Scotiacon 2026 Review

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Scotiacon this year was a bit of a blur! Unlike last year where I attended ALL THE PANELS this time I found myself barely climbing out of fursuit. Which stands to reason with it being my first time fursuiting at Scotiacon. Was quite special, having Kiki return to her home of Scotland. I arrived on the Thursday, which I always recommend, even if you don't end up doing much. It just makes for more relaxed time for travel and then lets you start early on Friday.
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The Hellscape of TikTok Shop

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This decade has seen the consumption of tat reach new and terrifying heights with the advent of TikTok Shop. An unnatural offspring of drop-shipping and wannabe social media influencers peddling such. Yet it's still more useable than YouTube is with it's un-skippable ads. Everything runs extremely smoothly on TikTok, which is less frustrating but certainly more toxic!
Basically, TikTok Shop allows online retailers to funnel their products directly into brains of an unsuspecting audience, who can then buy and manage their orders directly in the TikTok app. It works  seamlessly for the drop-shippers who are directly connected to Alibaba and the likes. Meanwhile you have companies trying to make the next meme product "viral" to take on Dubai Chocolate 🍫.

All of this is done on the backs of people desperate to become "influencers". They peddle your tat for you for a tiny cut of sales, with banners in their videos to buy on TikTok shop whilst they poorly explain and use "satisfying" visuals like goo coming out of food (still don't know why people found that appealing). There's been a few success stories, the jelly filled sweets that are imported from a mystery country and of course ✨Tung Tung Tung Sahur✨ AI generated "brain rot" toys which are currently the most popular thing with kids.

After seeing the latest product they're attempting to make viral I just had to share some of the most insane tat I've observed on TikTok. (Please don't buy any of this trash 🫠).

1 - A Literal Jar of Goo with Wet Gummy Sweets in



2 - Phil Mitchell Car AirFreshener



3 - Baked Beans Hat



4 - Ai Generated Charlie Kirk Cushion (Modelled by Ai Generated Woman)



5 - Chicken Egg Butt Lamp


6 - Squishy Salted Butter Toy (Can't Believe It's Not Real Butter!)


7 - "Oldi" Aldi Socks


8 - 40 Bottles of Kirkland Water for £50 (Normally about £4 from Costco)



9 - Some Kind of Neck Machine With Hands


10 - Epoxy Chicken Nugget Keychain


And many many other insane pieces of tat that I am shocked Ashen's hasn't reviewed yet!

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