agree with so much of this. I hand make my items and etsy mistakenly took them down as a drop shipping product. yet there's hundreds of actual drop shippers that get no push back. it's ridiculous.

An ai to trll you the perfect gift for someone is such a hilarious snd sad idea. How bout just talking to your friends snd family! But yeah I hate how so many gteedy people have taken over. And thise greedy people see their own greed as a virtue. I do wish customers would use more discretion but they shouldn't have to. Oh well. Time for another site to rise up , til it gets taken over by drop shippers and ai

Unfortunately, this is part of a much larger systemic problem. Under our current global economic system, the profit line of any company - _especially_ a publicly traded one - is _obligated_ to go up or the company will go under. This is what leads to corner cutting, appealing to advertisers and a steadily worsening product over time. AKA Enshittification. This is as true for Etsy as it is for Facebook, Microsoft or H&M. It's why climate change has only ever escalated since we became aware of it. Line must go up, at any cost. It's all broken, down to the very foundation. We need to work towards much more fundamental societal change if we want this pattern of enshittification to reverse.

What do you guys think about goimagine? They are supposed to be the new only handmade site That vets every seller individually to make sure they are real artists. Sounds promising!

when I hear the term homemade I think of food

ive literally had to jump threw hoops to get etsy to remove listings of shops stealing and reselling MY STICKER DESIGNS for like a 5th of the price-

Helluva Boss! It's the sister show to Hazbin Hotel and it's free here on KZbin!!!

IPO. Be wary of any company when it hits IPO/public trading. The usual timeframe is 5-7 years (or less) before they complete their about-face and start SHOWING that they value shareholders above anyone else (employees, partners, customers, etc). I've consulted with many startups through IPO phase and EVERY SINGLE ONE was completely ruined in that timeframe (or less). Etsy's IPO was 2015, IMHO they started being more shareholder-centric in 2019, after they launched their "stockholder engagement program" in 2018.

I used to like browsing through Etsy, because there were always some gems. Now, when browsing, 95% are drop shippers, stolen good etc. Now I just follow artists and wait for them to open their shops. Etsy's stupid, because it's cheaper to go to aliexpress. People aren't shopping Etsy to find the lowest price. They're alienating everyone for short turn greed

Have you tried the new amigurimi yarn from Big twist

Was anyone surprised that it was two strands together???

Was anyone surprised that it was two strands together???

I recently used fluffy yarn! I made a bag and the "wrong" side is the side out since its so fluffy and soft! I cant wait to use this yarn since i havent used it yet! My bag is made out of the fuzzy friends lion brand yarn (its discontinued along side the rest of the sesame street yarn(

If anyone is interested in starting a class action lawsuit, please respond here. I just contacted a firm specializing in class actions. Let's do this! #DownWithEtsy !

I've been on Etsy since 2012 also. It was my full time job for a few years. It's the reasons you cited that caused me to decide to let all my remaining listings expire. The last straw was their AI bot taking down one of my listings claiming it's not handmade. Oh, the irony! It's an embroidered felt flamingo mask, something I've sold many of on Etsy for several years along with other animal masks. And of course they did it the month before Halloween. I deleted the rest of the mask listings and gave my inventory away. Then they had the balls to send me a survey which is "confidential." I'm sure no human read that either. Keeping commerce human requires that a human being available to support your human sellers!

You know I was watching until you said that you no longer are on Twitter because I guess other people are allowed to have opinions that aren't yours? How dare they! How dare people disagree with you?!

This stuff just makes me sad, I am EXTREMELY allergic to metals to the point titanium plated (anodized) doesn't cut it, I NEED things made of solid titanium. I got some jewelry from Etsy because quite literally nowhere else was selling the jewelry I was looking for. Not even 4 months later the shop I got it from was removed. So now if I want to get more of their pieces I can't and it's so frustrating. Real stores are suffering and Etsy doesn't care, and for certain types of jewelry you have no other option but hoping someone does it on Etsy and usually, there is someone who does make it. But now if I look it's all people lying about their pieces being solid (they're all plated) or it doesn't have a store for it anymore.

