The weird stuff is still there, you just have to dig past the algorithm now. Craigslist's search got "smarter" and that's exactly the problem, it decides what you want instead of letting you stumble onto a taxidermy raccoon at 2am. Try searching by city and category instead of keywords, or check the barter and free sections where the real chaos lives. Facebook Marketplace and those local buy nothing groups stole a lot of it too. The haunted doll economy is alive and well, just scattered across five apps now.

I used to think paying $18 for three tacos was just the price of living near Clarendon, like some kind of yuppie tax I had to accept. Then I found a spot doing $2.50 tacos and realized I'd been a sucker this whole time, basically funding some restaurant owner's second boat. Five tacos and a drink for $11 is the kind of math that makes me mad I didn't look harder sooner. What's the name of this place on Columbia Pike, because I need to verify this deal myself before I get my hopes up again.