Modern online shopping compared to how it used to be are such different beasts, something doesn’t move or update in transit (if it’s not going to another country) you start to worry it’s lost or maybe even that you got scammed if it’s a place you’ve never ordered from before, back then it was like “Well this package may get here in a week or 2 months, guess we gotta see lol”
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being a fan of media and wanting to buy merch but all the merch is from outside your country so if you want to buy anything you have to go through the experience of seeing something you like thinking "oh this price isnt too bad!" then converting it to your local money and quietly taking the item out of your cart
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I was thinking I wanted a small messenger bag for carrying a notebook and phone around. So, without much hope because I already know what will happen, I go to Amazon, and of course see the same crappy product for sale from multiple vendors with keysmash names.
There is nothing that looks remotely reputable on the first several pages, so I sigh and go to Etsy to see if perhaps it's worth trying to get something handmade, and find the same fucking bag again there. Note also the identical bags in spots 1 and 8 of the Etsy results.
Every Google result now is GPT-generated nonsense, and every retail search is identical Chinese white-label junk. I suppose this is the inevitable end-state of perfect frictionless algorithmic optimization.
I can only imagine that if you really suffer from paranoia, trying to find stuff on the internet is increasingly a terrifying experience, like going for a walk and passing the same guy over and over on each street corner.
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