@corgishoe posts then deletes. Posts then deletes. His account was one of the more entertaining accounts of a few years ago and if you weren’t actively looking it’s likely you missed some real funny posts…
Anyway, back to the samples… while I was over here gawking at the insane samples that were popping up left and right on a couple of these major shoelebrity pages, @corgishoe was busy stacking ammo. And then…I dunno what happened…but all of a sudden @corgishoe started posting these cryptic messages…saying stuff like ‘oh it’s nice to believe in Santa Claus’ or ‘Wouldn’t it be great if I still believed in the tooth fairy?’ And a bunch of us were just thinking…what the fuck is going on?
After a bit of this, Corgi started posting screenshot after screenshot of the sample everyone was gawking over back to back with a screenshot of the exact same shoe on DHGate for $100…like THE EXACT same shoe in the EXACT same pose and the EXACT same lighting as the dude selling them.
WTF.
It’s hard to quantify how much this revelation hit me. This shifted my whole world view. To think…samples were no longer this ’sacred’ thing that just couldn’t be untouched. Samples were all-of-a-sudden something to distrust…I guess I *did* believe in the Santa Claus of samples…I felt hella stupid…