The Sneaker That's Destroying Adidas... Adidas AdiFOM Q 

Exactly. Boycott away! lol

Have at it. Those shoes ugly af

yip the retail price is fair but resell means I own just the one pair of onyx foam runners because while into them the fact i paid 200 for comfortable crocs is wild

@@elizabeth3280 finally someone with sense. These are just glorified Crocs.

Yall are tripping if you think people will stop wearing Adidas because some smelly rappers don't like them. Adidas make good quality clothes and shoes that people have been wearing forever and will continue doing so.

@@nn-hx8oe exactly lol dont get me wrong i'll continue to watch elliot content he seems like a cool dude, but im glad to see that the majority of his audience doesnt share his point of view, we all are entitled to our own opinions after all and to me this all issue is pure nonsense

Adidas need Yzy more than the other way around 😂

@@Rexkinghon cap you thing adidas would just disappear bcuz ye is gone lol they still got big collabs and these adidas lol Ye cam never be as big as them

@@Rexkinghon they need eachother, yeezy wouldnt be a thing if it werent for adidas, adidas would not be what it is if it werent for yeezy

@@Rexkinghon meh, idk what other brand Ye could have partnered which is the same level as Adidas....he already burned the bridge with Nike. Anyway, this shoe looks better

No they won’t…nobodies buying that shit except people who don’t like Kanye and if that’s a reason to buy a shoe I think they might wanna take that money and get a physiological evaluation. 😂

They're reselling on stockx at the same price as retail so I'd say they aren't gonna be popular

@@Cho0segoose hope for that! Kanye once said he wanted yeezy to be popular, that anyone could get one but he never did that even releasing colors after color and adidas is doing exactly that. More stock reasonable prices and not resellers bot to sold out

This!

@@antoniogleyser hopefully one day they can do the same for Yeezys rather then for knockoffs

True... too many bullshit talks around this, adifom q is a real shoe in the foam sneakers world

FACTS i wear foam runners at a festival and my ankles got destroyed i think i still have even scars bro cmon adi fom i can't wait to cop one pair for retail.. too bad EU stock was low asf

Foam rnnr make you slide esp, in a shiny floor i swear im almost laying on the floor 🤣

Bro wear fucking socks with the foams wtf?

Ghayyyy

Foams>>>>>>

@@francescopetrarca7382 but if it had a Yeezy logo you and everyone else would be d riding them 🤫🤫

@@pissypamper5672 Yeezys don’t even have logos you dweeb 😂

A knockoff with no integrity is never better than the OG. You have low level taste and are someone that should not be trusted based on your decision making.

Basically. And the worst thing is people are making this seem a lot deeper than just that.

homie tryna be different so bad

​@@zerf991adifom's are just better

@@zerf991 can't even like things anymore without "tryna be different", grow up

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thank you!

Had the same thought

idk yeezy 500s and jordan 7s arent that bad, opinions exist unfortunately

thank you, finally a comment from earth

Lol he wouldn’t be able too. Adidas is the reason Yeezys we’re popular not the other way around

I know I’m a year late a a dollar shot. But, If we're being honest, all of his sneakers are just copied from older adidas designs. The Yeezy 500 for example is no different, it's just a copy of the Kobe Crazy8 3's.

It's a shoes runners are slip on jazzed up Crocs not the same

The foamrunners are ugly, and the FOM Q are everthing the foamrunners aren't

Plus adidas’s ones are 10x prettier

Your argument that adidas is providing a cheap alternative is stupid. Kanye has been trying to produce more of his products and cut down on costs to benefit the consumer and he’s been vocal about it. Adidas know what they are doing building exclusive hype to Yeezys by not mass producing them. Kanye has been trying to branch off and provide production warehouses in America. Makes no sense to knock off a slide when they can literally produce it, I mean they do have the molds to do so? Wouldn’t that be cheaper than creating a newer knock off mold? L take.

Ye wanted to sell them cheaper. Adidas would not allow it. Then, they steal his design and undercuts yes price.

