About

Knock-Off Vlone refers to various image macros of people wearing knock-off or bootleg versions of the streetwear brand Vlone. Even though the concept was introduced on Facebook as early as August 2020, it received an increased amount of attention starting in August 2021 on Twitter and Instagram.

Origin

In August 2020, an unknown Facebook user made a post (shown below) captioned "This how all scammers pose in pictures 😂." A screenshot of the post was uploaded to Twitter^[1] by account @BrailledFOTW on August 12th, 2020. The tweet received 536 likes over the course of one year.

On August 17th, 2021, Twitter^[2] account @BrailledFOTW tweeted another photo (shown below) of someone wearing "Nlone." The image was submitted to @BrailledFOTW by Twitter^[3] account @lilwavecheck four days prior. @BrailledFOTW's tweet received roughly 2,700 likes over the course of two months.

Spread

The image of "Nlone" posted to @BrailledFOTW inspired the account admin to make their own knock-off Vlone merch. On August 23rd, 2021, @BrailledFOTW tweeted^[4] its knock-off Vlone merch (shown below, left) and received 562 likes for the tweet over the course of a month and a half. @BrailledFOTW also tweeted^[5] an image of a "McLone" shirt (shown below, right) on August 30th, 2021, and received 563 likes over the course of a month and a half.

On September 25th, 2021, Twitter^[6] user @maxvsyou tweeted a photo of someone in his school wearing a "Glone" shirt with the caption "only at miller grove 😂😂☠️." The tweet (shown below, left) received roughly 51,100 likes over the course of two weeks.

Inspired by these early origin images, other users across Twitter began submitting their own photographs of people wearing knock-off Vlone to @BrailledFOTW. For instance, on September 29th, 2021,^[7] someone submitted an image of a student wearing "Elone" which received roughly 3,700 likes over the course of one week when tweeted to @BrailledFOTW. Other knock-offs began appearing across platforms such as a photo of a woman whose Vlone is "glitching."

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