Blood Feud: What Youth v Surfer!

And Surfing, too! Come read What Youth's universal contempt for everyone!

Oh happy day! The sun is shining and the birds are singing.

What about the blood, you ask? Oh it is gloriously feuding!

Surfer magazine, the grand ol’ dame, most notable today for stealing artwork from others, posted a nondescript photograph of the surfer Asher Pacey on their Instagram account. Surfer‘s one million and one hundred thousand followers rewarded the image with twenty thousand likes.

You are the “Bible of the sport,” and have a storied legacy of editors and photographers who are probably shitting themselves at seeing this. Please, we all deserve better from you. Surfers, editors, photographers, followers. This is our lives and just because you’re trying to appease a mil worth of followers, remember when you post something like this you make us all look like kooks. So please, stop it.
Sincerely, What Youth ❤️ PS: And for God’s sake people, stop “liking” this shit.”

What Youth, the magazine started five years ago by former Surfing editor Travis Ferré, among others, was enraged by this photo, reposted a screen grab, and publicly labelled it as a shameful abuse of Surfer‘s position as the “Bible of the sport.”

Let’s examine.

“Dear @surfer_magazine,
@asher_pacey and your million+ followers deserve better than this photo and caption. You are the “Bible of the sport,” and have a storied legacy of editors and photographers who are probably shitting themselves at seeing this. Please, we all deserve better from you. Surfers, editors, photographers, followers. This is our lives and just because you’re trying to appease a mil worth of followers, remember when you post something like this you make us all look like kooks. So please, stop it.
Sincerely, What Youth ❤️ PS: And for God’s sake people, stop “liking” this shit.”

Apart from the earnestness of “this is our lives etc”, I like the way Travis isn’t afraid to spit a basinful of blood at Surfer. Who has passion like this? Who else cares enough to do such a thing? I run out of energy just liking photos.

Australian minnows Surfing Life, joined the feud. The editor, Wade Gravy, wrote:

wade gravy Meow! 🐯 That’s the lamest tirade on the internet today. “This is our lives”. Wait, what? I’d hate to be working at @surfer_magazine or @surfingmagazine having to endure this barrage of wet-fish slap downs. Was this attempt at feud starting a decision made by the team, or the petulant elitism of one intern? Whatever it is, it sucks the most, but probably has the more pugnacious of your teenage fanboys busting with rigidity, hoping that by jumping into your corner might get them an invite to your next circle jerk. Focus on doing you and get that right, before you expend the effort required to rag on someone else.

But What Youth wasn’t finished! Now Surfing was in their sites! 

Do you like What Youth‘s role as self-appointed guardians of surfing’s credibility?

Are you part of their radical class (What Youth) or do you see yourself more on the docile, pious side of the game (Surfer, Surfing etc)?