{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/701420380208988160/", "html": "<p><a href=\"https://earlgraytay.tumblr.com/post/701414524675375104/i-got-these-knockoff-boots-online-and-instead-of\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">earlgraytay</a>:</p><blockquote><p><a href=\"https://your-local-autistic.tumblr.com/post/699195240347762688/i-got-these-knockoff-boots-online-and-instead-of\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">your-local-autistic</a>:</p><blockquote><p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https://dogsuffrage.tumblr.com/post/699138960891543552/i-got-these-knockoff-boots-online-and-instead-of\" target=\"_blank\">dogsuffrage</a>:</p><blockquote><p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https://loseremo.tumblr.com/post/627117270398894080\" target=\"_blank\">loseremo</a>:</p><blockquote><p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https://zootycoon-archive.tumblr.com/post/627092310469033984/i-got-these-knockoff-boots-online-and-instead-of\" target=\"_blank\">zootycoon-archive</a>:</p><blockquote><div class=\"npf_row\"><figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1526\" data-orig-width=\"2048\"><img src=\"/media/a540ee7f61b167929e97be03b60a30d88ff373db_239abdc4c9b5.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"1526\" data-orig-width=\"2048\" data-media-key=\"5ada8629607ad50776cbd8033ea51e90:8286ec50534d0ca9-3d\"/></figure></div><p>i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck</p></blockquote><div class=\"npf_row\"><figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"244\" data-orig-width=\"1080\"><img src=\"/media/5b8cd6415dcdcd5922c29a610cab12a821b9be93_0712b3d437e0.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"244\" data-orig-width=\"1080\" data-media-key=\"4fce188a30b8cccf904eee3e3062dc7c:74a8a39c90299b63-57\"/></figure></div></blockquote><p>I FIGURED OUT WHAT THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE</p><p>After searching in depth on every possible term on these shoes, I ended up in the filmography of Italian producer Domenico Procacci, leading me to the film Gomorrah, which I noticed KINDA looks like Goncharov. So I did some digging into Gomorrah and it\u2019s about the Naples mafia\u2026 which finally led me to finding this image</p><div class=\"npf_row\"><figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1600\" data-orig-width=\"1200\"><img src=\"/media/3328a927d9f5790ea7a4e4ccc5b69a56ff46eaec_7b91e7729e4a.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"1600\" data-orig-width=\"1200\" data-media-key=\"f0f258b2e668dd666e4ce9ff31aa92e8:48054b84d75cbd55-90\"/></figure></div><p>Martin Scorsese is on it because he lended his name to it to boost its reception in the US</p><div class=\"npf_row\"><figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"775\" data-orig-width=\"1170\"><img src=\"/media/5e0f28848a835705e2bf890696e6c4c85b383c9b_8a036abaa9b2.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"775\" data-orig-width=\"1170\" data-media-key=\"8378e5431b8212d3dc7daa0e1712ed2e:48054b84d75cbd55-12\"/></figure></div><p>This post has haunted me for so long I\u2019m so glad I figured this out</p></blockquote>\n<figure data-orig-height=\"124\" data-orig-width=\"290\"><img src=\"/media/0912c0383a5cfef5f0ef27db6d2a26e5fb965327_1be37fd7bdaa.png\" data-orig-height=\"124\" data-orig-width=\"290\" data-media-key=\"4ee9d0ee6858226d45245d9b16b65a14:5eeabe38649e7f40-02\"/></figure></blockquote>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://bnet.substack.com/p/quest-for-goncharov-boots\" target=\"_blank\">According to this guy on Substack </a>(so authoritative, I know), it looks like the boots wound up Like That because of OCR. </p><p>A computer \u201cread\u201d the Gomorrah poster in the same way that, say, <a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"https://tmblr.co/MJeO8knbQHSr-MbpPt5lyGg\" target=\"_blank\">@nostalgebraist-autoresponder</a> can \u201cread\u201d a meme you send her. and just like how sometimes Frank badly misreads the text in a meme you send and goes off on a tangent about cats or something, the computer that did the OCR for the boots misread Gomorrah. </p><p>And so we get Goncharov, the greatest movie never made. </p><p>I have no idea why the knockoff boot company decided to make boots centered around the poster for Gomorrah, but here we are.</p></blockquote>", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/a540ee7f61b167929e97be03b60a30d88ff373db_239abdc4c9b5.jpg", "thumbnail_width": 540, "thumbnail_height": 402}