What are those
You might remember it as Brandon Moore shoes Vine
The archive has not found a surviving copy.
2015·The platform era·funny
The six seconds that made every pair of unfashionable shoes in the world a punchline.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- Brandon Moore shoes Vine
- Spread in
- 2015
- Began as
- A video upload
- Where it started
- vine
- Format
- Video
- Origin
- Original no longer exists
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
A man points a phone camera at a police officer's feet and shouts, incredulous and delighted, what are those. The officer does not answer. The whole clip is the question and the silence after it.
It became the standard way to mock anybody's footwear, and then anybody's anything, and it did so across a whole language community rather than a subculture — the phrase turned up in school corridors, sports broadcasts and advertising within months. Paste ranked it thirteenth in its farewell list and noted that the officer never answered.
The line has outlasted the platform by a decade and is still deployed unironically by people too young to have used Vine. As with a great many of the most-quoted Vines, the person who filmed it is credited only by handle in the retrospectives.
Why it is here: it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
Originally published on Vine.
Where it came fromWhat we know
The original upload no longer exists. It has been identified, and nothing that survives is both legitimate and playable — so this page is the record, and the video is gone.
The original was identified by research and is no longer online. What is shown here is a surviving copy somebody else published, which is why this record makes no claim to be the first upload.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.