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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: backsidebonefull on June 16, 2019, 07:58:21 AM
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Ryan o'connor has been outed as a scumbag by multiple different people over time. All you need to do is search the '#fuckripndip' hashtag on instagram to find a collection of evidence. Not only did he fuck over Grant Yansura and the WKND boys, he's fucked over artists in the past (who essentially gave ripndip their whole brand identity). He's also supposedly a woman beater. Guys a fucking scumbag so why does ripndip still seem to be doing so well?
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kids that buy rip and dip are the same kids with tye dye grizzly grip and odd future socks skating loading docks.
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Probably because he's on the fringes of the industry already, and his brand mostly sells in Zumiez and other mall shops where kids don't give a shit about that kind of stuff. I agree, though. Fuck that dude.
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Look at their clientele. Do you think they do their research on where their parents’ money goes? Cmon. Anyone with half a brain passes on ripndip.
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Probably because he's on the fringes of the industry already, and his brand mostly sells in Zumiez and other mall shops where kids don't give a shit about that kind of stuff. I agree, though. Fuck that dude.
I think skate shops fucking love it because it's the kind of shit that window shoppers/tourists who don't have a clue will buy. Regardless, I feel like these guys who run these skate shops would have more integrity.
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My friend wears it. She went to some big opening for it and payed $80+ for a fucking tote bag and hoodie. Also there’s this one wanna be goth chick I know who wears it. It’s a brand made for mall rat kids and kids who smoke weed and think their cool.
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Is rip n dip skatebrand?
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i heard at one stage supreme were legit thinking of moving from their fairfax location due to being situated right next to ripndip
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I always thought it would be hilarious if Supreme was in the most random place ever, with like nothing by it...sort of like the prada in marfa, but still in LA. like at the Hollywood sign, and you had to hike to get to it.
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My friend wears it. She went to some big opening for it and payed $80+ for a fucking tote bag and hoodie. Also there’s this one wanna be goth chick I know who wears it. It’s a brand made for mall rat kids and kids who smoke weed and think their cool.
Have you told your friends the shitty stories behind the brand? Let em know, maybe? I tell anyone I know who fucks with it and I'm a hit at parties!
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I'd wear the hightops if I could get that dumb ass cat off the heel
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More like ripnshit
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I'd wear the hightops if I could get that dumb ass cat off the heel
buy converse.
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remember “fundip” that shit that was basically just powdered drink mix? I bet whoever started that is a fucking scumbag too.
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Their stuff is trendy and lot of people I know that don’t skate buy their stuff. It seems to sell really easily (cats).
There was an IG clip where I think dan plunkett destroyed their ice sign which was hilarious.
Also Grant said Ryan burned basically all relationships with FL which is more evidence of why he sucks as a person.
Too bad though, I grew up watching the early Ripndip/weekendtage things and they ruled. But then again not necessarily because Ryan was in them.
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Cant imagine a legit shop repping the the brand.
When ever I see their product I just instantly think "Dip n Shit"
Might be time to start a counter brand destroying Dip n Shit, since the Bull Dog eat Cat thing is so played out maybe a Gang of Rats eats Cat is better (Skate Rats of course)
Bunch of T's with different scenarios of the stupid stoned cat getting some instant karma /payback.
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remember “fundip” that shit that was basically just powdered drink mix? I bet whoever started that is a fucking scumbag too.
it was more like flavored sugar with food dye. I don’t even know whqt ripndip is
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My girlfriend's best friend is super into skateboarders and tries to act like she knows what's up with skating (even though she doesn't know shit), and she loves zumiez and ripndip - that should show you what type of demographic is purchasing this shit. I don't even bother to correct her friend because she's got her head so far up her own ass its ridiculous.
You know how wack and out of touch someone is with skateboarding when they're in a Rip N Dip tee and they tease their own best friend for wearing a Former tee telling them "that's not even cool"
*facepalm to the MAX
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I stopped wearing my rip n dip shirts when I first heard about the owner being shady. I’ve even left Instagram comments like “careful buying from a brand where the owner is a domestic abuser”.
I really doubt any Pals on here fuck with R+D
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I used to really want their shirts when I was still a young higher schooler without enough money to actually buy them. Now that I have enough money, I would never spend it on this piece of shit company.
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My girlfriend's best friend is super into skateboarders and tries to act like she knows what's up with skating (even though she doesn't know shit), and she loves zumiez and ripndip - that should show you what type of demographic is purchasing this shit. I don't even bother to correct her friend because she's got her head so far up her own ass its ridiculous.
You know how wack and out of touch someone is with skateboarding when they're in a Rip N Dip tee and they tease their own best friend for wearing a Former tee telling them "that's not even cool"
*facepalm to the MAX
reminds me of my step-daughter who wears ripndip gear and thrasher t-shirts and un-ironically makes fun of me for skating at my age, when her only hobby is doing her own makeup.
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kids that buy rip and dip are the same kids with tye dye grizzly grip and odd future socks skating loading docks.
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only time ripndip was sick was when ryan g was filming stuff for them. They made some cool videos back in the day. I remember Matt Militano was skating with them a lot. Just realized after going through the "rip n dip road trip" video on thrasher Jeff Carlyle was skating with them also.
But I can't remember I heard they did some wack shit back in the day,
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I don’t even know whqt ripndip is
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Bought a shirt and it shrank on the first wash. Then I found out and haven't touched their shit and tell friends to stray away from them.
But, it is a pseudo-skate brand and they're niche doesn't care because the looks matter.
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remember “Fustoop” that shit that was basically just powdered drink mix?
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that kitty cat flipping the middle finger really sends me man o man
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We refuse to carry that wack brand in our shop despite the fact that lots of people ask for it and we could make good money off of it.
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I think Cosmic Vomit was originally labeled as a Rip n dip video, but then the cat design came out and Ryan dropped everyone when he figured out that he could capitalize off of it and not have to pay anyone.
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My girlfriend's best friend is super into skateboarders and tries to act like she knows what's up with skating (even though she doesn't know shit), and she loves zumiez and ripndip - that should show you what type of demographic is purchasing this shit. I don't even bother to correct her friend because she's got her head so far up her own ass its ridiculous.
You know how wack and out of touch someone is with skateboarding when they're in a Rip N Dip tee and they tease their own best friend for wearing a Former tee telling them "that's not even cool"
*facepalm to the MAX
reminds me of my step-daughter who wears ripndip gear and thrasher t-shirts and un-ironically makes fun of me for skating at my age, when her only hobby is doing her own makeup.
Ah yes, the ol' grown ass man making fun of his teenage step daughter on a skateboard messageboard trick. Good one.
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I think Cosmic Vomit was originally labeled as a Rip n dip video, but then the cat design came out and Ryan dropped everyone when he figured out that he could capitalize off of it and not have to pay anyone.
Even Jayme who created the damn cat graphic
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Fuck ripndip and everything in regards to it. Piece of shit brand!
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I mean yeah it’s some of the worst shit ever. My local shop would never carry that garbage.
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Found it so weird when I saw knock-off ripndip tees being sold along side fake thrasher in an asian market in my city (small european).
Like, ripndip first found it's way to the public via Weekendtage. Does this shop owner know anything about FACE? Would they understand if I asked "Ya'll filming for scarred?"... do they even have a man crush on Johan Stuckey?!
I fear not.
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cats weed space pizza triangles
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My girlfriend's best friend is super into skateboarders and tries to act like she knows what's up with skating (even though she doesn't know shit), and she loves zumiez and ripndip - that should show you what type of demographic is purchasing this shit. I don't even bother to correct her friend because she's got her head so far up her own ass its ridiculous.
You know how wack and out of touch someone is with skateboarding when they're in a Rip N Dip tee and they tease their own best friend for wearing a Former tee telling them "that's not even cool"
*facepalm to the MAX
reminds me of my step-daughter who wears ripndip gear and thrasher t-shirts and un-ironically makes fun of me for skating at my age, when her only hobby is doing her own makeup.
Ah yes, the ol' grown ass man making fun of his teenage step daughter on a skateboard messageboard trick. Good one.
Nice sarcastic burn, but I'm sure everyone wishes they had a teenage step daughter to make fun of.
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cats weed space pizza triangles
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Ripndip is so fucking corn.
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remember when mango rode for them. and zac depiero. that dude was sick. I dont know what taking photos of cars does for him now but i think he was better at skating.
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and zac depiero. that dude was sick
When I was 16 I got a job and saved up money for a mk1 and found a guy on skateperception who was selling his. It was that Zak depiero guy and he drove his sick ass bmw several hours to a Mcdonalds parking lot in my town to sell it to me in person rather than shipping it for a couple bucks.
I remember he had a mad relaxed attitude that hit me like a brick wall compared to my stupid buzzing kid brain. And then I looked up his youtube channel and realized how sick he was at skating... That dude seemed mad cool
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and zac depiero. that dude was sick
When I was 16 I got a job and saved up money for a mk1 and found a guy on skateperception who was selling his. It was that Zak depiero guy and he drove his sick ass bmw several hours to a Mcdonalds parking lot in my town to sell it to me in person rather than shipping it for a couple bucks.