@@voicessamples7396 I would need solid proof of this. For all I know in negotiation he might have seen the sale and brand reputation as Hype shoes and might have just sign the contract for it to stay as a Hype shoe.

Def inspired from the foam rnnrs

@@slambamcam completely but I meant more as the vibe, like outfits that would go good with foamposites would go better with the adifom rather than the foamrnrs

Bro have you ever looked at a foamposite before

@@OhRights oh my bad I mistook what you said, but yes I agree!

I thought same thing

true said, if that's Yeezys collection. Everyone would be like wow that's dope but sadly we need someone to endorse the brand and reaffirm the hype in the sneaker culture. Nobody knows if The Adi Q form is actually one of Ye archives. I have huge respect for both adidas and ye but as a consumer i think we just buy what we like. it doesnt matter who designs it.

Nike is the holy grail you know, flawless.

lol. look at the back part. It is more than inspired. They tried to one up him on his own design and are trying to give Kanye 0 for this.

Ye is part of this whole drama I bet, they all planned this

they would of never thought of this design without the yeezy foam lol

@@obnoxiouscat6269 That's sort of what 'being inspired' means, right

Kanye 100 percent owner of Yeezy. Ye gets a percent from every foam sold. He won't get a penny from this shoe. He didn't team up with Adidas to compete with him.

Be careful people kill people just because they step on there shoes

yes but the difference is that they stealing the person they working with design , its just like the fn meka situation the using creatives work and taking it as a formula and kicking them out and doing their shit , other companies make knock offs which is to be expected since the product is selling but what addidas is doing is more fucked up

@@neo.5327 I couldn't have said it better

The only reason Yeezy shows are big is because of hype. It’s not like he did some revolutionary thing. People just have sheep mindsets so the flock and the companies see that and they flock as well

@@SunnyExMusic not really everyone wearing yeezys old people young people they a comfy shoe with a cool unique design

@@nimanixo literally nobody bought yeezys because they are comfy. There's tons of comfy shoes out there nobody is buying. Sheep buy the shoes. It's all just hype.

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It’s kinda weird, because taking a product, improving changing things and redesign are exactly what sampling is in hip hop production..

@@TheRusk123 u need to clear samples before u can use them bro

@@petallio yeah that’s the law but not what the producers would like.. they always produce, clear samples later before release because of legal issues .. when ye started, they didn’t care

Dude couldnt you just paraphrase this, we didn't need a whole entire essay!!

nah bro you wrong, this is blatant disrespect, looks to me like they riding his wave letting him create only to steal his ideas and push him out, it has been happening since slavery think back to the original kfc recipe, the patent for the telephone, the design of the first lightbulb people with the money and tools has always done this to people with the ideas think even nikola tesla vs thomas edison, its not even a white on black thing its greed

WE DON'T DILUTE BRANDS REGARDLESS WHY TO AVOID CANNIBALISING BRANDS - 101! RIP OFF - YEEZY PAY THIS MAN HIS DUES. BEFORE YE ADDISA NEVER DID THIS DESIGN NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN. PUT SOME RESPECT ON THIS NAME AND WHAT IT STAND FOR, HIGH END BRAND LIKE JORDAN IN THE ADDIS FIRM. STOP WITH THE CORPSPLANING, COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION WHICH IS THE CUSTOMER STANDS WITH YE BETTER YET TAKE IT TO COURT!

@@tonytuffers you didn’t need to read it 😉

@@sayfami3927 wow this is… Something lol

Lmfao ghost designers

Adidas do not design their own shoes either they have 100 of designer, drawing sketches and product designs until the main design VP approves them for manufacturing. So Adidas pretty much just higher artist to draw shoes give them around 45-100k a year, then sell the shoes they design and make billions off of it each year. SAME with NIKE and other shoe brands. So Kanye is doing same as other brands of shoes, clothing, products and etc. The true artist of the show want see anything but a salary for about 7yrs then they fire them and lay them off to get new designers.

I think the same way. Look for ex. the Sacai Waffle, Nike made a cheaper option, but it was literally the same !! and no one complained !!

