Item: Hypebeast
Description: How I owe so much of my life to this website. A fashion centered web magazine, Hypebeast is known for posting items that may be highly desired (hyped) in order to promote queuing, or people waiting in line for these items. Being a prominent member of their webforum a long while ago, I have made multiple contributions to their front-page entries (see above), mostly revolving around my close relationship with A Bathing Ape products here in Japan. Not only did it allow for lasting relationships with many people in foreign countries or states but, as I'm sure it has for others, it has also providing a conduit to sell the products found on the site. Compare the site to a walking, talking, globally popular jock in a high school that holds so much influential sway towards his classmates - I'm the Chinese kid following him around selling the clothes right off his back. And THAT'S how you make it in America. Some people would call it unethical (calling me a reseller) but you'd be a hypocrite to deny making money so easily.