Wayfair's Creepy Cabinet Names and the Human Trafficking Conspiracy

• 0:50Wayfair was just an overpriced Boston-based online retailer when Tim left the desert in 2020.
• 1:04Tim discovered halfway through his drive that Wayfair was selling overpriced cabinets named after human trafficking victims, with 72,000 tweets about it.
• 1:24Wayfair claims the cabinets are industrial storage, priced at $13,000-$15,000, not placeholders for missing children.
• 1:46Cabinet names like 'Samaya' and 'Uresa' match the names of missing girls, which is creepy.
• 2:07The high prices and placeholder theory: the cabinets function like name-keychains, building a database of names for direct marketing.
• 2:32Wayfair does the same thing with pillows sold for $10,000 next to the names of missing people.
• 2:49Serial numbers from the ads supposedly pull up inappropriate images on Yandex, the Russian search engine.
• 3:00Tim notes that any random numbers plugged into Yandex apparently lead to pictures of children, undermining the conspiracy claim.
• 3:33You can't take a summer drive without falling into a human trafficking conspiracy rabbit hole.
• 4:33The cabinets are being removed from Wayfair's store, confirming something suspicious was happening.

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