Tiny has spikes because they’re copying Woobles. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I used to have a successful Etsy shop. I reached star seller level. I got fed up with Etsy itself, with demanding customers (that wanted custom items by next day on the other side of the US), with Etsy's seo and copycats. 😢

Etsy has such an AI problem, especially in the animal department. My neish is Orcas and I can confidently say that 75% of listing's are either Clipart or AI generated. It's sad

Hi! I’m a new viewer but am totally hooked! I have a considerable amount of experience crocheting but so far no kits. I picked up one from Hobby Lobby and am giving it a try. I’m now planning to try a Michael’s kit next. Thanks for all your great videos!

I used to make copyrighted character stickers. Only certain series would get taken down quickly while one in particular took 5 years for anything to happen. I have 0 remorse doing it because screw the corpos, support artists as they make better merch. If the corpos wants my money, make merch that's not just official art slapped on a mug.

I have found cozy mysteries that include a recipe and knit pattern. I'm more interested in the mystery, I have plenty of hat and blanket patterns. I'm vegetarian so I might not care about the recipe. The good thing is you can read or listen to the mystery while your hands are busy.

ive seen someone today that had their pics stolen by temu and got their etsy closed because you could ''find the item on temu'' so you have to be a reseller . like no temu stole the creator's pictures. but as of now etsy have not helped this person, she lost a lot.

I havent bought anything of Etsy in years. It is so hard to find anything that I can't find on Temu or Amazon.

Soooo many of my favorite shops are gone now for one reason or another. Every time I log in to browse I notice another, and I'm unable to locate them anywhere.

Its absolutely heartbreaking and frustrating how difficult it is to find an actually user-made account on etsy. I always start there when I’m looking for something specific (like a hair stick or a present for a friend recently) but I had to sort through *so many* dropshipping accounts before I could find a handful of user-made goods. I shouldn’t have to check their reviews just to see *thousands* or tens of thousands of reviews for a shop with almost no information and the same shit as most of the shops on the same page. It’s exhausting and I cannot imagine the stress it’s been causing the selling artists and crafters.

It's so ridiculous that a company that talks about hand made products isn't willing to do work by hand to make it's own platform better.

I would love to watch your macrame 😊

I've only used Etsy as a buyer and what I hate about it is the search is absolutely terrible. No matter what I search for gets over 1,000 results and inevitably, fewer than 100 items match what I searched for. And if I add more qualifiers to try to narrow it down, that actually increases the number of results! Plus for every actual item there are 100 listings for an electronic pattern to download to make that item. Like if I'm searching for Nordic snowflake mittens, I'll get some listings for actual mittens (most of which are not Nordic or snowflake), but all sorts of electronic pattern downloads to make Nordic mittens. Searching for anytihng is frustrating and overwhelming and I often give up before I find it.

I actually got a petticoat from a dropshipper on etsy, and I know it was a dropshipper because they sent me the EXACT same petticoat I got from amazon I was trying to replace. I left the person a bad review, and they had the GALL to DM me and basically offered to refund me to give them a better review. I refused obviously, but the fact they know all they have to do is play the algorithm is disheartening to know finding actual craftsmen is that much harder. If you see it, say it - call out dropshippers everytime, they don't deserve easy marks.

I made a cat out of that. It was impossible to work with, because I could not see the stitches. I matched the color with regular yarn and doubled it up. That worked well.

I made a blanket for my son from I am guessing the Lion Brand fur yarn. Some of my adventures in yarn have been him liking a yarn, (and he just wants the skein,) but I look at it as 'what can I make with that.' My son has a fur blanket that is heavy but so soft. I had a bit of trouble knitting the blanket, (it's striped,) and I forgot how many rows I was doing of each color, (just blue and white.) I can tell but not many others can. You could make a furry boa for your daughter(s). I think you said you have a daughter.?

Same with EBay. It's a disaster. I used to love finding good things on Etsy.

