How Temu Is Making Us Slaves to Sensory Overload

[@anantsharma7955]

No way I discovered your channel yesterday and have been going through all your videos today and you just uploaded a new one! Just wanted to say I really appreciate your perspective on things!! And I think you’re able to put your thoughts across in a really nice way that makes me go “Aha! YEAH!” :)

[@zerozerozero333]

I kinda have a distaste for technology nowadays, I yearn for the simpler times. And tech has corrupted just about all facets of life not just communication and entertainment.

[@maxd1744]

Something interesting I read by a random person related to this: "Harmonising with technology means thriving biologically with the assistance of technology to create emotional + energetic stability. It does not mean returning to the forest (fight / flee), and it does not mean trans-humanism (fawn / self-abandon)."

[@vincenzolatino4675]

Amazing video! I've been taking distances from algorithmic feeds lately so I'm glad to have found this channel. Keep it up!

[@INVAZOR33]

Prices on temu are low because temu bullies Chinese sellers to sell at a lost, to give refunds for any reason and to forget about profitability. Temu is just a more budgeted, savage version of Amazon since human rights in China are optional.

[@monster7944]

Great analysis, liked and subscribed! Looking forward to new content!

[@alexandravn5292]

thank u so much for posting, loved the video***

[@austinskeffington3248]

Very well put, love this analysis

[@shirleymari8518]

I had the opportunity to read Jane Roberts (I highly recommend it to everyone), and i think that the main belief behind extreme consumers it's that we think that we only exist when the other person validates our existence and in that sence we are acting instead of being. If i had a dream that anyone else could see, does that mean that my dream doesn't exist? If we mix that idea, with the other idea of needing to justify our existence, we get the perfect formula to create people who instead of questioning, work, and instead of being, buy. Im currently studying economy, and i want to write two articles regarding this topic. I would like to ask if you have any other authors or bibliographies that you could recommend me to approach this topic? Also, thank you for sharing your mind :)

[@TheFamousMockingbird]

It is not Temu, this has been accomplished far far far before temu was founded

[@Dave_Parrott]

So, one thing I wonder about this topic is how human choices fit in to this. It felt like you were talking about this as an unavoidable necessity or trap - like people have been forced into it by dark forces beyond themselves - but I don't think that's true. Using myself as an example, I refuse to watch advertising because I don't hate myself, so this is the first I'm hearing about Temu. I have bought 1 thing on Amazon in the past many years, and only because it was something that was sold exclusively through Amazon (I'm still bitter). 50-odd million people in the USA "use" Temu "monthly" (likely meaning they go to the site once/month, not necessarily buy anything) as per your provided stat, but that's like 1 in 7 people. Sure, that's not nobody, but it IS a minority. And seeing the -ahem- quality of the products sold as depicted in your b-roll, I can't imagine too many people buy more than a few things before giving up. Seeing as how the graph had flattened out and has started to slowly decline, I'd guess that many people do use it only temporarily, and their user base is slowly rolling through the population. Selling obvious garbage, even for cheap, is not a long-term business model; they'll burn out eventually. Secondly, I think perhaps part of your perception of this problem comes from the advertising itself. It seems like a non-problem to me. The percentage of the population that would genuinely equate a phrase like "shop like a billionaire" and using this embarrassing service must be small. I think your b-roll of people reviewing junk they bought from Temu refutes your point. These people are under no illusions that they have acquired something worth having. They were not fooled, but they still clearly understand value and know when they're being fleeced. While some of the sale-closing methods you described Temu using are well-documented as extremely effective, reality will ALWAYS push through. Again I cite your own Temu product b-roll for this point. Almost nobody is being fooled into thinking they got a genuinely great deal and that taking the "BUY NOW, QUICK" option was worth it. Some people might fall for it a few times, we all learn at different paces, but cold, hard reality never loses - or at least has yet to. People can wilfully choose to ignore it, but it's right there in the real box that really got shipped. To be fair, the delay between advertising's foolish attempts to supersede reality and the arrival of that reality make it a bit psychologically tougher to properly relate the two, but it takes an immense amount of willpower to ignore the reality of that connection after so many experiences. Now, the "gamblification" of the experience would be psychologically manipulative. I assume that every now and then, a somewhat satisfactory product arrives that one may feel was a good deal, and the effect of SOMETIMES WINNING is a powerful incentive to try more. But, again, people have to make the conscious CHOICE to decide for themselves if they value the feeling of occasionally not getting ripped off MORE than they value their hard-earned money and environment (that's a lot of plastic garbage). I agree strongly with you that that is an IMMENSELY foolish choice for people to make, but it is still theirs to make. Other than attempting to convince people to live better by making videos like this and talking with the people in our lives (I'm going to start asking people I know about Temu, now that I know about it) there's nothing to be done about it other than crush human free will and make them live how you want. But considering how power tends to concentrate, I wouldn't choose that option, as anyone given sufficient power to prevent this kind of behaviour would likely choose to become the next Temu themselves, or something worse.

