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Title: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Uknowmyinsta on May 06, 2019, 12:55:54 PM
https://www.instagram.com/p/BwubkqOo5s7/

Fuck this.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: honey island on May 06, 2019, 01:01:43 PM
what the actual fuck...

going though all the accounts tagged,  this is the actual guy -

https://www.instagram.com/natasx1000/

Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: thebacker on May 06, 2019, 01:04:10 PM
what the actual fuck...

going though the all the accounts,  this is the actual guy -

https://www.instagram.com/natasx1000/

wanna-be krod kook
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: SHIREFLIP on May 06, 2019, 01:07:27 PM
Beyond poor taste. That's fucked.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Bighugemegajohnson on May 06, 2019, 01:11:31 PM
Well he is French so the rest of his life should suck anyway
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: silhouette on May 06, 2019, 01:12:56 PM
Extremely dumb, wack ass shit.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: t0mmywr1ght3rd on May 06, 2019, 01:17:01 PM
wtf
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Ayanami on May 06, 2019, 01:24:08 PM
Some people will do the stupidest shit to seem edgy and “cool.”
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: SirPizzaSlayer on May 06, 2019, 01:27:30 PM
why do edgelords have to exist.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: tedkootz on May 06, 2019, 01:34:57 PM
oh wow fuck this fuckin piece of shit
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Jehoshaphat Augustus on May 06, 2019, 01:37:54 PM
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu5K9nJAERG/
"I keep Le Thang on me"

Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: talklessSkateMore on May 06, 2019, 01:41:34 PM
It's true though, nothing is sacred and the score is 1-0

You're a bitch

(https://vangogh.teespring.com/shirt_pic/6476830/7507839/370/6530/480x9999/front.jpg)
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Cool Ceith on May 06, 2019, 01:42:04 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/6syHq8B/Screen-Shot-2019-05-06-at-1-40-39-PM.png) (https://imgbb.com/)

His taste in shirts is truly questionable.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Síota on May 06, 2019, 01:44:36 PM
This is fucked. Can't blame lost in translation for this.

Well he is French so the rest of his life should suck anyway
Focus yourself cunt
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: os89 on May 06, 2019, 01:47:58 PM
Time for TK to greenlight him.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: jakeumms on May 06, 2019, 01:56:19 PM
His pants are stupid and he seems like a twat.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: doublesteveburger on May 06, 2019, 01:59:12 PM
screenshots guys, some of us are on their phones ignoring their girlfriends at doctor appointments and can’t see insta posts.


c’mon
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Black Frycook on May 06, 2019, 02:00:34 PM
God damn Frenchmen always causing mud
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Dr Hfuhruhurr on May 06, 2019, 02:01:09 PM
screenshots guys, some of us are on their phones ignoring their girlfriends at doctor appointments and can’t see insta posts.


c’mon

I’m currently being dragged around a mall by my wife.


Also, fuck this guy and his stupid ass shirt.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: doublesteveburger on May 06, 2019, 02:02:42 PM
oh shit just saw it



yeah fuck this mud, reported
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: GAY on May 06, 2019, 02:09:25 PM
Could see him on Frog.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Joust Ostrich on May 06, 2019, 02:40:57 PM
screenshots guys, some of us are on their phones ignoring their girlfriends at doctor appointments and can’t see insta posts.


c’mon

Here you go Mr 2xsteveburger.

(https://i.ibb.co/JCY92TG/truck1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/DLBZkFv)
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: BehindTheLens on May 06, 2019, 02:51:49 PM
And the post has been removed as expected. To bad I already screen recorded it and will upload it when I have some free time on youtube or something. What an asshole for wearing that and shame on that shop for posting the edit.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Classy Durag on May 06, 2019, 02:53:32 PM
SLAP : 1
Natasx1000 : 0
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: offkilter on May 06, 2019, 03:01:00 PM
that's so fucked, what were they thinking? were dudes sitting around a shop chuckling about it?
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: silhouette on May 06, 2019, 03:03:25 PM
Clip had been up for long enough to get reposted by the guys' local skate IG account:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxCPsQeFytW/

To be honest I'm shocked Bud Skateshop promoted that garbage and even made the shirt the thumbnail in their version because it's owned by OG skaters throughout the country I really can't picture approving of that shit. My guess is they completely trusted the filmer who's probably part of that kid's crew and didn't expect to have to resort to quality control. Vans probably trusted the shops and there you go, something putrid.

I'm also very surprised nobody told the kid anything that day he was sporting that absurdity. There seemed to be adults at that event who should be able to instantly call out that kind of bullshit when they see it. It's not just one person who was dumb, but several of them for not noticing or recognizing something explicit.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Made In China on May 06, 2019, 03:26:39 PM
This is extremely fucked up and disrespectful, but the silver lining is that this is probably the most exposure or relevancy this dude gets. He skates and looks like every other shitty kid that is way too influenced by Supreme.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Paco Supreme on May 06, 2019, 03:34:40 PM
Oh fuck, without seeing that screengrab i thought this was about some weird skate truck nonsense.

talking shit on anyone who loses their life doing what we do it just uncalled for and the most heartless shit
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Dr Hfuhruhurr on May 06, 2019, 03:40:02 PM
Makes skateboarders look bad.  Fucking idiot.

Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Hevonen on May 06, 2019, 03:59:37 PM
Makes skateboarders look bad.  Fucking idiot.
To who?

Very tasteless stuff. Pretty crazy no one called him out on it
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: GershonSweaty on May 06, 2019, 04:02:58 PM
http://youtu.be/DrbIU6_ehgM
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: iKobrakai on May 06, 2019, 04:06:43 PM
Kid is asking for burst mouth.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: tension on May 06, 2019, 04:05:29 PM
absolute garbage human. i support skate shops wack or not 100% knowing retail and skateboarding are dying breeds but this is a first for me to say: fuck that shop. this isnt what skateboarding is about.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: OG Puffy Tongue on May 06, 2019, 04:06:28 PM
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Makes skateboarders look bad.  Fucking idiot.
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To who?

