Massive fashion hauls aren’t new, but they’ve been blowing up recently because of the juggernaut rise of TikTok, a video-sharing, social networking service, owned by Chinese company ByteDance.

In this video, YouTuber Lily from the Imperfect Realist channel discusses the motivation behind these hauls, the vicious consumption cycle they create, and the common arguments people give to defend this unsustainable practice.

View the original video here.

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