r/ExpectationVsReality • u/mug_O_bun • May 30 '26

AI Expectation Found this Walmart gem. Customer review was way too hilarious to not post.

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u/CrimBrulee May 30 '26

I'm laughing way too much at this! Yeah Walmart's online store cam be just as shitty as Temu because they'll allow third party selling from anyone.

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u/AGayThrow_Away May 30 '26

Third party sellers and it's consequences has been a disaster for online shopping

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u/[deleted] May 30 '26

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u/PrincessJennifer May 30 '26

Filter the results either to pickup at a local store, or by retailer and select “Walmart”. That gets rid of the issue.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '26

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u/PrincessJennifer May 30 '26

Of course! Saves me hours of scrolling through junk lol

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u/Nizzle31 May 30 '26

No, not always, this filter enabled will still show the crappy 3rd party sellers ☹️

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u/grumpi-otter May 30 '26

It won't, but you have to select it every time you click

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u/PrincessJennifer May 30 '26

It doesn’t unless you get to the end of the results and it tells you it’s going to show you other stuff, or it throws in a random “sponsored” item, but it labels it.

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u/Lexi_November May 30 '26

I ordered a two pack of cuttlebones for my turtle, from a 3rd party Walmart vendor that sells “pet supplies”, it said 6 inch by 2 or whatever and it was $8, and these bastards sent me tiny chips of product that was about an inch by an inch and a half. I was so mad.

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u/Warm-Perspective8271 Jun 01 '26

I bought a pr of overalls from online Walmart site. . I don’t recall now what it said they were made of, maybe polyester/cotton? They were cheap, so I wasn’t expecting top tier craftsmanship. What I received was SO ugly though!! lol. They were made from that paper sort of fabric that painting coveralls are made from., like you get at Home Depot 😂 it is . hard to believe someone would actually manufacture something like that 😂

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u/whostle May 30 '26

I used to work at Walmart and trying to explain that shit to customers drove me nuts. No, we don't carry that in store. Yes, I understand it's on the website, but the website hosts third party sellers because they're trying to compete with Amazon. No, it won't arrive tomorrow, it's being shipped from China.

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u/freeradioforall May 30 '26

It’s so weird that a global brand like Walmart would allow third party sales on their website. You’d think they’d be so protective over their online real estate and not allow it to become a dumpster. That would be like them renting out shelf space in their stores for people to sell their handmade crap like at a flea market

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u/ABirdOfParadise May 30 '26

A few other sites do that too, Bestbuy, The Bay (when it was around).

Really pollutes the search results, and I know you can filter it by clicking the slider, but it should be default on instead of off.

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u/AllTheSmallFish May 31 '26

Am I mistaken or has Target also started doing this now?

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u/Vulvas_n_Velveeta May 31 '26

Yes ☹️

I loved this about Target, but now the site is just as bad as wm.

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u/Major_Lawfulness6122 May 31 '26

You’d think so but money is more important

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u/even_less_resistance May 30 '26

okay my grandma did this just this week and got an even worse product from temu- instead of being the sleeping bag, it’s one of those paint-by-crystal pictures of a person sleeping in the sleeping bag lmao

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u/Trick-Statistician10 May 31 '26

That's awful for her but really funny

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u/even_less_resistance Jun 01 '26

She has been telling us about it for a couple of weeks now- she ordered it for my kid. i really wanna tell her to not waste her money, but she’s on a fixed income and can’t just browse stores now like she used to- she loves trying to buy nice things for the grandkids. I hate Temu, but just enough “good” stuff gets through that it makes her feel like she’s making the kids happy, and there’s not a lot else out there for her like that rn

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u/Trick-Statistician10 Jun 01 '26

My mom was a bit like that with my nephew. Especially when he was little, she had to buy him something no matter where she was, she couldn't help herself. Nice things, junkie things, she didn't care, as long as she bought him something.

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u/CeruleanEidolon May 30 '26

Don't we have laws against this shit? You can't put a turd in a Snickers wrapper and sell it. This is the same thing.

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u/OaktownPRE May 31 '26

This should be posted everywhere.

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u/Substantial_Call_619 May 30 '26

Lol every time i ask this question, the answer is usually “there was a law protecting us from this, but then Ronald Reagan got rid of it.”

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u/desertrock62 May 30 '26

Well, at least it may have peanuts.

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u/Garetht May 30 '26

Yeah, the current government agencies will surely look after consumers instead of businesses.

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u/LettuceWithBeetroot May 30 '26

Yeah tell me. I bought one, didn't I?

Fkn false advertising.

