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Title: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Ronald Wilson Reagan on May 16, 2018, 12:42:20 PM
Recently SLAP has been filled with threads about controversies in skateboarding: nazism, domestic violence, and other horrific shit has been discussed, and interestingly, has had no effect on anything.
The only notable response from the industry has been to delete and censor any information that exposes their riders. The only direct responses to things like Jason Jessee being an open and vocal nazi are the industry bros getting his back and acting like he is fighting cancer or some shit like that.

So let's put this in perspective.

Peter Hewitt lost his nike sponsorship for letting his friend shit on celophane on his face, but both Jason Jessee and Daryl Angel still get a pay check despite doing horrific shit.

From everything I've heard, Auby Taylor was shit on and spit out of his sponsorships by both Krooked and that corporate pants company (was it dickies?), and from all reports I've heard, it was because he has autism and they couldn't handle that. But you know what they could handle? Tony Trujillo beating up his teammate's girlfriend. In fact, they had any discussion of it, including the woman who came forward's perspective deleted.

What it all comes down to is that the industry itself is a bunch of bros who will gladly excuse racism, mysogyny and violence against women as long as you are their friend. This is EXACTLY how fraternities work.
If you get along with the bros, you can be a total pile of shit.
If you don't get along with the bros, it doesn't matter, you are out.


So who are some others who got kicked off of teams for reasons far smaller than beating women and being an outspoken nazi?

I'll restate mine to get the list going:

Auby Taylor, kicked off Krooked for literally having a social disorder
Peter Hewitt, kicked off Nike for experimenting with poop as a child

Alright....GO.

Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: AreYouHarvinFun? on May 16, 2018, 12:47:22 PM
That Tribalism is a bad muhhfucka!
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Post by: Surf-goth on May 16, 2018, 12:49:34 PM
Isn't it illegal to fire someone for having autism?
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Post by: redux on May 16, 2018, 12:53:08 PM
Danny Way and the industry turned their backs on Josh Swindell after he killed Keith Ogden.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: redcurb12 on May 16, 2018, 01:02:55 PM
Isn't it illegal to fire someone for having autism?

pro skaters are independent contractors
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: doomstation55 on May 16, 2018, 01:11:11 PM
I think you are grossly oversimplifying the Auby Taylor scenario.

I wish there were more examples of skate brands kicking people off for racism, domestic violence, etc. because I honestly don't think there are any.
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Post by: fulltechnicalskizzy on May 16, 2018, 01:15:34 PM
Adam Alfredo stole the u2 iPod
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Post by: nopes on May 16, 2018, 01:19:05 PM
For comparison sake someone post reasons why skaters have been blackballed from thrasher or other companies in general.
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Post by: Monkey_Mcpott on May 16, 2018, 01:21:43 PM
Andrew Langi for stealing Nick Merlino's laptop. Not sure if this was the reason he seemed to have gotten blacklisted, but its very coincidental that it all went downhill from there.

Also not a small reason but Keelan Dadd and Scumbag, they absolutely deserve to be shunned.

I bet 10k a month from a board company sounds good to him right about now.

(https://i.imgur.com/mHmW0gK.png?1)
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Lame_Nigga on May 16, 2018, 01:23:31 PM
Forrest never really having a long time sponsor because he's "hard to work with" always struck me as odd because I feel like a lot of companies are full of obnoxious weirdos.
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Post by: Madam, I'm Adam on May 16, 2018, 01:23:58 PM
I think you are grossly oversimplifying the Auby Taylor scenario.

I wish there were more examples of skate brands kicking people off for racism, domestic violence, etc. because I honestly don't think there are any.

Duffel lost a few sponsors when that Big Brother interview came out. I'm glad he grew up. Can't think of any others.

Also I can't believe Dadd wouldn't have been satisfied with $100K US a year. How greedy can you get.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: nopes on May 16, 2018, 01:27:08 PM
Forrest never really having a long time sponsor because he's "hard to work with" always struck me as odd because I feel like a lot of companies are full of obnoxious weirdos.

This is a big reason minority groups don’t speak up about the shit they see in the scene.
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Post by: fulloffact on May 16, 2018, 01:30:35 PM
Forrest never really having a long time sponsor because he's "hard to work with" always struck me as odd because I feel like a lot of companies are full of obnoxious weirdos.

Forrest can't get on because he's "hard to work with" and black. It seems like every decent black dude in the industry has to play the game harder than anyone else aka COON out.
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Post by: nopes on May 16, 2018, 01:32:27 PM
Forrest is hard to work with but Andy Roy on the other hand keeps getting on teams.
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Post by: fulloffact on May 16, 2018, 01:39:46 PM
"Fuck Antwaun, Darrell, Forrest, and Keelan"-The industry

"Cory's sorry for what he did and doesn't deserve to go to prison"-The industry
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: midevilco on May 16, 2018, 01:41:10 PM
Totally needed a new thread for the same subjects.
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Post by: streetsoup on May 16, 2018, 01:41:18 PM
Forrest is hard to work with but Andy Roy on the other hand keeps getting on teams.

What is the last team Andy Roy was put on? Not disagreeing with you just curious about what company is dumb enough to put him on in recent times.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: oyolar on May 16, 2018, 01:43:19 PM
Tim Von Werne.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: doomstation55 on May 16, 2018, 01:47:12 PM
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I think you are grossly oversimplifying the Auby Taylor scenario.

I wish there were more examples of skate brands kicking people off for racism, domestic violence, etc. because I honestly don't think there are any.
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Duffel lost a few sponsors when that Big Brother interview came out. I'm glad he grew up. Can't think of any others.

Also I can't believe Dadd wouldn't have been satisfied with $100K US a year. How greedy can you get.

Duffel is a good call, but I think he was only really flow for Emerica and Zero at that point and he definitely wasn't an established name.

Tim Von Werne.

