Social media has made different products and trends go viral left and right. These products generate such high demand that duplicates of these products become just as popular. Take this year’s Labubu trend for example.
“The real one looks a lot better than the fake Labubu,” sophomore Dominic Morgan said. “The real one is better quality. I was trying to find real ones and then I saw some on Walmart.com, so I bought one. I knew it was going to be fake, so I bought it for fun.”
A dupe is a product that closely resembles another while being cheaper than the original, however, the quality of dupes vary from product to product.
“I bought the off-brand Drunk Elephant moisturizer,” freshman Abby Fister said. “I don’t know anything different about the actual lotion, just the packaging.”
TikTok is the biggest culprit for inspiring these mass shopping trends of oddly popular products.
“I saw the Dubai chocolate bar on TikTok, and then I decided to buy it because it looks so good,” junior Gracie Bitter said. “I found one at the gas station for $20 and then I made one at home. The one that I bought was too filled with pistachio and it just wasn’t as good.”
