Remember when copping sneakers was about camping out with friends? Trading stories, building community, celebrating shared passion? When sneakers meant something beyond resale value? That culture feels dead. Bots dominate every drop. Resellers flip everything. Kids buy shoes they don't even like for profit. Instagram is full of people with rooms full of deadstock they'll never wear. And somehow, a $200 hobby became a $50,000 investment portfolio. The soul of sneaker culture—the community, the pa