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everyone in this thread expressing disapproval of people looking happy when they're skating either have a lot of problems in their lives that they need to deal with and are letting out their frustration on others or are huge kooks that have their heads too far up their own asses, either way around it mind your own business and don't be such a bummer. It's one thing to have fake steeze (which Dylan Jaeb is guilty of), it's a completely different thing to feel good about yourself and have a good time.
foreal. tho gotta admit i appreciate the honesty from the dude who said that shit blatantly. that would be pretty shameful to admit but then again they couldve been fucking around
Definitely not fucking around. People on here saying 'he's just happy! leave him alone' or that he's simply pogging are cumpletely missing the point. It's hard to capture in a single screen shot, but jaebing is less about joy and more about the desperate attempt to sell your tricks as shocking or more spontaneous than they actually are; that you can't believe what just happened and therefore your YouTube Reels audience should be equally shocked. Anything so contrived has no place in skateboarding. It's the face version of safety hands. It's the fake orgasm that hallmarks absolute misery, an inability to exist in the moment. Looking back at the camera post roll away, displaying genuine disbelief, is always welcome, especially if the landing was truly unexpected. But there's something more to Jaeb's emoting, something dark, something unsettling and pathological and it needs to be stopped. When fake steeze is compounded by fake reaction, fake emotion, fake everything, your left with fake skateboarding, to the point where you could fakie flip wallenburg for fucks sake and it mean absolutely nothing.