
Last week Fortune called Whatnot “the wildly-entertaining, FOMO-inducing, $5 billion shopping app you’ve never heard of.” The article about the six-year-old live auction platform is mostly focused on baseball cards and doesn’t mention what I’ve been using it for over the last few months, which is to overpay for vintage shoegaze t-shirts. (Followers of my Instagram know that is my true passion and running Stereogum is a side hustle.)