I used to love going on Etsy. There used to be so many unique little handmade items made by small business owners trying to get by on the internet. You wanna know what it is now? Amazon 2. The search results are just filled with cheap Chinese manufactured goods from AliExpress! What the hell happened?!?!
I don’t even know when this change took place but you can’t search a single thing without seeing it. Its terrible the state of Etsy it used to be a little safe space away from giant wasteful manufacturing.
Etsy is even trying to stop it either they just let it flood the search results and let people who don’t know get scammed by these shitty products. What a complete betrayal of the initial premise of the website. This is what happens when you let capital influence decision making it all goes to shit pretty quick.
I hate this trend of everything becoming shit on the internet it makes me think im going crazy. I swear I sound like an old person when I say everything is becoming shit but it really is true! True enough to have a Wikipedia page now at least….
There’s going to have to be some radical change regarding how we use the internet soon or its just all going to be junk soon. I’m sure some brilliant furry will figure it out hopefully.