This one is still pretty disgusting.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: nopes on May 16, 2018, 01:49:37 PM
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Forrest is hard to work with but Andy Roy on the other hand keeps getting on teams.
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What is the last team Andy Roy was put on? Not disagreeing with you just curious about what company is dumb enough to put him on in recent times.

anti hero
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: verylowimpact on May 16, 2018, 01:49:57 PM
Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Joclo on May 16, 2018, 01:57:26 PM
Recently SLAP has been filled with threads about controversies in skateboarding: nazism, domestic violence, and other horrific shit has been discussed, and interestingly, has had no effect on anything.
The only notable response from the industry has been to delete and censor any information that exposes their riders. The only direct responses to things like Jason Jessee being an open and vocal nazi are the industry bros getting his back and acting like he is fighting cancer or some shit like that.

So let's put this in perspective.

Peter Hewitt lost his nike sponsorship for letting his friend shit on celophane on his face, but both Jason Jessee and Daryl Angel still get a pay check despite doing horrific shit.

From everything I've heard, Auby Taylor was shit on and spit out of his sponsorships by both Krooked and that corporate pants company (was it dickies?), and from all reports I've heard, it was because he has autism and they couldn't handle that. But you know what they could handle? Tony Trujillo beating up his teammate's girlfriend. In fact, they had any discussion of it, including the woman who came forward's perspective deleted.

What it all comes down to is that the industry itself is a bunch of bros who will gladly excuse racism, mysogyny and violence against women as long as you are their friend. This is EXACTLY how fraternities work.
If you get along with the bros, you can be a total pile of shit.
If you don't get along with the bros, it doesn't matter, you are out.


So who are some others who got kicked off of teams for reasons far smaller than beating women and being an outspoken nazi?

I'll restate mine to get the list going:

Auby Taylor, kicked off Krooked for literally having a social disorder
Peter Hewitt, kicked off Nike for experimenting with poop as a child

Alright....GO.

Tony got beat up by her dude. She got it in a couple times and I think she even beat on him in front of his kids. He poosy and even his kids know it. #tonycantfightforshit
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Seadramon on May 16, 2018, 02:02:22 PM
Totally needed a new thread for the same subjects.
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Post by: CRAILFISH TO REVERT on May 16, 2018, 02:03:22 PM
Teams should be made up of virtuous people who don't get along with each other!
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: cancelled on May 16, 2018, 03:15:31 PM
Peter Hewitt lost his nike sponsorship for letting his friend shit on celophane on his face

do what?
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Post by: I.C. Weiner on May 16, 2018, 03:28:07 PM
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Peter Hewitt lost his nike sponsorship for letting his friend shit on celophane on his face
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do what?

it's called a glass bottom boat. don't knock it til you try it
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Salty Lame Ass Poosey on May 16, 2018, 03:38:51 PM
Sean Young for being strung out on heyron
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: CrumblingInfrastructure on May 16, 2018, 03:48:31 PM
Tim Von Werne.

Around the time Saturdays came out Thrasher did a birdhouse rider timeline with little quotes about the riders next to Tim's it just said "What really happened?"

Also Jeremy Wray got dropped by DLX because Jonas left to skate for a homie company so they dropped Jeremy from Thunder(?) and Spitfire. Jeremy also was banned from thrasher for riding for a brand that Fausto was in competition with and only got re accepted because he did the gnarliest gap of all time. I know its said a lot but Jeremy has been done dirty by the industry countless times. When he got called up to be informed he was done at Element the guy was laughing while he told him.
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Post by: heckler on May 16, 2018, 03:51:39 PM
Tony Hawk actually commented on that in his CBI interview somewhat recently.

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Well, another source of recent controversy has been Tim Von Werne’s dismissal from Birdhouse, possibly because of his sexuality? Care to comment?

Let me try to explain this.

This is back when I was doing guest editor issues of Skateboarder Magazine. I knew that Tim was gay and figured that it could be an amazing article to have him come out to the industry in the magazine. This is right around when we were gearing up to start doing The End.

We’d talked to Tim about doing the piece and while he was a little hesitant, he was down. So we do the article where he essentially comes out and we’re in the process of putting it in a future issue of the magazine… I just don’t think I realized the gravity of the article in terms of someone’s life experience and being gay.

I don’t want to throw anybody under the bus here but our team manager at the time, you might be able to figure out who that was, found out about the article and freaked out. He calls me up and says, “What the fuck are you doing!?!”

“I’m doing an interesting article about a skater who happens to be gay.”

“If you do that, I’m going to quit and take the whole team with me.”

Basically, he began threatening to steal my team because of this article. In hindsight, I don’t think that it would’ve actually happened, but at the time, it was a pretty heavy threat for me as a company owner. I had put so much of my resources into the team and we had all these plans around this big video we were about to start working on… I had to make the executive decision to kill the article.

You can call that selfish if you want but it felt like a very real threat to me at the time. And while it was an interesting article, I didn’t realize the weight of the situation. While I obviously support the cause, I wasn’t sure if I was the right person to be championing gay rights in skating… if that makes sense. I underestimated how it would resonate within the industry or how it would affect Tim. He’s the one who I really feel the worst for in all of this.

But I did call Tim and tell him straight-up what was happening. He wasn’t surprised by any of it.

“Yeah, that’s what I thought was going to happen. I was trying to warn you about all of this when the article was first brought up.”

He was super cool about it. I guess I just didn’t listen in the beginning. But after all that, he obviously didn’t want to be on the same team with someone who possibly felt so homophobic about the whole thing… which is another bummer, because I feel like other riders get some of the blame in this when it really was the actions of this one person.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: CrumblingInfrastructure on May 16, 2018, 03:57:03 PM
http://www.huckmagazine.com/perspectives/reportage-2/gay-skaters/

This is another good article interviewing him. All in all i'm glad life worked out well for him. Hes a scientist now and married for 10+ years.
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Post by: GAY on May 16, 2018, 03:57:54 PM
I'm getting a sneaking suspicion that people who run businesses are turds.
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Post by: Salty Lame Ass Poosey on May 16, 2018, 04:01:11 PM
Tony Hawk actually commented on that in his CBI interview somewhat recently.

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Well, another source of recent controversy has been Tim Von Werne’s dismissal from Birdhouse, possibly because of his sexuality? Care to comment?

