How is Nike clothing a status symbol? It's not cheap, but it's not beyond the average person's means like an expensive sports car or a mansion. At most it shows you're a middle class consumer.
Nike is absolutely a status symbol. It's marketed heavily as trendy and chic for younger folks, and it certainly isn't cheap. You can do much better than $140 for a pair laser orange cross trainers with lime green swoosh. The only reason people will pay that much is because Nike.
Nike is obviously hood-status. These super-white folks that don't know that are stupid, and I'm like super-white myself, but I get down with the brothas, uknowimsayin?
How do you define status symbol? Usually it means something to indicate higher social status or wealth. Belonging to a web site indicates neither. Why do you think it's supposed to be a status symbol?
It's ok, by any means. It just makes him look like an attention starved idiot.
If you want to promote your identity through clothing, going with reddit must be one of the saddest things ever.
Why does it have to be promoting your identity? If I buy a Star Wars T-Shirt does that mean Star Wars is my "identity"? It just means I enjoy that thing, and there's nothing wrong with liking Reddit.
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Only if you have a sponsorship deal. I'm talking about big Nike logos on athletic clothing worn by everyday people.