These "Porsche" Backpacks are An AI-Generated Oddity
We're talking about AliExpress here, so your mind likely went to cheap plastic fidget spinners and other tchotchkes, but these backpacks are far from cheap. One, brought to our attention by The Drive is called "2024 Personality Creative Casual Fashion Luxury Style Backpack School Bag Male Girlfriend Birthday Gift," and sports a $200 price tag. Oh, and that doesn't include more than $100 in shipping.
Despite looking kind of like a Porsche and sporting the brand name in the product listing, these are almost certainly not from the German automaker. Porsche needs a bit of help climbing out of its recent sales difficulties, but a $200 backpack ain't it. Even if they're fake, they're kind of cool, and some even come equipped with a spoiler, not that we could pull that off. Interestingly, AliExpress is not rife with backpacks wearing other brand names.
Copyrights and patents aside, we can't actually tell if the packs are functional. Some similar product listings show "real" images of the backpacks, but there's no way to tell how well they'd function in the real world. The reviews are equally as unhelpful, with most listing star ratings without a written review attached.
Looking at the shape, it's hard to imagine any of the Porsche backpacks being very functional. They look huge, which would make it hard to ride public transit or board a plane, and the white color will become dingy after a few uses. That said, what other backpack comes with a spoiler and a dual exhaust system?
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