Look at the age of sponsored ams between 95-2000 to 2001-2006. Wayyy more groms and wayyy more kids coming out of the Woodward/Mountain Dew contest circuit.
It’s sam baptista or Ryan sheckler. U don’t think there interviews were very different??? Termite,twigs little kid became an entire genre in the skate industry around the mid 2000s. It definitely DID happen.
Find me one interview with a 18 year old from 95 talking about going to camp Woodward or getting sponsors by redbull. U can’t it didn’t happen it’s a relatively new thing