“Why yes, my overpriced fake leather nostolgiabait shoes that have nothing in it, dont come in wide, and gives people pla tar fasciitis is muxh better than the other overpriced fake leather hipsterbait shoe!!!”
And then kids will literally screech in the damn store if they dont get their shitty nike shoe, becayse its about the NAME of the BRAND!!!
FUCK OFF SNEAKERHEADS YOU ALL SUCK!!!
It’s just Funko pops for a different demographic, maybe worse because shoes have a use and are destined to sit on a shelf as a speculative asset.
Just get into magic the gathering and use the cards in a tournament smh
To quote flight of the concords:
🎵 They’re turning kids into slaves just to make cheaper sneakers
But what’s the real cost?
‘Cause the sneakers don’t seem that much cheaper
Why are we still paying so much for sneakers When you got them made by little slave kids
What are your overheads? 🎵Did they ever miss?
Counterfeits are so good these days that you can post them on r/sneakers and they’ll all compliment it or say it’s legit. Then as soon as you reveal it’s fake or they find out you post in fashionreps they’ll perma ban you lol. There’s no reason to buy “real” sneakers when 80% of the time the fake ones are made right next door and sold for 10% of the price
I want to just let people have their own interests but your hobby being “consumption” is cringe.
Like I’ve seen sneaker enthusiasts who’s entire thing is customising shoes to sell on and that feels somewhat better because like you are being creative but like 🤷♀️
People are going to absolutely hate me but I collect hermes scarves lol. I dont have a ton but i have access to a shitton of them secondhand for (relatively) cheap through work. I enjoy a lot of the designs and collect them and resell them for waaaaaaaay more money.
My work gives me access to a lot of extremely nice clothing I would never be able to afford otherwise and I take advantage of it.
Extremely controversial for hexbear im sure lol. At least its all secondhand.
If you’re not hoarding them for “investments” I don’t really care. My main gripe with collectors is that they make things more expensive for everyone by reselling at absurd values
Well i guess a big difference with the streetwear/sneaker reselling is that its on contemporary releases.
A lot of these scarves i have are 20-40 years old. Their release window is well up and whats out there is out there. Prices can still get pretty astronomical based on how limited/rare it is, and if its a popular scarf artist, and ehat condition it is. Which doesnt really make it took different than normal antique sales.
Eh If you are getting them second hand because you like the designs and reselling them for cash I don’t think it’s the same victim of consumerism these sneaker heads are.
Like it’s just not the same imo.
You don’t have to hand in your hexbear membership yet lmao
You probably know all of the reasons that I’m not a fan of resellers, but like fancy brand name scarves are not so much a necessity for poor folks as jeans and shirts and shoes. Although thrift stores aren’t really thrift stores anymore and more like boutiques so I guess the point is moot. sighs
I just looked em up and some of those hermes scarves are really cool! I love Pashmina ones, they are so cozy for fall
I had a really sick pashmina I would wear to shows in winter and its been lost to time sadly. Very comfy! Also kept me warm during some film stuff lol
Hermes has thousands of designs they have done and while a ton are comically bourgious scenes (I actually find it very funny) some are out of control sick. Highly recommend “Dies et Hore” and “Ceres” by Francoise Faconnet, and “Mysterious Rider” for a modern one.
They are extremely nice and light and are easy to wear anytime and i get compliments all the time. Its fun albeit expensive hobby. And i have never once set foot in an actual Hermes store lmao.
your hobby being “consumption” is cringe.
This is kinda how I’m starting to feel about me collecting vinyl records. I love them, and love my collection, but sometimes I sit and I’m like ‘what’s the point?’ but then that feeling expands outward to life in general, and I’m like… whatever, I’m gonna keep collecting my big inefficient music.
But at least you’ll have music when the furries turn the internet off on us.
Vinyls are cool af but yeah how many of them do you collect because they are intimately related to your taste and how many just because you now feel compelled to hoard them.
Fucking hate hate hate hate sneakerheads.
Sorry I grew up with a single mother and we could only afford Payless shoes and then getting teased by idiots throughout my school years for wearing no-name shoe brands.
I can count on one or two fingers the amount of times I’ve looked at someone’s shoes and cared about the style or brand.
Fuck Phil Knight and Michael Jordan.
“Republicans buy shoes too” a quote from Jordan.
I don’t care what he did on the basketball court, he’s lucky he won between the competitive 80s and dodged the big centers of the 90s. Give me Kareem or LeBron as GOATs in the basketball conversation for not being total knobs.
When I went to school some kid tried to diss me by saying “I bet you got them at a discount” and I didn’t understand, because I did and that meant we could also afford a winter coat from the surplus store.
It’s the same argument people had during the PS3/360 days. If you had a PS3 you were considered poor because you got to play online for free, while 360 users had to pay… for the exact same feature.
I always make sure to voluntarily pay twice as much for all my clothing items because that makes them better somehow.
“i enjoy [BRAND NAME], you do not like [BRAND NAME], you like [OTHER BRAND] i hate you”
- “sneaker culture”
I work at a shoe store anf the motherfuckers who want vans or converse even though they suck ass are insane, had a fucker once com0lain that our stock wasn’t “worth msrp” because people can try them on, motherfucker wr sell work boots here, shit that people do work in, not to go like “oh hurr duurrr look at me cool kicks, oops theyre creased timr to slam your head in a locker” (actual thing that happened back in my high school btw)
One time I made a the mistake of going on vacation to NYC wearing converse and my feet hurt so bad I had to sit on the sidewalk.