Adidas designers suck. They keep tryna make Yeezy ish shoes and they are all terrible. These are the worst. There is a fine line between boundary pushing design and just butt ugly. Kanye is one of the best at pushing the boundaries and Adidas is the best at falling on their face and just trying to hard. The Oswego, the Slides, now this. Yeezy is better off distancing themselves from Adidas. Adidas needs to stick to gym clothes.

@@SammieDavis707 just because you don’t like the designs doesn’t mean others don’t as well. I think the other designs are fine. I prefer the adilette slides 22 and adifom q over the slides and foam runners.

@@SammieDavis707 again, but this time don’t dickride to much pls

@@SammieDavis707 i mean adidas got some fire collants cooking up in the over, they don’t really need Kanye. That’s a shame because I really like yeezys but at the end of the day the ozlucent are coming and they look better than any yeezy to me.

Good point

Good Point. But you know how it is only Kanye can be the villain.

Was an adidas proposition, with them permission, I don't think adidas is doing the same tower kanye.

@@justlove9750 idk, Adidas has been doing this with the Tubular, Ozweego, Ozelia, Ozrah, and the Streetball 1 & 2.

yeezy calabasas 🤣

Imagine the company you work for and your own shoe released under being the one whos copying you and slighting you. Thats the difference why be mad at someone who cant deliver half the shoe or to the rate addidas themselves can.

You got best comment by far

You make so much sense

the thing is n stockx right now, aside from fake issues, you can acquire the Foam runner for almost the same price. at least in my size. so then many will start having to choose. Nike did this with the Sacai x Nike Waffle LD, debuting a Nike Waffle One, but at a much much lower cost.

@@citizendan6390 Never tried runners but the idea of laces and removable sock is appealing and different vs the FRs

they look fire ??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

How sway?

You ain’t got the answers sway

It’s called work for hire. It’s hundreds of years old. Porche once cut their v8 engine in half and made it work with counterbalances. And put it in a car called the 944. Porche owned that and they patented it. So Chrysler instead of putting the counterbalance in the engine block put it in the oil pan and made the iron duke 4 cylinder. Porche could do nothing. It skirted the patent. Did the engineers at Porche own counterbalances? No. Porche didn’t even own counterbalances.

@@reach831 it’s a video out of him saying sway had the answers all along…….

Yeezy didn't do shit on design. The current head designer for Yeezy is Steven Smith. He is also the designer of the Reebok Instapump Fury and the New Balance 997, and he is also credited for the design of the 700 sole, the 451, and the Foam Runner, among several others.

Ye has no chance in the fashion world he's been trying fir over a decade and Adidas is only company to give him a fair shake and now he's blowing it. No company wanted to give him 100% creative control and the 1 company that did you pull this crap. He's going to get himself black listed. Will he still make money? Yes! But will it be the billions he could've made with Adidas, no!

@@ClearSmoke100 True. With GAP he was costing them too much money with rejected samples. GAP has a 3:1 ratio of samples making it to the shop floor. With Ye it was over 10! This is why he got Balenciaga involved to help with the sampling. Which is why it says "engineered by Balenciaga" But that has come to an end now. He has to deliver on his own. Tbh that collection was trash, i wouldn't wear any of it, and at those prices, lmao. Ye got that Stay Pufft Marshmallow Man/Dominitrix vibe going on. Not quite my style.

They already reselling lol

Better get them now before resale goes up , you already missed retail

Yea have fun wearing your knockoff second choices. At that point just swallow your pride and move on...? Why buy something you half baked want

@@ramenisbombman Hypebeast alert, adifoam is more comfortable.

@@ramenisbombman because it’s more comfortable lmao I gave my old runners to my cousin😂 Edit: forgot to add the fact that they look better too

fax

U want mine I got a 10.5 never wore it but I bought 10.5 on accident let me know?

If you like them get them. But what's sad is you would be supporting Adidas for making a design Kanye will get 0 for. I'd be mad too. With that said, if I can get them at retail I'll grab them too hahaha.

