How Yeezy Slide cost Kanye $1,000,000,000

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:51 The Downfall of YE
2:08 Billion Dollar Blunder
4:40 Outsole Tests
5:00 Bar Drop Test
5:20 Puncture Test
5:36 Durometer
5:59 Different Compounds?
6:29 Super Scientific Tests
7:17 Cut in Half
8:22 Reveal
9:14 Analysis of Both
9:49 Did Adidas Rip Kanye Off?
11:19 Was Kanye Right?

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[freestatefellow]

Appreciate you doing what you always do: look at a shoe or boot objectively, provide the context of its construction, and then show us what’s inside.

[shearsparkle]

Love how the every man Jack ad was done. Like yes! Tell us what you like& what you don’t AND WHY! Because the reasons why that form your opinion is very valuable to people shopping for themselves or others. Also enjoyed the visual effects during it. I also enjoy all the work you guys put into testing& comparing shoes, BUT ALSO the back story of everything too. Keep it up!

[yunusegunes]

Slight correction: Yeezy is Kanye’s own brand and has done collaborations with other brands such as Nike and GAP, not necessarily only with Adidas. So yes, they have a big collaboration. But no, Adidas isn’t a part of Yeezy nor the other way around. It’s a collab.

[sethbollman]

So sad you have to worry about being demonetized for reviewing shoes. Youtube is out of hand right now! I love all your videos and find them extremely educational.

[kleinc]

Would love to see you do a skate shoes series! It's really common to go through a pair every month or 2 and it can get really pricey over the years. I'm using the NB Jamie Foy right now and apparently there's a plastic insert that goes around the whole shoe so when you wear through the suede, there's still the plastic to go through.

[dmacpher]

The core design is The Adilette Slides were brought to market in 1972, shortly before the Summer Olympic Games in Munich.

[junahn]

I remember wearing foam slides in the 1990's. It's not like this was some kind of big revelation.

[sophiejane]

The Adidas and Yeezy designs differ quite a bit in the detail, but BOTH designs are derivative designs of the highly successful CROC shoe from at least a decade and a half ago...

CROCS was the brand that came up with the whole concept of the single component footwear in an alternative material...

[rowlz]

Let’s be honest the pixelated design of the adidas is quite different. And foam slides have existed way before Kanye deigned these yeezys, so the whole affair seems rather stupid

[jorge]

Sorry but I can't stop thinking those both are some overly priced genZ Crocs... Am I a boomer? No, just a Mexican's southeast Millennial. And when I was a kid we always wear huaraches or sayonaras' flip flops.
Thank you for the video. And for keeping the awesome work.
PS. Just edit the comment for asking of you guys please review the 251 sneakers from MKHB.

[subverted]

Would be interesting to know if the knockoff claims are based on the development process. The finished products definitely look nothing alike but I would not be surprised if Adidas took one of the concept designs and ran with it.

[Shark.]

ye was not dropped by def jam, the contract ended after his tenth album Donda. Ye also made it clear that he wanted to leave gap and adidas for how they only view him as an asset to make money

[soccerball]

Yeah. From what complex wrote in their article and what they’ve discussed on the sneakers podcast. Kanye hasnt been bothered to attend meetings with adidas before he got terminated for roughly 3 yrs. It was also “revealed” that someof the yeezy designers who worked with kanye ALSO worked with adidas and that some of their designs that were roughly close to the slide were made into the adilette

[LaymensLameMan]

Weston doing the most to not get cancelled. Sucks to walk on eggshells 😅 here’s my comment of support 😂

[twotgfltandahalf]

I mean... are the Yeezy slides really that groundbreaking compared to Adilettes? Single-piece foam sandals/slides aren't exactly new stuff for Adidas.

[flori]

It should be mentioned that Kanye also completed about other shoes like Adifom Q which seems like more of a copy of his design then the Adilette

[The_Topscreen]

So I can feel for the creative side of things, but I feel like the runners and slides owe a whole lot to Crocs.

[beyoncehadoneofthebest]

i have one pair of yeezy slides and i really wish i could have picked up a couple more pairs before the collab ended. you covered the topic very fairly, hopefully you don’t get d-worded

[Justinmeatybonds]

The yzy slides actually weren't popular right off the bat. They originally dropped in 3 colors and they all sat on yeezy supply for weeks, maybe months. I remember wearing them into the office I worked in and getting clowned. Then they caught on and I was never able to buy another pair.

Also fun fact, the Adilette 22s originally dropped in the SAME 3 colors as the first 3 yzy slides. Can't be a coincidence.

[effu]

"Fashion" and "influential" don't come to mind when I think of purchasing a product.