Race To The Bottom Examples?
5.9BRAINROT SCORERace to the Bottom Sellers on a platform competitively undercutting their own starting prices to compete for attention, in a spiral that squeezes margins for everyone.
Origin:Whatnot seller-community critique of escalating dollar-start and flash-sale competition among sellers, borrowed from the general economic phrase.
First Seen:2026-08
Peak Era:2026 (Whatnot Seller Discourse)
Aura Impact:+1 Aura (Naming the Race to the Bottom Honestly) / -3 Aura (Being the Seller Who Started the Race to the Bottom)
EXAMPLE USAGE
"It's a full race to the bottom out here, everyone's starting at a dollar now."
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