05-02 & 05-03-25
WHITE SUPREMACY GRAPH TAUGHT AT HARVARD
Screenshots above: This is a graph used to teach DEI at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Surprised that Harvard would allow this garbage on their premises.
FBI, DOJ & “764”
Screenshots above: The FBI and DOJ arrested the perpetrators of the online, violent criminal organization known as 764. 764 targeted minors online to groom them in self destructive behavior (cutting, burning themselves), suicides, torture and kill pets, abuse and molest siblings to give a few examples. I believe VICE News did a journalism piece on 764. It’s probably on YouTube or googable.
Screenshot above: The founder of 764 was a 15yo white male at the time of its inception named Bradley Cadenhead. He was a victim of bullying himself before he morphed into the role of one of the most heinous online predators. He used part of his zip code for the organization’s name. “Today, at 19, Cadenhead is in his second year of an 80-year prison sentence — an unusually harsh punishment for a young offender but one that authorities say matches the gravity of his crimes” - Link to article.
Screenshot above: When viewing FBI's website I first had to verify I'm human.
SO-CALLED PROGRESSIVES WHO WORK FOR CRIMINALS OVER CONSTITUENTS PT I
Screenshots above: Black women are out of control in the U.S. They’re erecting statues of themselves throughout the country and created a gender, “X”, for NYC’s ID card as though they’re God; then they enforce the rest of us to train on the new gender they created under the pretext of Sexual Harassment training at the office if we want to continue to get paid. They made the training mandatory in New York. Black women depict themselves with halos and crowns sitting on a throne always with the caption, Queen. They have been the single most privileged group who have accelerated to success like none other. They're domineering, demanding, full of intolerance and judgement and quick to switch on their self-acclaimed Diva/Queen persona when things don’t go their way, treating others like they’re beneath them, especially those of us who aren't black. They need to be checked.
STOP GIVING THESE ENTITLED PEOPLE POSITIONS OF POWER. WE ARE NOT THEIR SLAVES. THEY ARE NOT OUR MAMAS OR OUR QUEENS OR OUR PRESIDENT. THEY'VE HAD ENOUGH REPRESENTATION, FREE MONEY, POSITIONS OF POWER. THEY'RE GETTING DISGUSTING IN HOW OUT OF TOUCH THEY ARE, SEEMINGLY WORKING AGAINST THEIR OWN CONSTITUENTS IN THEIR RADICALISM AND EXTREMISM. THEY ARE THE TRUE FASCISTS IN TRYING TO ERADICATE ALL WHO AREN’T LIKE-MINDED. THEY’RE STUFFY, PHONY, FULL OF ATTITUDE AND COULD USE A DOUBLE HELPING OF HUMPLE PIE.
WHAT HAS A BLACK WOMAN EVER DONE FOR YOU EXCEPT GET IN YOUR FACE, GIVE YOU ATTITUDE AND CALL YOU RACIST.
STAND UP FOR YOURSELF AGAINST FRAUD. I’M 110LB ASIAN FEMALE WITH NOTHING EXCEPT MY WILL-TO-POWER. IF I CAN STAND UP FOR MYSELF, SO CAN YOU.
Screenshots above: THE WOMEN ABOVE AND OTHERS LIKE THEM SUPPORT AND WORK FOR A CRIMINAL AGENDA, NOT CONSTITUENTS. THEY:
- WON’T CONDEMN ACTS OF TERRORISM/HATE CRIME (UNLESS IT’S DIRECTED AT THEIR OWN KIND, WHICH ARE OFTEN HOAXES)
- WANT TO DECRIMINALIZE WELFARE FRAUD
- CHARGE FEDERAL OFFENSES AS MISDEMEANORS
- WANT TO LEGALIZE ATTACKS ON POLICE
- SUPPORT GENDER-AFFIRMING SURGERY FOR MINORS AND MARKETING TRANS/LGBTQ+ LIFESTYLES TO MINORS AS YOUNG AS TODDLERS (DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR)
Screenshots above: This is in a nutshell what the invisible authoritarian influence and those who represent it and work for it are trying to do, dictate to the public what matters and to rob us of our autonomy. Kids seem especially their target to influence and brainwash. I don't know what makes her think she knows more than me, what's best for me, dictate to me how to live my life when she can't keep her own son from prison and from becoming a felon. Your kids are not their political pawns. No different from enforced Sexual Harassment trainings in NYS that's really LGBTQ/trans enforcement.