I remember he had a mad relaxed attitude that hit me like a brick wall compared to my stupid buzzing kid brain. And then I looked up his youtube channel and realized how sick he was at skating... That dude seemed mad cool
He is indeed very sick, last I saw he was really into car photography with a tilt shift lens. People might pay him for photos of their cars, car dudes love that stuff. Pretty sure he’s one of those dudes that kills it whenever he feels like skating if ever.
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It makes me sad to see young women rocking Ripndip shit just because they like weed and cats and shitty bands and don't know about that dude's assault on his ex-girlfriend. When I see dudes rocking that shit I assume they're complete morons. And usually they're either twelve or could be what the internet defines as a "Kyle" so I'm probably right.
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My 'local' shop reps it pretty hard. When I got my first board there I though the ripndip stuff was pretty cringy. Reading this I'm surprised they even touch that shit. But then again, it could be that selling that crap to 'Thrasher hoody teens' is the only way to actually get a skateshop here in The Netherlands to stay in business.
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Anyone else feel like FA is poised to be the next Rip n Dip?
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Although my local shop Shred shed I’ve got beef with I’ll get into it later. He knows them as grommets from Brad Cromer and says fuck that RipnDip dude.
RipnDip are kuwaii to the average cutesy gals. They’ve been milking it for everything it’s worth, tbh integrity and morals means fuck all compared to making loot. They’ll lose steam soon, no originality and they suck ass. If I ever am in Zumiez for younger relatives I always let them know they suck and if anything they should rep Lurk Hard.
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Anyone else feel like FA is poised to be the next Rip n Dip?
No.
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RipNDip are the Speed Demons brand that use to have legitimacy regardless of Ryan O’Connor but are just about there with being put in a discount bin.
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My girlfriend's best friend is super into skateboarders and tries to act like she knows what's up with skating (even though she doesn't know shit), and she loves zumiez and ripndip - that should show you what type of demographic is purchasing this shit. I don't even bother to correct her friend because she's got her head so far up her own ass its ridiculous.
You know how wack and out of touch someone is with skateboarding when they're in a Rip N Dip tee and they tease their own best friend for wearing a Former tee telling them "that's not even cool"
*facepalm to the MAX
reminds me of my step-daughter who wears ripndip gear and thrasher t-shirts and un-ironically makes fun of me for skating at my age, when her only hobby is doing her own makeup.
Ah yes, the ol' grown ass man making fun of his teenage step daughter on a skateboard messageboard trick. Good one.
Nice sarcastic burn, but I'm sure everyone wishes they had a teenage step daughter to make fun of.
lol damn this is so true
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Ryan O'Connor, not be confused with this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kahCMotrkxQ
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My girlfriend's best friend is super into skateboarders and tries to act like she knows what's up with skating (even though she doesn't know shit), and she loves zumiez and ripndip - that should show you what type of demographic is purchasing this shit. I don't even bother to correct her friend because she's got her head so far up her own ass its ridiculous.
You know how wack and out of touch someone is with skateboarding when they're in a Rip N Dip tee and they tease their own best friend for wearing a Former tee telling them "that's not even cool"
*facepalm to the MAX
You shld bang her dude, poser chicks rule
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has o'connor been interviewed by a real skate media source since all of that came out?
if not, jenkem plz get on it
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has o'connor been interviewed by a real skate media source since all of that came out?
if not, jenkem plz get on it
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Probably because he's on the fringes of the industry already, and his brand mostly sells in Zumiez and other mall shops where kids don't give a shit about that kind of stuff. I agree, though. Fuck that dude.
I think skate shops fucking love it because it's the kind of shit that window shoppers/tourists who don't have a clue will buy. Regardless, I feel like these guys who run these skate shops would have more integrity.
And this is 1000% true. The shop I used to work at carried ripndip simply due to how easily it sold to the general public.
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My girlfriend's best friend is super into skateboarders and tries to act like she knows what's up with skating (even though she doesn't know shit), and she loves zumiez and ripndip - that should show you what type of demographic is purchasing this shit. I don't even bother to correct her friend because she's got her head so far up her own ass its ridiculous.
You know how wack and out of touch someone is with skateboarding when they're in a Rip N Dip tee and they tease their own best friend for wearing a Former tee telling them "that's not even cool"
*facepalm to the MAX
it would maybe rule if she wasn't 50+ pounds heavier than me and 8 inches shorter than me, but hey to each their own
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Because you hate it OP and its a kids company. Kids love anything adults hate.
Why do you think all these kids love these dyed hair, face tat trash rappers? When adults or "oldheads" jump on anything it kills it for the youth.
And all you MFs desperate to date a chick who is into skating, SACK the FUCK UP when she brings this trash home and dump her! When she asks why tell her you didnt realize she was going for such a trash aesthetic. All you pussy ass "core" skaters are the same ones who probably has a gf blowing a bill at zumies every week on this trash.
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Because you hate it OP and its a kids company. Kids love anything adults hate.
Why do you think all these kids love these dyed hair, face tat trash rappers? When adults or "oldheads" jump on anything it kills it for the youth.
And all you MFs desperate to date a chick who is into skating, SACK the FUCK UP when she brings this trash home and dump her! When she asks why tell her you didnt realize she was going for such a trash aesthetic. All you pussy ass "core" skaters are the same ones who probably has a gf blowing a bill at zumies every week on this trash.
Why would she blow Bill at Zumiez if she has me as a bf
You trippin foo
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zac depiero. that dude was sick. I dont know what taking photos of cars does for him now but i think he was better at skating.
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I saw a ripndip sticker on a car today. the driver was going to a methadone clinic.
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My girlfriend's best friend is super into skateboarders and tries to act like she knows what's up with skating (even though she doesn't know shit), and she loves zumiez and ripndip - that should show you what type of demographic is purchasing this shit. I don't even bother to correct her friend because she's got her head so far up her own ass its ridiculous.
You know how wack and out of touch someone is with skateboarding when they're in a Rip N Dip tee and they tease their own best friend for wearing a Former tee telling them "that's not even cool"
*facepalm to the MAX
it would maybe rule if she wasn't 50+ pounds heavier than me and 8 inches shorter than me, but hey to each their own I did not have a girlfriend. I am a bad boy for not saying that originally. My girlfriend should break up with me and I should sit in a corner and point at my penis and say "You sir do not deserve a single thing"
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I saw a ripndip sticker on a car today. the driver was going to a methadone clinic.
my guy...you are new here, but i respect this post right here, it made me giggle. it also means that you were most likely headed to the same methadone clinic though........you played yourself hoeboi
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they magically were able to create an original smug looking cat that was instantly recognizable wherever you saw it, namely on those pocket t-shirt, when they were still a thing
they became huge because they were the first big brand of that goth-trap scene (think weed & Kirby), you just had to buy one t-shirt and then you were a "cool girl"
the company is largely faceless though and I think this was intentional/smart by the guy who runs it, I'm sure a ton of people here have tried to impress some girl by telling them that the owner of the brand they're wearing has sexual assault allegations against him but this usually results in a "who? I just like the cat"
without sounding like a trope, there may be something we don't know about the whole situation
why hasn't jenkem or some instagram thot launched a campaign against rip n dip yet? in the age of the commodification of sexual assault allegations, it seems kinda strange that no one has taken a stab at this ryan guy yet
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Because you hate it OP and its a kids company. Kids love anything adults hate.
Why do you think all these kids love these dyed hair, face tat trash rappers? When adults or "oldheads" jump on anything it kills it for the youth.
And all you MFs desperate to date a chick who is into skating, SACK the FUCK UP when she brings this trash home and dump her! When she asks why tell her you didnt realize she was going for such a trash aesthetic. All you pussy ass "core" skaters are the same ones who probably has a gf blowing a bill at zumies every week on this trash.
Why would she blow Bill at Zumiez if she has me as a bf
You trippin foo
You need to develop some awareness. I never met a girl who wears that trash who didn't blow me when I said my name was bill, sorry about your gf. You might want to keep her out of Zumiez when bill is on shift.
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I saw a ripndip sticker on a car today. the driver was going to a methadone clinic.
Not doubting your story, but I'm wondering how you found this out. Did you yell at him/her about being an idiot and he/she was like, "Leave me be I'm heading to a methadone clinic!"
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I saw a ripndip sticker on a car today. the driver was going to a methadone clinic.
my guy...you are new here, but i respect this post right here, it made me giggle. it also means that you were most likely headed to the same methadone clinic though........you played yourself hoeboi
Solid usage of "hoeboi".
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I saw a ripndip sticker on a car today. the driver was going to a methadone clinic.
my guy...you are new here, but i respect this post right here, it made me giggle. it also means that you were most likely headed to the same methadone clinic though........you played yourself hoeboi
Solid usage of "hoeboi".