Very tasteless stuff. Pretty crazy no one called him out on it

(https://i.imgur.com/mYVLdXU.jpg)

That dude's kit alone was tasteless enough aside from what was written on the back
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: tension on May 06, 2019, 04:06:45 PM
not fucking shalom.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: whorific on May 06, 2019, 04:28:21 PM
curbstomp that fuck
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: shrockitis on May 06, 2019, 04:35:23 PM
I fail to see how anyone ever thought that this was at all ok, bunch of disrespectful idiots
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Pete on May 06, 2019, 04:40:14 PM
vans gotta answer for this shit.

free max b
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Dr Hfuhruhurr on May 06, 2019, 04:42:52 PM
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Makes skateboarders look bad.  Fucking idiot.
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To who?

Very tasteless stuff. Pretty crazy no one called him out on it

I feel like it makes skaters look like tasteless, disrespectful immature assholes that don’t even care about our own people.

Just my opinion, my dude.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: givecigstosurfgroms on May 06, 2019, 05:07:08 PM

   Weird! 
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: talklessSkateMore on May 06, 2019, 06:26:19 PM
So unbelievable it happend! That evil truck being on the road! We shouls ban trucks!
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: gaunting on May 06, 2019, 06:37:43 PM
disgusting.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Joust Ostrich on May 06, 2019, 06:54:08 PM
So unbelievable it happend! That evil truck being on the road! We shouls ban trucks!

You are not very good at this.  Or spelling. 

Perhaps you should talklessSkateMore, but do it somewhere else.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: feedmeseymour on May 06, 2019, 07:12:55 PM
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Time for TK to greenlight him.
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Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Burt Ward on May 06, 2019, 07:23:21 PM
SHOCK VALUE! What a CUNT.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: bo bice on May 06, 2019, 07:52:03 PM
what even is death anymore?
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Bumpovertrash on May 06, 2019, 08:32:38 PM
this is one of the oddest things ive ever seen
who the fuck does that
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Monkey_Mcpott on May 06, 2019, 08:34:03 PM
This is fucked. One for the kid doing that stupid shirt and then for the shop to make the whole emoji caption with the truck, WTF?
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Suave on May 06, 2019, 08:43:58 PM
outrage!
did that first guy in the clip mess up a fs boardslide on a ledge and bonk his head? good grief.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: euro tm on May 06, 2019, 08:45:47 PM
fucking horrible
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: CHONGO on May 06, 2019, 08:49:06 PM
missed it.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: ChuckRamone on May 06, 2019, 08:54:49 PM
well there was the time that truck mowed down a bunch of people in france and you could make a really tasteless joke about that where the score would look like an nba team vs. a high school team. that would be so edgy.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Googan Christmas on May 06, 2019, 08:58:34 PM
(http://pic60.picturetrail.com/VOL1758/12056824/23509819/406223794.jpg)
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: talklessSkateMore on May 06, 2019, 09:19:08 PM
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So unbelievable it happend! That evil truck being on the road! We shouls ban trucks!
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You are not very good at this.  Or spelling. 

Perhaps you should talklessSkateMore, but do it somewhere else.

Woah man did you think of that one all by yourself?
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: somethingmustbreaknow on May 07, 2019, 12:49:09 AM
nique ce idiot!
(my school-french is long gone)
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Crack Whore on May 07, 2019, 01:01:54 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9WIevM4ztc
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: cheetahsheets on May 07, 2019, 01:57:19 AM
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Time for TK to greenlight him.
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Do not speak such heresy on these boards. TK is the messiah, remember to always ask yourself what would TK do? TK took in a racist with Shane sheckler and opened his arms and gave him the love he desperately needed obviously which was lacking because his parents focused all there attention on Ryan. TK is an all knowing being and heard his prayers, there’s a root to all the evil. I imagine TK coming to meet these frenchies and sitting the young man down. “Son, do you know what transgressions on this board you have so righteously defiled.” Basically giving him the jesus(TK) morality speech in hopes to better his life. Just like JC, TK can only provide the path, but TK is a non-violent messiah. TK throws no mud, even at those buried in it.

Shalom
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Thomas on May 07, 2019, 02:26:13 AM
vans gotta answer for this shit.

free max b

Vans has nothing to do with that.
Those events are sponsored by Vans which gives money for food/drinks and Vans stuff to win for the contest.
The events are organized by local shops AND they should send the clip to Vans for validation before posting it.
I don't believe Vans would have accepted that, they just posted their clip without any approval.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Hevonen on May 07, 2019, 02:44:39 AM
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Makes skateboarders look bad.  Fucking idiot.
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To who?

Very tasteless stuff. Pretty crazy no one called him out on it
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I feel like it makes skaters look like tasteless, disrespectful immature assholes that don’t even care about our own people.

Just my opinion, my dude.
It would, if someone outside of skateboarding would understand the meaning of the 'joke' let alone see this random clip posted by some random shop somewhere in france
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Buck Bundy on May 07, 2019, 03:40:43 AM
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Time for TK to greenlight him.
[close]
[close]
[close]

Do not speak such heresy on these boards. TK is the messiah, remember to always ask yourself what would TK do? TK took in a racist with Shane sheckler and opened his arms and gave him the love he desperately needed obviously which was lacking because his parents focused all there attention on Ryan. TK is an all knowing being and heard his prayers, there’s a root to all the evil. I imagine TK coming to meet these frenchies and sitting the young man down. “Son, do you know what transgressions on this board you have so righteously defiled.” Basically giving him the jesus(TK) morality speech in hopes to better his life. Just like JC, TK can only provide the path, but TK is a non-violent messiah. TK throws no mud, even at those buried in it.

