I couldn't click on it fast enough!

@@raraavis7782 Ditto. Don't care about mixing lipsticks, perfumes, candy, etc. I like this kind, but I know it is a lot of work, but well worth it!