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)
Tony Hawk is generally a GOAT. Skateboarding comes with a lot of territory and trying to keep up the bad ass image. There were a lot of dickheads who were pro skaters in that era.
I have followed Tony for many years and as far as I can tell he is pretty clean cut as far as celebrities go. And he has done a hell of a lot to uplift skateboarding as a profession and a hobby.
Some will call him a sell out but to each their own.