- BELIEVE BLACK & BROWN, MIGRANTS, LGBTQ+ AND TRANS ARE PRIORITY OVER EVERY DAY PEOPLE AND DEMAND THAT EVERY DAY PEOPLE PUT BLACK, BROWN, MIGRANTS, LGBTQ+/TRANS, FELONS FIRST IN THEIR LIVES AT THE COST OF THEIR OWN CIVIL LIBERTIES, NEEDS, AMBITIONS AND EVEN SAFETY
- "FIND ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS" TO OFFENDERS OF VIOLENT CRIMES
- WANT TO DEFUND LAW ENFORCEMENT
- CLOSE PRISONS/ GIVE FELONS MONTHLY STIPENDS, FREE COLLEGE EDUCATION, HOUSING VOUCHERS AND LOTTERIES, FREE DEVICES, JOB PLACEMENTS AFTER PRISON SENTENCES
- SUPPORT POLICIES THAT ALLOW FOR RECIDIVISM INVOLVING REPEAT VIOLENT OFFENDERS
- PROTECT VIOLENT CRIMINALS IN RIKERS ISLAND PRISON FROM DEPORTATION
- RAISED $27 MILLION FOR AFRICANA STUDIES IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN A CITY THAT HAS 1 IN 4 PEOPLE IMPOVERISHED AND WITH A SCHOOL BUDGET OF $86 BILLION THAT PRODUCES STUDENTS WHO CAN BARELY PERFORM SATISFACTORILY ON THE NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS, A KEY EXAM THAT TESTS STUDENTS ON MATH AND READING
- WANT TO ELIMINATE THE GANG DATABASE THAT'S HELPED NYPD PUT AN END TO VIOLENT STREET CRIME; CLAIMING THAT THE DATABASE IS A FORM OF DISCRIMINATION TO BLACK AND BROWN MALES THAT HAS THEM FEAR FOR THEIR SAFETY—WHAT ABOUT THE PUBLIC’S SAFETY?!
THERE’S A RECORD NUMBER OF BLACK WOMEN IN POLITICAL OFFICES AND POSITIONS OF POWER. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT EVERYDAY PEOPLE, ONLY THEIR OWN KIND, LGBTQ/TRANS AND FELONS. MAYBE LATINOS. THEY’RE FRAUD, PHONY, AND I DO NOT AT ALL TRUST THEM. I SEE THEM AS THE MOUTHPIECE AND GATEKEEPERS OF THE CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION I’M CALLING OUT. I URGE PEOPLE NOT TO VOTE FOR ANY MORE BLACK WOMEN IN POSITIONS OF POWER; NOR DO THEY “DESERVE” ANY MORE FREE MONEY OR REPRESENTATION. THEY ARE NOT THE COUNTRY’S MAMA OR QUEEN AND I DON’T KNOW ABOUT ANYONE ELSE, BUT I SURE AS HELL AM NOT THEIR SUCKER, SERVANT OR SLAVE.
NYC & CRIME
Screenshots above: Two [POC] males shoot off-duty police officer where I live, Astoria. I've been living in Astoria since 2016, coming from LIC, before that BK, and I've never seen or heard of so much crime until after the pandemic. It's become dirty, one dominant culture with shady and visibly deranged people that weren’t around pre pandemic. I never heard of gun shots or murder before the pandemic.
OTHER CRIMES IN NY:
Screenshots above: The seventh image of the guy wearing a hoodie looking down is who allegedly stabbed to death a commuter on the train for stepping on his foot at 8am.
NYC RESIDENTS “FLEE TO FLORIDA”
Screenshots above: Unless you’re a billionaire or black, NYC has become a shitty place to live. The cost of living, the crimes, MTA violence, the gritty and grimy appearance with angry, aggressive looking people or ones who are visibly deranged roaming freely about all adds to what’s become a cesspool of shit. I’ve been enslaved, oppressed, extorted, obstructed from employment, and terrorized here; I’d move out in a heartbeat if I could. I hate NY. It was once a city I connected with. No more. The air is toxic, people ugly, and everywhere I’m scammed and defrauded. Even a foodtruck charged me $3.00 for a small coffee. It’s like everyone is a gravedigger trying to get you for a dollar, or may stab you to death. There’s an anxiety I’ve never felt before since living here for 17+ years. I’m hyper alert when I’m out just because don’t know who around me is dangerous, or a scammer. That’s all there seems to be here.
