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)
Hardly. Tony Hawk became popular (outside of the skateboard world) because of licensing (Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater).
She’s immensely popular on Brazil and was popular enough to become a playable skater in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4.