I sell on Etsy and have had products removed by them for small/weird reason (such as; A lotion I make and named "Cashmere"... they removed it saying I was claiming my lotion had Cashmere wool in it... uhhhhhhhhhh what?) I'm getting really tired of being there. It's like you're sitting around, biting your nails waiting for the next sniper shot to hit. If they are overrun with temu and aliexpress problems, why are they wasting time on me and my ACTUAL handmade products? Crazy.

1:05 only Duolingo has the pass

IT Crowd is a fun UK comedy. The Office, UK version may be less cringe? Ghost in The Shell is a fun series. I'd start with the first movie and avoid the recent live action movie. The anime has a few seasons and animated movies. My mother and I loved watching these over dinner.

I've used Etsy for many years, I've been scammed a few times with "handmade" items. I still love Etsy and hope the best. as an artist, I LOVE art so why not help out my fellow art friends?🖌️🎧📸📚✏️🎁

As a creator who was sick of sites like T-Spring and wanted a merch shop, I moved my shop onto Etsy simply because there wasn't an affordable alternative that I could find which also allowed usage with an alternate platform like Printful or Printify. I made my own designs (no generated slop), but I wasn't printing the design onto products or doing the shipping since doing that with a focus on video creation and only a few thousand social media followers makes very little sense. An alternative finally came about that was more affordable than Etsy (0 dollars upfront and can stay published indefinitely), but the cost was that nobody came over to the new shop. I quit. Hung it up. After moving to a new platform with my merch, I though about offering local art and/or photography through Etsy, but then I realized Etsy's site isn't even built for that! I physically can't offer truly custom products through Etsy without BS-ing the back-end of the listings, and as far as I have seen and understand, local by-hand delivery is a pain in the rear with Etsy's system. It's like Etsy is trying to serve both sides of the aisle (actual custom stuff and drop shippers) and fails miserably at both. But it happens to do slightly better at serving drop shipping and stuff like that, so it rules the platform apparently. It's sad that Fiverr or Upwork can offer better systems for custom, hand-made stuff, and those sites are questionable since so many of the people on those platforms don't necessarily have a decent quality standard. At times, it certainly seems like there's almost no winning with these online marketplace platforms. All great ideas on paper, but they seem to fall apart in reality.

You are on Threads. Is anyone else there? No idea it was even possible at this point.

I’m so disappointed with Etsy. Have been for a long time and they keep getting worse.

They can’t go back because of who they chose for shareholders and investors. Handmade and human doesn’t have an exponential growth curve that big capitalization requires. This enshittification is inevitable once the ipo payout is received. I haven’t switched out of Etsy cause I haven’t found a better system yet. I’ll scroll the comments to see if people are excited about anything.

Etsy also censors and oppresses feminists.

Etsy did close to three billion dollars last year...Etsy got greedy and will pay for it. Can't tell you how many people I know who have dropped their Amazon prime and no longer do business with them and I am one of them.

Danny the dapper bear. If I had made it, I'd put a pompom on the hat. But I like pompoms, so that's just a me thing. Such a cute and fluffy bear. I may have to keep an eye out for this yarn. Maybe make a cute spider out of it.

ETSY was my main source of income, since 2021 it has dropped by 90%... ALL and I mean ALL of my products have been ripped off by china based dropshippers and copies have been made, that sell on retail CHEAPER than what it costs me as materials to make :/

New commenter and viewer here, I'm a multi crafter myself so some macrame videos won't push me out. Also that worm is adorable! If you want to make your life easier with embroidered eyes I'd suggest doing it on a light fabric and sewing to the plushie. With a faux-fur yarn like this one nobody will notice.

7:11 😭 missed opportunity "the downfall of Etsy is due to greed & I--" instead of agree should have said a-GREED then of course you'd have to flash text on the screen &/or awkwardly explain the pun & not that it's past tense (peak humor imo)

Won't buy from Etsy any longer. Used to love them. Too much junk to weed through.

I have left Etsy both as a buyer and as a seller. The last thing I ordered was a "hand made" dice set that I saw a week later for 1/4 the price on Teemu.