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I can't believe the amount of people who just don't understand how cringe it is to listen to some park kid who's not educated on literal staples in skate history talk about skateboarding. Especially when his takes are just shit the core community has been saying for years, like holy shit he doesn't like Nyjah, Steve Berra, Rip n dip or various other known kook shit that everyone already bashes. What a fresh and edgy opinion that I couldn't make for myself.
I seriously am surprised by the amount of people on here that just seem to not give a shit about classic skate videos nor understand the impact some have made. Its hilarious how everyone automatically thinks I'm old because I appreciate old skate videos and understand the importance they had in shaping our culture into what it is today. I'm not sure if you guys are aware that there's other ways to get exposed to things besides being alive in that time period (reading, curiosity, allusions, recommendations of people I meet). That's like calling anyone who listens to Nirvana a boomer. Whatever though, Keep siding with the indie brand circle jerker who has somehow never heard of Evisen, obviously because he's totally core and in the know.
What you're worried about I think here is cultural transmission from generation to generation and very understandably so because on a level that completely transcends skateboarding that literally dictates the direction the world is going, it very much is a responsibility but also I believe a non-issue at the end of the day, there are plenty of Instagram accounts like elpatosk8, nbd_archive, scienceversuslife or thepastparticiple (for popular examples) that archive classic skateboarding maybe in a way that doesn't exactly do justice to the original videos as full-length pieces but keep everything visible, from historical clips to very local stories. What's important is accessibility to those platforms (on the same level as any other) but I think it's timeless that any 'real' skater will be at least to an extent interested in the history of the practice and look it up. It's a complex phenomenon, different generations are conditioned to different formats and different pacings, knowing how to juggle with that as a professional or personal media outlet and in a way 'modernize' the presentation of information is a science or maybe art of its own. I believe as long as it's visible then all skating will speak to whoever it should be speaking to, sometimes that requires a certain level of maturity from the person as well.
Either way personal stylistic or technical achievements are one thing but what I think matters first and foremost is that the original, literal do-it-yourself message of skateboarding does not get diluted, because skateboarding is way too great of a potential social and educational tool for the youth at a crucial time in their development where I believe the individual is particularly vulnerable to their environment encouraging them to either confirm or infirm certain healthy natural impulses of theirs for good (in addition to influencing tourism and business from more interested, lucrative municipal points of view, making it a social win-win). This world needs a general boost in self-confidence in people and skateboarding has the power to achieve that, but that's by design and why I wouldn't worry. Look at the object, it's so simple and rudimentary, barely one technical notch above a singular wheel. Intrinsically so much room for interpretation is left, you probably shouldn't sweat it fighting windmills regardless of how loud. This message board even has literal teenager Ricky Oyola hardcore fans who genuinely read, understand and get his skating, just relatively quiet because they're cool.
It's only a natural tradition that this should keep reflecting in videos then. Just the other day I was watching Limosine videos for the first time and enjoyed them because I sensed spirit in the skating even if the form had nothing to do with 1281 nor all the VX I grew up watching and still tend to prefer. You also seem well aware of the independent scenes and so the quality stuff that does exist; can't expect everything else to look the same and especially not the farce that is skating's whole commercial facade. If you're doing your part in relaying the values that matter to you on a personal level, then everything is probably OK (I know I send videos older than them to local kids a lot, all the while aware that they will first read them as curiosities since from an unrelatable time frame, and yet they always see the same things I too see in them regardless of the gap and get stoked; just remember communication is 50/50 and present things accordingly regardless of your true passion).