Ya played yourself....... hoeboi
has my dying
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CC7mSrklMG-/?igshid=115hz9ex58n0s (https://www.instagram.com/p/CC7mSrklMG-/?igshid=115hz9ex58n0s)
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I still don't really know what a rip'n'dip is but I wouldn't support them if I did
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I still don't really know what a rip'n'dip is but I wouldn't support them if I did
Clearly have never walked in a zumiez. Good on you bro.
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I still don't really know what a rip'n'dip is but I wouldn't support them if I did
Yeah... You’re not missing anything.
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It is pretty crazy that they get a good amount of ads in Thrasher though. I know Thrasher is pretty oblivious to what’s right and wrong but its a shame that I have to skim by so many ads of cats flicking me off.
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I have a "friend" that's all woke and shit, super feminist. I always ask her about feminist stuff and she always reply's with "Oh lord, I don't have time to get into it. haha" Annnnyways... She's always repping ripndip and I gave her the back story and the link and she was a bit shocked and said "Oh wow." "Thanks for letting me know." "I just thought the shirts are cute." And she still wears them! No one really cares unless a mob of people are going after someone.
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Anyone else feel like FA is poised to be the next Rip n Dip?
Yep
Am I alone in thinking both companies are gimmicky jokes?
Great riders for the most part but the gimicky hype machine bollocks can fuck off to the mainstream with the lame Lord's.
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Seems like it's a new cancel opportunity here
FA doesn't like RIPNDIP, they don't want / like to be on the wall at shops stocking Ripndip
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Only seen it at zumiez
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Seems like it's a new cancel opportunity here
FA doesn't like RIPNDIP, they don't want / like to be on the wall at shops stocking Ripndip
Does no one else find this absurd?
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Demanding distribution can be absurd, not surprising considering the ties with Supreme and just classic marketing 101.
People want stuff they can't have easily, let's put some conditions ("limited" quantities and retail locations, higher prices,...)
OR maybe they already knew about the owner behaviour and the fact RIPNDIP hasn't done anything for skateboarding for years. They might just be ahead of Slap, trying to cancel the brand 8)
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FA & Rip N Dip are apples to oranges.
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Demanding distribution can be absurd, not surprising considering the ties with Supreme and just classic marketing 101.
People want stuff they can't have easily, let's put some conditions ("limited" quantities and retail locations, higher prices,...)
OR maybe they already knew about the owner behaviour and the fact RIPNDIP hasn't done anything for skateboarding for years. They might just be ahead of Slap, trying to cancel the brand 8)
Elitist dogshit. A bunch of shops could pay the bills easier if FA would open accounts with them. But because they carry a brand Dill or whoever doesn’t like for whatever reason, they get blacklisted. Real lame.
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I have a "friend" that's all woke and shit, super feminist. I always ask her about feminist stuff and she always reply's with "Oh lord, I don't have time to get into it. haha" Annnnyways... She's always repping ripndip and I gave her the back story and the link and she was a bit shocked and said "Oh wow." "Thanks for letting me know." "I just thought the shirts are cute." And she still wears them! No one really cares unless a mob of people are going after someone.
@links, pics, and quotes hot off the press:
Domestic abuse allegations - Who actually cares?
Kombuch-A-Holic, a clearly woke and globally informed individual, is reporting live from behind his keyboard in BFE. After consulting with the leader of feminists, who's identity was left as "friend", he had this to say on the matter: "All females don't really care unless a mob of people are going after someone".
More updates this evening.
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elitist or not, the truth is when you got supreme $$$ backing you, some shops need fa more than fa needs some, if any, shops. at the end of the day i'd take an elitist brand like fa that creates content and donates to charity than a shit, mall company like rip n dip. also owned by a woman beater.
let's not derail this into a different topic
fuck rip n dip
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FA & Rip N Dip are apples to oranges.
They are both cheap kiddie hype shit though. One is marginally better than the other
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God I love watching hype beast/streetwear/cool guy companies go down. They’re not good for skateboarding and they attract scummy power hungry egomaniacal people. I hope this woman gets justice.
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We refuse to carry that wack brand in our shop despite the fact that lots of people ask for it and we could make good money off of it.
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/512OOMv4ZEL._AC_.jpg)
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It is pretty crazy that they get a good amount of ads in Thrasher though. I know Thrasher is pretty oblivious to what’s right and wrong but its a shame that I have to skim by so many ads of cats flicking me off.
Same. Bums me out that they're all over every issue
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I have a "friend" that's all woke and shit, super feminist. I always ask her about feminist stuff and she always reply's with "Oh lord, I don't have time to get into it. haha" Annnnyways... She's always repping ripndip and I gave her the back story and the link and she was a bit shocked and said "Oh wow." "Thanks for letting me know." "I just thought the shirts are cute." And she still wears them! No one really cares unless a mob of people are going after someone.
we could be the mob. Safe to say a good portion of skaters know about the weekend/ripndip stuff. I overheard some teen talking to some younger kids about everything wrong with ripndip and Ryan at the local a week ago.
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You realize how old you are when you not only don't know what this is, but you initially read it as RipGrip
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You realize how old you are when you not only don't know what this is, but you initially read it as RipGrip
This. Hahahaha.
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No matter how much your personal convictions and want to shake the shit of someone for wearing RipNDip there's no point.....
Let them find out for themselves I don't want to be that guy to cap on someone's kit imagine someone clowning you on because of slave labored Nike or Adidas......
Allow me to reiterate a story from Nollie Flip which you can give or take the scenarios.
Quote from: fakie nollie on July 21, 2020, 08:52:34 AM
This is a long story about how I felt like a complete skate-jock and why the brands we generally despise both exist and thrive.
When I first met my S/O years ago, I was skating a lot more and she thought it was cool. At 31, she had never stepped foot on a skateboard in her life. I decided I’d show her the basics at my local skatepark.
We show up and the park is empty. Me, being the horrible teacher that I am, assumed her saying “I’ve never stepped on skateboard” meant she could roll around on flat ground- I was wrong. I leave her to hold a fence to practice balancing. An hour goes by and I'm dusted from skating ledges the entire time. She’s a good sport but was yearning to learn more.
A few days later, I have to travel for work for about two weeks. This was before we lived together and she asked if she could borrow my skateboard to practice. I oblige, leave it at her apartment on the way to the airport and think nothing of it.
Two weeks pass and I arrive home, jet lagged but itching to release some stress by skating around my local. I pick her up, my spare skateboard in trunk and the one she's borrowing in her hand and we go to our local. I’m not paying attention and start warming my legs up with a few runs around the park.
After about 5 minutes, I realize I didn’t leave her on the fence and frantically search to see if she’s fallen. To my total surprise, she is rolling around, going up and down the banks and pushing (not mongo). Albeit it looks sloppy, this is someone who, 2 weeks prior, couldn’t even stand on a board. I’m blown away and impressed, with a hint of admiration as I remember being a chubby 8 year old taking weeks to learn how to stand and roll.
We leave the park and I’m singing her praises, giving verbal accolades about her progress. I innocently ask, “How did you learn so fast?”. Prior to receiving her answer that would turn my morals upside-down, I assumed she was either naturally talented or started banging a dude at the park in exchange for lessons. How wrong I was on all accounts.
Smiling from ear-to-ear, she pulls her phone out and opens the YouTube app. I’m sitting in the parking lot with her, sweat dried on my brow, patiently waiting to see what miraculous video she pulls up that showed her the basics of skateboarding. Was it from Tony Hawk or Eric Koston's trick tips? Possibly a lesser known e-learning channel from a dope company?
No. She pulls up Braille's youtube channel and starts scrolling through all the videos she was looking at- each one with a small red-line below the thumbnail, indicating she's ingested this content like a fiend demolishing a bag of dope. I can't wrap my head around this and am smiling on the outside but screaming on the inside:
"Why is this happening to me? How did I get here? Who is poisoning the well with this content being so easily accessible to the naive skateboarder in the early stages of their journey to Gnardom?"
After about 30 seconds of her scrolling through, my inner skate-jock erupts and I exclaim, "Those videos are so wack. You need to stop looking at them." A flood of emotion and memories took over- blips of flashbacks to conversations between friends, casually talking shit on anything that Thrasher or Transworld's website didn't display in the last decade. Aaron Kyro's bird-like nose poking into frame.
She's immediately crushed, followed by a wave of being upset with me for judging her - and rightfully so. I believe the first thing she said was, "Oh, I didn't realize you were the mayor of Cool's Ville and Braille is jean overalls". That immediately put me in check. Who was I to dictate what is or isn't cool? What gave me the impression that I was aware, at all, of what should be considered 'hip' or 'lame'? How did I get to the point from my humble beginnings in skateboarding, where I was the little kid being bullied by the older crew for my Wet Willy deck to being the kook who judged someone so quickly?
This was followed by one of our first and only fights in our years-long relationship. At the end of it, I submitted, admitted I was in the wrong and told her my opinion should not ruin the tools which helped her begin to skate. To this day though, every time a reference to anything Braille or Revive pops up, I instinctually clench my jaw and remember the day I was the skateboard jock.