Shalom


Shalom indeed Cheetahsheets.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: silhouette on May 07, 2019, 05:30:19 AM
I called the dude who runs the shop earlier this morning and kind of figured out why the fuck up.

Apparently absolutely none of the locals knew the exact circumstances of Pablo's passing. I'm guessing they, as well as many people from non-English speaking countries, only got the bad news from some bullshit medium where most substance gets diluted, i.e. IG stories. From what I understood, they all thought Pablo had passed doing something 'glorious' such as filming for GX1000 the whole time, consciously taking high risks doing what he loved. When I told them it all went down on flat ground as he was casually skitching back from Jesse Vieira's trial, they sounded flabbergasted and the extent of the poor form seemed to click for them.

Despite the appearances, the shop claims to have a lot of respect for GX1000, and has been working with the brand since the day it became one or so they told me. They did admit to being embarrassed by both the shirt and clip prior to putting it up (with full emphasis on that one shithead...), but I'll get to that.

People overseas will always have a less direct and more foreign, and romanticized perception and interpretation of entities and events (of any kind) than locals. In this case I think this is a side effect of GX1000's edgy image having been promoted so much (as far as in pop culture - GQ etc...), the associated guys have reached myth status to some people who are vulnerable to that shit, and developed some kind of hero persona that transcends their own names and existences. To a lot of uneducated people in the world who never had any real life interaction with their role models, those dudes are just names who might as well be mere notions or cartoon characters instead of living physical persons which is indeed wrong and disrespectful, but common when you're young and have never done interesting in your life I guess. My point being, it's definitely easy for people who are completely disconnected (geographically and culturally) from a situation to entertain their little fantasy world with whatever little strong news they might grasp, and form their distorted representation of everything that may shockingly contrast with actual reality.

The kid is a nobody who just so happens to be tight with the locals and showed up that day. Definitely the dumb kind to look for attention with shock value and he actually did get some on the spot. According to the shop, when they got the footage back from that day they were actually bummed (again, with everybody assuming Pablo's passing had to do with taking risks whilst doing something for GX and mystifying the story), and spent a while asking people around the shop whether or not it would be acceptable to post such a clip. They were iffy about using it, but also about the idea of potentially 'censoring' something (not a bad trait as it's what led up to exposing the kid's stupidity eventually; hopefully it'll open his eyes on how much he blows it). I'm guessing the people they consulted knew even less about Pablo than they did, who had to talk out of their asses, convince them it was cool and they should try and run with it as a tribute or some amateur bullshit. So there definitely was confusion on the shop's end.

I'm just being the messenger providing their take on this (as well as my own analysis...) in case people might be interested. By no means am I trying to justify any of the shit that went down. Regardless of the circumstances of one's passing, such reappropriation is always uncalled for. To be fair, it's not the first time I catch a shop 'trying to pay tribute to pspliff' by doing bogus shit such as posting the photos of the actual accident covered up with little emojis in their stories. Unprofessional as all hell but in such a case, I think it's the confused skaters' hearts trying to express something over the businesses they are supposed to represent - just doing it all wrong and on the wrong IG accounts. From an outside perspective it conveys the idea that shops want to capitalize on a recent human tragedy they have nothing to do with, which is a horrible look, but in most cases I can really distinguish mostly thick confusion and awkwardness.

Now the kid's situation is different. Dude showed up like that that day knowing he was going to be around skaters, and filmed. It's clear cultural reappropriation as an attempt to make his vanilla ass stand out, and get reactions. I'm glad he got exposed and called out on his shit, and just looking at his IG I think he might in need of some kind of mental help. That 'joke' he scribbled on his shirt, I could never see myself try and pull whilst sane. How one's heart doesn't stop upon them just writing down such absurd trash is beyond me.

The shop just put up a new version of the clip without the references, although the kid is still in there but without the close-ups on his shirt. I'm supposed to write a recap article featuring the clips all the participating shops sent Vans that's coming out tomorrow. I'll include the clip, but will call the kid out in the article and link to this thread.

Since I'm doing that, I also got an apology email from Vans even though they (nor I) had nothing direct to do with the whole ordeal in the first place besides sponsoring the event; the clip hadn't gotten their approval. The guys are clear and I'd say the shop definitely did shit all wrong this time, but they've realized it and in general a lot of stuff had gone over their heads (thinking of it now, I don't believe any French media ever really described Pablo's accident, and on SLAP we probably know way more about it than the general public); it's really mostly on the kid for scribbling nonsense on himself without having one fucking clue about life to begin with.

TLDR - shop basically had no one around to explain the extent of the meaning of the shirt to them. Vans is sorry even though they never directly had anything to do with this. It's on the kid for being the one bringing up someone's name into his bullshit and thinking pro skaters are basically stars belonging to pop culture as opposed to fellow human beings I assume. Fucked.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Ocelot on May 07, 2019, 05:37:59 AM
I called the dude who runs the shop earlier this morning and kind of figured out why the fuck up.

Apparently absolutely none of the locals knew the exact circumstances of Pablo's passing. I'm guessing they, as well as many people from non-English speaking countries, only got the bad news from some bullshit medium where most substance gets diluted, i.e. IG stories. From what I understood, they all thought Pablo had passed doing something 'glorious' such as filming for GX1000 the whole time, consciously taking high risks doing what he loved. When I told them it all went down on flat ground as he was casually sketching back from Jesse Vieira's trial, they sounded flabbergasted and the extent of the poor form seemed to click for them.

Despite the appearances, the shop claims to have a lot of respect for GX1000, and has been working with the brand since the day it became one or so they told me. They did admit to being embarrassed by both the shirt and clip prior to putting it up (with full emphasis on that one shithead...), but I'll get to that.

