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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2019, 10:33:28 AM »
For someone w.no signature ur awfully hostile, & that is why I do this

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2019, 10:44:10 AM »
dude's account is private so ppl might not b able to see it. I can't, could you post a screen shot ?

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2019, 10:53:12 AM »
Ted caught feels and blocked me after one my DMs criticized his choice of words in one his IG stories  :'(

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2019, 11:01:47 AM »
Ted caught feels and blocked me after one my DMs criticized his choice of words in one his IG stories  :'(
Happened to me after a hilarious comment. Thankfully he unblocked me or I'd be holding an insanely petty grudge to this very day.

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2019, 11:03:37 AM »
could you post a screen shot ?

I feel like this should just be the standard as most of the posts we gossip about get deleted anyways.

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2019, 11:22:03 AM »
Like all of Ted’s posts, it’s a video of him talking. This one is 60 seconds of him criticizing Pontus for fueling some of Polar’s art direction and music selection with his nostalgia and love for skateboarding from his youth.

It’s true but I guess it’s up to the viewer to decide if they even see a problem with that.

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2019, 11:28:51 AM »
ted aint the first dude to call him out.

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2019, 11:29:17 AM »
https://streamable.com/znurm

I mirrored it on streamable but I don't think I can embed those videos here so cllick on it

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2019, 11:34:43 AM »
Like all of Ted’s posts, it’s a video of him talking. This one is 60 seconds of him criticizing Pontus for fueling some of Polar’s art direction and music selection with his nostalgia and love for skateboarding from his youth.

It’s true but I guess it’s up to the viewer to decide if they even see a problem with that.
How can that be a problem at all? I want to understand, but not bad enough to watch another of Ted's IG story drible.

Edit* clicked that link above against by better judgment. Got it now.
« Last Edit: February 02, 2019, 11:37:29 AM by Shifty Flip »

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #10 on: February 02, 2019, 11:39:12 AM »
Meanwhile if no one was posting their skate footage
'We' wouldn't be going to his page for content.
He uses people in a similar way.
I got beef with Brian sumner and it’s onsite for that fat fucking red coat.

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2019, 11:40:10 AM »
I can't really think of any big companies nowadays that isn't milking nostalgia to some degree but I guess thats skateboarding in a nutshell.

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #12 on: February 02, 2019, 11:52:43 AM »
Inspire others to inspire themselves

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #13 on: February 02, 2019, 12:10:04 PM »
there are no winners here, only losers.

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #14 on: February 02, 2019, 12:11:04 PM »
Pontus of Mad Circle fame? He's still around huh? Wat a magical career...

A friend of mine owed me a deck back in the day tried to be slick and bought me a Pontus board right when MC was done it was on sale cheap.
Traded it for a used Zoo York and Shortys board because I didn't like his name and still don't...

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #15 on: February 02, 2019, 12:23:14 PM »
people who specialize in satire are so complex and deep.

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #16 on: February 02, 2019, 12:48:26 PM »
Meanwhile if no one was posting their skate footage
'We' wouldn't be going to his page for content.
He uses people in a similar way.

Every angle of this comment is dumb.

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #17 on: February 02, 2019, 12:51:25 PM »
I can't really think of any big companies nowadays that isn't milking nostalgia to some degree but I guess thats skateboarding in a nutshell.

I don't think his point is that a company is milking nostalgia. Plenty of them do that. The issue is when you don't acknowledge that it's from the past and try to pass it off as an original idea.

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #18 on: February 02, 2019, 01:28:41 PM »
Well why don’t you cry about it, fatty.

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #19 on: February 02, 2019, 01:33:13 PM »
Pontus is/was a very divisive personality in the 90s and pissed a lot of people off. I can guarantee Ted is one of those people - SO many skaters from that time despise his success with Polar because they didn't like him around the Mad Circle era. You can guarantee this is personal shit because what he says makes no sense/could be applied to every brand ever

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #20 on: February 02, 2019, 01:33:35 PM »
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Meanwhile if no one was posting their skate footage
'We' wouldn't be going to his page for content.
He uses people in a similar way.
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Every angle of this comment is dumb.
Sorry to hurt your feelings Ted
Shout out to you for providing a great opposing idea
I got beef with Brian sumner and it’s onsite for that fat fucking red coat.

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #21 on: February 02, 2019, 01:45:17 PM »
I think I care more about Strongest of the Strange and In Search of the Miraculous, than any graphic.  Those movies rule.

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #22 on: February 02, 2019, 02:14:32 PM »
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Meanwhile if no one was posting their skate footage
'We' wouldn't be going to his page for content.
He uses people in a similar way.
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Every angle of this comment is dumb.
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Sorry to hurt your feelings Ted
Shout out to you for providing a great opposing idea

What idea is there to oppose? You didn't provide any ideas. You just said a series of dumb things.

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #23 on: February 02, 2019, 02:23:56 PM »
He is not criticizing Pontus' use of nostalgia in general but citing actual characters that are rip offs of Gonz and Blender characters from the 80s/90s.
I thought it wasnt just him solo, shouldve stuck with my og thought.
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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #24 on: February 02, 2019, 02:26:57 PM »
Social media only brings out the worst in people. It's a totally unnatural way for human beings to communicate. Hopefully one day we'll look back on the facebook/instagram era with great shame and remorse for what we let it do to society.

Straight up agree dude
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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #25 on: February 02, 2019, 02:32:02 PM »
File under useless feedback Ted banter
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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #26 on: February 02, 2019, 02:56:43 PM »
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I can't really think of any big companies nowadays that isn't milking nostalgia to some degree but I guess thats skateboarding in a nutshell.
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I don't think his point is that a company is milking nostalgia. Plenty of them do that. The issue is when you don't acknowledge that it's from the past and try to pass it off as an original idea.

O ya I get that but I also don't think Pontus constantly believes or projects the notion that everything he does is an original idea. He may come off as a salty sometimes but so does Ted (despite his constant reassurance to his audience) so idk man. We can also be cyclically discussing how the Gonz and Blender were emulating the early modernist painters in their respective artistic practices.
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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #27 on: February 02, 2019, 03:08:24 PM »
I like Polar graphics

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #28 on: February 02, 2019, 03:13:09 PM »
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Social media only brings out the worst in people. It's a totally unnatural way for human beings to communicate. Hopefully one day we'll look back on the facebook/instagram era with great shame and remorse for what we let it do to society.
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Straight up agree dude
I agree, but I think things are just going to get worse when it comes to social media.

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Re: Feedback Ted Calls Out Pontus
« Reply #29 on: February 02, 2019, 03:14:45 PM »
poor pontus. how will he ever sustain such a vicious attack by one of the titans of the industry?