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| 336069 | 20655 | The Death of Surfing | 93 | houseofsuffering | Jan 23, 2025 | 2025-01-23T15:23:32-0500 | Midlength Fan said: "Influencers", or other look-at-me types who post their sessions on social media and try to "monetize" them, are IMHO the lowest form of parasite. Click to expand... 100% There is a homogenization that has occurred to surf culture that is completely boring and bland thanks to this crowd. Locally, I see people with average to not very good surfing skills using instagram to attempt to elevate their status, skills and sales of trinkets with a very manicured feed. Whether it's photo sessions at breaks accompanied by nauseatingly dramatic captions, aping Andy Davis artwork to sell, wearing the same style clothing copied from other eras, listening to the same music (make sure you use Khruangbin for your soundtrack to your reel!): it's a total crafted, synthetic aesthetic masked as authenticity for the sake of manufacturing an identity online. There was a time where photography was documenting the actions of a subculture. Now it seems reversed. Crafting, posing and framing actions based on some digital idea of what suring is supposed to be seems to be the endgame of these human copy machines. It's too much. The real characters are gone. It's a snooze fest of dirt staches and "alternative surf craft". |