who gives a shit? Giving skiing a bad name? Give me a fucking break.
I've been annoyed as anyone by fd's antics over the last couple years, and I'm not a fan of their gear on any level, but what the fuck.
That edit was ridiculously entertaining, and straight up silly. If you didn't laugh or shake your head in disbelief when Lesh, plus grill, was letting rounds go out the window of a moving car....while driving...while mugging the camera, well, you're a really, really serious person.
I thought it came across as a satire of the brand's reputation, like a confirmation of everyone's worst "fears" or an amalgamation of every negative skier stereotype ever created. I thought it was surprisingly self-aware, cheeky as fuck, and just well done and a perfect response to the general attitude many have towards fd.
Yeah, some people have pointed out that it reeks of "trying", and I get that, but we're talking about a for-profit company, not an individual who has no intrinsic motivation for notoriety other than low self-esteem or ego.
Everyone needs to take a deep breath, take it down a notch, and stop acting so offended by anything and everything. A lot of you are coming across as totally pretentious and like the fucking PC police. If you think the edit was stupid, corny, etc., fine but all the hyperbole about "how unprofessional" and mentioning investors, and other nonsense about "business models" and shit just needs to quit.
This is an example of NS turning into a 24 hour news network where everything is gotcha, and outrage over bs.