Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Rob Dyredek giving Skaters a Bad Rap?

Sell out. or Enterprising Genius?
Our beloved Rob Dyrdek has gone from Alien work shop / DC protégé to MTV object of obsession. He currently has three reality TV shows on the Air, all on the same network. MTV. Rob Dyrdeck has a networth of over $15 Million according to http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-athletes/skateboarders/rob-dyrdek-net-worth/. While this pales in significance to established reality Tv junkies such as Paris Hilton’s $100 Million dollar estimate, and does beat global super annoyance Snooki’s net worth of $4 Million dollars ( $150,000 an episode can you believe it? ), and doesn’t make at a dent at wild boy Bam Margera’s net worth of $45 Million, one can’t  help but wonder if he’s sold out to some extent; trading the deck for the lime light. After Rob and Big started, Rob was hardly seen skating until the 2011 Alien Workshop film Mind Field. Even in the show it seemed more focused on poorly scripted humor and antics than actual skate board culture ( though it was immensely entertaining) .  As time went on Rob and Big came to an end and Rob Dyrdeks fantasy factory began. And this was wonderful I mean skaters rejoiced. The setting was a private warehouse that Rob had transformed into a private skate plaza. It was beautiful and skater fans everywhere rejoiced thinking that they’d actually see some skating happening. However we were again disappointed. As the seasons went on the episodes became less focused on rob skating the amazing fantasy factory and more on how he can almost destroy it, and how many time he can launch himself and others into the ball pit and cause turmoil among his peers. The actual skating In the show was reduced to ten second montages between scenes, and some of the skaters in the montages aren’t Rob Dyrdek . The nail in the coffin is his newest show ridiculousness where the only skating is of young kids nearly killing themselves and Rob and his cronies laughing at their misfortune. I mean it’s a funny show but so many of these lazy internet TV shows have popped and seeing how Rob Dyrdeck showed no hesitation in jumping on the band wagon,  it seems that Rob is more focused on getting his name and his brand maximum exposure at the cost of losing his core skater fan base. But I can understand, with break through entrepreneur  / skaters like Stevie Williams  and Andrew Reynolds who both keep their personal financial situation under tight wraps despite their many assets, Rob must feel a bit of “friendly competition” from the guys making more bank who maintain a strong skater fan base =P .

2 comments:

  1. Rob Dyrdek is an annoying little sell out!!

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  2. well he shits on bam margera now.. id take 50 million for a bunch of people ill never meet to call me a sell out... word.

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