[@MaIarky]

I recommend Fredrick Nietzsche and his ideal, the Uebermensch. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the quote "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?" explains how people associate meaning with a medium, in this example he uses god, and the decline in religion, how people must confront that loss. He advocates for people to re-evaluate their purpose and find their own meaning in life and how allowing something to define meaning can unintentionally marre your perception of free will.

[@bismanjitsingh1975]

man she is so cool

[@richardcrook2112]

Lol I was just thinking that.

[@hurstilthymy4943]

She's just another roastie

[@richardcrook2112]

@@hurstilthymy4943 Haha

[@turtleanton6539]

Indeed.😊

[@aiko4812]

I love this deep dive!! Do you have a compilation of your sources? All of these sound very interesting and I'd love to read about it further

[@klaraholkjr6923]

Theres literally a temu ad under this video for me hahah

[@noonespecial1178]

Temu is slavery en masse

[@GRY890]

Lol more like companies asking 3+ year of work experience motherfucker

[@jamesmiceli4985]

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[@yingyuche9466]

Also, it is one of the most toxic companies who makes their employees work over 70 hours per week.

[@MatrixMaster777]

Your eyes tell the full story, stay strong^^

[@leadedyogurt]

Capitalisms =/= Consumerism. Capitalism is simply a way of conveying value and managing scarcity. The only reason why we created this consumerist hellhole is because we all let ourselves be reduced to a bunch of mindless drones and gave up our values in favor of cheap shit. It's not the fault of some economic system that something like temu could become so popular, but our fault. To blame it on Capitalism is to say that you and everyone around has no free will or agency. Our economic system is just reflecting the lack of value the west gained after becoming the decadent master of the world.

[@bluuyo]

I think the issue is neo liberalism which capitalism plays a role in

[@RM-xr8lq]

@@bluuyo that person doesn't seem to understand capitalism very well

[@jasnesciemnienie9107]

I don't quite understand this video. If people want to buy things on Temu, then who are we to prevent them from it? There's no objective meaning of life that we should impose on others, it's straight road to total disaster

[@portugeese_man_o_war]

I don't quite understand this comment. If she wants to critique temu, then who are we to prevent her from it? There's no objective meaning of life that we should impose on others, it's straight a road to total disaster

[@jasnesciemnienie9107]

@@portugeese_man_o_war But I don't want to prevent her from criticizing Temu. On the other hand she probably wants to prohibit Temu (that's how I've understood the video anway), so your analogy is invalid

[@Betweoxwitegan]

​​@@jasnesciemnienie9107We have to define the term "want" which is actually quite difficult, imagine a neurochip that artificially induces "want" to serve: corporate, state and/or social interest... Would we say that the person wanted to purchase an item derived from the externality of a neurochips chemical inputs or we would say that they were coerced into desire? We can critique the structural frameworks that fuel artificiality but ultimately critiquing an individual's disproportionate effects is fruitless, we must not critique Temu itself but the structural framework that allows such a tool to thrive.

[@jasnesciemnienie9107]

@@Betweoxwitegan Temu isn't really a chip or like a chip, so your analogy is invalid too. It's not like someone forces people to be on this site, it's their own choice. I accept that plausibly Temu is addictive, but there are a lot of addictive things that we don't prohibit. Smoking is probably even more addictive, but it would be nonsense to say that it's a chip and should be prohibited. Hence Temu shouldn't be prohibited even more so Structural framework? Sorry, but isn't it just a case that people like Temu and that's why it is so successful? What would structural change of framework do, if it would still be the case that people have preferences to use Temu? Not much I think

[@Betweoxwitegan]

@@jasnesciemnienie9107 1. Addiction (a chemical process in the brain and nervous system) is precisely like a neurochip artificially altering one's hormone & endorphin levels to induce a desired outcome. 2. The structural framework in Temu's case would be one that allows for unnecessary and socially negative mass consumption on the backbone of labour exploitation, this is not inherently a critique of capitalism but rather a critique of current capitalism and its effects. A structural change that Temu could enact quite easily would be to eradicate modern slavery and child labour from its supply chain, or course it won't do that unless forced to as it's not profitable.

[@MrPorkchop7200]

Temu playing themselves, playing an ad before the video lol