VIOLET - William Strobeck Board Company

[lucascbn]

I don't like this company

[bigdave]

I don't like this company

It's fine; no one does.

[Pete]

Faux lgbtq is the new faux gangster
Down to the earsnot graphic. (Earsnot is a nickname that a grown man who works for supreme writes on things. Primarily in nyc and other metropolitan areas on planet earth. Chris millers brand. He is notoriously homosexual and known for quotes such as “talk all the shit you want. I love New York because I love street fights. I will beat your fucking ass, And I’m a fucking faggot.” And other less confrontational classics like  “paint? Racking that. Goretex jackets? Racking that. Fucking 12oz steaks?? Definitely racking that.”



Free max b

[cky enthusiast]

circle, underline, star

[Slikk]

fat billy coming up with new ways to get his teen/trans fix

slikk slikk

[KGB]

Does he intentionally make all his ads purple so he can exclaim no “it’s violet”?

[dannyprovolone]

it sounds like a brand you'd find in the feminine health section at rite-aid

[versacekid420]

i was excited for this company but dawg this shit is ass

[Frank]

graphics are super bad, in a super bad way.

[huggs]

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wait so did someone turn pro off this drop, or it's all ams...?

when was the last time a company launched with all ams

[Atiba Applebum]

Filming People Smoke Weed In Slow Motion Skateboard Co.

Fat Bill Is Babysitting Your Flamboyantly Dressed Son Skateboard Co.

At least lean into it and call it Svengali Skate

[dannyprovolone]

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wait so did someone turn pro off this drop, or it's all ams...?

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when was the last time a company launched with all ams

Sounds like a smart business plan. Why pay a real professional when you can make way more money creating a revolving door for clout chasers and rich kids.

[Madam, I'm Adam]

Faux lgbtq is the new faux gangster
Down to the earsnot graphic. (Earsnot is a nickname that a grown man who works for supreme writes on things. Primarily in nyc and other metropolitan areas on planet earth. Chris millers brand. He is notoriously homosexual and known for quotes such as “talk all the shit you want. I love New York because I love street fights. I will beat your fucking ass, And I’m a fucking faggot.” And other less confrontational classics like  “paint? Racking that. Goretex jackets? Racking that. Fucking 12oz steaks?? Definitely racking that.”



Free max b

Earsnot is sick. Next IRAK drop, I'm copping a beanie.

Also, I'm feeling Violet. The boards look good for a company's very first drop. Team is really tight. Strange that it's supposedly Clutch wood, though, maybe it's a budget issue.

[theoriginalgoon]

Boards out now at supreme shops

[Made In China]

Am or pro, I hope Strobeck is paying these kids.

[Jonny7.5Alive]

Boards out now at supreme shops

That ledge he's skating looks fucking perfect

[fredgallSOTY]

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I'm speechless with this graphics

Is this brands whole shtick gonna be based off cultural appropriation?

Also.... Am I really gonna slide all over that graphic of that kid at his dad's graveside?

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yes 100% all cultural appropriation coming from this. old white dude using black imagery for his company and exploiting a persons grave site by putting it on a skateboard

do you think he just found some random picture and put it on? kyle's on the team. the deck means a lot to him. he approves of it. i can understand not wanting to buy/skate it but calling it exploitation is a far stretch

decks look good, i've been excited for this so i will probably purchase one. team is my favorite probably.

[lurkingfromthesmokwpit]

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I'm speechless with this graphics

Is this brands whole shtick gonna be based off cultural appropriation?

Also.... Am I really gonna slide all over that graphic of that kid at his dad's graveside?

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yes 100% all cultural appropriation coming from this. old white dude using black imagery for his company and exploiting a persons grave site by putting it on a skateboard

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do you think he just found some random picture and put it on? kyle's on the team. the deck means a lot to him. he approves of it. i can understand not wanting to buy/skate it but calling it exploitation is a far stretch

decks look good, i've been excited for this so i will probably purchase one. team is my favorite probably.

I would assume a fathers death to be a traumatic time, not something for a skateboard graphic. That’s all.

[Tabletop]

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I'm speechless with this graphics

Is this brands whole shtick gonna be based off cultural appropriation?

Also.... Am I really gonna slide all over that graphic of that kid at his dad's graveside?

[close]

yes 100% all cultural appropriation coming from this. old white dude using black imagery for his company and exploiting a persons grave site by putting it on a skateboard

[close]

do you think he just found some random picture and put it on? kyle's on the team. the deck means a lot to him. he approves of it. i can understand not wanting to buy/skate it but calling it exploitation is a far stretch

decks look good, i've been excited for this so i will probably purchase one. team is my favorite probably.

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I would assume a fathers death to be a traumatic time, not something for a skateboard graphic. That’s all.

I guess when you have your own pro model you can decide yourself.

[MusclesMarinara]

Clutch Wood

[fredgallSOTY]

its BBS for the kyle and kunle decks and PS for the lil kim

[dr.prestige]

The gravesite boards do kind of weird me out, I don't want to get haunted by the dad of some skater I don't know of and haven't met just because I broke his board on a flatbar frontside lipslide. Also, as a previous poster has written, Bill needs to pick whether he wants the image to cover the whole board or just between the trucks, having one of each is pointless. He's basically asking for those boards to sit unsold on skateshop walls.

I like the Lil Kim board except for the Violet logo, they should have put that over the truck mounting area so I don't have to look at that when I'm skating. It could have been much better as a knockoff of the David Bowie board Jason Lee had a million years ago that I think Pocket Pistols ripped off for several of their boards.

I dig the Earsnot board. That's actually something I would skate and potentially put on my wall because I've seen Infamy a million times and I appreciate his personality and ethos that was conveyed in that doc.

Overall I think Fat Bill should just give the whole company to Earsnot and let him turn it into Irak boards. Would much rather buy one of those than any of these.

[pdknox]

I dont skate the Dylan fa board for this reason

[rukes]

Surely the fella on the board at his Dad's grave asked or discussed for that to be a graphic? Losing your Dad would be fuckin tough, and if it helps him in a tough time, and he feels like it's a nice tribute to his Dad, then that's cool. No one is making you skate it.

[sk8punk110]

Me and my homies stopped by supreme so one of us could get a violet deck. The shapes pretty good kinda reminds me of gx1000 but like wider. The middle “purple” plys are all just blank plys painted purple which is kinda weak.

[LostBearings]

How to start a board company 101

Take the fanbase of supreme, try to promote it to them under the guise of underground and somehow end up at uninspired.

[fried]

These boards look like ccs custom graphics

fa and krooked have both already done earsnot graphics

[HORSES]

When I said Clutch, I meant Chapman. I have a board Seven skated and it's definitely Chapman.

[Jonny7.5Alive]

When I said Clutch, I meant Chapman. I have a board Seven skated and it's definitely Chapman.

Right. Are they better or worse

[sk8punk110]

These boards look like ccs custom graphics

fa and krooked have both already done earsnot graphics

the earsnot board is krooked they just have it at the supreme store.