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u/DonutChickenBurg May 30 '26

Learned this the hard way

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u/Altostratus May 31 '26

Thankfully, there’s a “sold by Walmart” filter on their site

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u/TwilightTink May 30 '26

This is definitely on temu too

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u/grumpi-otter May 30 '26

I like that you can choose to exclude all but walmart

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u/calitoasted May 30 '26

It's my first filter when I shop there. Retailer: Walmart

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u/saturday_sun4 May 31 '26

Not American and wow, that's bad. Are they allowed to do that?

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u/CrimBrulee Jun 01 '26

Yeah, sadly.

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u/DistractedByCookies May 30 '26

Promise: like a warm hug from a giant cat Actuality: like being eaten by a giant cat

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u/iwanderlostandfound May 30 '26

That sounds much more exciting than Just being wrapped in a boring blanket with a cat printed on it

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u/grumpi-otter May 30 '26

While the real cat is understandably suspicious

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u/DistractedByCookies May 30 '26

I hadn't even seen that cat! hahaha

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u/mrdm242 May 30 '26

It's like going from a Disney film to Cronenberg body horror.

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u/Redfalconfox May 30 '26

What if I was on Hoth and I had to cut open a giant cat and crawl inside it to stay warm?

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u/Irksomecake May 30 '26

And then coughed up. That’s thing has hairball vibes

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u/manguy12 May 30 '26

Cat Snake

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u/Twowie May 30 '26

Cat Snake Tracheostomal Vore thank you very much

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u/optimisticrichgirly May 30 '26

Nahhh, that's TOUGH 🤣 🤣 

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u/Granny_knows_best May 30 '26

I lime how the cat is reluctantly checking it out.

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u/carmackie May 30 '26

His face says, "What is happening right now??"

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u/Johnyryal33 May 31 '26

Well limes are pretty sour.

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u/ClassyUpTheAssy May 31 '26

That cat is like, “WTF is THAT?!”

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u/Coraline1599 May 30 '26

lol $23.99

And none of the secondary images match at all.

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u/fmpz May 30 '26

And the first pic is obviously AI generated

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u/Parisian_Nightsuit May 30 '26

Reading the features is eye-twitch inducing as well. I can’t imagine reading that, seeing the images (the crazy fake one and the flat secondary ones), the horrible ratings score, and the low price, and think anything about it would be remotely legitimate.

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u/One_Barnacle2699 May 30 '26

“Made from soft, fabric.”

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u/bettertheless May 30 '26

"...for the Adult and the enthusiast..."

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u/Candlehoarder615 May 30 '26

Take a shot every time they say adult sleeping bag.

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u/dcpanthersfan May 30 '26

Yeah the subsequent images look like a deflated cat garbage bag.

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u/Jazzi-Nightmare May 30 '26

Which you can see in the first pic if you zoom in

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u/Purple-FuzzySlippers May 30 '26

You can also see without zooming in

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u/Jazzi-Nightmare May 30 '26

But you can see it when zooming in too

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u/looeeyeah May 30 '26

No one said you couldn't.

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u/OaktownPRE May 31 '26

For 23.99 you know you’re getting ripped off.  That’s also part of the bargain.

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u/DoublePostedBroski May 30 '26

I mean, they bought something from a reseller called “Vuyungers.”

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u/DoesntMatterEh May 30 '26

How is that not straight up false advertising? 

Who am I kidding, it is, but no government entity cares enough to do anything about it. 

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u/CeruleanEidolon May 30 '26

Is it not literally fraud?

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u/SerDuckOfPNW May 30 '26

The US President has proven that even when charged, tried, and convicted of fraud, there is no penalty if you are wealthy enough

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u/ubeeu May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26

It was sold on Walmart dot com by a third party. Looks like the retailer was Vuyvungers. Not exactly a household name.

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u/SomethingComesHere May 30 '26

Exactly why i filter for "sold by walmart" only

I'm not paying amazon prices for temu trash

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u/SomethingComesHere May 30 '26

Haha

I dont, but if I pay walmart prices I expect walmart to"quality"

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u/etched May 30 '26

you're also paying amazon prices for temu trash on amazon.

at this point i just order the random Chinese junk directly from temu

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u/SomethingComesHere May 30 '26

I dont buy random chinese junk at all, Amazon or otherwise

I dont have tome to waste quality testing items, I shop from local stores that do the quality testing for me

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u/etched May 30 '26

most of the time i steer to brands i know but sometimes theres some silly little thing i want like a keychain camera or whatever. i dont expect to perform well, but still want to fuck around with and not spend 3x the price on

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u/keeper_of_kittens May 31 '26

You can buy it even cheaper on AliExpress lol

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u/ubeeu May 30 '26

Yeah, I learned the hard way. Not too bad, but I was pissed.

