Inside the “Depop Cult”
Teens on the beloved thrifting app are dealing with toxicity, scamming, and exorbitant prices.
5 min readJun 24, 2020
Teens, especially teen girls, love the thrifting app Depop. On Depop, you can find rare, vintage, and unique clothing that will wow your friends. You can also find a lot of drama.
Drama isn’t new to the platform. In fact, the Instagram account @/depopdrama has been documenting all of the mishaps, scams, and bizarre interactions that happen on Depop for a while now. It currently has over 391k followers on Instagram and 27.5k on Twitter.
But it seems that over past several months, as Depop and thrifting have only become more popular, especially during the current pandemic in which people have lots of time at home to clean out their closets and take up new hobbies, the amount…
