A heavy reckoning.
If there is one particularly ugly blight in the apocalypse we are currently living, it is the reanimation of once-proud Surfer Magazine. Purchased by The Arena Group a Toledo-sized handful of years ago, the dormant “bible of the sport” was given over to just pre-sentient robots named “Emily Morgan,” “Jake Howard” etc. and ordered to gobble up anything surf related. The bits and bytes were, then, repackaged with the purpose of duping the naive and/or unsuspecting into reading.
Weird robot talk seeped in, though, along with weird robot takes which have, increasingly, infuriated real boys and girls.
The latest?
Surfer bots have partnered with YouTuber Dan Harmon (not the famous one) in order to out beloved secret spots like Torquay’s Winkipop and Santa Cruz’s Steamer Lane.
“A love of surfing often leads to a love of travel, “Jake Ekardt” “writes,” making it even weirder by adding, “Surfers love to seek out remote waves and unknown places. Or nowadays, post up at luxury resorts alongside epic surf.”
Very…
In any case, Harmon also spoils Margaret River, presumably Main Break, Haleiwa, Hawaii which somehow includes Pipe and Sunset, and the Mexican Pipe way down Puerto Escondido way.
Local toughs seething that their once-veiled waves are now listicled. Making things worse, this is part two. Part one saw San Clemente, Coolangatta and Chungoo, Bali all thrown right under the bus.
A heavy reckoning.
Will Surfer be banned in all the towns it spotlit like Surfing once was from Salina Cruz?
Time will tell.
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Bruce must be so sick of all this AI bullying.
Canggu not Chungoo. Who’s the AI now my friend.
I think he was taking the piss, anyway its spelt dont matter the place is a shithole, literaly.
How’s the colour of the water !!! Fleks of microterd with a hint of euro babe blood
Haha. Yep 100% agreement here
How does a small town
Ban AI controlled robots?
Asking for a friend…
Only a good guy with an AI-controlled robot can stop a bad guy with an AI-controlled robot.
surf spots exposed by surf bots🤖
Once again My fav “surf journalist” from Surfer Mag… Fake Coward.
Vals cashing in on Vals
speaking of Jake Howard and other offenses in the modern era,
couple days ago Dana Carvey apologized to Sharon Stone for a 1992 SNL sketch called the “Airport Security Sketch,” in which male airport security officers, including Carvey playing an Indian security guard, had Stone remove one item of clothing at a time — to see if she was carrying anything dangerous on her person.
he also apologized for his portrayal of the Indian security officer.
David Spade who was on the show with Carvey said” So Offensive”
just hope Surfer doesn’t expose that secret spot between Off The Wall and Ehukai
Bit late for the “outing” of Margaret river. Jack mcoy already did that in the 1990,s
Place is as busy as anywhere these days
Has one man single handly, outed more prime surf breaks In a life time than that yank kook or what.
He’s a nice guy, but yes, he is a security breach
Not that I can think of, really gave it to the West coast before he left
cunt….
Wouldnt have happened without Gordo bankrolling it.
Gotta give credit where credit is due ….
Then Claw with the fucken Search, Capn Marty etc etc etc
Too many cunts … the dumb fuck pro surfers they all made money off can’t really even be blamed.
Tim Bonython and Nic Von Rupp are doing their best. Dickheads
No, that honor goes to the big brands and their stable of surf stars..
I’m sure contests and Taj had nothing to do with that. But yeah, outside of kite surfing, roo dodging, and drinking wine, not much else to do there.
Your right the expat yanks in Australia in the Vietnam war era are more to blame for exploiting the land and waves not only in west Oz but firstly the east coast byron bay area , and bringing surf comps with them.
But Bells was a comp before there were even boots on the ground in Vietnam, plus the World Titles Manly in 1964 and the Endless Summer (let alone Nat and Bob McT) exposed Australia to the world in what was it, 1965?
You really should be hating on Gidget if you want to blame someone for surfing’s popularity.
Na, not sure about the contest stuff..but deff brought a fukn horrible accent with them..