The Most Evil Company That Took Over The USA

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How a brand new Chinese E-Commerce company found its way into the average American's life.
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[@h0ser]

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[@cosmiceyness]

Bruh

[@SpanishMoroccanGuy]

no

[@skeetrix5577]

you know it's a tech video when you hear the word "solution" mentioned. lol

[@zxcaaq]

I am American therefore, I hate China.

[@damonroberts7372]

The irony of posting a video about the evils of TEMU, and sponsoring it with an ad for an app that's a privacy/security nightmare.

[@Lukastar1]

I thought TEMU was just a meme, I had no idea it was this huge bro

[@kaiserchan4683]

slavery is a huge business bro

[@jay7949]

@@kaiserchan4683based business

[@Fiercesoulking]

Well who doesn't want a backpack wich cost 70 in Europe and 100+ Dollar in the US for just 14 Dollars ? I fully expect this to take a good chunk from Amazone.

[@hata6290]

How old are you

[@1mol831]

@@Fiercesoulking That is a good thing. Amazon needs to go down. But I would rather travel to the next city to visit a department store.

[@TheLiamster]

The motto “shop like a billionaire” is funny because billionaires don’t even do shopping. They have people to do it for them

[@brian954]

You mean billionaires aren’t buying $0.01 shirts that take 3 weeks to ship?! 🤯

[@777guy1]

"shop like a billionaire", ah yes billionaires do like shopping for cheap Chinese plastic products 😂

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

I always assumed they were referring to "billionaires" by Zimbabwe's standards...

[@DarthAwar]

and they don't buy cheap poor-quality junk!

[@cloudboy08]

@@JohnGardnerAlhadis haha

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

From factory to consumer? More like from factory to *landfill.* What a miserable waste of resources, both material _and_ human.

[@aaronshady131]

are u slow the whole point of the vid is that they only make as many products as needed thus the long delivery times

[@stefanmolnapor910]

Agreed 100%, my father has started hoarding thier trash

[@stefanmolnapor910]

​@@aaronshady131long delivery times because most items are shipped from China.

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

@@aaronshady131 And most of them are crap and wind up in the bin after they inevitably break or degrade after a few uses. Duh.

[@watermenlon3617]

@@aaronshady131?

[@ilia2178]

I'm ditching Temu and buying the same crap from Amazon at a higher price so that Jeff Bezos could take his cut. Support your local billionaires!

[@Armored_Ariete]

its funny if you compare a lot of products on amazon to temu, amazon is just reselling or dropshipping temu products at an upcharge

[@philipthecow]

@@Armored_Ariete You're restating what the guy said...

[@Youtubegoblin23]

Spot on

[@alma_h2410]

So giving up child slavery for adult slavery?

[@fuzzzzy]

or just stop buying crap on the internet? seriously

[@bart8440]

They mailed me a Chinese boy instead of my flashlight by accident

[@bazookaman1353]

You may have misread the word.

[@xilpes6254]

​@@bazookaman1353💀

[@pyrofestimo]

it's a self-heating flashlight

[@Ashtrixal]

​@@pyrofestimono, a for e.

[@fraskf6765]

Uhm ... did you order a chinese fleshlight?

[@justlisten82]

Child labor is a mofo, Americans Act like they don't know but look at the price... cmon people

[@stansman5461]

I mean, cheap labour doesn't necessarily have to be child labour. It can just be cheap cause of the place where it's made.

[@camadin7335]

@@stansman5461 yeah bro its just made by underpaid impoverished people, not children, its ok bro

[@assassinbarno2496]

@@camadin7335 atleast they get to work on something,rather than nothing

[@user-fb6kl7fj1m]

its so immoral

[@cory8837]

Ya'll ever heard of Uighur people?

[@Lem0nsquid]

The irony of Americans “supporting America made” and never ever doing it. One of my favorite hypocrisies

[@qweqwe9678]

american made stuffs are not very good. Especially electrics. Still remember the nightmare named maytag

[@Lem0nsquid]

@@qweqwe9678 certainly true over the past 2 decades. In their bid to compete with cheap labor overseas they decided to also make cheap crap to stay afloat

[@Jalreal]

Unfortunately "American Made" just means overpriced and not much better quality, but the hypocrisy is real.

[@Lem0nsquid]

@@Jalreal generally the reason for higher cost is pretty obvious, that being required to pay American wages/benefits

[@ericktellez7632]

@@Lem0nsquidYet the finished product is not better at all in quality. It’s not bad it just isn’t justified in the steep price when the quality is about the same.

[@FXwashere]

My best friend is Chinese, and I asked him his opinion on Temu. He replied with "That sh** is a scam!"

[@bitterballs356]

I ordered like at least 40 cheap things from Temu and only the backpack whiwas 5 euros was of poor quality

[@Schzercro]

I'm chinese and yea it's bullshit, f*ck temu just buy legit shit 2nd hand

[@packles81]

npc ahh comment

[@archimedesfromteamfortress2]

You do realise that not all Chinese love the PRC do you? I'm Chinese and I'm just as anti PRC as the west

[@archimedesfromteamfortress2]

​@@packles81oh I'm sorry, was this comment not skidibi sigma I-don't-know-whatever-the-fuck-you-kids-say enough for you?