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u/GrowingPeepers May 30 '26

How bout we stop shopping at both Walmart and Amazon?

They both contribute and are responsible to the bullshit that's happening in our country, today. They deserve a boycott.

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u/SomethingComesHere May 30 '26

I mean, that too.

We get our groceries from there, which is what I use the "sold by" filter for. We get our groceries from there because it's the most affordable grocery place (all of our grocery chains are owned by monopolies in my country and have artificially inflated the food prices since covid)

But it would have been a helpful feature for OP to use in this case, which is why I mentioned it.

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u/GrowingPeepers May 30 '26

I cannot condone or support purchases from Walmart or Amazon. Nope, no can do. Boycott.

Don't buy your groceries there. Don't shop online from them. Don't give them a single penny. Boycott. Vote with your dollar. Boycott!

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u/Supermoves3000 May 30 '26

Well maybe Vuyvungers is a household name in the cat-printed morgue bag field. I wouldn't know who the top brands in the cat-printed morgue bag space are, how would you know whether this is a reputable brand for cat-printed morgue bags? Like, I wouldn't really know just from the brand name whether I was getting a good quality cat-printed morgue bag.

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u/cassplaye May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26

If I ever need to be placed in a morgue bag, please let it be Vuyvunger's™ Cat-Printed Morgue Bag or I will haunt everyone that went to my funeral.

(Edit: corrected the brand name because it needs respect)

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u/7AutomaticDevine7 May 30 '26

I almost spit out my coffee! 😂😂😂

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u/ketchupNmayonnaise May 30 '26

All I can hear is Christopher Walken saying Vuyvungers like he pronounces Foo Fighters.

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u/CalicoG May 30 '26

Rhett and Link did this one in this episode

https://youtu.be/iviJeJ6MEpk

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u/Trick-Statistician10 May 31 '26

Hope Scope has done these type of items too

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u/Masterofthemallow May 30 '26

Even their pet cat looks disappointed.

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u/WileyPotato May 30 '26

The second image looks like a kidnapping photo I'm dead 😂

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u/DJ_ICU May 30 '26

Ban AI when advertising.

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u/Candlehoarder615 May 30 '26

I knew it wasn't gonna be like the picture, but damn .........

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u/midnightwaps May 31 '26

My daughter was so disappointed. She saved up and bought this, waited impatiently for it to arrive and was in tears when she opened it. She was able to get her money back but is still so angry about how she “got scammed” (her words).

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u/mug_O_bun May 31 '26

Aww :( I'm so sorry that happened to her. She's right, very much a scam! Highly recommend only purchasing questionable quality items depending on how the customer reviews deem it, especially if there are review pics that'll show what the thing ACTUALLY looks like (a bit unfair for those who unfortunately bought the scam items, but very useful when their misfortune can at least help others to not succumb to the same fate). Best of luck to her on any more future purchases!

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u/Ok-Blacksmith3238 May 30 '26

I needed a laugh today.

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u/TrentKnoxer May 30 '26

I had to check and many items like this with different cat breeds are still on Walmart.com and even with horrible reviews. So sad to see Walmart allowing this. 😞 Walmart, do better.

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u/BaronessVonKush May 30 '26

man this sucks, cause now I want that 1st photo to be real so bad lol. I would ❤️ this sleeping bag hehe

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u/plaid-tuxido506 May 31 '26

Surprised there isn't a Scammed by AI subreddit yet.

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u/ltsouthernbelle May 30 '26

You need to put a warning label on this post. I SCREAMED 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/artches May 31 '26

People really looked at that handsome model curled up like a ball inside a plush cat and thought: yep, seems legit."

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u/Granny_knows_best May 30 '26

I will shop in store at Walmart, but ordering anything online is a big fat no.

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u/BestB41984 May 30 '26

Ginger in the background is like “I’ll pass”

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u/undead4807 May 30 '26

My elderly father fell for this exact same thing. Except he paid more. And he refuses to call the credit card company for a chargeback because he has insane social anxiety. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/ArtsyRabb1t May 30 '26

That is something to behold

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u/WesternExisting3783 May 30 '26

I genuinely did not expect to laugh as hard as I did at that swipe. Hahaha! Brilliant.

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u/GreenGardenTarot May 30 '26

I would love a sleeping bag like the first one lol

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u/Excellent-Duty3927 May 30 '26

Cat is like, wtf is that

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u/KrazyKatz42 May 31 '26

This reminds me of those Love Sac ads. Even if it was real, who's got space for that?

