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Healthy gatekeeping is important. And we have ways to deflect the people just visiting. I don't tell anyone about my sneaker channel, I'd rather they find it through a video about a kick they were looking up. To find what I put out you obviously have to be in to sneakers. Does that mean less views and subs? Yep. But my audience stays genuine, pure, and not fickle.

Sneaker heads ruin the sneaker industry. With you hype on new color-ways nike stop innovating and started to put lipstick on their shoes.

I just picked up off StockX, 4 pair of AF1’s, 3 for well under retail even after fees and shipping, the 4th I did pay $15 over retail, although I’ve seen that drop since I bought mine. Very few shoes attracting big resale $.

I just picked up off StockX, 4 pair of AF1’s, 3 for well under retail even after fees and shipping, the 4th I did pay $15 over retail, although I’ve seen that drop since I bought mine. Very few shoes attracting big resale $.

There is no AF2. Only AF1

Gatekeeping is necessary

Love how you broke this down, very well said.

Ed hardy got replaced by chrome hearts funny thing I don’t give a fuck about fashion and only wear what’s comfortable. I could see the appeal though, to me Ed hardy was that wanna be “edgy” look or people wanted to be dress like wanna be rockstars, I feel chrome took that idea and became popular with “exclusive” marketing while the problem with Ed hardy like any brand was eventually it got over exposed which is a problem with a lot of brands failing in fashion which is the over exposure of a brand

shout to reggie, i like the comparism analysist

F... the "sneaker market"

Iron Heart and SoSo ...

Sounds like the Dutch Tulip crash back in the early 1600's.

A lot of resellers were just buying whatever they could and then were selling it for a nice profit. They didn’t need to do any research or see trends, they just bought the entire line of whatever came out whether through bots or back door deals. Now consumers are more selective and are prepared to wait to get the shoes they want on discount, not just try to buy whatever comes out. In a market when there’s people who know what they are doing and then there’s people who don’t know anything but can only buy without thinking about it, surely will suffer in the end. Same was with Lego, people would buy whatever came out and then resell it afterwards for good profit, meanwhile the die hard fans wouldn’t be able to get it so would pay the reseller amount. Now people keep playing the long game and eventually they can hold out that they can get a good price for sets. Eventually the people who can’t hold on have to get rid of the their stock for maybe less than what they paid which was never the case about 2 years ago. When something is trending, don’t get invoved. Chances are it’s already too late

The sneaker scene is Fkn gay…like not the “like” Sneakers part but the dusty resellers that buy everything up with their rent money and then try and make a quick buck tryna come up 20 bucks on some shoes 🤡

I love sneakers but as I grow older,My go to footwear is crocs.😅😅😅

Crazy I’ve been on this for a min cause it’s a lot of people on waves and wagons of trendy.

I noticed this trend of needing to gatekeep from two communities: small business and dating groups. Quality of information and questions are low-quality, basic, and repeated ad-nauseam when it’s a free group; newbies don’t know how to use the searchbar. However, once there’s a monetary barrier setup (i.e. mastermind groups), the participants and quality of discussions become more sophisticated and higher quality. Gatekeeping, whether via information or financial is needed to have a stronger community for certain niches. I agree with fashion needing gatekeeping wholeheartedly

unfortunately most gatekeepers (or at least the most vocal ones) these days don't actually care about maintaining the history and heritage of a brand, piece, etc. they just do it because they're pretentious and dont even understand when someone genuinely wants to learn for the sake of learning, instead of abusing the knowledge. it's also worth noting how context dependent gatekeeping is, like theres a huge difference between gatekeeping a brand to preserve its heritage and consumer base or prevent prices from skyrocketing due to resellers versus gatekeeping outside of brands, like people who gatekeep entire hairstyles and traditional clothing based on where youre from (the latter being pretty harmful)

There was a reason people gate kept their cultures.

I have no understanding of the sneaker thing but keep the faith. Enjoy what you love.

Without GATEKEEPERS🤔 or VULTURE EXCLUSION😱: Rap has become a CIRCUS🤯. What is a circus without a clown🤡? Cue the intro😳: Drake👀is THE BIGGEST CLOWN😂..!

