The Vine What are those is a roughly six-second-long video of an off-screen man, ostensibly being stopped by police, saying to a policeman "Officer I got one question for you", then shouting the question "What are those?!", in reference to the policeman's plain black work boots, while aiming the camera at them, which the policeman likely ignored. The phrase was first uploaded to the Urban Dictionary on 2 October 2011, defined as a question to be shouted at people with poor shoes. The footage for the memetic video was first uploaded to Instagram on 14 June 2015, getting upwards of 2,300 likes and 1,200 comments within three weeks. The video was reuploaded to Vine on 20 June 2015, getting 20 million loops, 271,000 likes, and 136,000 revines in two weeks. The meme's popularity increased great