Former professional skateboarder Brandon Biebel was one of those who just made everything look clean.
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With his control and consistency, he was easily one of the best when it came to manual tricks, flipping in and flipping out like it was nothing.
At one point, he even had his own private skatepark, and it wasn’t just for show. Pretty much every pro would roll through to film or just get a solid session in.
He also had that AMFD thing going, which stood for All Motha Fckin Day. Fans really ran with it. People still use AMFD as a kind of code in texts or group chats, like a quick way to say they’re heading out to skate or just feeling fired up to hit the streets.
But something happened that Biebel needed to separate from the skateboard world.
Mike Carroll recently spoke on The Bunt Live podcast about why Brandon Biebel is no longer part of Girl Skateboards.
It’s something people have speculated about for a while, but this is the first time Carroll really laid it all out in the interview with Cephas Benson and Donovan Jones.
Biebel had been a big part of the Girl brand for years.
Then around 2020, things started to change. He began stepping away from skating and focusing more on fitness and bodybuilding. But what really set things off was a post he made on Instagram.
In May 2020, Biebel shared a video showing someone getting knocked out. He wasn’t the one fighting, but he added laughing emojis, which made the clip come off like he was mocking the situation.
The video spread fast, and people in the skate community were quick to react. A lot of people assumed things and went online with their opinions.
Girl Skateboards had a bunch of Biebel’s products still up on their site when it all went down. After the video went viral, they decided to remove everything connected to him and end their partnership.
Carroll didn’t try to spin it. He admitted the post made things complicated and said the reaction online really affected him personally.
"That's the reason I stop using Instagram after the Biebel situation. It's so evil feeling that I wanted nothing to do with it. So that's why I didn't open it up some time of May last year from then because everyone's so mean," he explained.
He also expressed how disappointed he felt seeing how skaters acted. "Really? Skaters are acting this right now?" he asked. "It just seemed wrong."
Since then, Biebel hasn’t returned to skating. He’s moved into the fitness world and now spends his time posting workout videos and training, even teaming up with Big Boy from Strength Cartel.
Carroll’s comments show that the decision wasn’t just about one video. It was also about how people reacted to it and how that impacted everything around it.
There wasn’t some huge dramatic fallout. It was just one of those moments where everything online happened too fast and left people feeling like they had no good options.