Child trafficking on common websites

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

25 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

 

   Duh. Of course no one really purchased it. People who would actually pay $10000 for a pillow aren't going to buy it on Amazon.

I better do a CamelCamelCamel price alert, never know when it might be $1000 bucks off!

[laylalex 7,300]

I'm just waiting for pillow ads to start filling up my page...... I mean, if I'm getting sperm donor ads (still unknown why those showed up), surely all this pillow talk will trigger pillows.

 

Actually I've now typed pillow so many times I think it might be like Candyman and a pillow full of bees may appear in my living room.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,386]

3 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

Since when is an article required to discuss something?

didnt we just go thru this point a week or so ago ?

 

PS to all. Out of Rep points . I need to tighten up on my rep point slinging 

[laylalex 7,300]

5 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

PS to all. Out of Rep points . I need to tighten up on my rep point slinging 

Happened to me over the past couple of days. I hadn't noticed I was being so free and easy!

 

And yes, we did go over it the other week.

[Ban Hammer 13,716]

47 minutes ago, laylalex said:

I'm just waiting for pillow ads to start filling up my page...... I mean, if I'm getting sperm donor ads (still unknown why those showed up), surely all this pillow talk will trigger pillows.

 

 

only the pile driver knows why.......

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,386]

I have been seeing wayfair this and that on social media. Did not know why. Wow

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

For those of you who can see ads, I'm just going to use the word "fart".. if you get an ad for bottled pillow farts, let me know.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,386]

evidently the whipped cream chargers I keep seeing are filled with Nitrous Oxide, and people are ordering bazillions of them 

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

15 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

evidently the whipped cream chargers I keep seeing are filled with Nitrous Oxide, and people are ordering bazillions of them 

It's a necessity. When she's on round 3 of whipped cream and still demands more, that's when you get out the nitrous. 

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

2 hours ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

evidently the whipped cream chargers I keep seeing are filled with Nitrous Oxide, and people are ordering bazillions of them 

Whippits, I think we called them in the 80s.

[laylalex 7,300]

3 hours ago, Ban Hammer said:

only the pile driver knows why.......

Proof!

 

Poor Al.  He doesn't know what VJ has planned for us.

[Ban Hammer 13,716]

tell alex to get to donating......

[90DayFinancier 910]

How an Arizona couple helped fuel the Wayfair sex trafficking theory

https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/life/2020/07/15/wayfair-human-trafficking-conspiracy-arizona-couple-spread-instagram-rumors/5429146002/

 

Last weekend, an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that online furnishings retailer Wayfair is trafficking children through listings of products with inflated prices and human names erupted on social media.

An Arizona couple helped fuel the rumor by posting on Instagram that they had purchased a $17,000 desk from Wayfair and would share their experience with their followers.

The theory that pillows and cabinets being sold at https://www.wayfair.com for thousands of dollars is somehow evidence of a child trafficking scheme has been debunked by independent fact-checking publication Snopes as well as Reuters and the Poynter Institute's PolitiFact. It gained traction through a July 9 Reddit post on a forum dedicated to discussing conspiracy theories, Snopes notes.

Maddie and Justin Thompson, of Gilbert, are not convinced.

"There is not one person in this world who can tell me this is not true right now," Maddie Thompson said in a 40-minute livestreamed Instagram video on July 10. "This cannot be stated as false until it is proven false."

The video appears to have been taken down on July 14. Instagram has not answered a request for comment.

 

Who are Maddie and Justin Thompson?

Maddie Thompson, a self-described "microblading artist, creator, entrepreneur and social media maven" on her website, is the founder of a beauty products company called Madluvv. As of July 16, this information had been removed from her website.

She is among at least a dozen Phoenix-area social media influencers who shared — whether with disbelief or conviction — the conspiracy theory to hundreds of thousands of followers. Social media celebrities such as reality TV star Savannah Faith Chrisley, model Amber Lancaster and singer Maisy Stella have also posted Instagram stories about the topic on their verified accounts.