In summation RipNDip definitely sucks but I won't be that person to hurt someone's feelings by being that dick. If you are going to let the cat out of the bag saying tag them along with his exs story on IG.
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Those of you saying you’ve never heard of Rip n Dip pridefully are corny. You’re on a pretty prestigious skate forum so educate yourself on the industry a bit. They have multiple page ads in skate magazines and coverage all across skate media. I like rip grip and all the nerdy gimmicks from skateboardings glory days too but I wish we could all keep up at least a little bit. Sorry for being a jerk here but I feel that it needed to be said.
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Those of you saying you’ve never heard of Rip n Dip pridefully are corny. You’re on a pretty prestigious skate forum so educate yourself on the industry a bit. They have multiple page ads in skate magazines and coverage all across skate media. I like rip grip and all the nerdy gimmicks from skateboardings glory days too but I wish we could all keep up at least a little bit. Sorry for being a jerk here but I feel that it needed to be said.
+1. Matt Militano is currently one of Slap's golden boys and his thread in Photos/Videos keeps getting bumped yet some people don't seem to remember that he once rode for Rip n Dip, even after the shit about Ryan O'Connor was brought to light. Not holding that against Matt, just trying to say that usually people know what companies their favorite skater used to ride for. Like if you watched his Vanish part and then wanted to find more footage of him you probably would have come across this and other stuff so don't act like you've never heard of Rip n Dip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwGF0VAogi0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwGF0VAogi0)
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CC7mSrklMG-/?igshid=115hz9ex58n0s (https://www.instagram.com/p/CC7mSrklMG-/?igshid=115hz9ex58n0s)
lol, this was posted by that dork that got Feedback Ted fired.
RipnDip sucks and needs to be exposed/destroyed but I have a feeling this guy is more concerned with his own social capital than keeping anyone safe
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lol, this was posted by that dork that got Feedback Ted fired.
RipnDip sucks and needs to be exposed/destroyed but I have a feeling this guy is more concerned with his own social capital than keeping anyone safe
Yeah, this clown might as well start a YouTube account and follow in the footsteps of John Hill
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Those of you saying you’ve never heard of Rip n Dip pridefully are corny. You’re on a pretty prestigious skate forum so educate yourself on the industry a bit. They have multiple page ads in skate magazines and coverage all across skate media. I like rip grip and all the nerdy gimmicks from skateboardings glory days too but I wish we could all keep up at least a little bit. Sorry for being a jerk here but I feel that it needed to be said.
Rip grip was dope i liked putting it next to my Ugly Stix to help with early grab crooked cops.
Don't be bummed that people don't know/care about some mall brand.
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Those of you saying you’ve never heard of Rip n Dip pridefully are corny. You’re on a pretty prestigious skate forum so educate yourself on the industry a bit. They have multiple page ads in skate magazines and coverage all across skate media. I like rip grip and all the nerdy gimmicks from skateboardings glory days too but I wish we could all keep up at least a little bit. Sorry for being a jerk here but I feel that it needed to be said.
its purely a mall brand and they have nothing of value. So if you didn’t know about ripndip before this then why would you? I’m jealous of y’all that haven’t heard about this shit company.
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Came here to post that IG link. O'con is a piece of shit. He hit my friend he was dating at the time when we were in high school and I've heard multiple repeated situations. Steals art, fucks over friends, skates cars and gets other skaters beat up for it, hits women, this dude deserved to get shitcanned a fucking decade ago. Fuck him
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You’re on a pretty prestigious skate forum
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You’re on a pretty prestigious skate forum
Good to see you got something meaningful out of my comment.
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i swear to god there was a thread here on slap back when i registered about ripndip being abusive assholes and potentially even rape allegations (maybe via johan?)
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Have a good weekend everybody but it’s still f ripndip out here. “Alleged allegations” jfc. Purchasing an 8 million dollar Malibu house thanks to ripped off artwork.
https://mobile.twitter.com/teenybwain/status/1286761165960478724 (https://mobile.twitter.com/teenybwain/status/1286761165960478724)
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This is not breaking news. Most people have heard about what Ryan O'Connor did... It seems like if you have money these days you can just get away with it/ not even address the allegations.....just like Nyjah Huston did.
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lol, this was posted by that dork that got Feedback Ted fired.
RipnDip sucks and needs to be exposed/destroyed but I have a feeling this guy is more concerned with his own social capital than keeping anyone safe
Yeah, this clown might as well start a YouTube account and follow in the footsteps of John Hill
wait, what happened with feedback ted?
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i swear to god there was a thread here on slap back when i registered about ripndip being abusive assholes and potentially even rape allegations (maybe via johan?)
there was (is?) a friend and i were talking about it yesterday and how this is just now really coming to light, even though it’s been a topic of discussion for like what, 3/4 years at most. even the shit with the braille dudes. insane how long/much it’s taken for people to actually listen and acknowledge what’s been going on
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i swear to god there was a thread here on slap back when i registered about ripndip being abusive assholes and potentially even rape allegations (maybe via johan?)
Just think of how long it took for Bill Cosby to get tried. https://www.bustle.com/articles/182422-why-did-it-take-so-long-for-bill-cosby-to-be-tried-hes-faced-decades-of (https://www.bustle.com/articles/182422-why-did-it-take-so-long-for-bill-cosby-to-be-tried-hes-faced-decades-of)
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No matter how much your personal convictions and want to shake the shit of someone for wearing RipNDip there's no point.....
Let them find out for themselves I don't want to be that guy to cap on someone's kit imagine someone clowning you on because of slave labored Nike or Adidas......
Allow me to reiterate a story from Nollie Flip which you can give or take the scenarios.
Quote from: fakie nollie on July 21, 2020, 08:52:34 AM
This is a long story about how I felt like a complete skate-jock and why the brands we generally despise both exist and thrive.
When I first met my S/O years ago, I was skating a lot more and she thought it was cool. At 31, she had never stepped foot on a skateboard in her life. I decided I’d show her the basics at my local skatepark.
We show up and the park is empty. Me, being the horrible teacher that I am, assumed her saying “I’ve never stepped on skateboard” meant she could roll around on flat ground- I was wrong. I leave her to hold a fence to practice balancing. An hour goes by and I'm dusted from skating ledges the entire time. She’s a good sport but was yearning to learn more.
A few days later, I have to travel for work for about two weeks. This was before we lived together and she asked if she could borrow my skateboard to practice. I oblige, leave it at her apartment on the way to the airport and think nothing of it.
Two weeks pass and I arrive home, jet lagged but itching to release some stress by skating around my local. I pick her up, my spare skateboard in trunk and the one she's borrowing in her hand and we go to our local. I’m not paying attention and start warming my legs up with a few runs around the park.
After about 5 minutes, I realize I didn’t leave her on the fence and frantically search to see if she’s fallen. To my total surprise, she is rolling around, going up and down the banks and pushing (not mongo). Albeit it looks sloppy, this is someone who, 2 weeks prior, couldn’t even stand on a board. I’m blown away and impressed, with a hint of admiration as I remember being a chubby 8 year old taking weeks to learn how to stand and roll.
We leave the park and I’m singing her praises, giving verbal accolades about her progress. I innocently ask, “How did you learn so fast?”. Prior to receiving her answer that would turn my morals upside-down, I assumed she was either naturally talented or started banging a dude at the park in exchange for lessons. How wrong I was on all accounts.
Smiling from ear-to-ear, she pulls her phone out and opens the YouTube app. I’m sitting in the parking lot with her, sweat dried on my brow, patiently waiting to see what miraculous video she pulls up that showed her the basics of skateboarding. Was it from Tony Hawk or Eric Koston's trick tips? Possibly a lesser known e-learning channel from a dope company?
No. She pulls up Braille's youtube channel and starts scrolling through all the videos she was looking at- each one with a small red-line below the thumbnail, indicating she's ingested this content like a fiend demolishing a bag of dope. I can't wrap my head around this and am smiling on the outside but screaming on the inside:
"Why is this happening to me? How did I get here? Who is poisoning the well with this content being so easily accessible to the naive skateboarder in the early stages of their journey to Gnardom?"
After about 30 seconds of her scrolling through, my inner skate-jock erupts and I exclaim, "Those videos are so wack. You need to stop looking at them." A flood of emotion and memories took over- blips of flashbacks to conversations between friends, casually talking shit on anything that Thrasher or Transworld's website didn't display in the last decade. Aaron Kyro's bird-like nose poking into frame.
She's immediately crushed, followed by a wave of being upset with me for judging her - and rightfully so. I believe the first thing she said was, "Oh, I didn't realize you were the mayor of Cool's Ville and Braille is jean overalls". That immediately put me in check. Who was I to dictate what is or isn't cool? What gave me the impression that I was aware, at all, of what should be considered 'hip' or 'lame'? How did I get to the point from my humble beginnings in skateboarding, where I was the little kid being bullied by the older crew for my Wet Willy deck to being the kook who judged someone so quickly?
