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What you are about to watch will make you cringe with so much discomfort. By all accounts, this is a grown ass man complete with a bucket hat, skull bandana and sunglasses, standing over a pair of Yeezy Boosts, giving a dissertation on why the shoe is not that great, proceeding to freeze it with liquid nitrogen and smashing it with a sledgehammer before finally going to town with a blowtorch. "It deserves to be dropped, it's that bad," he says, going on to complain about how Kanye gave shoes to people who bought them in person at the Adidas store rather than taking a pair to a child in a hospital who also got a pair and evangelizing shoes that have meaning, like Jordan's Doernbecher line or breast cancer-inspired charity models.
Okay, that last bit kinda sorta makes sense, but I don't think this dude realizes that copping different sneakers—say, one for the good of mankind and/or one for simply flexing—is not a mutually exclusive affair. You may not be helping anyone when you lace up your Yeezy Boosts, but you're certainly not hurting anyone either, outside of maybe pathetic fuccbois with egos that bruise as easily as a peach. Not to mention, when it's all said and done, this guy just shits on the sneakers aesthetically, which kinda undermines his earlier, entirely holier than thou sermon.
So, yeah, our story's antagonist is Mahrun Karkvandeian. Peep his Instagram. It's the shit your Internet-savvy personality has nightmares about. I'm guessing this is all a front just to get people to pay attention to him because there's no fucking way anyone is this obnoxious in real life, right? At least he has his "meaningful" shoes to keep him company.