Also Millenials’ and Gen Alpha’s. Once again Gen X doing all the heavy cultural lifting.
(Edit: go on then, you name a 20yo skateboarder that most people outside the sport have heard of)
(Second edit: yeesh, I retract my statement! It was a post about a skateboarder having a long career, not a calculated attack on everyone under 45, put the pitchforks away already)
On every single skateboard post or short video, somebody will mention Mullen too.
But anyway, outside of skateboarding, millennials also know of Bam, Sheckler and maybe Dyrdek.
Gen-z probably knows of the YouTubers that show up in their feeds. SkateIQ (Mitchie Brusco), SkateNomad (Mike Boisvert) and probably Andy Anderson because he’s everywhere.
I think it’s safe to say that skateboarding isn’t as mainstream as it used to be when MTV was the main youth cultural feed, but it also allows for a lot more unknown people to rise up. Nobody cares about what young dude Thrasher and the industry wants to portrait as a professional. The skate scene these days basically consists of old men and young women watching footage on YouTube.