[@Jungletraveler00_12]

Why are people so obsessed with ordering low quality garbage? Yeah because it's cheap, huray!

[@Kissingerzones1311]

People gotta survive

[@TheSkyGuy77]

Maybe if inflation wasn't so high, people wouldn't be so desperate

[@henlo1910]

Everything in the US is very expensive and inflation is through the roof. It is 100% our own government's fault, not only for creating inflation, but creating the global economic system that enables companies like Temu to prosper.

[@technobladeleakedclips1827]

​@@Kissingerzones1311 they are selling unnecessary garbage though, u don't need any of this dreck to survive

[@enemyspotted2467]

@@Kissingerzones1311Yeah but it’s mostly just knickknacks and useless garbage, not necessities. Sure you can get a pair of shoes for 20 bucks, but you can at walmart as well

[@vektracaslermd743]

Adblockers, people. Adblockers. I've never even heard of a Temu until just now.

[@CoreyIsTheName]

Most people watch on mobile, via the app.

[@theairaccumulator7144]

@@CoreyIsTheName revanced exists

[@Sam-ui1ll]

​@@theairaccumulator7144 shhhhhh 🤫

[@1queijocas]

@@theairaccumulator7144first time I heard of this. Gonna have a look, hopefully it works on IOS

[@constantinosbou]

@@CoreyIsTheName free adblocker browser. You're welcome.

[@clivah1499]

I got these notes from the video: - Temu is a casino - Temu does not store the ware they sell, but make it directly for the consumer. - Temu is a slave-powered factory. Note that it is weird to think that unethically made goods will bear the same quality (and efficiency) as ethically made goods.

[@ericktellez7632]

Where are these ethically made goods? Cuz Walmart and Amazon aren’t it either

[@georgemarak58]

You think apple products are ethically made in Chinese factories , I mean watch a documentary, workers basically are forced to sleep on site and suicide isn’t that rare there.

[@thanksmaybe4103]

@@ericktellez7632but they support 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴👳🏽‍♂️🧔🏾‍♀️👨🏽‍🦲🫃🏼

[@Kozkayn]

@@ericktellez7632Local business, which is expensive as hell! So, yeah. Your options are to either pay a lot or pay to unethical labor. In fact, scratch the local business part. There are so many factors and processes that go into making just a single product in our age that it’s almost impossible to ensure nothing unethical was done throughout the entire process. Sure, your local tailor might have sewn that shirt, but was the cotton picked by children? Were the cotton seeds sold by a racist seed company?

[@yangruilin3211]

Slave powered factory? So you telling me my father had been a slave? How funny you are!

[@FelixNielsen]

The sad fact is that in the world we live in, even if you're willing to pay a substantial premium, overall, all you get is crap. Endless compromises and frustrations, and absolutely nothing you can do about it. So, when offered often even worse crap, but at a very reasonable price, for a change, it is very tempting indeed.

[@sianais]

Yep. Spending more money is no guarantee of quality. 😢

[@sharongao4992]

i completely agree. price barely correlates to quality anymore, and yet some people feel justified to shame those shopping at sites like Temu as if their Amazon products aren't far off in quality.

[@user-yk1cw8im4h]

I mean most Americans are selling items made from the same factory as those on TEMU but at a premium price. Why feed the greed of Americans when there is a better way.

[@FelixNielsen]

@@user-yk1cw8im4h There are plenty of reasons, very good reasons in fact, to stay within the borders of your own country, when shopping, and to buy from the foreign countries that are most similar to your own, when you have to. That is to say NOT China. All I am saying is that it is perfectly understandable if people do not follow this very sensible advice, also for the reason you describe.

[@JuppeD]

Yeah its so annoying. Like basically the only reason I use it is for dropship products I want. Because most of the time they are just taken from temu and added a zero to the end

[@jaketaylor3901]

I swear my mom is a sizable percentage of their revenue. Every time i go to her house; she’s got some new clothing item from temu for like 3 cents

[@meowertwelve6262]

My mother as well

[@RUTHLESSambition5]

I order once a week😂😂😂

[@havencat9337]

you should be happy if she is happy...simple as that

[@R1IY2N]

@@havencat9337 whats the point of being happy knowing some kid was forced to make it

[@yade5979]

You mean you don't buy from h&m? Or dell? Do you even know how rare metals are dug up? I'm not saying it's a good thing or that it's ok for Temu because others do it too, but if you want to be against child labour, than be against it full stop! ​@@R1IY2N

[@TheRoseBoy11]

WE MAKIN OUTTA THE SWEATSHOP FACTORIES WITH THIS 🗣🗣🗣🔊🔊🔊

[@SpanishMoroccanGuy]

And we won’t escape it sadly

[@DiddlerMaster]

NAAHH

[@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993]

wild

[@johnxina3709]

We makin unfunny overused comments with this

[@6489Tankman]

You won't

[@yourlocalbudtend3r]

I always find it hilarious when people willingly buy cheap crap, and then complain about it.

