Idk about you but I think shopee has brought a lot of benefits to most singaporeans.

Cheaper prices than retail, easy to shop and order multiple items from home, decent delivery to houses.

TikTok has its share of mindless content, but there are plenty of motivational content on the platform as well such as disabled people sharing their experiences etc.

If these products were truly not bringing any value, they would have long been killed by market forces long ago