WE LET THE WRONG PEOPLE BE THE VOICE OF THE SNEAKER CULTURE

Do you think we let the Wrong people beat the voice of the sneaker culture? I think so for the last eight years it has been nothing but resale influencers

[@FyrFytr998]

Dre: Shoes shouldn’t cost $500 dollars. Resellers: jUsT sAy uR bROke bRuH.

[@Keytap15]

“You cannot have a good collection without ‘bricks’.” - Facts!!

[@jamestaylor9441]

Absolutely bricks build foundations

[@Tcyc-le3pi]

What even is a "brick" the only people who use the term bricks are resellers who call a show with no resell bricks

[@hitemhines8650]

Weartesters is a 100% legit shoe lover. Knows the history and never talks resale prices

[@dabolB]

Facts

[@ethan-se6yq]

Nightwingggg that’s the OG

[@gstupaluss7941]

Facts that’s why I follow him

[@jamilbelle]

That’s a fact!! He’s always for the love and history 💯

[@CezarGodbody]

Facts

[@buttababynuknuk]

Colonized and monetized the sneaker game😂😂😂😂😂

[@Sinatra292]

FACTS

[@Omni95]

💯💯

[@batuzulu]

These mfs gentrified the sneaker game that’s what it boils down to and y’all think y’all flexing paying the high but y’all helping the culture vultures 🔥

[@cliftonbrown4051]

Facts

[@Sinatra292]

✅

[@riskypugga]

So true !

[@byronhurst3350]

what do you suggest we do? wait it out until the resellers start to sell low? That won't happen because people will continue to pay high resell prices. I respectfully dont want to rock fake shoes. What's your solution?

[@mummidustbrand]

Said by the very people that caused this inflation and now cannot afford to maintain the addiction!! That’s what you get buddy!! 😂

[@yummdiddy]

I remember when reselling shoes was just to get your money back and get something else. These were sold person to person and it was all love and hooking people up

[@queennjinga3748]

The good Ole days

[@treezytrey88]

lol trading kicks too nobody does that anymore lol

[@TheHyHy33]

I remember when the south beach 8s came out I paid 350 on the resale in 2012

[@TheJontue]

I remember and miss those days.

[@Tcyc-le3pi]

​@@treezytrey88nah people def still trade.

[@ReedMySole]

I've been doing this since 2010. The one thing I learned is that HONEST black and brown content creators get push to the side by the major brands. They don't want honesty, They want puppets. The brands put certain people in position for a reason. Keep doing your thing brother,

[@Keefer24]

One of the biggest is jay the sneaker guy, what’s your crybaby excuse for that ? 😂🤡

[@ReedMySole]

@@Keefer24 Cry baby excuse? lol. You can literally google how black and brown content creators get paid less and get less opportunities And with all that Jay does he still doesn't have half a million subscribers lol. Others doing less get more. but hey have a nice day.

[@ReedMySole]

@@Keefer24 According to a 2021 study by PR agency MSL and the Influencer League, Black content creators are paid 35% less than white creators, while Black, indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC) creators are paid 29% less than white creators.........

[@tellthetruth7497]

Biggest sneaker tuber i know of w the most money and most endorsements from major brands is Qias and he’s definitely not white

[@iPhoon]

They don’t even know the story of the sneakers

[@jadenmoore9985]

Glad my boy Mike rich been real since I been watching some 2015

[@Dondre00]

Fukkz Wit Em

[@KingJadInfiniteHope]

he was the first person i saw making vlogs about buying shoes at the mall, i guess he popped up because we from the same city. i think i first saw his vids back in 2015/16. glad he ain’t “sell out”.

[@KixFix502OnFBxIG]

Facts. 1st person I ever started watching

[@killitpunk2387]

🗣️SniperrrKicks bring thatas here boi!😂 I’ll call him out!😂 Most Hype videos, never wears his kicks or talks about the history, we still ain’t get a video about his collection because he resells his shoes.