People overseas will always have a less direct and more foreign, and romanticized perception and interpretation of entities and events (of any kind) than locals. In this case I think this is a side effect of GX1000's edgy image having been promoted so much (as far as in pop culture - GQ etc...), the associated guys have reached myth status to some people who are vulnerable to that shit, and developed some kind of hero status that transcends their own names and existences. To a lot of uneducated people in the world who never had any real life interaction with their role models, those dudes are just names who might as well be mere notions or cartoon characters instead of living physical persons which is indeed wrong and disrespectful, but common when you're young and have never done interesting in your life I guess. My point being, it's definitely easy for people who are completely disconnected (geographically and culturally) from a situation to entertain their little fantasy world with whatever little strong news they might grasp, and form their distorted representation of everything that may shockingly contrast with actual reality.

The kid is a nobody who just so happens to be tight with the locals and showed up that day. Definitely the dumb kind to look for attention with shock value and he actually did get some on the spot. According to the shop, when they got the footage back from that day they were actually bummed (again, with everybody assuming Pablo's passing had to do with taking risks whilst doing something for GX), and spent a while asking people around the shop whether or not it would be acceptable to post such a clip. They were iffy about using it, but also about the idea of potentially 'censoring' something (not a bad trait as it's what led up to exposing the kid's stupidity eventually; hopefully it'll open his eyes on how much he blows it). I'm guessing the people they consulted knew even less about Pablo than they did, who had to talk out of their asses, convince them it was cool and they should try and run with it as a tribute or some amateur bullshit. So there definitely was confusion on the shop's end.

I'm just being the messenger providing their take on this (as well as my own analysis...) in case people might be interested. By no means am I trying to justify and of the shit that went down. Regardless of the circumstances of one's passing, such reappropriation is always uncalled for. To be fair, it's not the first time I catch a shop 'trying to pay tribute to pspliff' by doing bogus shit such as posting the photos of the actual accident covered up with little emojis in their stories. Unprofessional as all hell but in such a case, I think it's the confused skaters' hearts trying to express something over the businesses they are supposed to represent - just doing it all wrong and on the wrong IG accounts. From an outside perspective it conveys the idea that shops want to capitalize on a recent human tragedy they have nothing to do with, which is a horrible look, but in most cases I can really distinguish mostly thick confusion and awkwardness.

Now the kid's situation is different. Dude showed up like that that day knowing he was going to be around skaters, and filmed. It's clear cultural reappropriation as an attempt to make his vanilla ass stand out, and get reactions. I'm glad he got exposed and called out on his shit, and just looking at his IG I think he might in need of some kind of mental help. That 'joke' he scribbled on his shirt, I could never see myself try and pull whilst sane. How one's heart doesn't stop upon them just writing down such absurd trash is beyond me.

The shop just put up a new version of the clip without the references, although the kid is still in there but without the close-ups on his shirts. I'm supposed to write a recap article featuring the clips all the participating shops sent Vans that's coming out tomorrow. I'll include the clip, but will call the kid out in the article and link to this thread.

Since I'm doing that, I also got an apology email from Vans even though they had nothing direct to do with the whole ordeal in the first place besides sponsoring the event; the clip hadn't gotten their approval. The guys are clear and I'd say the shop definitely did shit all wrong this time, but they've realized it and that a lot of stuff had gone over their heads (thinking of it now, I don't believe any French media ever really described Pablo's accident, and on SLAP we probably know way more about it than the general public); it's really mostly on the kid for scribbling nonsense on himself without having one fucking clue about life to begin with.

congrats
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: radcunt on May 07, 2019, 05:54:35 AM
Who fuckin' cares if they thought he was a 24/7 hillbomber or a casual skater walking his dog, this is a huge shitcunt move and they can fuck off forever.  I don't give a shit about GX, and think that sucks.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: silhouette on May 07, 2019, 05:59:34 AM
Who fuckin' cares if they thought he was a 24/7 hillbomber or a casual skater walking his dog, this is a huge shitcunt move and they can fuck off forever.  I don't give a shit about GX, and think that sucks.

Oh yeah, I'm not justifying any of that disrespectful shit. Just thought people might be interested in their take on things, and I could provide it.

I edited a TLDR into my post as I had gone overboard with detail and length. Obviously shit is still putrid regardless of how one chooses to look at it. Now if you ask me this whole situation defies common sense to begin with, so I'm out.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Jehoshaphat Augustus on May 07, 2019, 06:06:10 AM
Oh i see
they didn't get it wasn't funny to make fun of guys who died getting run over by cars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_nbG4HORig

Let me ask, was this understanding conversation you both had entirely in French?
I smell Surrender cologne wafting through these hallways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFix1OV6qY8

Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: silhouette on May 07, 2019, 06:07:16 AM
Why would two French people speak in English over the phone?
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: pdknox on May 07, 2019, 06:07:52 AM
canceled
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: givecigstosurfgroms on May 07, 2019, 07:41:21 AM
I was gonna say somthing b4.  Yah somtimes its funny hearing europeans talk about 'america' and also how they are forever fucking up trick names. I just spent the last year in eurpe.  Theyve got some crazy ideas about pro skaters.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: honey island on May 07, 2019, 08:23:18 AM
don't you pick the still that you want the unplayed post look like in your feed? the image of the back of the t-shirt was  the still, but not the first clip played....

how the fuck can they possibly say they were embarrassed by the t-shirt prior to posting it but choose to use it as the still for the post?
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: talklessSkateMore on May 07, 2019, 08:35:44 AM
Fuck all yall foreal. Dude was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's sad but he's just a human being

Rip foreal, but fuck all this "It's wrong it's wrong" trash

I've lost to many people for this to be new, nothing is sacred and trucks win when we don't have breaks!

