Travis Scott’s First Merch Drop Since Astroworld Tragedy Attracts Extra Than 1 Million Followers In 30 Minutes

Travis Scott is again within the merchandise recreation — and he’s apparently doing very nicely for himself.

The Astroworld rapper did a merch drop on Friday, pushing a brand new collab with Nike for some Travis Scott Air Coach 1 footwear, in addition to a collection of pants, jackets, shirts, and vests. It’s his first merchandise transfer for the reason that horrific Astroworld Pageant tragedy occurred, and this together with different latest public-facing moments suggests he’s making an attempt to place himself again on the market as soon as once more.

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In line with TMZ, Kylie Jenner‘s accomplice pounced on the collab with the assistance of a really loyal and aggressive group of followers. To that finish, the outlet experiences that Travis and his crew “wanted to create a raffle to make the whole lot truthful,” since there was supposedly a lot demand for his merchandise.

The raffle itself targeted on the footwear, which reportedly had multiple million individuals making an attempt to get one of many pairs through sign-ups in simply the primary half-hour they had been made out there. Jeez!

Per the information org, sources say that net builders allegedly arrange “anti-bot safety” to forestall bots from copping merchandise solely to later re-sell it to followers. Travis’ earlier merch strikes have been “a few of the most closely poached on-line,” in line with the outlet, so it will appear to make sense that the Houston native would need to quell that as finest he might.

After all, it’s additionally notable that this Nike collab launch is the primary for Scott for the reason that Astroworld tragedy, which passed off in November of final yr. Clearly, with this and some latest performances he’s been making, the rapper is making an attempt to get himself again on the market once more.

Followers had all types of reactions to Travis’ merchandise reveal on Friday, too. As you may see (under), some had been skeptical of Scott’s sense of fashion with the brand new collab:

Am I trippin or do these new Travis Scott footwear truly appear like travis Scott himself lmao pic.twitter.com/Zg9iquYh6h

— SICKO???? (@JevaunRcotton) May 20, 2022

LOLz!

Others shared their skepticism for a few of the intense demand for the merchandise, suggesting through Twitter that bot and/or re-seller exercise might allegedly be in charge (under):

“For a man that’s presupposed to be canceled that’s truly actually good”

“Don’t be deceived, largely purchased with bots and resellers”

“His music is mid to me however them footwear go hardd”

“Bots and Resellers at work, he didn’t announce it and magically bought that a lot in half-hour.. yea proper.”

“I’d by no means purchase that trash”

“It seems so much like Kanye’s Nike Yeezy collab however nonetheless fireplace thou”

“800k bot entries”

“All that for a pair of Nike Mids”

“These footwear ain’t even onerous sufficient for all that”

Hmmm…

Undoubtedly attention-grabbing to consider, we suppose.

Ideas, Perezcious readers?

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