[@kingjaff9066]

And ya boy “j the sneaker guy”doubles up and gets 2 pair of jordan 17 such a hype beast seriously 😂

[@queennjinga3748]

Omg say that louder so the people in the back can hear you. Like I mess with "J" but he has gotten out of control. He is past double ups try tripple up. It is really sad

[@sneakerheadguy23]

He also gets early stock and beats his viewers over the head with resale prices

[@queennjinga3748]

@@sneakerheadguy23 Damnnnn for real... I noticed he's been promoting a lot of avenues of making money secret sauce being one of them. Like who is paying for that lol

[@kingjaff9066]

@@sneakerheadguy23 yeah I was talking to him about the Travis Scott he tells me he was selling them for 950 the ones that look like the Bo Jackson Trainers I for get the name but I told him I was on the sneakers app on Nike and my bank decline my payment because they thought Nike was doing fraud because it was pulling the money out and I guess it flagged it for fraud and my bank not realizing what it was me so I pissed about it cause I had a chance to get them for retail so he tell me 950 😂lost his damn mind

[@krownheightsgang7053]

We’ll spend ya money on 2 pairs 😮‍💨💨

[@12oclockpiff]

Bruh not lying…. I was just saying this the other day…. Sneaker game used to be 1 to Rock, 1 to Stock. Now you got 20-40yr olds buying 100% stock on KD 4 Weatherman’s and selling for $30 profit. At that point it makes more sense to just get a regular job. Granted certain shoes do deserve the $500-$1000 resell price tag IE: Skunk SB, Galaxy Foam, Nike Yeezy and some Adidas Yeezy. Sneaker game changed 2017, I was working at finish line. My manger would rig the raffles for one reseller in Raleigh/Durham, NC. After that everybody stop buying sneaker for nostalgia purposes and strictly for capital. Sorry for the rant I’m just an upset sneaker head.

[@remykids]

Nope

[@lightsoutmedia7370]

I’m 51 I cop what I want be these new ppl hyping up every release and not knowing what they’re hyping up is crazy

[@Lifesjustaphase]

100%. Most shoe content talk about resale values and if they can’t be flipped, they’re considered 🗑️

[@harrybaulsach]

Just say his name... unbreakable

[@krownheightsgang7053]

He one of the honest one’s and been doing this b4 all these Niggas..u must be new

[@remykids]

All them stupid ass shoetubers be over hypin every shoe.

[@killitpunk2387]

Once the company starts sending you sneakers you are bought and paid for, expect a selling somewhere in the next video, Jacques Slade is good for advertising 😂

[@Vnt3vnd3tta]

They need to bring back monetized camp outs, regional releases & shock drop pop shops.

[@Lboogieclt]

I agree 100% the wrong hands involved with sneakers

[@ivandesantis858]

Love what you said. I have a rule that I stick by . If I really like a shoe that I couldn't cop for retail I will try to get it from a reseller with a max of $50.00 over the original retail price as my ceiling. If I absolutely love gotta have I will go as high as double the original retail price BUT if they want a cent over that I just have to walk away. Also completely agree with you on the AE 1 's

[@batuzulu]

2016 is when shit started to die too they started flooding us with 1s and collabs took off and they gave us them glittery aqua 8s and started pushing the rainbow colors on us

[@mfspectacular]

the og aquas have glitter tho, the 07 release is the only odd 1. without. Hell i fw that 2015 retro better, the only paint on them that cracks is on the outsole plate

[@paid1n1fullmitch]

You spoke nothing but facts!! I just subscribed because of this video! 💯

[@dirtboi8606]

Mike rich is pretty chill, Elliot page ain’t bad, he’s always trying new shoes out and things of that nature

[@uravgsnkrsguy]

Yea that’s why creators like me trying to bring back what sneaker KZbin once was

[@MirrorMirrorConvos]

Just like so many other facets of life 🤦🏽‍♂️ music, clothing, art 🖼️. The list goes on fs fs

[@jacktwnboss601]

They try to hype every single release to stay in business 😂

[@keenanwagner9891]

Shoes are only worth an amount people are willing to pay. You can't say a shoe is worth $1000 if nobody is willing to pay it. No demand no supply.

[@shoeinsomniacs3780]

When the sneaker KZbinrs tryna scam us promoting secret sauce ..you know the sneaker game is over

[@queennjinga3748]

Shit... say it louder man it's sad

[@thekrolli95]

Just found your channel I must say you were speaking the gospel. I tell everybody bricks build houses I think we are just seeing the fallout of stimulus check sneakerheads who were just in it for the money.

[@ryanwaller7885]

Before this year the SoleFly 17 was 300 at resale 😭😂😭😂.. people gotta get back to buying wat they like

[@michaelmcclendon3220]

You preaching bro!!! I was just saying this on another platform.

[@mellupone_]

Mannnn this is soooo trueee everything is always about Hype which is cool and needed but It's never about people actually liking the shoe anymore the shoe as much about how the shoe is going to resell been like this since goddamm 2016 ,2017

[@squidwardtortellini1124]

sneaker culture started going down hill little by little around 2010-2012 w the hypebeast culture. but during covid it just plummeted.

