Another excellent observation from @sneakerphetish ...like what exactly are these people doing at these events? Is it just to drive hype? It's nothing new, tho, just the amount of 'famous' people I'm seeing at these events seems abnormal. I guess @pjtucker makes sense, but Kevin Gates and Ric Flair and Dennis Rodman and Scottie Pippen?
Remember back in the day when Big Boi was the guest speaker at one of those events and he showed up wearing invisble Jordan VIIs? lol IMO he was definitely paid to be there.
When I went to Sneakercon SJ a few weeks ago, I saw a handful of people I knew, more than a handful of people I knew about and a whole bunch of social media people walking around with cameras. It's great that they've created like a whole self-sustaining economy around the convention, but IMO, Kari's right, some of these celebrities look hella confused at what they're witnessing...