@sun @mischievoustomato @RustyCrab @phnt there was a small shop youtuber who had a whole thing about this

basically etsy started as a marketplace to sell from small shops. then it got famous as a place to buy bespoke and small shop stuff from. at some point drop shippers discovered it and are polluting the storefront with stuff they buy from ali and flip at a 4x markup.

they basically buy toy bears and random shit in bulk and then claim its hand made. many of them are not even taking new photos they're literally copy pasting the art from ali and just like slapping "homemade bear" on it