When/why/how did you stop liking your "favorite" company?

[SilentBob]

Looking back, I was all about Plan B. Not the original, the revival with in the mid-2000s
Lost interest after True cuz my favourites left (Wenning, Rodriguez, Gallant) along with no Ladd, Colin, D-Way part.
Although guys like Torey, Ryan and Joslin killed it.
 And Now I wouldn't skate a deck unless it was free.

How about y'all?

[versacekid420]

FA after dill stopped skating and became some upriver GQ asshole

[Sizzle]

Looking back, I was all about Plan B. Not the original, the revival with in the mid-2000s
Lost interest after True cuz my favourites left (Wenning, Rodriguez, Gallant) along with no Ladd, Colin, D-Way part.
Although guys like Torey, Ryan and Joslin killed it.
 And Now I wouldn't skate a deck unless it was free.

How about y'all?

YOUR FAVORITE CONPANY OF ALL TIME EAS THE PLAN B REVIVAL HAHAHAHAHAHA ARE YOU A FUCKING MANIAC HAHAHA I WAS A KID WHEN THEY DID THAT AND IT WAS TERRIBLE BACK THEN ARE YOU FUCKING FOR REAL THATS YOUR FAVORITE COMPANY OF ALL TIME THE REVIVAL PLAN B ARE YOU FUCKKNG SHITTING ME RIGHT NOW

Edit: I may have come off a little judgmental. Revival Plan B is really your favorite company of all time?

[Blind Fisherman]

Lmfao, Plan B revival was your choice? Holy shit.

Can't really say shit myself, though. I used to LOVE Almost but then I turned 13.

[Logic]

Almost was my favourite for a while in the 2000s, their videos are still the ones I remember best. Suppose I lost interest when the likes of Haslam and a few others left. Now Dilo is the only one I can name off the top of my head.

[sle_epy]

Shoe company, one of the guys who runs it is transphobic and overall seems like a dick. I didn't know this til I was pretty enamored with the gear and had a bunch. Kinda sucks, don't feel like I can rep it anymore.

[ziggy]

it was Powell when I was a kid, but everybody quit or got too old

it was Flip when I was an adult, but everybody quit or got too old

it’s been Creature for 12 or so years and I’m still into it

[Blind Fisherman]

Shoe company, one of the guys who runs it is transphobic and overall seems like a dick. I didn't know this til I was pretty enamored with the gear and had a bunch. Kinda sucks, don't feel like I can rep it anymore.

Don't be so cryptic. Tell us who it is so we can avoid it.

[modern life is war]

Independent moving production to china bummed me out pretty hard. Part of me gets it because obviously manufacturing anything in USA is incredibly expensive but I would have paid more knowing that they were being manufactured in the USA and the company was supporting American workers. They could have had a sick market advantage being the only American-made truck company too.

[sle_epy]

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Shoe company, one of the guys who runs it is transphobic and overall seems like a dick. I didn't know this til I was pretty enamored with the gear and had a bunch. Kinda sucks, don't feel like I can rep it anymore.

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Don't be so cryptic. Tell us who it is so we can avoid it.

es, but no one buys their shit anyway.

[Urtripping]

Love love loved baker 3 era Baker for the skating of course, but also very much so for the hijinks. When I grew out of the latter, I mostly moved on. Cool to see the company doing good stuff now, though.

[cky enthusiast]

i still love polar

[BieberStance]

Emerica and Baker went from a classy and relatively clean hollywood hipster punk aestetic (which I loved when I was younger) to this weird shaggy SoCal rock n roll/ stonerrock vibe.
I don't judge the direction, they just kind of lost me along the way.

[WideFeet]

Independent moving production to china bummed me out pretty hard. Part of me gets it because obviously manufacturing anything in USA is incredibly expensive but I would have paid more knowing that they were being manufactured in the USA and the company was supporting American workers. They could have had a sick market advantage being the only American-made truck company too.

Thunder and Venture are both made in USA. They just can’t advertise it because not every part is USA made. Pretty sure all the trucks are poured at Ermico though. I think even the bushings?

[greenbeans]

FA/Hockey because their shapes and graphics didn’t fit my style.