[@Cat_DeGaulle]

Remember, Hoser is not sad, is happy, healthy, and never felt suicidal.👍

[@Gr13fM4ch1n3]

Keep him secret, keep him safe!

[@mm-qq7bb]

Bro's going to get the whistleblower treatment😬

[@-AstroLogical-]

Good to know, we can't lose him!

[@tritium1998]

Dudes who always cry about certain countries often are sad and suicidal though.

[@shutupMaji]

Hopefully h0ser never makes a video on boeing

[@michaelthayer5351]

It's the natural progression of the Chinese business model, make a cheap good, like a plastic spatula that melts the first time you use it, but someone will inevitably buy it because it's cheap and then after it inevitably breaks they go back to standard options, but the company still made money.

[@nakoma5]

And then pocket the money made and bail once the ship starts sinking, rinse and repeat.

[@alexandervillar7742]

Lol this is not the Chinese business model, this is just a business model. If you don't think American companies don't do this shit too you are sadly mistaken. The difference being that we outsource the slave labor to Bangladesh or Vietnam and put a nice brand name on it. Happens with H&M, Zara and any other clothing company you can imagine. Hell, Nestle is rated the worst company in the world in terms of employee treatment.

[@raptorhacker599]

​@@alexandervillar7742but the Bangladeshi slaves make clothes that last and are good....so not the same?

[@Jalreal]

​@@alexandervillar7742Social Credit Score increase! 🇨🇳

[@theowainwright7406]

@raptorhacker599 most of that shit is cheap trash too.

[@Ehh.....]

They Turned "Wish" into "Temu at Home".

[@appa609]

Temu at home implies Temu is the original desired product

[@olg7483]

I recommend etsy

[@bracedgod4505]

@@appa609Temu is the Wish of Wish

[@RadenWA]

Wish is just another version of Temu

[@olg7483]

@@appa609 you mean they turned temu into wish at home?

[@Brackfield]

I fail to see how Teemu is any worse than any other reseller of cheap chinese garbage like alibaba, wish, amazon, etc. It is just the latest chapter in a very long list.

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

The long-term solution to all this is to get people to _stop buying crap they don't need._ Consumerist culture is killing our planet.

[@advicepirate8673]

You're right, we shouldn't use any of them. but that means NOT trying to fill the black hole at the center of our being by accumulating worthless garbage while everyone around us does exactly the same. Good luck kids. We don't stand a chance as long as we keep living the way we do. Balls deep in the rising tide of self destruction.

[@Jalreal]

Temu has way better marketing

[@rebelroar78]

No it’s worse, and Amazon and eBay have had to lower quality to keep up with Temu.

[@victorchen9170]

Aliexpress quality > Temu.

[@sunsinger970]

Once i heard the phrase "shop like a billionaire" in an ad that didn't come served with complementary caviar all i could think was "made by child slaves"

[@rebelroar78]

Billionaires don’t shop for things, they have people shop for them. Like Bill Gates thought $10 worth of toilet paper cost $40.

[@DaLatinKnight]

Thing is I'm not going to pretend the stuff we get anywhere else isn t also made by child slaves. Just more separated from it.

[@foxyfoxfilms]

I guess it’s made by homeless people since I don’t see any on the streets

[@rcchin7897]

Billionaires don‘t buy this garbage. They buy the companies that make this garbage if people are dumb enough to fall for the ads.

[@Hegemon1984]

Temu is my go-to. I buy a bunch of cheap shit off there. Do I care about exploiting the Uygher slave labor? Fuck no. Give me my cheap shit.

[@noahboat580]

I tried warning Mom about TEMU but of course she bought a few things for me and my bro. But she knows better about it now, she truly got convinced by those low low prices

[@tritium1998]

Hopefully your prices can get higher soon like you wish.

[@noahboat580]

@@tritium1998 I don't wish anything from TEMU because I couldn't care less about the company. What an oxymoronic thing to say

[@AAants]

How did you convince her? I have been trying to convince my mom too but she doesn’t care

[@noahboat580]

@@AAants she just made a single order for us then I told her how TEMU is, how they're cheap bootlegs. She only bought me these flat fanny packs, and these tiny backpacks.

[@Ayem427]

I didn't realize how widespread this thing got, I'd just kinda ignored it once i got the ads to stop bugging me

[@dewinmoonl]

because you're "rich enough". there are people who are much more poorer, and we should get used to these things being more common you can try to ban it, it'll get around, other company will get around it'll be the norm

[@lenoxpI]

@@dewinmoonlLet’s go send all the poor people to work in the Chinese factories for like 1 cent an hour for 3 years and then when they come back see if they still feel the same about buying from unethical companies

[@Jackpkmn]

@@dewinmoonl I disagree, you have to be over a certain wealth to be able to afford to throw away and totally waste money on cheap crap you know will break down or you will only use once. Those of us who are actually seriously struggling can't afford to waste money on manufactured landfill when we can barely put food on the table.

