Naw he was and is a really good skater I think the reason why he got so popular is because he is like a normal ass white dude so companies (specifically acitivision or whatever company makes the games) saw him as very marketable and easy to sell to the masses compared to most of the skate scene which is pretty punk and generally scary appearing to the ole white suburbia minded people so tony hawk allows companies to bring skateboarding to a broader audience as he doesn’t look like the scary anti status quo skateboarder stereotype
but his popularity didn’t really affect the actual skateboarding community as most of it still DIY and independent and if anything I would argue that his popularity kinda helped it since his kind success helped expose and bring more people to skating although speaking about his character idk he’s probably a bougie a-hole like most rich people🤷♂️
I get where the first paragraph is coming from but the Tony Hawk games were always fairly punk and full off 2000s-gross-out-humor, in as much as a multimillion dollar product can be.,
Especially once you get to things like Underground or American Wasteland. This was adjacent to Bam Margera MTV-antics and Jackass, if anything casting milquetoast Tony Hawk as your posterboy would've backfired tremendously if that was it because what sold was edgelord / dudes rock stuff.
Naw he was and is a really good skater I think the reason why he got so popular is because he is like a normal ass white dude so companies (specifically acitivision or whatever company makes the games) saw him as very marketable and easy to sell to the masses compared to most of the skate scene which is pretty punk and generally scary appearing to the ole white suburbia minded people so tony hawk allows companies to bring skateboarding to a broader audience as he doesn’t look like the scary anti status quo skateboarder stereotype
but his popularity didn’t really affect the actual skateboarding community as most of it still DIY and independent and if anything I would argue that his popularity kinda helped it since his kind success helped expose and bring more people to skating although speaking about his character idk he’s probably a bougie a-hole like most rich people🤷♂️
I get where the first paragraph is coming from but the Tony Hawk games were always fairly punk and full off 2000s-gross-out-humor, in as much as a multimillion dollar product can be.,
Especially once you get to things like Underground or American Wasteland. This was adjacent to Bam Margera MTV-antics and Jackass, if anything casting milquetoast Tony Hawk as your posterboy would've backfired tremendously if that was it because what sold was edgelord / dudes rock stuff.