OTHER VIOLENT CRIMES
CYBERCRIMES
Screenshots above: I see the FBI is willing to pay $10M for information on Salt Typhoon. I've been inadvertently working for the Federal Government since 2022 in diligently dedicating 110% of my time to gross injustice involving transnational organization that's destroyed my life because of it. I'm totally alone; and it's as though everyone is testing how long I can hold out. I haven't been able to get a haircut in three years or eat anything besides pasta. Years of my life have been robbed from me. I'm not someone who crossed the border, but an int'l adoptee. My life shouldn't be so ravaged by criminals; I shouldn't be so vulnerable to the criminals who I'm calling out in acting responsibly in calling out a gross injustice to myself and to other Americans.
USPS - MAILCARRIER CRIMINALS
Screenshots above: Two different news sources are using the same exact image. Suspect. Neither show the picture of the criminal. Suspect. No offense, but the criminal is probably a POC.
Other examples of hijacked UPSP - Link to post (little past midway, “Hijacked USPS”), link to post (midway, “YouTube Videos of Scams and Frauds”), link to post (beginning, “Mail & Check Fraud”), and link to post (towards bottom, “USPS & Criminal Organizations”).
Also, several YouTube videos on criminal mail carriers and check fraud are scattered throughout my Substack posts between February to March 2025.
DETERIORATING QUALITY OF EVERYDAY BRANDS
I've had to buy the cheaper cat litter, and it's so cheap that it makes the hardwood floors look ashen, even though I'm religiously sweeping. I've also noticed the dish detergent requires more squeezes of the bottle to get it bubbly and that the soap doesn't last long; like it disintegrates after two strokes of a sponge. Usually a small bottle of dish soap lasts me about 3mths or something like that. This last dish soap lasted only about a month. For those who don’t have cleaning ladies, pay attention to stuff like that because I'm sure I'm not the only one who’s noticing the inferior quality of everyday items. The whole point of the criminal organization is to get you to spend money as much as possible. Utilities, car insurance, health insurance, fees—that rides off inflation and now tariffs. The criminals don't care if it makes people impoverished, which is 1 in 4 residents in NY. The more people on welfare the closer to their socialist state and more money for them. State/government money is the easiest for them to scam and defraud from outdated systems, infiltrated criminals for workers, and deliberate inefficient, convoluted process.
ROKU AD - MALIBU RUM & ROLLERSKATING
Screenshots above: This ad for Malibu rum aired on Roku but I only caught the end. Link to ad on YouTube. Rollerskating. More rollerskating here - Link to post (updated, midway).
Screenshots above: Malibu ad on YouTube.
The rollerskating influence, to me, is one of the most obvious influences by the criminals. I don’t believe it would’ve came back on its own as much as it’s shown on Instagram unless as kitsch. You can see how hard the criminals are trying to make it a thing. Rockefeller turned the iceskating rink into one for rollerskating; I don’t believe it ever did that before, at least not in the 17+ years I’ve lived here. The same influence that tries to make slavery seem like it was recent is also trying to regurgitate rollerskating in an age of mopeds, one-wheelers, scooters, rollerblades. Much regressing in time.
Screenshots above: African Student Association at Brown University and rollerskating
(Moving back and forth from one program to another, and criminals right on my ass, it's a split of a split second that I'm followed; Google docs…
Screenshot above: I’m showing the actual posts to my outburst to give a glimpse of what it’s like to live under such strain and oppression in violation of civil liberties. What being monitored on my devices is like and the mental strength that’s necessary to live in this condition—while I’m American, allegedly a free person, in what’s allegedly a free country, America; in NYC, what’s considered one of the most liberal and tolerant cities in the world. Not for me it isn’t. It’s become a cage, and I am enslaved and oppressed and have been, to my knowledge, since 2022, though actually much longer.
