There's an entire ecosystem of Facebook-tier repetitive browser games that are designed to keep you tapping for hours as you chase tokens you can exchange for AE coins or coupons. Actually, the main point is to get you to make impulse buys from within the games themselves
The games all use different tokens and naturally run on slowly regenerating energy. If you run out energy, you can get more by exchanging some of your coins or tokens, browsing products on AE, opening another game, or by ordering something for a large energy boost
Simply buying stuff normally on AliExpress doesn't give you game tokens or energy, you need to directly buy an item from a listing the game shows you for it to count
Every single game also has a battlepass type deal with dailies and weeklies to complete for even more tokens
All of this started when Halo 2 introduced XP into online shooters 
good. let dipshit americans give money to a chinese corporation. whatever is bad for americans is good for the world
I think Trump's made that pretty difficult. I don't imagine many Americans are buying stuff on AE, Temu or the others currently
I just received an aliexpress package the other day and paid no tariff. Idk when it will finally kick in but it isn't clear to me to what extent it has yet
I believe they'll kick in on anything that arrives after May 2nd
That's what I've been hearing but nobody seems sure which is bizarre/hilarious. Curious if it'll actually be rolled out and effective. I feel like a lot of little packages can just get misclassified as electronics or something exempted and slip through