[@cwarren14]

Them cool grey 11’s started it

[@armandomederosjr.1247]

I remember growing up in Brooklyn during the 70s. Rright up the block from my house was our place. It was called the sneaker factory. And our sneaker was the Chuck Taylor converse all star. But it was a small group of us that just loved the sneaker. Such wonderful memories and awsome times

[@LegendaryEsq.]

Facts! Nothing underlines your point better than the clip at the start of your video. I understand that I am an OG at this point and witnesses the AJ11 when they first released; however, the platform has now been hijacked by people who truly do not love sneakers. Also, to keep it a buck, I didn’t cop the AJ17 when they first released. Not all that interested in them now other than the fact that the color way goes well with APA para. Keep up the great work fam!

[@nelson4869]

Agree about the 17's and how the AE1 is mostly slept on by big KZbinrs. At the end of the day, anytime anything gets big enough, a bunch of casuals come flooding in and then you have influencers/wannabe influencers who cater to those casuals. I don't see a way around it. Just follow and support the real ones I guess.

[@jamiejenions7971]

I am a woman and I do my home work and I buy what I like. I about shoes and some youngsters don’t know. I just brought the green Jordan 4s I love them they are are on the shelf. In the us it’s released in July. I don’t own a travis over rated.

[@CTownBlack]

Man U ain’t never lied my boy!!! NICEEEEE VIDEO

[@velvetblue2285]

Man you are not lying, and sadly enough I remember when Asics and New Balance weren’t even looked at like they do now. Mind you I came from the early camping days at David Z aka KITH when Ronnie was still a basic store. I remember coping his sneakers back in 2010 and being that 1 kid that had a few Asics and New Balance outside of the Overhypeness of Jordans and they would sweat me wondering where I got my sneakers but if IKYK lol But even for Ronnie when he dropped the Knicks and Dolphin Asics in 2013 I was in college at the time and I saw the hype for them I knew it was downhill because it was nothing but resellers trying to get to them and I was livid.

[@chrome4841]

Im in my mid 50's its retail or Rep shoes for me my generation doesnt know whether my shoes reps or not. All I hear is I remember those...lol

[@TheHyHy33]

Been wearing the reps since Covid. Every time I wear them I hear I never seen them in person

[@BLGClipsx]

@@TheHyHy33you buy them from DH Gate?

[@vixious7418]

Alot of sneakers would sit wit out the hype thrown on em by INFLUENCERS

[@Addictedkicks]

Honestly, bro I’m one of your new followers. I’ll probably start following you three months ago and when I first started following you, I’ll be honest I said who is this lame now that I watch you every day I follow you on Instagram you are one of the realist I respect how you think about snickers I respect your personal collection you not hype beast you go for what you like and you keep it real unlike people like Unbreakablekicks, Jay, the Sneaker God in the rest of them they are all hype shoes it’s funny how they pass on all the general release shoes, but every Collab is a banger which is not so thank you for being real

[@sneakerheadguy23]

The sad part about some of these KZbinrs is if they hit multiple pairs of hype releases they don’t even look out for the viewers they so claim to love they will resale em to the same viewers they love for the high or act like they care and run it on what not starting at only a dollar 😂 UBK jtsg and others are like that crazy times in sneakers if you care about the community & culture atleast bless your viewers with the extra pair you hit for retail plus shipping but nah none do that

[@thisguytm3302]

There's no such thing as Bricks, my 🔥 not someone else 🔥, Oh🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ Jordan XVII LOWS goin for $300+? 👀🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ this is nuts

[@KingBr33ch]

It’s funny how this is such a huge issue to the people that purposely look for it. I had no idea grown men cared about what others wear. Sounds like some middle school shi to me. I hope you get through it though.

[@MALLSTAYFLY]

I’m glad another real one started a channel bro,

[@RoxFontaine]

It hasn't been a small community since probably 2000. Once the events and cons started up, it was over from there.

[@paid1n1fullmitch]

😂😂😂 the “you need these in your collection” had me dying 😭

[@youngcoder7403]

Watching your video and listening to Track 1 on Future & Metro Boomin's "WE DONT TRUST YOU" album.