GOOGLE
Screenshots above: Googling scooters and one-wheelers to confirm they were what I was thinking of when typing the earlier post turned Google into a store for both.
BROWN UNIVERSITY - WATSON INSTITUTE
Screenshot above: In today's America, a criminal can kill a police officer and after a 40-year sentence, universities like Brown hold the criminal to high esteem and make the criminal the victim!
When universities are this out of touch, this clueless, it's more than an abomination, it's frightening. I experienced it myself when I went to grad school for a year. It's a curious thing because people are smart, but seem terribly misguided. The only rational I can think of is that students and faculty have been sheltered from the world living in an academic bubble. Humanities is the worst, which was my major. The criminal influence makes it stark that there's a major disconnect with academia and society. Either that or black people have become the most privileged people in today’s America that they were able to pull off the biggest scam in its history.
BROWN UNIVERSITY - WATSON INSTITUTE APP
Screenshot above: Other examples of cell phones - Link to drive.
BROWN UNIVERSITY - WATSON INSTITUTE
Screenshots above: The usual themes.
Screenshots above: The usual themes.
Screenshots above: The usual themes.
Screenshots above: The usual themes.
INSTAGRAM - NAILS
Screenshots above: Krispy Krunchy Chicken. Malibu. Dominos. Coco-Cola. Angie’s Boom Chicka Pop. Beekman 1802. Mezcla. Trip.
Screenshots above: Filos Foods. Baggu. Cocojune. Dunkin. Crocs. Clorox. Nordstrom. Harlem Shake.
Screenshots above: Lazy Sundaes. Oatly. The Cut. Starbucks. The Cut. French’s. CashApp. Drag Queen Story Hour.
Screenshots above: Snowflake. Fearless Fund. Sugarfina. Supergoop. XO Marshmallow.
Other examples of nails - Link to post (little past beginning & midway), link to post (midway), and link to post (midway).
SUBSTACK METRICS
Screenshots above: Tonight the metrics dropped back below 3k! It'll take another 2yrs for it to get back to 3k.
MALIBU RUM CONTINUED
Screenshots above: Other signs that Malibu rum, like everything else online, is criminally influenced. Merchandise. Nails. Anything for an Instagram pic. A total disregard and disrespect for nature because it's all about a social media pic. Do you think that turtle wants to be picked up and handled by trash? Probably not. Comment is, "I want to do this!" Googling “Malibu, alcohol” pulls "Nearby", "Buy", "On Sale"… Sponsored ads and turns Google into a semi store for Malibu.
Screenshots above: Malibu. Cetaphil. Educator's CU. GenForward. NYC Department of Small Businesses.
Screenshots above: Product variations. The filter of the second image is one of their most telling signs on Instagram. It started after the pandemic and seems to be appealing to many ppl. I can see how young ppl are esp drawn to it. It has Andy Warhol pop with Gucci's Alessandro Michele aesthetic.
Screenshots above: Gucci campaigns under then designer Alessandro Michele. As soon as I see images with that filter, I know it's criminally influenced. For example, Poppi the beverage that was recently acquired PepsiCo has that filter all over its Instagram. Poppi - Link to Instagram. You’ll see a post on a partnership with the tequila 21Seeds. My neighborhood liquor store in Astoria is owned by Chinese people who probably work for the criminals. The criminals can easily give liquor licenses since they’ve infiltrated state agencies. Go to your DMV, Department of Labor office, or any state agency and I bet it will be mostly one dominant representation. The criminals either open businesses or hijack businesses (Wholefoods, Target, CVS, Walmart, Costco—all businesses of mostly POC workers. You can check yourself next time you’re in these stores. Management and purchasing departments are probably also POC), then create products that will sell in the stores.
Screenshots above: 21Seeds’s Instagram shows merchandise, partnership with Birdies for sneakers, murals (not pictured), giveaways, trans/drags/LGBTQ+. The usual.
AD ON ROKU
Screenshots above: This ad for a dispensary in Astoria, where I live, airs all the time. That's a lot of air time for a small dispensary in Astoria, a working class neighborhood. Like nail salons, dispensaries are at nearly every corner. But whenever I want to do laundry it's a three-block walk.
INSTAGRAM - M&M’S
Screenshots above: Product variations and lots of merchandise - Link to website.
