rocking the crocs.

Hell yea dude

I’ve heard crocs look like clown shoes because they allow your toe more movement to help support your balance, which can help prevent atrophy of those muscles that’s really common with modern footwear and sedentary lifestyle. I don’t know why if this is true, but I will continue wearing crocs because they’re comfy

Are you me? I've basically only worn crocs and timberlands for the past decade. I'm either going for comfort or function.

A sneaker is more or less a basketball shoe and adjacent styles of athletic footwear.

Sneaker collecting started to become a thing in the 70s in the Hip Hop scene in NYC. Sneakers gave people the ability to easily customize their shoes to match a personal style, painting them, dying them etc. In the 80s you got the Nike's Air Jordans, which blew up the scene. You'd have a lot of shoe companies working with different celebs to drive the popularity of the Sneaker. It rapidly takes on the properties of a status symbol.

Now you have Sneakerheads, which is basically a consumer identity that is willing to spend a lot of time and money to ensure that they have a large collection of sneakers that many don't even wear. As with many things, I think there is something cool in there that was ruined by hyper consumptive capitalism.

This is the opposite of a genius idea.