All of a sudden, everyone's an expert because a brand has, like, flown you first class to, like, tour their facilities.

Like, come on.

There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is there are no girls on the internet.

Lately, folks have been having conversations about our consumption habits and the internet.

Like, should we really be fawning over the Kardashians' over consumption on social media?

And for a hot second,

de-influencing was a thing, where, rather than telling you to buy more stuff, influencers actually told you what stuff not to buy. Until that is, the whole thing was kind of co-opted by brands,

who were basically like, yeah, girl, de-influence, don't buy this stuff,

buy our stuff instead. And of course, those fashion halls where people on TikTok show off

bags and bags of stuff they bought from fast fashion retailers. Now, it is impossible to talk

about fast fashion without talking about she-en.

Pronounced, she in trouble for those TikTok videos, as Madison Malone Kircher put it at the New York Times.

Sheen clothes are cheap, suspiciously cheap.

Cheap enough that it makes you think, how could this dress really only cost $6?

Well, if a slew of recent reports are any indication, the answer is forced labor, human rights violations, stealing

designs, gamifying our online shopping habits, wreaking havoc on our environment, and selling us

clothes full of chemicals that make us sick. Last year, WIRE did a great

investigative deep dive about the toll that all of this takes on both the people who make Sheehan's

clothing and the people like us who buy it. And there's another thread to this web too,

influencers, the people who go on social media and chill for brands online for profit.

So given all this, all of this harm, can influencers, many of whom talk a big game about causes like supporting women or championing the environment, can they ethically hype up fast fashion retailers?

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