Screenshot above: What shows googling M&M’s.
NEW YORK POST - BRONX LIBRARIAN TRAUMATIZED FROM WORKING AT A LIBRARY
Screenshots above: Same line of thought that’s trying to reprogram society to think of criminals as victims who should be shown "courtesy” that’s also the cause of surging of recidivism in NYC. Most of the recidivist crimes are brutally violent (eg, civilians getting stabbed to death) at the cost of public safety. In today’s NYC, recidivist offenders and felons get free, government-funded education from elite colleges, monthly stipends, job placement after their sentences, housing vouchers/lotteries, free driving lessons and road tests, along with free devices. In the meantime, because I’m not a felon nor black or brown, but an actual victim of social injustice that’s directly impacted my life starting with being an orphan/foundling in South Korean in 1980’s to an international adoptee of unregulated industry, my life has been destroyed. After all my efforts in trying to make something of myself, to at least be able to support myself. In my forties after 17+ years of living in NYC and despite being capable and bright, and with a BA, I have to apply for welfare. The black women mentioned earlier in this post, and so-called progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, another phony who seems custom-made by the criminals, are favoring policies in treating felons and recidivists like they’re model citizens while destroying people like myself. I’ve shown my demise in real-time since 2022 while one stabbing after another has taken place in NYC by violent criminals who get one break after another.
NEW YORK POST - AMERICANS “TRUST WHAT’S ONLINE LESS THAN EVER BEFORE” AND “BILLIONS OF IPHONE USERS AT RISK OF MALWARE”
Screenshots above: FTC has consistently reported fraud to have increased since 2020. Americans have lost billions and billions to fraud with each consecutive year another billion or two added to the previous year’s loss. If you haven’t been scammed or defrauded yourself or had a package that’s been stolen in transit or “lost”, you probably know someone who has. When I was working at the driving school, many people were learning to drive because they were moving out to the suburbs because of package theft and crime. It comes as no surprise that people trust what they see online less than ever. Anyone can google Apple, Google, Meta, Samsung, Microsoft, TMobile, Verizon, American Express, Experian’s Better Business Bureau websites and read all the complaints on compromised devices, scams, intellectual property theft, extortion, online stalking, harassing robocalls, compromised devices, infected apps with malware, impersonations, etc. NYT has normalized scams with articles written in nonchalant manner as, Oh well, that’s just part of life today, and another article that was nearly a How-To-Be-A-Scammer written by a POC journalist based in Hong-Kong. Billions of iPhones are vulnerable to spyware and malware that allows perpetrators to completely takeover a person’s phone. Mine is definitely one of those phones. It came with malware and spyware, I’m sure of it, or the criminals were able to compromise my phone through my wifi. My current phone was a replacement phone after smashing my last from a trigger attack. It was delivered in June 2022. The box was not properly sealed; it came with no headphones, and though under warranty, I had to pay $100 replacement fee. I remember when I opened the package I had jarring feeling that something was not right. I've always loved Apple for its immaculate packaging and quality products, and couldn’t understand why I was so unsettled about this particular delivery. Even though I noticed it was not properly packaged and that it was missing headphones, I let it slide and literally brushed my perturbed state of mind under my mental rug. I was just glad to have a phone. It’s the same sensation as getting a counterfeit delivery and knowing that something is off, but the last thing I'm thinking is a criminal organization that's hijacked the U.S., and so move on.
Screenshots above: It's no use updating a compromised phone. Updates will brick a phone and render it useless. I get notifications to update my devices all the time. The criminals hope I'll accidentally click on the update that will brick my device. Complaints are Google and Apple.
RECIPIENTS OF SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS
Screenshots above: "Disrupter", Ebony Power 100 List. "Selected for Kelloggs School's highest merit-based scholarship, Northwestern University. Named top producer of Gilman Scholars, Northwestern University. Fulbright Scholarship, Penn Medicine. Mastercard Foundation scholar, Wellesley College. Guggenheim Fellowship winners. Whiting Award winner in non fiction, Sarah Lawrence College. National Conservation Young Leader award, Sarah Lawrence College. Alice Stone Ilchman Service Award, Sarah Lawrence College.