Let me try to explain this.

This is back when I was doing guest editor issues of Skateboarder Magazine. I knew that Tim was gay and figured that it could be an amazing article to have him come out to the industry in the magazine. This is right around when we were gearing up to start doing The End.

We’d talked to Tim about doing the piece and while he was a little hesitant, he was down. So we do the article where he essentially comes out and we’re in the process of putting it in a future issue of the magazine… I just don’t think I realized the gravity of the article in terms of someone’s life experience and being gay.

I don’t want to throw anybody under the bus here but our team manager at the time, you might be able to figure out who that was, found out about the article and freaked out. He calls me up and says, “What the fuck are you doing!?!”

“I’m doing an interesting article about a skater who happens to be gay.”

“If you do that, I’m going to quit and take the whole team with me.”

Basically, he began threatening to steal my team because of this article. In hindsight, I don’t think that it would’ve actually happened, but at the time, it was a pretty heavy threat for me as a company owner. I had put so much of my resources into the team and we had all these plans around this big video we were about to start working on… I had to make the executive decision to kill the article.

You can call that selfish if you want but it felt like a very real threat to me at the time. And while it was an interesting article, I didn’t realize the weight of the situation. While I obviously support the cause, I wasn’t sure if I was the right person to be championing gay rights in skating… if that makes sense. I underestimated how it would resonate within the industry or how it would affect Tim. He’s the one who I really feel the worst for in all of this.

But I did call Tim and tell him straight-up what was happening. He wasn’t surprised by any of it.

“Yeah, that’s what I thought was going to happen. I was trying to warn you about all of this when the article was first brought up.”

He was super cool about it. I guess I just didn’t listen in the beginning. But after all that, he obviously didn’t want to be on the same team with someone who possibly felt so homophobic about the whole thing… which is another bummer, because I feel like other riders get some of the blame in this when it really was the actions of this one person.
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Who was the TM, j.Strickland?
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Willie on May 16, 2018, 04:08:29 PM
^That was Strickland, I think.


I think this is only surprising to people from places other than California where you get a better indication of someone's political leanings by their outward appearance. In CA everyone skates and dresses in some kind of alterna wear arrested development adolescent gear and you think, "that guy must be cool" but he's really just some minority hating morlock who'd be wearing a MAGA hat one state over.
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Post by: Lame_Nigga on May 16, 2018, 04:23:50 PM
"Fuck Antwaun, Darrell, Forrest, and Keelan"-The industry

"Cory's sorry for what he did and doesn't deserve to go to prison"-The industry

I need clarification on the Keelan situation. I understand he was kicked off for asking for more money, but the Scumbag thing is a little confusing. They picked up a minor for their friend who is also a minor to have sex with and got in trouble by doing that?
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Post by: reptar_bar on May 16, 2018, 04:35:41 PM
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"Fuck Antwaun, Darrell, Forrest, and Keelan"-The industry

"Cory's sorry for what he did and doesn't deserve to go to prison"-The industry
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I need clarification on the Keelan situation. I understand he was kicked off for asking for more money, but the Scumbag thing is a little confusing. They picked up a minor for their friend who is also a minor to have sex with and got in trouble by doing that?

Just going off memory, yeah it was a situation similar to that. 2 grown ass men going to pick up a child to go hook up with their wanna be famous child friend. Pretty fucked up, imo. And one of these grown ass men thinks "his name" deserved more than 10k a month. Keelan's a fucking moron
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Post by: UselessAsshole on May 16, 2018, 04:49:09 PM
Danny Gonzalez said his career was cut short due to injury but I'm figuring it was partly because he sued Thrasher for using his likeness on the cover of Skate and Destroy. According to this article he kind of got screwed by the lawyers.

http://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2011/07/20/what-happened-to-danny-gonzalez/


Also Jordan Hoffart for being Jordan Hoffart?
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: CRAILFISH TO REVERT on May 16, 2018, 04:58:22 PM
I'm getting a sneaking suspicion that people who run businesses are turds.

yeah and they are also jerks...real jerks.
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Post by: streetsoup on May 16, 2018, 06:09:22 PM
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I'm getting a sneaking suspicion that people who run businesses are turds.
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yeah and they are also skaters...real skaters.

Fixed. We aint all that.
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Post by: GinosGroceries on May 16, 2018, 06:40:22 PM
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I'm getting a sneaking suspicion that people who run businesses are turds.
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yeah and they are also skaters...real skaters.
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Fixed. We aint all that.

Very few are run by skaters
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Matthew_James on May 16, 2018, 06:41:27 PM
Danny Gonzalez said his career was cut short due to injury but I'm figuring it was partly because he sued Thrasher for using his likeness on the cover of Skate and Destroy. According to this article he kind of got screwed by the lawyers.

http://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2011/07/20/what-happened-to-danny-gonzalez/


Also Jordan Hoffart for being Jordan Hoffart?


I came here just to bring up Danny Gonzalez. I remember seeing the kickflip melon Wallenburg when I first started skating and I was floored, and then I see a bunch of people losing their shit in Thrasher a few years later after Gerwer straight kickflipped it. Not for anything, but the fucking grab doesn't make it any less amazing. And now because Danny couldn't play the political game right, he was ass'd out. Obviously that's because of a lawsuit and not race, but that's the nature of not adhering to the hierarchy.


I like how people equally equate Trump/ MAGA to racism in this thread, that train of thought is equally as frat'ish as all the other industry cover ups and shadow racism we're claiming we're not about. Maybe it's just me, but all the people I know who voted Trump "a few states over" did so because the previous administration forgot about them. Idk if people truly realize the gravity of many of Obama's decisions on middle America, and the vast majority of these people voted in Trump's favor in an act of self preservation. To think that they would vote against their best interests and vote in someone who isn't even outwardly racist defies logic, and it leaves you with way less of an understanding of what's actually going on in this country.

I'm all for calling out racism since everyone should be judged by the content of their character, but don't join the opposing fraternity just because you're looking to project ignorance in an equal but opposite fashion.