I like vans… They’re cheap and they feel like they’re hugging my feet. I’d wear adidas sambas, but I can’t ever find them cheap in my size.
I have been wearing the classic all black Vans with the gum sole bottom for like 10 years straight as my every day shoe, I love them, they are apart of my cartoon character signature outfit.
They’re just so comfy!
Got called old by some 60 year old dude in the grocery store thebother day for my sambas. Sorry they’re comfortable and last like 4 years at a time. And then when they do start to blow out they make good biking shoes.
I’ve heard that Sambas are starting to become cool again with the zoomers. Things have come full circle.
Yeah they’re in right now, which is sorta nice, but it means I couldn’t find a used pair for cheap
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Counter point: absolutely fucking not and getting to that level of tone policing where you can’t even express negative emotions without tap dancing around an ever expanding list of harmless insults has killed other similar spaces.
If I can’t call chuds fucking dumbasses what are we even doing here
Isn’t “harmless insult” like an oxymoron or something
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“Dumb” actually can be argued to be ableist in its etymology since it comes from people who couldn’t speak (similar to “Lame”). If anything dumb is worse than stupid is.
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Pretty soon you aren’t going to have an insults except “poopy fucklord” and you will sound like a redditor
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There’s a history of bigotry behind every word in the English language. It’s a language made by and for bigots. A language forged in the fire of colonial world domination and liberal rationalism that justified it. I’m sorry but you will never escape using words that have a history of bigotry behind them if you speak English and live in the west. If you keep cutting out words you will just be left stunted and unable to communicate without sounding like a total dork and still be speaking the language of colonizers anyway, just speaking oddly.
To be clear, this isn’t a carte blanche to just drop whatever slurs you want. You obviously still should be mindful to not be insulting and offensive and gross. However, where are the massive populations of people who actually, really think that “stupid” is akin to the n-word or something and a slur? Nobody actually thinks that.
It is probably better in the long run if we develop ways of expressing ourselves without insults tbh
It’d be even better if we only ate cotton candy and could teleport
Insults are as old as language and aren’t going anywhere
Listen, it doesn’t hurt to avoid ableist language. You can absolutely still insult someone without it. “Dumbass” does not have to be a load bearing part of your vocabulary.
that would be double plus unsmart
Idk that sounds like a stupid idea
There’s thoughtlessly using a minor ableist term, and then there’s doubling down and defending it’s use when asked not to.
We need another purge. Federation has been a disaster for our site culture.
Grimble is a 3 year user. I’m a 6-month user. Again, you are confused and you say stupid here:
https://hexbear.net/comment/3420829
The issue seems to be the rejection of your control. You demand people obey your hypocritical unrealistic rule that you don’t even obey, then when they have any issue with you it’s “doubling down” and “reactionary”. Maybe people just don’t like your inconsistent policing of them with these unrealistic demands for things that aren’t reactionary and everyone here does constantly.
Sneakrrs are all silly billy gooses
What’s a sneakerhead?
What’s a “sneaker”? A “sport”/“basketball” shoe?
Sport shoes are my main kind of shoe cuz 1) I walk a lot, and my feet hurt if I don’t use a sport shoe to do so; and 2) I’m tall
– “oh we don’t have this cool formal shoe in 46, we only have ridiculously looking things in that size, it’s the same to you, right?”
But I don’t collect them nor care about brands, I always buy the cheapest with the least flashy garbage around
Vans, converse, jordans, nike, shit like that
Never have any of that cuz too poor
So I am an autistic person and really love wearing stuff with pikachu on it. Like obsessively. Most of the shoes with them on it are super expensive short runs that are like a billion dollars on ebay. Which super bums me out! There is one exception to this and its crocs which also happen to be comfy.
Have you looked into getting your shoes customised? I would expect there’s some relatively cheap solutions out there
Never thought of looking something like this up. Gonna give it a look when I have time.
I hope you find something good!
Heck, buy some blank shoes and paint them yourself!
Could you apply Pikachu to your own shoes? Like a sticker or an applique or something?
Thanks for replying to my comment with such a thoughtful idea! I have tried that before and I dont like the looks of DIY stuff sadly. I am also not that creative as a person which does not help at all. My skills are more towards setting up networks and managing arrays of server. The other issue is I am also downright abusive to anything I own. I wish this was not the case but clothing really does not last long with me shoes included.
EDIT: Now that I look at these applique things you talked about they might work! Like I should have checked that out before commenting. Thanks again!
sandals gang
I usually don’t give a shit but getting a good brand of running shoes does help a lot on my jogs. Otherwise, it’s what’s on sale at Shoe Carnival.
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I constantly ridicule my neighbor that my moc toe Redwings are the goat show and his rare Jordans shoe are made in sweatshops. I got to buy a new pair last year and love them; even had the shop replace the top grommets with speed laces.
The classic mocs are the exact style of shoe I’ve been trying to find. It’s way too pricy for me at the moment but thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Redwing does an annual October warehouse sale, my first pair were factory seconds that were 70% off. I’m not sure if they have online offerings or if it’s only at the physical warehouse. The pandemic kinda changed it a bit. You’ll see lots of folks scalping them on eBay.
Edit: Also a disclaimer that I think Redwings too are going down in quality. Iirc some goodyear welt sneakerheads found that they’ve down graded from leather, then cork and now paper in the construction of the soles.
as someone moderately into fashion, sneaker heads always have the worst fits
Sneakerculture is when you grow tennis shoes in a farm.
i feel bad for ppl having consumption as an hobby. what a life.
haha… yea… i feel sad for them also…