Dissolve your hive mind attachment to another that shares your little hobby/job
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: PAWL on May 07, 2019, 08:46:09 AM
Fuck all yall foreal. Dude was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's sad but he's just a human being

Rip foreal, but fuck all this "It's wrong it's wrong" trash

I've lost to many people for this to be new, nothing is sacred and trucks win when we don't have breaks!

Dissolve your hive mind attachment to another that shares your little hobby/job

since when was this about you and your personal loss?
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: whaaaaat on May 07, 2019, 08:49:45 AM
I called the dude who runs the shop earlier this morning and kind of figured out why the fuck up.

Apparently absolutely none of the locals knew the exact circumstances of Pablo's passing. I'm guessing they, as well as many people from non-English speaking countries, only got the bad news from some bullshit medium where most substance gets diluted, i.e. IG stories. From what I understood, they all thought Pablo had passed doing something 'glorious' such as filming for GX1000 the whole time, consciously taking high risks doing what he loved. When I told them it all went down on flat ground as he was casually skitching back from Jesse Vieira's trial, they sounded flabbergasted and the extent of the poor form seemed to click for them.

Despite the appearances, the shop claims to have a lot of respect for GX1000, and has been working with the brand since the day it became one or so they told me. They did admit to being embarrassed by both the shirt and clip prior to putting it up (with full emphasis on that one shithead...), but I'll get to that.

People overseas will always have a less direct and more foreign, and romanticized perception and interpretation of entities and events (of any kind) than locals. In this case I think this is a side effect of GX1000's edgy image having been promoted so much (as far as in pop culture - GQ etc...), the associated guys have reached myth status to some people who are vulnerable to that shit, and developed some kind of hero persona that transcends their own names and existences. To a lot of uneducated people in the world who never had any real life interaction with their role models, those dudes are just names who might as well be mere notions or cartoon characters instead of living physical persons which is indeed wrong and disrespectful, but common when you're young and have never done interesting in your life I guess. My point being, it's definitely easy for people who are completely disconnected (geographically and culturally) from a situation to entertain their little fantasy world with whatever little strong news they might grasp, and form their distorted representation of everything that may shockingly contrast with actual reality.

The kid is a nobody who just so happens to be tight with the locals and showed up that day. Definitely the dumb kind to look for attention with shock value and he actually did get some on the spot. According to the shop, when they got the footage back from that day they were actually bummed (again, with everybody assuming Pablo's passing had to do with taking risks whilst doing something for GX and mystifying the story), and spent a while asking people around the shop whether or not it would be acceptable to post such a clip. They were iffy about using it, but also about the idea of potentially 'censoring' something (not a bad trait as it's what led up to exposing the kid's stupidity eventually; hopefully it'll open his eyes on how much he blows it). I'm guessing the people they consulted knew even less about Pablo than they did, who had to talk out of their asses, convince them it was cool and they should try and run with it as a tribute or some amateur bullshit. So there definitely was confusion on the shop's end.

I'm just being the messenger providing their take on this (as well as my own analysis...) in case people might be interested. By no means am I trying to justify any of the shit that went down. Regardless of the circumstances of one's passing, such reappropriation is always uncalled for. To be fair, it's not the first time I catch a shop 'trying to pay tribute to pspliff' by doing bogus shit such as posting the photos of the actual accident covered up with little emojis in their stories. Unprofessional as all hell but in such a case, I think it's the confused skaters' hearts trying to express something over the businesses they are supposed to represent - just doing it all wrong and on the wrong IG accounts. From an outside perspective it conveys the idea that shops want to capitalize on a recent human tragedy they have nothing to do with, which is a horrible look, but in most cases I can really distinguish mostly thick confusion and awkwardness.

Now the kid's situation is different. Dude showed up like that that day knowing he was going to be around skaters, and filmed. It's clear cultural reappropriation as an attempt to make his vanilla ass stand out, and get reactions. I'm glad he got exposed and called out on his shit, and just looking at his IG I think he might in need of some kind of mental help. That 'joke' he scribbled on his shirt, I could never see myself try and pull whilst sane. How one's heart doesn't stop upon them just writing down such absurd trash is beyond me.

The shop just put up a new version of the clip without the references, although the kid is still in there but without the close-ups on his shirt. I'm supposed to write a recap article featuring the clips all the participating shops sent Vans that's coming out tomorrow. I'll include the clip, but will call the kid out in the article and link to this thread.

Since I'm doing that, I also got an apology email from Vans even though they (nor I) had nothing direct to do with the whole ordeal in the first place besides sponsoring the event; the clip hadn't gotten their approval. The guys are clear and I'd say the shop definitely did shit all wrong this time, but they've realized it and in general a lot of stuff had gone over their heads (thinking of it now, I don't believe any French media ever really described Pablo's accident, and on SLAP we probably know way more about it than the general public); it's really mostly on the kid for scribbling nonsense on himself without having one fucking clue about life to begin with.

TLDR - shop basically had no one around to explain the extent of the meaning of the shirt to them. Vans is sorry even though they never directly had anything to do with this. It's on the kid for being the one bringing up someone's name into his bullshit and thinking pro skaters are basically stars belonging to pop culture as opposed to fellow human beings I assume. Fucked.

are you serious with this?  god damn man, shirt is definitely fucked up but you calling around for explanations and apologies is some next level 'get a fucking life' shit.  'stupid teenager wears stupid shirt to get attention', does not need to escalate to 'man on internet goes on spirit quest for answers to shirt and life'
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: cricketclub on May 07, 2019, 08:57:41 AM
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I called the dude who runs the shop earlier this morning and kind of figured out why the fuck up.

Apparently absolutely none of the locals knew the exact circumstances of Pablo's passing. I'm guessing they, as well as many people from non-English speaking countries, only got the bad news from some bullshit medium where most substance gets diluted, i.e. IG stories. From what I understood, they all thought Pablo had passed doing something 'glorious' such as filming for GX1000 the whole time, consciously taking high risks doing what he loved. When I told them it all went down on flat ground as he was casually skitching back from Jesse Vieira's trial, they sounded flabbergasted and the extent of the poor form seemed to click for them.

