Many hands have been wrung about the decline of “third spaces” in America — the social membrane between home and work/school. Some of society’s ghouls have maintained that these interactions now thrive online, and it’s like, get a fucking life you data-mining losers.
For an activity that had bottles hurled at it by jocks in the early nineties, and had to proclaim itself as “not a crime” via bumper sticker for decades, in an age when your average person is afraid to say “hi” to someone IRL because The Algorithm™ has rotted a hole through their medial prefrontal cortex …skateboarding doesn’t look so bad anymore! We socialize! We get fresh air! We have …friends.
But there is another digital scourge encroaching upon skaters, perhaps even more consequential than the widespread breakdown of societal order. There is a disappearance of third spaces for our …footage.
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