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Post by: shark tits on May 16, 2018, 06:49:46 PM
that was a good post matthew james.
you know how people make allowances for their family? 'my kid's not a drug addict, he has a problem.'
or covering up for them, maybe?
helping a friend in a fight that he started.
excusing cheating when your team does it.
keeping quiet when the president you like bombs countries or does something you vilify the other side for doing.
all people have a sort of 'brand loyalty' like that and it's one of the reasons socialism has never worked on a large scale.

Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: jakeumms on May 16, 2018, 07:02:24 PM
Steven Fernandez is also a victim of child abuse. The situation is definitely fucked up but he was 15 at the time of his arrest. That is by all legal definition a child. Fuck the overzealous LA District Attorney's office and their bullshit politically motivated "moral outrage."

Also, the narrative that poor working class whites voted Trump into office is misinformation. Unsurprisingly, it was middle and upper class white people. Incomes of 50K and above.



Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: JB on May 16, 2018, 07:18:17 PM
Chase Gabor is still comfortably employed after admitting on camera that he sodomized his neighbor with a screwdriver.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Matthew_James on May 16, 2018, 07:18:30 PM
that was a good post matthew james.
you know how people make allowances for their family? 'my kid's not a drug addict, he has a problem.'
or covering up for them, maybe?
helping a friend in a fight that he started.
excusing cheating when your team does it.
keeping quiet when the president you like bombs countries or does something you vilify the other side for doing.
all people have a sort of 'brand loyalty' like that and it's one of the reasons socialism has never worked on a large scale.

I definitely know what you mean with people covering for their friends and family. I tend to favor the friends and family who're willing to compromise their relationship to tell you the truth about when you're fucking up. I've been lucky enough to have those types of people in my life, and they've put a lot on the line in order to see to it that I made myself better. Brand loyalty in lieu of sacrificing the individual, whether the brand is friendship/ family/ country/ your favorite board brand, will essentially kill everything we loved about those things in the first place. Hopefully skateboarding is willing to follow suit and clean up its own mess...
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Matthew_James on May 16, 2018, 07:21:08 PM
Steven Fernandez is also a victim of child abuse. The situation is definitely fucked up but he was 15 at the time of his arrest. That is by all legal definition a child. Fuck the overzealous LA District Attorney's office and their bullshit politically motivated "moral outrage."

Also, the narrative that poor working class whites voted Trump into office is misinformation. Unsurprisingly, it was middle and upper class white people. Incomes of 50K and above.

Yeah, but it was neglecting the poor whites that were neglected during the 8 years of Obama that threw the election in Trump's favor. Say what you will, but it was brutally close. Had the democrats not screwed Bernie and he went and pandered to them, they would have won by a landslide.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: IHOP on May 16, 2018, 07:47:50 PM
I lean left and am down for being PC but the Auby situation was not that simple.

I dont have a strong opinion on the "hang with the bros" side of skateboarding.  On one hand, it is pretty stupid and im sure tons real individuals were pushed out of the industry because they were too odd ball, but I also wouldnt want to be in the van with jimmy carlin for a week so I understand it.  I doubt a person like gonz and his antics would be accepted by an established team these days.

I do fully agree that many minorities do not speak out on issues to their team or sponsors because of that, which is a big reason I support being vocal on SLAP, because speaking out on moral issues shouldnt be a bad thing.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: jakeumms on May 16, 2018, 07:55:18 PM
Is there any info on the Auby Taylor situation other than scuttlebutt?

One way or the other, he sorta owns his lane on the 80s vert revival thing. Pretty sure his decks are hard to keep in stock.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Trump2020 on May 16, 2018, 08:08:21 PM
Delete your SLAP account then. Destroy any gear that has anything to do with all these evil white frat bro Nazi's. Only buy gear from minorities, only skate with minorities, hunt down and kill all whites that don't understand the gravity of their very existence of pure violence and privilege. Then when the job is done, kill yourself. Rid the planet of whites. Every single thing wrong with history can be traced back to white people. Genocide is completely acceptable this time around because we are on the right side of history, according to our subjective opinions. Which are always right and never extreme or flawed.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Andrew on May 16, 2018, 08:11:36 PM
a lot of this mentality came out in the BA documentary sadly, i.e biebel's response being "hell yeah bro more pussy for me" and pros having to even say something like "skaters arent even his type!!!!" and reiterating how manly/good at skating he is, insinuating that there are clear boundaries for only the right type of gay person to be seen as acceptable in the eyes of the industry.

(110% stoked on BA coming out, the response to it jus showed how weirdly conservative the skating industry can be
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Style Police on May 16, 2018, 08:19:53 PM
Delete your SLAP account then. Destroy any gear that has anything to do with all these evil white frat bro Nazi's. Only buy gear from minorities, only skate with minorities, hunt down and kill all whites that don't understand the gravity of their very existence of pure violence and privilege. Then when the job is done, kill yourself. Rid the planet of whites. Every single thing wrong with history can be traced back to white people. Genocide is completely acceptable this time around because we are on the right side of history, according to our subjective opinions. Which are always right and never extreme or flawed.

You should run for President.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: pizzafliptofakie on May 16, 2018, 08:34:15 PM
a lot of this mentality came out in the BA documentary sadly, i.e biebel's response being "hell yeah bro more pussy for me" and pros having to even say something like "skaters arent even his type!!!!" and reiterating how manly/good at skating he is, insinuating that there are clear boundaries for only the right type of gay person to be seen as acceptable in the eyes of the industry.

(110% stoked on BA coming out, the response to it jus showed how weirdly conservative the skating industry can be


BA is among my favorites and that documentary was quite powerful for our culture, but I often wonder how it would have gone if it was made about somebody less beloved than Brian. If somebody most of us would consider a kook came out I can't help but think that it wouldn't go as well for them. Brian's not the first gay skater in the industry, he's just the first public one that we all like. Don't forget that Osiris fired a filmer for being gay.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: boombip on May 16, 2018, 08:54:23 PM
Is there any info on the Auby Taylor situation other than scuttlebutt?

One way or the other, he sorta owns his lane on the 80s vert revival thing. Pretty sure his decks are hard to keep in stock.