Despite the appearances, the shop claims to have a lot of respect for GX1000, and has been working with the brand since the day it became one or so they told me. They did admit to being embarrassed by both the shirt and clip prior to putting it up (with full emphasis on that one shithead...), but I'll get to that.

People overseas will always have a less direct and more foreign, and romanticized perception and interpretation of entities and events (of any kind) than locals. In this case I think this is a side effect of GX1000's edgy image having been promoted so much (as far as in pop culture - GQ etc...), the associated guys have reached myth status to some people who are vulnerable to that shit, and developed some kind of hero persona that transcends their own names and existences. To a lot of uneducated people in the world who never had any real life interaction with their role models, those dudes are just names who might as well be mere notions or cartoon characters instead of living physical persons which is indeed wrong and disrespectful, but common when you're young and have never done interesting in your life I guess. My point being, it's definitely easy for people who are completely disconnected (geographically and culturally) from a situation to entertain their little fantasy world with whatever little strong news they might grasp, and form their distorted representation of everything that may shockingly contrast with actual reality.

The kid is a nobody who just so happens to be tight with the locals and showed up that day. Definitely the dumb kind to look for attention with shock value and he actually did get some on the spot. According to the shop, when they got the footage back from that day they were actually bummed (again, with everybody assuming Pablo's passing had to do with taking risks whilst doing something for GX and mystifying the story), and spent a while asking people around the shop whether or not it would be acceptable to post such a clip. They were iffy about using it, but also about the idea of potentially 'censoring' something (not a bad trait as it's what led up to exposing the kid's stupidity eventually; hopefully it'll open his eyes on how much he blows it). I'm guessing the people they consulted knew even less about Pablo than they did, who had to talk out of their asses, convince them it was cool and they should try and run with it as a tribute or some amateur bullshit. So there definitely was confusion on the shop's end.

I'm just being the messenger providing their take on this (as well as my own analysis...) in case people might be interested. By no means am I trying to justify any of the shit that went down. Regardless of the circumstances of one's passing, such reappropriation is always uncalled for. To be fair, it's not the first time I catch a shop 'trying to pay tribute to pspliff' by doing bogus shit such as posting the photos of the actual accident covered up with little emojis in their stories. Unprofessional as all hell but in such a case, I think it's the confused skaters' hearts trying to express something over the businesses they are supposed to represent - just doing it all wrong and on the wrong IG accounts. From an outside perspective it conveys the idea that shops want to capitalize on a recent human tragedy they have nothing to do with, which is a horrible look, but in most cases I can really distinguish mostly thick confusion and awkwardness.

Now the kid's situation is different. Dude showed up like that that day knowing he was going to be around skaters, and filmed. It's clear cultural reappropriation as an attempt to make his vanilla ass stand out, and get reactions. I'm glad he got exposed and called out on his shit, and just looking at his IG I think he might in need of some kind of mental help. That 'joke' he scribbled on his shirt, I could never see myself try and pull whilst sane. How one's heart doesn't stop upon them just writing down such absurd trash is beyond me.

The shop just put up a new version of the clip without the references, although the kid is still in there but without the close-ups on his shirt. I'm supposed to write a recap article featuring the clips all the participating shops sent Vans that's coming out tomorrow. I'll include the clip, but will call the kid out in the article and link to this thread.

Since I'm doing that, I also got an apology email from Vans even though they (nor I) had nothing direct to do with the whole ordeal in the first place besides sponsoring the event; the clip hadn't gotten their approval. The guys are clear and I'd say the shop definitely did shit all wrong this time, but they've realized it and in general a lot of stuff had gone over their heads (thinking of it now, I don't believe any French media ever really described Pablo's accident, and on SLAP we probably know way more about it than the general public); it's really mostly on the kid for scribbling nonsense on himself without having one fucking clue about life to begin with.

TLDR - shop basically had no one around to explain the extent of the meaning of the shirt to them. Vans is sorry even though they never directly had anything to do with this. It's on the kid for being the one bringing up someone's name into his bullshit and thinking pro skaters are basically stars belonging to pop culture as opposed to fellow human beings I assume. Fucked.
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are you serious with this?  god damn man, shirt is definitely fucked up but you calling around for explanations and apologies is some next level 'get a fucking life' shit.  'stupid teenager wears stupid shirt to get attention', does not need to escalate to 'man on internet goes on spirit quest for answers to shirt and life'

I'm glad he called them and called them out. That definitely needed to happen.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: silhouette on May 07, 2019, 08:58:23 AM
don't you pick the still that you want the unplayed post look like in your feed? the image of the back of the t-shirt was  the still, but not the first clip played....

how the fuck can they possibly say they were embarrassed by the t-shirt prior to posting it but choose to use it as the still for the post?

That's what I'm saying - everybody fucked up. But on the shop's end, it sounds more like a matter of ignorance than idiocy. Long story short, from what I gathered the guys themselves barely knew much about Pablo (besides his GX affiliation and news of his recent passing so vague I'm pretty sure I'm the one who just explained it to the shop what a truck had to do in all this), and they were duped by the kids' crew who reassured and apparently somehow convinced them that it was just an innocent joke (either due to lack of info themselves, or because reality is easy to twist). Like "yeah we think it's funny, you should run with it". All excuses of language barrier aside, something like this is definitely worth doing research on before stepping up to in any way, especially with any pretention of marketing. To me the kid is the real idiot who dug up Pablo's name all the while knowing exactly what he was doing the whole time, or at least with more clues than shop guys who spend more time running their businesses than focusing on IG stories and hearsay.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: silhouette on May 07, 2019, 09:01:37 AM
are you serious with this?  god damn man, shirt is definitely fucked up but you calling around for explanations and apologies is some next level 'get a fucking life' shit.  'stupid teenager wears stupid shirt to get attention', does not need to escalate to 'man on internet goes on spirit quest for answers to shirt and life'

No, I had to call the dude due to working on stuff with a bunch of shops in France that's directly related to this. Vans spontaneously sent me apologies they didn't need after I had explained it to them why that shop removed that post. What do you think, that I live on here? I appreciate the concern but your idea is so wrong it's funny, really please don't worry about me.

