Originally Posted by npoak
MESSENGER CULTURE IS TEH SELL-OUT! OMG, LIKE OMG...WE ALL NEED TO FIND A NEW TREND TO JUMP ONTO NOW THAT NIKE IS SELLING US OUT.
OMG, like I just bought a new pista and a new messenger bag. I gotta sell it now. I've been sold out. Nike ruined riding a bike for me. I can't possibly ride a fixed gear because nike has spoiled it for me. OMG. THis sucks. Maybe SOAP shoes will be cool now. At least nike isn't involved with that.
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I don't mean to pick on you, but there have been like 10 different responses exactly like this here.
No one is saying this.
People here, including myself, don't like Nike for a ****ing slew of reasons. They're one of the most visible, unrepentently inhumane trans-national corporations. Anyone who's been through college or has an even slightly critical perspective knows this. Add on top of this their "coolhunting," or co-opting of the alternative (the same "alternative" that often is opposing everything Nike stands for) and it makes perfect sense that people are a little upset with Nike.
It rubs me to see Nike moving in on our loose little subculture, but no one is acting like the strawman you people have been constructing.