It’s not that deep.
9 club represents a SoCal “skate industry” perspective. They’re kooky and cliquey and corporate, and they’re mainly oriented towards appeasing sponsors, staying on the good side of the “right people,” etc.
And their brains have been melted from too much sunshine. And they have that classic SoCal passive aggression where even if they’re seething with contempt they will try to act like everything’s cool.
But that doesn’t mean it’s terrible. It’s just like tuning into any corporate/establishment media source— kinda vanilla. Gotta take it with a grain of salt.
The Bunt is more “authentic,” just like other non-SoCal skate media is more authentic. Jenkem, Quartersnacks, Village Psychic... they’re all a bit more free to say what they want because they have less riding on industry hobknobbing. Fancy Lad Podcast is maybe the ultimate in not giving a fuck about the industry, even if I find it kinda difficult to listen to.
Anyway I guess my point is that the Nine Club is basically corporate media, which has its pros and it’s cons, but there are plenty of alternatives if you don’t like it.