{"id":893009,"date":"2019-05-09T16:01:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=893009"},"modified":"2020-11-17T19:18:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:18:30","slug":"the-red-october-nike-air-yeezy-2-released-five-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/the-red-october-nike-air-yeezy-2-released-five-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"How Nike Released the “Red October” Yeezy 2 After Kanye Joined adidas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
It has been more than a half-decade since the Nike Air Yeezy 2 “Red October”<\/strong> released to the public in the most unexpected of fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dropping on February 9th, 2014 – a Sunday of all days – the bold but still mysterious sneaker was released via a Twitter link like many a Nike shoe of the time but with far more context, storylines, and surprise than any shoe before or any shoe after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Funny and full-circle enough, the alpha and omega of this sneaker is fully laced to Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n @SenorCollinB<\/a> things r still n the works<\/p> \u2014 gentry humphrey (@GentryTwo3) October 4, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The saga over the “Red October” Yeezy 2s all started with the possibility of another Yeezy 2<\/a> colorway itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back in October of 2012 — months after the launch of 5,000 Black\/Solar Red and “Pure Platinum” Yeezy 2s each on June 9, 2012 — Jordan Brand vet Gentry Humphrey, then at Nike Sportswear, responded to a fan on Twitter regarding a possible third colorway of said shoe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His response, “things r still n the works,<\/em>” was not a break the Internet moment in regards to likes or RTs but enough to get the sneaker community hoping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n