the point is people buy shoes and hype them up when they're limited, but if the same shoe was a GR, available easily, a lot of y'all would easily pass, and not sit here and talk about how it's a "good looking shoe", in fact some would agree with those of us who think they're ugly. some of you just bought into the current asics hype and limited availability...
i agree that some also let hype take away from the actual shoe, like yeezys for instance, particularly the net and zen 1's... they're some of the best quality shoes nike has ever produced, but there's a lot of people who hate on them mad hard simply because there's so much hype around them. doesn't mean the shoe itself deserves all that hate tho. if you don't like the way it looks, then that's fine, but don't sit there and let hype steer your opinion (i woulda bought the yeezys if they were GR's, i love the way the shoe itself looks, the silhouette, the strap, the moon boot futuristic look), and make you make uneducated statements like they're garbage when the fact is they are not. that's why you never heard me try to discredit the quality of materials on the st. alfreds, i'm sure they're great, i just don't like how it looks, and no amount of hype or quality materials is gonna change my mind...
i don't let hype and limited numbers be a deciding factor in what i choose to cop and rock or not... but i think this st. alfreds collab clearly shows that some of you do... i truly think if these were GR's most of you wouldn't have copped these... i think a ton of people don't know what they like, they just buy shoes based on hype, limited numbers, and to try to be cool, to have what's considered "hot" in the sneaker game at the moment.