This was followed by one of our first and only fights in our years-long relationship. At the end of it, I submitted, admitted I was in the wrong and told her my opinion should not ruin the tools which helped her begin to skate. To this day though, every time a reference to anything Braille or Revive pops up, I instinctually clench my jaw and remember the day I was the skateboard jock.
In summation RipNDip definitely sucks but I won't be that person to hurt someone's feelings by being that dick. If you are going to let the cat out of the bag saying tag them along with his exs story on IG.
This is a great post.
I am not a fan of Braille, but they do serve an important niche in the skate scene that traditional brands balked at.
Decent beginner-friendly how-to videos.
All those transworld ones or whatever were garbage, a naturally talented pro who has never broken down the mechanics of something into bite-sized parts films the shittiest ‘how to’ in 30 minutes that teaches you nothing.
Braille’s ‘Can you skate a frozen pizza?!?’ stuff is obviously aimed at 12-year olds, but the how-to stuff is done well enough.
Great story about looking relooking at skating from a beginners shoes, El Fap. Your SO sounds rad that she was that keen on skating that she went through all that trouble to research it.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi8rsz3gbk_/?igshid=1r3hceort1dk9 (https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi8rsz3gbk_/?igshid=1r3hceort1dk9)
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No matter how much your personal convictions and want to shake the shit of someone for wearing RipNDip there's no point.....
Let them find out for themselves I don't want to be that guy to cap on someone's kit imagine someone clowning you on because of slave labored Nike or Adidas......
Allow me to reiterate a story from Nollie Flip which you can give or take the scenarios.
Quote from: fakie nollie on July 21, 2020, 08:52:34 AM
This is a long story about how I felt like a complete skate-jock and why the brands we generally despise both exist and thrive.
When I first met my S/O years ago, I was skating a lot more and she thought it was cool. At 31, she had never stepped foot on a skateboard in her life. I decided I’d show her the basics at my local skatepark.
We show up and the park is empty. Me, being the horrible teacher that I am, assumed her saying “I’ve never stepped on skateboard” meant she could roll around on flat ground- I was wrong. I leave her to hold a fence to practice balancing. An hour goes by and I'm dusted from skating ledges the entire time. She’s a good sport but was yearning to learn more.
A few days later, I have to travel for work for about two weeks. This was before we lived together and she asked if she could borrow my skateboard to practice. I oblige, leave it at her apartment on the way to the airport and think nothing of it.
Two weeks pass and I arrive home, jet lagged but itching to release some stress by skating around my local. I pick her up, my spare skateboard in trunk and the one she's borrowing in her hand and we go to our local. I’m not paying attention and start warming my legs up with a few runs around the park.
After about 5 minutes, I realize I didn’t leave her on the fence and frantically search to see if she’s fallen. To my total surprise, she is rolling around, going up and down the banks and pushing (not mongo). Albeit it looks sloppy, this is someone who, 2 weeks prior, couldn’t even stand on a board. I’m blown away and impressed, with a hint of admiration as I remember being a chubby 8 year old taking weeks to learn how to stand and roll.
We leave the park and I’m singing her praises, giving verbal accolades about her progress. I innocently ask, “How did you learn so fast?”. Prior to receiving her answer that would turn my morals upside-down, I assumed she was either naturally talented or started banging a dude at the park in exchange for lessons. How wrong I was on all accounts.
Smiling from ear-to-ear, she pulls her phone out and opens the YouTube app. I’m sitting in the parking lot with her, sweat dried on my brow, patiently waiting to see what miraculous video she pulls up that showed her the basics of skateboarding. Was it from Tony Hawk or Eric Koston's trick tips? Possibly a lesser known e-learning channel from a dope company?
No. She pulls up Braille's youtube channel and starts scrolling through all the videos she was looking at- each one with a small red-line below the thumbnail, indicating she's ingested this content like a fiend demolishing a bag of dope. I can't wrap my head around this and am smiling on the outside but screaming on the inside:
"Why is this happening to me? How did I get here? Who is poisoning the well with this content being so easily accessible to the naive skateboarder in the early stages of their journey to Gnardom?"
After about 30 seconds of her scrolling through, my inner skate-jock erupts and I exclaim, "Those videos are so wack. You need to stop looking at them." A flood of emotion and memories took over- blips of flashbacks to conversations between friends, casually talking shit on anything that Thrasher or Transworld's website didn't display in the last decade. Aaron Kyro's bird-like nose poking into frame.
She's immediately crushed, followed by a wave of being upset with me for judging her - and rightfully so. I believe the first thing she said was, "Oh, I didn't realize you were the mayor of Cool's Ville and Braille is jean overalls". That immediately put me in check. Who was I to dictate what is or isn't cool? What gave me the impression that I was aware, at all, of what should be considered 'hip' or 'lame'? How did I get to the point from my humble beginnings in skateboarding, where I was the little kid being bullied by the older crew for my Wet Willy deck to being the kook who judged someone so quickly?
This was followed by one of our first and only fights in our years-long relationship. At the end of it, I submitted, admitted I was in the wrong and told her my opinion should not ruin the tools which helped her begin to skate. To this day though, every time a reference to anything Braille or Revive pops up, I instinctually clench my jaw and remember the day I was the skateboard jock.
In summation RipNDip definitely sucks but I won't be that person to hurt someone's feelings by being that dick. If you are going to let the cat out of the bag saying tag them along with his exs story on IG.
This is a great post.
I am not a fan of Braille, but they do serve an important niche in the skate scene that traditional brands balked at.
Decent beginner-friendly how-to videos.
All those transworld ones or whatever were garbage, a naturally talented pro who has never broken down the mechanics of something into bite-sized parts films the shittiest ‘how to’ in 30 minutes that teaches you nothing.
Braille’s ‘Can you skate a frozen pizza?!?’ stuff is obviously aimed at 12-year olds, but the how-to stuff is done well enough.
Great story about looking relooking at skating from a beginners shoes, El Fap. Your SO sounds rad that she was that keen on skating that she went through all that trouble to research it.
Right, and therefore they should be allowed to rape children and beat up women freely.
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No matter how much your personal convictions and want to shake the shit of someone for wearing RipNDip there's no point.....
Let them find out for themselves I don't want to be that guy to cap on someone's kit imagine someone clowning you on because of slave labored Nike or Adidas......
Allow me to reiterate a story from Nollie Flip which you can give or take the scenarios.
Quote from: fakie nollie on July 21, 2020, 08:52:34 AM
This is a long story about how I felt like a complete skate-jock and why the brands we generally despise both exist and thrive.
When I first met my S/O years ago, I was skating a lot more and she thought it was cool. At 31, she had never stepped foot on a skateboard in her life. I decided I’d show her the basics at my local skatepark.
We show up and the park is empty. Me, being the horrible teacher that I am, assumed her saying “I’ve never stepped on skateboard” meant she could roll around on flat ground- I was wrong. I leave her to hold a fence to practice balancing. An hour goes by and I'm dusted from skating ledges the entire time. She’s a good sport but was yearning to learn more.
A few days later, I have to travel for work for about two weeks. This was before we lived together and she asked if she could borrow my skateboard to practice. I oblige, leave it at her apartment on the way to the airport and think nothing of it.
Two weeks pass and I arrive home, jet lagged but itching to release some stress by skating around my local. I pick her up, my spare skateboard in trunk and the one she's borrowing in her hand and we go to our local. I’m not paying attention and start warming my legs up with a few runs around the park.
After about 5 minutes, I realize I didn’t leave her on the fence and frantically search to see if she’s fallen. To my total surprise, she is rolling around, going up and down the banks and pushing (not mongo). Albeit it looks sloppy, this is someone who, 2 weeks prior, couldn’t even stand on a board. I’m blown away and impressed, with a hint of admiration as I remember being a chubby 8 year old taking weeks to learn how to stand and roll.
We leave the park and I’m singing her praises, giving verbal accolades about her progress. I innocently ask, “How did you learn so fast?”. Prior to receiving her answer that would turn my morals upside-down, I assumed she was either naturally talented or started banging a dude at the park in exchange for lessons. How wrong I was on all accounts.
Smiling from ear-to-ear, she pulls her phone out and opens the YouTube app. I’m sitting in the parking lot with her, sweat dried on my brow, patiently waiting to see what miraculous video she pulls up that showed her the basics of skateboarding. Was it from Tony Hawk or Eric Koston's trick tips? Possibly a lesser known e-learning channel from a dope company?
No. She pulls up Braille's youtube channel and starts scrolling through all the videos she was looking at- each one with a small red-line below the thumbnail, indicating she's ingested this content like a fiend demolishing a bag of dope. I can't wrap my head around this and am smiling on the outside but screaming on the inside:
"Why is this happening to me? How did I get here? Who is poisoning the well with this content being so easily accessible to the naive skateboarder in the early stages of their journey to Gnardom?"
