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Tiago is an abuser indeed, he severely abuses those street spots all over the World like a Man!
Fuck people spreading these stupid ass rumors and the ones paying attention to it.
I mean I'm not going to get all Judge Judy on him quite yet, but people were straight up using Jason Jesse's frontside Ollies as some sort of magical card to somehow justify all the terrible shit he did; good skating does not atomically exempt someone from being a terrible person! (*waves @ KA*)
People on this board are too damn judgemental...
I'm legitimately confused by your (apparent) logic, not trying to put words in your mouth either but so does that mean people should just mindlessly consume all the marketing and completely disregard the reality of who their money feeds as far as ethics are concerned? Would you rather know as exactly as possible who and what you are directly supporting, or always be lied to and have your intelligence and finances insulted in an era where the difference between someone's public image and their reality is especially transparent (contrary to back when companies via the mags still had way more of a monopoly on politics and cultivated pensée unique by manipulating history)? Is it not a problem to have criminals marketed as role models to every twelve-year-old out there who takes up skating every day as long as they can do some tricks down stairs?
What the industry really hates about this place is how it's a reflection of their own inability to get with the times. More public interrogation in general makes sense in an era where there is more information surfacing, but responsible consumption was always a thing and a positive trait in people. The industry needs the approval of the average skateboarder to keep thriving, not the other way around and personally I'm a bit tired to see said average skateboarder being by default considered an absolute fool, most of the time by people who also claim to skate and so should know and respect the culture a bit better than how they do sometimes if they're really trying to drive it. It's 2022, most events now basically happen in plain sight for the whole world to see, and even past that point everyone in the world communicates, and so in general it's maybe a bit late (not to mention straight up destructive marketing-wise) and delusional to still try and sweep dirt under the rug - at this point that's just akin to crapping your pants in public on purpose.