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This was gonna happen eventually, and it'll probably happen again.
Neal is handling this very fucking poorly, but the reality is, nothing about the way GH talks shit comes across as light-hearted ribbing, and he does (somehow) have the influence to fuck with people's paychecks now. When he talks shit on a skater, there's a legion of 14 year olds who will never again use the money from their paper route to buy that person's board. (do kids still have paper routes? do newspapers still exist?)
I mean, GH has talked about it himself that he probably shouldn't go to certain parks or spots because he might run into people he's dragged through the mud. I'm not sure when or why skaters beefing became so celebrated but the whole thing is so stupid and pathetic to me. Like the kids in school who would try to instigate fights between people for their own entertainment, I guess skaters love that shit now. Maybe they always did?
I can't speak for everyone (nor would I), but I love skate drama/beef. It's super entertaining and funny. It's just criticism and shit talking... it's just not that serious and not something that really fucks with skater's paychecks. Do you think Ville Wester is losing sleep and/or income because GH made fun of his "Hot Topic" look?
If this ends up affecting Robert Neal's income, then he deserved it by reacting on Instagram with threats and making it a bigger deal than it would've been.
Meh. Right, wrong, or something in between, I'm not even condoning it but this kid is right to be concerned about catching hands. "Talk shit, get hit" is a real thing whether you, me, the pope or the uber driver agrees.
If you're gonna base your whole career around talking shit on people you've never even met by name you're gonna catch some backlash eventually. It's kinda like, you can call your friend a dumbass, but if some rando you've never met calls your friend a dumbass it's not funny, and dude better check himself.
GH ain't friends with 90% of the people he's talking mad shit on.
Y'all got some weird reverse parasocial relationship with skaters where you think that since you kinda feel like you know them you should be able to talk endless torrents of shit on them and they need to laugh and take it in stride.
Also, him going out of his way to defending Sam Hyde but then specifically taking a decent chunk out of his video for no real relevant reason to talk shit on Hasan Piker and in no uncertain terms say people shouldn't listen to him is sussy as fuck.
Hasan has pretty shitty takes too fuck that dude, but all i got to say is Charlamange a shock jock host almost got jumped for the shit he says on the radio and its stupid to go after people in the streets...its been commented by taxstone that someone actually killed the dude for going after Charlamange...double whack
I wasn't intending to do a full blown defense of hasan, it's the combination of defending hyde and going out of his way to denigrate Hasan that had me scratching my head.
And I'm not defending street justice, but if you make a career of talking shit on people, then catching hands (or bullets I guess) can happen whether it's right or wrong. I don't understand why so many have this idea that he should have impunity to talk mad shit on people by name and suffer zero consequences ever.
The shit GH says aren't "jokes". He doesn't qualify anything he says with any goodhearted or well meaning clarification.
It's just "this guy's clothes suck and so do his sponsors and trick selection". Full stop. That's not a "joke", that's just trash talk.
I don't think he deserves to be assaulted or killed, but that doesn't mean I think he's cool in any way, shape or form, and if he catches an ass whooping someday I won't be at all surprised.