After about 30 seconds of her scrolling through, my inner skate-jock erupts and I exclaim, "Those videos are so wack. You need to stop looking at them." A flood of emotion and memories took over- blips of flashbacks to conversations between friends, casually talking shit on anything that Thrasher or Transworld's website didn't display in the last decade. Aaron Kyro's bird-like nose poking into frame.
She's immediately crushed, followed by a wave of being upset with me for judging her - and rightfully so. I believe the first thing she said was, "Oh, I didn't realize you were the mayor of Cool's Ville and Braille is jean overalls". That immediately put me in check. Who was I to dictate what is or isn't cool? What gave me the impression that I was aware, at all, of what should be considered 'hip' or 'lame'? How did I get to the point from my humble beginnings in skateboarding, where I was the little kid being bullied by the older crew for my Wet Willy deck to being the kook who judged someone so quickly?
This was followed by one of our first and only fights in our years-long relationship. At the end of it, I submitted, admitted I was in the wrong and told her my opinion should not ruin the tools which helped her begin to skate. To this day though, every time a reference to anything Braille or Revive pops up, I instinctually clench my jaw and remember the day I was the skateboard jock.
In summation RipNDip definitely sucks but I won't be that person to hurt someone's feelings by being that dick. If you are going to let the cat out of the bag saying tag them along with his exs story on IG.
This is a great post.
I am not a fan of Braille, but they do serve an important niche in the skate scene that traditional brands balked at.
Decent beginner-friendly how-to videos.
All those transworld ones or whatever were garbage, a naturally talented pro who has never broken down the mechanics of something into bite-sized parts films the shittiest ‘how to’ in 30 minutes that teaches you nothing.
Braille’s ‘Can you skate a frozen pizza?!?’ stuff is obviously aimed at 12-year olds, but the how-to stuff is done well enough.
Great story about looking relooking at skating from a beginners shoes, El Fap. Your SO sounds rad that she was that keen on skating that she went through all that trouble to research it.
Right, and therefore they should be allowed to rape children and beat up women freely.
Nowhere did I justify the actions of Fetty, or condone the beating of women.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BgcenvTA6Ua/?igshid=1n930b65zgb1h (https://www.instagram.com/p/BgcenvTA6Ua/?igshid=1n930b65zgb1h)
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Because dumbass mall kids that probably do the same shit love "edgy" cat shirts I suppose
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Came here to post that IG link. O'con is a piece of shit. He hit my friend he was dating at the time when we were in high school and I've heard multiple repeated situations. Steals art, fucks over friends, skates cars and gets other skaters beat up for it, hits women, this dude deserved to get shitcanned a fucking decade ago. Fuck him
Used to skate Metro with him and Jack Moran. Crazy how success gets to peoples heads
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kids that buy rip and dip are the same kids with tye dye grizzly grip and odd future socks skating loading docks.
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RIPNDIP hate going viral on TikTok. The RIPNDIP account had to turn off comments.
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Black metal front double doors given the place a sultry, faintly S&M vibe https://www.dirt.com/gallery/moguls/fashion/ryan-oconnor-house-bird-streets-1203368012/ (https://www.dirt.com/gallery/moguls/fashion/ryan-oconnor-house-bird-streets-1203368012/)
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Nice to see you back here Chadd, but what even is this anymore?
As I don’t know or care much about Ripping Dots or whatever they are, how about a brief summary of what’s been going on, for us slow and confused folks out here in the SLAPiverse.
Also, while you’re here, have you got any news on Remive/Pooty Fedder, or the Scientists who shut down your YouTubes?
Updates, my homey.
If you please!!!
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Holy fuck 13 million???
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi8rsz3gbk_/?igshid=1r3hceort1dk9 (https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi8rsz3gbk_/?igshid=1r3hceort1dk9)
HERO
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Holy fuck 13 million???
whether you went to college, or got to work right out of school, we all blew it by not starting a mall brand marketed towards future drop outs.
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Nice to see you back here Chadd, but what even is this anymore?
As I don’t know or care much about Ripping Dots or whatever they are, how about a brief summary of what’s been going on, for us slow and confused folks out here in the SLAPiverse.
Also, while you’re here, have you got any news on Remive/Pooty Fedder, or the Scientists who shut down your YouTubes?
Updates, my homey.
If you please!!!
this
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whether you went to college, or got to work right out of school, we all blew it by not starting a mall brand marketed towards future drop outs.
something's fishy though, or else the guy is hugely over leveraged on his house.
Either this, or we are significantly underrating the value of putting a cat on a t-shirt
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I get Thrasher needs to sell ads but what message does it send to the skate community that RipNdip gets a monthly spread in the mag. Its enough I gotta pass the ripndip store next to supreme LA all the time. How can you even blame uninformed people for buying their shit when the brand seems to have tacit approval from the arbiters of skate culture.
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I know personally, as a skateboarder, I criticize the companies I like or that matter.
And I feel many skaters are this way. Hence Sip and Dip get very little attention good or bad.
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I get Thrasher needs to sell ads but what message does it send to the skate community that RipNdip gets a monthly spread in the mag. Its enough I gotta pass the ripndip store next to supreme LA all the time. How can you even blame uninformed people for buying their shit when the brand seems to have tacit approval from the arbiters of skate culture.
morals don’t keep the lights on
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I get Thrasher needs to sell ads but what message does it send to the skate community that RipNdip gets a monthly spread in the mag. Its enough I gotta pass the ripndip store next to supreme LA all the time. How can you even blame uninformed people for buying their shit when the brand seems to have tacit approval from the arbiters of skate culture.
morals don’t keep the lights on
I understand why theyre doing it, Im just saying I think its abhorrent and we should be holding them to a higher standard.
Youre telling me Thrasher would have to scale back what theyre doing without the support of ripndip? I find that hard to believe.
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Bro. I bought a Dan Plunkett board just cuz he trashed the rip n dip ice sculpture. Everyone hates rip and dip. All my homies. Even my little sister that likes cats thinks the shit is garbage. Wtf you talking about? No one that skates cares about ducking rip and dip.
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Bro. I bought a Dan Plunkett board just cuz he trashed the rip n dip ice sculpture. Everyone hates rip and dip. All my homies. Even my little sister that likes cats thinks the shit is garbage. Wtf you talking about? No one that skates cares about ducking rip and dip.
Im not sure thats true, see plenty of their shit in the wild. And my point extends to those outside of or just getting into skating as well. Why should Thrasher give ripndip a platform at all?
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Bro. I bought a Dan Plunkett board just cuz he trashed the rip n dip ice sculpture. Everyone hates rip and dip. All my homies. Even my little sister that likes cats thinks the shit is garbage. Wtf you talking about? No one that skates cares about ducking rip and dip.
One of my homies gets their decks semi often cause they're like 10 dollars cheaper
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I know personally, as a skateboarder, I criticize the companies I like or that matter.
And I feel many skaters are this way. Hence Sip and Dip get very little attention good or bad.
On the contrary, I feel like ripndip is mentioned on just about every episode of the Bunt as worst brand.
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Bro. I bought a Dan Plunkett board just cuz he trashed the rip n dip ice sculpture. Everyone hates rip and dip. All my homies. Even my little sister that likes cats thinks the shit is garbage. Wtf you talking about? No one that skates cares about ducking rip and dip.
One of my homies gets their decks semi often cause they're like 10 dollars cheaper
this ur homie?same wood right lol
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get in the pit and try and love some one
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Bro. I bought a Dan Plunkett board just cuz he trashed the rip n dip ice sculpture. Everyone hates rip and dip. All my homies. Even my little sister that likes cats thinks the shit is garbage. Wtf you talking about? No one that skates cares about ducking rip and dip.
One of my homies gets their decks semi often cause they're like 10 dollars cheaper
this ur homie?same wood right lol
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Lol do not bring the crazies that are quiet in shoes and gear here. Lhoste is gonna school these whipper snappers.
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Bro. I bought a Dan Plunkett board just cuz he trashed the rip n dip ice sculpture. Everyone hates rip and dip. All my homies. Even my little sister that likes cats thinks the shit is garbage. Wtf you talking about? No one that skates cares about ducking rip and dip.
One of my homies gets their decks semi often cause they're like 10 dollars cheaper
this ur homie?same wood right lol
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(https://i.imgur.com/vgPeGIo.jpg)
Lol do not bring the crazies that are quiet in shoes and gear here. Lhoste is gonna school these whipper snappers.
Lmao honestly just waiting for more
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They're marketable and have stayed trendy, somehow also keeping their boards cheaper than most other brands. didn't like the boards I tried from them about 3-4 years ago, once you're 24 or older that cat shit stops being funny especially once you do research on the company/artist. fuck chips n dip
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They're marketable and have stayed trendy, somehow also keeping their boards cheaper than most other brands. didn't like the boards I tried from them about 3-4 years ago, once you're 24 or older that cat shit stops being funny especially once you do research on the company/artist. fuck chips n dip
i mean it was never funny or appealing to begin with. i feel like the people that associate rip n dip being cool are the same people that think thrasher is a clothing company
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Because people like Thrasher put RipDip ads and free stickers in the mag, so it must be cool. I have a feeling they probably pay more to get the publicity though.
