Much of the response to Mark's approach reminded me of this:
At 2:15.
"...looks like we got ourselves a reader..."
the irony is that I wouldn't even call suciu "a reader" judging by what he has posted on IG before
that video you posted too is the epitome of low-bar midwit humour, an entire existence based off of the dehumanisation of every person who you deem beneath you by societal metrics.
this notion that intellectualism is somehow banned or taboo in skateboarding is just so regular, it's also part of the larger problem of adults failing to find areas of interest/expertise in anything but skateboarding, a yearning for some semblance of intellectual satisfaction through an art form that needs to be contorted to eldritch levels in presentation for that need to be fulfilled.
We get it, you love skateboarding, you want it to be something more, something profoundly smart that it justifies your existence.
Let skateboarding be skateboarding
I'd pretty much wager a bet too that more NYU/Columbia post-grads can kickflip than high school dropouts in NYC