Idk why but people’s standard of “beat” is soooooo crazy now. I can have a pair of pretty crispy kicks with just some light wear and creasing and people will call them beat up and down… when i was growing up, kicks had to be cooked through to the soles, peeling, cracking, yellowing, and all that for them to be called beat… idk if its people trying to get better prices for kicks I’m selling or people’s ideas of beat are insane these days. Mind you I’m a seller who likes to have the most fair prices in the game!! Same thing goes for ratings 1-10, ive seen people labeling 9/10 kicks with a 6-7 saying condition is poor. We’ve officially gotten bougie with it yall.
I stopped wearing beat sneakers when I found out how bad it is for your feet, legs, and back. I wasn’t thinking about my health when I was a kid.
Because a good amount of the sneaker content you see is sponsored content and everyone is trying to turn you into the perfect consumer. Nike would love nothing more than for single use AF1s to become the norm. Any reasonable person knows this insane, but if you watch enough people post about shoes being cooked, you might start replacing pairs a little quicker than necessary.
Beyond that, the focus on resale markets has likely caused people to focus more on keeping shoes near pristine rather than actually judging the condition based on how functional they still are.
It’s really just social media. Our ratio of seeing pristine shoes to seeing worn shoes has gone dystopic - everyone will share a pic of their new/cleaned kicks in perfect lighting, but the only worn shoes you’ll see are in person, and you may never see certain shoes in person. When you google a shoe, you’ll see hundreds of promo pics on models with perfect lighting, and that’s our idea of what the shoe is, never mind that the white will be a dusty yellow in a few months.
The other factor is that sneakerheads have so many pairs that individual pairs don’t age. A pair of Js worn every day for 3 months by a kid can literally be more worn than the same pair that’s been on a sneakerhead’s light rotation for 10 years. And guess which of the two will share pics of the shoe
I’m cool with getting sub-£50 shoes on eBay that are considered beat but still so wearable. Keep going with the crazy high standards as far as I’m concerned so I can keep getting the bargains and then run them into the ground.
Eh, if I’m buying used shoes, my ratings are going to be harsh. Especially with how so many used sellers charge ridiculous prices. Maybe you’re just biased because you’re a seller.