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The logos are great, but does anyone get the feeling the description copy is written by an algorithm? It feels so “matter of fact” and uninspired.

EDIT: I went back to reread it just to be sure and the first paragraph is a robot fellow kids. Nobody writes like this. It's hilariously bad.

"No doubt, skateboarding is an adventure of its kind. It’s popular among youth, and youngsters seem to possess endless admiration for fun, physical activity. Considering its popularity, it’s no secret that the youth participate in the sport featuring various cool skateboard logos."

Agreed, and there are some innacuracies that could have been corrected with a little research. For example, the description under the Girl logo states "The company doesn’t only make skateboarding products for females, but it has launched skateboards for male skaters." but the company name never had anything to do with products for girls at all.

As an aside, I'd always assumed that the Birdhouse logo is what it is because it's based on the Bauhaus typeface and the names are similar... I'm surprised that's not picked up on here.

What is the alternative?

What I mean in the long tail the our choice is less between bot-generation and human writing and more between bot-generation and nothing.

The choice isn’t between the TFA [sic] and something better - and if the article didn’t have any text a person could argue it would be better. The choice seems to be between the article and something worse (at least in terms of images of the logos).

It's funny that you say nobody writes like that when this is a very very common thing that I encounter all over the internet. It's just throw away writing intended to occupy the page so that they have some reason for you to come view their ads.

Maybe you encounter it all over the internet because a good portion of it is blogspam written by bots?

Maybe, but I think there's a bit of it that is either new writers thinking that's how you write or just adding words so they have enough to satisfy the person in charge of determining whether it's long enough to draw ad money.

For instance: https://gamerant.com/elden-ring-runes-decreasing-disappeared...

Yes. The repetition of "skateboard logo" and some odd grammatical use keyed me into this feeling too.

This is a funny intersection between the corporate and the counter-culture, much like skateboarding's own history. I'm a little hesitant about this early line:

> And like any traditional business, these skateboarding companies take help from various logo designing services to develop creative yet appealing skateboard company logos.

Many of these companies started as small ventures, largely without the budget to use those services, and many of these logos came from individual graphic designers and artists (Jim Philips for NHS/Independent/Santa Cruz, Ed Templeton with Toy Machine, etc). The Dogtown logo was even adopted from 1970s graffiti in LA. I'm sure some of these companies and the larger brands have used logo designing services, but the history of small, independent artists in skateboarding is important.

As a side note, the first two logos are somewhat notorious themselves (if semi-conspiracies in a small niche community can be called notorious), with the Independent Iron Cross' past/similarity to another Iron Cross from history (the brand shifted away from using that logo in 2021) and the similarity of the Zero logo to the the t-shirt worn by Sid in Toy Story.

The fact that hard falling on hard concrete is a hard fact of skateboarding delineates a unique aesthetic space.

Also skateboarding is less coupled to wealth than analogs like snowboarding and surfing…and carryovers like G&S are where tameness tends to appear.

That’s what makes it interesting to me.

No mention of World Industries?! Flame boy and Wet willie?! https://worldindustries.com/about/

This was my first thought too! The way the post is written it leads me to believe little research was actually done.

Enjoi? Blind? Sector 9? Habitat?

I knew something was missing. I tried Googling but couldn't remember the name. This was it! Ahhh, wow.

Wow this is really cool! I always loved the Spitfire logo so it was awesome to see it on this list. Super nostalgic

I remember having a hoodie with that on it. Always loved the Element and Etnies logos too.

How did this make hacker news? Robot written, skate-corporate.

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