Thunder trucks was once my favorite but I’ve bounced between Aces and Thunder due to the hangar design.
I’ve been skating Ace trucks 7 years straight and haven’t changed

[Gab]

Spitfire for life

[Easy Slider]

Underworld Element when it became Element

[radcunt]

Krooked, as it all got a bit samey and seems phoned in.  Still like their Beamers though.

[EmilioBestevez]

Both éS and Flip followed similar paths.  At their heights (menikmati and sorry years) they had amazing teams and put out videos that impacted me a lot at the time.  After they hit their peak a couple people left and their brand directions got weird. They both appeared to start going after the “kid” market instead of evolving with the original audience that they gained.  It’s also funny that in both cases French Fred was the guy behind the videos.

When companies in skateboarding reach their peak they usually fall hard afterward.  Crailtap was similar..

[SilentBob]

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Looking back, I was all about Plan B. Not the original, the revival with in the mid-2000s
Lost interest after True cuz my favourites left (Wenning, Rodriguez, Gallant) along with no Ladd, Colin, D-Way part.
Although guys like Torey, Ryan and Joslin killed it.
 And Now I wouldn't skate a deck unless it was free.

How about y'all?

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YOUR FAVORITE CONPANY OF ALL TIME EAS THE PLAN B REVIVAL HAHAHAHAHAHA ARE YOU A FUCKING MANIAC HAHAHA I WAS A KID WHEN THEY DID THAT AND IT WAS TERRIBLE BACK THEN ARE YOU FUCKING FOR REAL THATS YOUR FAVORITE COMPANY OF ALL TIME THE REVIVAL PLAN B ARE YOU FUCKKNG SHITTING ME RIGHT NOW

Edit: I may have come off a little judgmental. Revival Plan B is really your favorite company of all time?

I didn't skate in the early 90s so I don't know what era was like.
But As a teenager in 2005 after seeing  In Bloom, The DC Video, Wonderful Horrible Life - Plan B in the mid-2000s looked un-fucking-touchable!
Change my mind.

[Atiba Applebum]

Flip - PJ on , Arto/Appleyard leaving (Really Sorry to Extremely Sorry era)   

Liked it being this thing for non-Americans to have and PJ didn’t really add to the vibe of the place (even though I was a huge fan) other than being a good skater on arguably the best team.  Then the sorry guys started leaving and getting replaced by little kids.   

[greenbeans]

Krooked, as it all got a bit samey and seems phoned in.  Still like their Beamers though.

whaatttt

[j....soy.....]

Bones wheels….when they dropped the Dragon formula I went from liking to loving…..

[fakie nollie]

I want to say charizard but when I really think about it, it’s squirtle

[Banned from the room]

Girl started duh...

[DieuNousPréserve]

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Krooked, as it all got a bit samey and seems phoned in.  Still like their Beamers though.

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whaatttt

I’ll agree. Seems like gonz backed off after van passed. Seems like the dudes put on had that krooked thing about them vouched got mark but now it’s dlx dumping grounds

Most the gonz art is forged (skateshop series during the pandemic) or doctored together by the dlx art team. Still a good team ran by solid people but lots it’s zest imo

[streetmeat]

still unclear if Popwar was cool or not. looking back at it, im still unsure!

[Sizzla]

Dem ah nah be inna bizness nah more

[Mean salto]

Stereo comeback was cool even into the ride channel years but just got to the point of what even is this. Yoshi, Tommy Flynn, hoffart all real good skaters but not what I'm personally into and not what I think of with stereo. (Altho Dustin dollin actually went pro for stereo so maybe that's actually their thing)

[PapaSquat]

Emerica and Baker went from a classy and relatively clean hollywood hipster punk aestetic (which I loved when I was younger) to this weird shaggy SoCal rock n roll/ stonerrock vibe.
I don't judge the direction, they just kind of lost me along the way.

Yea this is the one for me. Stay Gold pretty much defined my highschool years but now I get bummed watching those dudes skate. That first Emerica full length after Reynolds left bummed me the fuck out for weeks. The company just feels so dead these days. Even Jon Dickson cant carry the team.