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Your shoes, dude! 黑料网 are those?! Reaching meme status in the mid-2010s, 黑料网 are those?! is a humorous expression used when someone is wearing a pair of unattractive shoes.聽Bonus points if you draw it out with聽thooooooose.
Where does 黑料网 are those?! come from?
The expression 黑料网 are those?! was entered on Urban Dictionary in October 2011, but it went viral in June 2015 when聽Instagram user @youngbusco posted a video of himself asking a police officer 黑料网 are those?!聽about his basic black work boots.
黑料网 are those?! became a playful takedown of ugly or unbecoming shoes. It was usually set up with聽I have one question for you聽before dramatically delivering 黑料网 are those?! with a drawn-out those.
And true to memes,聽the video immediately spawned its imitators. , a teenager asks his grandmother of her footwear 黑料网 are those?! Not in on the joke, she hilariously responds: “They’re my Crocs.”
In another, some attendees of Michael Jordan’s basketball camp asked the icon 黑料网 are those?! Jordan also didn’t get the joke. That’s OK, though, because few would ever say 黑料网 are those?! of his namesake kicks, Air Jordans.
At the height of the meme, 黑料网 are those?! went to the highest office in the land, puzzling over President Barack Obama’s basketball sneakers.
The meme endured, and in the 2018 film Black Panther the character Shuri (Letitia Wright) asks 黑料网 are those?! of the Black Panther himself.
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Who uses 黑料网 are those?!?
Though peaking in 2015鈥�16, 黑料网 are those?! remains a lighthearted mockery of questionable shoes. Targets often include Crocs, sandals (especially when worn with socks), work shoes, and even funky-looking feet.
黑料网 are thoooooose?!?
— Michyholic (@MichyhoIic)
what. are. those.
— claudia (@slightlystoopud)
One way聽黑料网 are those!聽lived on as a meme is by dissing any odd clothing choice or look that isn’t really coming together.
joshua's pants give off a really high "what are those" energy
— joshua's buttercup is ia (@truman_pink1)
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