#feedback ted

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Ted Barrow(s), 2000

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The popularity of @feedback_ts is revealing a deep neurosis in the skate community and probably society at large. Specifically, the way people interact with Ted--the troll's compulsive need to be humiliated, roasted, to be "put in my place". The ego’s bottomless, competing needs--desperate for attention and also to be restrained or even obliterated by an outside force, and the way instagram and skateboarding is making this manifest--is fascinating.