[@dewinmoonl]

@@Jackpkmn ah i see, this makes sense. so the target audience is those who have "some, but not a lot" of disposable income

[@JuppeD]

@@Jackpkmn the stuff that temu makes is like almost the same quality as bigger brands but just way cheaper. So many people will sacrifise a little bit of quality for 90% off. Including me but I feel like clothes steps over the line a bit

[@gabrielpecson8549]

I get different ads from temu where it just plays a song with really caked up, when i say caked up, CAKED UP pictures of models wearing their products 💀

[@PrinceChaWulf]

They know what you like 😄😂😄

[@channel_lurker]

Temu makes Lidl look like Versace.

[@joshuafrimpong244]

Tbh seeing a company being very questionable isnt shocking

[@jrezecordero7943]

Especially if its chinese

[@kevinle1083]

I am just used to all companies being shady, scummy, greedy, and questionable

[@eu_bebo_oleo]

@@kevinle1083big elitist corporations *

[@eu_bebo_oleo]

big elitist corporation *

[@BiggestCorvid]

Sweatshops and slave labor aren't the same though. One set of workers can go home at the end of the day. Bangladesh is not a worker's paradise but I'd rather by clothes from there than from the place actively rounding up Uighurs to reeducate them

[@constructionproduction4965]

I bet you got a Temu ad when coming across this video or watching it

[@AbdulrahmanHassoun-mn5rl]

Damn I got one

[@jakubvrana6115]

yeah i did

[@calebkaminski6951]

Surprisingly not yet

[@purplesky135]

In India so nope lol

[@Reixuria]

i keep getting them on twitter worst thing is that i cant get rid of them unlike normal adverts (edit) i was gonna make a rant about shein on youtube ads instead and a few minutes in oh look what comes up!

[@garethfairclough8715]

I work in a bank and the majority of my customers who fell for scams or want to cancel payments (which we can't often do) had TEMU involved somehow.

[@toasty_tonsty]

It might be the fact that Temu is seriously unsafe and has many security breaches in which cards and sensitive information get exposed.

[@mabeSc]

Food production should be protected and subsidised. Look what happened to Haiti after deciding to fully remove protectionism - their farmers couldn't sell at viable prices and they went out of business. When hard times struck there was nobody that could produce food (in significant quantities) for the country, you will not always have imports, especially with changes in climate that everyone likes to talk about. Keeping food production safe is a must, just imagine how catastrophic it would be for a country of 50 million to rely on food imports and then be nearly completely cut off after a particularly dry or wet season (or a natural catastrophe).

[@jondoe5937]

I'm not saying it shouldn't be, because having access to food (not necessarily good food, mind) should be a human right not a privilege, but if a country with 50m people is unable to feed its population for whatever reason (as in completely halted commercial food production, not just people not being able to eat what they *want* to eat) then there's much more apocalyptic implications than just a bad season. Like a government collapse or violently shifting tectonic plate kind of implication. And at that point, subsidization won't help.

[@mabeSc]

@@jondoe5937 Well, I was maybe a bit too apocalyptic as I was (theoretically) applying what happened to Haiti and its consequences. Realistically, a bigger country will always produce some food... Unless they end up completely alienating/scaring/killing their farmer populations like the USSR, China and other countries did in the past.

[@jondoe5937]

@@mabeSc Fair enough. Out of curiosity, when did China do something along those lines? Forgive me that I'm not very familiar with their history except the broad strokes. I just assumed that their industrialization drew a lot of people away from agriculture to pursue more lucrative jobs.

[@mabeSc]

@@jondoe5937 "The major contributing factors in the famine were the policies of the Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962) and people's communes, launched by Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong, such as inefficient distribution of food within the nation's planned economy; requiring the use of poor agricultural techniques; the Four Pests campaign that reduced sparrow populations (which disrupted the ecosystem); over-reporting of grain production; and ordering millions of farmers to switch to iron and steel production." This is just a small part from Wikipedia, the famines in China after the CCP took over were nearly always man-made/man-caused.

[@metaparalysis3441]

@@jondoe5937 it was bad, so bad that it lead to a massive drop in the WORLD population graphs of the time period.

[@Elongated_Muskrat]

Don’t know anyone that has ordered from Temu

[@bazookaman1353]

Once a guy at school asked me to install the app so he'd get the discount (I said no btw). He wasn't in my class, I barely knew him.

[@botbat9645]

​@@bazookaman1353noo he seems very nice and broke guy

[@eduardpeeterlemming]

My mom is obsessesed by it

[@DacLMK]

I do. My aunt uses Temu, but mainly to buy cheap clothes.

[@schemar17]

Can't lie I bought some good clothes and gadgets off it

[@Zenderoks]

I remember when the thumbnail was an airplane with a red box with an arrow and the temu logo like 5 minutes ago

[@ZeroHour-sr2oq]

Exactly.

[@EquaTechnologies]

youtubers can experiment with viewers with the new feature having different thumbnails at different times and how much retention it has and the best one wins

[@RadeonVega64]

same

[@DrekiTech]

To clarify: every packages contents need to be declared, but it is rare that it is checked for accuracy. Often the content descriptions are vague if not downright incorrect, and purchase price is often lied about. Maybe the US should use some of those anti-dumping laws to tax those temu packages.