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fuck i think i might have bought 2 of their shirts with cats on them in 2014, didnt even know what it was i just assumed it was just some zumiez private label
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Always gutted when I remember Keen are the distro for Ripndip in the UK. They need to bin it.
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Because people like Thrasher put RipDip ads and free stickers in the mag, so it must be cool. I have a feeling they probably pay more to get the publicity though.
This is what I’m saying, Thrasher prides itself as the bible of skating, the only remaining magazine… yet they aren’t responsible enough about who they include in their pages. I thought they were all about schooling us on whats cool and whats not these days. For the most part they do kill it. Burnout likes to flip through old mags on his insta, he gonna make some snide comment in 2035 like “remember when we ran Ripndip ads lol”. Like they didnt know they were taking money from terrible people who only associate with skating to lure nascent hypebeasts. Way to sell out Tony
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fuck i think i might have bought 2 of their shirts with cats on them in 2014, didnt even know what it was i just assumed it was just some zumiez private label
had a hoodie years ago when i started sk8ing again. there was so much shit i didnt know but learned fast thankfully
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fuck i think i might have bought 2 of their shirts with cats on them in 2014, didnt even know what it was i just assumed it was just some zumiez private label
Did the same got a sweatshirt and a beanie for my gf at the time, she got me a hoodie a few months later. Wasn't lurking on slap then..
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My girlfriend's best friend is super into skateboarders and tries to act like she knows what's up with skating (even though she doesn't know shit), and she loves zumiez and ripndip - that should show you what type of demographic is purchasing this shit. I don't even bother to correct her friend because she's got her head so far up her own ass its ridiculous.
You know how wack and out of touch someone is with skateboarding when they're in a Rip N Dip tee and they tease their own best friend for wearing a Former tee telling them "that's not even cool"
*facepalm to the MAX
reminds me of my step-daughter who wears ripndip gear and thrasher t-shirts and un-ironically makes fun of me for skating at my age, when her only hobby is doing her own makeup.
Incredible to think some little girl's stepdad was slagging her off on SLAP. Great work sir. I wonder what online forums my parents complain about me on.
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honestly i love ripndip. i wear a lot of their stuff. and thrasher shirts. my step dad always talks about how ipath and popwar are the only good skating companies. he’s really dorky
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you’ll never be her cool rip and dip wearin’ dad
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honestly i love ripndip. i wear a lot of their stuff. and thrasher shirts. my step dad always talks about how ipath and popwar are the only good skating companies. he’s really dorky
Bro kids these days don't even know about rasa libre
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honestly i love ripndip. i wear a lot of their stuff. and thrasher shirts. my step dad always talks about how ipath and popwar are the only good skating companies. he’s really dorky
This is parody, correct?
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kids that buy rip and dip are the same kids with tye dye grizzly grip and odd future socks skating loading docks.
I miss you... Comeback pile san
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Thanks for this thread, all. I'm going to cover up the rip-n-shit stickers from Thrasher on my little kids' completes. I thought they were just some clothing brand for middle-school skate rats. The more I learn about Thrasher, the less I want to renew my sub...
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i heard at one stage supreme were legit thinking of moving from their fairfax location due to being situated right next to ripndip
they ended top doing so
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/23/style/supreme-los-angeles-sunset-boulevard.html
in the article it says "Sage Elsesser, an artist and professional skateboarder once sponsored by Supreme" is he of?
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i heard at one stage supreme were legit thinking of moving from their fairfax location due to being situated right next to ripndip
they ended top doing so
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/23/style/supreme-los-angeles-sunset-boulevard.html
in the article it says "Sage Elsesser, an artist and professional skateboarder once sponsored by Supreme" is he of?
Copy and paste to get around the NYT paywall?
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Copy and paste to get around the NYT paywall?
I got you right here, homey.
Supreme Hits the Sunset Strip
The once-scrappy brand moves its Los Angeles store to the famed Tower Records building, but is bigger actually better?
By Max Berlinger
April 23, 2023
Supreme’s first brick-and-mortar store opened on Lafayette Street in SoHo, in 1994, well before the luxury shops and trendy restaurants moved in. So when James Jebbia, the brand’s founder, decided on a Los Angeles location, he listened to that same instinct to settle in an unexpected part of town.
Today, the same stretch of Fairfax Avenue that Supreme chose in 2004 is the city’s unofficial streetwear corridor. Its sidewalks are crowded with young men and women in baggy pants, hoodies and overpriced sneakers. Now, there’s Tyler, the Creator’s Golf Wang store, the Hundreds and the sneaker resale shop Flight Club.
But Supreme has left the building.
In February, the brand opened its 8,500-square-foot flagship on the Sunset Strip. It occupies the former Tower Records space, a store that, for decades, defined that particular curve of the street, and the music-centric milieu that grew around it.
The low-slung white building features the Supreme red box logo perched on top. Inside, the walls are dominated by hand-painted murals — a reaper from Josh Smith; Nate Lowman’s signature bullet holes — but it’s the 36-foot-wide, 40-foot-deep skate bowl suspended from an elevated deck that is the focus, a much larger version of what used to be in the Fairfax shop. In relocating, Supreme may no longer feel like David defeating Goliath so much as becoming Goliath.
The brand is no longer the cheeky upstart that appealed only to a small group of surly skateboarders, but a global enterprise with huge name recognition.
Shoppers mill around inside the store, which has colorful murals and art installations throughout
The brand essentially pioneered the so-called drop system: releasing a limited supply of products at a specific time and place.Credit...Alex Welsh for The New York Times
It’s hard to pinpoint when, exactly, the tide turned. It could have been around 2011 when members of the musical group Odd Future wore Supreme to a string of high-profile appearances. Or it may have been in 2017, when Supreme collaborated with Louis Vuitton — a full circle moment from when, in 2000, Louis Vuitton issued a cease-and-desist order to Supreme for using its monogram motif on a series of skateboard decks.
Or maybe it was the 2020 acquisition of Supreme by VF Corporation, a conglomerate that owns brands such as Vans and North Face. The deal valued Supreme at $2.1 billion — a staggering sum for a company that traffics mainly in T-shirts and snapback hats.
But to many, Supreme’s worth doesn’t start and stop at just the products.
‘It’s hard to see your favorite brand explode’
Supreme is looking back on 30 years, and can be seen as an example of how to maintain an edge in the face of an industry that is increasingly owned by a few large corporations.
The brand was partly built on being the arbiter of a new playbook that has been widely copied by upstart labels and heritage brands alike. It essentially pioneered the so-called drop system: releasing a limited supply of products at a specific time and place, often causing lines to form in front of their stores that doubled as free advertising; the drops frequently sold out.
It also collaborated with artists, musicians and other fashion brands ranging from the high-end (Burberry, Louis Vuitton) to workaday (Dickies, Hanes)
“I still love the Fairfax store, but we were constrained by the space and outgrew it,” Mr. Jebbia wrote in an email. “I had been looking at the Tower Records spot for a long time, and similar to when we first went to Fairfax, we didn’t want to be in an obvious area, like on Melrose, or La Brea or Beverly Hills.”
“I still love the Fairfax store, but we were constrained by the space and outgrew it,” James Jebbia, the brand’s founder wrote in an email about its original space.
Javier Nunez, 40, who worked at the Fairfax location, said that some people in the neighborhood told them they wouldn’t make it. He fondly recalled that the neighborhood was so quiet then that he would set up a garbage can in a nearby corner crosswalk to perform skate tricks.
Skate shops often serve as a headquarters of sorts, or a place to simply waste time. The Sunset Boulevard move echoes the one made by Supreme in New York in 2019 when it relocated to a flashier space on the corner of Bowery and Spring. To some, these moves represent a transfer from clubhouses to temples of capitalism.
“They still have skating very much at their core,” said Eugene Lardy, who runs the streetwear newsletter Street Night Live, “but obviously the brand has changed and evolved over the last decade.”
Mr. Lardy, 29, was first introduced to Supreme in 2008, and saw the brand as a conduit between the insular world of skateboarding and the broader culture. “I went through the phase where I thought they were selling out, like it’s becoming something bigger than something for hard-core skaters. It’s hard to see your favorite brand explode too much, and then get outside investment.”
“I get why people get upset,” Mr. Lardy said. “But I also understand the natural growth in a business cycle. You always want to continue to grow.”
Image
Tyler, the Creator, riding a skateboard down a street, his shirt is unbuttoned, he has a big smile on his face and his hands are both in the air. A man behind him in sunglasses looks at him.
