Satan Shoes Saga Ends as Nike Reaches Settlement to Pull Them

Andrew Anglin April 9, 2021

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The Satan Shoes drama appears to have come to a close.

RT:

A Brooklyn-based company that sold modified sneakers containing human blood has agreed to recall the shoes as part of a settlement with Nike. The Satan-themed footgear had triggered outrage and confusion on social media.

Nike announced on Thursday that it had reached an agreement with MSCHF Product Studio, which collaborated with rapper Lil Nas X to create the limited-edition Satan Shoes – customized black Nike Air Max 97s. Decorated with pentagrams and inscribed with a Bible verse, the shoe’s midsole is filled with a mix of red ink and human blood. With a price tag of $1,018, only 666 pairs of the sneakers were made.

The gimmick went viral, but also caught the attention of Nike’s lawyers. MSCHF had kept Nike’s iconic ‘swoosh’ logo on the shoes, prompting the company to file a trademark infringement lawsuit.

Nike argued in its lawsuit that the provocatively themed sneakers were likely to “cause confusion and dilution and create an erroneous association” between MSCHF’s products and the footwear company.

Under the newly reached settlement, MSCHF will conduct a voluntary recall and offer full refunds to customers.

There’s some comfort to take in seeing the way this unfolded: Nike at first didn’t say anything about the Satan Shoes, then they said that they weren’t selling them, then eventually they filed a lawsuit.

Nike was clearly waiting to see whether the Satan branding would be good or bad for them. It turned out it was bad, and that’s good. It shows that people are still bothered by the idea of open – if vaguely ironic – satanism.

In some ways, it seems there is more pushback against this, in 2021, than there was against Marilyn Manson in the 1990s. Big companies were comfortable associating with Manson throughout his career (until it turned out he was a sexist-racist).

Marilyn Manson is almost a one to one comparison with Satan Shoes, as he was openly satanic and also pretty ironic about it.

Christian groups did complain about Manson, but nothing really happened. He was hit with a few lawsuits, but no corporation distanced themselves from him.

Honestly, the implications of the Satan Shoes backlash are not clear. Nike was clearly not bothered by offending right-wingers, as they were very out at the front of the Black Lives Matter thing, endorsing Colin Kaepernick all the way back in the ancient period of 2018.

They were challenged on that, and refused to back down.

There was no reason for them to associate themselves with radical black aggression against America. Blacks already loved Nike. I don’t think Nike sold a single extra pair of shoes based on the Kaepernick ads, and I know they lost some – I used to use AirMax 90s as my default sneakers (I have a wide foot and either have to wear running shoes or boots), and would buy a pair whenever I could get them on sale (at least once every 18 months or so), and I won’t buy them anymore. I’m not really a boycott type guy, but that Kaepernick thing was too much.

The only other major company I’m on a permanent boycott of is Gillette.

That ad they released about “toxic masculinity” that had the black man protecting a white woman from being flirted with by a white man was just too much.

This was another example of a situation where one had to ask: “how is the company benefitting from this?” After all, all the hipster faggots who endorse these sorts of values have beards now.

I was already boycotting Coca-Cola because I’m not a fat slob that drinks chemical sugar water. There are maybe some other things I’m boycotting, I can’t remember. Donald Trump’s recent boycott list was good, I guess, but I already didn’t use any of those products.

Probably, the right would have been a lot better off if we’d been doing the boycott thing for a while.

Anyway: these companies have been on this “values” path for a while now. The obvious explanation for it – which may or may not be correct – is that these multinational corporations are trying to avoid scrutiny from the left as regards their business dealings. Non-woke leftist journalist Matt Taibbi calls this “woke washing.”

(Like Glenn Greenwald and Jimmy Dore, Taibbi has faced a lot of attacks for criticizing wokeism and is basically only followed by right-wingers at this point.)

If you’re Nike, and you’ve gone all the way balls to the wall on Black Lives Matter and effectively endorsed riots and aggressive anti-white violence, why would you stop at satanism?

I really don’t understand.

But I do think it’s encouraging that even ironic satanism is something that a multinational corporation is still afraid of being linked to.

I would like to use the Marilyn Manson comparison to assert that younger Christians are more aggressive than boomer Christians. But I think that would be quite a jump. I do think polarization is happening, with right-wingers being more likely to boycott, and maybe Nike is regretting the BLM thing, and realizing that it can’t sacrifice half the United States as potential customers.

But also: in a post-coronavirus world, is anyone other than black people going to be buying the super-overpriced sneakers that have become the backbone of Nike’s profit strategy?

As I’m already just rambling at this point, here’s another angle: maybe the Satan Shoes played badly with the blacks?

This is a garbage filler article, which I hadn’t really thought through before I started it, but now I’m thinking that is the case: they focus-grouped it with the blacks, and found that blacks didn’t like the Satan Shoes, probably because blacks are afraid of evil spirts and think they can live in shoes, and also because the advertiser of the shoes, Lil Nas X, is a black homosexual.

Blacks would also be the ones who wouldn’t understand that Nike didn’t actually produce these shoes.

I should really go back and edit this article now that I think I’ve obviously figured it out, but I’m not going to. Maybe it is an interesting artifact of my thought process that future historians might find interesting.

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