Why Aren’t You Sponsored Yet?
Disclaimer: Yes, I’m making fun of little kids again. Rip into me in the comments if you feel the need.
When I wrote how not to get sponsored a few years back I started getting more sponsor me emails than ever. Some kids were just too young to get the joke… Now, three years later, a whole new batch of kids as well as older riders have flocked together on an embarrassing Myspace clone called Sponsorhouse (thanks to Amit for bringing it up in the this joke thread he made).
What Are They Thinking?
How do these people think they are going to get sponsored? It’s like picking up a guitar, learning the intro of one song, then trying to get a record deal. Even if you’re an amazing skater, what kind of serious skateboard sponsor would pick up a rider through this shit pile? The site is a hotbed for mongo pushers to post pictures of tricks they didn’t land (there are even a lot of videos of unlanded tricks) such as this “caveman gap”:
Posers And Fakers
Of course there are liars as well. Chace McGonigle from Kentucky ripped two (1, 2) straight from Heyday and is trying to pass them off as his own. The pictures are actually of Dan Nielsen and Kody Kohlman. Maybe if you search hard enough you’ll find someone pretending to be you!
An Endless Source Of Comedy
The site boasts over 30,000 skateboard photos so far, which means there are about 29,000 jokes to be found, with new ones added daily. That’s just in the skateboarding section. I haven’t even touched the rest of it yet. Find the gems and share them with us!
Stumble it!
August 8th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Put a watermark on the pictures of the riders or the HeyDay logo so people can’t take them and claim them as themselves.
August 8th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
send a threatening message to the faggot who ripped off kody and dan
August 8th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
I may start watermarking photos. The pictures are submitted though, so they don’t really belong to Heyday either.
August 8th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
We need to make fun of little kids more often.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:31 am
Watermark them with the permission of whoever sent it or with the names of the rider(s) near their obstacle or their body so someone can’t just cut it out and still use it.
I checked out that sponserhouse crap and that kid that took the pictures never has any of “his” face. I think those are the most vulnerable so…just thought I’d throw that in.
August 9th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
I’m not worried about people stealing the pictures. That kid isn’t going to get anything out of it, except maybe embarrassment when someone calls him out.
August 10th, 2007 at 1:02 am
hahahaha
“caveman gap”
you don’t know how hard I laughed while looking at that picture
August 10th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
I left comments for those kids.
August 10th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
…and reported him to the website’s administrators
August 15th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
There should be no sponsors. By sponsoring people, being a pro, or believing some of the laws the magazines say, your selling out and betraying skateboarding, skate culture, punk, free thought and many other things.
Skate. Think Revolt.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:38 am
omg sell outs everywhere? wtf, we’ve heard that one before, !@$#^ instead of ragging on sponsored people,sponsors,pro’s and magazines
why dont you go express yourself with some other hippies.
Mainstream Skateboarding = Parks
Skate. Skate Skate.