Today Skateboarding is as big as it has ever been. More and more kids are picking up these useless wooden toys and chucking hundreds of dollars into this so called industry. With skateboarding gaining more and more publicity along with corporate funding there are also more and more dollars to be made. More companies are popping up everywhere. Some of which have huge corporations backing them. Nike, Adidas, ESPN. They all want a large slice of the pie. I'd consider Larry Flynt to be a big money type of person and I don't completely understand how a skateboarding magazine ever branched out of his publications, but it did. I lived in Cincinnati for seven years and Flynt was always causing something there. He'd try to open up a Hustler superstore or something of that nature which never flies well with the people of Cincinnati who seem to be rather conservative. I always hear about how awful Hustler is and all this sort of thing, which I don't completely understand. Hustler seems to offend people more than say a magazine like Club. I've never seen a Hustler so I don't really know but here's my point. Hustler offends people and so does Big Brother. Though for different reasons both magazines turn heads quite often. As I said before, skateboarding is huge right now therefore there are a lot of different skateboaring magazines, most of which are pretty politically correct. Big Brother is not at all a wholesome magazine.

Big Brother brings out the most diverse of emotions from the reader
I was at the skate shop a couple days ago and I saw a recent issue of this magazine. I don't usually read this particular magazine just because its harder to find, plus I don't really know if I should be supporting them. Anyway, the magazine had two main articles that caught my eye. One was a Vans tour of Australia. A few of my favorite skaters (John Cardiel and Tony Trujillio) were on this tour and this was the main reason for me buying this issue. I really liked this article. It was extremely funny and not very offensive unless you are a hippie. The writer, Dave Carnie, started off by ranting on and on about how he wanted to hug a Koala bear on his first trip to Australia but he didn't want to ask the rugged bunch of men he was with to pull over at a Koala sanctuary for a quick hug. He went on complaining of how tourist sights are never as fulfilling as a local tour of a destination and I can't completely explain to you how or why it was so funny (had to read it for yourself to completely understand). It was something more than the basic tour diary of a skate team and I thoroughly enjoyed the article. (Good article makes me happy)
After the Vans tour article there was a different article about an amateur skateboarder named Corey Duffel who is my age. This kid's no brain surgeon and he's a pretty ignorant little pri ck. The author seemed to ask him questions that would bring out the worst of the kid and most the questions were either homophobic or racist (they're kind of the same thing). He (the interviewer) made fun of the kid for having a lisp and looking like a girl which made Corey mad because he thought the guy was calling him gay. Corey got all mad then started gay bashing which I found odd considering later in the interview he confessed to wearing girl's pants. I was really upset at both of these morons since they completely ruined the article. I was especially upset with Corey Duffel (interviewee) because he's supposedly this big punk rocker yet he has such a dumb attitude and really makes the younger punk/skate population look like a bunch of inbred red necks. (bad article makes me mad)

So in two articles the reader was both shocked and enjoyed. The rest of the magazine is filled with a lot of other things- Reviews of skate products, movies, video games and music. Every now and then one of the porn stars from hustler will come and participate in something that big brother has going on. You can tell just by reading that all of the writers in the magazine are men as they're always making sexual comments.

Final Note
As I said before, skateboarding is huge right now therefore there are lots of other magazines to choose from. Big Brother is definitely one of those magazines. Whether or not it is a good magazine depends on the reader. I hate the ignorant attitudes but I think the rough edge is what the writers are going for. I looked at another one of their magazines that I have laying around and in it one of their writers blatantly says that they don't want to be a magazine that won't publish something because they're afraid of what the parents of the skateboarder might think. Other skate magazines, mainly Transworld Skateboarding, censors most of the adds that are put in the magazine and they make their articles alright for parents to read. Big Brother is just out to be the one that people talk about, whether it being in insult or in praise. Read any one of their magazines and you'll see what I mean


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