Screenshots above: MacArthur Fellow, Brown University. Alfred P Sloan fellow, Brown University. PromaxBDA Lifetime Achievement Award, Brown University. Marshall Scholarship, Brown University. Mellon Mays Fellowship, Brown University. Pushcart Prize nominee and Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry fellowship, Brown University. Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, Watson Institute.
Screenshots above: Mastercard Foundation is 95% one representation with Africa-focused initiatives only. I had to check if it's an American company, bc it's only about Africa. Mastercard Foundation’s Instagram - Link to Instagram.
INSTAGRAM - AMERICAN EXPRESS
Screenshots above: American Express. NYC Gender Equity. Reckitt.
American Express's Instagram promotes many businesses. Probably linked to fraud. "Stay out of politics" is one comment. I'm surprised that we've been tolerating brands dictating to us how to live our lives when it's totally inappropriate. We buy the brands' product and services. Brands have no business interfering with its consumers' personal lives. None whatsoever.
Screenshots above: For example: Brooklyn Tea has been promoted many times on different websites that I started to document whenever I see it mentioned. It takes awhile for me to document something; I have to be sure it's a pattern. It was on Guava's Instagram, the founder also POC who's a graduate of Columbia Business School. The business was shown on other businesses' Instagrams only I can't remember which. They help each other out, it's one of their most used formula, piggybacking and bundling and partnering.
Screenshots above: Amex. IRS. PwC. Work Human.
BROWN UNIVERSITY - ALBERT MEDICAL SCHOOL
Screenshot above: I again point out the huge crowd and turnout for BLM at an elite university, many of whom are white, the very socio-economic group of people who are accused of "bias/racism/supremacy." How can there be such a turnout for a cause that's concurrently accusing the supporters of racism? Similarly, how can there be systemic racism and oppression of a group of people while at the same time the alleged victimized group of people weaponize race knowing that racism is not tolerated in today's society. They've done it to me, an int'l adoptee who's only been around people different myself all my life, numerous times hoping for the equivalent of my public hanging along the same line as 1950's Emmett Till days.
Screenshots above: Brown University's Warren Albert Medical School - After BLM.
Screenshots above: Brown University's Warren Albert Medical School - After BLM continued. Same usual themes. Black females most highlighted.
Screenshots above: Brown University's Warren Albert Medical School - After BLM continued. Same usual themes. Black females most highlighted.
Screenshots above: Brown University's Warren Albert Medical School - Around BLM and Before. There's a noticeable before and after. There's more posts, more engagement, more POC representation after BLM. Not much before.
NEIGHBORHOOD SNEAKER STORE
Screenshots above: I just noticed the sneaker store around the corner from apt building is called Drip Supply. Drip is code lingo like the lion is some kind of insignia. I bet most of the stuff is counterfeit. No brainer: A shop in Astoria isn’t going to sell authentic luxury brands. Astoria is working class mostly of Latinos, Middle Easterns, Eastern Europeans, especially this side of Astoria. The other side is more Greek.
Previous post on “drip” - Link to post (midway, “Instagram - Sprite & “Drip”).
The store around the corner from apt building in Astoria is selling this purse for $6k+. Even if it’s online only and not in the store, that’s even more risky because it’s online orders that are most at risk of counterfeits. Real New Yorkers know better. No business will mark down an authentic handbag $2k when it's worth the retail value. Why would a business do that? It doesn't make sense because it's losing money. The only reason why it would do that on an alleged luxury item is because it's not real. A $6k hangbag isn't going to be sold on 30th Ave in Astoria. That’s Madison Ave in Manhattan.
Posting this video again from the Counterfeit Pt II post; it’s a video on YouTube that shows just how hard it is to detect counterfeit handbags and other luxury fakes. They're called "super fakes", but still fake. There are many videos on super fakes on YouTube - Link to video.
THE FRAUD IN ASTORIA IS OUT OF CONTROL. I SEE IT EVERYWHERE. IT’S OUT OF CONTROL BECAUSE IT’S MOSTLY IMMIGRANTS WHO ARE BEING TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF AND EXPLOITED. IT'S DISGUSTING.
Screenshots above: Case in point: these are handbags for Panera, an affluent suburban version of fast food of mostly carbs and soup. That's how well they market their target audiences. They could almost pass for luxury and are probably manufactured in the same factories as counterfeits.