2026 Unpopular Opinion Thread

[moonordie]

Adidas Superstars have always looked weird to me and only a small handful of people can rock them sans ugliness.

IE: Tom Snape.

[SatanicPanic]

Ace trucks are just a gimmick

They just make people who never skate loose trucks believe that they turn super good

Break on slappies

They might as well put a bottle opener on the inverted kingpin, quasi hollow axle version

I haven’t tried them but honestly curb setups are pretty silly in general. I like riding eggs tho

[Pastasash]

Paul Shier is my pick for "looks good in shelltoes"

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

Can you haters give me some examples of people who don’t look good in shell toes, because it’s a pretty classic silhouette that goes well with most fits/ styles …

[moonordie]

Can you haters give me some examples of people who don’t look good in shell toes, because it’s a pretty classic silhouette that goes well with most fits/ styles …

Brayan Albarenga (pretty sure I butchered both names) looks like crap in Superstars

[JakeBeskatin]

The social media skater will die off this year. All the kids making lame edits with clickbait titles, giant arrows with open mouths or the ones pointing to words that appear over their heads will get a real job and stop this bullshit.
Companies will make skate DVDs more this year than last year for people who like hard copies

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

Can you haters give me some examples of people who don’t look good in shell toes, because it’s a pretty classic silhouette that goes well with most fits/ styles …

Me?

[Jamie Fortuneteller]

Black ninja is cool ranch and entertaining

[Dj Paul]

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Can you haters give me some examples of people who don’t look good in shell toes, because it’s a pretty classic silhouette that goes well with most fits/ styles …

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Me?

You might wear them in tight pants.

[123]

Stylin’ on you threads are never funny. They get no guffaws from me.   

[Jamie Fortuneteller]

no one is more distasteful than jamie, coal or whoever else he vilifies. he's giggling abiout what kind of penis chief prefers on insta but taking a sober, morose tone when convincing the face tat kid he's a victim.
it just seems like an industry grudge against blackbox. not saying those zero guys are great or anything just brinkletoes is worse, some morton downey jr ass shit.

[Roy Machine]

I miss the kid who claimed he could nollie tre the fire hydrant. I very much enjoyed his banter and the whole thing made slap feel really exciting for the time being.

Also he kinda owned up to his mistake later and he never took the donations out of the account which he could've easily done.

I am craving for more shit talkers on slap.

[vinithebr]

Stylin’ on you threads are never funny. They get no guffaws from me.

it's nice to see competition

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Local skate shops are just glorified middlemen at this point. Everything good a skateshop does, a nonprofit can do better.

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Not even 2026 yet and you’ve already shut the thread down

[r.g.]

Paul Shier is my pick for "looks good in shelltoes"

Richard Angelides for me,  he even skates the high top Pro Model

[alien porkchop]

I miss the kid who claimed he could nollie tre the fire hydrant.

I am craving for more shit talkers on slap.

shit talkers are the best.

but i’ve been meaning to ask about the LA fire hydrant. is it a tough spot to skate? is it hard to hit? is the hill steeper than it looks? i’ve never been there, but it looks like someone could rifle-off tricks over it and just shut it down. what makes that spot difficult?

[Never Bored]

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I miss the kid who claimed he could nollie tre the fire hydrant.

I am craving for more shit talkers on slap.

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shit talkers are the best.

but i’ve been meaning to ask about the LA fire hydrant. is it a tough spot to skate? is it hard to hit? is the hill steeper than it looks? i’ve never been there, but it looks like someone could rifle-off tricks over it and just shut it down. what makes that spot difficult?

Get the Go Fund Me started. Alien Porkchop is heading to LA!

[Blind Fisherman]

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I miss the kid who claimed he could nollie tre the fire hydrant.

I am craving for more shit talkers on slap.

[close]

shit talkers are the best.

but i’ve been meaning to ask about the LA fire hydrant. is it a tough spot to skate? is it hard to hit? is the hill steeper than it looks? i’ve never been there, but it looks like someone could rifle-off tricks over it and just shut it down. what makes that spot difficult?

Busy street corner sidewalk bump with a fat crack at the top and the rest of the sidewalk is even less forgiving. The street looks alright enough tho. I had jokingly said I’d back him up with a backside bigspin, but even in my prime idk if I could’ve done it.

