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He's selling his stupid xshitter clone for nearly 10 billion and he has a 50ish percent stake. That's the real grift here. No one in their right mind would pay 10 billion for that platform. It's got fewer than one million active users and the rest are bots. THAT is the bribe.
Someone told me on another thread that I was bad for judging anyone who would wear $400 shiny gold shoes.
And yet, I still judge anyone who would wear $400 shiny gold shoes.
You are bad for judging people based on their choice of clothes ...
But not as bad as someone who wears $400 shiny gold shoes! Heyo
He could spray paint a bottle gold, fill it with piss and they'd buy it.
Who. Russia?
Cool, I know exactly which shoes to spit on now
At least it has the correct number of stars for the number of states where he's going to win the popular vote in after being a convicted traitor.
I would rather shit in a sock, put my foot in it, let it harden, and use that as a shoe than wear that ridiculous pile of piss-like footwear.
I'm not encouraging violence or anything but... if I saw someone who was getting jumped wearing these, I'd pretend I didn't notice.
Does laughing count as encouraging?
Make in GINA
Seriously though let’s forget for a second who’s hawking these shoes, the sneakers are sooooo ugly by themselves. No sense of style, aesthetics, or design. Who is going to wear these and not feel like a goober?
Same people that vote for Trump without feeling like a goober, I'd imagine.
Let's not forget how popular Kanye "I loooooooove Hitlerrrrrr" West's shoes continue to be - and most of them look like the product of a 3-way between nanna's teach cosy, a Tesla, and an inflatable life raft.
Yeezy shoes continue to make profit for Adidas because they’re produced cheap enough, but that’s not the same as Yeezy being popular anymore. Data: https://legitcheck.app/stats/yeezy/
They're certainly less popular, but are holding on to meaningful market share.
Do you have other data? Adidas does 13B business but the Yeezy sneakers contribute to 0.038% of that.
Data: https://www.statista.com/chart/13470/athletic-footwear-sales/
The last link you shared showed 3% market share, and revenue dropping from 1.3-1.7bn to 568m in 2023.
Adidas are far more than just shoes - looking at a "premium" partnership with a musician on sub-brand for one of many categories they're present in isn't a super-representative snapshot.
The 13B is just for sneaker sales but I see your point about the market share
FSB just put in an order for $380m of them
MBS can order a million of these and not violate campaign finance laws.
It's an easy way to identify the lower IQ/more gullible GOP members. (Quark would love and exploit this feature [RoA#74: Knowledge equals profit])
Low IQ GOP members is a redundancy - unless you're an uber-wealthy direct beneficiary of their grifts.
I kinda feel that way about a lot of niche sneakers tbh...
Gold and T makes me think of Mr T tbh.
Glad the SneakerCon folks boo'd this.
This will be the first sneaker to be reverse scalped.
Oddly I think the phrase is take a haircut