Noah Aniser
GQ Magazine: https://www.gq.com/story/the-life-of-supreme-skater-sean-pablo
The Life of Sean Pablo
The article is a profile story on Sean Pablo who is a professional skateboarder. He is 23 years old and lives a really impressive life. Sean is the heartthrob of Supremes’ skate team and he also rides for Jason Dill’s skate brand. Supreme is one of the biggest and most successful street brands and makes Sean travel to world for new skate videos. His hometown is New York city even though he isn’t really home much.
The author talks about Sean Pablo because he is the face of a new generation of professional skateboarders. Skaters like Dill and Mark Gonzales were already popular and had a pretty nice career back in the 90’s but no one would have thought, that Skaters could reach such a level of fame. People are not just copying their looks and tricks with the skate board, they copy them as a person. They want to be him and that means for some to get the same tattoos or haircut. Being seen as such a role model even outside of the skater scene, comes with a lot pressure.
After talking a lot about Sean Pablo’s current career and success, the author mentions his background and what made him to the men he is right now. That includes information about education, his family and the faith he was raised in.
To conclude the article, the author talks about Sean Pablo’s motivation and his goals for the future. He is not only driven by skating, even more by other stuff that he still wants to do, like music or movies.
I think the profile is really good because it gives current and background information. It goes deep into the person but not in a boring way. The author also does a good job in describing who Sean Pablo really is and why there is such a big hype around his persona. The headline suites a profile story and makes me want to know more about it.
I think the profile story is news because he is a really famous public figure and people want to know who actually is behind Sean Pablo.
Overall, the profile is good, and I enjoyed reading it.