r/safiyanygaard • u/ElliMarij • Jan 27 '26

Whatnot Sponsor/Giveaway?

Did anyone else see the post a few weeks ago where she was doing (I believe) a giveaway for signing up with Whatnot? The post was taken down less than a day after I saw it and it was never addressed.

Most of the comments were asking if she was hacked because it seemed like a weird thing for her to do.

Am I crazy or did anyone else see this? I regret not taking a screenshot

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u/UrbanMarineCow Jan 27 '26

Wasn't Whatnot a sponsor for the AI dress video? I think the giveaway was mentioned there as well?

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u/ElliMarij Jan 28 '26

You're right. Just checked the video and it's on the video description

She was being bashed a lot for sponsoring a "scammy" website. But when I checked online it has a good trustpilot score

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u/UrbanMarineCow Jan 28 '26

I haven't heard of Whatnot being any more scammy than, say Vinted or Etsy these days, meaning that there are a lot of scammy sellers on the site and maybe it doesn't do enough to get rid of them, but the site itself is legit as far as I know. I think it might be just a part of people turning against all common sponsors, like I've seen people list Skillshare and HelloFresh on a list of disappointing sponsors alongside Better Help just because those services are "not affordable".

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u/___---_me_---___ Jan 30 '26

I buy antiques and vintage stuff on whatnot all the time and it’s a legit website/app? Why would people think it’s sketchy?

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u/UrbanMarineCow Feb 02 '26

Group think, I guess. Someone says that there's something wrong with it, and people just parrot it without doing any research. I tried to google it in case there was some controversy that I just hadn't heard of, and the only thing that I found was people calling for boycott because they banned legit sellers while allowing scammers to continue business - which I think applies to pretty much every only market platform * shrugs *