Have to say from what I know there isn't much more to the Auby thing. He ripped, ledges and now transition. All the transition came after the krooked situation. Pretty amazing to learn a whole new style of skating. Not to mention he's a rad dude. Big ups to Auby for being him. Not letting a shitty industry get him down. The industry is wack. Everyone wants to make sure they get their next box and have a seat at the premiere.

Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: smellsdead on May 16, 2018, 10:12:52 PM
anyome peep that blurb about sketchy chinese board manufacturing and the attempt to bring it up in the rejected graphics section from jenkem volume 2?

id like to hear more of that
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Chavo on May 17, 2018, 12:02:16 AM
Gator was actually put back on Vision after raping/killing that girl. He'll probably have a fat check waiting for him when he gets out.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: StabMasterArson on May 17, 2018, 12:02:52 AM
Frat bros are kind of the worst, but they always end up with lucrative jobs, and blonde women.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: IHOP on May 17, 2018, 12:27:38 AM
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Is there any info on the Auby Taylor situation other than scuttlebutt?

One way or the other, he sorta owns his lane on the 80s vert revival thing. Pretty sure his decks are hard to keep in stock.
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Have to say from what I know there isn't much more to the Auby thing. He ripped, ledges and now transition. All the transition came after the krooked situation. Pretty amazing to learn a whole new style of skating. Not to mention he's a rad dude. Big ups to Auby for being him. Not letting a shitty industry get him down. The industry is wack. Everyone wants to make sure they get their next box and have a seat at the premiere.

hey auby
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: QueeferMadness on May 17, 2018, 04:28:15 AM
You have such a hard on for TnT, just suck his dick and get it over with you fuckin baby
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: BobbyPshew on May 17, 2018, 04:35:17 AM
Jeremy Wray got pushed out of the industry by being a nice, honest human being.
Why wasn't he put back on Plan B, instead of Sheffey?
More marketing money for Plan Jock to be made outta Sheffey, than honest, sobor and 100% good, solid dude Jeremy Wray.
Not taking anything away from Sheffey, he's fucking gnar, but Jeremy said that he's in great shape and ready to go film a full video part, right now.
Sheffey?
A montage, maybe?

Hawk's excuse for not running the article about Tim is as flimsy as a philanderer's promise.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Trump2020 on May 17, 2018, 06:16:32 PM
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Delete your SLAP account then. Destroy any gear that has anything to do with all these evil white frat bro Nazi's. Only buy gear from minorities, only skate with minorities, hunt down and kill all whites that don't understand the gravity of their very existence of pure violence and privilege. Then when the job is done, kill yourself. Rid the planet of whites. Every single thing wrong with history can be traced back to white people. Genocide is completely acceptable this time around because we are on the right side of history, according to our subjective opinions. Which are always right and never extreme or flawed.
[close]

You should run for President.

The left would openly support a politician who said those exact words, as a matter of fact. Good point, thanks.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Owen on May 18, 2018, 09:39:10 PM
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Delete your SLAP account then. Destroy any gear that has anything to do with all these evil white frat bro Nazi's. Only buy gear from minorities, only skate with minorities, hunt down and kill all whites that don't understand the gravity of their very existence of pure violence and privilege. Then when the job is done, kill yourself. Rid the planet of whites. Every single thing wrong with history can be traced back to white people. Genocide is completely acceptable this time around because we are on the right side of history, according to our subjective opinions. Which are always right and never extreme or flawed.
[close]

You should run for President.

I'm calling for a four way presidency in 2020- Trump, Kanye, Kim Jong Un and Dennis Rodman.  Let's make America fucking crazier than ever 
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: frogworld on May 18, 2018, 09:57:40 PM
support nice companies like unity, frog, 917, and i'm sure there's a whole lot more :) quote my post and reply with some actual good companies! xd

i wonder if any of the anti hero riders are homophobic? wonder how they feel about Brian Anderson

Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: jakeumms on May 18, 2018, 10:09:05 PM
support nice companies like unity, frog, 917, and i'm sure there's a whole lot more :) quote my post and reply with some actual good companies! xd

i wonder if any of the anti hero riders are homophobic? wonder how they feel about Brian Anderson

The story goes they vote like a gang on who gets on. That comes from Grosso and Steamer so I've heard it twice. I think that implies they're stoked on BA. Sure hope that's the case.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: IHOP on May 18, 2018, 11:54:51 PM
support nice companies like unity, frog, 917, and i'm sure there's a whole lot more :) quote my post and reply with some actual good companies! xd

i wonder if any of the anti hero riders are homophobic? wonder how they feel about Brian Anderson

The one gay person 917 sponsors only gets one clip in the video, and its doubles with ben k.  Just because alex likes to rip off gay culture for his own gain doesnt make them any better than anti hero, who actually has a gay team rider and has printed pretty flamboyant boards.  I wouldnt even compare the two, but since you called one "good" and implied the other was homophobic....

alex loves to talk the talk but by the looks of his team doesnt walk the walk.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: frogworld on May 19, 2018, 12:32:17 AM
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support nice companies like unity, frog, 917, and i'm sure there's a whole lot more :) quote my post and reply with some actual good companies! xd

i wonder if any of the anti hero riders are homophobic? wonder how they feel about Brian Anderson
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The one gay person 917 sponsors only gets one clip in the video, and its doubles with ben k.  Just because alex likes to rip off gay culture for his own gain doesnt make them any better than anti hero, who actually has a gay team rider and has printed pretty flamboyant boards.  I wouldnt even compare the two, but since you called one "good" and implied the other was homophobic....

alex loves to talk the talk but by the looks of his team doesnt walk the walk.

