The Great Thrift Heist: How Influencers Turned Goodwill Into a Content Farm and Priced Out Everyone Who Actually Needed It
Thrift stores were never glamorous — that was kind of the point. Then content creators discovered the aesthetic potential of a $3 blazer, started filming haul videos in Goodwill parking lots, and somehow turned a poverty survival strategy into a trend that's now too expensive for the people who invented it.