Dupes for Millennials

A recent BuzzFeed news article on internet culture by writer Steffi Kao that C A O blame it on inflation declining prod production quality or a new wave of cash poor teenagers who have more exposure to aspirational lifestyle trends than ever. Dupe culture is a thing and she also notes that the appeal of product dupes which is basically finding a substitute for more expensive version of an item is an opportunity to game the system. The idea that it moves from prestige and wealth to you boring plebeians down there. You poor person is what they're trying to say. But yeah and I'm so excited because Zach has been obsessing about something that I definitely learned from TikTok right?