As someone who has been involved in/observing the industry for nearly 2 decades it is quite obvious it started with the infiltration of corporations around the 2000s, just like the rest of the worlds organic youth subcultures which have also become detached from their roots & gone "soft" & corporate - skateboarding culture has been co-opted by these corporate interests who are pushing their New World Order ideology in EVERY aspect of our lives...you can laugh and deny it all you like but that only shows how un-learned & detached you are from reality, which has happened through these very tactics that have been used on all of us....to sum this shit up perfectly...skateboarding is in its current state due to corporations & governments using mind control techniques across the digital media platforms to dictate the behaviour, thought patterns & direction of western society. (remember the workshops old mind control graphics?)
Berrics is the main culprit doing this...they sold out to the hollywood mind control system long ago...Berra has played a huge part with his online fuckery & don't forget koston become a freemason when he signed with nike in 2010 & he constantly uses esoteric masonic imagery for his new brand...numbers?? Its very obvious. There are many brands now using occult esoteric imagery which has long been associated with mind control etc...Supreme has also been a main player for years but finally solidified it in public with the carlyle deal...I could go on for hours about what has really happened to our culture but I can already sense the backlash that will come from the heavily brainwashed, un-educated, triggered "digital native" millennials over this hard pill to swallow, so ill leave it there...shalom