[@2yoyoyo1Unplugged]

How do companies like this just pop up out of nowhere and *DEVOUR* all competition? What dark shit do they need to do to get instant control over a whole market?

[@Just_aNobody]

actually a disgusting company

[@electron8262]

What is especially disgusting is the monster app they created by mixing all the dopamine-hacking techniques together: loot boxes, cheap consumable products, time pressure - it's like TikTok but with the added bonus of slavery and physical waste.

[@orangecitrus8056]

agreed, as a Chinese person I always laugh when people say western companies are "doing shady stuff behind the scenes". it's child's play compared to stuff we got here like Temu and Tiktok

[@abdullahal-mamun1053]

@@orangecitrus8056what’s tiktok doing?

[@Fr3nchFlag]

@@orangecitrus8056Western people don’t know how good they have it. In some countries there are no real good labor laws.

[@orangecitrus8056]

@@Fr3nchFlag for real

[@Skummy123]

Took me a while but i got my grandma off this app, She was putting herself in the negative.

[@dioniscaraus6124]

Just keep her from gambling dens

[@anthonycbudd]

Newsflash tariffs are bad for the consumer

[@imabird1566]

Remember kids, if it’s too good to be true it probably is

[@adamgadbaw7747]

So much for Trump fighting Chinese manufacturing. Thanks for this video I had no idea there was such a high threshold for getting around tariff

[@nochipsonlycrisps8639]

Dude, I remember the chinese skirting the ban by assembling 99% of a product in China and then putting a bolt or a tire or a paint stripe or a sticker in Mexico. That was genius.

[@arthemus9218]

Poor Americans, they still have to find out what Aliexpress is😂

[@sock3981]

i have made 30 euros from just the dumb football bets on aliexpress

[@hata6290]

@@sock3981football bets?

[@hata6290]

Is Ali express also slave labor?

[@matejgalfy9449]

I know right, for me as a european this temu thing looks like another version of aliexpress or wish, I didn't know this kind of business model is new to the US

[@TomyPesantes]

I mean I've been using AliExpress for years, definitely makes sense though since I used to order on Alibaba to sell stuff when I was younger

[@snackpack7636]

I love that a TEMU ad come up during the video lol

[@felixstrider]

i was thinking to myself, "shouldnt we be trying to *incentivize* bulk transport, since that's more energy efficient?" and then i remembered that when shipping companies are encouraged to transport goods in larger batches, the size of ships goes up, which leads to longer unloading times, fewer ships able to unload at a time per port, and therefore longer waits in port, higher risk when cargo is lost, less flexibility when shipping lanes are disrupted (such as in the suez canal evergreen situation) and an overall increase in global shipping time. so... we should be doing something to encourage a middle ground. efficient but flexible, high density, medium sized cargo transport.

[@doujinflip]

Efficiency and flexibility are competing interests. Short of changing technologies entirely (like switching from snail mail to email) you'd always trade low per-unit costs for versatility and vice versa, and last time I checked we haven't invented mass teleportation yet.

[@felixstrider]

@@doujinflip my conclusion is. we should standardize more things in shipping so that important things like this arent left up to the insanity of the market

[@RickBlaine]

Even worse than that! The US ports are now so old and inefficient that the largest ships don't dock in the US now. They off load in Third World countries.

[@Mr--_--M]

Proud non-Temu user here. I know I know but...no need to be jealous!

[@kevinle1083]

I don’t even use Temu or, god forbid, TikTok shop. But I don’t use TikTok anyway and never intend on using the app again

[@natemations237]

uhm🌚

[@Eseseso494]

Interesting vid, hoser! Can't wait to see which collapsing nation you talk about next!

[@hata6290]

Which nation is collapsing in this video?

[@Hash-6624]

​@@hata6290me

[@therealskull4786]

@@hata6290 most of Hoser's videos are on such topics

[@hata6290]

@@therealskull4786 THAT WASNT MY FUCKING QUESTION

[@therealskull4786]

@@hata6290 Don't care

[@asdf-ck9cc]

Not TEMU's problem but US price gouging in every single industry.

[@jabrowski_]

Always interesting takes and great editing, Hoser. Love ur channel man

[@Rolando_Cueva]

Almost all of America. They didn't do well in Brasil.

[@realkekz]

Ah yes, my favorite American state, Brazil (Don't even start, I know America means different things to Latins than it does to Anglos)

[@eu_bebo_oleo]

@@realkekzUseless comment, failed attempt to be funny

[@Wylik_xD]

of course, we have shopee

[@olg7483]

Arent you guys ruled by a socialist dictator?

[@Drunkieman]

@@Wylik_xD and when we didn't have cheap chinese apps, we had CIudad del Este and 25 de março (viva o descaminho!)

[@speisman3731]

I feel like blackrock [removed by user]

[@kevinle1083]

America has become a corpocratic oligarchy.