@@hp7639 also fax lmao

@@hp7639 man even if that were true, im pretty sure there are companies with worst background than "copying" a shoe model to some mentally unstable millionaire and we still buy their products anyways, just look at Nike and Apple sweatshops lol

Shhh don't post knowledge or any insight just pick a side and shitpost for billionaires 🦧🧼😏😏

I have a pair and I don’t want them it’s a 10.5 wanna buy em off me???

@@Asadkhan-vd7no i've got a 8.5/9 sry! Thanks tho

@@Asadkhan-vd7no how much

@@dj_bananaz you in the US depends on that cause I am

@@dj_bananaz I was thinking like 160?

Agreed. That's my point. You can't pump brands that are exploitive and elitist and then ask everyday consumers to stand with you when you only stand with the when it benefits your personal brand. And I'm not asking Diddy or anyone to boycott any brand. Personally I believe if we only supported brands that 100% aligned with all of our ideals we wouldnt be able to support any of them. For me, a brand has to do something very egregious that goes violently against my ideals for me to stop supporting them. Not saying that labor exploitation isn't egregious. Just saying so many brands engage in it now or did in the past but never apologized for it.

OFF TOPIC THOUGH NOBLE - WE DON'T DILUTE BRANDS REGARDLESS WHY TO AVOID CANNIBALISING BRANDS - 101! RIP OFF - YEEZY PAY THIS MAN HIS DUES. BEFORE YE ADDISA NEVER DID THIS DESIGN NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN. PUT SOME RESPECT ON THIS NAME AND WHAT IT STAND FOR, HIGH END BRAND LIKE JORDAN IN THE ADDIS FIRM. STOP WITH THE CORPSPLANING, COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION WHICH IS THE CUSTOMER STANDS WITH YE BETTER YET TAKE IT TO COURT!

Diddy is the last person that should be talking

So blatantly stealing somebody’s ideas and art is okay?

@@THEANGRYNEWYORKER do artists deserve more equity in their designs when partnering with a company? Sure. However, what if said artist willfully entered into the partnership and signed a contract that allows them to do budget friendly models of your designs or use some of that design language on other products? And if you're using their infrastructure to create all of this what may have felt like a fair exchange in the beginning now feels like theft and exploitation. I'm glad this is happening to Ye'. If this truly is exploitation and theft then who better to fix it and create a paradigm shift to revolutionize the industry? He has done basically everything he said he would so far. He needs to stop trying to play within the system and just build his own.

Womens court purples better for aging and leather too

@@oyedotuno9014 thanks. They would probably also go better with more things right?

you might wanna read a book on the origins of hip hop lol

@@thomse5430 I have, what I wrote is a summary of a major aspect of hip hop relative to the discussion. I'm not writing a thesis.

im thinking the same thing you think I should cop?

@@blitz8718 I would say it’s a very safe hold. It’s only slightly over retail at this point.

Wonder what’s going to happen with the wider release

@@elliotpage_ if we even get to see them… I wonder if Ye got them canceled lol

Good point. Heck, Nike ganks other company's designs all the time though.

It’s like a fake foam runner *alike*

Cus Kanye has a partnership with Adidas. They should have called these foam runner v2 and worked with Kanye and manufacturer more Yeezys but right now Adidas put a high price tag on them and also make small batches. Kanye has been wanting to make shoes cheaper but Adidas is greedy

@@envyLP333 U type like U know what you're talking about & U don't. We don't know anything about what's transpiring behind the scenes & we shouldn't get caught up in what's said out loud by he say she say.

@@mtbicepulous bruh 💀 it Lowkey concerning, give me cult vibes

The shoes are going to be $120 and drop sometime this September or October

Exactly bruh if they didn’t get Ye’s inspiration they’d be caught behind in the past like Jordan Brand

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100% agree!

