It’s funny
- I don’t really even have to post much when it comes to the @warrenlotas fiasco cuz this dude has everyone all in their feelings and everyone absolutely feels the need to drop their opinions on the subject. Any time I see a Lotas-related topic - all I have to do is take a quick screenshot, come up with a witty GIF, and post. And a bunch of people who don’t follow me will start arguing in the comments about what is what and what isn’t.
Like a week ago - some dude tried to DOX me on some of the forums I frequent because he didn’t like my opinion on the whole situation. Again - my opinion on the whole thing - I have a nostalgic connection to anything in that original Pigeon Dunk(s) colorway - I’ve owned the OG dunks, New Balances, Timberlands, Clarks, FILAS, Pumas even an OG Kangol in this colorway. So the colorway spoke to me. I don’t give a damn about any of the other WL dunks, but this one I was cool with.
Someone asked me yesterday - am I upset they’re not releasing? Absolutely not - I’ve got enough shoes I don’t wear and even if I owned them it’d be a stretch for a 40-year-old man in the suburbs to wear these with my kids to the playground. So...whatever.
I’m sure a lot of you looked over the document (or at least saw the document through your IG feeds) - and the one thing I take issue with is the term ‘Fakes’. ‘Fake’ means - not true or real. I mean - nowhere on the shoe does it say ‘Nike’. It says ‘WL’. Lame? Yeah, kinda.
But IMO this is not in the same league as the replica nor fake manufacturers...replica and fake manufacturers are making money off of Nike’s branding, Nike’s logo, Nike’s name, Nike’s Trademarks, Nike’s Copyrights. And they’re mostly parading around the marketplace under the guise of ‘authentic.’ Warren Lotas, though? If he were able to sell these shoes - it seems to me he’d be making money off of Nike’s likeness.
If WL Dunks are ‘fake’, what are actual fakes? If WL Dunks are ‘fake’, what would y’all call these Steven Madden and Skechers classics?
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