In their recent fake «Xiemu» ad, SNL perfectly captured the weirdness and shadiness of popular e-Commerce sites like Temu and Shein. «How so cheap? Don’t worry about it!» The voiceover ominously announces. But beyond their questionable labor practices and fall apart in one-use quality, sites like these are also full of products you never knew existed.  

Beyond the regular clothes, household items, and tech products, these places sell wildly specific items that require more explanation than they’re given. Fish slippers? Ok. Nicholas Cage toilet bowl cover? Seems normal. Unidentified, suspiciously shaped piece of plastic? That’s their bread and butter. Are some of these generated by artificial intelligence? Who knows. They seem too weird to be thought up by a real person, but people never cease to surprise me. Below are some of the weirdest products from across the web. You’ll either be inspired to purchase or you’ll run straight for the nearest bottle of eye bleach.