YouTube has become a popular platform for showcasing various talents and hobbies, and skateboarding is no exception. With its vast user base and easy accessibility, YouTube has allowed skateboarders worldwide to share their tricks, progress, and experiences.
One such pro skateboarder who gained significant attention before social media was Moose. He said that skating was raw and hardcore back then since few only cared about filming everything.
The 33-year-old mentioned that skateboarding was excellent and is still cool now. Hence, it was just becoming more mainstream with more money involved.
Social media skating has positive and negative aspects, as it has attracted a group of peculiar individuals who are more interested in posing than genuinely contributing to the skateboarding community.
These "weirdos," as Moose describes them, use skateboarding to pose rather than hitting the streets to look like skateboarders.
"It's a good thing and a bad thing because then you get these weirdos that are just posing and stuff, Moose said. "I think it's cool. It is what it is, too, so you just got to learn to grow."