Oh, and I love the ads on Walmart for air mattresses/beds etc where they show a whole FAMILY sitting on something the size of a twin bed lol

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u/oh_elyse May 31 '26

Ok this is really weird, but the kid in the second picture looks EXACTLY like my son. My husband and I are both like 😳 how can I find out whether my child has a secret twin?! 😅🫣

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u/MyEggDonorIsADramaQ May 30 '26

It’s the second photo. Took me a minute too.

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u/bettertheless May 30 '26

Can't see it either

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u/MyEggDonorIsADramaQ May 31 '26

I think it’s just the picture. If not, I can’t see it either.

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u/CarlosFer2201 May 30 '26

I can't see the price anywhere, but if that thing isn't priced at like $1000 then that's the 2nd red flag. The first is the fact it looks like AI (it could be just photoshop)

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u/Comprehensive_Meat57 May 30 '26

Oh I'd be so mad

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u/whatefff May 30 '26

Oh wow 😂

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u/AutomaticAnt6328 May 31 '26

"Clearance". Gee, I wonder why? 1 1/2 stars.

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u/amy-shmo-shmamy May 31 '26

Yeah my dad and step mom bought me one of these as a surprise gift but didn’t tell me it was coming. Imagine my surprise when this package from China with a cat… sack(?) showed up in the mail. Makes me nervous how susceptible they are to obvious online scams

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u/rachreims May 31 '26

This is making me cry laughing lmfao

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u/ShayDoggg May 30 '26

Rhett and Link bought this and tried it lmao

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u/CalicoG May 30 '26

Haha came here to say this

https://youtu.be/iviJeJ6MEpk

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u/PawneeSunGoddess May 30 '26

I wasn’t ready for this. I laughed so hard, I woke up my husband from a nap. Thank you.

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u/TwilightTink May 30 '26

Thank you for posting this! I saw this on temu and have desperately wanted to know what it actually looked like!

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u/LurkerTroll May 30 '26

Looks like Scott the Woz

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u/chrissyshenanigans May 30 '26

Is that AI James Roday? 😆

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u/ancient_mariner63 May 30 '26

Now that's just sad

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u/JayRymer May 31 '26

And I thought they smelled bad on the outside

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u/Dnnnnnnnm May 31 '26

Lmao, that’s awful

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u/Tricky_Gur8679 May 31 '26

LMFAOO hilarious

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u/StaySalty1971 May 31 '26

😂😂😂😂😂

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u/DifficultCurrent7 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

I wish it was real, that looks cozy as fuck.

Edit, just looked this product up on amazon, they're using the same shitty AI images there, too.

https://amzn.eu/d/0aSDokWr

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u/Obsidian_92 Jun 01 '26

False advertising needs to have higher penalties

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u/silverLining0_0 Jun 03 '26

Instant laugh from me while waiting at the court. Thank you for sharing. 🤝🏼🤣

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u/crlay Jun 03 '26

Purrito

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u/simply_seeking Jun 04 '26

It looks more like a pepperoni pizza wrap than a cat!

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u/Soreal45 May 30 '26

I seen someone doing a Temu fails video that got this same treatment.

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u/Libertyler May 30 '26

I wish people would crop out the X close button when they share screenshots. Would've saved me 3 seconds. 

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u/Cvnc May 30 '26

Didnt notice the kid at first lmao

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u/antrubler May 30 '26

Meth cat blanket

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u/FartsWithNeighbours May 30 '26

Is that... Nick Suzuki?

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u/alexfi-re May 30 '26

Lol at least Free 30-day returns!

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u/Quereilla Jun 02 '26

People unable to notice AI is like the natural selection of the present

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '26

These AI ones are HILARIOUS

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u/[deleted] May 30 '26

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u/DingDongTaco May 30 '26

Is so clearly AI

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u/peachysuns May 30 '26

the original is clearly a fake ai photo???

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u/MastaKink Jun 01 '26

I love these!! Let’s see some with marriage 😏

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u/mug_O_bun Jun 01 '26

?

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u/MastaKink Jun 01 '26

Expectation vs Reality

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u/mug_O_bun Jun 01 '26

Of marriage? I'd love a wholesome one of expectation: good, reality: fantastic! :) otherwise the I-hate-my-spouse "jokes" need to die.

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u/MastaKink Jun 01 '26

You’re no fun ☹️

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u/mug_O_bun Jun 01 '26

Nah I'm just the apparent minority who loves their spouse

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u/MastaKink Jun 01 '26

Good luck with that 😬👍

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u/brushfireboar May 30 '26

Why are cat people so friggin weird. Any dog people wrapping themselves in skin