“The site’s brand voice sounds like Bill and Ted lol.”
I woke very early in the morning, sleep eluding, mist hanging heavy in the Milanese dark. Now, it is not wise to check a phone when even thinking about shutting the eyes once again but a compulsion overtook and before I knew it, I was scrolling here and there, checking these and those messages before stumbling upon one reading “You have a new Twitter friend.”
“Twitter friend?” I wondered before gliding over to BeachGrit’s analytics and being shocked by a massive spike in traffic.
Who was this new Twitter friend?
I immediately went to find out and was even more shocked to discover it was the man who invented Twitter, Jack Dorsey himself.
Whoa.
Dorsey, who had recently declared “the only truth left in the world is surf film,” had simply dropped a link to BeachGrit in his feed, not directing traffic any one place but rather all over.
The mood was generally one of confusion from his followers.
“The site’s brand voice sounds like Bill and Ted lol,” one wrote.
“With all going on, you pick the decline of surfers? Do not let us down, Jack.”
But we, here, know. We, here, understand.
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Much, much to process here… but just for starters… the question, “Is surf still worth pursuing…?” looking at clown scene on those 2 magazine covers above, I’m first asking “Are success and style still worth pursuing?”…
Fuck off Dorkey
Ya fuckin’ kook…
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And to think I was robbed of an inaugural ‘Gritty’ just before BG went huge. I feel let down on so many levels.
Who’s this “Decline of surfers” knob jockey.
Rogan last week, now Dorsey is dropping BG links. Maybe JP was right and Surfing really is about as mainstream as it’s ever been. An Eddie would really push things over the top.
Even the aidsbath that is Twitter has nothing on the comments here.
BG entering the mainstream, i dont think you r ready for the fame chas and derek. I think it will go to your heads and u will become right cunts… oh wait too late
Giddy up!
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K…
So he steps down as Twitter CEO and wants to be friends with Beach Grit.
An idle mind really is the Devil’s playground.
Great, so now we’ll be seeing even more entitled clueless VALs in the water, since you’ve given Douchebag Dorsey a shoutout and he’s reciprocated.
Ya bro. Totally. Fer suuure. uhhh…Fully. Like pass the doobie and like …let’s go shred the gnar! Party on!
You could be forgiven for believing that your adventure through time has taken a most serious turn…
This explains why we’re seeing all the Ben Marcus articles.
Fortunately, they are easily ignored. Marcunt’s writing is almost as interesting as reading a package of dental floss.
WhoopGrit.com
Btw nice one Derek, back in 1991 ‘a fresh faced surf scribe’ profiling Mike Stewart for Riptide mag:
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Cue in the great VAL invasion! Open the floodgates of hell! Unleash the kraken etc.
Jack Dorsey is a first class cunt.
Did @bex_vedina get banned on Twitter too?
I’ve never graced its putrid shore.
Gmail and BG,
That’s plenty.
It certainly is a low for BG to have a sellout creep like Jack Dorsey join the band wagon. That dork isn’t even a surfer.
Dear Jack,
You are not welcome here. BeachGrit welcomes and respects differing points of view and supports free speech. Thank you Chas and Derek! And Negatron. As CEO of Twitter you undermined these values and banned many people and “fact-checked” so as to suppress the flow of information. You committed many sins against democracy and free speech.
Leave now and do not come back. Yes, it’s official. You’ve been banned from BeachGrit. Payback is a bitch. And so are you.
He banned Trump. He is a legend for that. You don’t like Twitter? Stick to MySpace.
“He is a legend for that.”
A legend as in like Benedict Arnold or some other scum bag.
For banning the Pussy Grabber?
They should get the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Facebook and Twitter believe in truth, justice and the American way.
Thank Odin we don’t have to listen to him anymore.
Facebook and Twitter certainty don’t believe in truth. They believe in whatever makes them money which as public companies benefits their shareholders.
And the audience that Twitter reaches is trivial compared to the audience that the Facebook platforms reach. Twitter is basically an echo chamber for journalists to try and one up each. Most people don’t care at all about Twitter
Well Twitter wasn’t trivial to Trump who used it in lieu of press conferences.
There are a lot of idiots on there because there are a lot of idiots out there, but now there is one less idiot.
The grain of the idea for Twitter came around 2000 which means he has passed the 10 Year Rule which states: Once you have done something for 10 years, you’ve done it, you probably won’t do it any better, move on.
Dusty Baker managed the Giants for 10 years.
Tony Blair was prime minister for 1o years.
Y_____ T______ worked at SURFER MAgazine for 10 years.
The Beatles began to break up after 10 years.
Dorsey is worth $8 billion plus.
Why work and stress every day?
He done what he set out to done.
Go chase chicks. Gamble in Macau. Surf the Maldives.
Live a little.
As the me too movement verified, Donald Trump was only stating a truth. The hypocrites of the left cheered his banning when they are guilty of far worse.
Why is sloppy Joe Biden not banned for his attack on Tara Reade?
Fake book and twitter believe in power and providing cover and assistance for the hateful left who in turn, pass policies that allow these authoritarian platforms to censor their enemies.
Tara Reade is a phony. I regularly communicate with a woman in Watsonville who worked with her and says she’s crazy as a hootie owl.
The left/Democrats are not remotely guilty of fate worse.
Which Democrat lied through his teeth about Election Fraud and incited a mob of idiot mulletheads to raid the Capitol?
How is Trump not in prison for that?
You just like the vulgar, corrupt, pussy-grabbing, wife-cheating, sad-stripper-shagging-and-bribing, student-defrauding, charity-stealing, draft-dodging, tax-evading, Lysol-huffing, election-fraud-inventing, riot-inciting charlatan of a game-show host because you’re just like him.
Thank Odin Trump is gone, and that Facebook and Twitter banned him.
They were looking for an excuse to shut him up, and Trump gave it to them by inciting a riot that got people killed.
Um..can we try and keep this thing of ours quite please?
Wayyyy too much exposure to surfing imo.
well, that is certainly out of nowhere.
Suck on that Shtab
Even billionaire cunts won’t do the stabby shuffle aka, paywall dance.