[@tony_5156]

Based

[@kiwenmanisuno]

Blackrock and Temu fighting over who can own more child slaves:

[@V0LTCF]

Learned a lot from this video, easy to understand format!

[@MotoMoto-ld9gi]

Thanks for talking about this

[@Azf12]

My mom is currently obsessed with Temu, I saw right through the marketing but my mom loves to buy, "Cheap stuff that she'll use a few times and throw away".

[@hata6290]

There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s called entertainment, people spend money on it all the time

[@anonymousfish2456]

@@hata6290 this is much different than entertainment, it's being wasteful as a society. Doing basic tasks beyond entertainment should be done with stuff that won't break in 3 weeks.

[@hata6290]

@@anonymousfish2456 that is based off of utility, not enjoyment

[@RickBlaine]

I remember when "Shop till you drop" was a badge of honour. That was until the West shopped itself into bankruptcy!

[@iamnothale]

@@hata6290 Nerd.

[@Blaze_ooz]

I got a Temu ad..

[@Gr13fM4ch1n3]

Please get adblockers 😢

[@sm1purplmurderedme583]

SHOP LIKE A BILLIONARE

[@fantvwy5650]

"Evil",the funniest way for an American to call a company

[@brendanwiley253]

Ok is this a new thing with KZbin where they play an ad every time I pause and unpause or does this video just have an ad every 20 seconds

[@memyselfandi9117]

What if the deminimus threshold was dropped for shipping to individuals but kept for corporations. This would ensure that American companies could easily import goods while consumers would have to go through said American companies.

[@Croz89]

The problem there is it creates an incentive for rent seeking. You can imagine some corporation just reselling goods from China and tacking on their own markup.

[@appa609]

This move seems highly impactical. It's easy to legislate a lower threshold but where did you obtain the extra inspection capacity to audit an extra 100 million packages per year?

[@HeisenbergFam]

Nothing more inspiring than hearing "new Chinese e-commerce company thats taken over the world"

[@SpanishMoroccanGuy]

He’s back

[@Phantomx.]

America is not the world

[@hata6290]

@@thevirtuaIscienceplease shut up 🤗

[@zhlvk]

@@hata6290ok I’ve seen you reply across a bunch of comments, there is NO WAY your not a chinese bot 💀.

[@hata6290]

@@zhlvk apparently actively engaging in a community is robot behavoir. Please take a shower 🙏

[@thomasgolds4585]

There’s so many people talking about temu right now. Wasn’t keen on watching this until I realized it was your channel!

[@OceanTrader]

Thanks for making this video

[@captainMony]

Its sad how big of a dystopia there is on this world. Imagine an entire county of people being mere robots

[@shorewall]

That's why our elites love China and want to be more like them.

[@thesovietshark8945]

brother, if you believe that, then maybe you’re the one living in a dystopia. I have family in China, and I can assure you they’re not ‘mere robots’ oh yeah, if you’re asserting that everyone in China is forced into slave labour or smth, or not allowed to leave, that’s clearly not true either…or that they’re indoctrinated. Honestly, at least go to China before you start making ridiculous claims

[@kevinle1083]

“Buy. Consume. Submit. Obey.” “You will buy and consume without question or doubt. Refusal will result in being charged with anti-corporatism.” -from your average megacorp and graciously sponsored by the WEF

[@olg7483]

​@@kevinle1083 RIP the United States

[@RickBlaine]

Sad isn't it? But then you need that to elect people like 10% Joe.

[@mangogo44]

Amazon took me 6 weeks, while Aliexpress is 10 days 😂

[@adud5475]

have you ever ordered from Alibaba? if so then how long did it take?

[@subparnaturedocumentary]

what? i've ordered shit on amazon literally in the morning and had it on my doorstep later that day no cap

[@adud5475]

@@subparnaturedocumentary depends on the location ig

[@eulyer3722]

​@@adud5475mate Alibaba is the parent company of AliExpress that sells in bulks..

[@blindsniper35]

​@@adud5475The short answer to that is it depends on the seller. The shortest I've ever seen is overnight. The longest I've ever seen as months if you're getting something contract manufactured. What I can remember that is somewhat helpful is generally the shipping time estimates are reasonably accurate.

[@19382q]

Just placed an order love it

[@Photonetheous]

A great video, well done.

[@ArcherdaNerd]

I got an ad for Temu

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

Please get an adblock, or ReVanced

[@suzyocean7392]

Make it Temu's fault Americans won't stop buying cheaply produced garbage

[@overseeker4b596]

I love your videos, keep making these absolute bangers

[@lucashfaria98]

I live in Brazil, which was mentioned in the video as a "positive example" of not having a minimum threshold for imports. This is actually a new rule, starting this year. Before that, importation was booming, and resellers like AliExpress, Shein, and Shopee were hugely popular. People would buy computer parts, clothing, toys, utensils, you name it, all at a reasonable price. Now, there's an import tax that can range from 20% to A WHOOPING 92% depending on the price of the good. The result? Consumption has diminished, as people don't want to (or simply can't) spend $1000 on a product from a local retailer that they were used to buy for $100 online. People that are buying cheap products are buying them PRECISELY because they're cheap, and will not "switch back" to an expensive alternative out of "patriotism" or anything like that. Hell, many people couldn't even buy these stuff before the Chinese resellers showed up... For some, it's better to buy a low quality knockoff than to buy nothing at all.

