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loves. They built thoughts together, shared sandwiches in high school and were each other's

first kiss. They were the dream couple until Sam got into EDM music. While Alex enjoyed

folk, first loves are kind of like your current account. If they aren't working for you

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This is on point. I'm Megna Chakrabardi. This is TikTok user Lili Gabriel in a video

from February of 2022. She's sitting on a bedroom floor with a box she bought from the ultra-fast

fashion website she is. She's holding each item up to the camera one by one. This is a

leather oversized jacket. Smells like fish. We love she is. Then I got this like satin

blue button up shirt that I'm going to wear off the shoulder. So I get this little bra

let top that I'm going to wear underneath the blue satin button up top. And then this

is just a lot. Fashion haul videos like this one are all over social media. The low price

point means consumers can buy a lot of clothes for very little. And they can buy them very

often. But they're not really good quality clothes. Are they? Cheap fabrics, poor construction.

Well as you might guess if you're a regular listener to this program, we are endlessly

interested in how technology, social media and capitalism are shaping our behavior and

perceptions of reality. And the question really pops up in surprising places including the

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