Notorious eBay reseller New York Company has an impressive cache of 'Red October' Yeezys listed, with a full size run ranging from 6 through 15. That alone is a crazy flex, but it's his asking price of $20,000 that's insane—insane enough for Kanye to take notice.
2017, "Mogul Bites", Black American Moguls, Fall 2017, page 6:
Getting together with other power players at Masa is the ultimate flex of conspicuous consumption. […] A party of five or more requires a deposit of $200 per person at least one week prior to the reservation.
2017, Michael Speights, quoted in Gabrielle Hutson, "Fashion: Michael Speights", Eye of the Tiger (Roseville High School), 18 December 2017, page 10:
I don't really shop at big stores but I like the thrift stores, […] You can always find a flex for less.
2017, Ryan Kohn, "The Ultimate Flex", Sarasota Observer, 21 December 2017, page 16:
When I happened to hear those songs on a recent assignment covering Venice for a sister paper, I called them "the ultimate flex," or brag, on Twitter.
2018, Paris Duncan, "Love me now: A review of Tory Lanez's new album", The Southern Digest (Southern University and A&M College), 6 November 2018, page 10:
Based on his lyrics, he feels that the girl is worth spending a check on and feels that the two of them together would be the ultimate "flex".
2019, Muna Mohamed, "My House Of Black Women", Tufts Observer (Tufts University), Spring 2019, page 29:
We took over Wren 530s our sophomore year, finessed two Hillsides 470s and 380s suites our junior year, and made the ultimate flex with a whole new home our senior year: CoHo, or as we call it, Coheaux.
2019, Seth Sommerfeld, "Worldwide Web", Inlander, 4 July 2019 - 10 July 2019, page 37:
It's an achievement to stand out from other Marvel movies in terms of special effects, but this whole movie feels like a flex for those computer wizards.
2019, Lindsay Farrow, "'Stop ordering food best served on a plastic Mickey Mouse plate'", The Standard (Missouri State University), 24 September 2019, page 3:
Current status: heating up fried macaroni and cheese bites and contemplating life, wbu? But seriously, as I sat down to type this I had a goal of bashing picky eaters. Odd flex, I know, but really.
“This is Wales not England – a display of emotion would not just be considered appropriate... it’s expected,” she is told by an adviser. What a strange flex for Morgan to tap the 19th-century trope contrasting emotive and ungovernable Celts with the level-headed English – a caricature that will now be beamed around the world once again courtesy of Netflix.