Shirt brand owner shares fix to get thousands of Temu dupes taken down
Steady2 outlets reported this in 2 reports over 2 days
Thu, 17 September 2026Fri, 18 September 2026
What it is about
Who published it, and when
original reportfirst to report
ABC News (Australia)
The Guardian World
17 Sept, 19:00over 13 hours18 Sept, 07:35
How it spread - 2 original reports
Thu, 17 September 2026
1 report- ABC News (Australia)19:00first to report
Warwick Levy spent hours trying to get his brand's T-shirt designs removed from Temu as its reporting platform kept crashing.
Fri, 18 September 2026
1 report- The Guardian World07:35
Warwick Levy, who runs Lonely Kids Club, says AI may have been used to scrape his entire website and replicate designs Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast After 15 years running a small business making T-shirts, Warwick Levy says it was “brutal” when he first discovered an identical design for sale on Temu. It turned out there was an overwhelming amount of T-shirts identical to his own for sale on the Chinese e-commerce marketplace. Between 2025 and earlier this year,...