Sorry!
Yesterday it was revealed here that Surfer magazine and its parent company TEN had been purchased by the National Enquirer. Maybe a good fit? Whoever knows these things but reporting today from inside the room suggests there has been a brutal bloodletting. A ruthless chopping of salary with no even “let’s pretend” wink and nod toward future growth. No. The game is to cut, cut, cut then resell, too hell with all that blood. What Youth also announced recently that it is ceasing its print magazine and who’s fault is it?
BeachGrit‘s of course!
I’ve been sent more DMs, texts, emails today specifying how surf media was once proud, noble, widely consumed, widely appreciated, loved, honored, respected, important, critical… until BeachGrit came along, debasing the medium.
And now look.
The stories that find purchase are quick blurbs on a brave woman who surfed with fins inserted progressively, putsches in Orlando and aggressive leash tugs etc. etc. etc. The only point to feed “a nasty crew of commenters.”
I suppose…. I’m sorry? But I don’t suppose that because I’m totally not.
Fuck the surf media for being shit for so crazy long.
Fuck it for forgetting that this isn’t serious, it’s only fun and fun is only ever temporal. That the people who have the most fun are the grumpy locals and you (grumpy local) are the only, literally and honestly ONLY thing that matters.
Fuck it for thinking friendship with professional surfers is the end all and be all of life.
Fuck Stab the honest-to-goodness flabby cop calling negative comment deleting worst of all. Fuck “media groups.” Fuck Surfline. Fuck antiquated old man bullshit that this was ever “important.”
It was never important. It was fun. Fun in spite of all of us damned surf medias not because of us.
Oops! I started drinking early!
I surf you surf we surf who fucking cares! Nothing like commenting on something ridiculous non the less dissect it!
There were some dopes in the 80s/90s surf industry but Bob Hurley and Bob McKnight and Fernando Aguerre and Randy Hild and Michael Tomson – in moderation – and Jack and Pat O’Neill and others were all smart, hard-working, real surfers who built companies, built an industry, created wealth, created jobs and had fun doing it.
Sarge was a bit dodgy perhaps, but a lot of surf photographers were a bit crazed, no?
That’s what working hard aggrandizing others for little money will do to a chap.
Would you use the word “cunt” out loud, at a party?
I don’t think you would.
It is in the Top Five most vulgar/kapu words, right up there with “nigger.”
You use the word anonymously online, but I doubt you would say it out loud, in public.
It’s different in England and the colonies, however.
I used to cut them up and make big wall collages. I dimly recall reading them…mostly the photo captions, you know “such and such standing tall in the cavern”…those were the 2nd best part. Some sort of writing tradition I supppose.
Seeing pictures of surfing is weird tho, its like pictures of sex or cars or food.. some fever dream and then its gray and mushy outside.. the car sucks….the kitchens a mess. your girlfriend is pissed off….Real Life!!
They were all too slow to go digital. I mean this with a bit of affection in my heart for BG – but fuck you too Chas!
Cunt is a vulgar word on this side of the equator.
Sorry, BitchGripe is just one flaming arrow out of hundreds that have exploded print media.
It is the ubiquitousness of surf information on social media that is killing print: Surfline, swell.com, Inertia, Stab, Boardistan, etc etc etc.
Surfline existed many many many years before BeachGrit, if anyone is going to be held singularly responsible.
The Police predicted it way back in 1981: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUwd737mioM
Too much information. Nothing is special.
“and who’s fault is it?” should be “and whose fault is it?”
Puffer vest + beanie versus t-shirt., who wore it better? Ie wimmer or sumter?
How are sales for Surfer’s Journal ?
this is the real diamond inside the article
Fuck it for thinking friendship with professional surfers is the end all and be all of life.
its worth a tattoo
Perhaps they could now print surf magazines on toilet paper to make them 100% crap ?
When surfing was rebellious against the powers that be the Surf Media at its best was exciting and relevant to those on that path .
The first surf mag I ever bought was a mistake. I bought a Tracks in the mid-70s because the cover had a picture of Robin Davidson walking across the desert with her camels. I was kind of intrigued by the whole thing. Imagine my surprise to find there were surfing stories in there for my fledgling surfing brain?
Bingo !
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Selling an imaginary idea to a non existent market. Only surprise is that it took so long to disappear. Fuck off and and good riddance. There will always be surfing. Sometimes there will even be surfers but the idea of ”surf media’ . Fuckoff. Are the once proud writers of soft porn articles for the starred out tits of the the girly mag elite crying over porn hub? Times change. Get over it and move on.
Yeeeessss
Fuck all you surfers
Who stopped being complete sheep
And stopped reading trash
Chas,
sure looks like that forehead is getting rather higher, hope ya don’t loose your hair,
for you’ll be a funny lookin’ old surfer like some of us are, hahaha!!!
My forehead has always been high!
its one of the curses of being tall.
Wow no mentions of the Inertia? How did that happen? I guess thinking surfers are elusive and slip through the cracks! Have you been distributing ideas with them lately? Somethings up..
I don’t think they count.
Was just checking Wozzle site to see when area invaded by comps – and this hands down is best thing they ever put there!!
Hope it was Elo
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scary foto. kinda sums it all up. the voice(s)of surf.