ICYMI - Shopping on Etsy Sucks Now
ICYMI
Slate Podcasts
3.9 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by senior reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek, Amanda Mull, to talk about how the enshittification of online shopping came for Etsy. The platform used to be a thoughtful reprieve from the cheap, mass-produced products on Amazon, but now it’s plagued by a number of the same problems. With cheap junk and AI allegations abound, where can the Shein and Temu-haters go to actually find what they’re shopping for?
This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay.
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| 0:48.6 | Thank you. Hey, I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I, or in case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 1:11.6 | And today we're welcoming back to the show, culture writer Amanda Mull. |
| 1:16.6 | Hello Amanda. |
| 1:18.6 | Hi, nice to be here. |
| 1:19.6 | It's so good to have you on this absolutely freezing day. |
| 1:22.6 | We both just barely made it here. |
| 1:24.6 | But Amanda is a senior reporter at Bloomberg Business Week. |
| 1:28.5 | She writes about consumer culture. |
| 1:30.2 | Previously, she was a staff writer at The Atlantic and has written some of my favorite |
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