Fr like, not to dicksuck adidas but they gave the man a lot of freedom, and he's taking out his personal shit on his business relationships.

but they literally copied it lol

look at the back hole and look at the foam runners again lol. Changing the shapes on the side from circles, squares or hearts and adding a little doesn't make them much different. it's like creating a 350 with no laces and putting heart designs around the shoe. It's still the same and Adidas definitely tried but failed. Kanye gets 0 for this and for sure this controversial shoe will sell out easily.

@@dizzle1119 Nah. That's your opinion and even if it slightly was, it is visibly stealing Kanye's design and I'm not even a fan of his. All you have to do is look at the back part of the shoe and that hole and it's clear they stole his design. You don't have to agree but it's very obvious to anyone that is honest with themselves.

@@dizzle1119 That's why I said if it slightly was but I also specified why they copied him. It's not my opinion either, it is an obvious copy of his design. Just look at that hole in back part and look at thumb nail. You cannot say it isn't very similar and for Adidas to do something like that is a cheap shot at Kanye. You can hold to your opinion and I can hold to mine. Fair enough?

You should be astounded then I guess. He designed the entire shoe 😂

HE IS AN ARTIST....HAVE YOU SEEN HIS ARTWORK? BTW AS A YOUNG ARTIST HE USE TO SKETCH SNEAKER DRAWINGS.... I CAN GO ON AND ON...BUT U GET THE POINT... U PROLLY DIDNT KNOW.. ITS ALL GOOD

Then why do his ridiculous designs sell. Not because they’re intelligent designs. It’s more because he puts his name on them and allows his fame to carry the trending market but really, people wearing them look like fools.

@@judahmourns2995 links pls I'd like to check em out

Just means they designed it and put his name on it.

be ready next week. size ?

Cause it’s Drama & will get clicks 🤷🏽‍♂️

Bruhhh he said it!?😂

@@elliotpage_ Facts. He did. But I don't think contracts work that way. Especially ones with billions on the line. Just sayin' lol

I agree his Yeezy collab with Adidas literally brought this man out of debt and made him a billionaire. I wouldn't care at all just keep making racks.

foam runners are cheaper than these

Absolute facts. Adidas needs to do better with packaging and story telling.

Ok Darren

Ok McDarren

Crazye never pioneered shit, it's a scam. The guy who made his musical career solely based on sampling (his most famous songs all use super famous hooks and melodies from original hits by someone else) is complaining about the same exact thing when someone else does it. Par for the course for Crazye. Besides, has Kanye really designed anything himself? Remember when he came up with that design for an aeroplane that turned out to be stolen from someone else? Have you guys seen the clips where he "designs" things? He gets actual designers to come up with whatever, then he tells them, do more of this less of that. And then he sells it as his design. I mean, come on. Crazye has never done something himself from a to z. He steals, he hires people then he pretends it's all his ideas from the start.

@@maxmeier532 I see you're more knowledgeable on Kanye that I am, so I'll trust you on the music part. Hip Hop and Rap aren't for me and Kanye's music either, so I don't really have an opinion on that part. I only know that during the height of the pandemic he received 2 Million dollars from the Federal Pandemic Loan program while other real small business struggled to access that money. But to quote a good reply I found on Quora: “Kanye is an amazing curator of talent. The Yeezy Design team has many great thinkers and product people such as: Virgil Abloh, Demna Gvasalia, Elon Rutberg, Joe Perez, etc. Different people have different roles. It's all about vibes. If Kanye wants the collection as a whole to have a certain mood and aesthetic, it can be conveyed to the Yeezy Design team in a variety of mediums. Same as product development for anything else. No one man is behind the full design of anything. Kanye is the only person in the industry who can consistently sell out 40,000 shoes in 2 minutes." Like, sure he's not a "designer". Perhaps even the designers on his team aren't, hence the fuck up with a "stolen" design. But it's because of Kanye that Yeezies exist and because of Kanye that Adidas had their mad success with Yeezies. I'd say there's more Kanye in Yeezies than Jordan in AJs. Adidas owes him these facts. But as I've said, I still think that Kanye doesn't understand that his artsy ideas need other designers' skills to even come to life, and Adidas actually makes what Kanye wasn't be able to do by himself. Make Yeezy(-like) shoes accessible to everyone. Because his ideas are whack and he's out of touch with reality of regular mortals who work 9-10 hours a day and have to pay bills.

