"This is so disrespectful. You’ve lost my follow."
I spend a good 50% of each day laughing at The Inertia and Stab. Maybe not 50% but at least 5%. I laugh at the safe space, big tent, quick-to-apologize-with-tears-in-eyes-but-slow-to-ever-do-anything-even-remotely-meaningful of The Inertia. I laugh at the trying-super-hard-to-be-edgy-but-constantly-missing-the-mark-because-it-takes-a-little-spine-to-actually-be-edgy of Stab.
I laugh mostly looking at their social medias. Both The Inertia and Stab grew in the digital age where robust followings could be bought/built and those numbers sold to advertisers. It’s a nice model, if you launched forever ago/have money, but there is so much strange hurt feelings and misunderstandings in robust social media followings and these regularly spill into the comments on Facebook or Instagram.
I look and laugh and think, “It’s a good thing we never had money to build a robust social media following. Who needs that sort of headache?” I assumed that those who followed BeachGrit came organically and were in on the joke or at least understood the joke.
That assumption was shattered this morning. Apparently our Instagram account is a sleeper cell of easily triggered social justice warriors even more full-throated than any that populate The Inertia or Stab.
I posted a little ditty about Surf Snowdonia building a Nazi-esque hotel that was causing some consternation when I woke up and advertised the story on our Instagram with a little screen grab from the cult classic Surf Nazis Must Die then went about my business.
When I checked in a few hours later, though, all hell had broken loose. Message after message declaring:
cassellpeter You have 109K followers and you post someone with a Nazi symbol? Irresponsible. You’ve lost a follower. Thought you were better.
d1242w Go fuck yourself you fucking white boy racist.
kbskaleidoscope This is so disrespectful. You’ve lost my follow.
lalhavali This symbol should not be used . That’s not funny!
k8beauchene WTF?!
sllewhsa On remembrance day, really?
danielvaie Hate this picture😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡SHAME SHAME STUPID STUPID
hindiana530 Whoops…this was an awkward post
noprogress 😮
ralphteriitaohia Bulshit 😢😠
dr_portugez_4_ 👎👎👎
jcvsolari Unfollow!!
Etc. Etc. Etc.
Now I know how those boys at The Inertia and Stab feel. They feel good! Triggering the easily triggered is like riding a good rollercoaster. All the thrill, none of the danger. I now wish BeachGrit had a robust social media following but it appears everyone unfollowed.
Maybe next year!
The true problem here is the fact that this many people on the Beach Grit Instagram never saw the silver screen classic “Surf Nazis Must Die” to understand the usage in the aforementioned article. I’m opposed to Nazism and Fascism and many more isms too for sure. But by golly gee, things need to be taken into context here. There in lies the problem with the “growth” of surfing, i.e. Wave Storm sales, Dirk and the SUP golden boy at the WSL, on-line surf shops, The Intertia, Go-Pro cameras, wave pools for the wealthy, etc. – they arrive with ZERO context to the ugly, abused, spit-upon underbelly of what this whole silly “surf culture” has been for a minority of Americans escaping reality for decades. I’ll continue you on reading at the Altar of Chas and Beach Grit, the podcast the Grit, as well as all the social media accounts – especially when all aforementioned parties reference “Surf Nazis Must Die”. If this surf industry is truly nosediving toward a crash into earth and annihilation, then by god someone in the industry please go down with a firm middle finger to Team Wavestorm, to the WSL leadership, to godamm Facebook for that matter: Call Michael Thomson and get the printing rights for those iconic Gotcha “If You Don’t Surf, Don’t Start”…. Viva La Beach Grit…
get on your google machine and look up Kevin bloody Wilson. you can’t say cunt in Canada.
hoodoo gurus lost any credibility at around the 15th” farewell tour”. all that was left of the horse was couple bones and a dust and they were still trying to flog it.
looks busy here. did everyone who “unfollowed” BG then decide to start commenting?
Basically, you can’t even use the word Nazi without triggering someone in this day and age. Of course, the SJW’s are allowed to use it against anyone they wish to demonize.
Les Flaky Crystals du Mal ( linckrodt ) ?
Now they have made the momentum documentary one wonders how much more interesting and dark might the LMB documentary be ?
Zionism = Nazism
It’s getting not too far from that kinda carry on, isn’t it?
I check in almost daily hoping there will be somethimg worthy of reading… almost daily i am let down…mostly by chas.
Bro…you spelt choicest wrong.
to the dog ” get here now cunt” to your kids ” you littler cunts wheres all the chocolate” to your mrs “your cunt of a mother just called”
your a good cunt scotty
Around here, being a top cunt is a worthy ambition.
Agreed, there’s good reason why MANY people are “easily triggered” by things us middle-aged white men post. We don’t have to deal with casual discrimination all day, every day, so it’s very easy for us to think people are being too sensitive.
Isn’t it more fun to keep the self-effacing joke to within the absurdity of the surf world? I can laugh at myself and surfing all day, every day! And the rest of the world should laugh at us too…
Triggered
What the fuck is this word
When i dont like something i avoid it
Why always talking about white cunts
discrimination is a part of life even in places where there are no white people.
You want to change people to suit your and others sensitivities…?
Get fucked
Garret the anti nuker ended up approving uranium mines during his pathetic attempt at politics
Now he’s back to campaigning for the rights of fleas on indigenous dogs
lolololol
The compromises one must make to achieve a position of power makes one compromised ?
its one of the most used words in scotland, but in saying that you americans don’t like the sound of it for some reason but in australia your mother will call you a “little cunt” when you’ve broken a window or wont come home when she calls out to you, and when someone is staring at you in public all you have to do is mime the words “what cunt” and they look away all the time. its a great word to get people’s attention, and it feels good rolling off your tongue, once you start saying it you’ll wonder how you described anything without it
“a know it all cunt” someone who always tell you they already knew that
What a cunt of a place
used by australians to describe a place with no surf or pub or a place you where you have to wear shoes , also used to describe byron bay or bondi and generally agreed term to describe america
I remember when Byron was far from a cunt of a place
However, i am an old cunt.
“yuppie cunts” ruined it,
“good cunt” a good bloke or someone who does good ” gday cunt” to say hello to a good friend “oi cunt” what do you think your doing ” get fucked cunt” when someones in your face carrying on like a pork chop or ” right cunt” lets go outside and settle this like men ” what a cunt” a person everyone agrees is a dickhead “stupid cunt” used to describe someone whos really stupid ” “poor cunt” someone who has hurt themselves, or whos mrs ran off with a cop or their on welfare
Late to the party here BUT every one of those above have never even seen commenting on BG?? Fuck me people take things way to seriously!!
Ha!