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How TikTok Shop Became The World’s Greatest Scam

Aperture | February 4, 2025



Recently I’ve been getting constantly bombarded by TikTok Shop ads. First I thought they were harmless content from influencers talking about their favorite products, but the more I watched, the more I realized that this was the opposite of harmless. I decided to dig deeper into this growing phenomenon, and what I discovered, made me genuinely scared for the future of my generation.

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  1. @personamithulu

    February 4, 2025 at 4:33 am

    Personally I found out my debit card stolen from someone purchasing from TikTok shop. They made three thirty dollar purchases, which I was thankful I caught onto while checking my bank account to buy something off of Steam. Needless to say my view of TikTok has not been favorable.

  2. @AccidentalTouristx

    February 4, 2025 at 4:33 am

    Stop blaming TikTok. All TikTok did was compress the experience. Back in the day it was Woolworths and CH Martin that sold the cheap stuff or any street corner vendor. We also had TV with commercials while selling a fantasy. Stop acting like kids were studying hard or better students. They still gossip and cheated and backstabbed. The real culprits are the AirPods and the parent’s credit card. That has been a game changer. And if parents keep their credit cards locked up or otherwise secured and stopped all that direct private input going into their children’s heads, constantly that could make a difference. Parents: do your job and spend time with your children and discuss/regulate what they watch.

  3. @ehixxz

    February 4, 2025 at 4:33 am

    Idk why people ever trusted the shop on TikTok when it’s the exact same as Shein, Temu and AliExpress, etc. Every time one of these apps have gotten popular enough, people obsess over the simplicity and cheap prices realise it’s shit and “cancels” them just for another app in a different colour to come along and people love it again

  4. @feralhomunculus

    February 4, 2025 at 4:33 am

    I uninstalled tiktok and I'm in the US so I can't download it now but I've been going on through a backdoor and guess what? Because I'm not technically logged in, I guess, but I haven't seen a single add since. I can scroll my fyp. I can interact with them, making comments and likes, but not a single add. I might just never put the app on my phone again.

  5. @anglepsycho

    February 4, 2025 at 4:33 am

    I don't know how anyone can cave into peer pressure at all, this is a scam. No scrolling app other than TikTok has a "shop" enclosed inside it as far as I know, so you deserved getting scammed and should be more scammed for not doing research first. Use. Your. Brain. Get. Brain. Wrinkles.

  6. @greatape8019

    February 4, 2025 at 4:33 am

    im glad i cut out most social media. the only social medias i consume are youtube and pinterest. my screentime is still pretty high, but mainly because i keep videos running in the background while i do other things. im glad i only used tiktok in 2016ish, when it just transitioned from musical.ly..

  7. @SeekAfterGod

    February 4, 2025 at 4:33 am

    I never downloaded tik tok and I deleted all socials before the pandemic. The internet was created to brainwash and rewire your brain synopsis. Look who gave us the Internet darpa

  8. @starpoptarts

    February 4, 2025 at 4:33 am

    Yall have to see what the website prices on products and compared to TikTok shop! I have ordered from TikTok shop luckily I haven’t been scammed because I used my research by checking the reviews, prices compared to the website and offered in TikTok shop, etc.

  9. @WhatWillYouFind

    February 4, 2025 at 4:33 am

    TIKTOK shop is the Gen Z and Alpha brains version of HSN and QVC. All spectacle and lots of slop thats hyped up. The difference is HSN and QVC are all big name brands or products produced by brands that have QC/WARRANTY services that both WORK and if not the main company will deal with the "bad product" headaches.

    Well before 2015 and before the era of Facebook as a mega corp, world consuming death machine … you had DEALEXTREME for electronics and many other similar services. I remember as a kid my mother buying import pokemon cards direct from japan the decade prior. THOSE were the good times. This modern brain slop and GATCHA is horrible for people, the planet, and especially the slave labor thats been cropped up around these industries. Humanity deserves the heat death we're all collectively contributing to and it will be GLORIOUS if that comes within this century. I will bask in the news of seeing daily "luigi" news stories about soulless sycophants getting a "public quartering" because their decisions contributed to millions upon millions suffering for the glorious blood money god.

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