It’s easy to fall victim to an online shopping purchase that doesn’t quite measure up to what you’d hoped. We’ve all been there — clothing where the fabric doesn’t look quite as expensive as it did on the website, decor that’s drastically smaller than you thought it would be (the price did seem too good to be true in retrospect), but some online shopping stories really do take the cake, so to speak.
So is the tale of TikTok user Neta Murphy @froginahatgirl, whose video of a “croissant lamp” from online marketplace Temu has been viewed nearly 9 million times by now. We get it — food-shaped lamps are cute. There’s something nostalgic about them (well if you’re a similar age to me, anyway). They’re total 00s-core decor, dorm-room chic, and, dare-we-say, a little bit Brat. There’s something about how super-realistic that makes them kitsch, but in a modern art sort of way.
