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!