In a world full of trend seeking copycats, gatekeeping keeps the trade alive.

I was anti-gatekeeper when I was younger, but have strongly grown toward at least a healthy bit of gatekeeping being necessary. The push for every interest to be more mainstream has forced those of us into those things to become more and more niche in what we enjoy. It's cool, in a way, to create further spaces for people like yourself to thrive, but it can also be annoying (or worse) to feel like an alien or to feel ostracized in the community you love.

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Gatekeeping is necessary. Our lack of gatekeeping is the reason why we’re treated like a guest in Country, Rock n Roll & jazz music.

Gatekeeping is the result of people wanting to be different, so they see it as a threat when people inevitably jump onto whatever trend or style they're rocking with. At some point, we need to recognize that we live in the same society, so there's bound to be shared interests.

What up bro? This is SiG dude. I have a LOOOOOT talk to u about and a LOT of questions. But as usual; probably will get NO response. And if that’s the case; have fun with ur life🤷🏾‍♂️

I love gatekeeping

nike is worth $113 billion & they cryin about this money made this year, they sound like greedy idiots.

Proverbial gatekeeper here lol. Im a hater to those who dont know why they like something.

There is an equilibrium. As hobbies/activities get diluted by the casual base, there is a necessary reaction from more hardcore bases to rehydrate the original passion/creativity/ideas that made the concept interesting/avant garde in the first place.

“LV fans” aren’t gonna defend LV like in your comment thread bit. At least the ones i know, they’re in it for the status and don’t actually give a flying f about LV. Would jump ship in a heartbeat if another brand was more prestigious.

Th problem with gatekeeping is that it's a power and that power corrupts

Both Kendrick and Drake overrated tho

Gatekeeping is stupid, if you want to keep the integrity of the subject then… teach, take the time to add to the culture and stop alienating people. Everybody starts somewhere, help each other and make the community better. Get off your high horse and push culture FORWARD.

Yeah. You a Drake Stan.

Can anyone answer this question. Why did Adidas NOT sell their TMNT Shredder & Splinter sneakers in Canada 🇨🇦 & USA but it’s sold on their website to the rest of the world 🌍

I just recently saw an interview, “it’s just clothes” - Alexander McQueen

Passionate gatekeeper esp in fashion. It takes alot of skills (additional methods too)

The ai art? Bro...nah...

The best part is the counterfeit shoes are better quality

Adidas superstar look better

Don’t cast your pearls before swine

This really needs to happen in most art disciplines unfortunately. You see this happening in film a lot lately, especially on social media. The internet has been an amazing tool for many things, but it's also created a lot of "layman experts" who have not seen, read, or done the research on the subject they're speaking on, and it's creating this rise in "anti-intellectualism" which is really sad to see.

Gatekeeping has been on a rise since I’ve been alive.

People don’t got money to spend on dumb shit no more, but I’m glad it crashed buying up things and selling them up at a mark up is greedy! I hope they lost all they money 😂😂

😂😂😂 if your paying more than 100 bucks for running shoes, your a mark.

This is so true. This is why people don't understand that they're just pandering. To the same audience, they don't think Kendrick. Does the same things business wise as drake, They're crazy Kendrick knows how to pander. Trust me it's obvious.

Star Wars , Warhammer 40k, Soulslike vidya games, Fashion, Anime, unite in keeping tourists out.

As an anti-gatekeeper this was one of my favorite uploads. I grew up loving Yohji Yamamoto since i was a kid. Along with Initial D and Martial Arts/Tricking and hardcore/metalcore music. And based alot of my style on these hobbies of mine growing up. During high school the likes of Paul Fuentebella would more than likely make fun of me with his bro friends about my style. And now that alot of these things have popularized in recent years, i think he has collected efforts into kicking me out of all my hobbies. Avant garde fashion being the finale for him. Just to save his brand as a youtuber.... Im disabled now but still try to enjoy my hobbies but im certain the likes of Paul Fuentebella has to diffuse my existence in these communities to better protect his branding. Which is causing me to self harm.