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in order to be even somewhat relevant he would need to shave his head, stop doing late flips, give up youtubing, stop with the circus shit, leave revive, delete shrocks phone number, focus his "pro" boards, learn handrails, forget how to early grab, never speak again, take 2 extra pushes for every trick, buy some highwaters and a beanie, and start suggesting everyone would fit on krooked.
so yea get started johnny.
The guy dresses and skates like the epitomy of the "cool skater-dude" vision of the '00's skater that the general public knows from video games etc. and he does "hard tricks" that dazzle the uninformed, without being particularly creative or inspired.
He is trying just as hard to fit in as the trendy kids you described, but within a different group, and he is obviously very concerned about his status within that group.
this is true, but there certainly is a SLAP-approved dress code and trick selection that is just as unoriginal as anything Revive does
I respectfully disagree, on the grounds that the slap-approved dress code exists on an infinitesimally smaller scale than the mainstream revive look.
If you showed 100 random people pics of this revive-guy next to ben cado and asked which one is the "pro skater" there's no question upwards of 90% would identify revive-guy as the cliché, hands down.
In other words, revive-guy is probably 10x as unoriginal as the slapcentric style, and that's a very conservative estimate.
Now if you wanted to talk about the way things are assessed just within this microcosm of slap-skateboarding, your argument would make more sense. But it's clear that revive-guy either doesn't understand or doesn't care about the way we see the culture. So if this guy is so clearly unconcerned with what me or other people here think, is it so surprinsing that we in turn don't give a shit about him? Why is there some moral obligation for a "skate scene" (personified here by a message board, but you know) to respect and applaud the efforts of a person or company who don't give anything back to it?