Also I'm not in any way saying that the shop guys not knowing makes the situation any more OK. It's just all they had to say, so here I am reporting it, DM them for complaints, not me.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: tony_margera on May 07, 2019, 09:20:12 AM
post was removed what was it
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Sk.A.T.A.N on May 07, 2019, 09:22:05 AM
Fuck all yall foreal. Dude was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's sad but he's just a human being

Rip foreal, but fuck all this "It's wrong it's wrong" trash

I've lost to many people for this to be new, nothing is sacred and trucks win when we don't have breaks!

Dissolve your hive mind attachment to another that shares your little hobby/job

"talklessSkateMore" made an account to talk more and skate less. Good job!
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: tension on May 07, 2019, 12:40:42 PM
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Fuck all yall foreal. Dude was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's sad but he's just a human being

Rip foreal, but fuck all this "It's wrong it's wrong" trash

I've lost to many people for this to be new, nothing is sacred and trucks win when we don't have breaks!

Dissolve your hive mind attachment to another that shares your little hobby/job
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since when was this about you and your personal loss?
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tha fuck u took ???

....... fuck the its wrong its wrong "thrash"
ok- so well "dissolve our hive minds attached to skateboarding" and pretend for a minute a similar situation happened not involving skateboarding and IT WAS STILL BE FUCKED UP

youuuurrrrreee tripppppping
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Black Frycook on May 07, 2019, 01:05:10 PM
Fuck all yall foreal. Dude was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's sad but he's just a human being

Rip foreal, but fuck all this "It's wrong it's wrong" trash

I've lost to many people for this to be new, nothing is sacred and trucks win when we don't have breaks!

Dissolve your hive mind attachment to another that shares your little hobby/job

This man said your little hobby hahahahahahahaha
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Schneaumunn on May 07, 2019, 02:32:24 PM
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu5K9nJAERG/
"I keep Le Thang on me"
Fucking Lol
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: papo on May 07, 2019, 02:42:38 PM
Fuck this dude, i just looked up his IG, hes so pathetic, begging for attention.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Complements4U on May 07, 2019, 03:00:21 PM
Ohhhh so they thought since he died a "noble" death it would be chill to poke fun at it two weeks later I see. They weren't aware that wouldn't be cool cause of the language barrier and stuff France is really isolated and remote. The kid who made the shirt didnt google how he died to come up with the joke and the shop owners supporting from day one just simply didn't wanna edit out the random kid in the shirt and skeletor pants cause of censorship and stuff so they made it the thumbnail on Instagram.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Surf-goth on May 07, 2019, 03:06:02 PM
Seriously uncool
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: tension on May 07, 2019, 03:26:13 PM
Ohhhh so they thought since he died a "noble" death it would be chill to poke fun at it two weeks later I see. They weren't aware that wouldn't be cool cause of the language barrier and stuff France is really isolated and remote. The kid who made the shirt didnt google how he died to come up with the joke and the shop owners supporting from day one just simply didn't wanna edit out the random kid in the shirt and skeletor pants cause of censorship and stuff so they made it the thumbnail on Instagram.

Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: silhouette on May 07, 2019, 03:36:47 PM
Ohhhh so they thought since he died a "noble" death it would be chill to poke fun at it two weeks later I see. They weren't aware that wouldn't be cool cause of the language barrier and stuff France is really isolated and remote. The kid who made the shirt didnt google how he died to come up with the joke and the shop owners supporting from day one just simply didn't wanna edit out the random kid in the shirt and skeletor pants cause of censorship and stuff so they made it the thumbnail on Instagram.

How about you guys just DM them such comments instead of posting them on here, unless you like your energy to go to waste?

Might be another waste though as I really think the shop did eventually realize how they fucked up by not considering the situation on the spot, the guys genuinely sounded shook, like no shit. The kid I'm not sure, as he appears to just keep deleting every comment on his IG.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: element4life on May 07, 2019, 04:00:53 PM
hope whoever made that gets hit by a truck deliberately
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: givecigstosurfgroms on May 07, 2019, 04:08:14 PM
hope whoever made that gets hit by a truck deliberately
  Silly^.  Like someone else said the guy is prolly mentally disturbed.  Dont get all worked up. 
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Complements4U on May 07, 2019, 04:18:47 PM
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Ohhhh so they thought since he died a "noble" death it would be chill to poke fun at it two weeks later I see. They weren't aware that wouldn't be cool cause of the language barrier and stuff France is really isolated and remote. The kid who made the shirt didnt google how he died to come up with the joke and the shop owners supporting from day one just simply didn't wanna edit out the random kid in the shirt and skeletor pants cause of censorship and stuff so they made it the thumbnail on Instagram.
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How about you guys just DM them such comments instead of posting them on here, unless you like your energy to go to waste?

Might be another waste though as I really think the shop did eventually realize how they fucked up by not considering the situation on the spot, the guys genuinely sounded shook, like no shit. The kid I'm not sure, as he appears to just keep deleting every comment on his IG.
Not trying to shoot the messenger no disrespect to you. Just seemed like a good place to post my reaction to the info you provided.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: silhouette on May 07, 2019, 04:21:24 PM
Not trying to shoot the messenger no disrespect to you. Just seemed like a good place to post my reaction to the info you provided.