i always forget that ostrowski is sponsored by 917... they fucked up on not giving him more screen time...
i dont think alex rips off gay culture i remember him in an interview saying something along the lines of hoping people wont think hes making decisions just to be edgy or different, hes just genuinely into it
but i guess we won't really know for sure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

andy roy was super close with jay adams and jason jessee so it just got me thinking about what kind of person andy roy really is and what the other anti hero riders may really be like
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: IHOP on May 19, 2018, 12:45:13 AM
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support nice companies like unity, frog, 917, and i'm sure there's a whole lot more :) quote my post and reply with some actual good companies! xd

i wonder if any of the anti hero riders are homophobic? wonder how they feel about Brian Anderson
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The one gay person 917 sponsors only gets one clip in the video, and its doubles with ben k.  Just because alex likes to rip off gay culture for his own gain doesnt make them any better than anti hero, who actually has a gay team rider and has printed pretty flamboyant boards.  I wouldnt even compare the two, but since you called one "good" and implied the other was homophobic....

alex loves to talk the talk but by the looks of his team doesnt walk the walk.
[close]

i always forget that ostrowski is sponsored by 917... they fucked up on not giving him more screen time...
i dont think alex rips off gay culture i remember him in an interview saying something along the lines of hoping people wont think hes making decisions just to be edgy or different, hes just genuinely into it
but i guess we won't really know for sure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

andy roy was super close with jay adams and jason jessee so it just got me thinking about what kind of person andy roy really is and what the other anti hero riders may really be like

Just because he got into house music a year or two before starting his brand, doesnt mean he isnt ripping it off.  He is using black gay club culture, two thing he is not, and using it to make money.  With the larry levan board he donated a portion to charity which is a good move, but he is still running a brand founded on ideas and graphics from a culture he has no play in.  Its like when gosha or other fashion companies use skating to sell clothes and we think its shot.

I honestly dont hate 917 or bianca, but that shit has been corny from the jump.  Johnny wilson pretty much created 917’s image by making hd edits before 917 even had a real team.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: IHOP on May 19, 2018, 12:52:13 AM
Rant over, my point was i wouldnt just assume people on anti hero are homophobic just because they are dirtier.

tony t hitting girls on the other hand.....
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Tuna on May 19, 2018, 03:38:01 AM
Stephen also did a switch flip nose manual on that island by blubba and a nose manny nollie lip to nose manny nollie flip in the 917 vid.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Ronald Wilson Reagan on May 19, 2018, 09:35:38 AM
Most of the antihero team do seem like pieces of shit, but somehow its charming in its way. Like, Andy comes off to me as a 40-something juvenile delinquent these days, not some real evil dude. Tony comes off as just a bad person though
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: ballintoohard on May 19, 2018, 09:38:42 AM
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support nice companies like unity, frog, 917, and i'm sure there's a whole lot more :) quote my post and reply with some actual good companies! xd

i wonder if any of the anti hero riders are homophobic? wonder how they feel about Brian Anderson
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The one gay person 917 sponsors only gets one clip in the video, and its doubles with ben k.  Just because alex likes to rip off gay culture for his own gain doesnt make them any better than anti hero, who actually has a gay team rider and has printed pretty flamboyant boards.  I wouldnt even compare the two, but since you called one "good" and implied the other was homophobic....

alex loves to talk the talk but by the looks of his team doesnt walk the walk.
[close]

i always forget that ostrowski is sponsored by 917... they fucked up on not giving him more screen time...
i dont think alex rips off gay culture i remember him in an interview saying something along the lines of hoping people wont think hes making decisions just to be edgy or different, hes just genuinely into it
but i guess we won't really know for sure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

andy roy was super close with jay adams and jason jessee so it just got me thinking about what kind of person andy roy really is and what the other anti hero riders may really be like

You have to wonder what Roy is?!?!? He is gutter scum that was in and out of prison for drug, theft, and assault violations. He probably was in some sort of white power gang in there, but regardless he is only above your average deadbeat because people seem obsessed with watching the garbage fire.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: poowizard on May 19, 2018, 09:54:23 AM
Wait, so skateboarding is not an Equal Opportunity Employer?!
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Allen. on May 19, 2018, 07:42:22 PM
Wait, Stephen Ostrowski is gay and rides for 917?

Dude has the grossest style.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: shark tits on May 19, 2018, 07:45:47 PM
Wait, Stephen Ostrowski is gay and rides for 917?

Dude has the grossest style.
isn't that just weckingball wearing a wig and glasses?
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Atiba Applebum on May 19, 2018, 07:48:16 PM
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support nice companies like unity, frog, 917, and i'm sure there's a whole lot more :) quote my post and reply with some actual good companies! xd

i wonder if any of the anti hero riders are homophobic? wonder how they feel about Brian Anderson
[close]

The one gay person 917 sponsors only gets one clip in the video, and its doubles with ben k.  Just because alex likes to rip off gay culture for his own gain doesnt make them any better than anti hero, who actually has a gay team rider and has printed pretty flamboyant boards.  I wouldnt even compare the two, but since you called one "good" and implied the other was homophobic....

alex loves to talk the talk but by the looks of his team doesnt walk the walk.
[close]

i always forget that ostrowski is sponsored by 917... they fucked up on not giving him more screen time...
i dont think alex rips off gay culture i remember him in an interview saying something along the lines of hoping people wont think hes making decisions just to be edgy or different, hes just genuinely into it
but i guess we won't really know for sure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

andy roy was super close with jay adams and jason jessee so it just got me thinking about what kind of person andy roy really is and what the other anti hero riders may really be like
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Just because he got into house music a year or two before starting his brand, doesnt mean he isnt ripping it off.  He is using black gay club culture, two thing he is not, and using it to make money.  With the larry levan board he donated a portion to charity which is a good move, but he is still running a brand founded on ideas and graphics from a culture he has no play in.  Its like when gosha or other fashion companies use skating to sell clothes and we think its shot.

I honestly dont hate 917 or bianca, but that shit has been corny from the jump.  Johnny wilson pretty much created 917’s image by making hd edits before 917 even had a real team.

