Busted for trying to actually create interest!
Yesterday morning I woke early, as is my pattern, and jumped on the machine in order to serve you piping hot Nazare news. Jamie Mitchell had just won and bravo and very brave etc. I had missed most of the event and was too early even for the World Surf League to have a recap on its own website but Speaker and co. had a small video on Instagram which I used on my own personal account to drive traffic to the story.
It took maybe an hour for my little post to be ripped down, replaced by a nasty letter from the social media site.
We’ve removed or disabled access to the following content you posted on Instagram because we received a notice from a third party that the content infringes their copyright(s)…
And I became genuinely frustrated! What in hell is wrong with our World Surf League?
I don’t imagine the Big Wave World Tour a giant money maker. I know it doesn’t get millions and millions of views. It is a fringe corner of a fringe activity and you would think, I would think, that building the audience is of prime importance.
But no.
WSL CEO Paul Speaker has enough time on his hands to, and would rather, scroll through Instagram feeds and then call the Instagram police and tattle.
Which is my general and overall problem with the bastard. He seems to regularly choose to be petty rather than great or even good.
Fuck that guy.
Are we sure that Rory didn’t rat your insulting ass out after you had him kicked off a da Island?
I think I see part of the problem here. From the web: Paul Speaker – Education: Shenandoah Valley HS, Shenandoah, PA; Villanova University, PA. Not a lot of surf there in PA (oh wait, Allentown!).
I had a sneaky suspicion there was a dark side to Kolohe Andino..
Wait till Mel Gibson finds out you misappropriated his likeness above. Plus, we all know how he feels about Jews.
How does he feel about Jews, Sugar Tits?
(Sugar Tits could be one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard)
excerpt from the Police Officer’s report:
“Fucking Jews… The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world… Are you a Jew?” — to male police officer during 2006 DUI arrest
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Have you ever heard the tapes of him screaming at the ex-girlfriend? Completely fucking unhinged.
Any time I feel like I’m having a bad day I can use his rantings and ravings as an example that things could be much worse.
Booooooo! Take your “truth” and “accuracy” and get outta here! In my mind’a eye Paul Speaker is busily smashing away on his Samsung Galaxy… tattling away.
Speaker’s bringing the shitty NFL-mentality on social media to this “league”. They really should model it after the NBA’s approach… “Adam Silver realized early on that people would tape things off the TV set and upload it to YouTube,” says David Levy, president of Turner, which airs NBA games and comanages NBA.com for the league. “He understood Instagram. He understood Snapchat. He gets the fact that fans are fans, and you need to fish where the fish are.”
Data backs up that instinct. “It’s almost like a free commercial,” Gilbert says. “To me, it’s all great for the league, enhances the league, promotes the league, and I think the NBA has got it right on.” – https://www.wired.com/2016/…
Exactly. Silver is doing it right!
yeah, once a WSL upload can get 2500 youtube views in a month, they can start worrying about their valuable content not being monetized correctly. little fucks from the midwest filming themselves un-boxing a video game controller can get 20k views in a day.
hahaha that was golden, Guy!
Fcs has done it to me a few times…
Speaker is as Speaker does… what do you think a typical Instagram policeman looks like? And do you think they endorse fit tea?
Guaranteed they wear tight jeans and have stupid facial hair. Probably ride scooters to work too.
Like my fucking trog ex girlfriend.
Unibrow. Definitely has a unibrow.