Another day, another L. Such is life for sneakerheads with Nike’s SNKRS app.
People everywhere got up on Friday morning to enter Nike’s raffle for the Grateful Dead SB Dunks. These shoes were made to pay homage to the classic rock band.
Did people really care about that? No, of course not. Most of the people who entered the raffle probably didn’t even listen to the Grateful Dead.
These shoes were just so beautiful, yo. They’re incredible. Easily one of the cleanest releases of the year. That yellow? That blue? Just amazing.
Look at them. They’re equal parts ridiculous and glorious.
The mind-bending tribute.
The SB Dunk Low Pro x Grateful Dead 'Opti Yellow'
Enter Draw 🇺🇸 https://t.co/QP5PlGa4HO pic.twitter.com/SeM4BMnhTb
— Nike.com (@nikestore) July 24, 2020
Problem was everyone and their mother’s cousin’s uncle entered in the raffle to get them. And they were already low in stock.
Remember the Chunky Dunky’s? Yeah, apparently there were more of those available than the Grateful Dead joints. And we see how that turned out.
Bad News – Stock On The Nike SB Dunk Low "Grateful Dead Bears" Is Significantly Lower Than The Chunky Dunkys 🐻 < 🐮 pic.twitter.com/h0q1WinVtP
— Sole Retriever (@SoleRetriever) July 19, 2020
So, the basic principles of supply and demand says this was about to be a train wreck. And that was absolutely correct — it was a train wreck. The L’s were in abundance this morning.
Another L on the SNKRS app I don’t know why I even tried 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/FaLcQlz0sf
— Scam Likely (@AbdimonSosa) July 24, 2020
You know what I was going to sell these anyways so whatever pic.twitter.com/quwIcxweBA
— chrishsiao (@ChrisHsiao) July 24, 2020
Welp pic.twitter.com/S2chy4ap26
— Nola Darling (@AcesLastWrd) July 24, 2020
we all have fun in the Grateful Dead drawing? pic.twitter.com/hJeobSZAjH
— Mike Golic Jr (@mikegolicjr) July 24, 2020
first of all how dare you pic.twitter.com/BOtKJHh2Ad
— adrian (@Crawf33) July 24, 2020
Diary of an L: Part 2 pic.twitter.com/cICFOLN8ms
— Nick Kostos (@TheKostos) July 24, 2020
Took an L on the SNKRS app for the SBs this morning 🤡
— Jordan Jamal (@jordannjamal) July 24, 2020
Me on SNKRS today pic.twitter.com/YwpizK6jh6
— bezzy (@billionarieflo) July 24, 2020
a tradition pic.twitter.com/uuWCWIA7BR
— mike taddow (@taddmike) July 24, 2020
“Unfortunately it didn’t work out this time.”
It never does lol pic.twitter.com/DiatiX8pyq
— Stepfan Raiford (@stepfdelaghetto) July 24, 2020
And there are plenty more where those came from. The L’s got so bad that “Another L” started trending on Twitter.
LMAOOOOO pic.twitter.com/FC76leYdV6
— Michael Sykes, II (@MikeDSykes) July 24, 2020
The best part? This is all happening again on Saturday when the Off-White Jordan 4 release drops. It’s so lit.