[Dj Paul]

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Paul Shier is my pick for "looks good in shelltoes"

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Richard Angelides for me,  he even skates the high top Pro Model

Angelides turned this shoe cool. I have his signanure shell toes high tops.

[bokchoy]

Shelltoes are dope and by no means ugly, you cats dont rock them right.

[TwisT]

Names on boards don't matter, and I wish people would stop getting so up in their feelings, whenever a random comedian, woman, or person with money makes a board. I can't for the life of me understand why people don't know the difference between going pro and collaboration. A Tim Robinson board is the same thing as a Pokémon board.

[Jamie Fortuneteller]

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I miss the kid who claimed he could nollie tre the fire hydrant.

I am craving for more shit talkers on slap.

[close]

shit talkers are the best.

but i’ve been meaning to ask about the LA fire hydrant. is it a tough spot to skate? is it hard to hit? is the hill steeper than it looks? i’ve never been there, but it looks like someone could rifle-off tricks over it and just shut it down. what makes that spot difficult?

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Busy street corner sidewalk bump with a fat crack at the top and the rest of the sidewalk is even less forgiving. The street looks alright enough tho. I had jokingly said I’d back him up with a backside bigspin, but even in my prime idk if I could’ve done it.

you don't know? you in your prime has as much chance of bigspin as the other guy and the nollie tre. at any time you're statitically more likely to be eaten by feral hogs than land a trick over that hydrant

[Noble Experiment]

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I miss the kid who claimed he could nollie tre the fire hydrant.

I am craving for more shit talkers on slap.

[close]

shit talkers are the best.

but i’ve been meaning to ask about the LA fire hydrant. is it a tough spot to skate? is it hard to hit? is the hill steeper than it looks? i’ve never been there, but it looks like someone could rifle-off tricks over it and just shut it down. what makes that spot difficult?

[close]

Busy street corner sidewalk bump with a fat crack at the top and the rest of the sidewalk is even less forgiving. The street looks alright enough tho. I had jokingly said I’d back him up with a backside bigspin, but even in my prime idk if I could’ve done it.

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you don't know? you in your prime has as much chance of bigspin as the other guy and the nollie tre. at any time you're statitically more likely to be eaten by feral hogs than land a trick over that hydrant

I've already had breakfast, so I'm gonna have to respectfully decline those harsh browns you just cooked.

[Dj Paul]

Dude had one of the worst nollie 360 flip I ever seen talking shit saying he could do it over that hydrant.

only in slap people can believe on this type of shit

[Cheshire Cat]

Dude had one of the worst nollie 360 flip I ever seen talking shit saying he could do it over that hydrant.

only in slap people can believe on this type of shit

I just wanna say that I and others rightly pointed out his very low and basically unpopped nollie tre when he posted the clip originally.
There was not much general belief that he could actually do it, probably even less so once he posted the flatground one.

[r.g.]

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Paul Shier is my pick for "looks good in shelltoes"

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Richard Angelides for me,  he even skates the high top Pro Model

[close]

Angelides turned this shoe cool. I have his signanure shell toes high tops.

Shilo Greathouse and some of the World guys used to skate the Pro Model 2G and Superstar Millenium and even those looked sick even though they were modern updates of the shelltoe

[companguero]

IDK if announcing PAL status is an unpopular thing to do but I plan to make an event of it.

[apbarbs]

if you're not a local or there courtesy of locals i don't want to see southbank footage in edits

(that place has been skated so much that random foreigners visiting london aren't likely to come up with anything interesting, but i can still enjoy watching someone who knows the spot super well rip it and take interesting lines, etc)

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

But it’s an edit…..stories?  I would think it would just be dealt with on the spot if it was an issue…..

[Nardis]

if you're not a local or there courtesy of locals i don't want to see southbank footage in edits

(that place has been skated so much that random foreigners visiting london aren't likely to come up with anything interesting, but i can still enjoy watching someone who knows the spot super well rip it and take interesting lines, etc)

Okay chill out Eric Clapton. It isn't appropriation, England hasn't been invaded.

[DeanMaple]

if you're not a local or there courtesy of locals i don't want to see southbank footage in edits

(that place has been skated so much that random foreigners visiting london aren't likely to come up with anything interesting, but i can still enjoy watching someone who knows the spot super well rip it and take interesting lines, etc)

Too many words to evoke localism.

And localism sucks.

Just be nice with people and do your thing.