Kanye isn't in charge of the prices. That's part of the reason he wants to break away from adidas and Gap. He wants to be able to set his own prices and he also wants to be in charge of how they're marketed and distributed to the masses. Currently he has 0 control over this. Don't blame ye. Blame Adidas

Thats part of the outrage, adidas has been making excuses to Ye about not being able to mass produce the foam runners like he wants to, then they turn around and make a new shoe with a similar manufacturing process that is all of a sudden immune to the supply chain issues they have been feeding kanye

Terrible taste a foam runner with a sock in it ? Sound ugly as hell but go off

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Facts, these people have no clue. The shoe is also modeled after the adidas quake shoe from 2001 this is just a foam version.

Nobody was buying adidas for years except soccer moms for their kids until Ye came along. Sure people might buy some Stan Smiths or Superstars, but the hype behind their new releases were practically nil. Yeezy change all that.

@@johnrambo3831 and how long do you think they can ride Yeezy's coat-tail for? Given how friggin' temperamental Kanye is you think it is a wise business decision to mortgage your brand's future on someone as crazy as Ye? Sooner or later Adidas will have to move on from Kanye. Might as well be now.

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I wish I could believe that and a few years ago I might but, at the end of the day our relationship with these creators is transactional. They make products, we buy them. Or at least we try to or decide to pay resell prices. So, in this transactional relationship what have the creators sacrificed for the benefit of the people that support their products? I'm not saying that as a hater or even saying it's a bad thing. I don't expect a creator to do anything for me but ethically create the best product they can and present it for public consumption. That's it. So why should any of us sacrifice for them when they don't sacrifice for us? It feels all too much like hero worship to me. If this were Adidas' first time taking major inspiration from a Yeezy I might feel differently. But they've been doing this since the Adidas Tubular and even some Y3 shoes. Why is it all of a sudden a major issue NOW? Why do I have to boycott Adidas NOW? Did any of these creators do anything when stores backdoored pairs or the brand intentionally didn't produce enough to meet demand so we either had to miss out or pay resell prices? Nope. We had to take the L or pay the price. Ultimately, Kanye is a creative genius and a one in several lifetimes talent. He will be okay. He will continue to make money and create dope stuff. Adidas will continue being a major athletic wear corporation. Neither is doing anything for me personally. So while I appreciate them both, Kanye moreso for me personally, I'm not stressing out over this. Now if Adidas does something that's really foul then I would change my stance but this is just busines as usual.

How’s the sizing compared to the foam rnnrs?

couldn't agree more lol

They just look like crocs but a different take. Im surprised how these shoes are making a comeback lol

It is sad that’s it gotta be like this tbf, i think they’ve done dope stuff together

basing it off an adidas model doesn’t change the fact that the shoe was made cause of the foam runner

@@TwntyUp by that same reasoning, wasnt the foam runner made bc of the croc then? I dont doubt adidas was inspired by the foam runner, but for kanye to say they “stole” his design is a bit of a stretch imo

@@206trox yes the foam rnr is a croc tie in, same as the 350 to the roshe, I never said kanye was innocent but adidas acting like this shoe was coming without the foam rnr existing is def a lie

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@@elliotpage_ love you fam

I don't agree. Foam runner design is way better than adifoamQ to me. The laces look waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off, it's just plain ugly af. Doesn't fit the look at all imho.

Roshe Runs has entered the chat

@@3d1k3 real entered the chat.

@@kevchino good one

Yeezy and Adidas legit stole their 350 look from the Nike Roshe lmao

Which state

@@ezmoney6917 loved that shoe…still have some pairs

@@dcrdcr8061 TX 🤘🏽

But the 350 was a "copy" of the Roshe and Ye cut his teeth sampling beats. Copying is in the culture. Good artists create. Great artists steal. No idea original.