No worries!
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: ChuckRamone on May 07, 2019, 06:45:42 PM
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I called the dude who runs the shop earlier this morning and kind of figured out why the fuck up.

Apparently absolutely none of the locals knew the exact circumstances of Pablo's passing. I'm guessing they, as well as many people from non-English speaking countries, only got the bad news from some bullshit medium where most substance gets diluted, i.e. IG stories. From what I understood, they all thought Pablo had passed doing something 'glorious' such as filming for GX1000 the whole time, consciously taking high risks doing what he loved. When I told them it all went down on flat ground as he was casually skitching back from Jesse Vieira's trial, they sounded flabbergasted and the extent of the poor form seemed to click for them.

Despite the appearances, the shop claims to have a lot of respect for GX1000, and has been working with the brand since the day it became one or so they told me. They did admit to being embarrassed by both the shirt and clip prior to putting it up (with full emphasis on that one shithead...), but I'll get to that.

People overseas will always have a less direct and more foreign, and romanticized perception and interpretation of entities and events (of any kind) than locals. In this case I think this is a side effect of GX1000's edgy image having been promoted so much (as far as in pop culture - GQ etc...), the associated guys have reached myth status to some people who are vulnerable to that shit, and developed some kind of hero persona that transcends their own names and existences. To a lot of uneducated people in the world who never had any real life interaction with their role models, those dudes are just names who might as well be mere notions or cartoon characters instead of living physical persons which is indeed wrong and disrespectful, but common when you're young and have never done interesting in your life I guess. My point being, it's definitely easy for people who are completely disconnected (geographically and culturally) from a situation to entertain their little fantasy world with whatever little strong news they might grasp, and form their distorted representation of everything that may shockingly contrast with actual reality.

The kid is a nobody who just so happens to be tight with the locals and showed up that day. Definitely the dumb kind to look for attention with shock value and he actually did get some on the spot. According to the shop, when they got the footage back from that day they were actually bummed (again, with everybody assuming Pablo's passing had to do with taking risks whilst doing something for GX and mystifying the story), and spent a while asking people around the shop whether or not it would be acceptable to post such a clip. They were iffy about using it, but also about the idea of potentially 'censoring' something (not a bad trait as it's what led up to exposing the kid's stupidity eventually; hopefully it'll open his eyes on how much he blows it). I'm guessing the people they consulted knew even less about Pablo than they did, who had to talk out of their asses, convince them it was cool and they should try and run with it as a tribute or some amateur bullshit. So there definitely was confusion on the shop's end.

I'm just being the messenger providing their take on this (as well as my own analysis...) in case people might be interested. By no means am I trying to justify any of the shit that went down. Regardless of the circumstances of one's passing, such reappropriation is always uncalled for. To be fair, it's not the first time I catch a shop 'trying to pay tribute to pspliff' by doing bogus shit such as posting the photos of the actual accident covered up with little emojis in their stories. Unprofessional as all hell but in such a case, I think it's the confused skaters' hearts trying to express something over the businesses they are supposed to represent - just doing it all wrong and on the wrong IG accounts. From an outside perspective it conveys the idea that shops want to capitalize on a recent human tragedy they have nothing to do with, which is a horrible look, but in most cases I can really distinguish mostly thick confusion and awkwardness.

Now the kid's situation is different. Dude showed up like that that day knowing he was going to be around skaters, and filmed. It's clear cultural reappropriation as an attempt to make his vanilla ass stand out, and get reactions. I'm glad he got exposed and called out on his shit, and just looking at his IG I think he might in need of some kind of mental help. That 'joke' he scribbled on his shirt, I could never see myself try and pull whilst sane. How one's heart doesn't stop upon them just writing down such absurd trash is beyond me.

The shop just put up a new version of the clip without the references, although the kid is still in there but without the close-ups on his shirt. I'm supposed to write a recap article featuring the clips all the participating shops sent Vans that's coming out tomorrow. I'll include the clip, but will call the kid out in the article and link to this thread.

Since I'm doing that, I also got an apology email from Vans even though they (nor I) had nothing direct to do with the whole ordeal in the first place besides sponsoring the event; the clip hadn't gotten their approval. The guys are clear and I'd say the shop definitely did shit all wrong this time, but they've realized it and in general a lot of stuff had gone over their heads (thinking of it now, I don't believe any French media ever really described Pablo's accident, and on SLAP we probably know way more about it than the general public); it's really mostly on the kid for scribbling nonsense on himself without having one fucking clue about life to begin with.

TLDR - shop basically had no one around to explain the extent of the meaning of the shirt to them. Vans is sorry even though they never directly had anything to do with this. It's on the kid for being the one bringing up someone's name into his bullshit and thinking pro skaters are basically stars belonging to pop culture as opposed to fellow human beings I assume. Fucked.
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are you serious with this?  god damn man, shirt is definitely fucked up but you calling around for explanations and apologies is some next level 'get a fucking life' shit.  'stupid teenager wears stupid shirt to get attention', does not need to escalate to 'man on internet goes on spirit quest for answers to shirt and life'

damn. how lazy are you that you think making a phone call equals a spirit quest? you must binge eat donuts and play video games all day while your mom types your Internet comments for you.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: Raspberries on May 07, 2019, 07:21:30 PM
I don’t get it
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: tension on May 09, 2019, 11:46:34 AM
I don’t get it

With a response like this i'm surprised you haven't been kooked more than the amount of times you've even posted.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: silhouette on May 09, 2019, 11:51:08 AM
Maybe out of respect for Pablo, let this thread die already.
Title: Re: Truck 1, huh? The rudest shit I've ever seen. Cancel this dude, and the shop.
Post by: el chino on May 09, 2019, 12:58:41 PM
Maybe out of respect for Pablo, let this thread die already.
after someone punches the kid and focuses his board, sure