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2000s Bulky Skate Shoes Appearance Joke

The meme consists of text at the top and a photo below. The top text reads "How y'all looked wearin DC, Etnies, Osiris, Vans back in the day". The photo shows a person wearing white socks standing on a skateboard, with a pair of oversized black skate shoes with extra long yellow laces arranged facing forward. The shoe tongues look like wide eyes, and the crisscrossed yellow laces look like jagged teeth, making the pair of shoes look like a goofy, wide-mouthed cartoon face. The joke pokes fun at the extremely bulky, oversized silhouette of popular skate shoe brands from the 1990s and 2000s, implying the shoes looked so awkwardly large that people wearing them resembled this silly face made from tied shoes.
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How y'all looked wearin DC, Etnies, Osiris, Vans back in the day

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The meme consists of text at the top and a photo below. The top text reads "How y'all looked wearin DC, Etnies, Osiris, Vans back in the day". The photo shows a person wearing white socks standing on a skateboard, with a pair of oversized black skate shoes with extra long yellow laces arranged facing forward. The shoe tongues look like wide eyes, and the crisscrossed yellow laces look like jagged teeth, making the pair of shoes look like a goofy, wide-mouthed cartoon face. The joke pokes fun at the extremely bulky, oversized silhouette of popular skate shoe brands from the 1990s and 2000s, implying the shoes looked so awkwardly large that people wearing them resembled this silly face made from tied shoes.

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This meme is sourced from the X (formerly Twitter) account @meme.jpg, distributed via RSS feed. It is a nostalgia-focused relatable meme targeted at people who participated in 90s/2000s skate or alternative youth culture, referencing the iconic bulky skate shoe trend of that era. It circulates widely across social media platforms as a lighthearted joke about past fashion trends.

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