917/Bianca do donate money money to good causes.  They did with their Larry Levan and Paradise Garage releases and a few others.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Cherb on May 19, 2018, 10:03:14 PM
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Delete your SLAP account then. Destroy any gear that has anything to do with all these evil white frat bro Nazi's. Only buy gear from minorities, only skate with minorities, hunt down and kill all whites that don't understand the gravity of their very existence of pure violence and privilege. Then when the job is done, kill yourself. Rid the planet of whites. Every single thing wrong with history can be traced back to white people. Genocide is completely acceptable this time around because we are on the right side of history, according to our subjective opinions. Which are always right and never extreme or flawed.
[close]

You should run for President.
[close]

I'm calling for a four way presidency in 2020- Trump, Kanye, Kim Jong Un and Dennis Rodman.  Let's make America fucking crazier than ever
I fuck with this message.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Alan on May 19, 2018, 10:39:43 PM
Who's gonna bring back REN Clothing?
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: S. on May 20, 2018, 03:42:20 AM
Most of the antihero team do seem like pieces of shit, but somehow its charming in its way. Like, Andy comes off to me as a 40-something juvenile delinquent these days, not some real evil dude. Tony comes off as just a bad person though

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Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Dong Hanglo on May 20, 2018, 03:54:24 AM
duh.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: neko on May 21, 2018, 10:30:26 PM
(https://media1.tenor.com/images/5d4a655c3d7d583eae52ec38b1faf50e/tenor.gif?itemid=8465330)
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: wallawallawa on May 22, 2018, 10:48:39 AM
Delete your SLAP account then. Destroy any gear that has anything to do with all these evil white frat bro Nazi's. Only buy gear from minorities, only skate with minorities, hunt down and kill all whites that don't understand the gravity of their very existence of pure violence and privilege. Then when the job is done, kill yourself. Rid the planet of whites. Every single thing wrong with history can be traced back to white people. Genocide is completely acceptable this time around because we are on the right side of history, according to our subjective opinions. Which are always right and never extreme or flawed.

It is so sad that the myopic individualism in the U.S. makes people take everything so personally. You're just being a salty narcissist by thinking that all these criticisms are some pointless attempt to make white people hate themselves. It is so pathetic that you can't put together the connection between rhetoric about violent brown people and the insane amounts of concentrated wealth being plundered by private immigration detention centers, prison labor, the sale of weapons used to carpet bomb the middle east, etc. Your fried little brain only has the energy only ruminate about that time you said something misinformed in a college history class or something and somebody criticized your comment and made you look stupid.

One nice thing about these strange threads is their decimation of this romanticized image of skateboarding as some transcendent activity that helps its practitioners challenge societal norms. It's a simple, endlessly fun toy so it obviously attracts some pretty simple people who use it as another creature comfort, something that helps numb their mind while the world burns. People like Trump2020.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: verylowimpact on May 22, 2018, 11:09:38 AM
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Delete your SLAP account then. Destroy any gear that has anything to do with all these evil white frat bro Nazi's. Only buy gear from minorities, only skate with minorities, hunt down and kill all whites that don't understand the gravity of their very existence of pure violence and privilege. Then when the job is done, kill yourself. Rid the planet of whites. Every single thing wrong with history can be traced back to white people. Genocide is completely acceptable this time around because we are on the right side of history, according to our subjective opinions. Which are always right and never extreme or flawed.
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It is so sad that the myopic individualism in the U.S. makes people take everything so personally. You're just being a salty narcissist by thinking that all these criticisms are some pointless attempt to make white people hate themselves. It is so pathetic that you can't put together the connection between rhetoric about violent brown people and the insane amounts of concentrated wealth being plundered by private immigration detention centers, prison labor, the sale of weapons used to carpet bomb the middle east, etc. Your fried little brain only has the energy only ruminate about that time you said something misinformed in a college history class or something and somebody criticized your comment and made you look stupid.

One nice thing about these strange threads is their decimation of this romanticized image of skateboarding as some transcendent activity that helps its practitioners challenge societal norms. It's a simple, endlessly fun toy so it obviously attracts some pretty simple people who use it as another creature comfort, something that helps numb their mind while the world burns.
People like Trump2020.

This dude speaks the truth.

But in all seriousness, the industry is a frat 'white' bros industry. Just as most corporate entities in good old murdering and raping murica are.

No surprise.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: AH1888 skateboards on May 22, 2018, 11:50:43 AM
They are fratbros that bond through hate. Who draws a nazi SS symbol in thier backyard and doesnt care if it shows up in skate clips? A proud racist like Grant Taylor does 2:15
https://youtu.be/Ru1-H5fFaYU
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Backheels on May 22, 2018, 12:04:17 PM
"Fuck Antwaun, Darrell, Forrest, and Keelan"-The industry

"Cory's sorry for what he did and doesn't deserve to go to prison"-The industry

FAXXXX 🖨🖨🖨🖨
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: QueeferMadness on May 22, 2018, 12:35:36 PM
Isnt uhh andy roy latina or someshit?
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: shark tits on May 22, 2018, 12:37:25 PM
Isnt uhh andy roy latina or someshit?
andy guano and his old lady is indian or some shit. dirtbag priyah
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: verylowimpact on May 22, 2018, 01:00:21 PM
They are fratbros that bond through hate. Who draws a nazi SS symbol in thier backyard and doesnt care if it shows up in skate clips? A proud racist like Grant Taylor does 2:15
https://youtu.be/Ru1-H5fFaYU


I fucking hate Grant Taylor.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: hip bruise on May 22, 2018, 02:36:33 PM
One nice thing about these strange threads is their decimation of this romanticized image of skateboarding as some transcendent activity that helps its practitioners challenge societal norms. It's a simple, endlessly fun toy so it obviously attracts some pretty simple people who use it as another creature comfort, something that helps numb their mind while the world burns. People like Trump2020.
This is an excellent point.

A lot of arrested development personalities in the mix, can’t handle change & need skateboarding to be what it was for them then, forever.

Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: winnasoda on April 13, 2021, 09:08:25 AM
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They are fratbros that bond through hate. Who draws a nazi SS symbol in thier backyard and doesnt care if it shows up in skate clips? A proud racist like Grant Taylor does 2:15
https://youtu.be/Ru1-H5fFaYU
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I fucking hate Grant Taylor.


