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ICYMI - Encore: TikTok Shop Is a Dystopian Mall Kiosk

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes from September 2022 about TikTok Shop.

In the episode, Rachelle and Candice are joined by sustainable stylist and fashion educator Lakyn Carlton to discuss TikTok Shop — a new feature that lets users purchase products without ever leaving the app. TikTok Shop is a modern day QVC, where merchants can shell products they’ve made — or are authorized to resell — in live videos with products tagged on screen. In the age of Amazon Storefronts and Etsy, it’s not surprising for TikTok to enter the e-commerce space. But the crowded, merchant-filled experience has ruined the app’s appeal and made users consider quitting TikTok for good.

This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton.


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0:39.0

Today, we are bringing back an episode we both loved about TikTok Shop.

0:44.3

TikTok has been in the news a lot this year and it is wild to think that just last year

0:48.5

we were dissecting the ethics around TikTok Shop, which back in September of 2023 was a brand new feature that

0:55.4

lets users purchase products without ever leaving the app.

0:59.0

And there was only one person we wanted to talk to about this.

1:02.1

Sustainable Styllists and Fashion Educator Lincoln person we wanted to talk to about this. Sustainable stylist and fashion educator

1:04.4

Lincoln Carleton. We had a great conversation about how the crowded

1:09.5

merchant-filled experience has ruined the app's appeal and made some users consider quitting

1:15.1

Tik-Tock for good.

1:16.6

And Rachel, do you still feel this way?

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