10 Ways To Tell You're A Sneakerhead Groupie

You already know how real it is out there trying to get your hands on coveted releases over the last year and a half; it has birthed a whole new sub-species of people – the sneaker groupie. We wish we were kidding, but it's true, look close enough at your timeline and you could probably pick out a few people that fit the criteria of someone who is entirely too thirsty when it comes to the sneaker game. Is it you? Click through the gallery to find out if you're good, and if it's your boy, you need to hold him down. Check out 10 Ways To Tell You're A Sneakerhead Groupie and feel free to hit us in the comments with any groupie stories of your own.

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You follow any person with credibility in the sneaker world and will say just about anything to get their attention. Replies to Gentry Humphrey "those Jordan Is were trash anyways". Dog, you're hustling backwards — you just got blocked by everyone that matters.

Bigging up your people is a nice thing to do but staying locked to your mans timeline all day and retweeting his every word as if he was doing the Lord's work just to get on his good side is mad lame, if you're over 9 you shouldn't be jocking someone so hard — even if they can get you XIs with ease.

Trolling timelines didn't work, so instead you're throwing up photos on social media acting important like all these people need to know who you are to stay relevant. Stop, seriously stop. No one is buying the mysteriousness of your kick game and to be honest no one really is checking for you like that, at all. It's not that serious.

You follow everyone from the most influential to the product photographers for Zappos just to make sure you dont miss out on anything. You have Tweet Deck, Hoot Suite AND Twitter on the web and the mobile open so you don't miss anything. And you refresh your Instagram feed so often that it's literally a movie. In related news, you probably haven't had human contact with a female in months.

You're on your cell so much DM'ing contacts that she thinks you have a side chick, not to mention you're all smiles and giddy because a Nice Kicks writer just retweeted your latest opinion on the 15th colorway of the KD V. She will leave you and you will be all alone in a room with your thoughts... and your KD Vs.

You took things a step further than propping brands, you have now strategically figured out every PR person for brands and will dick-ride them until they chafe at a shot to get on their seeding list. Face it, no amount of ass-kissing will work, work hard and someday you may be lucky enough to get comped a pair or two.

Some guys do have some amazing collections and by all means you should give them the proper daps for their stellar sneaker game but mobbin' on them for a photo like a 13-year-old girl who just met Bieber for the first time is never a good look. Never. They put on their sneakers one foot at a time just like you - it just takes them longer to pick out a pair.

Getting the hottest new releases can be a struggle for even the most connected people, but trying to befriend everyone who was fortunate enough to get some heat is a real reach. It makes sense to try and build good relationships, but don't come off as that dude that is a straight-up groupie only trying to further his needs.

Being a repeat customer is a good look, few sneaker shops really get that kind of loyalty — we even encourage when people stop in just to chop it up from time to time. The issue is when you're coming around so often with no agenda that you're commonly the butt of a joke by someone in hybrids who thinks the XIIIs are really called "He Got Games". Newbs > Groupies — that's just how the food chain goes.

Is it you? The streets is watching and we notice some of you dudes telling every brand they have the hottest shit in the streets, Just for your own information, it's typically a 20-something-year-old kid fresh out of college running those Twitter handles, he can't even get himself free stuff, B.