He's good friends with Ishod. Brings him on maka bus trips. In the next clip there is another black dude skating his private backyard pool. I can't quite make out the writing underneath, but most likely it's just the name of a band or something. You guys really need to chill out and stop assuming everything is racially motivated. You're being like the trump2020 guy except reversed.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Freelancevagrant on April 13, 2021, 09:13:39 AM
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They are fratbros that bond through hate. Who draws a nazi SS symbol in thier backyard and doesnt care if it shows up in skate clips? A proud racist like Grant Taylor does 2:15
https://youtu.be/Ru1-H5fFaYU
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I fucking hate Grant Taylor.
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He's good friends with Ishod. Brings him on maka bus trips. In the next clip there is another black dude skating his private backyard pool. I can't quite make out the writing underneath, but most likely it's just the name of a band or something. You guys really need to chill out and stop assuming everything is racially motivated. You're being like the trump2020 guy except reversed.

Easy on the necromancy.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: lemonchicken91 on April 13, 2021, 09:23:21 AM
Peter Hewitt lost his nike sponsorship for letting his friend shit on celophane on his face

wait what HAHAHAAHAH
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: winnasoda on April 13, 2021, 09:27:20 AM
Peter Hewitt lost his nike sponsorship for letting his friend shit on celophane on his face

wait what HAHAHAAHAH

yeah that cracked me the fuck up too
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: baaaaaaguette on April 13, 2021, 09:27:32 AM
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Delete your SLAP account then. Destroy any gear that has anything to do with all these evil white frat bro Nazi's. Only buy gear from minorities, only skate with minorities, hunt down and kill all whites that don't understand the gravity of their very existence of pure violence and privilege. Then when the job is done, kill yourself. Rid the planet of whites. Every single thing wrong with history can be traced back to white people. Genocide is completely acceptable this time around because we are on the right side of history, according to our subjective opinions. Which are always right and never extreme or flawed.
[close]

It is so sad that the myopic individualism in the U.S. makes people take everything so personally. You're just being a salty narcissist by thinking that all these criticisms are some pointless attempt to make white people hate themselves. It is so pathetic that you can't put together the connection between rhetoric about violent brown people and the insane amounts of concentrated wealth being plundered by private immigration detention centers, prison labor, the sale of weapons used to carpet bomb the middle east, etc. Your fried little brain only has the energy only ruminate about that time you said something misinformed in a college history class or something and somebody criticized your comment and made you look stupid.

One nice thing about these strange threads is their decimation of this romanticized image of skateboarding as some transcendent activity that helps its practitioners challenge societal norms. It's a simple, endlessly fun toy so it obviously attracts some pretty simple people who use it as another creature comfort, something that helps numb their mind while the world burns. People like Trump2020.

What a burn, damn
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: ok boomer on April 13, 2021, 09:27:48 AM
sk8ers after a long day of filming IG clips at the park

(https://i.ibb.co/TYn5S8j/jox.gif) (https://ibb.co/4KDxGTv)
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: lemonchicken91 on April 13, 2021, 10:56:38 AM
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Delete your SLAP account then. Destroy any gear that has anything to do with all these evil white frat bro Nazi's. Only buy gear from minorities, only skate with minorities, hunt down and kill all whites that don't understand the gravity of their very existence of pure violence and privilege. Then when the job is done, kill yourself. Rid the planet of whites. Every single thing wrong with history can be traced back to white people. Genocide is completely acceptable this time around because we are on the right side of history, according to our subjective opinions. Which are always right and never extreme or flawed.
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It is so sad that the myopic individualism in the U.S. makes people take everything so personally. You're just being a salty narcissist by thinking that all these criticisms are some pointless attempt to make white people hate themselves. It is so pathetic that you can't put together the connection between rhetoric about violent brown people and the insane amounts of concentrated wealth being plundered by private immigration detention centers, prison labor, the sale of weapons used to carpet bomb the middle east, etc. Your fried little brain only has the energy only ruminate about that time you said something misinformed in a college history class or something and somebody criticized your comment and made you look stupid.

One nice thing about these strange threads is their decimation of this romanticized image of skateboarding as some transcendent activity that helps its practitioners challenge societal norms. It's a simple, endlessly fun toy so it obviously attracts some pretty simple people who use it as another creature comfort, something that helps numb their mind while the world burns. People like Trump2020.
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What a burn, damn

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Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Welpok on April 13, 2021, 11:37:21 AM
sk8ers after a long day of filming IG clips at the park

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And jock strap guy is the filmer
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: shannamal on April 13, 2021, 01:20:52 PM
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They are fratbros that bond through hate. Who draws a nazi SS symbol in thier backyard and doesnt care if it shows up in skate clips? A proud racist like Grant Taylor does 2:15
https://youtu.be/Ru1-H5fFaYU
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I fucking hate Grant Taylor.
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He's good friends with Ishod. Brings him on maka bus trips. In the next clip there is another black dude skating his private backyard pool. I can't quite make out the writing underneath, but most likely it's just the name of a band or something. You guys really need to chill out and stop assuming everything is racially motivated. You're being like the trump2020 guy except reversed.
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Easy on the necromancy.

right? a 3 year old dead thread from a now gone poster
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Grind King Rims on April 13, 2021, 01:27:29 PM
I really hoped the Gipper had made his return when I saw this thread.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: DannyDee on April 13, 2021, 01:41:46 PM
A male dominated industry filled with people in their 20's living unstructured lives is going to have this type of behaviour. Rock groups, professional sports teams, etc. Not that it excuses it, but it is likely to amplify it.
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: DaleSr on April 13, 2021, 06:06:13 PM
I really hoped the Gipper had made his return when I saw this thread.

Still a fun reminder for us all to point and laugh at Trump2020 for his goof shit
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: Ziad on April 13, 2021, 11:11:02 PM
i wish big brother would come back to hurt everyone's feelings
Title: Re: Skateboard industry are fuckin' frat bros
Post by: baaaaaaguette on April 14, 2021, 01:42:17 AM
sk8ers after a long day of filming IG clips at the park

(https://i.ibb.co/TYn5S8j/jox.gif) (https://ibb.co/4KDxGTv)

Fucking made me spit my drink I was not expecting that. What’s the show?