Today, the same stretch of Fairfax Avenue that Supreme chose in 2004 is the city’s unofficial streetwear corridor. Now, those stores include the sneaker resale shop Flight Club as well as Golf Wang, the store owned by Tyler, the Creator, seen here.Credit...Ben Colen, via Supreme
Supreme is now old enough that it means different things to different people. “The clothing feels very separate from the skateboarding,” said Jack Bravstein, a skateboarder and writer in New York. For Mr. Bravstein, 22, a seminal moment was seeing the 2018 Supreme-produced film “Blessed,” by the director William Strobeck, which highlights the label’s in-house skateboarding program. “They’re still pushing this aspect of edginess and creativity in their videos, which I think is the most important part of the brand right now,” Mr. Bravstein said.
“But you can walk into the Supreme store and never have touched a skateboard, or not know it was a skate shop,” he added. “So in that regard they killed it, as a brand. They know what they’re doing.”
All the talk that the brand is over is proof of its continued relevance, said Michael McIntosh, the founder of Supreme Leaks News, a website and Instagram page that covers streetwear brands. That discussion, he pointed out, has been going on for at least a decade.
But as Supreme’s profile grows ever larger, there will be a certain cohort who remembers its humbler, rebellious days. For them, the shop on Fairfax didn’t just change the very character of a street, it also held a central place in their lives.
Sage Elsesser, an artist and professional skateboarder once sponsored by Supreme, grew up in Los Angeles and recalled that at the back of the store there was a door frame to the stockroom where employees and friends of the brand would mark their heights as they got older. When Mr. Jebbia was in town with his children, they too would record their measurements.
“I hadn’t thought about that for a long time,” Mr. Elsesser said. “I wonder if it’s still there.”
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i heard at one stage supreme were legit thinking of moving from their fairfax location due to being situated right next to ripndip
they ended top doing so
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/23/style/supreme-los-angeles-sunset-boulevard.html
in the article it says "Sage Elsesser, an artist and professional skateboarder once sponsored by Supreme" is he of?
Supreme moved its Los Angeles store from Fairfax Ave. to the Sunset Strip. It occupies the former Tower Records space, a store that, for decades, defined that particular curve of the street, and the music-centric milieu that grew around it.Credit...Alex Welsh for The New York Times
Max Berlinger
By Max Berlinger
April 23, 2023
Supreme’s first brick-and-mortar store opened on Lafayette Street in SoHo, in 1994, well before the luxury shops and trendy restaurants moved in. So when James Jebbia, the brand’s founder, decided on a Los Angeles location, he listened to that same instinct to settle in an unexpected part of town.
Today, the same stretch of Fairfax Avenue that Supreme chose in 2004 is the city’s unofficial streetwear corridor. Its sidewalks are crowded with young men and women in baggy pants, hoodies and overpriced sneakers. Now, there’s Tyler, the Creator’s Golf Wang store, the Hundreds and the sneaker resale shop Flight Club.
But Supreme has left the building.
In February, the brand opened its 8,500-square-foot flagship on the Sunset Strip. It occupies the former Tower Records space, a store that, for decades, defined that particular curve of the street, and the music-centric milieu that grew around it.
The low-slung white building features the Supreme red box logo perched on top. Inside, the walls are dominated by hand-painted murals — a reaper from Josh Smith; Nate Lowman’s signature bullet holes — but it’s the 36-foot-wide, 40-foot-deep skate bowl suspended from an elevated deck that is the focus, a much larger version of what used to be in the Fairfax shop. In relocating, Supreme may no longer feel like David defeating Goliath so much as becoming Goliath.
The brand is no longer the cheeky upstart that appealed only to a small group of surly skateboarders, but a global enterprise with huge name recognition.
Image
Inside the Supreme store there is a skateboarding with what looks to be posters on the back wall
A 36-foot-wide, 40-foot-deep skate bowl at the new store is a much larger version of what used to be in the Fairfax shop.Credit...Alex Welsh for The New York Times
Image
Shoppers mill around inside the store, which has colorful murals and art installations throughout
The brand essentially pioneered the so-called drop system: releasing a limited supply of products at a specific time and place.Credit...Alex Welsh for The New York Times
It’s hard to pinpoint when, exactly, the tide turned. It could have been around 2011 when members of the musical group Odd Future wore Supreme to a string of high-profile appearances. Or it may have been in 2017, when Supreme collaborated with Louis Vuitton — a full circle moment from when, in 2000, Louis Vuitton issued a cease-and-desist order to Supreme for using its monogram motif on a series of skateboard decks.
Or maybe it was the 2020 acquisition of Supreme by VF Corporation, a conglomerate that owns brands such as Vans and North Face. The deal valued Supreme at $2.1 billion — a staggering sum for a company that traffics mainly in T-shirts and snapback hats.
But to many, Supreme’s worth doesn’t start and stop at just the products.
‘It’s hard to see your favorite brand explode’
Supreme is looking back on 30 years, and can be seen as an example of how to maintain an edge in the face of an industry that is increasingly owned by a few large corporations.
The brand was partly built on being the arbiter of a new playbook that has been widely copied by upstart labels and heritage brands alike. It essentially pioneered the so-called drop system: releasing a limited supply of products at a specific time and place, often causing lines to form in front of their stores that doubled as free advertising; the drops frequently sold out.
It also collaborated with artists, musicians and other fashion brands ranging from the high-end (Burberry, Louis Vuitton) to workaday (Dickies, Hanes).
“I still love the Fairfax store, but we were constrained by the space and outgrew it,” Mr. Jebbia wrote in an email. “I had been looking at the Tower Records spot for a long time, and similar to when we first went to Fairfax, we didn’t want to be in an obvious area, like on Melrose, or La Brea or Beverly Hills.”
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The smaller Supreme store on Fairfax ave., a small building attached to other stores. There is a small group of people out front, some with skateboards on the sidewalk with cars driving past
“I still love the Fairfax store, but we were constrained by the space and outgrew it,” James Jebbia, the brand’s founder wrote in an email about its original space, shown here.
Javier Nunez, 40, who worked at the Fairfax location, said that some people in the neighborhood told them they wouldn’t make it. He fondly recalled that the neighborhood was so quiet then that he would set up a garbage can in a nearby corner crosswalk to perform skate tricks.
Skate shops often serve as a headquarters of sorts, or a place to simply waste time. The Sunset Boulevard move echoes the one made by Supreme in New York in 2019 when it relocated to a flashier space on the corner of Bowery and Spring. To some, these moves represent a transfer from clubhouses to temples of capitalism.
“They still have skating very much at their core,” said Eugene Lardy, who runs the streetwear newsletter Street Night Live, “but obviously the brand has changed and evolved over the last decade.”
Mr. Lardy, 29, was first introduced to Supreme in 2008, and saw the brand as a conduit between the insular world of skateboarding and the broader culture. “I went through the phase where I thought they were selling out, like it’s becoming something bigger than something for hard-core skaters. It’s hard to see your favorite brand explode too much, and then get outside investment.”
“I get why people get upset,” Mr. Lardy said. “But I also understand the natural growth in a business cycle. You always want to continue to grow.”
Image
Tyler, the Creator, riding a skateboard down a street, his shirt is unbuttoned, he has a big smile on his face and his hands are both in the air. A man behind him in sunglasses looks at him.
Today, the same stretch of Fairfax Avenue that Supreme chose in 2004 is the city’s unofficial streetwear corridor. Now, those stores include the sneaker resale shop Flight Club as well as Golf Wang, the store owned by Tyler, the Creator, seen here.Credit...Ben Colen, via Supreme
Supreme is now old enough that it means different things to different people. “The clothing feels very separate from the skateboarding,” said Jack Bravstein, a skateboarder and writer in New York. For Mr. Bravstein, 22, a seminal moment was seeing the 2018 Supreme-produced film “Blessed,” by the director William Strobeck, which highlights the label’s in-house skateboarding program. “They’re still pushing this aspect of edginess and creativity in their videos, which I think is the most important part of the brand right now,” Mr. Bravstein said.
“But you can walk into the Supreme store and never have touched a skateboard, or not know it was a skate shop,” he added. “So in that regard they killed it, as a brand. They know what they’re doing.”
All the talk that the brand is over is proof of its continued relevance, said Michael McIntosh, the founder of Supreme Leaks News, a website and Instagram page that covers streetwear brands. That discussion, he pointed out, has been going on for at least a decade.
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The torso of a man with a jacket that says Supreme on it. He's holding a cigar and a drink.
Supreme is now old enough that it means different things to different people.Credit...Alex Welsh for The New York Times
But as Supreme’s profile grows ever larger, there will be a certain cohort who remembers its humbler, rebellious days. For them, the shop on Fairfax didn’t just change the very character of a street, it also held a central place in their lives.
Sage Elsesser, an artist and professional skateboarder once sponsored by Supreme, grew up in Los Angeles and recalled that at the back of the store there was a door frame to the stockroom where employees and friends of the brand would mark their heights as they got older. When Mr. Jebbia was in town with his children, they too would record their measurements.
“I hadn’t thought about that for a long time,” Mr. Elsesser said. “I wonder if it’s still there.”