[@Lledyl68]

Sir…Sir…you just earned yourself a new sub! Truth is refreshing. 💥 5:57

[@coreylscott7272]

Definitely stood in line for shoes maybe like. 4 shoes back in the day

[@jayfreezie]

DamDee warned is 😂😂😂

[@moo_spiffy]

I had a moment when I let them sway me and started wanting expensive resale shit but never fell victim and paid it because I love shoes to much I can’t see myself paying maybe 50 max over retail. I been loving shoes since 1998

[@jacobbaisch]

I joined the game late for some reason and only go retail or under pickup what I would actually wear

[@steezy7460]

Off topic kinda…. But the Nike Lebron 21s are 🔥🔥🔥

[@dennistaylor6541]

Anytime money get involved the love always die

[@tommywilliams5551]

Ain't messing wit those 17s.... why? For a briefcase?

[@trackstabba]

I couldn’t agree with you more. These new Sneakerheads need to cut it out! It’s only right for everyone to wear what they like and not what’s always hype!

[@coledwrld7]

The ones you mention aren’t even part of the community to begin with and as soon as there is no money to be made in sneakers they will leave again. I happen to notice most of these vultures that are ruining sneakers are a certain tone as well. I wonder why that is.

[@TheHyHy33]

I was there when MODELLS had the sign with the date on the windows

[@paid1n1fullmitch]

Dawg them camp outs 4 shoes, use to be lowkey lit in Philly…I remember 5 in the morning getting up and going to the sneaker store to make sure I had a decent spot in line! Would take my chair , some food & something to smoke lol would be good til 9/10 am when the store opened

[@mikeloveway]

This started wit them Corny ass Galaxy Foams

[@MikeBisney]

You got the facts bro!

[@TwntyUp]

at the end of the day it’s really just a purchasable good, we romanticized leather and rubber and people are now exploiting that

[@cwarren14]

Man in 2010 when them cool grey 11’s dropped shit ain’t been them same that was one long cold sad night/morning

[@polklovesrt10]

Bro you gone to collaborate with me, and I do not even have a channel for this BS, but I am 39 years old and been hoopin and wearing Js and air Nike since the 90s !!

[@killitpunk2387]

Mike Rich the realest!

[@mayes1183]

The 17’s hurt bro, my cousin really want them shits bad and they’re limited to boutiques and you know how they do with the bullshit raffles so we gave up. Now they $500 smh

[@DreDayKickz]

Not sure how I found your channel but you talking my language 🦾🦾

[@nitoshadow]

i never brought a sneaker for higher than retail always refused to pay resell prices

[@zackjohnson4176]

Nothing but facts in this video man, people thought they were SB heads but where were they in 2005? Not copping SBs cause dunks weren’t hyped and skateboarding wasn’t main stream like it is now. I know you don’t like dunks but I’ve been skating and wearing Nike SB since 2004. I still camp out for my SBs sometimes 24hrs+ because I LOVE SBs and the story behind the collabs. I wear every one of my SBs I don’t sell shit i have traded stuff but that’s it.

[@SHAMROCC317]

I stopped watching sneaker KZbin a while ago for this reason…it’s not the culture I’m use to at this good age of 40. I remember when resell was a few dollars over cost now they want mortgage payments lol

[@hexamortis1410]

Who remembers Maplewood boot camp from KZbin in like 2010. Mf cashed out on Bitcoin like 10 yrs ago. Wish I was listening to those vids of his 😢😢

[@daynehelaire8360]

id say ever since 2010ish and FB group pages got popular, people started to look for profits

[@alexwalker4082]

The 17s thing is Nikes fault for pushing them into a suitcase and making them extra limited for no goddamn reason

[@Keytap15]

Nike definitely feeds into the problem with sneakers today.

[@tedlessor3887]

The resellers make it easy for Nike to drop limited shoes 😅

[@rob8680]

The OGs came in a suitcase

[@alexwalker4082]

@@rob8680 highs bro not lows do ya homework

[@rob8680]

@@alexwalker4082 what’s the difference are the lows not 17s?

[@vernelyde2113]

What they doing wit these Kobe releases need to be investigated by the feds.... Idk if it's Vanessa or Nike just that thirsty... But since son passed away they are milking that name and any model Kobe shoe... And them shits was never that coveted before he died... Shit is outta control

[@gargeluy3035]

lol Tf the feds supposed to do?

[@vernelyde2113]

@@gargeluy3035 idk... fed shit.. 🤣😂

[@jacksonduval4995]

I aint never wait outside in a line for a shoe. They were always there when I went to the mall

[@itstaemonson]

I wouldn’t even call myself a sneaker head anymore and I knew what the first sneaker was. Do they not know ANY NBA history? Like at all?