[@donairsauce2496]

i used to work on call at the post office and was covering a route for 2 months and the first week my van was full of orange packages but it only lasted about 3 weeks and i rarely saw them after that

[@mauvaras803]

What a nice video, duuude. Greetings from Mexico.

[@Aremisalive]

I've never seen an ad for this thing

[@kaif6474]

Your getting something wrong here .... its not all to cheap, its just the US beeing INCREDEBLY expensive. best regards from germany.

[@Grimbooooo]

Original title was the fastest growing American company isnt america

[@onepromaster69yt82]

Thx king👑

[@thesovietshark8945]

wth, do you know what made him change it?

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

​@@thesovietshark8945 Probably because the initial title sounded too much like an ad. h0ser has been called out before for going too easy on inimical Chinese brands.

[@thesovietshark8945]

@@JohnGardnerAlhadis i personally believe that having a more sensationalist title most likely would bring him more views + interaction, but i can see your point. KZbin is heavily anti-china nowadays, and capitalizing on that is bound to get you good views

[@c3realz685]

When i watched this i got an ad about temu 💀

[@tanydossie4076]

I just got a Temu ad during this 😂😂😂😂😂

[@owenfarmer1588]

i never understood why people would actually buy something from temu. there’s no way any quality product could be sold for the prices on temu.

[@BrotherWitch]

Several reasons. 1) Finding something that I kinda want to buy, but not at regular price. Either wanting it just out of curiosity or novelty. For less than $5? Sure, get a dopamine release for cheap and the possibility of a neat item. Oh, **PLEASE TREAT TEMU LIKE GAMBLING AND DON'T SPEND WHAT YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE.** 2) Buying a 1 time use item, or something that you aren't sure will work. But will be used in a way that you can't return it if it wasn't the fix you needed. 3) Some things are just overpriced no matter what. Ring size guide? TEMU. Box of various sized rubber washers so I can find the correct size to order a quality replacement part of a torn washer that I can't size correctly? TEMU. Want to practice with some cheap braising rods before buying quality ones? TEMU. Want some trademarked items without having to pay the upcharge for companies that legally make officially licensed merch? TEMU Got cats? TEMU. Seriously though, I am 100% a fanboy of their cat toys. I have 4+ cats (My 4 and my elderly parents cat that I'm responsible for care, but I don't pay for his food.), and damn I love TEMU's cat toys. All of them. Every single one. Even made a couple YT shorts about them. Fuck I'm high I'll stop typing now have a good day.

[@roro4787]

It's amazing ❤❤. I love Temu

[@victorchen9170]

It's pretty good for small, random items. Screwdrivers, those bathroom sink strainers, various random kitchen shit. Also I like getting phone cases since they are dirt cheap, and practically the same you'd find on Amazon or Etsy.

[@JuppeD]

Its good for some small easy to produce stuff. Usually then you get about the same quality but like ten times cheaper. I dont really get any electric stuff other than maybe leds and or clothes

[@TuriGamer]

I didnt even know about all this casino stuff I would be genuinely embarrassed to use this app 💀 As if knowing that all the products are sweatshop garbage that breaks in 2 months wasnt enough I guess

[@hata6290]

Found the Amazon lover

[@TuriGamer]

@@hata6290 found the toyota corolla

[@LiberTeaBag]

There may be some gems in Temu who knows

[@Jungletraveler00_12]

Exactly, people buy this stuff thinking they will save money when in fact they end up spending more. They end up buying the more expensive item that they should have bought in the first place!

[@Jungletraveler00_12]

@@LiberTeaBag And on Wish too, lol. No chance in hell!

[@alexandrebalseiro9688]

I just got a Temu add while watching your video 😭😭

[@lucasroach7835]

Ur vid got more recommended to me than the site itself, never heard of it

[@degreeskelvin3025]

Flew to Canada for like 2 weeks and just kept getting Temu ads when i was there.

[@AironSmieciowy-di3qy]

Great video!

[@cherrypoptart2001]

I recently used it. Ngl i was on the edge at first but pretty impressed how quickly my package reached. Almost no visible damages or scratches to my box

[@isoboy2125]

I know people around me who enjoy shopping on Temu and seem to get pretty good products, but the mini games on their app is just not my cup of tea. 😅

[@lakshmivallabh6936]

I got a Temu ad...

[@RomanTheNotARoman]

This KZbin documentary is singlehandedly the best TEMU ad I've ever seen. Honestly I've been avoiding TEMU implicitly out of it's memeworthiness and suspiciously cheap prices.

[@BrotherWitch]

Use it for cat toys and NOTHING ELSE. Cat toys are ridiculously expensive no matter where you go. The stuff on TEMU is the same junk and hella cheap. I have 4+ cats that tear up toys fast. The pop-up things (tunnels and those square hidey hole things) are the same as the ones I bought on Amazon. The little tossable toys like jingle balls and catnip toys are the same as the PetSmart ones. And they have these fishing rod things that are legit at about $3. Everything else is dollar store or accidents.

