Wayfair, a US-based furniture retailer, has been accused of child trafficking through a conspiracy theory that claims it is selling expensive items under the guise of selling home goods. The theory, which first appeared on Twitter in June, has become a global trend since then. Wayfair has denied being connected to a sex trafficking ring and has a lasting footprint online.
The Wayfair human trafficking conspiracy theory is based on circumstantial evidence, unrelated observations, and a misunderstanding of how Wayfair works. The theory has gone viral, damaging the reputations of real children. A real victim of sex trafficking was found in a hospital emergency room in the Florida Panhandle two months after Wayfair’s trending Twitter post.
The Wayfair human trafficking conspiracy theory has been spreading across social media since the summer of 2020. It claims that Wayfair’s expensive cabinets are actually a cover for a child trafficking ring. Self-proclaimed internet sleuths are matching up the names of Wayfair’s products to those of missing children as part of a baseless conspiracy theory that claims the retail giant is using storage cabinets.
The baseless conspiracy theory took off after an anonymous user posed a bizarre question in an internet chatroom: What if retail giant Wayfair is using pricey furniture? The company has denied being connected to a sex trafficking ring and has defended its actions. The Wayfair conspiracy theory has gained traction across social media platforms and has been fueled by misinformation.
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I work for Estes, a trucking company that works with Wayfair a lot. Let me tell you, if this was true, none of those kids would make it to the destination alive. Our trucks aren’t climate controlled and they would either freeze to death or die of heat stroke en route. Seems like a bad business model to me
I know it’s a year late, but as someone who did experience child trafficking, I can tell you that the majority of it happens through people you know, not kidnappers, at least in developed countries. It’s a lot more common to blackmail or manipulate children into the trade than kidnap them, because a) that’s suspicious and b) manipulation will create shame and fear around speaking out about experiences. If there’s one lesson that should come from this, it’s that keeping children safe from trafficking means perusal who they’re with and when. I hope this raises more awareness about the issue, but from what I’ve seen, it just created a lot more confusion around what trafficking really is, and has made it more difficult for me and other survivors like me to explain that we are legitimate victims even though we were not abducted.
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I would LOVE to have the resources to actually buy some of these products and other insane theory’s stuff to disprove them. I know some people that’ve fallen into these rabbit holes and can’t get out. It’s fucked up, so fucked up that I bet even if someone would buy ALL the suspect articles and document the whole event via articles etc some would still believe it’s all a setup. Great article man.
everyone online always seems to want to be apart of this bigger thing to a point of actually wishing these cruel things onto others so they can feel like they solved a mystery and it annoys me to no end to think and trick oneself to believe and deny any truth is sickening like some of these people need a goddamn reality check
In a live-stream I watched a while back the steamer talked about the fact that Tom hanks is apparently baffled by the fact that so many people keep losing just one of there gloves and that he keeps seeing so many on his walks around his neighborhood or town that he started talking pictures of them. Now maybe this is just one very elaborate cover story to hide his crimes against humanity or his just snapping and posting weird pictures fun, but only time will tell.
Damn, this escalated incredibly quickly. I was on board with this thing when Memeology made a article about it, but goddamn, lost my trust in it when I found out those missing kids were actually found. Sometimes you gotta swallow the pride and just admit you’re wrong, but I guess I can’t expect that from Reddit.
The human mind is hardwired to recognize patterns, something it is genuinely very, very good at. Hell, the only reason this text is legible is because it’s a recognizable pattern of shapes that formulate words, sentences and paragraphs. It’s also really fucking good at pulling the wool over its own eyes, which gets compounded when you condition yourself to recognize anything and everything as an inherently nefarious pattern.
There is a shopping site in Turkey as well that got blamed for child trafficking because there were furniture with extreme price tags that usually got sold for waaaay less and you could choose ages on them and what not. Yesterday they came forth with a pretty serious announcement that they don’t actually sell children like who TF would take that seriously lol unless they’re actually ARE selling children
People are also talking about this review where it says “would recommend her” but right next to it it says “translated by google translate” so it’s probably just a mistranslation. Also, if you’re buying a kid off of wayfair why would you review the child you bought? Sounds like a perfect way to get caught.
Tom Hanks took a picture of that glove because that’s part of his social media brand! He constantly posts pictures of “lost” items and gives a general location for anyone who many be looking for them. It’s very wholesome and not nefarious in any way. Here is one of many examples of this: twitter.com/tomhanks/status/1236288802626236417.
classic conspiracy theorist thinking: > has one key piece of evidence that many parts of the theory are built from > that evidence is debunked or disregarded by sane people > “just because that one thing is wrong doesn’t mean the whole theory’s wrong” no… but it does remove the bottom jenga block from the tower
9:30 Okay now that makes sense this explains so much. I remember during that time for some weird reason when I was just randomly perusal clips of Tom Hanks on Youtube ( I got deep in the rabbit hole of nostalgia and I was perusal some of the clips of famous well-known movies he was in) and saw a bunch of a weird ass comments and just was confused. This…Explains everything.
I actually believed part of this theory until I saw this article. I thought it was reasonable that people may use Wayfair for sex trafficking, because of that weird correlation of the names and the prices. That was as much as I believed, though, since people started thinking Wayfair’s name came from the term waif and the site was intended for sex trafficking and was in on it, not just that it was sex traffickers using the site. Now, seeing this article and that one of the supposedly trafficked children came out and said she isn’t missing and wasn’t sold into slavery, I’m just wondering why those prices are so wack and what’s up with the names. I also didn’t think too hard about it.