The thing is Anisa and Ian are so SO late to the game like they are with everything because they never leave their house and have no friends. They wish they were real hipsters on the cutting edge of trends.
Much like the resurgence of American traditional style tattoos, which was the new hotness about 8-9 years ago, ironic Crocs have just finally filtered far enough down the chain of culture to reach Anisa and Ian. IME hipster Crocs as a big fashion statement peaked about 5-7 years ago and 4-5 years ago they were already rather passé and had just become an acceptable if quirky work shoe for art hoes who wouldn’t have been caught dead in them 10 years ago. The wealth of styles and colors and garish collabs on the Crocs website is evidence of this, before you could only get relatively basic colors and charms but now the corporation can produce and sell anime Crocs at a sustainable volume.
Edit: Evidence of Peak Crocs being at about 2017 when these Balenciagas came out, meaning that the true and honest hipsters of street fashion had just been doing a few years of work making them ironically cool.
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