[@NyanyiC]

​@@BrotherWitchhave you tried making your own toys or recycling something you already have at home. You will be surprised what can keep a cat occupied

[@Jalreal]

Slave labor helps

[@toasty_tonsty]

​​@@BrotherWitchi wouldnt use temu for cat toys due to the dangerous chemicals and substances used in them. Temu has no problem putting lead in your cat toy if its for cheaper manufacturing, I say its better safe than sorry and DIY

[@Hertz2pp]

"A company like Toys R-" 😂😂😂

[@Tinil0]

I have never seen an ad for Temu to be honest. But then again, I use ad blocker, I dont see ads for anything.

[@amandarecoveryjones8216]

I've been waiting for someone to break this down on KZbin. Thank you. I've never purchased from Wish, Temu, Shein, Fashion Nova, etc. I stopped using Amazon and slowing trying to exit Walmart....

[@Tbar14]

... and my data

[@miamimutilator]

Don't worry, Google, and CIA does the same shit 😊

[@Tbar14]

@@miamimutilator the American government would NEVER do that, right? 🦅🦅🦅🔥🔥🔥🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@hata6290]

Cry

[@1mol831]

What data? I leave little gifts in my data that makes the collectors do extra effort to use it.

[@MartNM]

​@vdinoalpha9412 eh atleast its my own government instead of a competitive enemy country's government 🤷‍♂️

[@mangogo44]

In my country you have to declare internet purchases above 65$ 😢 And the tax you pay is around 30%. BUT if it's from China no one actually checks it 😂

[@qweqwe9678]

what country is that, so that I can stay away

[@cagatayduru3545]

Really fun to watch hoser and a little fix for your video info Türkiye usually enforce eu trade law we have also 150€ threshold

[@hulkfighter7371]

I have literally never heard of someone actually buying something on temu

[@rinnero307]

This is a really well researched video; you’ve got a knack for explaining economics, trade, and geopolitics in the same breath. I’ve known Temu was sketchy but it’s nice to have all the details come together

[@deletedarchive6923]

It’s always a good day when hoser uploads 🎉

[@HOLLOWMOONLIGHT]

yes

[@Kaaxe]

the site seemed to require me to make an account and it constantly bugged out refusing to show me the actual page of the product, it would be blank. Just too many bizarre red flags for me

[@capslocked7274]

another banger of a video

[@niamhleeson3522]

I bought a shopping trolley from them bc I'm broke and I refuse to buy another car just to get groceries.

[@BrotherWitch]

Wait, like the same kind that you push around a store? Or the collapsible ones that look more like a hand truck/dolly? Is it any good? f-people, I love TEMU! 😁

[@niamhleeson3522]

@@BrotherWitch It's good enough for me. It could be constructed with more durable materials, but it doesn't hold that much food, about $40-50 worth, so it's durable enough. You drag it around behind you and it comes with a removable inner bag. The bag has a pouch for your phone and wallet and it has a flap to cover the load of groceries. I'm 6'4" and it has 2 handles of different lengths, so you can use the handle that's more comfortable for your height. If you look up "shopping trolley" you should be able to find something similar. It was $40, and an electric cargo bike, which would be the next step up for grocery-getting, would be at least $1200.

[@LBlendYT]

I like how he keeps mentioning the long shipping periods, meanwhile they are able to ship my package faster from China and across the globe than it takes to ship the package from my local post office and to my house 1 km away. Seems like the US has been spoiled by Amazon and their 1-day delivery service

[@theairaccumulator7144]

Here it takes 1-2 weeks to ship something from a warehouse 40km awau

[@shorewall]

US Post Office is legendarily bad.

[@Fr3nchFlag]

Americans are spoiled on nearly everything. If they had to live in a developing country they would cry every day.

[@wizz1358]

Postal service is awfully underfunded. They are the worst alternative on big cities because you have FedEx and amazon there, but usually the only option in the middle of nowhere. And those big cities would be money maker that would finance the postal office in the middle of nowhere, instead, the postal office in the big city makes no money and the one on the middle of no where bleeds money because of the low usage

[@Tuxfanturnip]

​@@wizz1358the politicians who whine endlessly about government spending *hate* that the USPS is efficient enough to be profitable and not give them an excuse to sell it for scraps and a few choice consultant positions at FedEx.

[@evanhalverson993]

Wild video!

[@fenrirgg]

The thing that surprised me more is that amazon is still more used in USA than anywhere else. In my country amazon is a more expensive temu, it's barely used.

[@spirosmexias950]

Meanwhile KZbin algorithm making me watch a temu ad before the vid thinking is the best move of it life

[@vortexrayds6356]

i learned about temu from a kid in my class asking me to download it for a discount thing

[@PD-vs7vf]

Instant like! Cause everything you said and more.

[@iziksanders3660]

As soon as i tap on the vid ofc youtube hit me with the temu's "shop like a billionaireee"