Bro foh

pretty much

I think there was a unspoken respect there but once all these other random brand’s started trying it they probably had to cover their ass legally on all fronts

Kiy and John Geiger the sneaker game Boston Richey and Gunna lmaooo

WHAT DUHH HEELLLLLLLLL OHHH MAHH GAWDDDD NOOOOOOO WAAAAYYYEEEYYEEEYYYYEEEYAYYYYYYY

Prime examples?

Kool Kiy
gnarcotic/lil gnar
Every IG streetwear brand now has a pair of dunks or forces with dice or butterflies or some bullshit or whatever their logo is instead of a swoosh lol

There was the company that replaced the swoosh with a g, the one that replaced the swoosh with a lightning bolt, the one that replaced the swoosh with a butterfly, the one that replaced the swoosh with a Jason mask…

It’s really gotten outta hand

This that bape s*** shake it like you ape s***

Vans coming for Ian Connor next

Yup I guess Nike was tired of the small companies saying “but you let Bape do it”

Nah actually the opposite lol Nike sees them as a threat now cause they’ve been dropping a lot more Bapestas recently…

They did already and he rebranded and changed up the design

I hope Bape fights and wins this cause they put out lots of fire colorways/collabs i still need to pick up a pair and I hope this s*** doesn’t make prices go up much

I wanted some of those marvel ones that dropped recently

Didn’t Nike have a really bad year last year?

yea

their collabs kinda bricked

I always thought Bapesta's were a collab with Nike

Nike tried to buy bape

It rips off, but it is for sure different

lmao this speaks to Nike brand power cuz if you look at the story on this same page it’s quite literally the same exact physical shoe with a switched out logo. they weren’t an actual shoe company at first they were just distributing the onitsukas to colleges