[@Ok_Contest]

I just started collecting sneakers back in 2022, so most of my collection ain't going for crazy resell, but I love my collection even if every release is "bricking" lately. Every shoe I buy I genuinely like. A lot of the hyped shoes don't even look good to me. Off white is overhyped. Travis's are overhyped. I like the Travis' color way, but that backward swoosh ruins the entire shoe for me. It looks so dumb to me. I buy what I like with hopes they'll end up being "grails" in 3 years 😂. Couldn't be happier I'm getting shoes for retail and below.

[@kwill7761]

Bricks wasn’t even a word

[@jkspacely]

I'm on the New Balance wave tired of the Nikes/Jordans

[@Dwithoutthej]

You the only one besides pain182,mr orchard that talk about the my glorious foamposites. I subscribe to you just off that. I hate that resell talk

[@meli.daze22]

New sub for speaking facts

[@vernelyde2113]

That sniper never lies face and voice haunts me... His face inda camera should be tagged and demonitized... That commercial shit he be on just reminds me of get rich quick lawyer ads j.g. Wentworth scams and devry commercials

[@coreylscott7272]

Even the Facebook group kream, it’s not the same, it’s sale sale sale

[@Al-TariqJohnson]

That's wild I didn't even know about that 😂🤦🏾

[@bobbybrown4436]

Remember when KZbinrs like GoodfellaNell used to drop videos constantly. I loved lowkey purest channels 🙏

[@SuperNikeNando]

We know who that "certain group" is.....👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

[@stephenwarner4123]

Facts!!!!!!

[@kai-ly]

Great time for AJ1 lovers (including me). For those who want to cop and collect and wear their sneakers

[@antoinesmith3499]

To me, it started in 2005 with the pigeon. Dunk came out 05, and it went crazy after that as someone who brought sneakers since the 80s, now day, just terrible .

[@devayonlett3321]

Roszko is a perfect example of this.

[@truthseeker5863]

I wish that I could like this a million times. I have a few so called hype shoes but a majority of my shoes are bricks and like you said some shoes that used to sit back in the day is now selling out like the penny's and Barkleys they used to go on sale back in the day I caught hell trying to get a pair they sold out immediately now look at the resale on them it's ridiculous. I can name a few sniperkicks, unbreakable kicks, tristin wick and that chubby white dude i cant recall his name he sound british. Jump man Kris used to deny that he was a reseller for the longest until he finally admitted then jay the sneaker guy crossed over n became one of those annoying resellers but Mike rich, rongotsole,skip goes hard, weartesters,bred n butter Tony 2 wild and chanze aurel stayed true honestly I stopped watching sneaker youtubers because it's annoying now GREED TOOK OVE

[@wishfullythinking8938]

We took a BIG step back with the Jumpman jacks and the Jordan 17 lows.. no one’s honest those Jumpman jacks are ugly as shit. Can’t even get the 17 lightning now.. I’ll wait for a used pair

[@dontmindme9323]

And what’s crazy is that these colonizers, didn’t even wear Jordans until 2020 they all wore Vans, converse and Nike blazers, all of sudden the Jordan documentary comes out and they hip to the game😂😂😂

[@mp404code]

those yellow TS are like the Mcdonald high 1s if you flipped the swoosh around.. now if they flipped them swoosh on those mcdonalds 1s they wouldve sold out

[@NoPicoJvke]

I been saying this for the past 10 years… I’m old tho lol I would love to see things go bacc to when yall didn’t care about this shit..I remember people asking me why I would pay $120 for shoes lol I graduated in 07’ tho lol

[@bigwinsports9799]

Where u get that tracksuit from tho?

[@steezy7460]

It’s all about the worth of the sneaker…. Smh

[@cedric4610]

I can't find AE 1's to save my life. Was up ay 3am for every release and took the L. Size 14 going for over $200. Smh.

[@O.G.SPOOK1]

i used to collect from the late 90s all the way up to 2016...true blue3 and 11 45's beein the last pair i have bought. the reason is,what you said.... youtube QVC reviewers🤮 beein out of the "scene" i recently stumbled across the jordan 3 green glows and my fire was on like a flick of a switch....so i even doubled up at a under retail price at 160 each and then i started watching the reviews.... maaan,everybody talkin about resell prices....the shoes will not sell out...they will sit and other nonsense. i bought the green glow,because i love the model...i love 3's and because its a nice colorway...90% BC... i dont care about resell value😂😂😂 this was going on around 2010 already but became a ish show in 2024 it seems....

[@Destroyer-Grizzly-BIH]

Their whole persona changed once they started wearing Jordan’s, Yeezys and other kicks.